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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 11h

Richard Tice - "Please welcome to the stage... Nathan Gill"

So much for Tice's claim to have never met Nathan Gill.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14h

Nathan Gill who went from UKIP ⏩ Brexit Party ⏩ Reform UK has admitted to taking bribes to speak pro Russian and anti- EU statements?

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➡️ Oleg Voloshyn and his wife Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nathan Gill with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill

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Brian Moore @briantrumpet.bsky.social · 10h

Everything he's reported to have said in this BBC piece sounds like he's desperately trying to distance himself, knowing that the connection is real and toxic. If the press were investigating Farage with the same enthusiasm they went for Rayner, he'd be done for.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage 'stunned' ex-Wales Reform leader Nathan Gill took bribes

Nathan Gill has admitted taking money for pro-Russian statements as a European Parliament member.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Martyn Brunt @skybluebrunty.bsky.social · 13h

An opportunity to share this classic
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Kunt and the Gang - The Wrong Ian Watkins (Official Music Video)

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15h

Did Farage ever sue the Mail on Sunday?

This threat was issued in June 2025, but I can find no further reference to events after that.

Zelenskyy: Farage is infected with the virus of putin

Farage on twitter threatening to sue the Mail on Sunday

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Martyn Brunt @skybluebrunty.bsky.social · 14h

Stuck on 11 dammit.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 19h

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21h

❌ Far more than just one 'bad apple' Nigel...

https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/10/countdown-the-steady-shedding-of-reform-councillors-and-officials-continues/

Countdown: The steady shedding of Reform councillors and officials continues… – HOPE not hate

Drunken displays, racist rants and dodgy deals are just some of the reasons that Reform councillors and officials are dropping like flies… While Reform UK...

hopenothate.org.uk

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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 21h

I'd love to know what every comedian who played the Riyadh Comedy Festival thinks of this piece by Jonathan Liew. It's an electrifying read. And really hard to think what any counter-justification from the participating comics would consist of. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew

The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 21h

I adore London&fully agree on Dubai, but the author‘s criticism of Paris& Berlin is a joke. French political turmoil is bad is it? Have you watched UK news since 2014? German trains are slow? Thank God for the sound state of UK Infrastructure.
Love you 🇬🇧. But ditch the superiority complex. Please.

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 23h

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be

[FREE TO READ] Better to buy the dip and celebrate the UK as an enduring cultural behemoth

on.ft.com

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 21h

I’m afraid that if you emigrate to Dubai for the tax breaks and 24-hour security, you really should give up your citizenship here for someone who wants it.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 20h

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

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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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23h

Former PM Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office.

Secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture,
Used senior contacts in the Saudi govt to pitch for a consultancy firm.

Lust for private wealth is the main cause of UK decline.

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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Martyn Brunt @skybluebrunty.bsky.social · 22h

That should have been *did* of course. I'd had a couple when I replied 😇

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Martyn Brunt @skybluebrunty.bsky.social · 1d

Got the original Psycho to sign my original 1984 City shirt tonight, and what a lovely bloke he was.

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Martyn Brunt @skybluebrunty.bsky.social · 1d

They didn't indeed. A classic.

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Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone should call it Farage’s Brexit. He should be inseparable from its failure.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Nigel Farage's Brexit smashing it again.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 1d

Farage's deputy Richard Tice accepted stay at French Riviera home of Lubov Chernukhin, listing the purpose as “discussing gas power in the UK”

Reform are wining & dining corporate fossil fuel interests with their pledges to smash climate policy:

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

Richard Tice accepted stay at French Riviera home of Tory donor

Reform deputy leader’s trip, worth £1,4000, to Lubov Chernukhin’s property was for ‘discussing gas power in UK’

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

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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Martyn Brunt @skybluebrunty.bsky.social · 1d

He was a breath of fresh air.

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Martyn Brunt @skybluebrunty.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if Zia Yusuf has managed to get all the fluff off his jacket from spending the entire #BBCQT in @zackpolanski.bsky.social 's pocket.

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Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 2d

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

Farage and his allies have a long history of being associated with Russian funding and trying to avoid scrutiny and investigation of it. This from 2015:

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Martyn Brunt @skybluebrunty.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! I did the same when I pronounced "Showaddywaddy" in the style of Jimmy Saville while out with friends recently.

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