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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4h

Boris Johnson tears apart Nigel Farage and makes 2 major accusations against Reform

www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

Boris Johnson launches furious tirade against Nigel Farage and Reform

Former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson has launched a war of words against Nigel Farage.

www.express.co.uk

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3h

31-year-old David Noutch, white British has been charged with racially aggravated assault, threatening with a bladed article in a public place and assault by beating.

It was a White man attacking Non-White people.

Where is the apology from this hateful racist?

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Gilly 📎 @gillmh.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, their greed cost lives. Manslaughter at best.

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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 7d

They are reading the names of the children killed in #Gaza in #Leicester Jubilee Square
They started at 8am with infants
At 10:15am they got to the one year olds. Readers holding back tears

Show some solidarity and come down
It's going to take all day...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15h

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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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 3h

*vomits*

Cans of Pringles with “Santa’s Secret Flavour”

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Gilly 📎 @gillmh.bsky.social · 3h

Loathsome creature. Who's she to decide what we we want to hear?

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@Spookerleggera - evil incarnate, for one month only!🧛🦇⚰️👹 @superleggera.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry but what an absolute bitch! It's very important to know who funds our politicians. Reform are happy taking crypto so could be funded by fuck knows who- Russia, Columbian drug lords, Trump. Press them, and keep pressing till they fucking squeak.

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Gilly 📎 @gillmh.bsky.social · 3h

Everyone I know wants to press Reform until the pips squeak.

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 1d

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

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asparagusnextleft @asparagusnextleft.bsky.social · 10h

Think on this when the Scottish branch office come scrabbling round your doors seeking your vote next May.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Revealed: Labour-run council using legal loophole to serve families with no-fault evictions

Exclusive: London council created an arm’s-length body to manage some of its housing stock

www.theguardian.com

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 7h

The failure of Thatcherism. Foreign governments own British infrastructure. Profits go overseas while Brits stare at sewage seas, rivers and lakes

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks

Govts of Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman, China, France, Germany Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Singapore, Spain, UAE, US would like to thank UK for letting their entities own UK infrastructure.

Vast profits exported, Britons stare at sewage in rivers.

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

leftfootforward.org

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Gilly 📎 @gillmh.bsky.social · 3h

❤️❤️❤️

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Dreamliner Again @entirelyharmless.bsky.social · 4h

This is how you do it

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 5h

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Adam, Glasgow (aka - Szkocja w Unii Europejskiej) @1707unsubscribe.bsky.social · 6h

As ever, plenty of food for thoughts from @timothysnyder.bsky.social. I’d encourage everyone to give it a watch; it’ll only take 8 minutes of your life:

snyder.substack.com/p/stalinism-...

Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)

Cause for concern

snyder.substack.com

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Gilly 📎 @gillmh.bsky.social · 3h

People died because of Mone's greed. She should be in prison.

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 13h

Thatcher said "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

The trouble with capitalism is that if you run out of other people's money, you can do it again with a new limited company

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13h

I wrote about it in 2018, but it's an issue so fiercely defended by social silence that I found it impossible to get any traction. It's one of those occasions on which everyone thinks you've gone mad, as the alternative is to recognise that the system is mad.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Enough of Carillion culture. Make bosses pay for the carnage they cause | George Monbiot

Here’s how to tame corporate power, and prevent ruthless executives from enriching themselves by harming us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...

Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action

Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...

www.help99.co

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Gilly 📎 @gillmh.bsky.social · 3h

AI definition - the liquid found at the bottom of a bin. I suspected as much.

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 10h

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Gilly 📎 @gillmh.bsky.social · 3h

It's not going away. Johnson and Farage have questions to answer.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11h

Farage/Reform and the Trump playbook.

Mass sackings of unsympathetic civil servants
Promise to reduce workers's rights
Inflict spending cuts - hit the poor, old, sick, disabled

Now claims teachers are “poisoning our kids” - just as Nazis did to control education.

Power grab by dividing society.

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Gilly 📎 @gillmh.bsky.social · 3h

Starmer's perhaps too much the lawyer.

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Gilly 📎 @gillmh.bsky.social · 3h

Starmer did say that as PM he'd tackle the non-dom owned press. He hasn't done so, maybe to avoid the accustion of attacking free speech. He has to toughen up. Sack Nandy and replace her with someone who's actually up to the job of taking on press disinformation and the increasing rw bias of the BBC

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