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Julian Petley
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Julian Petley @julian-petley.bsky.social · 13d
Indeed - but that doesn't stop most of the mainstream media ignoring it.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 13d
Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13d
Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Julian Petley @julian-petley.bsky.social · 18d
Isn't this partly because the right-wing press, GB News and parts of the Tory party believe that the Labour government is actually illegitmate, and thus must be deposed as soon as possible?
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18d
It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18d
Someone said to me today, "I didn't have a clue who Charlie Kirk was while he was alive, but now I am absolutely sick of him."
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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 18d
"Keir Starmer’s Government’s refusal to explicitly condemn the Reform leader’s plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street" @adambienkov.bsky.social writes
Where Is the Opposition to Nigel Farage's Immoral Mass Deportation Plan?
Keir Starmer's Government's refusal to explicitly condemn the Reform leader's plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18d
🔴Where Is the Opposition to Nigel Farage’s Immoral Mass Deportation Plan?

Keir Starmer’s refusal to explicitly condemn Farage's plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/22/w...
Where Is the Opposition to Nigel Farage's Immoral Mass Deportation Plan?
Keir Starmer's Government's refusal to explicitly condemn the Reform leader's plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18d
It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 18d
Big Issue 2023: “The real worry is that true US-style culture war divisions – where our views on a range of social issues become very tightly tied to our political identity – leave no room for compromise and are incredibly difficult to unpick...”
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Woke or anti-woke? Culture wars are poisoning politics, eye-opening study finds
What do pronouns, the Met Police and tofu have in common? All three have been accused of being “woke” by senior Tory MPs.
www.bigissue.com
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 18d
Reform's ‘plan’ to revoke the legal status of millions of UK residents is morally abhorrent & economic madness

The public believe in fairness & mutual respect, not this cruel Trumpian policy that would leave us all poorer. We are not America - we must resist this dangerous turn in British politics.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 18d
As well as the fantasy £234 bn, journalists should also be clear Farage's claims most new migrants don't work, and those who do are on low wages, are entirely false.

In fact, 1.8 million recent migrants are on payrolls (others will be self employed).

migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18d
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.

So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18d
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26d
Far right organisers in this country consistently side with foreign billionaires over our democratic institutions.
They are not patriots.
They are quislings.
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Julian Petley @julian-petley.bsky.social · 26d
And one of the bureaucrats is a person of colour.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26d
The far-right is in its pomp. We will have to fight for our values like never before.

iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 27d
Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed
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Julian Petley @julian-petley.bsky.social · Sep 9
Please consider signing this petition in light of the BBC's obsessive and uncritical coverage of Farage. www.libdems.org.uk/bbc
Balance the BBC
The BBC is our national broadcaster, people expect and deserve balanced news coverage.
www.libdems.org.uk
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Sep 9
🔴BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End ‘Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage

They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End 'Wall to Wall' Farage Coverage
They accuse the BBC of "following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage
bylinetimes.com
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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · Sep 9
It's no surprise that Nigel Farage hardly ever bothers to visit Clacton or turn up at Parliament. When he was an MEP, his attendance record was 748th out of 751. He's a workshy grifting gobshite.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Sep 9
A new blog on the increasingly urgent distinction between serious historical research on colonialism and right wing historical propaganda:

alanlester.co.uk/blog/accusat...
Accusation in the Mirror? Distinguishing Scholarship From Propaganda
Alan Lester The Truth About Empire, a collection of essays for a public readership by fourteen leading historians of British colonialism that I edited and introduced, was the subject of Alexander M…
alanlester.co.uk
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Sep 9
Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Sep 6
🔴The Fake Patriotism of Nigel Farage

Despite his claims to love this country, few politicians have done more to undermine its interests and assist its enemies than the leader of Reform

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-fake-p...
The Fake Patriotism of Nigel Farage
Despite his claims to love this country, few politicians have done more to undermine its interests and assist its enemies than the leader of Reform
www.adambienkov.co.uk
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · Sep 5
Nothing says, "Hey international companies, bring your manufacturing to the US" like arresting 475 workers at a Hyundai (70% of whom are South Korean).
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · Sep 5
“We will police the streets and not the tweets and change all that damaging legislation,” says Nigel Farage on stage at Reform – just after welcoming the minister responsible for passing the Online Safety Act onto the stage with him, and into his party.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Sep 5
Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind in charge of an entire English county, accuses the government of appointing people "with no knowledge" or experience in charge of Government departments
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Sep 5
"We are the patriotic party" says Nigel Farage, who just spent the past few days slagging off his own country to a foreign superpower, while encouraging them to impose sanctions on our economy if we don't do what they say
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Sep 5
Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.
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Julian Petley @julian-petley.bsky.social · Sep 5
The fact that Farage is being 'interviewed' here by a fake journalist (Christopher Hope) for a fake 'news' channel (GB News) for which they both work amply backs up Alex's point.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · Sep 5
Just wait until the BBC, Sky, Mail, Telegraph, Express, Sun, and GBeebies get hold of this story of obvious and deliberate tax avoidance!

JUST WAIT!







www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
www.theguardian.com
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Julian Petley @julian-petley.bsky.social · Sep 5
A Farage govt will be like Truss on steroids, and the markets will react accordingly. The Tories were able to get rid of Truss rapidly, but we'll have Farage for five years. The consequences will be incalculable, both domestically and on the world stage.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · Sep 5
What on earth has possessed people to believe that Reform’s motley collection of our most abysmal, prejudiced and corrupt politicians - all with a proven track record of epic and piss-taking failure would be a remotely credible government? Seriously people… and media…
you’ve lost your goddam minds.
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