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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 7h

SPOILER ALERT: ICE is only attacking peaceful protesters, some of whom are dressed in fluffy animal costumes.

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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 6h

You're a star. @iandunt.bsky.social

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 8h

New Reform UK councillors in Kent promised efficiency, but have taken just a few months to go back on their pledges. And the embarrassing mess is yet another sign that the posh-boy hatemongers have nothing positive to offer ordinary people.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Reform's embarrassing council mess shows the posh-boy hatemongers have nothing to offer

Reform blunder into a mess of their own making at Kent County Council as they realise their DOGE style cuts aren't feasible

www.thecanary.co

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 8h

SPOILER ALERT: Being "White" is not a nationality.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 10h

Britain can’t compete alone against the scale of China, America, and India. The economics and the next generation will take us back to Europe 🇪🇺

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 10h

‘Brexit is a tragedy and it will be reversed.’ 💥

#Heseltine is the best political communicator by a long way.

His emphatic call for rejoining the EU cuts through the noise, grounded in truth, while the counterarguments cling to a dwindling minority of Brexit believers.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 9h

Nigel Farage has earned over £1 million from second jobs since the general election, it has been revealed, as he declares his income for the first time since May.
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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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 9h

‘Learn lessons from US’ and stop political interference, UK told
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/learn-l...

‘Learn lessons from US’ and stop political interference, UK told

OfS and UKRI seen as particularly vulnerable to meddling from government, with report authors calling for more safeguards to ensure independence

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 9h

SPOILER ALERT: Trump doesn't want to overhaul Obamacare, he wants to abolish it so the health insurers can screw you again.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 9h

You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 8h

SPOILER ALERT: ICE officials are "reasonably suspicious" of everyone who isn't white.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 8h

Commission to probe reports that Orbán’s spies targeted EU officials in Brussels
Hungary’s current European Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi was in charge of the country’s embassy at the time of the allegations.
www.politico.eu/article/orba...

Commission to probe reports that Orbán’s spies targeted EU officials in Brussels

Hungary’s current European Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi was in charge of the country’s embassy at the time of the allegations.

www.politico.eu

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 8h

SPOILER ALERT: He has no plan.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 8h

I only saw this cartoon when I wasn't looking at it!

Banx @banxtoons.bsky.social · 1d

From today's @financialtimes.com #quantumcomputing #nobelprize

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 8h

The National Union of Journalists today released a statement condemning the Conservative party for banning myself and my fellow Byline Times journalist David Hencke from attending Conservative Party conference.
open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

I Need Your Help to Hold Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch to Account

It's never been more important to support independent journalists determined to report the truth

open.substack.com

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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Chicago Stands Tall Against Trump’s Overreach
open.substack.com/pub/demwinsm...

BREAKING: Chicago Stands Tall Against Trump’s Overreach

BREAKING: Donald Trump thought he could strong-arm Chicago into submission.

https://open.substack.com/pub/demwinsmedia/p/breaking-chicago-stands-tall-against?r=8gged&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web×tamp=36.5&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18h

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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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 17h

Con man of the people - 12 Jobs Farage

Since the July 2024 election, Farage, via one job alone, earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM, yet you hear more about Starmer's £20,000 donkey field purchase

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18h

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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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 17h

If you're a British resident in Spain & still hold the old green residency document, with the new EES travel system imminent, it's time to switch to a TIE. For handy links and further information, visit our dedicated page here www.bremaininspain.com/news/time-to...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16h

Charley Robinson makes a great case for the UK rejoining Erasmus.

British students deserve the same opportunities as before. Erasmus is a vital opportunity that we can no longer afford to miss out on.

UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 16h

🚨 Charley Robinson, Head of Global Mobility Policy, Universities UK: "We're really supportive of the UK rejoining Erasmus is going to provide that kind of critical, long term, sustainable funding for students, staff mobility and exchanges."

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 16h

👏👏👏 Greenland to join the EU alongside Iceland & Canada please. 🙏

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European Parliament @europarl.europa.eu · 1d

"Greenland needs the European Union, and the European Union needs Greenland." 🇬🇱🤝🇪🇺

Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen spoke at the European Parliament today, emphasising the potential of broader and stronger cooperation with the EU.

Read more: link.europa.eu/wwffTf

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16h

New polling by YouGov, commissioned by Best for Britain, shows: Potential Conservative voters are now more than twice as likely to consider Brexit a failure for the UK (46%) compared to a success (22%).

Here’s what else we found: https://bit.ly/46LZq1G

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14h

The ECHR protects the human rights of ALL Brits.

No wonder, the majority of voters want the UK to remain a member of the ECHR. 🚨

https://leftfootforward.org/2025/10/unlike-kemi-badenoch-voters-want-the-uk-to-remain-a-member-of-the-echr-poll-finds/

Unlike Kemi Badenoch voters want the UK to remain a member of the ECHR, poll finds

The Trades Union Congress has warned that withdrawing from the ECHR would also amount to an attack on workers rights

leftfootforward.org

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 13h

"The underlying point is that, given the history, there was nothing like sufficient trust that the UK state could, or would, provide the safeguards and protections of minority rights in Northern Ireland, and that remains the case today."

ukandeu.ac.uk/the-belfast-...

The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and Human Rights - UK in a changing Europe

Andrew McCormick explains the role ECHR membership plays in the Belfast / Good Friday Agreement.

ukandeu.ac.uk

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