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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 4h

The BBC just can’t stop wasting licence fee payers’ money.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 9h

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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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 11h

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Sue @suescishaw.bsky.social · 11h

You're all missed over at X..

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 13h

Oh look - Farage.

In the US - again. This time slagging off UK teachers. Next thing you know he’ll be there having a go at our vicars, doctors and nurses.

This man seriously, seriously dislikes Britain, doesn’t he?

This feels like a guaranteed entry into next week’s issue of Bearly Newsworthy.

Nigel Farage
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

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 13h

People keep telling me the UK is so over and they're going to move to Dubai and, like, fine. Go on then. Would you like directions to the airport?

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 13h

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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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h

Came to the UK in 2015, got married to a British citizen, got permanent status in 2025. One eg of why Farage's policy of revoking the status of those told this is their permanent home will fail with most people (including migration sceptics) on the people involved
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 2d

Hate crime in England and Wales rises for first time in 3 years and while MSM amplify Farage & Reform anti migrant hate and demonise Palestinian Peace Marches, sympathising with right wing thugs “anger protests” it’ll get worse..

Hate crimes against Muslims rose 19% and fell 18% against Jews 🤷🏼‍♂️

Race and religious hate crime rises in England and Wales, figures suggest

The number of police-recorded race and religious hate crimes have increased in the year to March.

www.bbc.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Sue @suescishaw.bsky.social · 1d

There are others - Darren Jones, Angela Raynor for example.
The minister they put up on #bbcqt was not one of them though....

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Sue @suescishaw.bsky.social · 1d

Have we all forgotten Boris Johnson and how well his abundance of "charisma" worked for the country....

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 1d

My kid's Clacton nursery has cut hot lunches for toddlers to save money, and sent round leaflets to parents advising us on preparing packed lunches for around 90p per day.

They have no waiting list for places because there's so few jobs here worth doing once you've covered childcare.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Sue @suescishaw.bsky.social · 1d

A sad reflection on how social media with instant clips & sound bites have changed political comms and consequently media interviewing.
*A lot* easier for Opposition parties to be free to say what they like.
But any slip up from Govt ministers is immediately amplified....

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Zack Polanski,
"The only way to be morally consistent is to condemn what happened on Oct 7th and to condemn the genocide in Palestine"

"As a Jewish man I feel the genocide very very deeply"

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 2d

Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax?

The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

Shortly after accusing all other political party leaders of believing in "the magic money tree", Kemi Badenoch announces her plan to completely scrap stamp duty, without any word on how she plans to pay for it

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d

The very last chart remains Reform’s Achilles heel, and it’s the one that may scupper them when it comes time to vote. Other parties should drive this home.

Party image
Do you think each of the following statements does or does not apply to...?% does apply
Labour
Conservative
Reform
Keeps its promises
14%
11%
17%
62%
Divided
58%
32%
Concerned about people in real need in Britain
36%
27%
16%
Base: 1,157 British adults 18+, 11 - 17 September 2025
Understands the problems facing
Britain
25%
42%
29%
Extreme
62%
25%
28%
Different to other parties
66%
27%
23%
Has a good team of leaders
19%
26%
14%
Looks after the interests of people like me
30%
20%
19%
Out of date
63%
53%
36%
Will promise anything to win votes
63%
66%
61%
Fit to govern
27%
18%
25%
© Ipsos| Political Monitor Release 2| September 2025| Public
Ipsos

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3d

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry, but if you're saying those implausible and shallow Kemi Badenoch announcements constitute a good speech then you're part of the UK's political problem.

Same half-baked "tax cut good / international commitments bad" bearing no resemblance to well formed policy.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 3d

If I were the leader of the opposition a year after an election, facing an unpopular government, I would simply focus my energy on criticising the current government's policy record rather than constantly bemoaning the last fifteen years of policymaking, in which I was intimately involved.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

Jenrick being the loudest member of the Conservative party has already been a huge contributor to the poisoning of our politics. We really don't need any four-dimensional chess about him becoming leader. When it happens, it will be a terrible day for our country.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 4d

A Tory party under Jenrick might take a few of the racist votes from Reform, but they’d haemorrhage bucketloads to the Lib Dems.

So, on balance…

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 3d

Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Sue @suescishaw.bsky.social · 4d

Think you underestimate how empowered Reform & Farage will feel if they get into power. With a majority, they will just silence any outcry with more lies & will change any laws that stop them. They'll follow Trump's footsteps with what's happening over there.
Very worrying...

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