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Using information, education and agitation to expose the shills & charlatans who stole our rights, freedoms and protections in 2016. Multi-contributors. #BrexitScam

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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 20h
BREAKING: Brexiters and their press still as thick as a submarine door as they wonder why Britain is cut out of European diesel crisis talks as EU countries meet to discuss a proposal drawn up by Macron to release 50 million barrels of diesel and 50 million of crude oil. apple.news/AgnNqtZ2dTaC...
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Britain cut out of European diesel crisis talks — The Telegraph
UK’s exclusion from a potential Trump-EU deal risks leaving it reliant on its own meagre fuel stockpile
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years”
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Workers party Reform UK thinktank calls for the state pension to be scrapped and £75bn of tax cuts for wealthy Britons including the abolition of stamp duty, inheritance and capital gains tax alongside public spending cuts and relaxation of bank rules. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Thinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension
‘Radical’ report likely to influence party’s platform also proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains taxes
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Trump’s administration sowing doubt in the integrity of US elections stoking expectations he could move to exert greater control over November’s midterm elections and could declare a state of emergency on national security grounds to “protect” elections. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump laying groundwork to impose national emergency by sowing election distrust
President’s speech, declassification of documents and heightened claims of noncitizen voting have experts concerned
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 04/07/2026
A new BMJ Analysis finds a UK-US trade deal could cost the NHS a potential £45bn in drug spending and nearly 300 000 excess deaths in 10 years. The deal sacrifices UK health and wealth, contrary to the rhetoric of government ministers, says @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
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£45bn and 300 000 deaths: the UK’s anniversary gift to the US
Two hundred and fifty years after liberation from British colonialism, the United States is co-hosting the football World Cup. The US might even win it for the first time—although France, its former a...
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Reform Political Advertising @reformpoliticalads.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
10 years on from Brexit, there are still no rules to stop lies in election ads. We’ve tabled amendments to prevent ads like the Brexit bus misleading voters again. Email your MP and ask them to sponsor them. 37 MPs have so far! It takes 30 seconds 👇 reformpoliticaladvertising.org/take-action/...
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
With nitrogen-based fertiliser prices still around 70% above their 2024 average, the EU is considering stockpiling supplies and ramping up production, as conflict in the Middle East drives up pressure on farmers and threatens higher food prices across. www.ft.com/content/6414...
ft.com
EU explores fertiliser stockpiling as food crisis looms
Supplies of crop nutrients have been disrupted by Middle East war
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
As British farmers look with envy at the terms of the EU's deal unveiled on Tuesday, a former minister admits that Britain’s flagship post-Brexit trade deal with Australia was a failure. www.politico.eu/article/ange...
politico.eu
Brexit Britain’s farmers eye EU-Australia trade deal with envy
The U.K. beef industry is still furious that London didn’t take a harder line in its talks with Canberra.
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In a blow to Farage’s Reform UK, a government review recommends political donations in cryptocurrency could be blocked and also recommends political funding from Britons living abroad be capped at about £300,000 a year… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Political donations in cryptocurrency could be blocked in blow to Reform UK
Government review also recommends political funding from Britons living abroad be capped at about £300,000 a year
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
11,000 Japanese citizens stormed their parliament demanding their PM stop following Trump into war. 82% of Japan opposes this. Protesters surrounded Japan's National Diet building today chanting: "Japan's FUTURE is not in Washington. Stop bootlicking Trump." This is epic really
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Same old same old, Reform using third party to turn opaque crypto transactions into cash and hide donors, Electoral Commission confirm that they are limited in the information they can obtain from crypto providers that are based overseas. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk
Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c...
Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Trump has no strategy, no plan, no understanding of the complexities of the conflict he has ignited, his gamble has failed and America's allies will pay for it. apple.news/AhXhSCfIrQRa...
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Trump's Iran gamble has failed - and America's allies will pay for it — The i Paper
Trump has no strategy, no plan, no understanding of the complexities of the conflict he has ignited
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Telegraph Journalist, “Mr President, are you disappointed with Keir Starmer?” President, who has no legal justification or legal authority to wage what he has described as a war, “Yeah” Telegraph “Exclusive: Trump – I’m ‘very disappointed’ in Starmer over Iran” See how it works?
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Weird Reform’s post-match analysis of Gorton & Denton was that they lost due to an “Islamo-communist alliance in which hardline Muslim patriarchs supposedly forced wives to back a female atheist and a gay Jew.” That works on Twitter, not in the real world. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
newstatesman.com
Reform UK is too weird to win
From Matthew Goodwin to Restore Britain, the online right isn’t radical – it’s cringe
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Iran’s peace was within reach, but, rather than allowing diplomacy to conclude, the US and Israel attacked Iran when, as revealed by Oman’s foreign minister, a principles agreement could have been signed within days. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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US and Israel attacked Iran when peace was within reach
What might have remained a contained nuclear dispute now risks expanding into a wider geopolitical confrontation, Bamo Nouri writes
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
After 15 years hard work, and initial funding from the European Development Fund - when the UK had access to when it was part of the EU - the UK's first geothermal power plant has been turned on to meet the electricity needs of up to 10,000 homes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Earth's heat to produce electricity for homes in UK clean energy first
Water super-heated by rocks will also provide the UK's first domestic supply of the critical mineral lithium.
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Farage’s stupid stunts fit a familiar pattern. His allies in Germany’s AfD — courting disaffected working-class voters — are rallying at a notorious Nazi site and their leader fined for using the banned Nazi slogan “Everything for Germany.” Ring any bells? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The AfD is flirting with Nazi history – but moral outrage alone won’t stop the far right | Katja Hoyer
Coincidence or not, the party has timed its congress for the centenary of an infamous Nazi rally. But condemnation didn’t stop Hitler, and it’s not enough now, says historian and journalist Katja Hoye...
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
On this sixth anniversary of Brexit, take a moment to reflect on how much better off Britain is — as explained here by Baron Hannan of Kingsclere, ennobled for his role in delivering what has been described as “the single stupidest thing any country has ever done”
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Slovakia’s prime minister and Trump ally, Robert Fico, is worried about ‘psychological state’ of ‘dangerous’ president and has privately told European leaders that he fears the US president is ‘out of his mind’ after Mar-a-Lago visit. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
telegraph.co.uk
Trump ally worried about ‘psychological state’ of ‘dangerous’ president
Robert Fico, Slovakia’s prime minister, said to have expressed fears US president ‘out of his mind’ after Mar-a-Lago visit
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Listening to head of MI6 Blaise Metreweli’s words makes you realise just how asleep at the wheel British politicians have been over Brexit, exploitable right-wing populists and all their ‘friends of’ groups…
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Classy as ever, Trump launches attack on film director, Rob Reiner, who was found stabbed to death alongside his wife… news.sky.com/story/donald...
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Donald Trump launches attack on film director Rob Reiner, found stabbed to death alongside his wife
Donald Trump has launched an extraordinary attack on film director Rob Reiner, who was found stabbed to death with his wife on Sunday.
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Russia - along with other states - are ‘exporting chaos’. Assassination plots, sabotage, cyber-attacks and the manipulation of information mean that “the frontline is everywhere” in this “age of uncertainty” the new head of MI6 will warn on Monday. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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‘The frontline is everywhere’: new MI6 head to warn of growing Russian threat
Blaise Metreweli expected to say UK faces new ‘age of uncertainty’ in speech identifying Kremlin as key threat
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Critics warned the UK–US trade deal was built on loose terms and vague commitments. Now the cost of that ambiguity is emerging, with Washington telling London it is pausing a $40bn technology-related agreement in Trump’s latest shake down. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/b...
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U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal Hits Stumbling Block
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The Times - There are no serious economic papers arguing Brexit has benefited Britain. The ongoing cost for each of us is £3,000. But, as ministers hunt for growth, the evidence suggests restoring frictionless trade with the EU would deliver major gains. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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Brexit made us poorer and it’s getting worse
Economists disagree on the detail but it’s clear that barrier-free trade would be a big boost
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Dulwich College has said allegations that Nigel Farage made racist and antisemitic comments to fellow pupils at the school are "profoundly distressing" and "entirely at odds with the Dulwich College of today". news.sky.com/story/politi...
news.sky.com
Nigel Farage's former school responds to claims he made racist comments as student
Dulwich College says the allegations are "profoundly distressing". Reform UK say the claims are a "witch hunt".
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
All the bastards were there at Jacob Rees-Mogg’s mad hatter’s tea party, IDS, Bill Cash, John Redwood and the Bruges lunatics celebrating 75 Brexit benefits including more expensive food and borrowing costs, lower GDP and a £90bn annual loss to the Treasury. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows | Polly Toynbee
Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Should stablecoins be welcomed by people other than the issuers, criminals of various kinds and the US Treasury? NO. Last month, S&P downgraded Tether’s USDT to “weak”. This is not a trustworthy stablecoin, but it is the one Nigel Farage is promoting. www.ft.com/content/a5f4...
ft.com
Why the world should worry about stablecoins
Dollar-based digital currencies offer benefits for the US, but Britain and the EU are better off resisting them
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who supported Brexit in 2016, now admits Brexit was a “shock” that has damaged the UK, as 100 MPs voted for Britain to rejoin a customs union with the EU. www.ft.com/content/d358...
ft.com
Kemi Badenoch cites Brexit as ‘shock’ to UK
Tory leader’s comments come amid debate on whether Britain should rejoin EU customs union
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This country is in this economic mess because one man with a pint and half a fag sold the UK a myth that ‘sovereignty’ would make us richer. Instead we’ve ended up with lower growth, lower wages, weaker services and higher borrowing costs — the Farage tax. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-farage...
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The Farage Tax: What The UK Pays For One Man's Ego
GDP down, investment down, wages down - but Farage’s influence? Higher than ever
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Essex police assessing “alleged misreported expenditure by a political party” following a referral from the Met acting on documents submitted by a member of Farage’s campaign team.Tory & Labour candidates in Clacton say Reform’s campaign was a “juggernaut”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform campaign for Farage’s Clacton seat was a ‘juggernaut’, say candidates
Defeated Tory and Labour rivals describe force of Reform ‘machine’ as police assess claims of overspending
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 09/12/2025
UK is under attack from Putin’s cyber army, warns Yvette Cooper
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UK is under attack from Putin’s cyber army, warns Yvette Cooper
UK is under attack from Putin’s cyber army, warns Yvette Cooper
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The clown show continues…“Reform UK councillor’s business has been handed a £40,000 fine after the company was found to have hired someone without the legal right to work in the UK.” www.ft.com/content/de36...
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Reform UK councillor’s company fined £40,000 for hiring illegal worker
Michael Andrew Harrison, who represents Seaham in Durham, is appealing against the penalty
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Richard Tice has been accused of discouraging racism victims from speaking out after he claimed allegations against Nigel Farage from his school days were “made-up twaddle”. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Tice accused of 'retraumatising victim' with dismissal of Farage racism claim
Reform's Deputy Leader Richard Tice drew a furious backlash after he appeared to dismiss allegations against Nigel Farage from a schoolmate whose family fled the Nazis
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
BREAKING: Nigel Farage has been reported to police by a former member of his campaign team over claims of falsified election expenses. Given the serious nature of the allegations the Met’s specialist crime group will assess the documents that have been submitted.
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
More Reform sleaze… Farage under more pressure after Electoral Commission asked to investigate his links and promotion of cryptocurrency Tether after Reform declared a £9million donation from Thai based Tether investor, Cryptopher Harborne. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
mirror.co.uk
Nigel Farage under pressure over crypto links as MPs call for investigation
The Electoral Commission has been asked to investigate the situation after Reform declared a £9million donation from crypto investor Christopher Harborne in August
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
CPS says Farage MEP’s Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe followed a script given to Russian asset Nathan Gill by handler Oleg Voloshyn. At least eight UKIP/Brexit Party MEPs now linked to Kremlin-tasked efforts coordinated through Reform’s Gill. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Nigel Farage won't apologise for his history of racism because "if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too,'" a Reform source tells the Times. So essentially he was a racist and he believes his supporters are racists too
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Farage spotted me in the lower-school playground. He was about 17. He towered over me. “Where are you from?” he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response. “That’s the way back to Africa”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing
The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. I’ve never forgotten his – it felt malicious
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The number of former Dulwich College pupils accusing Nigel Farage of outrageous racist behaviour rises to TWENTY-EIGHT forcing the Reform leader to adopt increasingly desperate tactics to deflect attempts to get him to apologise to his victims. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Farage turns on broadcasters over racism allegations as number of claims hits 28
Reform leader suggests he would boycott BBC, saying he has had letter from Dulwich pupils defending him
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Farage dragging his jackboots over sacking a Reform UK council leader who told a black British lawyer to “fuck off back to Nigeria” called Sadiq Khan a “narcissistic Pakistani” and said migrants were “colonising the UK”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nigel Farage urged to sack Reform council leader accused of racism
Party is investigating Ian Cooper as Labour MPs call for him to resign as leader of Staffordshire county council
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Donald Farage demands apology from the BBC over its reporting that he made racist comments at school as confirmed by twenty former schoolmates. news.sky.com/story/politi...
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Politics latest: Farage in BBC outburst over school racism claims
Nigel Farage has demanded an apology from the BBC over its reporting of claims he made racist comments when at school. It came in a press conference where Sky News also asked about Reform UK receiving...
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
After previously donating £1.8m to the Tories and a further £1m to Boris Johnson, a Thai based crypto investor donates a record £9m to Reform UK whose leader actively promotes the stablecoin Tether whose key investor is the same Thai based donor to Reform. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Crypto investor donates record £9m to Reform UK
The sum from Christopher Harborne is the largest ever single donation by a living person to a British political party.
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Court filings allege close Farage ally George Cottrell fronted betting accounts for a betting syndicate and sought UK clients for offshore Tether.bet despite his lawyers previously insisting he had “no involvement” with Tether or crypto firms. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Key aide to Nigel Farage was frontman for Premier League billionaire’s betting syndicate, lawsuit claims
Exclusive: George Cottrell ‘gave control’ of gambling accounts to syndicate headed by Tony Bloom, the owner of Brighton & Hove Albion FC
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Farage wrong-footed amid fears that the UK government is weighing a ban on cryptocurrency donations to political parties as they fear hard-to-trace crypto donations could let foreign money seep into UK electoral events once again. www.politico.eu/article/uk-c...
politico.eu
UK mulls ban on crypto cash in politics — putting Farage in firing line
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK was the first U.K. political party to accept donations in cryptocurrency — and now the government is considering a ban.
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
UK’s top law officer says Nigel Farage had “clearly deeply hurt” many people with their descriptions of his behaviour and urges him to apologise to school contemporaries who claim the Reform UK leader racially abused them while at school. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Attorney general urges Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged racism and antisemitism
Exclusive: Richard Hermer, a senior Jewish minister, says Reform leader ‘clearly deeply hurt’ many people with his alleged behaviour
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Time to admit the truth, Brexit has been an unmitigated economic failure. Investment is worse off by between 12pc - 18pc, employment by between 3pc - 4pc and productivity by between 3pc - 4pc. There have been few more devastating assessments than this. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
telegraph.co.uk
Time to admit the truth: Brexit has been an unmitigated economic failure
Leaving the EU has reduced Britain’s GDP by up to 8pc, according to a devastating US study
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Rachel Reeves: “We are freezing Russian assets and let me be clear I don’t actually mean the honorable member for Clacton.”
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The devastating truth Brexiters can’t face and why Michael Bloomberg called it the single stupidest thing any country has ever done- it’s costing the UK £90bn in lost tax revenue a year and the average Briton is now worse off by between £2,700 and £3,700. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows
Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Just like Trump has his lunatic RFK jr, Reform has Danny Kruger : As a Christian I don’t judge people but “the Left are the enemy”, “parasite”, “malignant growth”, “gnostic”, a “false faith”, a “lethal threat”. And it went downhill from there… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti-human’ – the startling theories of Reform MP Danny Kruger
He was a Conservative party big-hitter who wrote speeches for David Cameron and worked with Boris Johnson before he suddenly jumped ship. He talks family, flags and why Nigel Farage is ‘top dog’
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
UK pub and hotel group JD Wetherspoon – whose founder campaigned for the UK to leave the EU – is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-­induced red tape, www.independent.ie/business/wet...
independent.ie
Wetherspoon uses Ireland to skirt Brexit red tape for EU expansion
UK pub and hotel group JD Wetherspoon – whose founder campaigned for the UK to leave the EU – is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-­induced red tape...
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