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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4h

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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Gildy Stern @oldhamletsghost.bsky.social · 4h

October crashes are the best crashes ...

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Gildy Stern @oldhamletsghost.bsky.social · 4h

'The rest is History '....?

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 6h

It's weird. There were just no clues that this is what he was like.

Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 6h

Johnson refused to answer specific questions or to provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking, while insisting all the rules had been followed at all times. His responses led Acoba’s chair, Isabel Doverty, to find him in breach of the rules.

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

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 8h

Farage is a liar. Dodgy money tends to sit with liars !

Ethan Jones @ethanjonesic.bsky.social · 12h

Oh look. Just Nigel Farage calling a Russian asset “terrific.”

You know, the guy who used to lead Reform in Wales and Reform now claims they’ve never heard of 🤷‍♂️

www.bbc.co.uk/news/electio...

Welsh election: UKIP's Farage backs 'terrific' Gill

UKIP leader Nigel Farage backs the party's Welsh leader Nathan Gill as

www.bbc.co.uk

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 8h

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

At least Trump got a free jet and a $5.5 billion golf resort in Qatar, so there’s that.

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 10h

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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Gildy Stern @oldhamletsghost.bsky.social · 11h

Work this one out then kids!
Badenoch bounce?

Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 11h

✅ Liberal Democrat HOLD

Yesterday's Widcombe and Lyncombe (Bath and North East Somerset) council by-election result:

LDEM: 44.4% (-11.8)
GRN: 15.4% (+0.6)
LAB: 12.2% (+4.7)
REF: 11.9% (+11.9)
CON: 8.6% (-12.8)
IND: 4.8% (+4.8)
IND: 2.6% (+2.6)

+/- 2023

Estimated turnout: ~35% (-18)

Andrew’s Previews | Andrew Teale | Substack

"All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order". Click to read Andrew’s Previews, by Andrew Teale, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

andrewteale.me.uk

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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 12h

Good news that our area will benefit from £704,026 in government funding to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping.

This money will help to get rough sleepers off the streets, support children facing homelessness and provide better addiction support.

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Paulette Hamilton MP @paulettehamiltonmp.bsky.social · 12h

@robertjenrickmp.bsky.social’s reckless and divisive comments about Handsworth, calling it a “slum”, are nothing more than a poor tribute act to Reform.

He reduces people to their skin colour, when the real issue has been 14 years of Conservative govt that has run communities into the ground.

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Gildy Stern @oldhamletsghost.bsky.social · 12h

It'll also take half an hour off our CLP meetings

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13h

Government is hard. The government have made a LOT of mistakes and I've shaken my head repeatedly in despair. But idealism does not necessarily translate to running a country and under FPTP this is what you get. Still doing a far better job than Tories who were the only other optio.. no other choice

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Gildy Stern @oldhamletsghost.bsky.social · 13h

Sticking with the South Sea Company never did me any harm....

Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 13h

The thing about AI is that although it looks like a bubble and is obviously a bubble and anyone who thinks about it for a moment knows it’s a bubble, unlike all other bubbles in the past I’m sure it will just be fine. I’m investing in tulips.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 21h

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Gildy Stern @oldhamletsghost.bsky.social · 13h

Stupidity rules ko? Is Zak in favour? That'd swing it.

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Gildy Stern @oldhamletsghost.bsky.social · 14h

My great grandad was a "knocker-up" in his later years apparently

Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 14h

PHOTO OF THE DAY. An East London “knocker-up” whose job was to wake up workers in the morning (1929). 📷 J.Gaiger

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Gildy Stern @oldhamletsghost.bsky.social · 15h

Sometimes I can't get over how miserable everyone is. I know it's October and we get a bit down at this time of year, but FFS. Am I the only person in Britain who feels better off today than I did a year ago? I got a decent pay rise and have a bit more spending money for fizzy Friday 🍾, life's good

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 16h

Breaking news: María Corina Machado has been awarded the prize for ‘keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness’ . The win dashes the hopes of US President Donald Trump. on.ft.com/4ocHAKY

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Gildy Stern @oldhamletsghost.bsky.social · 17h

Don't be daft, we can't give Starmer any credit, he's the anti-Christ

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 17h

All the people who argued that Palestine recognition had no impact whatsoever, might want to consider whether Israel’s diplomatic isolation was a factor, alongside the pressure from Trump. None of these things exists in a vacuum.

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Gildy Stern @oldhamletsghost.bsky.social · 17h

Blue sky (and the public)

2024 - We're sick of snake oil salesmen and changing PM every 5 minutes, give us a Government that'll make long term decisions for the good of the country

2025 - We must change PM now for a snake oil salesman and come up with some short term tax gimmicks in the budget

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Rebecca Long-Bailey @rebeccalongbailey.com · 1d

Today marks the first day of Baby Loss Awareness Week. My thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by pregnancy and baby loss. Baby Loss Awareness UK do fantastic work raising awareness and providing resources to remind you that you are not alone.👇
babyloss-awareness.org/for-bereaved...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Marvellous column by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social that absolutely nails Kemi Badenoch - who clearly very deeply believes that the mere act of 'well, I'm saying it' means that something must be thoughtful, even if it is just a more innumerate and caustic echo of Nigel Farage:

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

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Guardian Sport @sport.theguardian.com · 1d

Liverpool go to work and Diogo Jota is not there. Why wouldn’t that affect them? | Max Rushden

We know so little about players’ personal feelings. It means everyone’s analysis of the game is fundamentally superficial A couple of weeks ago, Liverpool seemed on course to win the Premier League for the second season running and probably the Champions League too. The Reds’ run of winning without being that good made it feel inevitable. Winning when not at your best is, after all, a sign (™) of a title-winning side, Clive. But then Liverpool continued playing not particularly well and started losing. At the same time perennial second-placed, high-performance cowards Arsenal, who have an excellent defence and now at least two very good players in every position, started to close the gap. Arise Sir Mikel. Continue reading...

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 1d

From FT: positivity on the economy.

It has become fashionable to express Eeyorish views on the state of the UK economy. But amid talk of rising debts and falling growth, there’s a more reassuring diagnosis: things are, at worst, solidly mediocre, and maybe not bad at all.

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Households are also more willing than they were to make big purchases. Young people are particularly optimistic, the index shows. This shouldn’t be surprising. Inflation hit hard in 2022, but wages have now been rising faster than prices for more than two years.

The UK’s animal spirits may not be driven by record highs in the stock market, unlike the US where share ownership is more widespread. But the housing market is helping. Interest rates are falling, while various indices show prices rising.

This is filtering down to companies, with signs of higher demand for large discretionary purchases such as cars, kitchens and sofas. New car registrations jumped almost 14 per cent year on year in September, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Yorkshire-based settee specialist DFS just reported its first year of revenue growth since 2022, with like-for-like orders up 10 per cent.

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