Well this is awkward – politicalbetting.com
Well this is awkward – politicalbetting.com
SCOOP: Zarah Sultana’s unauthorised launch of a Your Party membership portal should be referred to the police, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has advised.Belter from @meganekenyon https://t.co/oq8hIUPA2w
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Meanwhile, time for a quick laugh on this cold and sunny morning:
A Maga shared his vision of a ‘free Greenland’ and was brutally mocked all the way around the Arctic Circle and back
https://www.thepoke.com/2026/01/09/a-maga-shared-his-vision-of-a-free-greenland-and-was-brutally-mocked-all-the-way-around-the-arctic-circle-and-back/
Investitgating financial crimes is very important.
Oh, hang on a minute - they aren't fielding any candidates.
What a bunch of clowns.
I don't get any sense from this story of the scale of money involved or what the allegation is for its misuse.
It's all very vague and dull.
Coventry MP Zarah Sultana now has sole control over £800,000 in donations to Your Party after a fierce internal dispute over funds and data, just weeks before the party’s founding conference.
The move has frustrated several senior figures and exposed deep rifts within the fledgling organisation.
The money had been held by MoU Operations, a company formed in April to support an alliance of progressive MPs around Jeremy Corbyn. Its directors included former Labour MP Beth Winter, former Labour mayor Jamie Driscoll, and ex-South African politician Andrew Feinstein.
Your Party, officially registered on 30 September with declared assets of £850,000, had not yet received the funds despite repeated internal requests. The delay prompted threats of legal action and widespread dissatisfaction.
https://5pillarsuk.com/2025/11/02/zarah-sultana-takes-control-of-your-partys-800k-funds/
The leftwing Your Party, set up by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, is embroiled in another public row over donations to the party.
A statement from Corbyn along with Shockat Adam MP, Adnan Hussain MP, Ayoub Khan MP and Iqbal Mohamed MP states that hundreds of thousands of pounds were donated to the party “by supporters in good faith, but have since remained beyond its reach”, which they describe as being “extremely frustrating and disheartening”.
It added a “small portion” of the funds was transferred to the party on Thursday which they said was “insufficient” and they will continue to pursue the immediate transfer of all the money donated.
The statement posted on X by the independent alliance of MPs was not signed by Sultana and comes days after the Guardian reported on the former Labour MP and Corbyn’s quarrel over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/13/your-party-receives-small-portion-of-withheld-supporters-donations
If a 12 year old runs a local garden maintenance business, what is the tax regimen?
The more cocaine people use the more addicted they became and addicts make really bad trades/investments that cost the firm millions and potentially billions.
Of course, if we assume she's basically honest and simply jumped the gun on her colleagues out of youthful enthusiasm, then there's 'nothing to see here'. On the other hand the same sequence of events could clearly be criminally abused by another person entirely if that person were dishonest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tw9_2ltdRU
With what's going on now in the US, we are well beyond the point where anyone wishing to mock needs to exercise any restraint.
As Tees Valley mayor Lord Houchen's defence of his deal with local businessmen crumbles, here's the Eye's recent eight-page special report on how Britain's flagship regeneration scheme secretly turned into one of the biggest giveaways of public money on record.
https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx0aBmBX5CxJvyEMmiwItJni2ij_VNs4mL
https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/stripped-tees
Or directly: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/stripped-tees.pdf
The Biden administration got China to act on illicit fentanyl production, leading to a noticeable decline in fentanyl deaths. (Or, you know, you could win the War on Drugs by abducting the President of Venezuela.)
If demand ceased, so would supply. Either decriminalise or make the user the real criminal, not the hard working trader.
Has the money been returned to the victims yet?
The deliberate leaking of bodycam footage of Renee Good verbally abusing a clearly unhinged Officer Ross with a smile on her face moments before he executed her, because he could, is a salutary warning that ordinary people (with children's toys in the glovebox of their Honda) are not immune to a bloody and violent end if they dissent. They want you to see the blood, the performative cruelty, the refusal of life saving medical assistance, and Officer Ross driving off from what under any circumstance would be a crime scene without a care in the World.
I've seen these videos where an genuine police officers intent on tasing a suspect, accidentally pulls out the Glock and they are inconsolable on realising the error. An error that ultimately leads to a custodial sentence for manslaughter. Officer Ross, an overweight thug with a marine style haircut, has no such qualms, casually sauntering over to the car and on seeing the carnage he has caused nonchalantly strides back towards his colleagues, and after a minute or so suggests someone calls 911 before driving off for his coffee and pancakes.
As Time Walz implied people really do need to exercise restraint, because these f****** will respond with no restraint whatsoever.
My reading is that the ICO has looked at it and said "nope, no data problems, nothing to do with us, report it to the Police if you think there is any fraud".
The delay in making the funds available is to make provision for people to ask for their money back. Of course it is all a bit messy and there is the question that Sultana might be slowing things down because she doesn't want the Corbynist wing to get their hands on the money.
My take on it anyway.
Is the answer to be massively illiberal on coke - 1 year in prison, no suspended sentences or anything for possession. Announce it from the rooftops - you are caught with coke, or driving under the influence and you are going to prison for a year so say goodbye to your mid level management job, your kids, your bed. Prepare to be unable to cover your mortgage and lose your home, have a nightmare with a drugs offence when opening accounts or travelling.
Would something this severe smash the casual use? These people aren’t thinking of the chain of poor fuckers down the line working in grim conditions to harvest and produce, those getting killed in the trade so why have any sympathy for the end users?
I’m not sure how I feel about the above but would be an interesting experiment.
People will have given their data for the purpose of joining a political party and basically it should be held securely and only used for that purpose.
If over this there is obviously the £12570 personal allowance.
If over this tax is payable and I am impressed that a 12 year old managed that.
Visiting might be a bit tricky, mind. Oh well....
By doing that, you cut off funds to organised crime and terrorists; and you can do something about mistreatment in the supply chain as legitimate business takes over.
It just gets worse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMuQN_PaVw4
Would not a few dozen otherwise impeccable living middling sorts with wives, children and careers in auto finance and geography teaching going to prison for drug use be enough?
I wonder how many of us are a little more careful about driving now that mere careless driving, if it chances to have certain outcomes, can lead straight to prison?
Oh and immediately after he kills her he calls her a "fucking bitch".
God knows where the gritters got to.
Also, all of us could and would get away with shop lifting but the overwhelming majority don't, and don't even think of doing so.
(Speaking of which, do any older PBers recall the old days of Foyles, the great bookshop in Charing Cross Road when it was literally much easier to steal a book than it was to buy it.)
The local Water Co (I think) has dug a large hole in the Main Street of our small town cutting in two (or to be more accurate 33/66.) It was dug yesterday and when I went past this morning no-one was working on it.
Last week the bypass was closed, due to a fatal accident, so the town centre was jammed.
This week it's empty!
Such is life, I suppose.
I remain a possible member (I'm standing down as CLP chair this month, as I don't actually want to damage Labour) but only if they stop focusing on internal quarrels. As such, I agree with the PJP not pursuing the issue.
Missing the boat seems like a very good choice at the moment.
Pretty clear the thug lost his temper and decided to just execute the poor woman . At this point it’s clear ICE are lawless and think they have a free pass to do whatever they like .
The utter disregard for customer service was rather splendid.
At the counter, the staff member would write a receipt by hand, which you would then take to a different counter and pay the amount shown before returning to the first counter to collect your book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1b2IYA6rMQ
Iran has supported the biggest military aggression in Europe since 1945. What punishment has Europe inflicted as a result of this? This is why Trump thinks he can extort us. We're weak, weak, weak.
Strange it is now online.
https://gumrussia.com/
Turns out his masked Nazi Stormtroopers can shoot somebody 3 times in the face while recording it on their phone and he wouldn't lose any voters, OK?
His behaviour is becoming more extreme. In part that might be he has to keep escalating to stop the press from having enough time to analyse anything he does (assuming they still want to) and in part because he really does believe he is a God Emperor with no constraints other than the limits of his desires (there are very few limits)
This comment piece by Sky's US correspondent provides some insight
An Independent enquiry should be launched but that simply will not happen in Trump's US
As I said yesterday, the ICE officer seemed to panic and lost it which by any definition is unacceptable and possibly speaks to the lack of training
Martha Kelner - US correspondent - Sky News
'This video is only 47 seconds long, a close-up perspective, but it has unlocked even more questions about how and why Renee Nicole Good died.
It is tragic in the sense that it shows the face and demeanour of a 37-year-old woman in the moments before she dies, filmed by the person who shot her.
But I don’t think the footage provides any certainty about those crucial final few seconds, during which Good puts her car into drive, turns her wheel, accelerates and is then shot at three times by the officer.
What is clear is that there is dialogue between the pair in the run-up. Good seems to be relatively calm, when she says "that's fine, dude, I'm not mad at you".
Another woman, who appears to be Good's wife, seems to take a mocking tone with the officer when she says "go get lunch, big boy".
The audio from the phone camera is distorted at the key moment. There is a sound that could indicate a collision between the car and the officer but, again, that is not certain.
He definitely remains on his feet and at the end, appears to say "f***ing bitch".
The reaction to this video shows how entrenched views are on both sides of the political aisle. The vice president says it proves the officer's "life was endangered". Democrats continue to maintain she was "murdered".
In this country there is no time to wait for a full investigation in the rush to reach a conclusion and it could be very dangerous.
At this point, the agent exclaims in shock and shoots multiple times.
As Ms Good's car careers down the road before crashing into parked cars, the agent appears to mutter "f***ing bitch".
Sky News has chosen not to air the swear words in the video.'
We also should be considering changing highway laws to reduce speed limits on rural roads, narrow tracks and at bends or banning u turns or 3 point turns except in quiet residential streets as a lot of what would be mere careless driving could still be doing a currently legal manoeuvre
That.
In some respects what happens next is even more chilling.