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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 50m

🚨🚨🚨Breaking: White House confirms that America’s mad king has apple sauce for brains.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 54m

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 3h

This lazy, irresponsible, law-breaking derelict cunt has made a conscious and deliberate decision not to do anything to improve the lives of everyday Americans in any way whatsoever.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7h

President Trump has called for the jailing of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, both Democrats, for “failing to protect” ICE officers who have been sent to the city.

Trump says Chicago mayor, Illinois governor should be jailed for response to ICE

Trump, without providing evidence, said Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker should go to jail for “failing to protect” immigration agents.

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 4h

This is a smart move by Ed Davey.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 8h

Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has written an open letter to One Nation Conservatives who feel abandoned by their party urging them to join the Liberal Democrats, following Kemi Badenoch’s conference speech today

Full text of the letter:

Dear friends,

Our country is at a crossroads.

The Conservative Party under Kemi Badenoch is becoming more extreme and out of touch, chasing Nigel Farage instead of focusing on the issues that really matter to people. Meanwhile, Reform UK is growing in strength - threatening the tolerant, decent values that hold our communities together.

I know many One Nation Conservatives are deeply concerned about the lurch to the hard right in our country and under Kemi Badenoch’s leadership. Her plans to tear up the Climate Change Act and withdraw from the ECHR show she is abandoning traditional British values of tolerance, decency and the rule of law.

So my message to the millions of One Nation Conservatives who feel let down by their party and reject the divisive politics of Badenoch and Farage is to come and join us. Help us save our country and defend the values we all hold dear.

We will stand strong where others back down. We will not pander to Reform. We will fight to protect our environment, stand up for decency and the rule of law, and stop Trump’s America from becoming Farage’s Britain.

So if you share those values, now is the time to join the Liberal Democrats.

With best wishes,

Ed Davey

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 4h

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 23h

This is a variation of the fantasy low tax "UK can be Singapore-upon-Thames" bollocks that followed the result of the EU referendum in 2016.

Oakeshott and Tice are grasping, selfish, entitled grifters who don't want to pay any tax but do want servants who they can exploit.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 4h

The UAE is also one third of the size of the UK: it has less than one fifth (ie: 16%) of the population of the UK (including migrant workers): and the make-up of its economy is entirely different to the UK's economy.

Trade unions are banned in the UAE.

As usual Tice is talking out of his backside.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 9h

Just like MAGA in the US, in Russia every accusation from the Putin regime is actually a confession.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 9h

Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov explicitly blames Europeans for not wanting peace in Ukraine.This’s one of Russia's main narratives these days-Europe wants to go to war with Russia

While Russia escalates its hybrid warfare against Europe,it convinces its people that it's Europe who wants to fight

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 10h

Wait until Kemi Badenoch finds out which political party was responsible for running the country for 14 of the last 15 years.

She's going to be *livid* #CPC25
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10h

Kemi Badenoch, who was part of a Government that delivered 14 years of economic stagnation and record increases in immigration, says the Conservatives are "the only party that can deliver a stronger economy and stronger borders"

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 10h

I'm old enough to remember Brexit midwife Nigel Farridge posting on Twitter in April 2016 that staying in the EU would spell the end of the British steel industry.

It's as if Farridge didn't have the first clue what he was talking about back then: and he still doesn't now.
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 10h

AI is definitely *NOT* a bubble.*

* It's a bubble

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 12h

Kemi Badenoch's vision for the UK:

"These days, if you study English you get arrested and thrown in jail don't you"

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 12h

TalkSport presenter Simon Jordan and GBeebies presenter Michelle Dewberry as a couple is a match made in hard right media echo chamber hell.
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akhlaq1386.bsky.social @akhlaq1386.bsky.social · 1d

When I heard his wife Michelle Dewbury works for GB News I thought, it makes sense.

Absolutely ridiculous anyone listens or takes his opinion on anything.

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 13h

The entire Conservative Party is at it #CPC25
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13h

"You go to some places like Handsworth.. parts of Dewsbury, Bradford, Leicester, where you see.. a single ethnicity.. we don't think that's healthy thing"

Kevin Hollinrake is MP for Thirsk and Malton, which according to the 2021 census is 98% white.

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

David Lammy should give Robert Jenrick a fucking good hiding at the earliest opportunity.

It's what Jenrick deserves, the dogwhistling racist cunt.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Jenrick, who just said he doesn't want to live in a country filled with non-white faces, begins his speech with a series of jokes suggesting that David Lammy is thick

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

Proper “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer” -sounding garbage here from Jenrick #CPC25

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 22h

Thoughts and prayers for the prominent influencers who regret helping propel Trump to the White House.*

* No, fuck them
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 23h

This is a variation of the fantasy low tax "UK can be Singapore-upon-Thames" bollocks that followed the result of the EU referendum in 2016.

Oakeshott and Tice are grasping, selfish, entitled grifters who don't want to pay any tax but do want servants who they can exploit.
bsky.app/profile/sund...

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

Proper “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer” -sounding garbage here from Jenrick #CPC25

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

My God. This is extraordinary.
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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 1d

Glorious. Along with the body building forum confused with the number of days in a week web.archive.org/web/20150105...

Workout Programs

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

David Lammy should give Robert Jenrick a fucking good hiding at the earliest opportunity.

It's what Jenrick deserves, the dogwhistling racist cunt.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Jenrick, who just said he doesn't want to live in a country filled with non-white faces, begins his speech with a series of jokes suggesting that David Lammy is thick

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

"Sweatshop Muslims make 'patriotic' British shirts for Tommy Robinson"

Which is precisely what Yaxley-Lennon wants.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

"More than using Muslims to make these 'patriotic' shirts for his anti-Muslim supporters, Robinson has chosen to use an incredibly controversial manufacturer, [who] according to the FairWear Foundation, pays its Bangladeshi workers 36p per hour." ~AA

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Sweatshop Muslims make 'patriotic' British shirts for Tommy Robinson

EXCLUSIVE: Tommy Robinson paid foreign Muslim sweatshop workers to make 'patriotic' T-shirts for anti-Muslim Unite The Kingdom march, the Daily Mail can reveal.

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

Wannabe Conservative Party leader Robert Jenrick goes full MAGA #CPC25
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the episode in full on YouTube:
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Sky News Press Preview | Monday 6 October 2025

YouTube video by Sky News

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