DavidRidley
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DavidRidley
@davidr-ponte.bsky.social
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It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions.

Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.
January 18, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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I wonder why Nigel Farage has pulled out of The Laura Kuenssberg TV programme this morning?
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January 18, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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Pictured: Someone who actually won a Nobel Peace Prize
January 16, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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Even by Badenoch’s standards, responding to the opportunity offered by Jenricks’s departure by promoting the ‘mastermind’ behind Theresa May’s myriad disasters is an act of extraordinary idiocy.
January 16, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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Do you think Reform UK members will accept the man who opened the asylum hotels?

Farage: "I'm getting people in who are apologetic, indeed ashamed, of what they've done in the past."

This is totally humiliating for Robert Jenrick.
January 15, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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I'd be surprised if Farage had seen this in advance. Jenrick's torching potential defectors. The gulf between his talents & his perception of them is pure Reform.
Absolutely jaw-dropping stuff from Robert Jenrick, who says his former party "betrayed" its voters and members, accuses his former Tory MP colleagues of being "in denial" or "dishonest", and picks out Mel Stride and Priti Patel for attacks on their records
January 15, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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A month ago someone in Jenrick's team got in touch to complain that I'd called him "the most shameless man in parliament." I mean.
January 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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shoulda got a shield
Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward
January 15, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
January 12, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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A guy for whom an HMRC investigation and a £5m unpaid tax bill were small issues, so small he didn't tell Sunak - and got sacked as Chancellor.

news.sky.com/story/nadhim...
January 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
January 12, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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We Conservatives are taking you over!
Robert Jenrick to ‘join’ next.
Then Govey, Moggy & many more.
Finally Boris to join you & take over from the morally & financially suspect Nigel!
Ha Ha Reform.🤣
You are such suckers!!!!
(As Dean my paperboy says).
🇬🇧😂😂😂
January 12, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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The regret in Badenoch’s eyes when she was trying to pin Starmer on the legal and parliamentary process around Ukraine and she realised he is in fact a lawyer whereas she gets her details from Telegraph columnists and anonymous bot accounts on X
January 7, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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Labour justice minister destroys Robert Jenrick for the Tories complete and utter failure in our prisons across their 14 years in office.

Very well said @alexdaviesjones.bsky.social - a brilliant Labour junior minister.
January 5, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Stupidly turned on #trevorphillips and we have another programme of Labour bashing. I don't think I have ever heard this programme tell the story of what Labour has done well in the last year and a half because there is a lot. Sky are not even trying to hide their political bias now. It is blatant.
December 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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President Trump, "Our country was laughed at from all over the world, but they're not laughing any more"
December 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Hook, line and sinker. Brilliantly done.
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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I hope CCHQ drafted that question for Evans, in order to echo Badenoch's shallow line of attack today, at the end of the session. He looks positively - and rightly - embarrassed for having asked it.

Good response by Starmer. #PMQs
December 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Fortunately David Lammy you have the chance to vote for a customs union by backing our bill next week.

See you in the Aye lobby?
December 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Nigel Farage says that Christopher Harborne, whose crypto firm the Reform leader plugged on air, while promising to hand massive tax cuts to, wants "absolutely nothing in return" for the £9 million he gave his party bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK as Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Reform UK have accepted £9 million from foreign-based businessman Christopher Harborne.

Here's what Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice thought in 2018 about George Soros donating to UK groups:

"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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NEW: OBR head Richard Hughes resigns.
December 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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I watched Beth Rigby interview the Prime Minister on the budget and the aggression of her questions and attitude were really disturbing. The need by @skynewsrss.bsky.social political analysts to get a gotcha moment is meaning they are not reporting the news any more - just trying to catch Govt out.
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM