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Andrew Osbaldestin

@ahosbaldestin.bsky.social
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Mathematics Professor. Husband. Father. Mancunian exile in the South. Politics: the left has to be flawless whilst the right can be lawless.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 14h
There wasn't a social care crisis when local authorities provided the service free of charge. Then Thatcher privatised it and private equity bosses started charging £8000 a month.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absofreakinlutely 💯% True......
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Bob Patin @bobpatin.com · 24/09/2026
TV ads for online gambling sites should be permanently banned.
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
With all that’s going on in Ukraine, Gaza, West Bank, Hormuz, Iran etc….etc, this is the bbc HEADLINE News : 🇬🇧 Stuck up, entitled toff, calls another stuck up, entitled toff, an absolute prick 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Billionaires don't use the money they save on taxes to create jobs. That's another myth. They use it to buy back stock, get bigger corporate jets, and build grander yachts.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“In a meeting over oysters and wine in his Clacton constituency, Mr Farage… said the polling was “amazing” and provided “bang for buck” adding “It worked. Boom.” Corrupt polling. Corrupt funding. Nigel Farage - prison James Orr - prison Dan Jukes - prison channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Channel 4 investigation into secret foreign funding of polling for Reform is explosive. JL Partners are cooked IMO. The Times and Telegraph will be livid with Reform over it. And Farage will almost certainly face police, Standards and/or EC investigations over it. youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?...
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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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martindvz.bsky.social @martindvz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Reform UK is funded by Russia, Restore bought and paid for by an American trillionaire, GB News owned by a hedge fund in Dubai. Daily Mail registered in Bermuda.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I can't remember a clearer smoking gun than that Channel 4 News footage. Nigel Farage and his senior aides all filmed discussing apparent plans to break the law by funnelling foreign money into British politics, plans which at least partly went ahead. A criminal investigation surely must follow
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's explosive. It's also completely predictable. To see Reform say on camera that Electoral Commission is useless and toothless wasn't shocking... it's plain to see.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Private equity owns 11 of England’s 20 biggest children’s care providers. Companies loaded with debt. Profiteering, high prices, profit shifting, tax abuse is rife. Paid £205m to shareholders/investors, leaving less for front line services. Public purse robbed. Must end privatisation
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Private equity owns 11 of England’s 20 biggest children’s care providers, research finds
Investigation comes amid growing calls for an end to ‘obscene’ profit-making in care sector
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.
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Wout @thehashtagonist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I can’t wait for the timeline where we treat sports & online gambling the way we treat smoking now. You can do whatever you want, but we won’t have to watch 18 commercial per hour for it
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Andrew Osbaldestin @ahosbaldestin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In a nutshell:
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Electricity in the UK isn't expensive because of net zero. Electricity in the UK is expensive because privatised energy companies are ripping us off.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Crime, poverty, deprivation have all to do with - funding withdrawn from youth clubs/leaders, playing fields sold, free leisure centres turned private - lack of council house building, rise in 3 zero contract jobs to get buy - huge increase in profiteering millionaires It was never about immigration
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Reform UK: 'We must look after our own first - unless you need looking after'
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Marina Purkiss, "188 articles on this man, Jason Arday, who was not a public figure, over 9 days" "It was a blood sport for The Telegraph, The Times, The Spectator" "They have blood on their hands for this man"
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The UK is having a COBRA meeting on Climate Change this afternoon, here is what they should do. 1. Nationalise Water, building Reservoirs has to be number 1 priority to counter the devastating and now unavoidable effects of Climate Change. 2. Nationalise Energy, renewable energy is the solution
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The hypocrisy of Farage pretending nostalgia for a time when state-ownership of public utilities was the norm and the very rich faced personal tax of 90%, corporation tax of over 45% all of which he abhors
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
#Clacton, take out the trash on the 13th August.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The face of a man trying to defend the idea that The Establishment somehow doesn’t include a privately educated multi-millionaire who was handed the family property business or the aristocratic family who gave him even more money.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Brett Coughlin @coughlinbrett.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Kylian Mbappé #WorldCup
Kylian Mbappé speaking about the destructive nature of sports gambling.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
So it turns out the massive scandal here is that Bridget Phillipson's mum bought a council house for £9k in 1990 and then sold it *33 years* later for £99k. That's the entire story
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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 19/06/2026
Well, h/t to @iandunt.bsky.social for making me spit my cornflakes in my coffee:
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Absolute chancers. Nationalise water. Now. And keep it in public hands forever.
Thames water told the BBC we remain of the view that w market led solution is the best way to secure the long term stability needed to continue improving performance and advancing our turnaround plan for the benefit of customers, the environment and our stakeholders
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Tomorrow’s Independent front page:
The
INDEPENDENT
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The Way Bac
Their promises of more jobs, more trade, more power for Britain have proved a con, Michael Heseltine writes as the Brexit vote 10th anniversary approaches. Never have so few done so much damage to so many with so little ability to execute what they lied about. Their scandalously false prospectus has turned to dust and ashes. Naturally, they blame everyone but themselves.
They are the guilty men and should...
...hang their heads in shame
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Ken Bardsley @kenbar.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
There is a strange hypocrisy abroad in the UK. FINALLY we get a really excellent PM, and people are brainwashed into thinking they want something like the 5 previous w******s
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God @thegodshow.com · 06/06/2026
Never forget the liars who told you and told you that Democratic Socialism would never work. The people that brought you Trump’s pedocracy did everything they could to stop Mamdani.
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no one @gregory-c-leavitt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
i’m old enough to remember when comic book supervillains were fictional
The hatemonger gives a speech and (sue storm?) reacts 

WE MUST DRIVE ALL THE FOREIGNERS BACK WHERE THEY CAME FROM! WE MUST SHOW NO MERCY TO THOSE WE HATE!

REED, IT'S UNBELIEVABLE!
HE SEEMS TO HAVE THE CROWD IN A TRANCE!
THEY-THEY'RE ACTUALLY AGREEING WITH HIS UNAMERICAN SENTIMENTS!
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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Simon Jenkins revising his view of Brexit...from success to abject failure
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/06/2026
Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The corruption we have seen from Farage & Reform is just the tip of the iceberg. #NeverVoteReform
The corruption we have seen from Farage & Reform is just the tip of the iceberg.
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Another day, another List of great announcements by the Labour Party deliberately buried by your preferred media outlet. Not mentioned from BBC through to GB News or The Daily Fail through to FT. Please share far and wide #DoingTheMediasJob #FixingBritain #LabourAchievements
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Government busy making announcements, 11 in just 2 days. Many new projects with Poland, international initiatives around VAWG and food prices down alongside savings for motorists. Starmer’s Gov is delivering!! #DoingTheMediasJob #FixingBritain #LabourAchievements
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
'Odd' to think that fewer private schools closed in the year that VAT was announced than in each of the previous 4 years under the Tories. And that more new private schools were added than in each of the previous 4 years under the Tories. Despite the right wing fury. www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Afternoon.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Sunny Marvel @sunnymarvel.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Brexit was a scam sold to you by the Billionaire Media. Boris Johnson was a scam sold to you by the Billionaire Media. Reform is a scam being sold to you by the Billionaire Media. If they are selling, DONT BUY.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Reform is a protest party. A protest against decency, integrity, kindness, expertise, and progress. It's a party of pettiness and hate, and it is made up of petty and hateful people from the grassroots to the very top. What it doesn't have is competence. So good luck with the bins and potholes.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Small boat crossings down 42% NHS waiting lists at lowest level in 3 years Government borrowing at a 3-year low Unemployment falling UK back as the world’s 5th largest economy (IMF) While Reform shouts at cricket bats, Labour is quietly fixing the country www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/whil...
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While Reform shout at cricket bats, Labour is quietly fixing the country
As the UK heads to the polls, real progress is being overshadowed by media fixation on Reform’s manufactured outrage.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Labour has already delivered more manifesto pledges than Reform UK has total policies www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/lab...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Good riddance to hereditary peers. This country remains in thrall to aristocracy and inherited privilege, and it's an absolute cancer. "Birth right" bollocks should not afford anyone a higher status than others in 2026. Ludicrous crap.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The big divide in Britain today is between working people and the privately educated, rich, greedy, tax-dodging, selfish, grifting gobshites who try to manipulate working people by pretending to give a shit about them.
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