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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 12m

Letter to the editor: The rule of law matters. International treaties matter.

And above all, people matter – wherever they were born.

From Camilla Cucinotta

Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship

Letter to the editor

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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[email protected] @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 9m

Still managing the Country like a household budget then?

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[email protected] @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 12h

Banks get the cakeism denied to those who don’t get invited for private audiences.

[email protected] @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 12h

Interesting that Gill pleaded guilty. Saves a court case that would see evidence presented.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 16h

What’s the real story behind Deform UK Ltd and Russia?

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www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

What's the real story behind Nathan Gill, Reform and Russia?

Questions abound about what senior party figures knew, and when, about the disgraced former Welsh leader’s links to Vladimir Putin's regime

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 14d

Nigel Farage showing his true colours in December 2016.
Putin is a "strong leader" and the EU is a threat to NATO and struggling failing empire that needs a hate figure (Putin).

16.12.16 - full Fox News /Carlson video Russian interference in Brexit video is here
www.foxnews.com/video/525018...

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[email protected] @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 14h

Interestingly not the best thing to happen for the UK. Always the patriot.....

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15h

Some changes to immigration rules today, not just increasing English language requirements, mean migrants looking to live and work in UK will have to meet far far higher standards than British nationals, while paying vast sums to be allowed to do so. That isn't a system based on "fairness". 1/

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[email protected] @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 18h

The first thing Govt must do is stop using X as it’s communication channel. Starmer, Ministers, departments & Labour MPs should all come off it.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

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Gary Spence @limerenceguy.bsky.social · 1d

I bought the October edition of the @bylinetimes.bsky.social today to read. It is definitely a great publication that is well worth reading.

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[email protected] @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously, but why does so many of your media colleagues refuse to expose his shenanigans & go out of their way to promote him, knowing the damage he’d cause & has caused this Country?

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

To all politicians - especially Reform & Tories and to anyone else who thinks it's a good idea to leave the ECHR.
Thx @fife4europe.bsky.social

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[email protected] @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 1d

It seems like stating the bleedin’ obvious, but why does the media fall over itself to enable him & why are so many of the public happy to support a man with such dubious backers & who sows division relentlessly.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2d

'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

www.mirror.co.uk

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 1d

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 3d

"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."

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 ...

www.desmog.com

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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 3d

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

Voters recoil at Farage’s fossil fuel funding.
Via @desmog.com @writesbright.bsky.social

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 ...

www.desmog.com

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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 2d

"Crucially, the [2020 Russia] report also revealed that our intelligence agencies had never been tasked with investigating whether Russian money or interference actually affected UK elections."
It’s time for a REAL Russia report" open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

It’s time for a REAL Russia report

Putin’s fingerprints are all over our politics. It’s time to prove it.

open.substack.com

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: We need to talk about Russia.

So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage.

My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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[email protected] @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 2d

Party (Family) before Country

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[email protected] @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 2d

May in an interview on The One Show when asked about family said the Conservative Party was her family. I’ve always wondered if that was why she steered clear of instructing SIS to investigate Russian interference. (And why she went to court to defend the validity of referendum. Too close to family.

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[email protected] @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 2d

Thought provoking thread

JohnWest_JAWS @johnwestjaws.bsky.social · 2d

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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[email protected] @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 2d

BBC News & BBC Politics seem to be wilfully & partially ignoring these facts, along with Leave Eu & Farage ally Banks dealings with Russia when touching on Gill. They do cover Farage ‘stunned’ response. Whatever it is, it IS NOT public service broadcasting.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3d

Nigel Farage was regularly being paid by Putin's public TV propaganda arm Russia Today (RT) in the years before Brexit, while he was failing to represent UK interests as an MEP.

At least 17 appearances from December 2010 - March 2014

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The Ukip leader's Euroscepticism makes him a shoo-in at the Russian state broadcaster that is often called Putin's mouthpiece
Patrick Wintour and Rowena Mason
Mon 31 Mar 2014 21.37 BST
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Nigel Farage's near monthly appearances on state-owned Russia Today have come under scrutiny after his expression of admiration for Vladimir Putin this week.

In one of his 17 appearances on the channel seen by the Guardian and transmitted since December 2010, he claims Europe is governed not by elected democracies but instead "by the worst people we have seen in Europe since 1945".

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/31/nigel-farage-relationship-russian-media-scrutiny

The Ukip leader has appeared so frequently that he is cited in literature for the TV station Russia Today as one of their special and "endlessly quotable" British guests. "He has been known far longer to the RT audience than most of the British electorate," Russia Today claims.

The Ukip leader did not issue a word of criticism of Russian democracy in any of the Russia Today interviews viewed by the Guardian. Last August he told the channel that British intervention in Libya and Syria would go ahead regardless of any vote in the UN, and said he was still not sure President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons.

Farage's relationship with Russia has been under the spotlight since his comments last week on Ukraine. In a TV debate with Nick Clegg (pictured above) he said Russia had been provoked and that the EU had blood on its hands for trying to force Ukraine to choose between itself and Russia.

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[email protected] @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 2d

BBC only does both sides & impartiality when it suits them. Bridget Phillipson would be perfectly entitled to issue a corrective by giving them the stats if she is properly prepared. Journalists & politicians have a duty to the truth which requires homework.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year

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