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Ralph Darvill
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Self-employed Painter and Decorator.

Music lover, photographer, hockey player, beer drinker, birder, windmill-hopper.

Father, husband & general mischief-maker.

Let's take more care of each other, & our planet.

Tring Hockey Club, Watford Football Club.
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tringdriventhing.bsky.social
People in my family are considering voting for Reform Ltd, I wonder if they've read this, and I wonder too if they don't slightly go along with it.

Disgusting.
ayoub.bsky.social elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be… The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
January 28, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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gerryhassan.bsky.social
Every single Reform MP below has been at one point a Conservative politician. So much for the line that Reform are an anti-establishment party. There is ZERO credibility for that when your MPs are all ex-Tories.
January 27, 2026 at 10:14 PM
tringdriventhing.bsky.social
Never forget.

#trumpisacunt
mjfree.bsky.social Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 22h
🔥🔥🔥 DO NOT BE DISTRACTED BY GREENLAND & STAY LOUD

DONALD TRUMP IS GOING DOWN

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS & I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared 🔥🔥🔥
January 27, 2026 at 7:23 PM
tringdriventhing.bsky.social
Man Of The People wants us all to live in an even more nature depleted environment.

Thanks ever so much Mr. Man Of The People.

#farageisacunt
January 27, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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alan1874.bsky.social
There's always a tweet ...
January 27, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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riotgrandma.bsky.social
🇬🇧🙀🇬🇧🙀🇬🇧🙀🇬🇧

This.
So unfair.

#suellabraverman
January 26, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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mstrat39.bsky.social
The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
Call off the King’s visit to the US for the 250th anniversary of America's independence
With the current political chaos in the US and Trump’s failure to adhere to international norms, and given his apparent obsession with the Monarchy, calling off this visit would send a powerful messag...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 17, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
The defection of Suella Braverman, who was sacked twice from Government in disgrace, spent £700m of taxpayers' money to send four volunteers to Rwanda on a deportation scheme that was then scrapped and has a public approval rating of minus 32 is currently being described as a "major coup" for Reform
January 26, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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raptorpersuk.bsky.social
Seven sacks of dead Pheasants dumped by side of road in S Lanarkshire.

Dodgy ethics aside, no need to worry about the mandatory biosecurity measures that everyone, including gamebird shoot managers, are supposed to comply with, eh? #AvianFlu

New blog ⬇️

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/26/s...
Seven sacks of dead Pheasants dumped by side of road in South Lanarkshire
Seven sacks of dead Pheasants have been dumped by the side of the road at two locations (3km apart) near Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire earlier this month (many thanks to the blog reader who sent in…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
January 26, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Petition to rejoin the EU

For economic growth

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK
We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...
petition.parliament.uk
January 25, 2026 at 9:38 PM
tringdriventhing.bsky.social
#ubbunchakuntz
ukbastard.bsky.social UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 1d
Reform Councillor slammed after tweeting 'I stand with ICE' after fatal shooting of nurse Alex Pretti

Joseph Boam, 22, tweeted a graphic of the US Department of Homeland Security with the words 'I Stand With Ice' on Sunday afternoon.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/ice-...
Reform Councillor slammed after tweeting 'I stand with ICE' after fatal shooting of nurse Alex Pretti | LBC
A Reform councillor has sparked fury after showing support for ICE following the brutal shooting of nurse Alex Pretti.
www.lbc.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 8:58 PM
tringdriventhing.bsky.social
Fed up with death now. Why can't it come for one of the numerous cunts who are blighting our world at the moment.

RIP Sly Dunbar.
January 26, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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stopfundingheat.bsky.social
Who's going to tell the Daily Mail that it's expensive gas (not net zero) that keeps bills high?

FYI: Daily Mail's parent company makes millions running oil and gas conferences.🛢️🤑

💰 Ads by #PandOcruises, #Jet2, #NationalLottery, #Morrisons, #Samsung & #Asda

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
Daily Mail article with a headline that reads: In our scary new world, there are three things that matter most for national survival. And Labour is taking Britain BACKWARDS on every one of them.
January 26, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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reformexposed.bsky.social
Reform candidate retracts claim of being Cambridge alum

Fife Council candidate Romano Valente has now deleted all references to the University from his social media

www.varsity.co.uk/news/31005

#Refibs
Reform candidate retracts claim of being Cambridge alum
Fife Council candidate Romano Valente has now deleted all references to the University from his social media
www.varsity.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
Yet more evidence that the crucial Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC is weakening.
Bad news for our climate future.
More reason to finally get serious about ending fossil fuel use.
As fast as we can.
thierryaaron.bsky.social Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2d
"The results also indicate that current #climate models underestimate the magnitude of the observed changes. This is caused most likely by a too simplistic representation of deep mixing processes in the ocean in numerical models"

#AMOC
#FasterThanExpected
Ventilation of the North Atlantic is Weakening
20 January 2026 / Kiel. The renewal of deep waters in the North Atlantic has slowed markedly over the past three decades. This is shown by a new study from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Resear...
www.geomar.de
January 26, 2026 at 6:14 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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neverevertory.bsky.social
Reform’s voting record!

#NeverVoteReform
Reform’s voting record!
January 23, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
This is Alex Pretti.

This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA.

Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE.

#ScientistsAgainstICE
Alex Pretti, wearing a green sweater with his VA badge on.
January 24, 2026 at 8:03 PM
tringdriventhing.bsky.social
Quote post with a hint of where you're from.
Ex-London, Midland & Scottish Railway "Princess" class 4-6-2 46200 "The Princess Royal, passes Watford sheds in the early 1960s.
January 23, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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kibblesmith.com
The main thing Elon Musk took from us when he bought Twitter was destroying the only customer service platform that corporations will actually answer you on
January 22, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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reformexposed.bsky.social
Greens take Reform seat in first of its kind win
Greens take Reform seat in first of its kind win in Derbyshire - BBC News
Green Party candidate wins seat from Reform party in Derbyshire County Council by-election.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 6:15 AM
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greenpartymolly.bsky.social
At the crucial moment of diplomatic tension, Farage sided with Trump against the UK

On the same day, he was found to have broken parliamentary rules around declaring his external interests

A crook and a quisling
January 22, 2026 at 8:44 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
🚨Now closing on 93,000 signatures!

The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.

Let’s keep going!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
January 22, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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raptorpersuk.bsky.social
147 Hen Harriers confirmed 'missing' or illegally killed in UK since 2018 - most of them on or close to grouse moors.

Data extracted from reports by Natural England, RSPB, HSE, various Police forces, National Wildlife Crime Unit.

#RaptorResearch 🌍

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/21/1...
147 Hen Harriers confirmed ‘missing’ or illegally killed in UK since 2018, most of them on or close to grouse moors
For anyone who still wants to pretend that the grouse shooting industry isn’t responsible for the systematic extermination of Hen Harriers on grouse moors across the UK, here’s the latest catalogue…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
January 21, 2026 at 11:51 AM
tringdriventhing.bsky.social
Who painted the window scene in the Traitors breakfast room?

And when did it replace the real view?*

*if there ever was a real view.
January 21, 2026 at 8:25 PM