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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 51m

Just imagine how great they'll be when they get down to 10%!

I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 57m

Farage is making:

£3.6k per hour from his GB News shows
£1.2k per hour from his stupid Cameo video messages
£3k per month from posting his fascist shit on Musk's far right social media site

I doubt this is a full list of all of his outside interests.

#bbcpm

David Dubas-Fisher @dubasfisher.bsky.social · 1h

For the first time since April, Nigel Farage has declared his income from second jobs. I've not entered it into our system yet, but this will definitely take him over £1million in additional earnings since the election

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 2h

Has anyone else's Bluesky search function stopped working?

Can't search on my pc browser or on the app.

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 2h

It's spelled "Sovrinty"

#BrexitBenefits

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 2h

“The UK government is proposing to pay up to 25 per cent more for drugs bought by the NHS as it tries to save the sector from President Trump’s tariffs and stop pharmaceutical companies from abandoning investments in the country.”

All this sovereignty is making me giddy…

www.ft.com/content/dd11...

UK government prepared to pay more for drugs bought by NHS

Officials have briefed Trump administration on proposal to pay up to 25% more for medicines

www.ft.com

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Gideon Lukens @gidlukens.bsky.social · 2h

Idaho’s 2026 ACA marketplace open enrollment begins Oct 15. People are already window shopping, seeing next year’s premiums spike due to expiring tax credit enhancements. A typical 60-year-old couple making $85,000 in Idaho will face a $17,900 increase in annual premiums. (1/4)

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 2h

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 2h

Calm down this isn't North Korea. Kemi's not going to send you to a labour camp for not clapping enthusiastically enough. At least I'm 90% certain she won't.

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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 2h

Racist Robert Jenrick and Uncle Trevor Phillips are blaming the Manchester Synagogue attack on a "failure of integration".

Did they say that about the thousand of white terrorists who ran through the streets last summer, or in Ballymena this year?

Robert Jenrick blames Manchester Synagogue attack on "failed integration"

YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 2h

*Racist ethnonationalist* Douglas Murray.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13h

According to hacked emails obtained by @dropsitenews.com, 'journalist' Douglas Murray was allegedly writing secret draft speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN while also pretending to be an independent 'journalist'.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 3h

Viral social media posts claim Sir Keir Starmer has legalised marriage between brothers and sisters or parents and children.

False. Marriage between close relatives is illegal in the UK. There are, however, calls for a ban on marriage between first cousins. fullfact.org/culture-and-...

No, the government hasn’t legalised marriage between brothers and sisters and parents and children – Full Fact

False claims about changes in the law have been linked to a parliamentary exchange about marriages between first cousins.

fullfact.org

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 3h

Ours was wooden, and about three times the width of that one.

In five years, I never saw it in any other position than against the wall, even though it was on rollers, and had a guideline for extending it outwards on the floor.

Also, I never learned how to climb a rope.

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 7h

Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 3h

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 5h

Spot on from @stephenkb.bsky.social. And the other aspect of this nasty turn is the eliding of British ‘culture’ with ‘white British’, which will shock anyone who has watched TV or football, or listened to music, or read a book, or indeed breathed since 1980.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 3h

There was certainly something recently which monopolised all public debate and paralysed all policy initiative in the UK for the better part of a decade, and I dont think it was trans rights.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 5h

"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4h

It's never too late

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5h

Criminals should face "the full force of the law" says Kemi Badenoch

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 4h

The first verdicts on Badenoch's speech are in - LOL

#CPC25 #PoliticsLive

HuffPost UK @huffpost.co.uk · 4h

The Tory leader is unlikely to still be in post this time next year.

Kemi Badenoch Can Announce All The Tax Cuts She Wants. No One Truly Believes She'll Ever Be Prime Minister

The Tory leader is unlikely to still be in post this time next year.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 5h

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 5h

We now go live to the Labour Party's opposition research unit.

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 5h

Fwiw, that sounded like an hour or so of blaming all the problems the Tories left behind on Labour, and then promising to reverse all Labour policies as her 'new' policy solution.

With a few unaffordable tax cuts and more austerity thrown in.

#CPC25 #PoliticsLive #Badenoch

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 5h

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5h

Once again, I am asking where on earth the Short money *goes* and what they are spending it on. They are not doing meaningful parliamentary scrutiny. They are somehow less credible, spending-wise, than Reform, who are are a shoestring operation!

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5h

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 5h

Badenoch announces the Tories will also scrap Stamp Duty.

Stamp Duty raised £13.9 billion in the 2024/25 financial year, according to HMRC. An increase from £11.6 billion in 2023/24.

How are all these things going up be funded?

Cutting the incomes of the poor & disabled?

#CPC25 #PoliticsLive

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5h

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 5h

I've never seen so many rictus grins.

#Badenoch #CPC25

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 5h

Perhaps not the main point but I always hate it when people view it as a sign of failure when poorer countries grow faster. There is absolutely no intrinsic reason why Poland should have lower income than the UK or any other EU country forever, and that means it will have to grow faster sometimes

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5h

Tripling stop and search!

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 5h

The Tories just cannot shake off that legacy, which I guess is why people now hacked off with Labour seek something different and see a cheeky chappie with a pint promising the earth.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5h

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 5h

The livestream of Kemi Badenoch's speech is here, FYI.

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