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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 9h

Farage never entered No.10 but his politics did.

From Cameron to Starmer, every leader since 2015 has copied his playbook.

Britain didn’t take back control.
It handed it to corporate power.

How Farage Won Without Ever Becoming Prime Minister
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How Farage Won Without Ever Becoming Prime Minister

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 12h

Today Leeds followed our forebears who kicked Oswald Moseley and his Facists out of the city at the Battle of Holbeck Moor and stood up to racism, the far right and said loud and clear”Refugees are welcome here”. This is Leeds

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Earl Russell LD @earlrussell.bsky.social · 12h

Persuasion UK presented DeSmog’s findings that the party raised £2.3 million between the 2019 and 2024 elections from climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests – equivalent to 92 percent of its funding over the period.
www.desmog.com/2025/07/15/e...

Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds

Reform UK’s oil industry interests are a major turn-off for voters, new research reveals. The think tank Persuasion UK tested five anti-Reform messages on 6,000 adults. According to the research, “by ...

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 10h

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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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 9h

Jenrick would make a pact with fascist thug Yaxley-Lennon if it got him into power. He’s a moral abyss. And the harm he does by pushing our political debate further and further to the ugliest, darkest corner of the far right is forever unforgivable.

However, if the polls do tighten and the chances of an outright Reform victory recede, then it is very possible that we could see some form of new alliance between a
Jenrick-led Conservatives and a Reform-led Farage. After all, if Jenrick is willing to get into bed with the likes of Elon Musk and
"Inevitable West" then a coalition with Farage is not going to trouble him too badly.
However, even if Jenrick does fade into obscurity, his current rise is still a highly alarming moment in our politics.
After decades in which the mainstream right of British politics has sought to maintain a cordon sanitaire between themselves and the far-right, that barrier now appears to have been irretrievably broken.
The result is that formerly moderate politicians like Jenrick, whose nickname in the party used to be "Robert Generic" due to his middle-of-the-road views, now sees a lurch to the far-right as being the only viable way for him to gain power.
Indeed far from being a disqualifier for high office, it now appears that sharing the extreme views and associations of the far-
right has become an actual requirement for advancement on the right of British politics.

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Soudal Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team @soudalquickstep.bsky.social · 9h

🎩 Remco Evenepoel

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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T-Rexit @t-rexit.bsky.social · 14h

Stunned I tell you!

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 12h

A Nobel story just popped up on one of my memories feed things. Still makes me laugh.

"They're like, 'Sir, there's something in your bag.'
I said, 'Yes, I think it's this box.' They said, 'What's in the box?' I said, 'a large gold medal, as one does.
So they opened it up and they said, 'What's it made out of?' I said, 'gold.'
And they're like, 'Uhhhh. Who gave this to you?'
"The King of Sweden.'
"Why did he give this to you?'
Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.'

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

A man born in Pretoria, 1971, left for Canada in 1989, might want to wind his neck in (though apartheid South Africa was not necessarily too traumatic place for those who could benefit from apartheid if could manage to resist being too troubled by the racist principles of the state and society)

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15h

Did Farage ever sue the Mail on Sunday?

This threat was issued in June 2025, but I can find no further reference to events after that.

Zelenskyy: Farage is infected with the virus of putin

Farage on twitter threatening to sue the Mail on Sunday

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13h

Plus came across this beauty!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10h

RIP Diane Keaton, who has died at 79, here reinventing fashion in Annie Hall (1977)

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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 11h

Alarming that both Tories and Reform are committed to accelerating fossil fuel use and rolling back renewables. A suicide lobby, enthusiastic about wrecking our future! #Fossilfools #ClimateChange

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10h

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

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'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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Velon CC @veloncc.bsky.social · 11h

A special tribute to Rafa 👏

Tadej Pogačar made two heartfelt gestures for his team-mate Rafał Majka, who raced for the final time as a professional at Il Lombardia.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

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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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Finally, someone is saying it.

🔴 NEW: "The message is simple: Farage is ultimately to blame as the man who delivered Brexit with 'easy sloganeering' then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards."

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21h

Good to blame Farage for the dull-arsed, ruinous, tedious failure of Brexit.
Not that good to keep punishing us for that failure, rather than looking to swiftly boost our prosperity by asking to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union.
But yes. It’s a start.

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Starmer and Reeves are expected to argue that if it hadn't been for Brexit this type of downgrade would not have been needed - and cite official figures suggesting that if Britain had not left the European Union the economy would be about £120 billion greater by 2035 than current forecasts suggest.
The message is simple: Farage is ultimately to blame, as the man who delivered Brexit with "easy sloganeering" then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards.
Or to put it another way: Farage, not us, is responsible for putting up your taxes.
The theme will tie to the main thrust of Starmer's argument at conference, that the Reform leader is selling easy solutions that are just a fantasy.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18h

Excellent from @mortenmorland.bsky.social ⭐

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16h

✊ "The public is clearly ready to see Brexit reversed. There cannot be a single industry that would oppose it."

➡️ "This should not be a partisan matter, except insofar as it might isolate Farage’s Reform party – and be his undoing."

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We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins

With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 10h

Migrants are NOT the cause of our decline. The Tories are.

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 15h

I agree is looks like a major shift - or to put it another way, at last a recognition of reality.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Soudal Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team @soudalquickstep.bsky.social · 14h

An emotional day for Remco Evenepoel and The Wolfpack, as the Belgian takes runner-up after a strong ride in Il Lombardia in what is his final appearance with the Soudal Quick-Step jersey on his shoulders 🙌

Remco Evenepoel finishes second after another great ride in Il Lombardia.

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Pro Cycling Trumps @procyclingtrumps.com · 14h

Tadej Pogačar wins Il Lombardia for the FIFTH consecutive year ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #ILombardia

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