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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO @dailyherald.bsky.social · 12h

Your UK Labour Government is investing over £500 Million into Wales, through the new Local Growth Fund.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12h

To all you patriots (and UK authorities)

Is this not political interference of the most egregious and socially divisive kind?

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whitneybrown9.bsky.social @whitneybrown9.bsky.social · 7h

And about bloody time too !!

Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 11h

It certainly feels like the Labour government is about to transition to the next phase of the Brexit debate by publicly acknowledging the damage it's done to the economy.

Starmer is due to say it. Streeting already has.

This is not the start of reversing Brexit, but placing blame where it's due.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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whitneybrown9.bsky.social @whitneybrown9.bsky.social · 7h

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10h

Fat Satan is having a meltdown over his picture on TIME.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

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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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

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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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15h

“An essential condition today for entry into the upper echelons of Conservative party politics is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea. This is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories”

Brexit will always ruin you in the end.
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How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

on.ft.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 15h

Go on then Nigel Farage, keep telling us you know nothing about Russian influence…

The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic

www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic

Worker for Farage’s group in EU parliament was ‘frequent visitor to embassy’ and accused of role in propaganda stunt

www.theguardian.com

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 14h

Taking on Elon Musk should be an open goal in British politics.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 14h

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka ”Tommy Robinson,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying his legal bills.

Robinson says Musk is paying his legal costs in counterterrorism trial

Far-right activist accused of refusing to give his mobile phone pin to police

www.ft.com

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Andrew Rait @andrewrait.bsky.social · 13h

Is it going to be safe to turn on your show @mrjamesob.bsky.social this morning or is that narcissist still bigging himself up?

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 13h

Nigel Farage can’t keep a promise longer than lunchtime.

Reform UK Party Says It Will Drop £90 Billion Tax-Cut Program

www.bloomberg.com

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 13h

This - and Farage working with wealthy US anti-abortion groups on 'freedom of [our] speech' campaigns (per Byline Times and NY Times) - show significant US financial interference in UK politics.

If you want to end up like the US, first thing to do is let money dominate democracy.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 14h

Taking on Elon Musk should be an open goal in British politics.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 14h

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka ”Tommy Robinson,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying his legal bills.

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whitneybrown9.bsky.social @whitneybrown9.bsky.social · 7h

And let’s be honest GMB with its increasingly populist narrative des nothing to help the situation ? I only watch it when you’re on and that seems to be increasingly less often !

Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 12d

If the media and politicians continually discriminate against Muslims,people of colour and women, why are we surprised that some police officers wont be influenced by that? A former PM once likened Muslim women to bank robbers, and we have heard the worst language about migrants since Enoch Powell.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 4d

‘Frankly, the deception of Brexit has exposed Britain as a lonely person sitting outside the conference table.’

Lord #Heseltine: one of last true statesmen reminding us what Europe built - peace, power, and purpose. Only Europe gives us strength to stand our ground against global powers.
#Heseltine

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whitneybrown9.bsky.social @whitneybrown9.bsky.social · 9h

She fucked any vestige of decency left in the Tory party !!!

Paul TM 🇪🇺 Secret Agent Man @trogdouser.bsky.social · 9h

+ Incoming *Gaffe* Klaxon +

Badenoch speaking in the HoC right now

Bloody hell, what is she going to fuck up now?

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 15h

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 15h

BREAKING NEWS

In a move that has shocked absolutely no one with basic arithmetic skills, populist right wing party trying to win votes with fantasy economics traipses around in fetching hair shirt after all their policies are found to be economic fantasy.

Reform UK
Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits
Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 14h

I can see why Reform would oppose measures to prevent money laundering. Maybe banks should check money going *into* bank accounts - particularly when it's Russian money going into Reform politicians' bank accounts...

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 14h

Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/13/r...

Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister's wife – HOPE not hate

IN BREACH OF PARLIAMENTARY RULES: REFORM UK’S RICHARD TICE Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register lavish hospitality...

hopenothate.org.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage has finally admitted to it.

But now there's lots more questions especially considering Rupert Lowes intervention....

leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nige...

Nigel Farage finally admits to knowing Nathan Gill after senior Reform figure repeatedly claimed he didn’t

Farage has admitted he knew Gill for 'a very long time' but claims he didn't know anything about his pro-Russia activities...

leftfootforward.org

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Tommy Robinson is going to go back to prison tomorrow.

He will scream he is a victim, but he has chosen to plead not guilty to something he is clearly guilty of, and his defense is that he is a journalist.

If he's a journalist, Nigel Farage lives in Clacton.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 1d

About to give evidence to the House of Lords sub-committee on the new proposed criminal offence of failing to disclose tax avoidance schemes.

It’s something I called for. But I now think there’s a better way. More to follow.

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