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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 6h

Whose old enough to remember when Farage was in the news for allegedly avoiding £44K Stamp Duty re his £850K Clacton house❓

It was days after Angela Rayner had to quit after being relentlessly pursued by MSM, Farage etc re stamp duty..

It’s up to us to stop them burying it so you know what to do 👍🏼

Headline from Guardian about Farage and his dodgy property dealings in Clacton and potentially swerving stamp duty

Headline from BBC, who for five minutes, had to join the pack and report Farage’s dodgy clacton house deal and potentially avoiding stamp duty which as we know if your Angela Rayner, you should be sacked for but if you’re Farage…

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 28m

🚨 Tory Policy Announcement Shocker 😱

They plan to abolish stamp duty which will benefit (drum roll 🥁🥁) London and the rich

That’s not like them at all to look after the rich and shaft everyone else.. this is earth shattering.. it’d be like Farage & co being exposed as philanthropists, not grifters

Tory plan to abolish stamp duty ‘will benefit London and the wealthiest the most’ – as it happened

The Social Market Foundation thinktank says council tax reform and a property-based tax would be more sustainable and fairer

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 34m

a bald man in a suit and white shirt is sitting in a chair with his fist in the air .

Alt: a bald man in a suit and white shirt is sitting in a chair with his fist in the air .

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 35m

Don’t looks at this👇🏼there’s nothing to see here 🙈🙈

But look at the boats… thousands .. no millions of them arriving every hour full of men of fighting age, carrying AK47’s just don’t look closely at Farage’s finances 👀👀

Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 20h

HMRC is examining finances of George Cottrell, advisor to Farage, who he says is like a son

Cottrell was charged in US for
money laundering, wire fraud, blackmail & extortion. He conspired to launder millions of $’s of drug money using offshore bank accounts

No wonder he’s in bed with Reform 🤷🏼‍♂️

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally

Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 39m

Good boy 😁👍🏼🤣

I only do, because I’d like to occasionally and I mean very occasionally catch the window when they are actually ready to eat

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 5h

Bunch of scoundrels & traitors.

Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 20h

HMRC is examining finances of George Cottrell, advisor to Farage, who he says is like a son

Cottrell was charged in US for
money laundering, wire fraud, blackmail & extortion. He conspired to launder millions of $’s of drug money using offshore bank accounts

No wonder he’s in bed with Reform 🤷🏼‍♂️

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally

Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

www.theguardian.com

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bogwoppitt59.bsky.social @bogwoppitt59.bsky.social · 5h

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 20h

HMRC is examining finances of George Cottrell, advisor to Farage, who he says is like a son

Cottrell was charged in US for
money laundering, wire fraud, blackmail & extortion. He conspired to launder millions of $’s of drug money using offshore bank accounts

No wonder he’s in bed with Reform 🤷🏼‍♂️

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally

Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 20h

HMRC is examining finances of George Cottrell, advisor to Farage, who he says is like a son

Cottrell was charged in US for
money laundering, wire fraud, blackmail & extortion. He conspired to launder millions of $’s of drug money using offshore bank accounts

No wonder he’s in bed with Reform 🤷🏼‍♂️

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally

Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4h

Banned by Reform Party, Conservative Party, sanctioned by the Russian Government six times - what is @bylinetimes.bsky.social doing right?

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4h

Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

Veteran award-winning investigative journalist @davidhencke has attended the Conservative Party conference since 1987, but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

Veteran award-winning investigative journalist David Hencke has attended Conservative party conference since 1987 but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

bylinetimes.com

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 2h

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5h

Labour have presided over a "doom loop of higher taxes, weaker borders and month after month of chaos" says Kemi Badenoch who was part of a government that raised taxes and immigration levels by record amounts, whilst changing leader no fewer than four times

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4h

The Conservative party's treatment of David, who exposed the cash for questions scandal, is a former political journalist of the year, and has been covering party conferences for almost 40 years, is a disgrace
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

Veteran award-winning investigative journalist David Hencke has attended Conservative party conference since 1987 but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

bylinetimes.com

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 3h

Ok thanks a lot for the tip. I will see if I can find some I do like pears.

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 5h

🤣😁👍🏼

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 6h

Ooops me an’ ma dyslexia.. just been told pare should be pear, it was nearly pair but I knew that wasn’t right.. bloody English, so complex and as for who decided to name a condition that causes ppl to struggle to read and spell dyslexia I’ll never know 😤🙄

It should be called YetAnotherTypo 🤷🏼‍♂️

Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 1d

So yesterday this pare was hard, you know properly well hard, in fact I’d go so far as to say bastard hard..

And this morning this👇🏼😳

What is it with pears that you literally have to sit watching them 24 hours a day, to be on hand for the moment that they actually become edible❓🤷🏼‍♂️

Picture is of a pear which yesterday was way too hard to eat and this morning is so soft it’s going bad

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you 🙏🏼

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 6h

Robert Jenrick shows off unexplained hair growth that has suddenly developed on his right hand knuckles

It was initially just a small tuft but it grows 2 cm every Jenrick lies or has a racist thought..

Robert Jenrick proves he’s a complete tit with a judges wig on his hand

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 6h

Whose old enough to remember when Farage was in the news for allegedly avoiding £44K Stamp Duty re his £850K Clacton house❓

It was days after Angela Rayner had to quit after being relentlessly pursued by MSM, Farage etc re stamp duty..

It’s up to us to stop them burying it so you know what to do 👍🏼

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 1d

So yesterday this pare was hard, you know properly well hard, in fact I’d go so far as to say bastard hard..

And this morning this👇🏼😳

What is it with pears that you literally have to sit watching them 24 hours a day, to be on hand for the moment that they actually become edible❓🤷🏼‍♂️

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 6h

Weird innit.. and spuds start sprouting within a week 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 19h

I guess the BBC news will be headlining the Greens getting 3,000 members in 24 hours sometime never..

But is 5 people join Reform it’ll be breaking news

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22h

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 6h

Robert Jenrick shows off unexplained hair growth that has suddenly developed on his right hand knuckles

It was initially just a small tuft but it grows 2 cm every Jenrick lies or has a racist thought..

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 18h

Always

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