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Bob Medley

@bobmedley.eurosky.social
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Ret'd Civil Servant, serial Boxer dog rescuer, old enough to remember when reality mattered.

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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 20h
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 22h
Media bias at play certainly but also the growing regularity of such comments from Reform is having a normalising effect. What used to horrify is merely becoming their core message.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 23h
Expect they were all at home washing their balaclavas.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026
Choosing a course which necessitated the implementation of trade barriers with your closest and largest trading partner was a completely unnecessary act of self harm.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026
Choosing a course which necessitated the implementation of trade barriers with your closest and largest trading partner was a completely unnecessary act of self harm.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 19/10/2026
Another entirely predictable consequence of Trump's war of choice. Iranian hardliners say the time for nuclear weapons has come - www.ft.com/content/1f23... via @FT
ft.com
Iranian hardliners say the time for nuclear weapons has come
Killing of supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who prohibited atomic bombs, has prompted calls to weaponise enrichment programme
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026
It would only destroy their support if their supporters found those things distasteful.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
"When you've got a trillion dollars and prefer flying cars as opposed to solving global child hunger with your loose pocket change" via The UK Against Hate #BlameMilionairesNotMigrants #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/10/2026
Not bombshells. Entirely on brand “appalling behaviour” and “extreme racism” from an appalling, extreme and racist party, led by an appalling, extreme and racist man. The apples are all rotten because the tree is. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
The bombshells from the undercover sting operation which plunged Reform into crisis
The party has been accused of ‘appalling behaviour’ and ‘extreme racism’ following staggering revelations
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026
So, it's not that Boris was wrong... it's just that what has actually happened is the opposite of what he claimed would happen. And, by the way, Europe needs to sort it out.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026
And in addition Royal estates 'receive millions from public bodies and charities'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Royal estates 'receive millions from public bodies and charities'
The private estates of King Charles and Prince William have received millions of pounds from contracts with taxpayer-funded bodies, according to a new documentary.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026
Trump and Vance haven't adopted this highly unconventional line on Russia without reason. What we don't know is what deals have been done, what promises made, what leverage is being applied.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026
"... civil untrest" "... rioting" "... incredibly painful..." This doesn't sound like a way "to save our home" but rather a plan to completely destroy it.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026
The generation who lived through war knew only too well the dangers of right-wing extremism.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026
Alas, it's only likely to be 'weak donor connections' that'll prove to be any sort of real hindrance.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026
It was said that the queen thought the world smelled like paint. Because everywhere she went had just been repainted the previous day.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
This is nothing less than a battlefield intervention by the US in favour of Russia.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
I assume, rightly or wrongly, that tourists visit 'residences' to see the palaces rather than with the expectation of seeing a royal. In the same way that people visit Shakespear's birthplace or the Tower of London. www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/do-the-...
thelondoneconomic.com
Do the royals bring in more money than they cost?
We debate the age-old argument of whether the British royal family brings in more money than they cost. Watch here.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
Do tourists come to see the royals? How many actually get to see a member of the royal family?
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
Not.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
The slithering back to even vaguely positive or optimistic analyses of Trump’s second term after the abominations of January 6th cleared the way for today’s abject betrayal of the Ukrainian people. It’s astonishing how many public figures on both sides of the Atlantic are complicit in the crime.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
Farage has to keep making excuses for their behaviour. Pretending it's just "a few bad apples" etc. The alternative would be to admit that many Reform members are racist bigots. But that would in turn beg the question, why are they attracted to Reform?
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The sensible retreat for Suella Braverman (and for Reform) was always to mitigste her view of who could be English by ssying she was talking about her personal identity. Her personal choice should resoected She was obvs making an argument about Sunak, and everyone else, but its a sensible retreat
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
So they're at it again 🙄 Torturing valid HMRC data to create wildly misleading headlines, designed to invoke fear and anger about immigrants. Same old, same old... (and you'll see just how old shortly!) 🧵1/28
Daily Mail Front Page headline:

4 out of 5 new jobs went to foreigners in the past decade. 

Monk debunks Stamp over the headlne
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Depressing , frightening and true. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Of course Trump is helping Russia in Ukraine – he’s a master of the art of betrayal | Jonathan Freedland
The old certainties have gone. We will have to spend whatever it takes to protect ourselves in this new and dangerous world, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Yes, we definitely need to cut welfare costs.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
Just being sarcastic.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
Is it means tested?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski to Al Jazeera: “Since January of last year, the US has not contributed a single cent to the defence of Ukraine. “We are doing it, Europe.”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The US is seeking to release up to 17 million barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help curb fuel prices driven up by the war on Iran, Reuters reports. NB: the US uses 20 million barrels a day The strategic reserve only has 283 million barrels left, the lowest level since 1982
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
16 October 1938 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Klára Boda, was born. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
Vintage black and white photo of a young girl holding a toy and standing next to a stuffed animal, set against a patterned backdrop.
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 16/10/2026
‼️ President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that Ukraine was prepared to stop striking Russian oil refineries if the US provided systems to protect Ukrainian energy infrastructure from ballistic attacks but failed to receive them. 📸: GettyImages
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
"I take full responsibility for what I said." That's big of him. Who else could be responsible?
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
Didn't Boris Johnson go to Eton?
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
Will the investigation reach a conclusion or will it just be a cover-up like the investigation into the missile attack on the Minab primary school ?
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
Trump preparing the ground to make Zelensky a scapegoat for poor midterm results.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
Not portraying them as just "a few bad apples" then? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/nige...
independent.co.uk
Farage claims ‘bad apples are gone’ from Reform UK amid racism row
The party leader said he would ‘never have them back’ following the withdrawal of support for three candidates.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The visibility of minority voice & presence is product of the anti-racism norm & further nornalises it But it is v triggering to the 4% group that do not accept it 4% group often believe they are ten or fifteen times as large+now have an online ecosystem which reinforces that so behave like this
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
Reform to announce that Jenrick's statement equates to an internal inquiry.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
George Monbiot explains why the UK should rejoin the EU, "There's a reason why Russia tried to intervene in the Brexit vote, they knew that it would harm the UK and the EU if we left" "They were very clear about that and boy have they been proved right"
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
We will be taking legal action against ITV for the well known criminal offence of filming people while they reveal exactly who they are.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
Reform will have to hold another internal inquiry.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Trump’s a Russian asset, Farage’s party is a racist enterprise, Putin wanted Brexit & if you tried to make a list of all the UK politicians & pundits who’ve backed all three, you’d be here for hours.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
More proof that anyone who says "I'm not racist" is absolutely a racist.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Once again… This is not a vetting problem. This is a Reform problem. This is a Farage problem. Only grim losers like this are going to sign up to a racist, misogynistic, extremist, mass-deportations and tell-the-Royal-Marines-to-murder-people-at-sea kind of party. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...
Inside Reform: Councillors and candidates' extreme and racist views on camera
POLITICS REFORM UK
• Wednesday 14 October 2026 at 7:32pm
Daniel Hewitt
Investigations Editor
Warning: This report contains racist and offensive language.
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
Racist party keeps attracting racists quandry.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Imagine more privatisation - as Nigel Farage & Reform UK want - every essential service, healthcare, fire, police run for profit - then climate disaster & pandemic "This is frightening, no infrastructure maintenance in all this time other than essential to maintain short term profit" via Les Mattey
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