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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 9h

No surprise from the man who sold his country down the river just to become PM - a corrupt, useless, self serving lying one at that

Johnson secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture, amid plans to use an influential contact & senior contacts in the Saudi gov he met as PM

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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sleepy or on a train 🚄 @urbanist318.bsky.social · 9h

After much consideration, I have joined the Greens! I was skeptical at first, especially with the promise of Your Party but the subsequent chaos before founding and the results Zack Polanski and his team have been delivering have shown me that Green is the way forward! 💚

A message from the green party sent to new members after joining.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 9h

Also people like Gary Neville speak to the working class. Particularly men. Reform UK only want to peddle the narrative that it’s ‘working class concerns’ that are driving their racist movement. Free speech only works one way for them and they always attack what they view as a threat.

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victoria1921.bsky.social @victoria1921.bsky.social · 9h

Reform is 5 homes, 'millionaire man of the people', Farage.
Loyal to 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 and an enemy of 🇬🇧

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 9h

Email to David David this morning.

Dear Mr Davis
Would you care to apologise to the country for the utter disaster that is Brexit and the damage you actively helped cause.
Kind regards

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 1d

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

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Rebecca @bluebec.bsky.social · 1d

For newer users of BlueSky, please alt-text your images. It helps people who use screen-readers or who have slow internet connections understand the image you've uploaded. Make the web accessible.

I rarely reshare images without alt-text & I know others do the same. Alt-text your images for reach

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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 21h

Night night sweet dreamies

It’s okay to have depression, it’s okay to have anxiety, & it’s okay to have an adjustment disorder
We need to improve the conversation
We all have mental health in the same way we all have physical health.

We need to talk about it more freely.

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Craig Morrison @realcraigdmorrison.bsky.social · 18h

Portland is off the rails with Trump Mockery!

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 21h

Humor, whimsy, levity = powerful tools in disproving the lies of the regime. We are not violent domestic terrorists. We are non-threatening Americans in silly costumes. This is how we make the regime look both extreme (bc they are) and show their claims are ridiculous.

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

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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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

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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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

Foxglove analysis, covered in last Sunday’s Observer newspaper, showed that just TEN of these new data centres will belch out enough polluting carbon emissions to cancel out ALL of the carbon emissions saved in 2025 by UK drivers switching to electric cars.
observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Ten UK data centres could cancel EV emissions gain

Research has underlined the lack of transparent and reliable figures for expected emissions driven by data centre growth

observer.co.uk

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 1d

Profiteers will cost the NHS an arm and a leg
The NHS, born in 1948 alongside me, has saved millions - yet today both major parties bleed it dry, trading care for corporate profit

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

Profiteers will cost the NHS an arm and a leg

The NHS, born in 1948 alongside me, has saved millions - yet today both major parties bleed it dry, trading care for corporate profit

northeastbylines.co.uk

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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Alex Richards @alxrchrds.bsky.social · 23h

The brilliant @privateeyenews.bsky.social captures British journalists and political commentators in a nutshell over their Nigel Farage and Reform Party UK Ltd obsession.

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Joe Peacock @brumgreenjoe.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks for coming @zackpolanski.bsky.social

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 20h

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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Marwoodl ♀️ @marwoodl.bsky.social · 22h

Trans activists attack a women’s rights conference

Lisa-Marie Taylor: “It is shocking and saddening that a conference for women to discuss domestic abuse, sexual violence and lesbian safety, has been met with smashed windows, graffiti and intimidation.”
🎁
www.thetimes.com/article/e683...

Council refused feminists security after trans activists smashed venue

Organisers of a conference in Brighton applied for a protection order to shield them from protesters who later broke windows and sprayed paint on the building

www.thetimes.com

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deedeeobserves.bsky.social @deedeeobserves.bsky.social · 22h

They’ll be first to be deported!!??

Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 1d

So there’s a pattern emerging.. Councillors “defect” to Reform then refuse to resign and fight a by-election as Reform candidates

But why❓🤔

Ahh yes bc they wouldn’t win.. so Reform gains power by the back door

As for those of colour joining it’s like a hen quitting the henhouse to join foxes 🙄🤦🏼‍♂️

Hertfordshire Reform UK defector rejects calls for by-election - BBC News

Two former Tories say there is no precedent for a by-election when a councillor changes party.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tracey Briggs @traceybriggs1.bsky.social · 22h

Why am I not surprised? Oh yes that's why it's Johnson 😂 no surprise!

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23h

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop the abuse of contacts and access made in public office, an ethics watchdog has found. Last month the Guardian published revelations about Johnson’s conduct since leaving office. The Boris Files, a trove of documents from the former prime minister’s private office seen by the Guardian, suggested he repeatedly broke rules forbidding him from exploiting contacts made in office for private gain. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Green Party is polling higher than ever before. Our membership is growing rapidly.
And every single day we are surging.

Where Labour have failed, the Left must be ready to take on Reform.

news.sky.com/story/bring-...

'Bring it on': Left-wing activists gather for fight back against the right - and Labour

Zack Polanski, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will headline a left-wing festival in Manchester this weekend - as progressive voters look for an alternative to Labour.

news.sky.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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