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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss.

His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr...

He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

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vrichards50.bsky.social @vrichards50.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so embarrassed to be British. We have attacks on Muslims. Attacks on Jews and Jenrick with his vile rhetoric attacking everyone. I’m so sorry for everyone. We are so lucky in our country can’t we just be kind?

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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vrichards50.bsky.social @vrichards50.bsky.social · 1d

Very interesting and informative. I’ve told my friends with young boys to read your book. Also a good interview with Simon Hall on Sunday

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 2d

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border

In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

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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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

Part Two is live.

Project 2025 isn’t just an American story anymore - it’s being rewritten in Westminster under a new name:

The Centre for a Better Britain.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/resolute-1...

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vrichards50.bsky.social @vrichards50.bsky.social · 2d

If I was still in Putney I’d take a walk on the common and a drink or 2 in Barnes

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

🔴NEW🔴

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘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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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

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vrichards50.bsky.social @vrichards50.bsky.social · 5d

It’s a mark of respect. They would get credit for doing so and be demonised if they carry on. Unfortunately it’s about the optics

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d

Richard Tice has made up a fake quote from the PM to claim he incited violence against his political opponents.

It was not sufficiently challenged in the Sky News interview that he did not say it, because the interviewer didn't have the text.

Ofcom should rule

uk.news.yahoo.com/no-keir-star...

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 7d

Energy Secretary Ed Milliband brands Nigel Farage and his allies as: 'Investment-crushing, job-destroying, bill-raising, poverty-driving, science-denying, Putin-appeasing, young people betraying, bunch of ideological extremists’

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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 7d

what the fuck are we even doing man

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 7d

But Larry Ellison is the big beast. He holidays with Netanyahu & even found him a new lawyer.

It’s his massive donations to Blair that bankroll much of his institute’s huge global operation: between $476m and $538m.

A vast sum for a UK ‘think tank’

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7d

Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom Rally was sponsored by a convicted fraudster allegedly behind cryptocurrency ‘rug pulls’

The far-right rally was bankrolled by convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

Tommy Robinson's 'Unite the Kingdom' Rally Was Sponsored by a Convicted Fraudster Allegedly Behind Cryptocurrency ‘Rug Pulls’

The far-right rally was bankrolled by a convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal

bylinetimes.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7d

Reform say it is "disgusting and libellous" to suggest that Nigel Farage flirted with Hitler Youth when he was young.

Here's how a former teacher at his school remembers it

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vrichards50.bsky.social @vrichards50.bsky.social · 11d

I was hoping to see Durham survive especially after Hampshire had lost but we were too good and Durham did themselves no favours. Great end to the season

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 11d

Nigel Farage & Alex Phillips have been awfully quiet about Nathan Gill pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in European parliament and articles.

Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 11d

“Our investigation uncovered that an elected MEP was taking payments to peddle narratives beneficial to Russian interests... This case goes to the heart of our democratic values.”

— head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, Commander Dominic Murphy

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 This is serious. Ex Reform UK leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, 52, pleads guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for making pro-Russia statements in the European Parliament when serving as a UKIP MEP.

Ex-Reform leader pleads guilty to Pro-Russia bribery charges

The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has pleaded guilty to numerous bribery charges relating to pro-Russian statements.

caerphilly.observer

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12d

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12d

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges

Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles

www.theguardian.com

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 14d

Wild how all the people doing crime these days just coincidentally leave bullets with the narrative they want very neatly written on top

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 14d

When the likes of Trump & Farage try to trash scientific method - insinuating that drugs are dangerous when they're not, and that scientists are charlatans - remember this story, and countless others like it.

We are so incredibly lucky to have modern medical science.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 15d

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

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vrichards50.bsky.social @vrichards50.bsky.social · 15d

Saw him walking around the boundary chatting with spectators only recently. So sad

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