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Carer to our rescue animals & wildlife, nature nurturer, rewilder, dog-lover, sheep-cuddler, fox-fan, badger-buff, tofu-eater & eco-worrier in SW Wales. Also love cricket, rugby, music, and most people! Grateful for all I have, all I love & have loved.

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I saw this after yesterday's show and it seemed very apt in relation to the first hour's topic...

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

Reform’s embarrassing council mess shows the posh-boy hatemongers have nothing to offer

Reform's embarrassing council mess shows the posh-boy hatemongers have nothing to offer

Reform blunder into a mess of their own making at Kent County Council as they realise their DOGE style cuts aren't feasible

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 6h

“This stuff is borne of a deeply shallow patriotism.”

After Farage calls on Sky Sports to sack Gary Neville over his comments about “angry, white, middle-aged men, @jonsopel1.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com ask: what does patriotism in the UK actually look like?

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 6h

So much for efficiency - Reform UK lied to you when they stood in the local elections.

It’s harder than they told you it was.

'We don't have the time' - Busy Reform UK council to appoint political assistant

'We don't have the time' - Busy Reform UK council to appoint political assistant

Councillors question whether it was value for money

www.stokesentinel.co.uk

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7h

"Badenoch’s speech was a mix of denial, delusion and obsolete dogma," writes the Guardian.

It's time for Badenoch to be honest about Brexit damage.

https://www.bestforbritain.org/conservative_voters_say_brexit_has_failed_and_damaged_uk_economy

Conservative voters say Brexit has failed and damaged UK economy

The Conservative Party’s flagship policy - Brexit - has been a failure according to people intending to vote for them at the next election.

www.bestforbritain.org

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 6h

Reform UK’s Councillor Rowland O’Connor, St. Columb Major, has resigned from the party.

A conspiracy theorist who claimed 17m people have died from the COVID vaccine, among many other claims.

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Sheffield Hunt Saboteurs @sheffhuntsabs.bsky.social · 18h

The Grove and Rufford Hunt aren't even pretending to lay a trail this season. They're blatantly trying to hunt foxes and that means that they lost control of the hounds in this field of cows.

The Grove's new huntsman was convicted of fox hunting last summer but it obviously hasn't put him off.

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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · 8h

This👇

Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 18h

The most frustrating thing about this war is that the US could step in forcefully now with harsh sanctions against Russia and a large military package for Ukraine with ranged weapons as the centrepiece, and the war would end soon with a Russian defeat.

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 8h

Reform says one thing and does the opposite - this is not reforming our politics, it’s what we’ve come to expect after 14 years of Tory rule - is there really any difference between Reform and the Tories? I can’t see it.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 8h

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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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 10h

🆕 Anti-Woke Wake: It the Tory Party dead or just resting? ☠️

💥 Tory Conference debrief
💥 France latest political soap
💥 A deal on Gaza - but antisemitism on the rise

An amazing episode with special guest @samfr.bsky.social.

🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/5JQF...

🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

Anti-Woke Wake: Is the Tory Party dead or just resting?

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 09/10/2025 · 1h 13m

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Cherly📎 @cherlyh.bsky.social · 7h

😂
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJMz...

Lawrence: The only humiliation in court during Comey’s arraignment was on the Trump side

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 8h

Reform UK’s Deputy Chair Paul Nuttall, was an MEP alongside Nathan Gill.

He’s been well known for being pro-Putin, including during his UKIP leadership campaign and his strange condemnation of the EU for not recognising Russia’s Annexation of Crimea.

What does he know about Russian Bribes?

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If you want more info on this, I suggest you contact this chap uk.linkedin.com/in/adam-come...

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 8h

Reform UK are fossil fuel lobby dinosaurs

Poll: 80 per cent of UK public support pensions being invested in renewable energy

Poll: 80 per cent of UK public support pensions being invested in renewable energy

YouGov poll finds more than half of Reform voters and over 70 per cent of Tory voters support their pensions being invested in renewables

www.businessgreen.com

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

🔵 Exclusive new polling by Best for Britain shows that Tories now believe that Brexit has failed and damaged the economy.

🚨 Even Reform voters are more likely to label Brexit as a failure than a success...

https://www.bestforbritain.org/tory_voters_say_brexit_has_failed_and_damaged_uk_economy

Tory voters say Brexit has failed and damaged UK economy

Ahead of the Conservative Party’s 2025 conference in Manchester, exclusive new polling by YouGov for Best for Britain reveals that people who say they intend to vote Conservative at the next general e...

www.bestforbritain.org

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According to @writesbright.bsky.social , it has at least been "successful" in one regard. Perhaps this explains why many Tories aren't happy with it writesbright.substack.com/p/has-farage...

Has Farage forgotten his own immigration promises?

We have the receipts, Nigel...

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A bit like starmer, her speech was mostly about shoring up her own position and getting the threat of Jenrick off her back for a while. The giveaways don't need to be properly funded because they will never have to actually deliver them.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Shortly after accusing all other political party leaders of believing in "the magic money tree", Kemi Badenoch announces her plan to completely scrap stamp duty, without any word on how she plans to pay for it

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Did you think No Deal Brexit was gone for good?

I have bad news.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

For months, Badenoch has said that she wouldn't jump the gun on leaving the ECHR, because she wanted to fully assess the implications, and within 24 hours of announcing the policy, completely on the hoof, she has also committed her party to a no-deal Brexit by default. 😂 🤡 😂 ~AA

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Anna asks Badenoch: “How will you deal with the potential failure of the UK-EU TCA?”… should the UK leave the ECHR

“The Trade and Cooperation Agreement is one that can be terminated at any time with a 12 month notice period… it could happen irrespective of leaving the ECHR, we do not need to be in the ECHR for that agreement to continue” #r4today
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 1d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch's brain should be studied. Visibly believes that she has put the hours in working while all her policy suggestions are just obviously picked up on Twitter without any critical thought before they end up as policy. Visibly confused as to who was in office 2010 to 2024.

Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 1d

"while we were arguing about what a woman is, china was building five nuclear reactors"

Yes but that is very explicitly your fault, more than most, kemi.

She's such a strange perception of herself

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

"We used to ring up our GP and get an appointment on the same day," says Kemi Badenoch. She does not add: we're all looking for the guy who did this!

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

"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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