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Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 14h

Wonder why they are so keen on untraceable clandestine tax-free payments from unidentifiable dodgy sources?

It's a mystery.

Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 1d

This should be illegal. Reform are crooked as hell.

BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

Several sources told The Observer that the Electoral Commission had been given prior notice by a party, understood to be Reform UK, that it had received a donation made in cryptocurrency in recent weeks.
Reform is the only political party in Europe to accept donations in crypto

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

How about ‘cut him off forever and turn all the evidence over to the police’?

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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 22h

You would think our National Broadcaster (BBC) would be all over this, investigating and reporting. Oh hang on silly me they may find someone is involved at some level??😂

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 23h

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 18h

Fartage and Lice and the rest of the Reform knuckledraggers are curiously quiet on this scandal...

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 23h

Not asked to tackle racism generally then, just antisemitism?

Not sure I approve of such a narrow focus, although it does need to be stamped on. I'd have hoped those at universities would be intelligent enough to differentiate between Government and the populus.

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

Universities must act on antisemitic abuse, Bridget Phillipson says

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says Jewish students do not feel safe, as she sets out measures to tackle antisemitism.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 1d

The press will no doubt be all over this tomorrow, exposing his racism and extremist lies for all the World to see.

(Unless Gary Neville posts anything on social media, of course)

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Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 1d

I think you'll find the leader of Antifa is Habeus Corpus

Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 1d

Huge fans of 'Only Connect' over at the NYT, obviously.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

How did you do in Connections today? Players must select four groups of four words without making more than three mistakes. www.nytimes.com/games/connec...

A Connections game board reads: "Group words that share a common thread. Alley. Sport. Tackle. Lane. Tom. Court. Kit. Bob. Don. Bill. Wear. Gear. Pat. Way. Put on. Stuff."

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 1d

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Gary #Neville who opened his hotel free of charge to #NHS staff who needed somewhere to stay during the early stages of lockdown is a traitor.

#Reform UK's Nathan #Gill who took bribes from #Russia is a #Patriot.

What a weird fucked up nation the UK has become.

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Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever happened to TV detector vans? I always looked at passing vans as a kid, hoping to see an ariel lashed to the top detecting TV sets right, left and centre. Guess they only worked with old TVs?

Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a supporter of ANTIFIFA...

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 2d

We were told #Brexit would save billions.
Instead it cost billions, and the Treasury scrambles for every pound.
Wages stagnate, taxes rise, services fall.
The public pays for Farage’s fantasy. He complains it’s not the right sort of Brexit. He walked away. We pick up the tab. #faragetaxes #rejoineu

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Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 1d

I'm wondering 2 things:

1) What do manufacturers put in them to make them not vegan? and;

2) Did anyone catch Fartage skulking around ladies' toilets while gathering information for this obvious distraction from Reform's Kremlin links? He looks like he's got previous...

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Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 1d

You're not the only one looking at the mendacious blonde blimp's hair. There's no way that look is achievable without 240v up him somewhere.

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Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 1d

...yet.

Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 1d

If he does, he may even remember marching with Martin Webster at a racist National Front march some years ago?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that this mendacious crook hasn't served time in jail is testament to our corrupt system in the UK.

BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 2d

No surprise from the man who sold his country down the river just to become PM - a corrupt, useless, self serving lying one at that

Johnson secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture, amid plans to use an influential contact & senior contacts in the Saudi gov he met as PM

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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Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 1d

Well those overseas properties and foreign passports aren't cheap I guess.

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 2d

Believe it, they don't care ,their shareholders want their money. Thatcher 's crap legacy still lives on. Privatisation doesn't work ,it's a scam. A huge rip off.

Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 2d

Unbelievable - Thames Water wants to pollute ILLEGALLY for the next 15 years

If they get away with this, other water companies will copy

If you don't want sewage until 2040 (!) please sign our
petition to @ofwat.bsky.social

We'll be handing it in on 21st October

weownit.org.uk/act-now/peti...

Thames Water want to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.

Thames water want to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

weownit.org.uk

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 5d

Conservative MP Mel Stride claims PIP benefit is thousands of pounds per month.

No it is an absolute maximum of £720 a month, and most people only get £250 or less.

Meanwhile he claims £1,250 a month in rent on his expenses

Lying, thieving b******

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Rejoin Campaign @rejoincampaign.bsky.social · 2d

CEASEFIRE?

‘CEASE SLAUGHTER’ might be more appropriate.

What about a ‘CEASE STARVATION’?

What about a ‘CEASE BLOCKING HUMANITARIAN AID’?

And do we really think Israel is going to end its extermination of the Palestinian people?

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Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 2d

The Qataris do a good deal when against mugs. One bling plane buys a whole base.

Trump has been done up like a kipper, again. Fucking clown.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 2d

More and more Russian connections….

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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