A Photograph of the Prime Minister Was Shared 600 Times. By Morning It Was Gone.

On Monday I published this photograph. It showed Amanda Chadderton, the third Labour leader our campaign removed from power, standing next to Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Angeliki Stogia, Labour's candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election.

I wrote about what that image meant. About Chadderton's rape gang protecting record in Oldham. About Yvette Cooper hiring her within weeks of our campaign defeating her at the ballot box. About what it tells you when the people you expose end up rewarded and standing next to the Prime Minister.

Over 600 people shared it on Facebook. It was removed overnight. Facebook's stated reason is copyright.

The photograph is a campaign image. It was published publicly. It features a sitting Prime Minister on an active election campaign. It is currently circulating freely on X. Political campaign images are released to be seen. That is their only purpose. There is no copyright argument here and whoever filed the complaint knows that.

I tried to appeal. The "take action" button leads to a broken link. I have the screenshot. There is no mechanism to challenge the decision. The door is closed.

I have been here before. When an account was impersonating me on Facebook, and spreading false and malicious content, the platform refused to act despite repeated reports from hundreds of people. We had to force the police to get involved and the account was only deleted after an arrest had been made.

Facebook refused to intervene for me then when criminal acts were committed against me. It moved very quickly now.

A publicly available photograph of the Prime Minister was shared 600 times in the context of political scrutiny and was gone by morning. The same image remains all over the internet. Instead, it has been removed from the post that was making people ask questions about how high the Pakistani Rape Gang cover up goes.

They couldn't stop us at the ballot box. They couldn't stop us with smears, threats, or with arrests. They are now trying to do it one removed post at a time.

They will do it again. The next post that gains traction, the next photograph that asks an uncomfortable question, the next piece of evidence that lands in the wrong place at the wrong time. Another copyright claim. Another broken appeal link. Another overnight removal while the rest of us are sleeping.

This is the strategy now. Attrition, not confrontation. They are powerful enough to influence a platform used by billions of people. A post shared 600 times was gone by morning and the appeal button doesn't work. No fingerprints. Just a post that was there and then wasn't.

It will not work. Every time they remove something, more people ask why.

Our campaign is already seven years in. The truth is it will likely take at least another five. For much of this time our numbers have been small and most people believed we were peddling lies.

Now the truth has been forced into the open, the government's strategy is that we will get tired, our numbers will dwindle and they will wear us out. They know what is at stake should we succeed. Which is why the Prime Minister openly stands alongside the likes of Arooj Shah.

They have tried arresting me. They have threatened me with imprisonment and defamation. When having Pakistani gangsters following me home didn't work, they even hired Johnny Depp's lawyers to try and silence me. None of it worked.

But losing 500 paid supporters since January is a different kind of pressure. The majority were paying just £3 a month or £30 for the full year. I cannot sustain those losses and continue this way. And sadly, I cannot promise you that we will win any time soon.

The work I do is only possible with your support. The campaign will only succeed with us working in the open. This is why there are no paywalls to access any of my work. But losing a third of my paid supporters from the start of the year is not sustainable, especially when our engagement figures are growing.

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