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Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · Nov 28

Okay, I shouldn't have to say this but it seems I do.

If you send me a DM within minutes or hours of being followed you will be blocked.

End of.

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Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · 1h

Arguing with a Corbynista is a pointless waste of time.

It's a cult.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 15h

Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 6h

I've been to Dubai for work a few times. It's like the world's biggest airport lounge. Utterly soulless. Can't imagine wanting to live there whatever the financial benefits. (That's before you get to the ethical issues...)

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 6h

People keep telling me the UK is so over and they're going to move to Dubai and, like, fine. Go on then. Would you like directions to the airport?

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 6h

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 5h

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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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 3h

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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Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · 3h

Putin has also maintained a close interest in Ukraine's conflict with Russia.

In 2014, Farage said Putin was the world leader he most admired "as an operator".

Interesting.

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Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · 2h

Of course, saving £3bn in tax sounds great, on paper.

But if you have to be neighbours with Isabel Oakshott and Richard Tice for 90 days a year, maybe not so much?

Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · 2h

Just do it, overnight.

No warning required.

It would even fit with Starmer's mantra of no tax rises on "working people" 🤣👌

Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · 3h

Putin has also maintained a close interest in Ukraine's conflict with Russia.

In 2014, Farage said Putin was the world leader he most admired "as an operator".

Interesting.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 3h

Byline Times has been told by various sources that Farage has maintained a close interest in Ukraine’s conflict with Russia…
But Farage’s ignorance of this particular set of pro-Russian influencers around Nathan Gill is even more questionable….

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'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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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3h

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

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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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Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · 3h

No they haven't.

All Starmer has done is reiterate his ridiculous red lines and fiddle about a little with some of the ancillary clauses of the Tories' Brexit agreement.

A true commitment to rejoin would involve actually applying to the EU to do so.

Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · 3h

Is there any chance the Independent Adviser will pick it up and do anything?

Or is that it - Johnson off the hook again!?

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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 21h

Giving Trump the Nobel Peace Prize for getting the Gaza Ceasefire deal, after arming a genocide...

... is like handing someone a medal for taking the knife out of the guy he's just killed.

BBC Radio 2 Debate with Jeremy Vine & Poppy Coburn

Does Trump deserve Nobel Peace Prize? - BBC Debate

YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20h

Yaxley Lennon is a Jenrick fan. Say. No. More.
I hope the gutter that Jenrick has carved out for himself sinks him.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22h

Tommy Robinson is more impressed by Robert Jenrick's support for Koran burning, while shouting "Fuck Islam"
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22h

Tommy Robinson has endorsed Robert Jenrick's decision to turn up in person to offer support and solidarity to the asylum seeker Hamit Coskun, who shouted, “Koran is burning”, “Fuck Islam” and “Islam is the religion of terrorism" while burning the Quran.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 20h

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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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 19h

In Farage and Badenoch's eyes, is even paying taxes in Britain good enough for EU nationals like me?

✏️ @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

The unsettling state of settled status

In Farage and Badenoch's eyes, is even paying taxes in Britain good enough for EU nationals like me?

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 18h

Nigel Farage's Brexit smashing it again.

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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · 17h

Just a reminder that Reform’s former Leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, has admitted taking bribes from Russia while an MEP.

Yet Reform spokespeople have suggested their leaders didn't really know Gill.

So here's a few pictures of him with Nigel Farage.

Various photos of Reform’s former Leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, with Nigel Farage.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15h

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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Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · 7h

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Has he figured out what causes brain worms yet?

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Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · 7h

a man in a suit and tie touches the head of another man

ALT: a man in a suit and tie touches the head of another man

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 17h

But people are honestly saying Trump will give Ukraine tomahawk missiles to attack Russia…sure he will.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 16h

There is perverse thinking, and a step below that is thinking that a president that is illegally sending US military units into US cities should be awarded the Nobel Peace prize.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16h

No but seriously, Portland has some pretty mean streets

At any moment someone who just bought a new needle for their vinyl record player could come up and deflate your giant shark costume by accident

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