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Supporter of RNLI. Legal fam so that’s a side interest. Favourite podcast ‘Quiet Riot’ Prefer people who think before they criticise. Subscriber of Private Eye. Stand with Ukraine . Anti Reform and anything to do with Farage as he is a liar.UK -Londoner

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Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe the rest of the UK media could report this

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 5d

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1h

They should stop polling, and just stick with the big one we had in 2016 that revealed that roughly half of us will believe any old shit.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 22m

Reform councillor told to 'stop wasting time and money' by frustrated colleagues

Alan Sweeney was heavily criticised at a planning meeting for Solihull council

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 38m

It won’t - because they have been groomed for many years to end up following the final iteration of Farages political vehicle

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3h

This photo with Nigel Farage was taken in the same place Nathan Gill spoke, influenced by Russian Bribes.

The photo was taken just months after he did it.

Farage has been silent about his old friend.

x.com/NathanGillME...

#ReformRussianBribes

Nathan Gill on X: "One year ago today, ⁦@Nigel_Farage⁩ made his final speech in the ⁦@EUparliament⁩ One chapter closed forever. https://t.co/POJWD0farX" / X

One year ago today, ⁦@Nigel_Farage⁩ made his final speech in the ⁦@EUparliament⁩ One chapter closed forever. https://t.co/POJWD0farX

x.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2h

Reform UK on Staffordshire Council have decided to spend £142,000 on political assistants.

Here’s Reform Staffordshire’s Chris Large last month saying they were going to introduce a ‘headcount freeze’.

You can’t trust a Reform Councillor.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2h

Reform Defunding Schools

Reform UK’s Flagship Kent Council is planning to take £2 million from schools’ already-squeezed budgets to pay for vital services it can no longer afford.

Linden Kemkaran, Reform’s Kent Leader is failing.

schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-run-k...

Reform-run Kent council plans £2m school budget raid

Leaders say proposals fly in face of pre-election pledges to identify efficiencies from 'DOGE' unit

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 1d

My wider family: we have Irish, Welsh, an Iraqi Jew, Zulu South Africans, a Zimbabwean, English, North Americans, and an Iranian. We all have a hoot & think Nelson was cool, because we love each other and we live in a culture that allows and celebrates that

Everyone needs to get their shit together

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 1d

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 2d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

Once again, the Telegraph seems shocked that the EU is acting like… the EU.

This is exactly what sovereignty looks like when you’re on the outside.

Ruthless EU has just taught Starmer a painful lesson
Steel tariff threats are a reminder of how Brussels really feels towards post-Brexit Britain

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Karl Flinders @karlfl.bsky.social · 1d

Shocking: Outgoing member of Fujitsu top team said Post Office scandal inquiry's first report "wasn't that bad" #PostOfficeScandal www.computerweekly.com/news/3666324...

Fujitsu boss said Post Office inquiry report wasn’t ‘that bad’, despite link to suicides | Computer Weekly

Computer Weekly reveals callous comments made by a senior Fujitsu executive about Post Office scandal inquiry report.

www.computerweekly.com

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Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 1h

Excellent many thanks

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jaculis.bsky.social @jaculis.bsky.social · 2h

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The Golden Age of Populism Brings with it Division, Chaos and Conflict

YouTube video by Silicon Curtain

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Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 1h

Anything to keep their circulations up and related podcasts full with stories about their favourite authoritarian liar.

Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 2h

Dear Nobel prize committee in case you missed this background on Trump open.spotify.com/episode/7heA...

All Hell Breaks Loose as Trump’s Invasion Caught on Tape

Spotify video

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🌹Weegie 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine a guy who's at war with half of the country he leads believing he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 2h

If it is ever Trump the Prize will lose all meaning. Not only has nothing been achieved yet, the sketchy ‘outline’ 20 point list higlights a very dubious space where ‘Palestinians future’ should be covered - and just look what he is doing on his own streets -despicable, corrupt dreadful man.

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🌹Weegie 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 9h

Our governors and us are all that stands between authoritarianism and democracy.

We will not tolerate a king in America.

Social media post:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to
protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker
I will not back down.
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected
representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown
authoritarianism?

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 3h

More fodder for any journalist interviewing Farage or his reform cronies about Nathan Gill, Russia bribes and his closeness with Farage over any years

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3h

Here’s Nathan Gill, traitor, guilty of 8 charges of Russian Bribery.

By the point he recorded this he had already taken bribes but was yet to be arrested.

He was Leader of Reform UK in Wales.

Reform UK have been silent.

x.com/NathanGillME...

Nathan Gill on X: "I’ve just voted ➡️ Reform UK, if you vote for the same old parties, you cannot expect change. Go out and #VoteReformUK and we will change things for good. https://t.co/H0xg0MKe31" / X

I’ve just voted ➡️ Reform UK, if you vote for the same old parties, you cannot expect change. Go out and #VoteReformUK and we will change things for good. https://t.co/H0xg0MKe31

x.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve just voted ➡️ Reform UK, if you vote for the same old parties, you cannot expect change. Go out and #VoteReformUK and we will change things for good. https://t.co/H0xg0MKe31

x.com

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Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 3h

How weird is this from a grown man ? What qualities does Farage admire and aim to mirror in Trump ? Weirdo narcissists flock together

Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 3h

Bella had the sleekness Milly can only dream of -she’s utterly beautiful

Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 3h

Milly’s morming

Fluffy black cat waiting for breakfast to be served separately from her two noisy brothers

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Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 9h

We cheered when we saw you

Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 10h

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

bylinetimes.com

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Johanna Saunders @johannasaunders.bsky.social · 10h

I see once again that Farage is in the US, telling right wing fanboys how dreadful the UK is, and talking his usual bollocks about everything.
If this man ever becomes PM, our children will never, ever forgive us for giving him free reign to destroy the country.
He’s repellent, truly.

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