Ian Ridley 🔶
@iankridley.bsky.social
Data Manager; PhD in Climate Physics; Lib Dem. Local cllr stuff @ianridleyld.bsky.social . Runs on about cricket, astronomy, politics & Babylon 5
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Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
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Barnoldswick- Pendle Borough Council
LIB DEMS HOLD ANOTHER COUNCIL SEAT!
LD🔶- 1008- 59.8% (+1.5)
RFM➡️- 441- 26.2% (New)
CON🔵- 170- 10.1% (-11.7)
LAB🔴- 66- 3.9% (-11.1)
Congratulations to Cllr Bryony Hartley and the Pendle team for a fantastic campaign!
LIB DEMS HOLD ANOTHER COUNCIL SEAT!
LD🔶- 1008- 59.8% (+1.5)
RFM➡️- 441- 26.2% (New)
CON🔵- 170- 10.1% (-11.7)
LAB🔴- 66- 3.9% (-11.1)
Congratulations to Cllr Bryony Hartley and the Pendle team for a fantastic campaign!
November 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Barnoldswick- Pendle Borough Council
LIB DEMS HOLD ANOTHER COUNCIL SEAT!
LD🔶- 1008- 59.8% (+1.5)
RFM➡️- 441- 26.2% (New)
CON🔵- 170- 10.1% (-11.7)
LAB🔴- 66- 3.9% (-11.1)
Congratulations to Cllr Bryony Hartley and the Pendle team for a fantastic campaign!
LIB DEMS HOLD ANOTHER COUNCIL SEAT!
LD🔶- 1008- 59.8% (+1.5)
RFM➡️- 441- 26.2% (New)
CON🔵- 170- 10.1% (-11.7)
LAB🔴- 66- 3.9% (-11.1)
Congratulations to Cllr Bryony Hartley and the Pendle team for a fantastic campaign!
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Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
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This is such bullshit. This isn’t a headline. No idea what’s going on with Sky but this isn’t it. The journalists click bait question isn’t the news.
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This is such bullshit. This isn’t a headline. No idea what’s going on with Sky but this isn’t it. The journalists click bait question isn’t the news.
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Pleased to report that, after we intimated we would sue it, Ofcom has changed course and will look again at whether TalkTV is complying with the Broadcasting Code.
We are also now starting to look with our lawyers at the BBC's whitewashing of trans existence. goodlaw.social/vfq2
We are also now starting to look with our lawyers at the BBC's whitewashing of trans existence. goodlaw.social/vfq2
TalkTV: Ofcom bows to pressure | Good Law Project
We said we’d sue over Ofcom’s decision to dismiss 22,000 complaints about transphobia on TalkTV – now the regulator has caved.
goodlaw.social
November 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Pleased to report that, after we intimated we would sue it, Ofcom has changed course and will look again at whether TalkTV is complying with the Broadcasting Code.
We are also now starting to look with our lawyers at the BBC's whitewashing of trans existence. goodlaw.social/vfq2
We are also now starting to look with our lawyers at the BBC's whitewashing of trans existence. goodlaw.social/vfq2
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Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
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Nigel Farage accused of ‘persistent’ racial abuse by ex-schoolmate who rejects claims it was ‘banter’
Farage accused of ‘persistent’ racial abuse by schoolmate who rejects ‘banter’ claims
Reform UK leader ‘categorically’ denies allegations he growled ‘Hitler was right’ and hissed ‘gas them’ while at Dulwich College
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Nigel Farage accused of ‘persistent’ racial abuse by ex-schoolmate who rejects claims it was ‘banter’
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Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
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Here is Nigel Farage in June 2024 saying British born and British educated former PM Rishi Sunak doesn't understand "our history" and "our culture". He's an out and out racist. It was possible to criticise Sunak's early leaving of the D-Day celebrations without being racist.
October 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Here is Nigel Farage in June 2024 saying British born and British educated former PM Rishi Sunak doesn't understand "our history" and "our culture". He's an out and out racist. It was possible to criticise Sunak's early leaving of the D-Day celebrations without being racist.
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Denying an entire group of people their identity and therefore existence, let alone science, is vile
Trans women are women
Trans men are men. 🏳️⚧️
Trans women are women
Trans men are men. 🏳️⚧️
the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Denying an entire group of people their identity and therefore existence, let alone science, is vile
Trans women are women
Trans men are men. 🏳️⚧️
Trans women are women
Trans men are men. 🏳️⚧️
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Who remembers that Brexit campaign slogan from 2016? 🤔
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Who remembers that Brexit campaign slogan from 2016? 🤔
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There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
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John Major, "One aspect of reducing immigration would be to make it more palatable for migrants to remain in their own countries"
"That is why the policy of cutting aid and investment to poor countries is a very poor sighted policy"
"That is why the policy of cutting aid and investment to poor countries is a very poor sighted policy"
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
John Major, "One aspect of reducing immigration would be to make it more palatable for migrants to remain in their own countries"
"That is why the policy of cutting aid and investment to poor countries is a very poor sighted policy"
"That is why the policy of cutting aid and investment to poor countries is a very poor sighted policy"
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As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Ukip founder Alan Sked: 'The party has become a Frankenstein's monster'
He may have founded Ukip, but Alan Sked's moderate, Brussels-boycotting party has gone rogue. Stuart Jeffries meets the academic who's desperate to stop the bandwagon he first set rolling
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
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Northumberland Reform councillor ordered to pay £38,000 debt to his own council
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
Northumberland Reform councillor ordered to pay £38,000 debt to his own council
Barry Elliott, a Reform councillor in the Blyth ward of Newsham, appeared in court on Tuesday in relation to more than £38,000 worth of council tax and business rates owed to Northumberland County Cou...
www.chroniclelive.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Northumberland Reform councillor ordered to pay £38,000 debt to his own council
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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I implore someone, anyone, in the media…
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I implore someone, anyone, in the media…
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
De Montfort University recently hosted a conference on the issue of poverty in Leicester, which heard that the city has twice the national rate of children in low income families. Part of the cause appears to be low wages, as the number of people in employment is high. www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/ne...
DMU hosts conference showing true picture of poverty in Leicester
The "devastating" challenge of living in poverty has been highlighted at a conference held by De Montfort University Leicester (DMU).
www.dmu.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
De Montfort University recently hosted a conference on the issue of poverty in Leicester, which heard that the city has twice the national rate of children in low income families. Part of the cause appears to be low wages, as the number of people in employment is high. www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/ne...
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I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?
We were hit with a £148k inheritance tax bill when mum died at 97 - it's disgusting
Jill Lemon has labelled inheritance tax as 'cruel', 'horrible' and 'unfair'
inews.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?
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Lib Dem MP Luke Taylor in last week's debate on social media:
Elon Musk's recent London speech represented "a foreign billionaire, armed with his global megaphone, fanning the flames of division and calling for the overthrow of our democratically elected Government."
"We call that treason here."
Elon Musk's recent London speech represented "a foreign billionaire, armed with his global megaphone, fanning the flames of division and calling for the overthrow of our democratically elected Government."
"We call that treason here."
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Lib Dem MP Luke Taylor in last week's debate on social media:
Elon Musk's recent London speech represented "a foreign billionaire, armed with his global megaphone, fanning the flames of division and calling for the overthrow of our democratically elected Government."
"We call that treason here."
Elon Musk's recent London speech represented "a foreign billionaire, armed with his global megaphone, fanning the flames of division and calling for the overthrow of our democratically elected Government."
"We call that treason here."
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britain i swear to fuck just ask the EU to take you back, sure we'll be insufferably smug about it and probably force you to get off the pound because we're feeling like being bastards but at least youll have, like, jobs and any kind of perspective
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
britain i swear to fuck just ask the EU to take you back, sure we'll be insufferably smug about it and probably force you to get off the pound because we're feeling like being bastards but at least youll have, like, jobs and any kind of perspective
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NEW: Nigel Farage shakes hands with Adam Johnson, well-known 6 January rioter, at a Republican Party fundraiser in Florida, this March - as unearthed by @nafeez.bsky.social for @bylinetimes.bsky.social today
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
NEW: Nigel Farage shakes hands with Adam Johnson, well-known 6 January rioter, at a Republican Party fundraiser in Florida, this March - as unearthed by @nafeez.bsky.social for @bylinetimes.bsky.social today
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
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Today's GB News TV advertisers include *TheNationalLottery *WeFixLondon *Belgica *RangefordLiving *XmasTreeWorld *TwistedGifts *Haltonlifts *AllClearTravel *MetallicElephant *TonicSurgery *Freshpet *Boxt *TrailFinders *FastCashProperty *LocksleyLaw *WNLPrinting *JohnFinchComputers
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Today's GB News TV advertisers include *TheNationalLottery *WeFixLondon *Belgica *RangefordLiving *XmasTreeWorld *TwistedGifts *Haltonlifts *AllClearTravel *MetallicElephant *TonicSurgery *Freshpet *Boxt *TrailFinders *FastCashProperty *LocksleyLaw *WNLPrinting *JohnFinchComputers
I have just signed this petition on the Parliamentary web site: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I have just signed this petition on the Parliamentary web site: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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