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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16h

New poll shows: Potential Conservative voters are now more than twice as likely to consider Brexit a failure rather than a success.

@pimlicat.bsky.social: “The British public, including the Conservatives’ voters - recognise that Brexit has been a calamity for our economy.”

https://bit.ly/3WxPUsO

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 15h

Peter Thiel believes the Biblical Antichrist is already here, and will rise to power by constantly warning about the existential threats of technology and science. He also believes international bodies like the UN and the International Criminal Court will hasten the coming of Armageddon.

Candybaz @barryodonovan.bsky.social · 16h

Peter Thiel is quite, quite mad.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17h

The Green Party is polling higher than ever before. Our membership is growing rapidly.
And every single day we are surging.

Where Labour have failed, the Left must be ready to take on Reform.

news.sky.com/story/bring-...

'Bring it on': Left-wing activists gather for fight back against the right - and Labour

Zack Polanski, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will headline a left-wing festival in Manchester this weekend - as progressive voters look for an alternative to Labour.

news.sky.com

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SMR 🎧 Rejoin Radio @smrrejoinradio.bsky.social · 15h

If you listen to and enjoy SMR each week, please consider supporting us. FULL benefits for less than the cost of a pint...

...a month! We make the show voluntarily and it's FREE! Help us keep it that way as we approach our SECOND DECADE!

JOIN US! 👉 linktr.ee/smrrejoinradio

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 13h

If they do this, they’ll need a convincing answer to the obvious question some will ask: ‘why don’t we rejoin?’ Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

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

Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

With Reform UK threatening the end of two-party politics, both Labour and the Tories are fighting to stay relevant as conference season comes to an end

www.thetimes.com

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 13h

Good. ;)

Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 13h

If they do this, they’ll need a convincing answer to the obvious question some will ask: ‘why don’t we rejoin?’ Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

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

Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

With Reform UK threatening the end of two-party politics, both Labour and the Tories are fighting to stay relevant as conference season comes to an end

www.thetimes.com

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 13h

😅😅🤣

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 13h

LBC caller: “Brexit gave me freedom because I can choose my own government.”

Also LBC caller: “The EU is to blame for immigration and ID cards.”

You couldn’t make it up.
#Brexit #SaveBritishFarming

Caller, “Brexit Let Me Choose My Own Govt”… Then Blames EU for Everything!
youtu.be/eib6I0Bczzg

Caller, “Brexit Let Me Choose My Own Govt”… Then Blames EU for Everything!

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 13h

Sound familiar? 💥
Peter Thiel's hero Carl Schmitt was the defacto legal creator of the Third Reich. A radical antisemite, he defended the burning of books, political assassination, and above all he argued for government by dictatorship through a continual "state of emergency" ... Just like Trump!

Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 15h

Peter Thiel says that his core beliefs are shaped by the work of the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, whose theories provided ideological justification for Hitler's regime. Many scholars argue that Schmid has influenced modern governance in China and Russia, as well as movements like Trumpism.

Carl Schmitt - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 16h

When we yell people it's 4% they are either shocked in a good way or dismiss the number as lies.

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 17h

Kings Ash. One of the most deprived areas in Devon/the UK.
Some interesting conversations. Sadly the message that immigration is the root of all woes is deeply embedded. Some really confused thinking, too, from people who get that immigration is being used to divide us. They blame the immigrants.

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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 14h

Immensely informative post by Lawrence Freedman
‘As Long as it Takes': What does it mean to commit to Ukraine’s security? open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/a...

‘As Long as it Takes': What does it mean to commit to Ukraine’s security?

This post was originally a lecture given in honour of Peter Hennessy at the Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London.

open.substack.com

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

SPOILER ALERT: ICE is only attacking peaceful protesters, some of whom are dressed in fluffy animal costumes.

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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 1d

You're a star. @iandunt.bsky.social

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

New Reform UK councillors in Kent promised efficiency, but have taken just a few months to go back on their pledges. And the embarrassing mess is yet another sign that the posh-boy hatemongers have nothing positive to offer ordinary people.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Reform's embarrassing council mess shows the posh-boy hatemongers have nothing to offer

Reform blunder into a mess of their own making at Kent County Council as they realise their DOGE style cuts aren't feasible

www.thecanary.co

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

SPOILER ALERT: Being "White" is not a nationality.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 1d

Britain can’t compete alone against the scale of China, America, and India. The economics and the next generation will take us back to Europe 🇪🇺

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 1d

‘Brexit is a tragedy and it will be reversed.’ 💥

#Heseltine is the best political communicator by a long way.

His emphatic call for rejoining the EU cuts through the noise, grounded in truth, while the counterarguments cling to a dwindling minority of Brexit believers.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

Nigel Farage has earned over £1 million from second jobs since the general election, it has been revealed, as he declares his income for the first time since May.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

‘Learn lessons from US’ and stop political interference, UK told
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/learn-l...

‘Learn lessons from US’ and stop political interference, UK told

OfS and UKRI seen as particularly vulnerable to meddling from government, with report authors calling for more safeguards to ensure independence

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

SPOILER ALERT: Trump doesn't want to overhaul Obamacare, he wants to abolish it so the health insurers can screw you again.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

SPOILER ALERT: ICE officials are "reasonably suspicious" of everyone who isn't white.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

Commission to probe reports that Orbán’s spies targeted EU officials in Brussels
Hungary’s current European Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi was in charge of the country’s embassy at the time of the allegations.
www.politico.eu/article/orba...

Commission to probe reports that Orbán’s spies targeted EU officials in Brussels

Hungary’s current European Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi was in charge of the country’s embassy at the time of the allegations.

www.politico.eu

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