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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 6h

Even the ones who fought hardest for Brexit now admit it's shit.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14h

2016: Michael Gove, "We can have a green Brexit to ensure that Britain is an environmental leader"

2025: Michael Gove speaking to the Conservative Environment Network, "We negotiated poorly with Australia, and New Zealand, but particularly with Australia in defence of our farmers"

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

Lower bills.

Fund our NHS.

Not their culture war nonsense.

youtu.be/1CbN6TUTRZs?...

Zack Polanski HUMILIATES Piers Morgan LIVE On Air!

YouTube video by Antony Jones

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h

Can someone tell me why so many Republicans are working so hard to protect rich and powerful pedophiles? 🤨

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 8h

Are Labour really going to try and tie current economic damage (and hence the need for further tax rises) to Farage and to Brexit, whilst at the same time insisting that persevering with Brexit is the right thing to do?

That feels like gaslighting of the very highest order.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 7h

Even Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini would blush at Donald Trump's blatant corruption.

He really is one of the most corrupt in history.

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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 1d

Saw this on my morning walk...

Happy Halloween? 😅

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A yellow balloon coming out of a strormdrain

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7h

Jonathan Powell had no role in dropping of China spy case, senior minister says

Bridget Phillipson says national security adviser was not involved in discussions before CPS abandoned its prosecution The government’s national security adviser had no involvement in the prosecution being dropped against two British men accused of spying for China, a senior cabinet minister has said. Jonathan Powell had no connection to discussions about the “substance or the evidence” of the case, Bridget Phillipson said on Sunday, adding that Keir Starmer had full confidence in him. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Elizabeth Pennysworth @epennysworth.bsky.social · 9h

Every bit of this mess that we’re currently enduring is because rich people need more money & they dgaf if you’re hungry or homeless or dead in order for them to get more money

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants: You Deserved Better

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants

We appreciate what you did for America

robertreich.substack.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 11h

Lawyers warn of death and rape threats after Reform and Tories' 'two-tier' claims

Lawyers warn of death threats after Reform and Tories' 'two-tier' claims

In an unprecedented intervention, six legal bodies, representing 250,000 lawyers, expressed “grave concern” over the language being used toward legal professionals

www.mirror.co.uk

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12h

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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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s be clear:

Republicans are 💯 responsible for the government shutdown. They don’t need a single vote from Democrats to reopen.

Republicans are 💯 responsible for firing thousands of federal workers. They don’t need a single layoff to offset the shutdown. It’s their Project 2025 playbook.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

It's time for a montage!

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

Either Zia Yusuf has been lying to the British public or he's been used as a patsy to cover for the Reform UK leaders who absolutely know who Nathan Gill is.

"I've never spoken to him, most people in the senior leadership team have never really heard of the guy." 😬

(h/t @jim_nauseum2 on X-Twitter)

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14h

2016: Michael Gove, "We can have a green Brexit to ensure that Britain is an environmental leader"

2025: Michael Gove speaking to the Conservative Environment Network, "We negotiated poorly with Australia, and New Zealand, but particularly with Australia in defence of our farmers"

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 17h

Jeremy Clarkson: “Farage rarely talks about the economy and when he does, his numbers don’t add up.

He says he wants to cut taxes and increase spending by £150billion.

But before anyone has the chance to question his logic, he scuttles back to his safe space and starts raging about small boats.”

Jeremy Clarkson brands Keir Starmer 'thick' as he details his own economic plan

Clarkson also too aim at Nigel Farage in his penned political rant

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 14h

"What I want to see is the removal of activist judges," Robert Jenrick tells Emily Maitlis

"Can you justify having a judge who, on social media, has given their views on immigration, or who is the trustee of a pro-borders charity? No, of course not"

Robert Jenrick denies 'Trumpian purge' after conference attack on ‘activist judges’ | The News Agents

Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick tells Emily Maitlis 'activist judges’ are bringing the UK’s legal system into “disrepute” and vows to make appointments a political decision under a future…

www.thenewsagents.co.uk

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14h

Left: Labour's Bridget Phillipson saying British Jews find the anti genocide in Israel protests "deeply upsetting"

Right: A British Jew on the anti-genocide in Israel protest wearing a watermelon a kippah

Shame on Labour for conflating anti genocide protests with anti Jewish sentiment -disgraceful

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Indivisible Oregon @indivisible-oregon.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh gnome you didn'!"
Resist. Ridicule. Refuse.

indivisibigbendfl.bsky.social @indivisibigbendfl.bsky.social · 1d

Gnomes in war-torn Portland OR. Portland points the way to disempowering the authoritarian regime with humor, playfulness and inflatable animal dance parties.

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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 14h

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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 17h

Key to a policy of hope, focusing on ‘neighbours’ is looking towards Europe and rejoining the SM and CU and eventually the EU as a whole. That is where our future lies.
That is what I am waiting for politicians to shout loudly and repeatedly.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 15h

This narrative doesn't make sense. You can't blame Brexit for harming the economy ... (UK businesses, for example, lose £37bn a year due to a drop in EU trade) ... yet at the same time categorically rule out returning even to the Single Market. So Starmer needs to do a masssive U-turn or step down.

Starmer ‘planning to blame Farage and Brexit’ for budget tax hikes

Sir Keir Starmer has been ramping up his attacks on Nigel Farage in recent weeks as Labour falls behind in the polls

www.independent.co.uk

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