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Let's talk about who funds Reform.

Let's talk about how disastrous Brexit has been.

Let's talk about why Gorton & Denton must vote Green & stop Reform.

Why so quiet, Nigel Farage?
February 2, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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It’s so tawdry, grubby and shameful. I can’t stand the sleaze, greed, corruption. Trump, Epstein, Russia, Bannon, Palantir, Israel, Mandelson, Brexit, discredited royals, aging male hacks, hasbeens, wannabes. Old white men abusing young women, exploiting their status, corrupting our entire system. 🧵
The Peter Mandelson scandal on the front pages of UK papers. For decades Mandelson has briefed, lobbied & spun his views to senior journalists undermining colleagues in his own party & advocating for corporate interests (who were paying him). Finally the dam has burst.
February 3, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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How was this appalling man allowed to remain relevant for so long?

And your occasional reminder that it's almost impossible to remove a peer.
BREAKING on ft website:

Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans

www.ft.com/content/fdf7...
Mandelson leaked sensitive UK government tax plans to Epstein
Former ambassador forwarded memo from special adviser to Gordon Brown to late sex offender in 2009
www.ft.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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Methinks he doth protest too much.

Indeed, it's my entirely unscientific observation that Goodwin's later career has been forged out of the "failure to go to Oxbridge" chip on his shoulder.
Reform politician Matthew Goodwin tells the Sunday Times that he would "rather shoot myself in the head" than be at dinner with Nick Robinson and Mary Beard, and the last thing the ex-acadenuc would ever have wanted would be to be a Professor at some Oxford college "backwater with zero influence"
You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.
February 1, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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Delighted our recent @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper ‘A critical review of the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy’ is getting so many reads and attention; it’s a call to arms for putting place at the centre of a modern industrial strategy @regstud.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A critical review of the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy: lessons for ‘place-based’ policy
The paper explores the implications for regional development contained within the UK’s recently launched Modern Industrial Strategy White Paper (2025). We critically examine the industrial strategy...
www.tandfonline.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:21 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

But also? Can Laura Kuenssberg become a serious journalist?...
Laura Kuenssberg: Can Green leader Zack Polanski become a serious player? - BBC News
The Greens' new leader has generated a lot of excitement. Can he translate the buzz into electoral success?
www.bbc.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Goodwin literally had a hissy fit when Alan Rusbridger & David Aaronovitch went for dinner after an event they all did together & chose not to ask him. He’s palpably desperate to go to fictional dinner parties that exist only in his warped imagination. Instead he gets to suck lemons with 30p Lee.
You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.
February 1, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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I guess "white wealthy British and American grooming gangs" doesn't have the same ring to it
January 31, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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Do you get it now?
January 31, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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My mum had bombs dropped on her as a child. My dad bled on a beach in battle. I'm not yet bored of rules-based coexistence, because anger isn't the same as education, history isn't a comic, and interesting times don't just happen to someone else.
January 31, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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State sanctioned terrorists.

It's like the Black and Tans.
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
January 31, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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Amazon has cut a combined 28,000 jobs since October. Its CEO made $40M+ in 2024

UPS has announced 78,000 job cuts since last year. Its CEO made $24M.

HP announced up to 6,000 layoffs in November. Its CEO made $21M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
January 31, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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Last time I checked we still had wrongful arrest in America. I hope Don Lemon sues their fucking asses off.
January 31, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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BREAKING: “Enough already” - Statement just posted by Steve Rotheram Mayor of the Liverpool City Region on X
January 31, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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As events in America are now showing, democracies are only as strong as their weakest point. And right now, the weakest point in our own democracy is the continued rise of one Nigel Farage

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage's Plans to Put Our Democracy on ICE
What is happening under Trump could very quickly happen in the UK too
www.adambienkov.co.uk
January 31, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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Very much enjoyed meeting Matt Goodwin and his surprisingly honest supporters.
January 30, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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We promised to throw the kitchen sink at this election.

Well we've definitely voted for the right candidate with the skills for the job!

Hannah & the Greens are taking the fight to Reform.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
Say hello to Hannah Spencer—councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and your Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton 💚
January 30, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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Far right extremist Tommy Robinson endorses Matt Goodwin.

A vote for Reform is a vote for division, hate, and all that goes with it.
January 30, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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To those saying, "but the Greens will split the vote":
1. Things have changed.
2. It's not the Green's fault that Starmer has the Merdas Touch (turns everything to shit)
3. When the Greens offer the only inspiring option, perhaps we should see the Labour candidate as splitting the vote.
January 30, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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"Reform have a TV pundit.

The Green Party have got Hannah the local plumber!"

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/reform-...
'Reform have a TV pundit, we've got Hannah the plumber'
The Green Party has announced Hannah Spencer as its candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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Wow -- incredible!!!
January 30, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Poor kid.
January 29, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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Dear World: what will it take to convince you to boycott the World Cup and Olympics? Does this help?

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
ICE plans to be camped out at the Super Bowl looking for migrants
Department of Homeland Security to send federal agents the Super Bowl between Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots in California but insists the law-abiding ‘have nothing to fear’
www.independent.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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Chris Mason is pretty much a full on propagandist for Farage now.
January 29, 2026 at 12:06 PM