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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13h

Former Tory Minister Michael Gove says the post-Brexit Tory trade deals with Australia and New Zealand were bad for UK farmers.

Why did he/Tories Tories sign them?

Brexit hasn't yielded any economic benefits. UK gave up the best trade deals and now scavenges for whatever it can get.

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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John Pearce @johnpearce650.bsky.social · 14h

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 ...

www.desmog.com

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 13h

Deform UK Ltd. Cleaning up Britain's Streets.

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Reform councillor apologises
after urinating on street

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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JohnWest_JAWS @johnwestjaws.bsky.social · 16h

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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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 19h

It'll soon be 10 years since the Brexit ref. So much has changed since then. If Brexit is the cause of our economic problems, as the government now admits, then surely we need to ask ourselves whether we want to carry on down the Brexit road or turn around and head back to the Single Market and EU.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19h

Laura Kuenssberg has interviewed all the Party Leaders with more than 10% in the polls.

Except Zack Polanski.

She cancelled his interview and now refuses to do it.

They are scared of Zack, they are scared of you.

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 21h

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny – “Sources identified the location as Nathan Gill’s Strasbourg office, & the diary schedule of ‘NG’ on the calendar behind him on the wall…” bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'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

bylinetimes.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18h

Nadine Dorries, "People can have whatever opinion they want of President Trump but he has delivered on this. As as businessman, a dealmaker"

Dorries ignores Trump selling Israel $6 billion in weapons since he came into office, much of which is responsible for completely destroying parts of Gaza

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly the Russian deal was in motion at this point as Gill had just got back from a trip to Moldova speaking at parades and forums organised by pro-Russian separatists and Russian businessmen, with travel arranged by a Moscow travel agency.

Anyone really think they didn't speak about it?

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 1d

Here's Farage & Gill in European Parliament a few weeks before the first known Russian bribe.

Farage calls the EU 'arrogant & vulgar' then compares them to the Soviet Union. Unreal.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn3a...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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European Briton 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺 #RejoinEU #FBPE @europeanbriton.bsky.social · 1d

Hang Brexit round Farage‘s neck like the Albatross round the neck of the Ancient Mariner - a curse to carry for the rest of his days. A constant reminder of his treachery.

The same goes for Johnson.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan Gill who went from UKIP ⏩ Brexit Party ⏩ Reform UK has admitted to taking bribes to speak pro Russian and anti- EU statements?

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➡️ Oleg Voloshyn and his wife Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nathan Gill with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill

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Claire💚AKA InkedMum💚#FBPE#FuckDeform#KTTO 🚫NO maga 🚫 @inkedmum7377.bsky.social · 20h

The #FrogFacedFascist can fuck right off 🖕🖕🖕🖕

loriagne.bsky.social @loriagne.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage Says He Is 'Open to Anything' When It Comes to Replacing NHS With 'Insurance-Based Model' – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/01/27/n...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

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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Honest Dave @honestdave11.bsky.social · 1d

Ffs!

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

The Reform UK Councils that are considering raising Council tax (one even by 10%):

Kent
Durham
West Northamptonshire
Warwickshire
Leicestershire
Worcestershire
Staffordshire
Lincolnshire

TBC:
Derbyshire
Lancashire

Eight Reform UK councils likely to raise tax next year

Despite Nigel Farage’s promises to cut waste and ‘save a lot of money’, senior officials have now admitted they will likely have to resort to tax rises

www.thetimes.com

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 1d

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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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 1d

Why does this tax exile 'foreigner' think our government should discuss policy with him? He should feck off back to Monaco. Made his choice based on his own interest, to avoid tax. Anything he has to say will be only in his own interests, again.

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Miliband refused to discuss North Sea with me, says Ratcliffe

Ineos owner urges policymakers to reform net zero taxes or risk ‘irreversible decline’

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Colbobs.bsky.social "Col" he/him/his @colbobs.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick's "robust" language? The guy can't mind his language and expects to be taken seriously as a statesman? A race-baiting, migrant-child-distressing, joke.
Additionally, if all he sees are brown and black faces and assumes they're of a monolith, then he is racist.

Zack Polanski SLAMS Robert Jenrick on Question Time

YouTube video by No Justice

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🐟 Northern Do Gooder @missfairhurst.bsky.social · 1d

We teach our kids British values:
Democracy.
Respect for the law.
Individual liberty.
Mutual respect.
Tolerance of other faiths.

If Farage doesn't like these fundamental values of his own country, maybe he should "go and live abroad" as he promised he'd do if Brexit was a disaster.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

Oh look - Farage.

In the US - again. This time slagging off UK teachers. Next thing you know he’ll be there having a go at our vicars, doctors and nurses.

This man seriously, seriously dislikes Britain, doesn’t he?

This feels like a guaranteed entry into next week’s issue of Bearly Newsworthy.

Nigel Farage
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

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

“Thank you to President Putin!”

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'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

bylinetimes.com

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