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Australians get it - why don’t Reformorons?
September 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Reform would have you believe they’re different from Tommy Robinson and the far right. They’re not. Reform is chock full of Robinson’s fascist fans and the v worst politicians are legitimising them.
Anyone who genuinely cared about our country wouldn’t let their racist rhetoric take hold.
(iPaper)
Ian Birrell: Opinion Extract: Farage - who resigned from Ukip over its embrace of Robinson and development of an "anti-Muslim fixation" - now has a policy chief demanding a ban on the burka, MPs calling Britain "a fundamentally Christian country" and has shifted position in a year to demand mass deportations. The chairman of Reform UK said Robinson's march showed "the silent majority". At the party's conference, members freely told me they were fans of the far-right activist. I heard a fringe speaker talk about tackling the "insurrectionary religion" of Islam. And the party links crime to migration while focusing hard on Muslim grooming gangs, echoing themes heard last century in bigoted hostility to Jewish refugees and Roman Catholic migrants. When Enoch Powell claimed six decades ago that immigration would bring "rivers of blood", the Tory leadership of the day turned on him and was backed by Labour: Contrast that with today when we see the Conservative Party leader try to outflank Farage over deportations of women and children while her leadership rival, Robert Jenrick, jumps on a stunt over street flags initiated by the far-right. Meanwhile a panicked Labour Government, flailing around to look tougher on illegal migration, says Robinson is tapping into disquiet and that the march was a "klaxon call" to redouble their efforts to tackle public concerns. It is, however, also a klaxon call to political leaders to defend our great multicultural country and all ofits citizens - whatever their colour; gender, race or religion - from an insurgent far-right rabble, which is being aided by unshackled social media, irresponsible technology billionaires and enemy states intent on destroying democracy. Ugly rhetoric leads to ugly events. So silence is no longer an option for true patriots who love the modern reality of their country, in this struggle for the soul of our nation.
September 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride.

They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.
September 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Musk, Tommy Robinson - fascist Britain. A hellpit of violence and racism. They’re using our flag as their rallying cry. And X as their megaphone.
No more appeasement.
No more ‘legitimate concerns’ horseshit.
It’s beyond time to sanction Musk, regulate X and shut these fuckers down.

(Sunday Times)
Photos of Yaxley Lennon/Robinson and Musk talking on video link and a bloodied protester. …murdered in cold blood this week and people on the left celebrating it openly. "The left is the party of murder and celebrating murder. I mean, let that sink in for a minute, that's who we're dealing with here." He said that the British public were "scared to exercise their [right to] free speech" and claimed the BBC was "com-plicit in the destruction of Britain". When they finished their conversa-tion, Robinson said: "Not only are we in the fight right now, but we're on advance thanks to free speech being fought for, for us, by Elon Musk." By about 4pm riot police, backed by mounted patrols and dog units, were struggling to protect a group of masked antifascists hemmed in at the top of Whitehall. Missiles and flares were thrown by Robinson supporters, with some hitting officers. Many chanted abuse at the police, mocked officers and spat at them. The Met said on X: "Officers are having to intervene in multiple locations to stop Unite the Kingdom protesters trying to access sterile areas, breach police cordons or get to opposing groups. A number of officers have been assaulted." It later added: "The turnout for the Unite the Kingdom protest was too big to fit into Whitehall. Protesters left the route on to Victoria Embankment and sought to access Whitehall from multiple directions ... When officers moved in to stop them, they faced unacceptable violence. They were assaulted with kicks and punches. Bottles, flares and other projectiles were thrown." More than 1,600 officers were deployed to deal with the demonstrations as well as several football fixtures in the capital. At least 500 police had been drafted in from forces outside London, including the Merseyside, Humberside
September 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
This is what Farage represents. This ignorance. This racism. This hatred. This social media radicalisation.
Shame on every single politician, newspaper, hack and pundit who has helped pave the way to this vicious, stupid, nationalistic version of England.

(Times - a complicit disgrace of a paper)
Headline: Flares, fireworks and Sweet Caroline Photo of large yob showing the middle finger at a “legitimate concern”/terrorising-migrants protest in Leeds One of the extracts from the article: Protest at hotel for families There were heavy barriers outside the Park Hotel, in Chichester, where 100 anti-immigration protesters had gathered with flags, chanting "send them home". Laura Dand, a mother of two from Chichester, said she felt the city was changing. "I feel incredibly unsafe and I shouldn't have to," she said. "I don't go out in my neighbourhood alone. Women and children looked on from the hotel's window, while a patchwork banner, put up to tell protesters that "child refugees live here", had been sabotaged overnight. Faith, a counter-protester who asked not to use her full name, said many of the children living in the hotel attended local schools "On a normal evening, the courtyard in front is full of kids, it's full of children playing," she said. "They would be out playing if this wasn't happening, but they ve been told to stay inside."
August 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Reform is made up exclusively of unserious, irresponsible, race-baiting grifters, hoping to be swept to power on a wave of vengeful ignorance and an absence of any scrutiny.
If they were held to account - by papers like the Times - then maybe they’d be nowhere. And certainly not eyeing up peerages.
August 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.
EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS POWDER KEG UK ABOUT TO BLOW UP AS BRITAIN STANDS ON THE BRINK OF THE WHOLE NATION DESCENDING INTO CIVIL WAR by Our Apocalypse Staff HELENA HANDCART THE entire country has turned into a tinderbox, one spark and the whole thing could turn into a raging inferno of hatred and violence. All it needs is one little push - preferably from us - and this once peaceful island will explode. It may not take much, maybe an article with some badly researched facts, maybe some exaggerated and provocative hyperbole, and before we know it there'll be blood on the streets, and flames too, as millions of furious citizens attack each other, the police, and the emergency services, not to mention the armed forces should they tragically be called in to deal with the hate-filled mob rampaging through our cities, towns and villages, armed with burning torches and pitchforks, calling for justice, free speech and the immediate death of everyone they don't like. (Top journalism, Ed). Make no mistake, if Britain even exists by next week, we will run this piece again until someone sparks the tinderbox on the brink of the powderkeg that... (cont. for entire summer).
August 8, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
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This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
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