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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6h

Zack Polanski, "Reform UK's Zia Yusuf was full of b*llocks and I think it was important to call that out on #BBCQT"

"What has become clear about Reform UK, they're a bunch of cowards"

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 23h

Richard Tice - "Please welcome to the stage... Nathan Gill"

So much for Tice's claim to have never met Nathan Gill.

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 1d

I’m afraid that if you emigrate to Dubai for the tax breaks and 24-hour security, you really should give up your citizenship here for someone who wants it.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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

Eight Reform UK councils have indicated that they will raise council tax next year after struggling to find huge cuts in public spending.

That’s despite Reform UK flyers during the Local Elections criticising councils for doing just that.

Never trust a Reformer.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine what M*sk could do?

Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 1d

Erm, who over here gives a toss what this POS says?
BBC News - JD Vance calls Canterbury Cathedral exhibit 'ugly'
www.bbc.com/news/article...

JD Vance slams Canterbury Cathedral art installation

The US Vice President says it has made a "beautiful historical building really ugly".

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 1d

Zack has tuned in

Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for sharing the video. It's so important that the remains stay exactly as they were. In The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris tells of the sabotage of Crematorium 4. Those souls were so brave.

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Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson!! So real 😂😂

Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 1d

Genius

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 2d

“Satire is the most powerful weapon in a democracy because it forces people to laugh at their leaders, and once you make people laugh at authority, you’ve won.” - Lenny Bruce and others @diaperdiplomacy-m.bsky.social

Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 1d

It's the Met. Filth

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Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to help. Will look out for the result

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Next week, the Green Party will defend Worcestershire Councillor Hannah Robson in the High Court.

The Reform UK candidate is hoping to overturn our election win!

Can you help us defend Hannah and democracy from this attack? Please donate if you can 🙏

donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/make-sure-we...

Make sure we defend democracy in Worcestershire - Green Party

In the event that there is any money left over after the legal matters have been settled, including if we are able to recover some or all of our legal costs from other parties, then these remaining fu...

donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 2d

Deep effing joy. So many cards we hold, such a sunlit upland.

European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 2d

From Sunday, travelling into Europe gets tougher for Brits.

New EU border rules mean fingerprint scans, photo registration and longer queues.

This is the real-world cost of Brexit - more hassle, more red tape, more delays.

Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 2d

Not until he can manage a cold winter's night in Stoke

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Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 2d

More disgusting lies from the neoliberal dogsbody - second in command of the dogshit brigade.
What's worse? His lies about his associates.... Or his sucking up to the oligarchy, both here and in Russia.

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HIGNFY @hignfy.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to democracy activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela – in unrelated news, US announces 10,000% trade tariff on Venezuela

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Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 2d

He's a breath of fresh air

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

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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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d

Post Office Horizon IT scandal victims to get new appeals process & funded advice, says govt.

Good.

Now do the same for infected blood, mortgage prisoners, Orgreave, Hillsborough, nuclear tests, Grenfell, 1950s women, bank frauds, other victims of injustice up against corporations and govt depts.

All Post Office Horizon victims entitled to free legal advice for first time

Responding to the first stage of the inquiry into the scandal, the government said it had accepted all but one of the recommendations.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

"Accuse the other of that of which you are guilty" as Goebbels, an inspiration for Farage?, observed. 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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Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 2d

Beam me up Biscotti hasn't got the same ring to it