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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 7h

Farage may be riding high in the polls now, but it's the performance of Reform councils that will sink him in 4 years time, along with his reluctance to come clean about his own finances. There's a lot more to come out about his Russian connections too.

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 7h

Be fair, she dug up Nadine Dorries and had her on, and she's a staunch defender of all the parties hosted by Boris at No. 10

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 7h

With hindsight it's unfair that a clip of Michael Heseltine is cut into Rowan Atkinson's excellent parody. He was always one of the better Tories, hates Farage and Brexit, not to mention the Tory party's full fat fascist iteration under Johnson.

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 7h

Fast forward to 2024 and the curious case of the Trump assassination...

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Stewart Parsons @libraryfiend.bsky.social · 8h

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 9h

I very much doubt whether Farage has ever done anything for free, including Brexit.

Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 9h

They dredge up the pantomime Dame-who-never-was-Dorries but somehow Laura Kuennsberg didn't have space to interview Zack Polanski last week? Hmm... 🤔

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 9h

I'm due for mine + covid booster tomorrow and out of interest looked up all the jabs available on the NHS. We can now be protected from so many diseases that've been killers in my lifetime. What madness it is to refuse such blessings, while greedily stuffing ourselves with genuinely toxic fast food

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 23h

I had a text message today about my free NHS flu and covid booster jabs. I'm also eligible for free shingles and pneumococcal vaccines, but if only we had a Vax to innoculate us against the MAGA madness across the pond.

Cat music @yanygal.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA erupts in anger and fear after Trump gets Covid booster and flu shot
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MAGA erupts in anger and fear after Trump gets Covid booster and flu shot

After spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for years, Trump drops the devastating news on his base.

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 1d

Can we exile him and Liz Truss to a remote, inaccessible, uninhabited island somewhere very very cold? Surely if ever two people were made to torment each other it's them.

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 1d

I hope you're right but FPTP...

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 1d

Labour's death wish strikes again.Why not just hand over the country to Reform and be done with it.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Revealed: Labour-run council using legal loophole to serve families with no-fault evictions

Exclusive: London council created an arm’s-length body to manage some of its housing stock

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 1d

It gave me definite "Tomorrow belongs to me" Hitler Youth vibes. I hope we can see off Moseley's heirs, but I'm beginning to doubt it.

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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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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 1d

If a week is a long time in politics, as MacMillan said, then four years is an eternity. A lot can go very wrong for would be Fuhrer Farage before then.

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 1d

Money talks, and I know why,
I heard it once,
It said, 'Goodbye'.

Dorothy Parker

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 1d

We've got a lot of those antifa members buried over here at Madingley in Cambridgeshire too. If only they could speak now...

About Cambridge American Cemetery - American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)

The Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial site in England, 30.5 acres in total, was donated by the University of Cambridge. It lies on a slope with the west and south […]

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 1d

What, that nice Mr Johnson, breaking the rules he introduced himself - again? You could knock me over with a feather...

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

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 2d

He's not wrong, I've been thinking that for ages.

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 2d

"This is a surprise?" said no one, ever.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Hind Rajab should have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

A 5 year old trapped in a car and shot 355 times by Israel while they murdered the Paramedics who tried to help her.

This sacrifice should have ended Israel and the war.

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 2d

"I’m the only one [in Reform] that really knew him, going back a long way.”

Quite. That's the problem, Nigel, old boy.

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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

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently it's too late for Trump to get the 2025 NPP, as nominations closed in January. Giving it to him at all is laughable, but if dangling that longed for shiny bit of metal in front of him for another year ensures the Gaza peace agreement lasts it'll be worth it.

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Dame Knitting Cat @dameknittingcat.bsky.social · 2d

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𝔇𝔢𝔫𝔫𝔦𝔰 𝔅𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔱 @bsky.pickpear.com · 3d

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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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 2d

Dulwich College educated Farage wants to keep kids dumb.

Let the book burnings begin.

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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