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Citizen of the world. John le Carré deplored the aggressive nationalistic sentiment behind Brexit. UK deserves better than Brexit. Let's join the EU #FBPE

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@TeresaC123.bsky.social @teresac123.bsky.social · Nov 16

I post about anything to do with Brexit👇

@TeresaC123.bsky.social @teresac123.bsky.social · Nov 16

Seems nice here at Bluesky.A little bit about me: I like to follow experts & journalists for knowledge & people who are pro EU & pro Democrat in the US,to interact with.I post mainly about UK & EU politics,& global politics.If you are similarly inclined give me a follow & I will follow you.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote this on Nathan Gill, Russian bribes, Reform and Farage nearly two weeks ago. Here it is again if you’re sick of the silence of the UK media

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

It's time we asked some serious questions about Reform and Russia, says Neil Mackay

As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 1d

If they do this, they’ll need a convincing answer to the obvious question some will ask: ‘why don’t we rejoin?’ Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

With Reform UK threatening the end of two-party politics, both Labour and the Tories are fighting to stay relevant as conference season comes to an end

www.thetimes.com

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Finally, someone is saying it.

🔴 NEW: "The message is simple: Farage is ultimately to blame as the man who delivered Brexit with 'easy sloganeering' then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards."

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

Good to blame Farage for the dull-arsed, ruinous, tedious failure of Brexit.
Not that good to keep punishing us for that failure, rather than looking to swiftly boost our prosperity by asking to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union.
But yes. It’s a start.

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Starmer and Reeves are expected to argue that if it hadn't been for Brexit this type of downgrade would not have been needed - and cite official figures suggesting that if Britain had not left the European Union the economy would be about £120 billion greater by 2035 than current forecasts suggest.
The message is simple: Farage is ultimately to blame, as the man who delivered Brexit with "easy sloganeering" then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards.
Or to put it another way: Farage, not us, is responsible for putting up your taxes.
The theme will tie to the main thrust of Starmer's argument at conference, that the Reform leader is selling easy solutions that are just a fantasy.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

The Right are doing this because they want you to believe there is a systemic problem with free speech in this country.

But there isn't.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

There is no systemic free speech problem in Britain that needs fixing. There are some tricky fine lines between free speech and incitement – a balancing of rights – as has been the case for a *very* long time and was the case here. Nothing more.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

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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@TeresaC123.bsky.social @teresac123.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when Ian Hislop said this .. "After an election or a referendum you are entitled to go on making the argument.When a govt in this country wins an election, the opposition does not just say 'oh that's absolutely right I've got nothing to say for 5yrs"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyyO...

Brexit: 'Remainers are entitled to go on making the argument' - BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

www.youtube.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 2d

Sad to say it won’t deter the lazy journalists who see polls as ready made click bait, the polling cos out to make easy money or the professional “analysts” who bestow profound significance on voters’ every cough!

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado.

The Nobel Committee recognised her “struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

In other words, exactly the opposite of what Trump is doing to the United States.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

Fiona Bruce shuts down Zack Polanski's attempt to press Zia Yusuf over Reform UK's links to Putin.

"Bribrary from Russia. Pretty serious for our national security."

"There's other things that the audience wants to talk about", Bruce responds.

Good on @zackpolanski.bsky.social.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

What the hell does Farage thinks he’s doing, going off to America *again* to maliciously slag off British teachers at some private Christian college, while offering to peddle their courses over here?
What a repulsive, grubby little traitor.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5d

Michael Heseltine tells @europeanmovement.co.uk event that the Farage's Reform and European populist far right parties are “equivalents to the fascists of the thirties” and adds: ”We have to deal with President Trump for the next 3 years. We don't need his mouthpiece anywhere near No.10.” ~AA 🔥

Robert Peston
@Peston
Heseltine has just addressed a packed meeting of the European Movement at Tory conference. He does not show the restraint of most party leaders in his critique of Farage and Reform: “right wing equivalents to the fascists of the thirties are back on the march: Le Pen in France, AfD in Germany, Fdl in Italy, Vox in Spain and conspicuously Reform in this country. Much of President Trump's language in America coincides with words here in Europe. The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem which needs a solution although recent events here have cast a dark shadow…We must make clear that we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Nigel Farage. We have to deal with President Trump for the next 3 years. we don't need his mouthpiece anywhere near Number 10.”
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 8d

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 8d

Do read all of this.

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 8d

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

bylinetimes.com

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 8d

Just heard Chris Philp on BBC’s Today programme explaining why the Tories want to leave the ECHR. He claimed ECHR isn’t mentioned in Belfast Agreement - which is simply untrue. The UK govt agreed to incorporate it into NI law & give direct access to the courts (Strand 3). Why no BBC fact-check?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 8d

There are lots of reasons not to leave ECHR. But apart from anything else, it just doesn't solve the problem the Tories/Reform think it does.

E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 8d

“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose”

Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

Nigel Farage Is a Racist

The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
ADAM BIENKOV
OCT 04, 2025

Nigel Farage is a racist. That is my honestly held opinion based on absolutely everything he has said and done since entering politics in the late nineties.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 8d

Are there still people who think the Trump administration isn’t fascist I wonder? Is that still a debate in October 2025?

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 9d

Tommy Robinson posted a neo-Nazi blog that accused me and my fellow Jews Jack Straw and Barbara Roche of conspiring to flood the UK with immigrants.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9d

Tommy Robinson invited to Israel by Amichai Chikli the Minister of Diaspora Affairs.

In the wake of the horrific Manchester terrorist
attack, Israel and the Jewish people stand firmly
with our allies in the United Kingdom.

On behalf of the State of Israel, I am proud to
host British patriot @TRobinsonNewEra who will
visit Israel in mid-October.

Tommy is a courageous leader on the front line
against radical Islam.

At a time when Jews across Europe face rising
antisemitism, it is vital to strengthen bonds with
allies who refuse to be silent.

He has proven himself a true friend of Israel and
the Jewish people, unafraid to speak the truth
and confront hate.

Israel will always stand with the Jewish
community and our allies worldwide. Together
with friends like Tommy Robinson, we will build
stronger bridges of solidarity, fight terror,

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 9d

Of course, Brits favour the agrifood deal with the EU.

They know it cuts paperwork, reduces border checks - and brings food prices down.

Polling by @moreincommonuk.bsky.social.

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@TeresaC123.bsky.social @teresac123.bsky.social · 11d

The Express political commentator Andy Twelves describes Nigel Farage as "A crybaby with a microphone."🤣
www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12d

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11d

🔴Calls for New Inquiry Into Russian Interference After Reform’s Former Welsh Leader Pleads Guilty to Bribery

As the Kremlin steps up its political interference efforts in the West, is it time for a new Russia Report?

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/c...

Calls for New Inquiry Into Russian Interference After Reform’s Former Welsh Leader Pleads Guilty to Bribery

As the Kremlin steps up its political interference efforts in the West, is it time for a new Russia Report?

bylinetimes.com

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