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Ian Collins

@icoll.bsky.social

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Always a Democrat. Hate Tories,the Farage sect, Trump and Musk, Brexit is a disaster and It’s just a matter of when we rejoin the EU and the sooner the better #FBPE #RejoinEurope Stand with Ukraine!

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 5h

Just block the right

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 5h

The only way to deal with right wing content is to block it. Algorithms amplify the right based on interactions, so it might be satisfying to call them out but it makes them stronger. TikTok the latest domino to fall.

english.elpais.com/technology/2...

Social media completes its shift to the right: ‘TikTok is consequential’

The US subsidiary of the popular service, controlled by business figures close to Trump, is the final major platform to be drawn into the White House’s orbit

english.elpais.com

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 18h

Shouldn’t when be if ?

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 18h

Another list of Reform councillors lost since the May elections, a list bound to lengthen.

www.markpack.org.uk/175342/how-m...

How many councillors has Reform UK lost since May?

A regularly updated list of all the local councillors that Reform UK has shed from the May local elections.

www.markpack.org.uk

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 22h

Badenoch, Farage and their backers in the right wing media want us to have fewer human rights, but there is no convincing public support for leaving the ECHR.

theconversation.com/do-british-p...

Do British people want to leave the ECHR? What a decade of polls reveals

In the most recent YouGov poll on this issue, 54% of Conservative voters and 72% of Reform voters were in favour of leaving.

theconversation.com

Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

It’s good that someone is keeping a record of these dangerous Reform inadequates. They’ve got self destruct buttons built in.

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/10/c...

Countdown: The steady shedding of Reform councillors and officials continues… – HOPE not hate

Drunken displays, racist rants and dodgy deals are just some of the reasons that Reform councillors and officials are dropping like flies… While Reform UK...

hopenothate.org.uk

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder of the sheer lack of quality on the Board of Reform Ltd. Doctor David Bullshit and his ear bandage, can you imagine this fool serving in Government

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

Whoever did it deserves an order of merit

Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly what’s wrong with the place, they keep wanting their country back so they can fuck it up even more

Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

Too right, he claims working class credentials by coming from Wolverhampton but we’re not all racist cunts

Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

I think he gets continually picked at by the scum press but you’re right his judgement is flawed, probably fawning over Trump was the worst example. He played the lap dog a bit too convincingly

Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

Deregulation and scrapping human rights suits the usual corporate suspects

Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

You wouldn’t bet against it, bet the toys are all over the place

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

Idiocracy in action

Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

A kick in the teeth for the senile orange baboon, well done Maria Corina Machado standing for all the good things he doesn’t

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to María Corina Machado on.ft.com/4nTWp5l

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to María Corina Machado

Win for Venezuela’s main opposition leader dashes the hopes of US President Donald Trump

on.ft.com

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

Sinister. He was initially blocked from taking a flight out of the US after a series of death threats, guilty of writing a book on Antifa

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

It always needs topping up. Greed becomes him, oh and racism and lies.

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

Are they losers or wankers ?

Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

KS and good judgement are in danger of becoming strangers. Axing pensioner’s winter fuel allowance was an totally unnecessary fuck up. Now he wants to spy on bank accounts and gift people with Digital ID. He can FRO

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

Exclusive: Keir Starmer Facing Mounting Labour Rebellion Over Digital ID Cards

MPs believe Downing Street's "mishandling" of the policy has set it back five years.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

Wait til they try to have an election, good luck with that

Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick wasn’t even in Handsworth when he called the place a slum with no white faces. Fascists are never interested in detail.

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

Robert Jenrick outed as not even being in Handsworth when he took 'racist' swipe

The MP made controversial comments about Handsworth - but was in fact walking along a street in Aston

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 2d

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