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Jo from Rotherfield @equalityearthling.bsky.social · 20h

Reform are trying to bring 🍊💩’s policies here. They are funded by the ultra religious & far right Heritage Foundation. The numbers of women & babies dying in the US since they enacted their abortion ban has shot up. For the sake of the lives of the women & girls in your life do not vote for Reform

Jane @janeynorth.bsky.social · 20h

@zackpolanski.bsky.social . Next time they mention women’s rights . Mention green MPs prochoice voting records . Reform MPs voted for NC106 to ban telemedicine access in June . Which would of disproportionately effected women in abusive relationships

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Reform ‘proudly embracing’ anti-abortion politics, experts warn

Campaigners accuse party of ‘fast becoming the political refuge for anti-abortion hardliners’

www.independent.co.uk

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Jane @janeynorth.bsky.social · 20h

@zackpolanski.bsky.social . Next time they mention women’s rights . Mention green MPs prochoice voting records . Reform MPs voted for NC106 to ban telemedicine access in June . Which would of disproportionately effected women in abusive relationships

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Reform ‘proudly embracing’ anti-abortion politics, experts warn

Campaigners accuse party of ‘fast becoming the political refuge for anti-abortion hardliners’

www.independent.co.uk

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Jane @janeynorth.bsky.social · 20h

@zackpolanski.bsky.social . Next time they mention women’s rights . Mention green MPs prochoice voting records . Reform MPs voted for NC106 to ban telemedicine access in June . Which would of disproportionately effected women in abusive relationships

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Reform ‘proudly embracing’ anti-abortion politics, experts warn

Campaigners accuse party of ‘fast becoming the political refuge for anti-abortion hardliners’

www.independent.co.uk

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MakeBritainNiceAgain @grahamgrumps.bsky.social · 22h

Oh, look! Richard Tice, the Reform plc deputy leader, is a dishonest hypocrite

Colour me shocked

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Richard Tice has 15-year record of supporting ‘net stupid zero’ initiatives

Firms led by deputy Reform UK leader since 2011 have shown commitment to saving energy and cutting CO2 emissions

www.theguardian.com

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Polanski expertly dismantling the "rich people will move if we tax them" narrative, while Denham nimbly demonstrates how very patriotic such people are.

Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 1d

Former Head of Comms for the IEA, Annabel Denham, says the super rich will leave if we have a wealth tax.

Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt

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Eddie Clarke @hedgiecc.bsky.social · 1d

Rundell’s idea for writing ‘Impossible Creatures’ came from studying the poetry of Donne. The creative industries are hugely important for the British economy - don’t allow Kemi Badenoch to demonise English.

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 3d

This is exciting — Katherine Rundell is the closest thing we have to a modern Tolkien or Lewis. Her writing is sublime and her passion for children’s literature is unrivalled, so it’s brilliant to see she will get to produce and write the screenplays too deadline.com/2025/10/disn...

Disney Bets Big On ‘Impossible Creatures’ & Its Oxford Prof Author Katherine Rundell

Disney Bets Big On 'Impossible Creatures' & Its Oxford Prof Author Katherine Rundell, with movies planned.

deadline.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

Respect and fair play to all the gifted teachers who, according to Nigel Farage, are poisoning our kid's minds with race issues.
I had great difficulty teaching some of the little buggers about triangles.

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Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps if teachers had actually taught Farage how the white man had enslaved the black man and colonised his country, the would be Herr Hitler tribute act wouldn’t be such a cvnt.

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Jane @janeynorth.bsky.social · 1d

The bots are already gunning for him. They accuse him of simplistic , unworkable answers. Very similar to another political party !

Jane @janeynorth.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Deep dive into Reform's think tank that is trying to raise 25 million from US conservative Christians www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/resolute-1...

Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)

A Cambridge academic, a YouTube influencer, and Reform UK’s old HQ - the ingredients for our own Project 2025 are already mixed.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk

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Jane @janeynorth.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel’s family photo ? @quietriotpod.bsky.social

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair to Nigel, All Teachers Are Marxist(TM) is just another bullet point on the Heritage Foundation bullshit list he's contractually obliged to wang on about

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Jane @janeynorth.bsky.social · 1d

Abortion is already on the to do list. Buddying up with ADF the group that overturned Roe

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Farage is saying all teachers are Marxists. They're not. They just teach that we should care for one another. But that offends his fascist instincts. The result is he is turning on a profession that teaches about compassion and empathy - because he loathes it. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

Nigel Farage’s declaration of war on teachers is a war on compassion, empathy and kindness

According to The Guardian, Nigel Farage, speaking at an event at a private Christian college in Michigan, USA, has accused teachers in the UK of “poisoning our kids” and predicted that they would go o...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

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Jane @janeynorth.bsky.social · 1d

I am sure he will retain his seat at the next GE

Jane @janeynorth.bsky.social · 1d

Lowe wants the 1965 Race Relations Act repealed youtu.be/h9CIzsd9ot0?...

Repealing the 1965 Race Relations Act? Reform UK's Rupert Lowe Sparks Controversy!

YouTube video by Maximilien Robespierre

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Restore Britain's convoluted way of calliing for Britain to take no refugees at all.

UK should only ever give refugee status to genuine asylum seekers from neighbouring countries, which, given every one of our neighbours is a safe country "would effectively mean scrapping our whole asylum system"

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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

This photo with Nigel Farage was taken in the same place Nathan Gill spoke, influenced by Russian Bribes.

The photo was taken just months after he did it.

Farage has been silent about his old friend.

x.com/NathanGillME...

#ReformRussianBribes

Nathan Gill on X: "One year ago today, ⁦@Nigel_Farage⁩ made his final speech in the ⁦@EUparliament⁩ One chapter closed forever. https://t.co/POJWD0farX" / X

One year ago today, ⁦@Nigel_Farage⁩ made his final speech in the ⁦@EUparliament⁩ One chapter closed forever. https://t.co/POJWD0farX

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage is also Co-founder and Chairman of Action on World Health LLP

www.actionwh.org

#r4today

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

We seem to have reached the ‘portraying the KKK in a negative light is controversial’ stage already.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 2d

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 1d

New UK rules mean a 150% increase in refugee women and children living rough in northern France. While French police are paid by the UK government to stop refugees receiving free tents and blankets. So they sleep in the woods with their babies. Just grim www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

The babies at the border in northern France

As the United Kingdom suspends its refugee family reunion scheme, growing numbers of women and children in Calais and Dunkirk face inhumane conditions...

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Jane @janeynorth.bsky.social · 1d

Any policies that are not clones of the Mango Mussolini’s?

Nelson @nelsontherapycat.bsky.social · 1d

Every time Farage opens his mouth another dog turd shaped recidivist lie falls out

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

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education

www.theguardian.com

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