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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 9h

Apparently, the Tories are pledging to end the use of asylum hotels, as announced during their conference!

Ironic, given that they introduced the use of hotels because they totally screwed the immigration and asylum system!

#NeverTrustATory

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 9h

A house in Clacton bought with unknown finances, a Russian funded Welsh leader and now an investigation into the finances and tax affairs of one of Farage’s key ally.

The treachery and corruption is right in front of the media’s eyes and they do and say, NOTHING!

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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 9h

They're paying thousands of pounds for their own education and all you can see if the value of a dry subject and a final salary. Fuck off Badenoch, let them study what they want. And iyou think English is a waste of time? Might explain why you can't spell Britain.

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Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🙌 @ljhenshall.bsky.social · 9h

Given his support of Lucy Connolly it seems Farage's policy is that death threats are fine so long as they're not directed at him

Asylum seeker charged with threatening to kill Farage said 'he's going to shoot me' in TikTok video, Reform leader tells court

Fayaz Khan, 26, is charged with making a threat to kill the Reform UK leader between 12 and 15 October last year in a social media post.

news.sky.com

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jaymac66.bsky.social @jaymac66.bsky.social · 9h

The #ElephantInTheRoom for UK politics .. #Brexit .. championed by #Grifter #Farage et al.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16h

Heseltine thinks we should throw Brexit in the bin.

I agree, do you?

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Wobbly Sausage @wobblysausage.bsky.social · 9h

Digital ID cards, Brit Card, will be Keir Starmer's Poll Tax

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Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 9h

Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social @thetimes on #KemiBadenoch #Badenoch #ToryConference #ToryLeadership - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 8h

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BrexitPirates @brexitpirates.bsky.social · 10h

Starmer should be pushing this at every opportunity, not leaving it to a Tory grandee.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10h

Lord Heseltine, "The number of people aged below 50 who think it was right for us to leave the European Union, is less than 20%

"The latest polls tells us 56% now believe it was mistake to leave the European Union"

Hands up if you are one of the 56% 🙋‍♂️

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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 9h

There are everything from local shops to takeaways being targeted by little racist shits emboldened by Farage. And they are beginning to close, the end of decades of service to a community.

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 21h

This is the result of Farage and Jenrick’s far-right, divisive rhetoric. Hard working, responsible people feeling afraid for their future.
Disgraceful.

Doncaster chippy owner 'scared for his children' after vandalism - BBC News

Poseidon's Fish Bar had the word "England" painted on its front, says Iraqi-born owner Darin Ahmed.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Pete @ouch-that-hurts.bsky.social · 10h

Labour and it's supporters are just fixated on chasing farage, meanwhile their original base is leaving them in droves probably permanently, you can only conclude that they want to become the old Tory party

LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 23h

Our media lets us down badly :

Labours accomplishments - rarely mentioned

Nigel Farage’s house - dropped/ignored

Nathan Gill’s admission of working for Russia - zilch

Russia/Iran funding Reform/Farage - silence

Instead they spread lies on the Budget/MPs/anything to discredit Labour

Why????

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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 10h

Tories will abolish stamp duty to “revive the housing market”

First time buyers don’t pay it anyway (up to £300k) & the fact the average UK house price is 10x the average salary is the problem, not £5k stamp duty on a £300k house! And then there’s the £24bn lost tax revenue…

Totally deluded 🤦‍♀️

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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 10h

So @teamlabouruk.bsky.social your illustrious leader "hates tree huggers" and Rachel Reeves considers pretty much everything else important before the environment. Nothing to see here.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10h

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience

A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

www.nature.com

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Will Hazell @whazell.bsky.social · 10h

The collapse of a case involving two men accused of spying for China is a “mess” which is “damaging” to Keir Starmer, an ex-head of MI6 has said.

Sir Richard Dearlove told @theipaper.com that if the Govt had “caved” to Chinese pressure then it was “absolutely outrageous” inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Former head of MI6: Starmer is damaged by spy trial row - China is a threat to UK

Sir Richard Dearlove, who led MI6 between 1999 and 2004, told The i Paper that China was indisputably a national security threat

inews.co.uk

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Ry | Vinyl Fantasy Reviews @vinylfantasy.bsky.social · 10h

Fun fact for people that don’t follow UK politics, this guy promised to abolish student fees, got into power via a coalition with the Conservatives, then tripled the fees. He tanked his own party so hard they went from 22% of the vote, to 8%.

He is a total clown and will be remembered as such.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Barry Howard 🔶 @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 10h

Reform U.K. is quite simply full of former Tories.

Up to 80% of Reform UK members/ Councillors and MPs are former Tories.

#TurquoseTories
A who’s who of the 19 former Conservative MPs who have crossed the floor to join Nigel Farage’s party
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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www.telegraph.co.uk

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 10h

Ushering Farage into No 10, with the powers to crack down on dissent from day 1 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says

The government needs to

www.bbc.co.uk

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redcazza.bsky.social @redcazza.bsky.social · 10h

Guess what happened when the tories cut stamp duty - House prices went up uf course. Economic illiteracy

Badenoch pledges stamp duty abolition and spending cuts

SAVAGE austerity to fund tax cuts was the tired Tory strategy for government, pledged by party leader Kemi Badenoch in Manchester today.This unappetising menu was spiced up by a new pledge to abolish ...

morningstaronline.co.uk

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David Bull CBE @davidnbull.bsky.social · 10h

Stamp duty revenue is expected to rise steadily to £26.5billion by 2029-30. Abolition, as proposed by the Tories, would take those funds away from public services - probably without saving house buyers any money as house prices rise.

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Sky News (Mirror) @skynews-m.bsky.social · 10h

🗣️ "We will never, ever, ever do anything like that again." Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride says the Tories need to "show contrition" over Liz Truss's disastrous mini-budget and promises his party will not do it again. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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Ashfromenfield @ashfromenfield.bsky.social · 11h

@lbc.co.uk are now officially the Nigel Farage channel. Even Andrew Marr has had his 2nd stroke. That’s the only way They know will remain relevant the stupid twats 😡😡

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 11h

Andrew Marr asks J-C Juncker what he thinks of Farage. He says he doesn't want to comment on UK politics but observes that he would make a bad PM and that Brits would be swimming 'in troubled waters' 😀

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bogwoppitt59.bsky.social @bogwoppitt59.bsky.social · 11h

David Lammy.

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 11h

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Well Starmer what you gonna do? Oh Bollywood films... clever chappie

EU steel tariff hike threatens 'biggest crisis' for UK industry

The EU is the destination for 78% of steel products made in the UK for overseas markets.

www.bbc.co.uk

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sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 11h

✅️ A former Royal Marine

✅️ A former diplomat

✅️ A son of a Holocaust survivor

So of course, Starmer had him arrested for peaceful holding a placeard on a static protest

FYI - your 30:1 more likely to be expelled from the Labour Party if you're the "wrong sort of Jew"

youtu.be/UZoCGwQfdLA?...

The British army veteran arrested for supporting Palestine

YouTube video by Declassified UK

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