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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20h

I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask

Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes

But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 21h

Reform UK a 'threat to the union', says NI Tories

Nigel Farage's Reform a threat to the union - NI Conservatives

Paul Leeman questioned Reform's commitment to Northern Ireland following remarks by Nigel Farage over the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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StIves4EU @stives4eu.bsky.social · 19h

(10 Oct 2019 – P9_TA(2019)0031)
🗳️ Foreign electoral interference & disinformation — strengthened EU response to Russian meddling.
Voted against: Entire Brexit Party delegation (29 MEPs including Nigel Farage, Ann Widdecombe, Belinda de Lucy, Rupert Lowe & others).

StIves4EU @stives4eu.bsky.social · 19h

- Should Russia have a judge on the European Court of Human Rights? - William Dartmouth MEP
- EU sanctions against Russia have only hurt Member States - Janice Atkinson MEP
- The EU is stoking the flame of conflict yet again - UKIP MEP David Coburn

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StIves4EU @stives4eu.bsky.social · 19h

- We'd be better off cooperating with Russia - David Coburn
- The EU must stop with its persistent warmongering - James Carver
- Political party funding is a matter for individual Member States not the EU - Jonathan Arnott
- The language of dictatorship looms within this chamber - Steven Woolfe

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StIves4EU @stives4eu.bsky.social · 19h

clairewa.bsky.social has posted a damning list of examples of the support of Farage and his Brexit Party cronies showed for Russia when (supposedly) serving the UK as MEPs in the European Parliament.

A few examples attached - which deserve wider publicity

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clairewa.bsky.social @clairewa.bsky.social · 1d

- In the war with Islamic extremism, Russia is on our side - Nigel Farage
- Nigel Farage: I seldom agree with Prince Charles. And I'm not about to start.
- Nigel Farage on the EU's expansionist foreign policy

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22h

GB News pay party political leader Nigel Farage over half a million pounds. The TV channel pays him five times his MP salary - and as much as his other 11 further external jobs put together
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Mincemeat Joe @micemeatjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan Gill was on Russia Today
4th July 2016
21st Sept 2016
7th Nov 2016
29th Dec 2016
27th Jan 2017
That's more times than he was on BBC Wales 😂

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Reform UK in the dock ⚖

9th October Andy Osborn.
14th October Neil Stevens, Tony Stevens, and Rob Sheridan.
15th October Sarah White.
21st November Nathan Gill.
16th December Mandy Clare.
22nd May 2026 Daniel Taylor.

Under investigation:
Joseph Boam.
Lee Duffy.
George Cottrell.

#ReformInTheDock

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Reform leader Ryan Coogan's 'false' Astrea principal claims

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough branch of Reform, has made "false, malicious and defamatory" claims that a school's principal is leaving amidst misconduct allegations.

www.huntspost.co.uk/news/2552458...

School trust responds to Reform leader's 'malicious and defamatory' allegations

Reform Cambridgeshire and Peterborough leader Ryan Coogan' has made "false, malicious and defamatory" allegations against the outgoing…

www.huntspost.co.uk

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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StIves4EU @stives4eu.bsky.social · 2d

www.huntspost.co.uk/news/2552198...

'Downright evil': Reform councillor to be investigated for children in care remarks

A Cambridgeshire councillor who described some children in care as "downright evil" is to be investigated for an alleged code of conduct…

www.huntspost.co.uk

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StIves4EU @stives4eu.bsky.social · 2d

Well done Byline Times for exposing this Russian influence on Reform and its leadership. Why isn't the MSM all over this?

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

bylinetimes.com

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StIves4EU @stives4eu.bsky.social · 3d

4 out of 5 words are spelled correctly. Not bad.

It's a big improvement on KB's comment about Northern Ireland voting to leave the EU - which she claimed to have checked - even though she was actually completely wrong.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

Dear Gods of all that is stupid...

IT'S REAL.

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Dill Childs @furiousteddy.bsky.social · 3d

I bet you didn't know this, but the next time some fascist bozo starts going on about ECHR and immigration, you can trot out this statistic:
The ECHR in Strasbourg, which interprets the convention, has ruled against the UK only three times in the past 45 years in cases relating to immigration rules.

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StIves4EU @stives4eu.bsky.social · 3d

Ironically, Margaret Thatcher voiced her support for the ECHR - so if she were alive today, she wouldn't be accepted as a parliamentary candidate for the Tories.

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StIves4EU @stives4eu.bsky.social · 3d

Ironically, Margaret Thatcher's support for the ECHR would disbar her from even being a Tory candidate in today's Conservative Party.
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...

MSN

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Princess of Ely @princessofely.bsky.social · 4d

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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StIves4EU @stives4eu.bsky.social · 3d

order-order.com/2025/10/05/l...

A sign of the times...

Low Footfall at Tory Party Conference

Various reasons are offered including a) bad trains, b) people are "hidden away in rooms no one can see" (according to one Tory MP) and c) they'll come in

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3d

1 week ago Nathan Gill pled guilty to 8 charges of Russian bribery.

Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Dr David Bull and Paul Nuttall, all senior Reform UK leadership, all colleagues of Gill’s through UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK.

All have done what guilty people do.

Silence.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3d

Reform UK's Kent council tax going up by 5%.

They didn't find cuts through the failed DOGE.

This was their flyer in May 2025.

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StIves4EU @stives4eu.bsky.social · 4d

Even Margaret Thatcher didn't want us to leave the ECHR!

www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/defaul... Page 10.

www.equalityhumanrights.com

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StIves4EU @stives4eu.bsky.social · 4d

That Margaret Thatcher supported the UK being in the ECHR shows just how far today's Tories have moved from her policies - which were rightly regarded as right-wing!

They really have lost their way.

www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/defaul...

www.equalityhumanrights.com

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