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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6h

Absolute perfection. #Reform

Our Granddad is 100 and fought in D-day
and he thinks Farage is the right man to
sort Britain out. He says he reminds him
of one of the commanders he fought
alongside with distinction. In the next
few weeks he's going to auction off his
medals and donate all the money to
Reform. Anyone know how much an Iron Cross is worth?

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The Rejoin EU Party @therejoineuparty.com · 1d

🇬🇧Where do Brexit Believers compare to Britain’s myth believers?
1. Ghosts (38% could exist)
2. UFOs (35% seen/know)
3. 🇺🇸Bigfoot (17% believe)
4. Loch Ness (17% probably real)
5. Fairies (14% sightings)
6. Brexit success (11%)
#Brexit #Rejoin #Halloween2025

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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 10h

Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler.

manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

The men who raised the flags

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

manchestermill.co.uk

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 13h

We in the UK will work out far too late that this is a bad thing.

John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 1d

NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 13h

Almost everyone knows this. Particularly those busy creating the fear. I’ve always said only about 20% of people are racist. Leaving 80% like me who really don’t care. Allow people safe routes. Let them make a contribution. Welcome them. Build our country.

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Rob Weaver @robweaver.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see Matt Goodwin getting a proper kicking. #bbcqt

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Rob Weaver @robweaver.bsky.social · 1d

A very moving interview with Virginia Guiffre's siblings. #newsnight

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Rob Weaver @robweaver.bsky.social · 1d

Shippy can't bring himself to say Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Three tines referred to 'Prince Andrew'. No such issues for Pesto and Julie Etch. Royal Correspondents, much like the lobby do go native. #andrewmountbattenwindsor

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Rob Weaver @robweaver.bsky.social · 2d

2025 equiv of Danny Crainie needs to make himself known soon. When are we playing Villa away? #wwfc

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

The whiter the area the more likely it is to have a Reform problem. Immigration isn’t the problem, otherwise you’d get Reform in more diverse areas - it’s fear of change among older people.

Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK

How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.

www.bbc.com

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Hip Priest @hippriest.bsky.social · 4d

We will fight them on the quiches

Poppy pizzas, clearly not quiches before you pipe up.

Regurgitated from my Twitter account

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP.

And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 4d

I am so tired of 24 hour news about small boats. I simply don’t care how many migrants arrive in the UK any more. No matter how many, they’ll never be as big a threat to British values, our way of life, or indeed women‘s safety, as the bigots who make yelling about migrants their entire personality.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 5d

"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 5d

“Let’s be clear, since a lot of people seem to be finding that difficult: most people who get upset if they see black or brown faces in adverts are racists. There are few other reasons for seeing diversity in advertising to bother anyone.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-s...

Sarah Pochin and the new age of open racism

What the Reform MP said was appalling. The Tories’ refusal to condemn her is arguably worse

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Rob Weaver @robweaver.bsky.social · 5d

Would love to know if any convos behind scenes or academic analysis of voting patterns. Poor judges, trained dancers as 'celebs', Social Media marshalling votes, celebs overcomig personal issues and disabilities (and being hard to vote against) & public racist voting has kind of killed #strictly

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Rob Weaver @robweaver.bsky.social · 6d

Well last night...they all pretty much scored 7 or 8 whatever quality of dance...wait til you see the results too. Judges have to mark wider than they did last night. #strictly

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Rob Weaver @robweaver.bsky.social · 6d

Hmm. Dont like to play 'that' card but would be interesting to see the record of black and brown faced celebs on reality where public has the vote. Feels as if the genre not immune from population's lurch to the right. Astonished tbh.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 7d

It's just patriots (actual patriots) being patriotic.

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Rob Weaver @robweaver.bsky.social · 7d

Well. Maybe the judges want La Voix to do the presenting gig. Extraordinary set of marks. #strictly

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 7d

Some graffiti has appeared on the Reform UK office in Caerphilly.

Following a by election last week which Reform lost someone has written “now you can fuck off home”.
Reform had made immigration a key issue in by election.

These pictures are the copyright of Matthew Horwood.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7d

Found out about this one from the Labour press release condemning it, and it was a real trip to learn that this wasn’t “a Labour staffer with a tape recorder at a private event” story but a “she just said it on national TV” story.

Alexander Brown @alexofbrown.bsky.social · 7d

The quotes in this are so fucking bad I had to check several times it wasn’t a deep fake
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'

Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'

www.mirror.co.uk

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Rob Weaver @robweaver.bsky.social · 7d

Much like 2016 to 2024 really Andy. Brexit killed the Tory Party; now doing the same to the Labour Party.

Rob Weaver @robweaver.bsky.social · 8d

But also boost Labour.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8d

Stephen Kinnock explains the Dublin agreement where the UK could send asylum seekers back to the first country they stepped into the EU, when we were members of the EU

With Brexit, when we left the EU, we were no longer able to do that

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