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Donna
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Hate Brexit and the con artists. #FBPE
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29m
Claims he's just a regular journalist doing his journalising on behalf of the silent millions... checks out for me..
Tommy Robinson stopped at border driving Bentley with thousands in cash' Far-Right activist insulted police officers after being arrested for refusing to give them pin to his phone, court hears
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2h
Oh.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2h
Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits
Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits
Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government * UK politics live – latest updates Reform UK’s deputy leader has admitted the party cannot deliver the £90bn in tax cuts promised in its manifesto, saying it would concentrate on public spending cuts once in government. Richard Tice said key election pledges such as lifting the income tax threshold would be an “aspiration” and that once in government Reform would concentrate on cutting the civil service and scrapping net zero. Continue reading...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1h
Today reveals that Hamas treats its hostages better than Israel treats its 'prisoners'.

That tells you everything you need to know.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 58m
Donald Trump is creating a list of every single Gun Owner.

What will they do when he comes for their guns?

Absolutely nothing.
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Elinor Elliot @elinorelliot.bsky.social · 51m
"They make a desert and call it peace"
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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 1h
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 3h
Thatcherism wrecked Britain.

Celebrating Margaret Thatcher’s 100th birthday by discussing that on BBC Radio 2 at 1.30pm!
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4h
Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 6h
When the press produces a daily stream of ‘invasion’ stories, or seizes on individual incidents involving asylum seekers as emblematic, it sells fear and scapegoats, writes Jonathan Lis
‘It Is in Much of the Media’s Interest to Drive a Farage Victory’: How Asylum Became the Issue Obsessing Britain
www.bylinesupplement.com
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 6h
This guy…

Something’s stirring and the polls are showing it too

We were thrilled to chat with him in a way, let’s be honest, no other news and politics podcast would

We met the one and only @ZackPolanski on @TheTrawlPodcast

OUT TODAY wherever you get your podcasts!
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 7h
media outlets - imagine how you’d torch labour if less than a month after their conference they completely reversed their promises
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 8h
Corrupt chancers urged to come up with an economic plan that isn’t utter bullshit. So, no tax cuts and austerity on steroids for a country already stuck in Farage’s Brexit dead end.
But hey, some super wealthy industry big (k)nobs will come on board to help con the little guy.

(Times)
Times Farage to abandon manifesto's big plans for tax cuts Extracts: Farage will break with his manifesto pledges of £90 billion in tax cuts as he attempts to bolster his party's economic credibility. The leader of Reform UK will promise not to reduce taxes before reducing spending, deep cuts to the civil service and a ban on borrowing to fund government expenditure in his first big speech on the economy next month. "Reform will never borrow to spend, as Labour and the Tories have done for so long; instead, we will ensure savings are made before implementing tax cuts. I will have more to say on all this in the coming weeks." Speaking on the campaign trail before the Caerphilly by-election to the Welsh parliament on October 23, he did not respond to demands to name his shadow chancellor but suggested he would soon be able to draw on backing from the business community. Several high-profile figures from industry have privately indicated they would be willing to serve in a Reform cabinet, party officials said Farage said: "We will be launching between now and the budget, a new campaign — an economic campaign ... it's going to be very impactful. It'll another high-profile individual coming into politics from outside of politics, who's been supremely successful in their world." Promising a "total change of attitude" on the economy, he said: "We are not a party dominated by corporate thinking. The Tories and La-bour are both dominated by corporate thinking." The IFS has questioned whether Reform's economic plans are credible warning last year that the party had overestimated how much it could save through spending cuts: "Even with the extremely optimistic assumptions about how much economic growth would increase, the sums in this manifesto do not add up." Right-leaning think tanks have also urged the party to set out more credible policy. The Institute for Economic Affairs last month called for Reform to "put some serious economic policies on the table".
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 7h
Gordon Brown gives chilling warning about what Farage as PM would mean for children
Gordon Brown's chilling warning about what Farage as PM would mean for kids
The former Prime Minister has warned that a Nigel Farage government would mean more children in poverty and more pensioners suffering
www.birminghammail.co.uk
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 1d
This is how it always is. Despite Nicolas Maduro being democratically elected, the Western media prompted by the United States, refer to him in a dictator-esque way. If we want to question what elections are free and fair, the US is not a great example of this.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d
If Nelson Mandela was alive, he would tell you that multimillionaire María Corina Machado isn't fighting for freedom.

She is siding with the oppressors, so she can make herself richer at the expense of everyone in Venezuela.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 14h
They have all the wrong people on and ask them all the wrong questions.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7h
UK travellers to pay cost of EU border delays

Sure… just add it onto the ginormous tab.
And, while you’re at it, Brexiters, STFU about any Brexit benefits, sovereignty or control.

(iPaper)
UK travellers to pay cost of EU border delays Extract: UK travellers who miss connections, events or cruises due to new EU border control rules will have to shoulder the costs of delays, experts warn. Long queues are expected at airports and ports across the EU as a new biometric system is rolled out for passengers entering the Schengen zone, including those travelling rom the UK Airports in countries including Germany, Greece and Portugal introduced checks under the new Entry/Exit System (EES) yester-day. The system will be fully in place across the zone by 9 April, 2026.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 22h
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
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Donna @donnarejoin.bsky.social · 7h
Yep. How silly we were to think we were a progressive forward-thinking welcoming country when all along there's loads of racists stuck in the 1970s.
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Donna @donnarejoin.bsky.social · 8h
Yeah, but with an added bonus of extreme hate.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 8h
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

An organization that fought abortion rights in the United States is now a conduit between MAGA Republicans and Reform UK

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
www.nytimes.com
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 8h
Corrupt chancers urged to come up with an economic plan that isn’t utter bullshit. So, no tax cuts and austerity on steroids for a country already stuck in Farage’s Brexit dead end.
But hey, some super wealthy industry big (k)nobs will come on board to help con the little guy.

(Times)
Times Farage to abandon manifesto's big plans for tax cuts Extracts: Farage will break with his manifesto pledges of £90 billion in tax cuts as he attempts to bolster his party's economic credibility. The leader of Reform UK will promise not to reduce taxes before reducing spending, deep cuts to the civil service and a ban on borrowing to fund government expenditure in his first big speech on the economy next month. "Reform will never borrow to spend, as Labour and the Tories have done for so long; instead, we will ensure savings are made before implementing tax cuts. I will have more to say on all this in the coming weeks." Speaking on the campaign trail before the Caerphilly by-election to the Welsh parliament on October 23, he did not respond to demands to name his shadow chancellor but suggested he would soon be able to draw on backing from the business community. Several high-profile figures from industry have privately indicated they would be willing to serve in a Reform cabinet, party officials said Farage said: "We will be launching between now and the budget, a new campaign — an economic campaign ... it's going to be very impactful. It'll another high-profile individual coming into politics from outside of politics, who's been supremely successful in their world." Promising a "total change of attitude" on the economy, he said: "We are not a party dominated by corporate thinking. The Tories and La-bour are both dominated by corporate thinking." The IFS has questioned whether Reform's economic plans are credible warning last year that the party had overestimated how much it could save through spending cuts: "Even with the extremely optimistic assumptions about how much economic growth would increase, the sums in this manifesto do not add up." Right-leaning think tanks have also urged the party to set out more credible policy. The Institute for Economic Affairs last month called for Reform to "put some serious economic policies on the table".
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9h
Lower Bills.

Protect our NHS.

And invest in our communities.

Let's make hope normal again.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader
Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 10h
Labour spads looking at the massive increase in support for the Greens, "obviously this means we need to be even more like Reform".

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader
Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month
www.theguardian.com
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 9h
Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'
KEVIN MAGUIRE: 'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong' - The Mirror
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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Elinor Elliot @elinorelliot.bsky.social · 19h
We forget that these platforms are privately owned. They are not in any sense civic spaces. The algorithms merely reflect the trends of hypercapitalism, which is not in any way a neutral process.

Unplugging is the most radical thing any of us can do.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19h
So much talk of economics and far right radicalisation but my increasingly view is we are all - myself included - underestimating the impact of both internet culture and (more importantly) the economics of the internet/social media on politics and radicalisation
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Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 22h
Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20h
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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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 21h
It was on this day, in 2020 that I first downloaded TT. The rest is history.

I’ll be live at 7:30pm celebrating five long years of roasting right wing prick, upperclassholes and flag shaggers 🎉

It’s been emotional. But, like Elton, I’m still standing.

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Supertanskiii's Channel Birthday! Celebrating 5 Years of Rants, Rage & WTF's?!
YouTube video by Supertanskiii
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