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JohnWest_JAWS @johnwestjaws.bsky.social · 5h

These 2 speeches, which, as Nick points out, on the same day, precede what Gill has pled guilty to by 4 years, are more damning for Farage as they also precede Brexit.

All European secret services would have been alarmed by this & would/should have been investigating.

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Afanasiew @afanasiew.bsky.social · 3h

My guess is she's being given backhanders to deprive the Greens of oxygen.

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 11h

Our media:

Tony Blair met with Epstein 6 years before he was known to be a pedophile. Full coverage.

Nathan Gill admits to 8 counts of treason last week. Silence.

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Afanasiew @afanasiew.bsky.social · 6h

He cares for no-one but himself. He's sold his own country to Russian interests.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10h

Phillipson says Hamas committed appalling atrocities, inflicted significant suffering, killed countless civilians & took hostages, and for those reasons it can have no role in govt.

The Israeli regime has done all that & more. Why aren't you dictating who can govern Israel?

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 23h

Richard Tice - "Please welcome to the stage... Nathan Gill"

So much for Tice's claim to have never met Nathan Gill.

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andy357.bsky.social @andy357.bsky.social · 10h

Fancy Farage forgetting this. Wonder what else he has forgotten. Keep it up Zack.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 22h

Harry Eccles

I think that
@BBCNews
,
@SkyNews

@ITVNewsPolitics
and
@Channel4News
should all be reporting on Reform UK and Russian bribery.

RT if you agree!!

Why are the media ignoring such a blatant story?!

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 20h

Farage "forgot" meeting Russian Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko, too, until shown a photo.

Yakovenko also had multiple meetings to discuss "gold & diamond deals" with Brexit moneyman & Farage's close friend Arron Banks, which Banks later lied about to a parliamentary committee.

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loriagne.bsky.social @loriagne.bsky.social · 9h

share.google/5dKNvCkoBGmZ...

The Guardian

Thorn in the Side Ltd, of which Farage is the sole director, had assets of £548,573 for the year to May 2018.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Eight Reform UK councils have indicated that they will raise council tax next year after struggling to find huge cuts in public spending.

That’s despite Reform UK flyers during the Local Elections criticising councils for doing just that.

Never trust a Reformer.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

Margaret Thatcher led the way in turning Anglo-Saxon conservatism into a revolutionary political doctrine that may have destroyed conservativism itself (via Bloomberg Opinion)

Margaret Thatcher Is the Mother of Conservatism’s Crisis

Three of Margaret Thatcher’s dresses encased in glass boxes and a stall that invited attendees at last week’s Conservative Party Conference to “ask the Iron Lady” to opine on contemporary politics. A “Thatcher fest” in her hometown of Grantham that features the “smash hit” play Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho. A grand dinner at London’s Guildhall hosted by, among others, Mark Thatcher and Joan Collins: “In a world craving true leadership, relive the legacy of the Iron Lady…” The British are trul

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

That's Nigel "Twelve Jobs, Four Homes and a Chauffeur driven BMW" Farage to you !

Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 2d

Labour need to shouting this from the roof tops.

They need to be challenging Farage over his multiple jobs.
They need to be challenging Reform over their tex exile donor base.
They need to be challenging Reform policies at every opportunity.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2d

Between 2019 and 2024 in real terms EU exports grew by 11%.

UK exports also grew. By 0.89%.

That's the total. Goods exports were lower in real terms in 2024 than in 2014.

Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · 2d

@antonspisak.bsky.social of the @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social, a think-tank, observes that, after Brexit took effect at the end of 2020, Britain’s goods exports have grown less than those of any other economy in the G7 club of rich countries.

A dangerous post-Brexit world

Britain risks being an unwitting victim of EU-US trade wars

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Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 2d

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Afanasiew @afanasiew.bsky.social · 2d

It's a Trumpist assault on critical thinking because it pulls the rug from under Reform's divisive & diversionary politics.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d

Every year 100s of employers are named and shamed for failure to pay the statutory minimum wage.

2016-2023: over 3m workers denied the minimum wage.

Puny fines do nothing. Fines must equal the remuneration of the board of directors. 50% personally payable. Imprison persistent offenders.

The government must ensure fair distribution of income

'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'

leftfootforward.org

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 3d

More water bills rises announced today, on top of those already planned.

Privatisation without competition, arguably the worst of both worlds

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 4d

HMRC is examining finances of George Cottrell, advisor to Farage, who he says is like a son

Cottrell was charged in US for
money laundering, wire fraud, blackmail & extortion. He conspired to launder millions of $’s of drug money using offshore bank accounts

No wonder he’s in bed with Reform 🤷🏼‍♂️

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally

Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

www.theguardian.com

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Afanasiew @afanasiew.bsky.social · 4d

Here's Farridge's theme tune, from Brexit to small boats... m.youtube.com/watch?v=s4oM...

Nobody's Fault But Mine

YouTube video by Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Topic

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 4d

Public Services don't work, because then you have to pay for Private ones that do.

People really need to understand that this isn't an error, the Private owners pay the politicians to make sure the Public Services don't work.

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Afanasiew @afanasiew.bsky.social · 4d

We could have a sensible conversation about the implications of climate change, but hating immigrants is less intellectually challenging and requires no change of behaviour by fossil fuel corporations.

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 4d

Last month observed above average temperatures across large portions of both the #Greenland and #Antarctic Ice Sheets. Anywhere in dark red shading is more than 5°C warmer than the 1981-2010 climatological average.

Data available from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Map of Greenland showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in September 2025. Red shading is shown for warmer than average temperatures, and blue shading is shown colder than average temperatures. Anomalies are calculated relative to 1981-2010.

Polar stereographic map of 2-m air temperature anomalies in the Antarctic for September 2025. Red shading is shown for warmer anomalies, and blue shading is shown for colder anomalies. There is a sharp gradient in temperature anomalies across the region. Anomalies are calculated relative to a 1981-2010 baseline.

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Afanasiew @afanasiew.bsky.social · 4d

In particular since Brexit was pitched as patriotic but was anything but, and since the last thing Farridge & co want to do is pay their dues.