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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 44m

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

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'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

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 6h

✊ "The public is clearly ready to see Brexit reversed. There cannot be a single industry that would oppose it."

➡️ "This should not be a partisan matter, except insofar as it might isolate Farage’s Reform party – and be his undoing."

https://bit.ly/42Btcnf

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins

With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 9h

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

Farage and his allies have a long history of being associated with Russian funding and trying to avoid scrutiny and investigation of it. This from 2015:

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 23h

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

Farage and his allies have a long history of being associated with Russian funding and trying to avoid scrutiny and investigation of it. This from 2015:

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 4d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

Remember when Nigel Farage said, 'If we vote to Remain on June 23rd, it will be the end of the steel industry in this country. It's as simple as that.'

Now we all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins

With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 3d

🚨Winston Churchill at the Hague Congress in 1948:

"In the centre of our movement stands the idea of a Charter of Human Rights, guarded by freedom and sustained by law".

This meeting was crucial in shaping the ECHR.

Maybe it is time to listen to those who faced down fascism.

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 5d

Michael Heseltine lays in to the current Conservative Party for cosying up to “rightwing equivalents to the fascists of the 1930s”, Farage and Reform :
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

The Conservatives must never have any part in Farage’s po...

To describe asylum seekers as thieves or rapists encourages the worst sort of prejudice. We don’t need Trump’s mouthpiece anywhere near No 10

observer.co.uk

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 5d

Michael Heseltine lays in to the current Conservative Party for cosying up to “rightwing equivalents to the fascists of the 1930s”, Farage and Reform :
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

The Conservatives must never have any part in Farage’s po...

To describe asylum seekers as thieves or rapists encourages the worst sort of prejudice. We don’t need Trump’s mouthpiece anywhere near No 10

observer.co.uk

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 6d

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 7d

Explainer: Does the European Convention on Human Rights really stop foreign criminals being removed from the UK? Hardly!

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Explainer: Does the European Convention on Human Rights stop foreign criminals being removed from the UK? - UK in a changing Europe

Joelle Grogan, Alice Donald and Victoria Adelman examine the relationship between the ECHR and immigration law.

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 8d

Age!
I’m 70…

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David Phinnemore @dphinnemore.bsky.social · 8d

‘Polling commissioned by POLITICO shows the government’s agri-food deal agreed in principle with Brussels is popular with Remainers and Leavers alike — even when they're told it means following EU rules.

‘Nearly two-thirds (63 per cent) of voters back the deal…

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 9d

Even if everything Michelle Mone had done was legal, it would still be sickening that that she chose to exploit the pandemic to make vast profits out of other people's misery, while so many were dying and countless care workers were risking their lives to help others

Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 10d

🧵on Michelle Mone and Covid contracts

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Former Tory peer Michelle Mone has called today’s ruling that PPE Medpro must give the taxpayer back £122m for supplying dodgy PPE an ‘establishment cover-up’. Utter nonsense.

Let’s ignore the rhetoric & look at the facts 👇

UK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE

Trial heard 25m surgical gowns supplied by PPE Medpro to protect NHS staff were unusable and could ‘seriously harm or kill patients’

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 9d

Andy Burnham’s call for Britain to rejoin the EU sets Labour

“on an irreversible course towards adopting rejoin as an official position”

says @Independent ‘s @ArchieMitch_

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 10d

Keir Starmer points out that before we left the EU, we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. Brexit means that “These are Farage boats, in many senses, that are coming across the channel.”

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

PM brands Channel crossings ‘Farage boats’ because Brexit has hampered returns – UK politics live

PM also says he does not believe Nigel Farage or Reform voters are racist

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 11d

On flags:

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 11d

Good to hear Keir Starmer taking the battle to Farage’s ReformUK (REFUK) and its racist leadership and denounce the Brexit lies on the side of the bus

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 11d

Another call for Britain to rejoin the EU, albeit slowly…

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 12d

This issue, and Neil Kinnock’s comments, comes up a lot at meetings at the #LabourConference2025 , usually with supportive comments on Neil’s line.

Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 21d

Neil Kinnock points out that Brexit:
- cost UK economy £100bn a year
- reduced tax revenues by £40bn a year
- exited UK from system where asylum seekers are processed by first EU country entered & can be returned there

Says time to put #RejoinEU on the agenda…

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 12d

Indeed, did Farage “get paid for this, like Nathan Gill, or is he the kind of treasonous fascist tool who would do this for free?”

Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 13d

1/ This speech made by Farage in September 2014, after Russia's first invasion of Ukraine, is a stream of Russian propaganda lies that could have come from Lavrov's mouth.

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 12d

The #LabourPartyConference voted unanimously, ten years ago today, that Britain is better off being inside the European Union and should campaign to remain in the EU.
Even more reasons for that now…

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 12d

Stella Creasy MP, Chair of the Labour Movement for Euro Europe, makes the case for a much more ambitious reset of Britain’s relationship with the EU to a packed meeting at
#LabourPartyConference

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