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Ken Spearpoint @kenspearpoint.bsky.social · 47m

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Quick today, but one of ‘those’ words

Ken Spearpoint @kenspearpoint.bsky.social · 11h

He is a ‘man of the people’, struggling to meet the financial challenges of the cost of living🤥

Ken Spearpoint @kenspearpoint.bsky.social · 13h

Another Russian asset in Reform?

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Ken Spearpoint @kenspearpoint.bsky.social · 13h

What, no, has the millionaire ‘man of the people’ turned his back on his electorate 😱

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Ken Spearpoint @kenspearpoint.bsky.social · 13h

Another poisonous scrote

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.

He is gaslighting a nation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him. The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Ken Spearpoint @kenspearpoint.bsky.social · 13h

Good luck 👊🏻

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14h

It's time for the rich to pay.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

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Ken Spearpoint @kenspearpoint.bsky.social · 20h

1984
and
Clockwork Orange

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

Staffordshire Reform UK Councillors have voted to spend taxpayers’ money on political assistants…

www.facebook.com/share/r/1JV8...

Redirecting...

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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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Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 1d

This is so true
We must all make sure it doesn’t happen

Ever

𝔇𝔢𝔫𝔫𝔦𝔰 𝔅𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔱 @bsky.pickpear.com · 1d

By way of a reminder folks...

You voted for Cameron
Everything got worse

You voted for Johnson
Everything got worse

You voted for brexit
Everything got worse

You voted for Truss
Everything got worse

If you vote for Farage

You have no idea how bad your life will become.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Sir Jim Ratcliffe spent part of the £4bn tax bill he dodged to fund Manchester United.

That is how the UK works you pay tax, the big people don't and they get richer and richer and RICHER.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it.

Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device.

The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

www.npr.org

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Ken Spearpoint @kenspearpoint.bsky.social · 22h

‘Going Postal’ by Terry Pratchett #booksky

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Ken Spearpoint @kenspearpoint.bsky.social · 22h

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Ken Spearpoint @kenspearpoint.bsky.social · 22h

Hopefully the decision not to award it to Trump will eat him alive. What is so brilliant is that he can’t rig the vote in his favour and the world gets to see what democracy and looking after all your citizens looks like.

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Shibley @drshibley.bsky.social · 1d

I've just watched Zia Yusuf. Worse than useless. #bbcqt #freespeech

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Zack Polanski,
"How do you expect people to integrate when you've taken away their services?"

"We need to make sure that all politicians are speaking about migration in a positive sense"

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Ken Spearpoint @kenspearpoint.bsky.social · 22h

👏👏👏

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Ken Spearpoint @kenspearpoint.bsky.social · 23h

How are you feeling Trump, all that effort for peace - too little too late eh, never mind there's always next year 😆

news.sky.com/story/nobel-...

Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado named Nobel Peace Prize winner

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

news.sky.com

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Ken Spearpoint @kenspearpoint.bsky.social · 1d

Crooked, Noem, you do surprise me😉

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Ken Spearpoint @kenspearpoint.bsky.social · 1d

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After yesterdays fail 😊

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