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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 7h
Your weekend reminder that Nigel Farage wants to - leave the ECHR - repeal the Equality Act - Strip back workers rights - Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts - repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes no fault evictions He is not on your side youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...
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If UK media actually explained Nigel Farage’s policies to the public no one would be supporting him
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I asked some friends of mine to do a few lines of my poem ‘Ode To Square Chapel’ in support of my quest to help #SaveSquareChapelArts in Halifax. Without hesitation… they all chipped in. 🙌 It’s what friends are for. Please re-post if you enjoy! x
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why is an attack on Russian disinformation an attack on Reform? Find out in the latest edition of Nigel's Notes. Please share if you enjoy it and you can subscribe for free to get these straight to your inbox. parodypm.substack.com/p/big-burnha...
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Well well well...
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How Reform activists are linked to far-right balaclava thugs involved in anti migrant protests
Reform continues to be exposed for having links with far-right thugs and groups, after an investigation revealed that a Facebook group involved in the recent far right anti migration protests which sa...
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does the BBC keep platforming the racist mewlings of billionaires like Jim Ratcliffe without criticism, pushback or context? A rich white man asserting immigration is bad or benefits are out of control doesn't make either bigotry true. This isn't journalism. It's stenography. #r4today
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Trump family has major business interests in the Balkans. So I asked two nominees to be ambassadors to the region if they would use their embassy to push Trump family deals. Watch this for their answers. Just chilling.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dickie is spot on - anyone who investigates Reform is an activist. The only real journalists are ones who don't question our finances, like those unbiased purveyors of truth at GB News.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have an announcement.
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Colin Holt @col123.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
COLIN HOLT BAND LIVE AT SALTBURN ARTS 6th NOV. Tickets and further details available in link below. saltburnarts.co.uk/index.php/ev...
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The Colin Holt Band
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What a line! 😂
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Ben Delo who has just given Reform £36m is the same Ben Delo who US prosecutors said was the leader of a ‘criminal enterprise’ But hey ho, it’s fine for him- and any other crypto bro - to buy British democracy lock stock and barrel democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-4m...
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Reform's £4m donor "thumbed his nose at the law", US prosecutors said
Ben Delo has called his US conviction a "non-crime". Prosecutors said the Farage-backing crypto billionaire was a “leader of a criminal enterprise”.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Wonder why Arron Banks deleted this unambiguously racist tweet. The repugnant face of Farage & Reform as they lurch further rightwards.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Soviet Census, 1930s; US Census, report today in the Guardian .
NKVD head Genrikh Yagoda, who had been in charge of the forced
collectivization (as well as Stalin’s poison laboratory), fell out of favor
for reporting the negative public reaction to the show trials. He was
demoted, then denounced, then tried in the third show trial in 1938,
and executed. His replacement underwent a similar fate and was
executed in early 1940.
“Execution was the favored solution to every problem, includ-
ing those caused by previous executions,” writes Adam Hochschild.
“When the national census showed that his reign of terror was
shrinking the country’s population, Stalin ordered the members of
the census board shot. The new officials, not surprisingly, came up
with higher figures. Between about 1929, when Stalin had van-
quished his rivals and concentrated power in his hands, and his death
in 1953, most historians now estimate that he had been directly re-
sponsible for the deaths of somewhere around 20 million people.” --Orwell's Roses After having forcibly retired thousands of dedicated civil servants who held a gobsmacking amount of institutional knowledge, the Trump administration has increasingly made impossible demands of those who remain. In June, they ordered the Census Bureau to stop using the most sophisticated techniques available to protect the confidentiality of the public’s responses when publishing data. Government scientists were told that they must return to the statistical dark ages and use methods that horrify their peers. By micromanaging the tools that experts can use, politicians are forcing civil servants to choose between publishing unusable data, risking the privacy of Americans’ data, or simply not publishing data.

In August,another controversy roiled the Census Bureau. Partisan data geeks leveraged a program designed to help the government recruit talent. Once there, they obtained access to government data and leveraged the bureau’s brand to publish a report arguing that numerous non-citizens voted in the 2020 election, reinforcing Trump’s conspiracy theory that he did not lose the election fair and square.

This report is anomalous in countless ways: it’s unsigned, lacking methodological detail, devoid of error metrics, and rushed through without oversight by the bureau’s experts. But it doesn’t matter how bad the report was (and it’s truly abysmally bad). The reputational damage was done. Economists and advocates from across the partisan spectrum were outraged at this blatant politicization of the Census Bureau.

The Trump administration doubled down. Days later, the commerce department eliminated the language that prohibited political interference from the agency’s official scientific integrity policy.  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/10/census-trump-congress
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ban the Burqa!
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
NIECE KNOWS BEST.......
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Colin Holt @col123.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
SHOCKING !!!!
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"We've done nothing wrong but the people who did it have been sacked for (not) doing it," is quite the defence. And is it just me or Does. Farage. Get. Even. More. Comically. Staccato when he's straining his own enormous capacity for lying?
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026
So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Chris Mason (BBC) reports on his “interview” with Nigel Farage. It’s not an interview. It’s an idiotic, moany rant from Farage about how he’s being picked on cos he reckons he’s a threat to the establishment. And Mason just folds like a wet cardboard box in the face of this delusional bollox.
Farage pictured with his innocent face on… (it’s hideous - my opinion) 

Nigel Farage insists he's 'broken no rules'He added: "The point is, we live in a complainants' society. If you complain about me, automatically that triggers an investigation."
He said that political parties were "constantly writing to all the authorities", meaning Reform was "under investigation every day for virtually everything we do".
"There's a big picture here. The old two-party system that has dominated since the end of the First World War feels for the first time it faces an existential threat.
"There is a whole ecosystem with a century of development around this. And we come along from virtually nowhere and threaten the whole thing.”
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Colin Holt @col123.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Oh !!..........................Dear
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Colin Holt @col123.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Incompetence in plain sight
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Oakeshott posting from her divorcee bolthole in an Islamic war zone where she took her kids after leaving her husband (& their father). Oh dear, oh dear... #r4today
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It's a smaller point, but "I don't care what the statistics say" is just so on the nose for these people. What I believe in my gut > what the facts and evidence tell us. #Truthiness #Oakeshott #r4today
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Today, I will mostly be continuing to ignore the death of two police officers killed in the line of duty.
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Colin Holt @col123.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Colin Holt @col123.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Private Eye | Teesside: Plot twisters
THERE are dysfunctional public bodies and then there’s Lord (Ben) Houchen’s Tees Valley (TVCA) Authority and its wholly owned South Tees Development Corporation (STDC).
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Colin Holt @col123.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
... Lets not forget the Teeswork saga.... and the waiting game fro the NAO investigation .... Thankfully Private Eye helps us remember !!!!!
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So many of Reform's woes can be explained with reference to Patrick O'Flynn's description of Nigel Farage: 'snarling, thin-skinned, aggressive'.
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Reform UK suspends Tory defector Tim Montgomerie after criticism of Nigel Farage
Board member called out party leader last week for failing to appear at Clacton by-election count
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Please remember that only 27.9% of the Clacton electorate voted for me, so they aren't all morons.
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Political X @politicalx.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
How do you win by 12,784 votes and still have a disastrous morning? Just ask Reform 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCpE... #NigelFarage #Clacton
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Liar Liar Nigel Farage on Fire
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Still mocking "Stupid Net Zero", Richard Tice? You over-privileged establishment dickhead... A reminder to Clacton, there's still time to register your contempt for Tice, Farage and their assortment of hate-filled lunatics by voting @countbinface.bsky.social 👍 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Homes alight as fires rage across the West Midlands
Firefighters are tackling blazes in Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and the West Midlands.
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Colin Holt @col123.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
.... Don't give Houchen any more freedom to waste Tax payers monies.....
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Burnham intervenes to condemn FIFA’s share plans - all starting to feel very European Super League…
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Reform in action. Nobody else has posed for as many pointless photos while managing to do absolutely fuck all to help anyone.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My guide to when a by-election should be held: CALL AN ELECTION: When a grifting gobshite wants to distract attention from his dodgy finances. DON’T CALL AN ELECTION: When Robert Jenrick, Danny Kruger, Andrew Rosindell and Suella Braverman fancy changing parties.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 22/07/2026
"Farage's actions speak louder than words: he is exploiting the death of his colleague to try to get himself out of political trouble. By doing so he is, quite literally, putting himself beneath contempt."
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Farage’s speculation about Widdecombe’s murder could make it harder for justice to be done
Britain’s laws on contempt of court may be a relic of the pre-internet age, but they are still in force. If you break the rules, you can collapse a trial
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Colin Holt @col123.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Correct......... for once
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Farage is raging against the Press again because when you’ve been given a free ride, playing politics on easy mode for twenty years… Being held to account feels *other worldly* unfair.
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MrBW @mesterwhite.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 19/07/2026
NEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇
Farage the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
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Colin Holt @col123.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Fairy @lafeeverte.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is fucking hilarious
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Farage told Reform insiders that he needed at least £1 million a year to return to politics leftfootforward.org/2026/07/fara...
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Farage received £5 million donation after saying he needed at least £1 million a year to return to politics
Farage told senior Reform figures that he couldn't "put himself through the wringer" of standing as an MP and "end up skint"
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Schiff: People are struggling right now. And what is the president focused on? Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on his own mug, on banners draped over federal buildings, like Stalin used to do.. If he needs to find more money, how about the 2.2 billion that he has corruptly absconded with
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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
More shenanigans at Ben Houchen's TVCA. He scheduled, then cancelled, an informal meeting of the TVCA Cabinet. Houchen wanted to write off the debts of Teesside Airport and the South Tees Development Corporation Jo Moore, the finance chief, has quit. www.teesvalleymonitor.com/house-of-car...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The Metropolitan Police have launched a criminal investigation into a £500,000 donation to Reform from the mother of the convicted fraudster and Farage donor, George Cottrell www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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