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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 18h

Nothing says “Reform cuts costs” than precious Andrea Jenkyns spending £74K on new offices❗️🤷🏼‍♂️

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

Greater Lincolnshire Mayor under fire for £74k plans for new offices

www.lincsonline.co.uk/spalding/new...

Mayor under fire for £74k plan for new office

Greater Lincolnshire’s new mayoral authority has come under fire over plans to spend £74,000 on new offices.

www.lincsonline.co.uk

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Julia Smith #FBPE @juliasm.bsky.social · 1d

How come there are records of Farage making similar statements/questions in the EP (e.g., 2014 warnings of Western provocation leading to war with Putin), sharing themes of anti-EU/NATO expansion and de-escalation that align with Gill's bribed pro-Russian narratives on Ukraine?

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 8h

Keir Starmer is reportedly gearing up to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for Britain’s expected downturn in productivity at the budget.
It's about time.
We need to rejoin the Single Market.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Starmer ‘planning to blame Farage and Brexit’ for budget tax hikes

Sir Keir Starmer has been ramping up his attacks on Nigel Farage in recent weeks as Labour falls behind in the polls

www.independent.co.uk

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage is surprised his Reform ally Nathan Gill took Russian bribes.
He'll be amazed to learn Putin interfered in the Brexit referendum.
And stunned when he hears he, himself, praised Putin, exactly as he helped Bashar al-Assad commit genocide.
news.sky.com/story/nigel-...

Nigel Farage: 'Putin Is Leader I Admire Most'

Nick Clegg calls UKIP leader's praise for Vladimir Putin "utterly grotesque", saying the Syrian crisis "isn't a game".

news.sky.com

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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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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 2d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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Linda Lombard @heavensgone.bsky.social · 1d

When #NobelCommittee chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes was asked why Trump wasn’t given the award, he suggested #Trump wasn’t worthy

#NobelPeacePrize

leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nobe...

Nobel committee chair roasts Trump: ‘We only give the award to people of courage and integrity’

When Nobel Committee chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes was asked why Trump wasn’t given the award, he suggested Trump wasn’t worthy.

leftfootforward.org

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 2d

Leader of the Greens, @zackpolanski.bsky.social, is right that the richest could and should contribute more, while still remaining well off. Also, that they can't pick up and move the land they own: wealth flight is exaggerated.
Britain can be, and must become, fairer.
#bbcqt

Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 2d

Former Head of Comms for the IEA, Annabel Denham, says the super rich will leave if we have a wealth tax.

Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d

Every year 100s of employers are named and shamed for failure to pay the statutory minimum wage.

2016-2023: over 3m workers denied the minimum wage.

Puny fines do nothing. Fines must equal the remuneration of the board of directors. 50% personally payable. Imprison persistent offenders.

The government must ensure fair distribution of income

'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'

leftfootforward.org

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 3d

Of course, peace in Gaza will be a wondeful outcome.
But Trump has already allowed and helped Netanyahu to commit genocide, so it's hard to hear him endlessly praised.
And he really doesn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
#r4today
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Gaza latest: Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed ‘historic’ peace deal

President says 'first phase' will involve release of hostages and withdrawal of Israeli troops

www.independent.co.uk

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 3d

While Labour and the Tories busily worry about Nigel Farage, the Greens are looking at how to make Britain better for the vast majority.
Polls show that Labour's actually losing far fewer voters to Reform than to the Greens. With @zackpolanski.bsky.social offering real hope, you can see why.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

Let's make hope normal again.

youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

youtu.be

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 4d

They want to ditch the #ECHR to "assist with forced removals and #Immigration."

Do you how many UK forced removals the #ECHR have stopped?

4. In 4 years.

It's not about #Immigration. It's about ALL THE OTHER RIGHTS they want to strip you of.

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, we should harmonise taxes so that income from wealth is charged at the same rate as paid work. Currently, many business owners pay themselves more in dividends than salaries to minimise tax.
So, the best off pay proportionately less. Which must end, however much the establishment complains.

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 6d

Robert Jenrick has slammed Liz Truss’ mini-Budget as “careless” and “unconservative” as he said the Tory party must accept its mistakes.
Interestingly, that's the budget that Nigel Farage praised that led to national crisis and Truss being ousted.
#CPC25
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Jenrick hits out at Truss’s ‘careless’ mini-Budget: Politics live

The shadow justice secretary said the party must be ‘honest’ about its mistakes to rebuild public trust

www.independent.co.uk

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 6d

As politicians threaten to leave the ECHR over immigration, award-winning actor Jonathan Pryce suggests that a compelling drama about refugees living in Britain could be one way to defuse the rising anger and anti-migrant sentiment in the UK.
Yes, please.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

Making a drama about refugees could defuse anti-migrant anger in UK, says Jonathan Pryce

Actor says ‘people aren’t aware of the facts’ and the realities for people living in migrant hotels

www.theguardian.com

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 8d

I realise that there are lots of erudite and entirely correct reasons against leaving the ECHR, but surely the main one to be repeated ad nauseam is "from the people who told you Brexit would solve all of your problems - how did that work out for you?"

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 8d

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 8d

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.

Farage is still silent.

It’s deafening.

#ReformRussianBribes

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 8d

nypost.com/2025/10/02/u...

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 8d

I put out a new book recently, A Particular View. There are a few contemporary ghost stories, some that are sinister in other ways and a few more everyday tales.
It's 99p on Kindle.
#writingcommunity
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CZDZ3KF7

A Particular View

A Particular View eBook : Taylor, Mike: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

www.amazon.co.uk

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 10d

The absolute state of political debate about asylum and immigration. A global reality that has no obvious "answer" leading to various unconvincing solutions more or less nasty, more or less likely to achieve their goals.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 10d

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

www.theguardian.com

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 12d

Absolute credit to Wes Streeting for directly contradicting the poison that comes from Nigel Farage, by welcoming and thanking people who make Britain their home to work in our health and social care systems.
Reform would send them packing and collapse the NHS.
#LabourPartyConference

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12d

'He might be telling those people to go home. As our country's health and social care secretary, I want to say directly to those people... they are home'

Wes Streeting criticises Reform's plans to deport people from the UK if they fail to meet stricter rules👏

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 12d

While the UK public remain entirely focused on the Middle East, the UK government is yet again showing it is looking at the whole world...

...this time in announcing support for 500,000 Rohingya refugees displaced from Myanmar by conflict and persecution.

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www.gov.uk/government/n...

UK to fund lifesaving assistance to over 500,000 Rohingya refugees

The UK will provide food, shelter, clean water, and other life-saving services to half a million Rohingya refugees displaced from Myanmar by conflict and persecution

www.gov.uk

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