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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 20h

Who missed this?
There must be a better way of charitable fund-raising.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 12d

In its strategic report the company cited “unfavourable media coverage” as a potential risk to its business, warning that negative publicity for its service fees “could have an adverse effect on the size, engagement and loyalty” of its customer base. Let's hope so!

www.thetimes.com/article/1b9a...

JustGiving pays £25.8m dividend to American owner

The charity platform made the payment to the Nasdaq-listed Blackbaud after revenues rose by 9.7 per cent to £64.5m

www.thetimes.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

What the hell does Farage thinks he’s doing, going off to America *again* to maliciously slag off British teachers at some private Christian college, while offering to peddle their courses over here?
What a repulsive, grubby little traitor.

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

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.
More grifting.

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Fucking loathsome.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Fucking loathsome.

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 1d

...momentous that the rest of us have all missed.

Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 1d

It's tricky to understand how some voters have already decided to vote for reform nearly 3.75 yrs out from next GE based on 1, maybe 2...er, policies while ignoring the incoherency of others & ignoring all the awful background picture of its leader & his connections.

Maybe they've seen something...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Sarah Smith #r4today says Trump gave no details about (didn’t know or care) what happens next with the Gaza/Israel peace deal but she can confirm that Trump will be “furious” on Friday if he isn’t awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Wow.
Priorities.
Inspirational.

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 6d

She's deffo not out of her depth at all. She signed a trade agreement with Florida, y'know.

Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 6d

That woman certainly knows her stuff.

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 6d

...on which the memorandum of understanding had been written.
Anyway, as long as she & her entourage got a few trips out if it all.

Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 6d

Hang on! You missed out the...er, trade deal with Florida signed by badenoch, with similar ones lined-up with Texas, etc.

That deal allowed the tories to do a lap of honour & the fools applauded. After the headlines had been won, 2 days later, it was pointed out that it wasn't worth the paper...

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 6d

Can you provide examples of benefits & upsides?

Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, that'll be my fault, not understanding what you'd posted.

Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 6d

Ah, yes. History.

It wouldn't look like that now.
All the polling shows that a constant, consistent minimum of 55% (rising to 70% in some polling) favour more closer ties to EU.
The snake-oil promises of prosperity & benefits to U.K. have failed to appear.

You know polling? It has farridge as p.m.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 7d

🔴NEW🔴

Thread 🧵

@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 6d

When was this election?

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 9d

They are snowflake-you melts, aren't they?

Altho' they're quite happy to call people 2-tier Keir or Rachel-from-Accounts.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 9d

“Farage “broke Britain" with Brexit and is now, outrageously, capitalising on the vast damage he caused”

Article argues there’s no need to mention Reform’s racism as the Brexit shitshow is failure enough.
But that had its roots in racism too. So let’s do both.
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...

Yet it's a potentially fruitful line of argument.
Many of the UK's current problems stem from something most of us would prefer not to dwell on - Brexit. Depressed investment, low productivity, stagnant economic growth and living standards, the strain on the public finances and thus public services, food prices, the "Boriswave" of more than 2 million (legal) immigrants, increased red tape and border hassles for businesses, farmers and travellers... all can be traced back, to a greater or lesser extent, to 2016 and the EU Referendum. And who, as he reminds us again now, spent 30 years of his life campaigning for Britain to leave the EU? Farage.
It is he, Farage, who 'broke Britain' with Brexit and is now capitalising on the vast damage he caused

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 9d

Such an embarrassment. The fact she'll never have any power makes it barely worth noticing her, but whenever you do she's doing something abysmal or moronic. She richly deserves the anonymity to come.

Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 9d

Were all those huskies hugged for nothing?

"Badenoch pledges to ditch flagship UK climate change law" - on.ft.com/4gQgXsJ

Badenoch pledges to ditch flagship UK climate change law

Tory leader reaches out to voters hit by high energy bills but faces backlash from business and within the party

on.ft.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 9d

This is really important work…

Labour’s Employment Rights Bill may well transform workers’ rights. But only if people can access justice and enforcement of remedies can’t be dodged.

Do you really have rights at all, if the barriers to asserting them are so difficult to overcome?

Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.

This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards

The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 9d

I know! I'm ace, me.
I just thought of it.

Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 9d

www.facebook.com/share/v/1Cfr...

Oh.
farridge has been using false...er, data to try to make his facts fit his opinions.

& GBeebiesNews argues against this reality to re-inforce their own strongly-held, but incorrect opinions.

Expect more of this as we approach local elections in May 2026.

Redirecting...

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 10d

Regurgitate would be closer.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 10d

Right-wing media fluffs Farage for years, to the point where he now leads the polls, and then start whining about Starmer being 'obsessed' when he starts telling some long overdue home truths. It's actually hilarious.

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