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Alan O

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It's just me and I'm looking forward to some interesting content and debate. I'm also a lefty socialist so let's all try and get along for the greater good of humanity and the planet. ✌️ 🇪🇺

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
France is our closest ally. Isabel Oakeshott is ridiculous. Two facts you will never read on the pages of the Telegraph.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
In an indemnity deal with The Sunday Times dated 17 November in which she handed over a dossier to the Murdoch Sunday paper, Oakeshott said: “I am in no doubt Banks and Wigmore have been acting as agents of influence for the Russian state”. bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...
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Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It
Peter Jukes tracks Vladimir Putin’s long war against the West and the allies he has found in the pro-Brexit establishment in the plot to derail Britain
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Since becoming an MP, Nigel Farage has managed to fit in nine trips to the US, has held down twelve jobs, which earned him nearly £1million, but has been too busy to hold any surgeries for people in Clacton who actually voted for him.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 02/06/2025
"I wouldn't trust you if you said the Sun was going to shine tomorrow." "If Reform said it would, I'd trust them." Caller John explains the depth of his trust in Nigel Farage to @lewisgoodall.com.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Ukraine has never targeted a refugee camp, it has never targeted civilian hospitals or schools, it has never systematically raped captured enemy combatants, it has never destroyed a US naval ship, it has never targeted journalists or aid workers with airstrikes. Ukraine is based.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Failed pandemic-era PPE contracts cost the British taxpayer £1.4billion. The Covid counter-fraud commissioner uncovered the figure in the first phase of his probe into wasteful Tory spending during the pandemic www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Full cost of failed pandemic- PPE finally revealed after major fraud probe
The Covid counter-fraud commissioner uncovered the £1.4billion figure in the first phase of his investigation into wasteful Tory spending during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Your occasional reminder that in two years' time, Nigel Farage will be taking his gold plated £73,000 annual EU pension.
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The Paul of the House of Usher @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
“The British public, on both the left and the right, has almost no grasp of what we will lose if we let the BBC go.” The left know what we’ll lose: an institution responsible for facilitating the rise of Boris Johnson & Nigel Farage, and lending think tanks like the IEA unwarranted legitimacy
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
It’s really time in British politics we had a discussion about how political elites remaining on X are being exposed to increasingly extreme/fringe views but are completely unaware of it.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Or otherwise known as Tory fare evasion. #honestbobjenrick
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 30/05/2025
The myth of ‘capital flight’ just doesn’t hold up – the wealthy aren’t leaving, they rely on everything the UK provides: stability, infrastructure, a skilled workforce. 1/2
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Today proscetors have confrimed 21 charges against 'Andrew and Tristan Tate, including rape, actual bodily harm and human trafficking.' 'Is it time for parliament to question Nigel Farage over his relationship with Tate?'
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Farage and Tate: a similar phenomenon?
Should Nigel Farage face questions in parliament over his relationship with Andrew Tate?
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Daily Mail @dailymail.co.uk · 30/05/2025
America's biggest airport on alert as three passengers struck by world's most infectious disease www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...
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Urgent warning as major US airport is hit by most infectious disease
Health officials are sounding the alarm at a US-based airport after the world's most infectious disease was detected in three passengers who traveled through there.
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Colin Oreilly @colin0reilly.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Seems pointless living and working in a corrupt evil country where none of us have any chance of owning a home or improving financially. 🤷 America’s government is corrupt evil garbage and I hope that God or UFOs destroy it. 🤞 👽 🔥 🗑️
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Gary Gilligan @garygilligan.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I just saw and fact checked an interesting claim. Robert Jenrick posted a video where vigilante style he confronts a fare dodger on the Tube, and claims that Khan's London is the Wild West. Actually, the crime rate in his constituency is higher than London. Go to Newark, Jenrickman...
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
On the one hand, such mockery is well earned. On the other, it could very well drive him completely insane, and he still controls the nuclear button.
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No To Racism @notoracism.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has urged the government to strike a deeper trade deal with the European Union to improve growth and “minimize negative effects” of Brexit www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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BOE’s Bailey Urges Closer EU Trade to Reverse Brexit Damage
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has urged the government to strike a deeper trade deal with the European Union to improve growth and “minimize negative effects” of Brexit.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
President Trump continues to flood our country with criminals by pardoning 9 GOP Congressmen convicted of crimes!!!
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Germany is finally ready to face Putin
Three years, three months and two days ago, Olaf Scholz declared that Germany would undergo a historic “Zeitenwende” – or “changing of the times”, pivoting its attitude towards Russia and its own defe...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Ursula von der Leyen, "The diary of Anne Frank." "A painful reminder to Europe to be vigilant and unyielding towards all those who see hatred and want to divide our society" "Europe knows this path all too well. And never, never again must we embark on this path"
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Whoever made this deserves a medal.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Heathrow CEO slept through emergency notification calls and “several” phone calls after a fire and power outage stranded 200,000 passengers. Bound to get his usual bonus. And neoliberals will tell us that private sector is highly efficient, as in water, steel, energy, banks ... and other sectors.
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Heathrow boss sorry for sleeping through outage with phone on silent
Thomas Woldbye missed emergency notifications and phone calls after nearby fire led to airport being shut down
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 28/05/2025
Russia has gathered 50,000 troops, including some of its most battle-hardened forces, on Ukraine’s northern border for an imminent offensive, President Zelensky has warned. www.thetimes.com/world/russ...
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Nigel Farage wants attention for *saying* he’d scrap the 2-child benefit cap. But in the vote against it, did he show up? No. Zero Reform MPs voted against the cap in July. Green MPs put it in our costed manifesto, signed the motion, and voted to scrap it. Actions not words.
Screenshot of an amendment to the King's Speech, voted on 23 July 2024. The Amendment is to abolish the two-child benefit cap and is signed by all four Green MPs.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Going to keep saying it - the Farage effect is largely an illusion. Many, many more people loathe him than like him.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Was asked how things are in the UK right now. I reckon we’re in three zones. Swimmingly as always for those at the top. Just about barely tolerable for many. And really rather difficult actually for a large and ever growing number.
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Sarah O’Connell @sarahoconnellshow.com · 25/05/2025
Shift the balance of power. Don’t buy their cars. Don’t watch their movies. Don’t read their books. Don’t buy their merch. Don’t invest in their crypto. Don’t use their social media. Don’t visit their theme parks. Don’t dress as their characters. Don’t wear their hats. Don’t spread their propaganda.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Trump has declared that he will add a 50% tariff on Europe on June 1st. The US heavily relies on an export economy and Europe is its biggest customer. This new move is part of an ongoing pattern of market manipulation and stock pump & dump by the Trump regime and its collaborators.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
More Russian sites were taken down and/or compromised by Anonymous overnight, no details if useful info was extracted yet. Everyday is a new opportunity for Kremlin bonking.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Andrew Neil admits that he slept for over three years while Boris Johnson was in government.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
If it was a “personal” and not a “presidential” meeting, why the presidential seal?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Thames Water halts bosses' bonus scheme. For how long? They will extract cash through intragroup transactions, pay execs. Refund customers: Companies fleeced customers with promises of investment, proper disposal of sewage. Instead paid dividends. Nationalise water. Let customers vote on exec pay
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Thames Water halts bosses' bonus scheme
The company pauses its
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
“Child poverty is the biggest cause of social division in Britain today, a scar on our national conscience, and a stain on the soul of the country” Gordon Brown www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
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Child poverty is a scar on our national conscience
A Labour government has taken millions of children out of poverty before. It can do so again.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Less than 30% of the richest 1% pay any Income Tax at all. Instead of jobs they are all Landlords, Stock Traders and Billionaires. Most of them pay less than 20% tax, with 25% using Tax Havens to not pay any at all. The rich do not pay tax, they need to be made to.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 22/05/2025
52% voted for Brexit. "It's the will of the people!" - Farage. But 60% of Brits now want a closer relationship with Europe. Times and attitudes have changed. So should our relationship with Europe. The only people standing in opposition to the "will of the people" today are the Tories & Reform.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Two types of people are upset about the Chagos Islands: -Tories, who have forgotten they started the handover process -right wing gobshites who are somehow furious about a place they didn't know existed a few months ago
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 22/05/2025
Gordon Brown: “Child poverty is the biggest cause of social division in Britain today, a scar on our national conscience, and a stain on the soul of the country.”
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Child poverty is a scar on our national conscience
A Labour government has taken millions of children out of poverty before. It can do so again.
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