Ben Ralph
raggyralph.bsky.social
Ben Ralph
@raggyralph.bsky.social
Like most sports, especially Liverpool F.C and Gloucester Rugby. Rediscovering a past love for National Hunt racing one fence at a time.

Currently politically homeless!
This is very true.

We should be focused on rejoining not who voted what. It doesn't matter now, that's the past.
One big thing weakening the Brexit debate is that many Remainers are still holding out for a grovelling apology from Leavers, and take every opportunity to mock their stupidity.

Even people who have changed their minds will push back HARD against being called stupid.

Play the ball not the players.
November 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Kuenssberg had interrupted Reeves 7 times by this point.

Not a peep from her when Badenoch is talking.

Bias at the BBC.

#bbclaurak
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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husbands with a secret Grindr account
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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when 64 is hate squared
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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And Here's David Coburn on Russian state television accusing the EU of "interfering in the Russian sphere of influence" on Ukraine www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrJS...
Russia today - David Coburn on Russia/Ukraine, March 2014
YouTube video by Liberty media
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
What a prize this is for a very, very worthy cause.

If I win the lottery this weekend, I'm all over this!
Want to see legendary racehorse trainer Willie Mullins’ stables in Ireland?  It’s one of the INCREDIBLE items in a Silent Auction raising £ for the Hunt Family Fund – set up in memory of John Hunt’s wife & daughters.  All will go to support & inspire young women 👇👇

bidaid.com/auction/hff
The Hunt Family Fund - BidAid
bidaid.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Want to see legendary racehorse trainer Willie Mullins’ stables in Ireland?  It’s one of the INCREDIBLE items in a Silent Auction raising £ for the Hunt Family Fund – set up in memory of John Hunt’s wife & daughters.  All will go to support & inspire young women 👇👇

bidaid.com/auction/hff
The Hunt Family Fund - BidAid
bidaid.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Good job Farage absolutely is not a racist.
Exceptionally nasty, in the quote below. Do you notice how, if the press wants damning evidence of Farage’s hateful views and behaviour, all they have to do is ask whether anyone has encountered it?
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Thanks for last season Arne but it is time to go now.

Unacceptable I'm afraid. Totally unacceptable.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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This is one of the most damning videos I’ve ever watched of Farage.

He essentially admits being racist at school - only says he didn’t do it “with intent”.

The quiver in his voice at the end - he knows he can’t squirm out of this one.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”

Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school

@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Reform are now producing black shirts.

That is all.
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Boris Johnson took 4 days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system

Thousands died.

Spent time walking his dog, riding motorcycle, hosting lunches/dinners.

He once said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’, ‘we should let the old people get it’.

Will he be held to account,?
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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This young man has it exactly right.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Well, that's aged like rancid Surströmming wrapped in a durian nappy and shoved down a festival toilet in a gastroenteritis outbreak.
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Whow. Congratulations. Look at that swing.

If you want to be part of results like this: join.greenparty.org.uk
Macclesfield Central (Cheshire East) Council By-Election Result:

🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+19.7)
🌹 LAB: 28.6% (-25.7)
➡️ RFM: 15.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.1% (-4.5)
⚖️ EQU: 2.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 2.2% (-7.7)

Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
November 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
For a party that's absolutely not racist, it is very unfortunate how Reform keep selecting racists.
November 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Just raise bloody income and capital gains taxes!
A mansion tax isn't how you hit the wealthy - who have a small proportion of their wealth tied up in housing. A mansion tax is how you hit the middle classes - whose only valuable asset is their house.

More cowardice from Labour: afraid to go where the real money is, to go after the super rich.
November 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM