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

Reform Defunding Schools

Reform UK’s Flagship Kent Council is planning to take £2 million from schools’ already-squeezed budgets to pay for vital services it can no longer afford.

Linden Kemkaran, Reform’s Kent Leader is failing.

schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-run-k...

Reform-run Kent council plans £2m school budget raid

Leaders say proposals fly in face of pre-election pledges to identify efficiencies from 'DOGE' unit

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11h

Lord Heseltine, "Brexit is now having a debilitating effect on the UK.. It will be reversed, not it, when..The deception of Brexit has exposed Britain"

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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 13h

Instead of mascots, England and Wales take to the field with 22 men and women who are living with Alzheimer's disease or dementia ❤️

The players will also wear shirts without names in the second half to help raise awareness 👏

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Water bills for England households to rise even higher.

Bills already up by 36%. Competition regulator permits another 1%-5%, £556m hike

No curbs on exec pay, dividends, sewage dumping as companies raise capital from customers, shareholders get returns.

End the Scam. Nationalise water

Five water firms provisionally allowed to raise bills by further 1% to 5%

An independent group appointed by the competition watchdog rejected nearly 80% of increases sought by companies.

www.independent.co.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

#BBCQT

Always bring the receipts.

Happy birthday to my friend and colleague Nigel Farage aka Mr Brexit.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22h

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

Who would have guessed

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2d

This is among other things a product of how far UK Conservative and Reform Party MPs and Spads have become so marinated in Right wing American social media that they have adopted its view of unis as a source of radicalisation tempting youth away from the moral purity of National Conservative thought

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 2d

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3d

By embracing Brexit for party advantage, the Conservative and Unionist party both destroyed itself and, in time, dismantled the union.

A political morality tale, a fable of hard folly.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

Not a serious person. Zero mention of what this would mean for the over a million British citizens whose own access to welfare in the EU is protected by the withdrawal agreement.

EU citizens living in UK shouldn’t be allowed welfare benefits, says Tory rising star

Katie Lam — who is earning plaudits on the Conservative right — calls for Brexit withdrawal agreement to be reopened.

www.politico.eu

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d

Another astonishing sign of incredible incompetence from the UK Conservatives. They can’t even get right the name of the country they want to represent.
(Image via LBC political editor Natasha Clark)

Promo bar of chocolate saying
"When Labour negotiates,
Britian loses"

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4d

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t”

A Reform Councillor being introduced to what I like to call “uncomfortable reality”.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4d

But, but, but… what about DOGE?

They promised.

UK politics
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Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters
Nigel Farage's party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

Points 1 and 4 were in Sunak's speech on 7th March 2023.

The combination of banning asylum claims + threat of rapid removal [with no real world way to do it] was 60,000 people put into asylum hotels

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 5d

Batshit.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 8d

1/ Farage and Nathan Gill made their European Parliament speeches parroting almost exactly the same Russian propaganda talking points on the same day, September 16th, 2014.

Here's Farage's speech

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 8d

Politics is not like selling biscuits, where the task is to find out what people like & flog it to them.

It's a moral activity. It's about arguing for the things you believe in. It's about *shaping* the "median voter".

Farage has moved the centre-ground of politics. His opponents can move it back.

The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 8d

Crying racism only hurts Labour

Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.

📊 @bwalker.uk

Crying racism only hurts Labour

Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.

www.newstatesman.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 8d

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.

Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."

SHARE!

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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 Fuel crisis in Russia:
- 38% of refining capacity offline - 2.5 million barrels/day.
- Ukrainian strikes directly responsible for 1.7 million barrels/day - 70% of offline capacity - 25% of total refining capacity in Russia.
- Supply is now just 80% of domestic fuel demand.

Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 9d

💥 Russia: Ukraine struck the Yaroslavl Oil Refinery.
Refining capacity: 300,000 barrels per day, 15 million tons per year.
The 5th largest refinery in Russia accounts for 5% of total refining capacity.

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 8d

"Keir Starmer said that the sky didn't fall in when we introduced votes at 16 in Wales and Scotland.

And I say to you, Sir Keir, that when you introduced PR, the sky didn't fall in there either."

Our CEO Emma Harrison speaking at @labour4pr.bsky.social rally at #LabourConference2025 💯🔥

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 8d

Good news, from court - the Robber Baron’s of the Covid era are being held to account. Starting with Michelle Mone and the company she had a ‘quantum relationship’ with - a judge has just ordered them to repay the £120m they collected for providing defective protective equipment.

buff.ly/Lvdq2YK

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 9d

The Mail hitches its caravan to Farage.
Laughable.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 9d

Billy Bragg, "Starmer talked about it, the politics of grievance"

"Brexit ultimately was a vote of grievance"

"People talked about the European Union but many people voted because they wanted to see an end to mass migration, and they didn't get that"

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 9d

Nigel Farage on Nathan Gill, "Our leader in Wales. An honest, decent, honourable man. Who has been loyal to me and the party at all times"

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 9d

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

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