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Ashley Gillies

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Good year, Hair down, Socks up, Foot down. Numquam in navigio lascivior

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North East for Europe @ne4eu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Can Farage really sell us Brexit—again? 🤔 A Sunderland Echo 📰 letter says it won't work twice. Leave voters feel betrayed by broken promises. 1 in 4 already back #RejoinEU. Isn't it time for Britain to bounce back? 🇬🇧🇪🇺👇 #UKPolitics #Sunderland #ReformUK
A scanned clipping of a published letter to the editor in the Sunderland Echo on Friday, October 9, 2026, headlined "Farage blaming someone else".
The letter criticizes Nigel Farage for claiming Andy Burnham made a mistake by exploring closer European ties, and for blaming others for Brexit's failures despite championing the policy for decades. It notes that Leave voters understandably feel betrayed, pointing out that one in four now back returning to the EU, meaning "the spell is broken".
The author highlights the fantasy promises made a decade ago—such as £350 million a week for the NHS—and questions why Farage feels entitled to a second chance when he only offers a continued slide into an isolated country. A pull quote reads: "Farage campaigned for Brexit for decades before the Conservative Party adopted his signature policy."
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 2h
625 New Cosy Crime Novels for Autumn! (My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com)
Title: 625 new cosy crime novels for autumn! (pick one option from each column) 

Column 1: (one option) The.

Column 2: (five options) Chipping-Sodbury, Bishop's Stortford, Kirkby Stephen, Saffron Walden, Melton Mowbray. 

Column 3: (five options) Retired Librarians', Parish Council,Lawn Bowlers', Pub Regulars', Women's Institute.

Column 4: (five options) Murder, Burglary, Littering, Bigamy, Poisoning. 

Column 5: (five options) Investigation Society, Revenge Guild, Detection League, Punishment Club, Inspection Unit.
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Ashley Gillies @ashleygillies.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Heathrow’s third runway is a bottomless money pit. Stop it now | Simon Jenkins
It won’t promote growth, will take decades and will swallow up billions of taxpayers’ money, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing
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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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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The person responsible for carrying out the totally independent investigation into Reform and clearing the party of all wrongdoing has been identified.
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Political X @politicalx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🚨 Anyone else surprised? Reform UK has investigated Reform UK over the foreign-donations controversy. And Reform UK has cleared Reform UK. It’s like a burglar investigating his own burglary and announcing there’s nothing to see. 👇
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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Helen Whateley: Kemi (Badenoch) has published an essay called The Right Way, really thinking about what's gone wrong with the country" This image as we died in our droves is forged in my mind.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Suspended sentence for man found to have a collection of more than 114,000 indecent images of children. Tommy Robinson and co are going to be all over this. They'll be SO angry... Just you wait... Any second now... ...
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm planning a new career as a "fitness influencer" (which is what I believe they're called). Link to my YouTube channel in next post......
EXERCISE FOR PEOPLE OVER 60

Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side.

With a 5-lb potato bag in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, and then relax.

Each day you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer.

After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato bags. Then try 50-lb potato bags and eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb potato bag in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level).

After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag.
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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Ashley Gillies @ashleygillies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
History is written by the victors. Thatcher broke the power of trade unions by mass unemployment, industrial restructuring, frittered away N Sea Oil, laid the foundations for the current housing crisis, decimated local bus services, hollowed out local government and introduced the poll tax.
Simon Clarke 

Andy Burnham seems to remember a different 1970s to the rest of us. Britain in 1979 was utterly broken - ravaged by unaccountable trade union power, economically stagnant, the sick man of Europe.
The 1980s saw a remarkable national recovery based on free enterprise, the rule of law and championing Western values. And it is this that our Prime Minister rails against...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.
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Ashley Gillies @ashleygillies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Building of the Pep supremacy is an era that will be defined by sham-ball
Guardiola’s success at Manchester City was underpinned by financial cheating. Now he can only double down on his adherence to the owners
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 01/10/2026
Not in IMDB.
NIGEL
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Ashley Gillies @ashleygillies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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I heard one thing loud and clear in Andy Burnham’s landmark speech: the left has won the arguments | Owen Jones
The PM’s stated trajectory is a rebuke to past Tory and Labour governments. The challenge now is to make his project progressive in word and deed, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Ashley Gillies @ashleygillies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Conference laps up Andy unplugged as he offers chance to take road less travelled | John Crace
Nothing was off the table and by the end no one could be in any doubt about what Burnham believed
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... More proof that Farage and his henchmen Tice & Jenrick are spreading disinformation on an unprecedented scale. Not only that, they are doing so for truly evil purposes. IMO this amounts to Misconduct in a Public Office and all three should be prosecuted for that.
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Nandy labels Farage ‘master of conspiracy theory’ over Fairford claims
Culture secretary criticises Reform leader after he tried to link suspected bomb plot to small boat crossings
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Dean Craddock @dean5150.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Exactly.
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kaybell27.bsky.social @kaybell27.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nearly 35% of workers in the care sector are migrant workers, my own mother is dependent upon them, nearly 50% in her case. The right continue the lie they can be replaced, they won't be.
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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I said they were Iranians arriving in small boats, I meant British nationals living in London.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When put like that, a lot of the world makes more sense
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
via Lawrence Maloy
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Ashley Gillies @ashleygillies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Of course you can be English if you’re not white. So why can’t the right leave the question alone? | Jason Okundaye
Even Jacob Rees-Mogg pushes back on defining Englishness in exclusively ethnic terms. But the endurance of this discourse is still deeply troubling, says assistant Opinion editor Jason Okundaye
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Chris 🤍💛💙 @chrisb64.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Let the French courts try him. Serve him right to get banged up with all those 'forriners'. #Racist***t
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Be interested to see how Daniel would feel someone popping his tyres as he drove down the motorway . What a complete and utter bastard I hope he’s prosecuted for attempted manslaughter
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
With big thanks to @doctorofmusic.bsky.social, here's my discussion today with Lord Jackson about North Sea oil and gas. Tape your jaw to your face before watching. Really.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 23/09/2026
Happy to have stimulated such attention to this issue..:) news.sky.com/story/rumour...
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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why is Farage so triggered by the UK taking defence measures against Russian misinformation? 🤔🤔🤔
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Are we calling them the "Nonce Bonnettes', now then?
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh, Viz.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jim Ratcliffe and James Dyson - plenty of representation with bugger all taxation.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
His brain is completely broken. What the actual fuck is this nonsense
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/09/2026
YouGov’s latest poll: 628 out of 632 constituencies in Britain want to rejoin the EU. It couldn’t be clearer: It’s time to talk about EU membership. Read more: bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-mo…
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Funny how nobody ever talks about the “legitimate concerns” people have about the extreme concentration of wealth among a small number of billionaires.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Everytime with these kind of people. BBC News - Billionaire Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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