Ben Curnow
wonruc77.bsky.social
Ben Curnow
@wonruc77.bsky.social
"How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political power to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century"
- Aneurin Bevan
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The United States gives far too much power, money, and influence to silly people with heads full of nonsense.
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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This time of year is so bloody expensive…

Must be those bloody migrants again

Making our food shops extortionate

Rinsing us for heating our homes

Privatising the shit out of our childcare

Creaming off our mortgages and rent

Bastards.
December 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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It’s really simple…

- Cap all political donations
- Ban foreign donations
- Strict conflict‑of‑interest & anti‑corruption laws with penalties
- No titles, honours or peerages for donors
- No govt contracts for donors
- Publish every donation/lobby meeting

…that’ll do it.
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Didn’t happen.
Nobody can remember.
Actually, I can remember.
Did happen wasn’t racist.
Was racist wasn’t offensive.
Here’s a possibly made-up letter from a bloke who insists things can only happen if he witnesses them.
As Farage squirms, Peter Ettedgui recalls their schooldays:
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
James O'Brien Daily
Daily News Podcast · Updated daily · Welcome to the best bits of James O'Brien's LBC phone-in show. Listen back to all the highlights in a 60-minute bite sized chunk of his show with new episodes ever...
tinyurl.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Delighted to reveal that I will be announcing the very first winner of the LBC* Peace Prize on Monday**.

*(morning show)
**I’ll probably forget
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
All that outrage in the media about Labour and the donations it was getting. Where is the outrage now that ReformUK has had a bigger donation than all the other parties declared donations combined!?
You can see who the rich are backing! The party of the "working class"
#ReformUK #Labour #Politics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire.

Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.

Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The absolute state of the BBC news just now - which seems determined to drag the government down over the budget.

Where was all this attention to minute detail and concern for absolute accuracy when the Tories were lying their way through their chaotic reign for 14 years? It's frankly absurd.
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
What happened to the straight talking Farage everyone loves! Ive seen boomerangs straighter than those answers! youtube.com/shorts/cjabz...
In Deep Water AS EVIDENCE MOUNTS The Question Is Did Farage Lie About His Bigoted School Days?
YouTube video by Political CUSTARD
youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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as Phillips O'Brien also points out, this plan has been in negotiation for a long time, probably since Trump took office.

open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The Long Con Comes To An End
The Trump Administration Takes Off The Mask (Again)
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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A couple more from me/most of us:

Do you deny, Farage, that Putin has been delighted with the Brexit result and ongoing damage to British and European interests?
What are your thoughts on these comments from Russia’s ambassador to the UK?

bsky.app/profile/13sa...
Russia's ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, boasted about Brexit to another diplomat:
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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The full film & piece is here.

Do the voters of Clacton think it’s okay for politicians to accept bribes from Russian spies?

www.thenerve.news/p/john-sween...
An absent MP? A Russian traitor in Reform? When I go to Clacton, nobody seems to care
On the trail of the elusive Nigel Farage, John Sweeney visits his impoverished constituency – where even the prospect of Putin undermining British politics doesn’t raise many eyebrows
www.thenerve.news
November 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Maybe it wasn’t really about Zelensky’s suit after all? 🤨
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The governing of the UK has been like an electrical fire. Labour are currently going through all the different extinguishers to put it out and making some errors along the way. Voting Reform UK would be like pissing on it to put it out. It will end up fatal for all #Politics #ReformUK #Labour
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Can people not see beyond the end of their noses?! This man is single handedly tearing the country apart piece by piece and people still support him! Its unreal.
UK trade deal with US may turn out to be a huge mistake
November 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Government funding bill cuts food safety regulations. See the provisions for yourself www.snopes.com/fact-check/g...
Government funding bill cuts food safety regulations. See the provisions for yourself
The bill prohibited the FDA from enforcing regulations aimed at increasing traceability of the supply chain, among other rules.
www.snopes.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM