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Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 1d

Well done Ed Davey for clearly speaking up against Farage and Badenoch. We need more politicians like him who speak the truth. I would vote for him.

Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 1d

We just stopped Nigel Farage’s plan to drag Britain out of the ECHR and tear up people’s rights. Farage wanted to scrap Churchill’s legacy and bring us closer to Trump's America.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Farage gets voted down on leaving the ECHR… for now.
Ed Davey quite rightly tears a strip off him.

But really, the corrupt leader of a racist party threatening to remove our protection from abuses of power by our own government, should be the biggest red flag going.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Nigel Farage loses major vote as he's accused of 'making career by damaging UK'

Nigel Farage's call for the UK to leave the European Convention for Human Rights (ECHR) was voted down by MPs, with Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey branding it "un-British"

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

"To say 'Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class' is an insulting, facile distraction from the fact that Sultana refuses to support the Ukrainian people’s fight for existence."

Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.

open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...

Coventry South needs a by-election soon

Zarah Sultana has no mandate for disarming the people of Britain and betraying Ukraine

open.substack.com

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer's failure to stand up to this man is a cowardly and suicidal calamity

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.

Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.

No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.

Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

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Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 2d

Under the current criminalisation of protest, even the famous campaigners that we celebrate in the UK would be at risk of arrest simply for peacefully protesting.

The right to protest is a cornerstone of our democracy; we cannot allow its restriction to go unchallenged.

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 1d

Liberal Democrat MPs just defeated Nigel Farage’s Bill in Parliament to tear up people’s rights and withdraw from the ECHR.

Farage wants to do away with the Britain Churchill built and turn it into Trump's America. We won't let him.

Graphic showing a laughing Nigel Farage - above are the words Lib Dems defeat Farage's plan to undermine our Human Rights

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 3d

Seriously? @itvnews.bsky.social is “both siding” racism?

Peston @itvpeston.bsky.social · 3d

Is the Reform MP who says she’s driven mad by TV adverts full of Black & Asian people a racist or realist? How many migrants would the Tories expel? & should the UK be selling fighter jets to Türkiye?

Join LIVE at 9PM on X & YouTube or on ITV1 at 1045PM 📺

#Peston

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 3d

A fascist theologian seems an appropriate choice as an afvisor to a far-right party. Does blood and soil coupled with 'kirche, kinder, küche' ring any bells? They're now telling us plainly who they are. How many wake up calls do we need?

Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 4d

Disgusting - Reform UK appoints James Orr, anti-LGBTQ+ theologian and ally of Charlie Kirk, as senior adviser to Nigel Farage

A former friend of MAGA figure Kirk and ally of JD Vance, Orr expresses anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion views, and has described asylum seekers as "invaders"

Reform UK appoints James Orr, anti-LGBTQ+ theologian and ally of Charlie Kirk, as senior adviser to Nigel Farage

Reform UK has appointed anti-LGBTQ+ professor and friend of JD Vance and Charlie Kirk, James Orr, as a senior adviser to Nigel Farage,

www.attitude.co.uk

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 3d

A fascist theologian seems an appropriate choice. Does blood and soil coupled with 'kirche, kinder, kuche' ring any bells? They're now telling us plainly who they are. How many wake up calls do we need?

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The cleavage shot no UK tabloid will print.

If you want to understand how truly ignorant and absent the British media is on Russian interference, read on.

A Kremlin spy scandal, a trove of bikini shots....and still nothing but tumbleweed.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

The cleavage shot no UK tabloid will print

Want to understand how deeply weird the British press is on the subject of Russian interference? I have a bikini shot to show you...

open.substack.com

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, indeed - betraying both their country and the values of the Gospels in which they claim to believe.

Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 6d

Of course. Intelligence works in that oblique, inherited, kind of way ...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6d

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn

A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 6d

Trump's talking about IQ and he's the guy who can't form whole sentences or convey any semblace of coherent thought?

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 6d

They're crude, disgusting, misogynist barbarians. I'm not an American, but I'm so sorry.

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 6d

At a guess, 'federal immunity' doesn't exist under your constitition. But we're grateful for this warning as to what happens when a democracy is subverted from within. We're going to need it. And good luck & every support in your resistance.

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 6d

I never thought I'd say this, but to be fair to Nicholas II, he didn't have it built or decorated - the Winter Palace was built under Peter the Great and, later, the Hermitage Museum by Catherine the Great. It does, however, have several ballrooms ...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6d

"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...

Normal Times in Dire Times

Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.

frederickjoseph.substack.com

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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 6d

Every day, Ivanishvili's regime arrests dozens of protesters. Every day, the Rustaveli Avenue is still packed.

Day 331 of uninterrupted protests in 8+ cities across Georgia. 🇬🇪✊

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 6d

Richard Tice told The Times in March he had “never met Nathan Gill”

Tice - "Please welcome to the stage, Nathan Gill."
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 6d

Good - on the spot - analysis from Will Hayward here: "Caerphilly has shown that Reform can be beaten. The rest of UK desperately needs to learn the lessons from what transpired in south Wales last night."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reform swaggered into Caerphilly, ready for a coronation. An unpleasant surprise lay in store | Will Hayward

Predictions of a Reform win were wide of the mark. But Labour’s crushing byelection defeat offers important lessons too, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 7d

He has form on this. As a member of the Fisheries Committee of the EU parliament, he attended, was it, one or two meetings out of 42? Farage the great patriot who has wrecked our future. Make Russia Great Again seems to be more than a by-product of his political philosophy.

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 7d

It's there now, at least on my mobile app. But it's interesting that they are mainly stressing Plaid's victory over Labour rather than the failure of Farage's Russia First party to win the seat - despite all the hype they've encouraged.

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 7d

Huge sense of relief this morning.
Maybe now the fight back against far-right cruelty and insanity will begin in earnest....?

Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 7d

Caerphilly, Senedd constituency by-election result:

PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)

Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.

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