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

Reform UK Councils
Council Tax increases

Durham: 4.9%
Worcestershire: 5-10%
Warwickshire: ~5%
Leicestershire: 3%
Kent: 5%
Lincolnshire: 2%+
Staffordshire: ~5%
West Northamptonshire: 5%
Derbyshire: 4.9%
North Northamptonshire: amount TBD
Nottinghamshire: amount TBD
Lancashire: amount TBD

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 1d

I'm in my fifties and have just had my first Botox treatment. I cannot express how I feel about it. Or anything else, for that matter.

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GTReading @gtreading.bsky.social · 1d

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GTReading @gtreading.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s new ball room is taking shape.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 5d

1 month to go until Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill is sentenced on 8 charges of accepting Russian Bribes.

Nigel Farage thinks he can distance himself from his ‘loyal’ colleague of 20 years.

Let’s not forget that Farage was pushing the same Pro-Russian agenda.

#ReformRussianBribes

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

Good explainer here on how free movement allowed our economy to breathe without any of the prejudice and cruelty now masquerading as an immigration policy. We threw away real control to put in place the most incoherently ruinous system imaginable. www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/peop...

People are just realising that we had a better grip on immigration within the EU

They gave us bar staff and builders - we gave them sunburnt pensioners and seaside property booms. It was win-win.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 5d

And now we go live to Kent County Council for the Reform group meeting.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d

I'd sooner trust a stoned monkey with a bag of hand grenades than this lot with the economy.

Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 5d

Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.

Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 5d

Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.

Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 6d

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d

So no terrorism then?

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 18d

🇬🇧 The brexity Telegraph are raging because EU countries are going to enforce their laws in relation to british “overstayers”

Or “ILLEGALS” as Reform, Blue Tories & Red Tories generally like to call them

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SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 📎 @clairecopperman.bsky.social · 17d

Facts on migration with alt text.

THE ULTIMATE MIGRATION FACTS CHEATSHEET
SAFE PASSAGE

0.7% of the UK population are refugees. Claims that we're being "overrun" are fear-mongering.

£3.3 BILLION This is how much migration brings to UK public finances each year. Migrants contribute in so many ways, from paying taxes to bringing diverse
skills and setting up new businesses.

1 IN 6 people arriving to the UK by small boat arrival is a child. They're the most vulnerable to conflict and trafficking, yet some politicians want to turn them away. This doesn't make any of us safer.

LESS THAN 5% of all migration to the UK is by small boats. Some politicians and media deliberately distort the proportion of these journeys to stir up fear and hostility.

92% of those applying for refugee family reunion are women and children. They're the ones hit the hardest by the lack of safe routes.

1 in 5 NHS worker is a migrant. Migrants aren't the ones causing the NHS crisis - they're helping keep our hospitals, care homes, and GP surgeries running.

SOURCES
1.ICRC, Refugee stats and statistics, 2024
2. CEBR, 'Immigration is estimated to yield £3.3 billion annually for public finances (...) 2023
3.Immigration system statistics, year ending June 2025 4.Immigration system statistics, year ending June 2025 5.Immigration system statistics,year ending June 2025
6.NHS Data in the Guardian (Record one in five NHS staff in England are non- UK nationals, figures show'), 2024
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Andy Croy @andycroy.bsky.social · 17d

Utter joke of an 'analysis' on Sky News of Badenoch's announcement of a multi-billion hole in the next Tory budget.

Not even a squeak of 'where's the money coming from?'.

Rachel Reeves is not being allowed to sneeze without being asked how she's going to pay for it.

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GTReading @gtreading.bsky.social · 17d

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GTReading @gtreading.bsky.social · 18d

I spent the morning on the picket line as my employer refuses to improve on a real-terms pay cut they imposed on us. #ICLStrike I’ll be back again tomorrow with my vuvuzela. Amazingly, they are rated the #2 university in the world. @unitetheunion.bsky.social

I’m holding a red Unite The Union flag and a placard outside my workplace. There are many others nearby on the picket.

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GTReading @gtreading.bsky.social · 18d

Imagine singing happy birthday to her…

ksimpson777.bsky.social @ksimpson777.bsky.social · Sep 12

She found a cure for malaria in and she tested it on herself first.

Tu Youyou, the force of nature who saved millions and won a Nobel Prize.

Full story & charcoal portrait on my #FeministFriday series:

tt: @parkbenchcreations
Insta: @k_simpson777
Rednote: @ksimpson777

#TuYouyou #WomenInSTEM

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Stansaid Airport @stansaidairport.bsky.social · 19d

Ryanair asked us to update their logo so it better incorporates their brand values. Michael O'Leary is on the phone going apeshit, no idea why.

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GTReading @gtreading.bsky.social · 18d

From the Grauniad, that’s amazing.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19d

People would have signed this off.

Others will have been shown the product.

Further individuals will have put them in the goodie bags.

How on Earth did nobody spot it?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate

Misprinted wrappers pulled from Manchester goodie bags after derision on social media

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19d

Yup.

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 19d

if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20d

I don't believe it!!!

Oh no, wait, I do.

Election poster Kent Council is broken etc vote reform

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 21d

Lucky for Nigel Farage that he never met that bloke who took bribes from the Russians, otherwise the media would be all over it.

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