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→ Andrew Tate’s brother is one of George Galloway’s biggest funders
The adage that politicians need all the support they can get doesn’t always hold true — some endorsements are best avoided. It has been reported today that one of the major funders of George Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain is Tristan Tate, a self-described “kickboxer and businessman” perhaps better known as the younger brother of notorious manosphere influencer Andrew Tate. The siblings are currently under investigation for human trafficking and involvement in organised crime, and both have been accused of sexual assault by multiple women.
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Andrew Tate’s brother, Tristan, is a key financial backer of George Galloway
Galloway accepted £5,000 in two different instalments from Tristan Tate on Sunday 2nd June – just days after a snap General Election was called@LBC @TheNewsAgentshttps://t.co/gbC4TD9Dg2
— Henry Riley (@HenryRiley1) July 3, 2024
Tristan Tate reportedly paid a total of £5,000 to Galloway’s party in the days after the general election was called. Tate the Elder has also been dragged into this weirdest of elections: he has been praised by Reform UK’s Nigel Farage, who views himself as part of the same phenomenon inspiring disillusioned young men. Will Jordan Peterson come out for the Lib Dems next?
→ Gavin Newsom becomes a podcast bro
The Pod Save America bros may have lost the mandate of heaven, but a new podcasting star has entered the stage. California Governor Gavin Newsom announced today that he’s starting a podcast with retired football star Marshawn Lynch, a convenient way to keep his name in the news while the rest of his party panics and considers a coup.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is launching a podcast with Marshawn Lynch and his agent Doug Hendrickson: “Politickin”
It debuts July 15th. pic.twitter.com/3joRAb0u5P
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) July 3, 2024
Admittedly, the move is more subtle than Newsom’s past hints at his Oval Office ambitions: visiting the White House while Joe Biden was away, running political ads across the country despite holding public office in California, and joking that Biden needed to take over-the-counter memory aids in an interview with the Atlantic in April. Is America ready for a Podcaster-in-Chief?
→ Gender-critical publishing network faces backlash
The publishing world is one of the industries most captured by progressive zealotry — just go to a book festival or look on any publisher’s website for the evidence. Which is why an anonymous group has established SEEN in Publishing, described as “a network of publishing professionals, authors, and creatives, who recognise the material reality of sex, and support freedom of expression.”
It seems to have ruffled some feathers. Pride networks from Pan Macmillan, Penguin Random House UK and Hachette UK issued a joint statement: “We are disappointed to see the announcement of the SEEN in Publishing group […] We are concerned that the anonymous nature of this group could negatively impact the work environment and undermine individual safety, affecting some of the most marginalised in our communities.”
But SEEN maintains it has remained anonymous to protect its membership from trans activists, saying: “It is those who express their scepticism over gender identity ideology whose liberties, reputations and contracts are under threat.” Indeed, why else would SEEN exist?
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SubscribeMole alert! Mole alert! There is clearly a graun mole in ‘UnHerd Staff’. Who wants to be Smiley then?
“We are concerned that the anonymous nature of this group could negatively impact the work environment and undermine individual safety, affecting some of the most marginalised in our communities.”
So SEEN has declared a desire to attack some of the most marginalised in our communities while masked and disguised? Is this not in conflict with a desire to foster free speech? I know JK Rowling has had her work environment impacted and her safety threatened but she is not exactly marginalised. Who are these marginalised writers whose views are being undermined and their safety compromised? TERFs other than JK Rowling? All very mysterious.
Vote for the Workers Party of Britain wherever you can, then for those Independents whom it had endorsed, then for other Left Independents, and then for the SDP. None of those is standing at Clacton, so vote there for Nigel Farage so that he and George Galloway could back each other up in daring to state the obvious about Ukraine. If you considered that a good enough reason to vote for Reform UK anywhere else where none of those other options presented itself, then I would not blame you.
The entry of Andrew Feinstein into the British electoral process ought to be huge news. He is vastly better qualified than his Labour opponent at Holborn and St Pancras. Next door at Islington North, Jeremy Corbyn could end this week as the Father of the House. And if a party returns at least one MP, then no vote for it, anywhere, has been wasted. Short Money is £19,401.20 for every seat won at the most recent General Election, plus £38.75 for every 200 votes gained, with a further £213,132.53 in travel expenses divided among the Opposition parties on the same basis. It would not be your possibly ropey local candidate who decided what to do with that money. It would be the Leader. George is on course to hold Rochdale. Vote for the Workers Party.
You clearly know nothing about the election circumstances in Rochdale. Galloway won’t win this time for two reasons: 1) the Gaza issue is much less prominent now than in February, 2) the Labour Party have finally put forward a candidate, Paul Waugh, who was born in the town and has since made a career as a political writer for a national newspaper, instead of the ridiculous choice they made four months ago and who was subsequently disowned by them before the by-election took place.
If £5,000 is one of the largest donations, the Workers Party cannot be doing too well financially.
What’s the next breaking
guilt by associationnews? A little old lady in grim Middlesborough whose only evening meal is a mug of cocoa donates her weekly pension to Reform?Who in h*ll would watch a Newsom podcast? Unless h*ll isn’t bad enough for one’s taste.