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Phil Gillespie

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Eternal optimist. Potential lottery winner. Brexit hater. Powered by Yorkshire Tea.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In case you missed it ... Here's a lovely short film about the wonders of EU Freedom of Movement — meaning the freedom to love, live, study, sell, work and retire across 30+ countries in the EU and Single Market 😊 #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Phil Gillespie @196t7.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Excellent work from Byline Times here.
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Phil Gillespie @196t7.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Whats is this crap. This is not news, its sheer fantasy. Come on #BBCNews, stop chasing sensationalism and do some real journalism.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I love and respect this scientist. Carl Sagan answers a question about creation vs evolution.
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Phil Gillespie @196t7.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Well done #Bulgaria #Eurovision
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Phil Gillespie @196t7.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. We can't let them. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division. goodlawproject.org/s/4ca10b
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Misan Harriman Handraiser | Good Law Project
Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This story needs way more attention. Farage and his acolytes have repeatedly claimed his home was "firebombed", to justify the £5m secret donation given to the Reform leader by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne But the police report of the incident is a burglary. There's no record of arson
observer.co.uk
Questions raised about ‘security risk’ to Farage in row o...
The claimed reason for Christopher Harborne’s unprecedented and undeclared donation to the Reform leader is facing scrutiny
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This is absolutely vile and disgraceful. As a country we are so much better than this. Whatever you decide on 7 May JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Labour's latest Party Election Broadcast cannot be shown in full on TV. But we think you should see it anyway - uncensored. youtu.be/to4z3CbkhuI?...
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Labour’s UNCENSORED Broadcast: what Reform didn’t want you to see
YouTube video by Labour Party
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Used to be (((SKZCartoons))) @skzcartoons.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I'm so sorry to do this but it's so accurate youtu.be/qYVp3ieHtRE?...
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Yerp - Harry Enfield
YouTube video by TheMrF1000
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU. Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Yes is winning on 58%
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Finnish President Alexander Stubb says Brexit was a “colossal mistake” “It’s like amputating your leg without medical reason for doing it”
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Phil Gillespie @196t7.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Buy stuff from us but we're going to change the price even if we've confirmed your order . . .
Notice from a distributors website saying - 

Transparency regarding the current market situation

Due to the ongoing tense supply situation in the IT market, we have already expanded our stock levels early and continuously to ensure the most stable supply possible. In individual cases, however, it may still happen that our suppliers adjust prices at short notice - even for offers that have already been firmly confirmed and accepted, provided the goods have not yet been delivered. We will, of course, inform you immediately of any such changes. Should you disagree with a price adjustment, you may cancel your order. For any questions or to jointly review possible alternatives, please feel free to contact our sales team at any time.
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Joe Giddings @joegiddings.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’
Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
They claim they’re putting personal ambition aside and defecting to Reform to help fix the country. To stop that pisstaking farce, they should be made to hold by-elections in their constituencies and let the voters decide if that’s ok with them. Please sign. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Wow, sound familiar?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion. So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
A former Plaid Cymru Chief Executive
is now being paid £190k a year as the
BBC's Nations Director.


This is living proof that the BBC is
infected with left-wing bias right to the
top-
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Life-saving idea! Pass it on!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The far right will never fix anything. Ever. We shouldn’t need to learn that lesson again. “It’s not that the remedies offered by Farage, Rupert Lowe, various fascists and some Conservatives are cruel and morally shameful, which they are, but that they are impractical and costly” (Independent)
Labour's slow, sure
progress is an easy target for Farage
Home secretary Yvette Cooper's hard graft on the small boat crisis has to be seen to be working (AFP/Getty)
SEAN O'GRADY

Maybe everyone can agree on one thing: if stopping the boats was easy, it would have been done by now. Whether the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, ever deluded herself otherwise, a year of only limited progress in the government's mission to "smash the gangs" must have brought home to her just how intractable irregular migration is.Just the same as Brexit, in fact, when he also made extravagant claims about how it would solve our economic problems, and then blamed everyone else when it left the nation impoverished. Now he's blaming the migrants rather than Brussels, and his policies - little more than slogans - should be treated with extreme caution.
Leaving the ECHR, for example - which he used to call "Brexit 2.0" before Brexit 1.0 turned out to be a flop - wouldn't change a thing over in Calais.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
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Phil Gillespie @196t7.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
My first Bob Mortimer read. Had to pace myself to make sure it lasted all week.
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Phil Gillespie @196t7.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Summer Solstice Sunrise and sunset on #BewlWater #TunbridgeWells
A group of paddleboarders on the water waiting as an orange sun rises from the horizon on the Summer Solstice at 4:45AM.The sun sets on Bewl Water as the cloud draws in on Bewl Water.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 18/06/2025
Reform gained control of some councils last month – cue the DOGE “efficiency auditors.” But they forget crucial steps and are manufacturing outrage. This is a meticulous, line-by-line takedown of their theatrics from The Bear. No noise. No spin. Just forensic finance.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Show your working: a challenge to Reform UK
Reform UK blames inefficiency for public failures, but real scrutiny starts with data, not Twitter outrage. Here's why...
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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Still waiting for Farage-mesmerised BBC to devote more than passing sentence to fact that Greens have more councillors than Reform and that Ed Davey's Lib Dems have all bit wiped out the Tories in their traditional shire heartlands....
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
'Don't you dare try to invest in our area or create jobs'. Just imagine this lot in charge of the country
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 07/03/2025
The Dutch with their usual subtle take on things 😂 youtu.be/ml9IFN8JzHY?...
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Dutch Public TV spoof on Zelensky's meeting with Trump and Vance
YouTube video by Democracy Action Network
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Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
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Ask your MP to attend my Water Bill debate
After years of bill hikes, shareholder pay-outs, and pollution, it couldn't be clearer that privatisation has created a crisis in our water system. We can't leave the future of this critical natio...
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Phil Gillespie @196t7.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It really saddens me to see the amount of litter not just in the streets but through the countryside too. www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
As the 5th anniversary of Brexit approaches, here's the chillingly methodical moment when the UK flag was removed from the EU Council building in Brussels. Since then, not a single Brexit promise has come true. #BrexitHasFailed
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Phil Gillespie @196t7.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Beautiful sunrise paddle at Bewl Water this morning #bewlwater #tunbridgewells #paddlecabin ##paddleboarding
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Hiding from the fireworks? Here's a few episodes with lots going on - to distract from the noise outside.
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More soothing sounds for fireworks season
Episodes to soothe disturbed ears and distract from firework noise.
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Phil Gillespie @196t7.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Is it a 'thing' to play radio adverts repetitively so not only do they annoy you but put you off the brand?
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
New video! 👀 GBNews has a brand new presenter to fill the gap in their anti-migrant coverage! His name is Matthew Goodwin & luckily enough he knows HOW TO STOP AN INVASION! Is this the solution at last? I looked into it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKI...
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GBNews’ new man SOLVES the small boats crisis
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
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Phil Gillespie @196t7.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Christmas guests gone, dust collectors put away (Xmas decorations and tree). Now it's me vs the Christmas Cake as Mrs G is now on a diet.
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WaheyStarRoyCo @waheystarroyco.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I lost this ring in the toilets in Bounce in Farringdon tonight. It’s hardly worth anything, but it’s a ring my dad gave my mum and it’s priceless to me now that he’s not here. It’s gold, with a diagonal band of green stones on it. If you find it can you please get it back to me
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
#Snow this morning in London with the sound of excited children in the distance. It was quite heavy for a while before it turned to sleet. Love how snow changes the sound of a place. Sound on!
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Phil Gillespie @196t7.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Very informative thread on rock salt 👇
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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Man who told The Times in 2021 that he’d only bought his £4.25m farm to avoid paying inheritance tax to lead protest against inheritance tax 😂🤣😂 www.thesun.co.uk/news/3179317...
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Clarkson defies docs to lead 20,000 farmers protesting against 'tractor tax'
JEREMY Clarkson will defy health fears to join up to 20,000 farmers protesting in Westminster over the hated “tractor tax”. The Clarkson’s Farm star, 64 — recovering after a life-saving heart op — …
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
In the late 90s & early 2000s we in the UK received (very roughly) 80,000 asylum applications per year. Mainly people escaping Balkan wars. Today in these “unprecedented” times of “invasion” by small boat… we receive pretty much the exact same numbers. Had you been taken in? I wouldn’t blame you.
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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This was the BANX cartoon in the FT the morning after Brexit. I wonder if Americans are getting the same feeling today?
The BANX cartoon in the FT shortly after Brexit. A couple who voted for Brexit view the damage all-round themand one says "I wish we hadn't done that now"
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Phil Gillespie @196t7.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Is it just me or have the #bots started on here too?
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Phil Gillespie @196t7.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Hopefully I've found a new local to drink in that's a nicer place instead of the old hate filled, junk advert, weirdo owned place.
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
To all new refugees from “X” Twitter. Here is my advice. Use the exact same avatar, banner photo and handle you had on Xitter, so that you’ll be more easily recognizable in order to regroup with your Twitter community. Also make at least 1 post so your profile doesn’t say “0 posts”. Do a quick intro
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
National Trust Members: Time to use the Quick Vote Option to block the usual shenanigans from Farage/ Tufton St “Restore Trust” You will find your membership number on your card or on an email from the National Trust sent to you in the last week or so. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
nationaltrust.org.uk
Annual General Meeting
Your Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place at 10am on Saturday 2 November 2024 at the Civic Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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