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Callum Parrish @callumparrish.bsky.social · 6h

If a Labour leader had been accepting bribes from Russia, it would been on the front pages of every paper for weeks (and quite rightly so).

And yet apparently the BBC won't let us talk about Nathan Gill and Reform. It should be headline news everywhere.

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markingall.bsky.social @markingall.bsky.social · 1d

As a UK resident I can't say I'm starting to respect the USA again. Far from it, I'm appalled that the American people could inflict this dangerous fool on themselves, and frightened that the British people might soon do the same with Nigel Farage.

‪[email protected]‬ @momspersistence.bsky.social · 1d

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye always gets it. It’s becoming clear to me that MSM journalists care more about themselves than the story. #ukpolitics

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Nowi @gierineke.bsky.social · 1d

Shocking and all too familiar. While Trump believes the world respects him, Europe watches in horror. And yes, the fear that Britain might soon normalize its own Farage is very real. Democracy is being undermined from within.

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markingall.bsky.social @markingall.bsky.social · 1d

As a UK resident I can't say I'm starting to respect the USA again. Far from it, I'm appalled that the American people could inflict this dangerous fool on themselves, and frightened that the British people might soon do the same with Nigel Farage.

‪[email protected]‬ @momspersistence.bsky.social · 1d

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‪[email protected]‬ @momspersistence.bsky.social · 1d

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Ha! I love this headline in TIME.

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Jax (the original) @jacqueline321.bsky.social · 2d

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Greenstone @berncomar.bsky.social · 2d

George Orwell was off by 41 years.

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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 3d

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 3d

Woe betide they should hand back the money looted down the years to pay for infrastructure they failed to upgrade www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Water bills to rise further for millions after appeal

Five water companies win permission for higher bills as they seek more investment to fix outdated infrastructure.

www.bbc.co.uk

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 4d

£12 billion when you factor in stamp duty.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 4d

😂

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

Labour have presided over a "doom loop of higher taxes, weaker borders and month after month of chaos" says Kemi Badenoch who was part of a government that raised taxes and immigration levels by record amounts, whilst changing leader no fewer than four times

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Dame Knitting Cat @dameknittingcat.bsky.social · 5d

Trump & Farage use this same tactic.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d

So to summarise, this is a white politician blaming a black journalist for the racism he is now actively helping to promote, after receiving the full endorsement of his own party leader

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 5d

Who would have guessed

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 6d

No one in Reform U.K. Ltd knows Nathan Gill the ex Reform leader in Wales who was convicted of taking bribes to promote Putin’s Russia. Here is Richard Tice not knowing him.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d

Gary Neville, "Brexit has had a devastating impact on this country"

"The messaging is getting dangerous"

"All these idiots out there spreading hate speech in any form, abuse in any form, we must stop promoting them"

"And get back to a country of love, peace and harmony"

"And become a team again"

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 6d

1 week ago Nathan Gill pled guilty to 8 charges of Russian bribery.

Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Dr David Bull and Paul Nuttall, all senior Reform UK leadership, all colleagues of Gill’s through UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK.

All have done what guilty people do.

Silence.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8d

Leaving the ECHR is just another "cause" that right-wing lunatics can latch onto.

It's Brexit 2.

And like the original most people backing, it don't understand it, don't really believe in what they
are doing and do not care one jot what havoc it causes.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 7d

If you drive a 2025/2026 Tesla or still use X, there really isn't an excuse. You really are just an asshole that looks the other way.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 8d

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

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