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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23h

Aren’t they all repulsive… These corrupt, evil, traitorous men… Farage is particularly pathetic, in his little cap, selling us out to his monstrous sugar-daddy.

Photo of Trump and Putin shaking hands on their deal…

EUROPE
Zelensky furious after Trump announces deal to buy diesel deal from Putin

Trump and Farage grinning to camera. Farage wearing a Trump baseball cap. Loser.

Nigel Farage jets off to meet Donald Trump and 'talk down
Britain' over dinner
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Exactly what “standards” are those, Robert? You collude with pornographers over property deals. You take dodgy donations. You whore for racists and christofascists for personal gain. You betray your political allies, friends and your country to sniff at power. You have no standards. You’re poison.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection

Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘Culturally British by my standards’ is one of the most chilling phrases uttered in British politics. Entirely unsurprising to me who it’s from.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And *still* Trump chunters on about how he’s owed the Nobel Peace Prize. The whole regime just reeks of rottenness. Pure evil. Demented. Repulsive. Unbearable to be an American right now.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“There’s nothing so powerful in 🇬🇧politics as the rightwing unreality machine... It’s a place where Brexit will be cost free, Ed Miliband is a Marxist, Liz Truss was a serious political figure”…and Badenoch is shielded from her own X-fuelled mediocrity. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-strang...

goodallandgoodluck.substack.com

The Strange Myth of Kemi Badenoch

Why does she have the best press in politics?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The vested rightwing self-interest is becoming very shrill now. Still not enough for some voters to dump their tribe for betraying the country and letting us all down so disgracefully.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

‘Keminaissance’ is pure wishful thinking on the part of a rightwing media that furiously peddled pro-Farage propaganda until it became embarrassingly obvious that he was a raging liability and they needed to go back to the Tories as their weapon of choice.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Times has published her fag packet numbers as if this is a credible and serious proposition… all paid for by cutting welfare and the civil service apparently… with money left over to pay off debt. As fucking if…

The Tories used Badenoch's speech to set out their plans to cut £7lbn from public spending by 2030. This included £36bn of welfare cuts and £6bn in reductions to Whitehall departmental spending. The party said this would pay for all the tax cuts and spending commitments made so far by Badenoch, as well as an extra £35.5bn that would go towards reducing the UK's debt pile.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No. Just lazy and uncritical reporting designed to grab attention but not to accurately inform.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?

THE TIMES

Thursday October 8 2026 | thetimes.com | No 75158

Tories will make you better off
Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and abolish Labour's levy on properties worth more than £2m

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From the new Private Eye

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is *her* idea. Not even the most basic understanding of what she is doing. A supposed ‘engineer’. Embarrassed for anyone who thinks this is leadership material.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Seriously… how can a party that insists on scrapping all progress with the EU, binning NetZero and leaving the ECHR, so that it can abuse its power without accountability… how can that party claim “the soul of the nation”. The ruin - maybe. The soul - definitely not.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.

THE
TIMES
Wednesday October 7 2026

Badenoch promises tax cuts in 'battle for the soul of this nation'

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is absolutely what’s going on with Badenoch’s polling improvement. She is very much not getting any better or any more popular or electable. There is no (shoot-me-now) ‘Keminaissance’. It’s just that Farage has got even worse. And rightwing money needs a horse to back…

I can see only one major reason for this.
Various media owners, secretive sponsors of tax-averse "think tanks" and climate change-denying plutocrats, who seem determined to see normal service resumed in Downing Street as soon as possible, are having serious doubts about Nigel Farage's electability, and Badenoch remains their only other option.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I mean… How stupid and hypocritical are these people? Is it even possible to measure? Pochin seems to manage to plumb Mariana Trench type depths…

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch on Kemi Badenoch: “I never make gaffes or need to apologize or clarify my statements, as I think carefully about what I say.” Kemi Badenoch on her ‘Britannia Shield’ ‘plan’….

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And the utter shamelessness of The Times for relentlessly peddling Tory positions unchallenged. No matter what lies they tell, what damage they do. You can’t really call yourself a journalist at all - or a broadsheet of record - if you do that.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Genuinely a buffet of shit. With Badenoch insisting she’s nailed it. Insultingly dim and disrespectful.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Voters loathed the Tory party when they booted them out in 2024.They really needed to shake off their disgrace with humility and better ideas. They haven’t. They’ve doubled down. More Brexit, more austerity, more anti-immigration ugliness, more tedious arrogance… and no good reason to vote for them.

Party seems to have learnt nothing from 2024 defeat
John Oxley

The Conservative Party is keen to show it is now ready to return to government, two and a half years after a
historic defeat.

Their self-soothing explanation posits that defeat came from not being able to do what they wanted

No such pivot is happening at the current conference. The Tories have come to Birmingham calling for a return to orthodoxy, with similar lines about cutting benefits and regulation. Even so, they seem trapped by the same contradictions
- pledging to cut benefits, but not the winter fuel payments and triple lock on pensions that go to their voters.
There is no "hug-a-hoodie" moment in Birmingham. The Conservative Party is not indicating that it has changed or seeking to broaden its appeal. It is doing the opposite: it is a party returning to its core, restating all the old ideas voters have rejected but louder.

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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch’s whole shtick is slash and burn, which is red meat for the Westminster-brained, but for the wider electorate… what actually is her vision for what emerges from the ashes? What sort of country does she want us to become? Seemingly just one that’s punitive, uncaring and nasty?

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes. Just wish these people were given a harder time… they’re responsible for such damage and they talk like they deserve to be in power. They need to be told to get over themselves. Amongst other things…

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You have to identify them before you can reap them, Tory MP… so, we’ve got plenty of time… whenever you’re ready…

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Brexit has been a Tory masterclass in ideological madness. It’s widely accepted by the country as a barrelling shitshow but *still* their entitled little reps strut about insisting we can’t be allowed to vote on it again. Who TF does this person think she is? And why TF should she decide anything?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Except it’s not a unique selling point. Farage and Reform/Restore threaten to leave the ECHR too. It’s the default position of far right populists who’d betray us all in a heartbeat (who have already betrayed us all)… It’s symbolic of their toxic corruption and incompetence.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This intensely stupid right wing idea is an extension of Brexit ignorance and prejudice. It represents the failure of our politics and our media to act in our best interests and to inform voters properly. Brexit is more than enough idiocy. Leaving the ECHR shouldn’t even be on the radar.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“A party the country still regards as toxic is determined to double down on its toxicity.” The Tories: so tedious in their relentless idiocy. Another, great cathartic piece… (loved Philp’s new name too…)

To illustrate her point, Kemi proudly drew Laura's attention to her rather desperate pamphlet The Right Way, which the Tories have published as their new credo. Six principles of Conservatism to get them through the bad times. To remind them they are right even when the country thinks they are unelectable. Kemi's Kemistry, as she hopes we will call it. The first rule is that Kemi never makes mistakes. Asked to name anything she has changed her mind about, she comes up with nothing. The laws of physics will change long before Kemi. She wants us to think of The Right Way as her foundational document that will be spoken of in hushed tones for decades to come. It will be lucky to survive
until tomorrow.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)

Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.

As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well, they would be if they were an electable party but they’re not. So a policy of continuing to work on improving our relationship and terms with the EU seems like a far better plan than refusing to have that conversation in case the Daily Mail loses its shit.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Burn the barrel and whatever dregs are in it and start over… nothing from the current Tory party is worth saving.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He did that bit himself… it’s all in the photo…

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Tory party has killed itself with Brexit. It’s lost its mind chasing Farage into the gutter, saying unserious things, promoting unserious people who stand around in suits, arms folded, talking utter dribble to get a headline. It’s pathetic. We deserve a better opposition. This lot are shite.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The business lobby has spent years pushing govt to negotiate better trading conditions for goods… no way there’d be actual appetite to rip that up and have everyone up in arms about the cost and red tape that would then hammer us…

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Imagine being photographed in your suit, with your arms folded, all self-important and determined, but saying something as stupid as that… dear god, they’ve no idea how insane and unpleasant they seem.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…

Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A “white” man… I wonder what Pochin’s response would have been if a brown man had done this… proper conflict of interest for her then…

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh I have… makes all the difference! But yes, given our track record on shooting ourselves in the face, we’re all nervous of what the next stupidity might be… All we can do is keep making the case.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The one I’ve just given should be persuasive though… given… well… the state of the world…

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We do… but we’ve already learned a lot… (those who’ve refused to are the minority)… and it’s not just about us being better off, it’s about how much better it is to be part of a team that has genuine influence in the world, rather than twatting about on our own in our little sovereignty cul de sac.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We do… but we also need to head into talks with a ‘can do’ mindset, not this constant ‘oh we can’t have that’ ‘that won’t happen’ ‘this will help Farage’ shite… How can we possibly know what it would all look like and whether people will be persuaded along the way until it starts to actually happen?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are many challenges; a different UK&EU to 2016, a rogue US, 🇫🇷elections, the demands that could be made of us, our own fear of Brexit wars, Farage weakening our negotiating position BUT… At least Burnham “has created the political space to have a conversation” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

giftarticle.ft.com

Does the EU want Britain back?

Burnham has reopened the Brexit debate. That doesn’t mean the UK will be welcomed back on its own terms

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also… as her book is called ‘patriot’, maybe that’s an easier thing to define. I’d say it’s not getting sacked from high office twice, not endangering our police by whipping up sustained far-right attacks on them and not being part of a political party that will only ever damage our country.

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