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Neil Walton

@curmudgeonlyneil.bsky.social
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Retired teacher. Newly grumpy old guy. Living with stage 4 prostate cancer, encouraging all men of ‘my vintage’ to get regular PSA tests. #Earlyintervention

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You pay £5m to buy Farage, only to end up having to throw another £36m in to make sure he stays bought. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy. I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long. So how do we fix it? My plan:
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Oddly reassuring to see someone so smart describe something that so many seem determined to miss… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A ‘Keminaissance’ for the Tories is wishful thinking – Badenoch’s Reform-lite summer will only end one way | Jonathan Freedland
Hiring a convicted antisemite as an adviser; rabble rousing at a time of violent unrest. She is still in a race to the bottom and making too many mistakes, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Alastair Campbell: "No he is not. Farage, finally, is being treated as a politician rather than a cheeky chappy commentator. He got away with so much for so long he thought he could do anything for ever."
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Times report on BBC investigation into people-smuggling… Lots of talk of “losing” access to critical information. Rather than Johnson not bothering to secure it. And Farage wanting an even harder Brexit. The stubborn refusal to face the consequences of our own govt’s stupid choices has become absurd
Brexit lets people-smugglers move to UK
Matt Dathan - Home Affairs Editor

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Immigration officers have blamed Brexit for allowing active peoplesmugglers with convictions in other European countries to enter the UK. 

An investigation by the BBC found that one prominent smuggler who had been jailed for five years in France in 2016 had claimed asylum in the UK and was living in Leicestershire.


Lucy Moreton, the professional officer at the ISU union, which represents Border Force staff, said Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union had cut off access to databases for sharing criminal data. She said she was not surprised that convicted peoplesmugglers had been able to enter the UK undetected.

Moreton told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “Once we left the European Union we lost our ability to share what’s termed low-level data. We still have Interpol data but that is not this level of criminality.

“So ultimately, as long as you’ve not been fingerprinted in the UK before, the identity you give us when you arrive and give us your fingerprints — if you even give fingerprints — is going to be the only identity that we know you by.”


The most important criminal database that was lost after Brexit was the Schengen Information System (SIS II), which was used to get real-time information about the movements of criminals, missing persons and objects of interest. The UK lost access to 40,000 alerts about investigations in other European countries. The Interpol database shares information only on the most serious criminals.

The UK also lost access to the European Criminal Records Information System and the Europol Information System. It no longer has access to Eurodac, the fingerprinting system that shares biometric identities of all people who claim asylum in the EU.

Sir Keir Starmer has tried to restore access to these databases, but a deal has yet to be agreed. Britain now relies on bilateral agreements with countries to share criminal data.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I have more to say… Not just a goddam waste of time but also resources, influence, security, opportunity, patience… Brexit has firehosed our country’s politics, economy and sanity with bullshit for 10yrs. And on it goes. Ruining our politics, making us tedious and idiotic. I am very much not a fan.
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I care
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Nigel Farage tells Sally Nugent 'no one cares' about his £5,000,000 crypto gift
The Reform UK boss is under investigation by Parliament's standards watchdog following revelations he received an undisclosed £5million gift from British cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne i...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
looking at news out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
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Keith Burge @carryonkeith.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Rather than a General Election, I think I'd favour a full investigation into Nigel Farage's finances.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Time to resign, Nigel Farage.
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brodner.bsky.social @brodner.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Harper Collins Discovers Misprint stevebrodner.substack.com
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This wins Bluesky today.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Really not beating those 'gone into hiding' rumours
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Political Satirical @politicalsatirical.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Where were the riots? Why does the right wing sleep through all these events? Two Tier Policing - say whut now? & remember, Farage's nephew, got off VERY lightly with upskirting...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Lee Anderson has now deleted his Tweet falsely suggesting this image of Reform councillors campaigning in Makerfield was fake
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Face it, Donny. The world leaders are literally turning their backs on you. Nobody likes you. Not even a little. 😂
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 16/06/2026
SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/06/2026
I remember the bombs. I remember walking past burning cars to get to work. I remember the shootings. I remember the fear. I remember the hope everyone felt as we voted for the Good Friday agreement. I remember us believing that future generations wouldn't have to suffer this.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Someone has forgotten who the Immigration Minister was when this man arrived and was given leave to remain. A certain Mr Jenrick.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Tackle the real problem - the social media giants that act as they please. And in the meantime get off X along with the rest of the government
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Hi Nigel Farage, now you’ve decided to do media again, tell us about the £5m.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Amazing imaginative photography by Spanish duo Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda. TT: ClawClips
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The denomination should be less than 18, the age of consent in Florida.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 22/05/2026
"That's what happens when you elect Nigel Farage fans..." @mrjamesob.bsky.social reacts to two new Reform councillors admitting they don't know what they're doing.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Nigel Farage took £50,000 from crypto firms then said he was "not aware" of the industry funding his party bylinetimes.com/2026/05/22/n...
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Nigel Farage Took £50,000 from Crypto Firms Then Said He Was 'Not Aware' of the Industry Funding His Party
The self-proclaimed 'straight-talking' Reform UK leader has been far from straight about who is funding his attempted rise to power, reports Iain Overton
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This is what Farage, Reform and Brexit have done. This is where a very ugly obsession with immigration leads. To this. To “appalling levels of racism and unfair treatment.” To ordinary people being made miserable, day in, day out, at work. What a shameful place to be. www.tuc.org.uk/news/shockin...
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“Shocking” increase in explicit racism at work in recent years – new TUC research reveals
Black and ethnic minority workers are facing “appalling levels” of racism, bullying and unfair treatment at work, according to new TUC research published today.
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Brent Crude @brentcrude.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Do you think Farage will get another £5 million bonus if we leave the European Convention on Human Rights?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Farage almost never talks about brexit any more. He's pivoted entirely to the issue of "illegal" migration which I a bit ironic because one of the main planks of his own leave campaign was that Brexit would stop "illegal" immigration...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️
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Richard @richdef.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Farage has now admitted it is a political donation with that sentence ‘reward for campaigning for Brexit’. The Standards Committee should now suspend him and call a by-election.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
So, Labour tears itself apart to try to stop Farage being our next PM just as he finally faces scrutiny in a monumental corruption scandal which could… and really should…end his political career. I’d go hard on that rather than each other right now guys. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Farage says £5mn gift was ‘reward’ for Brexit campaigning
Reform UK leader had previously claimed the money had nothing to do with politics
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/05/2026
I rarely say “major breaking” and rarely put out these video hits, but this is pretty major.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
And here’s a convicted criminal paying for Farage’s security long after he secretly accepted £5 million from Christopher Harborne supposedly to pay for his security.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
He’s dropped the ‘security’ claim already. Tricky to sustain when you’ve been buying houses for cash…
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Everyone is rightly interested in Harborne’s monetary support for Nigel Farage. But GB News provides him with an annualised salary of over a million pounds a year, 500,000 shares and unaccounted for millions in terms of free political advertising for Farage’s Party
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is all happens in 2023. Farage goes apoplectic on GB News about Coutts/Nat West. He is supported by Boris Johnson. GB News owner makes a mint shorting NatWest stock. Boris Johnson offered a GB News slot
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🏳️‍🌈 Dolly Darren 🏳️‍⚧️ @dollydarren.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
BBC News reporting about verbal and physical assaults on front line staff primarily racism. Where are they reporting from... Sunderland! Remind me, what happened in last Thursday's local elections in Sunderland? Why does none of this not come as any surprise?
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Can I just ask, #r4today, as you seem to be very keen to talk about and investigate Polanski’s council tax issue, why not the same feverish scrutiny over the far more troubling and glaringly corrupt £5M bribe Farage took from that crypto billionaire, Harborne? We can hear your strings being pulled.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Talking of which... Seen this, James?🤣 kidsgrove.substack.com/p/wrong-coun...
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Wrong Council, Wrong Town: Christine Duffy’s Accidental Election
Reform’s newest Borough Councillor didn’t quite know which Council she was elected to, turning up at the wrong Council to sign her paperwork!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🔥 HAYES: “You get the pattern here, right? One after another… so there’s no Black members of Congress left in the states of the old Confederacy. They want a New Jim Crow, now they have a blessing from the Supreme Court.” #Tennessee #Memphis @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Reform UK's Richard Tice refused to condemn Glenn Gibbins who is now a Reform UK councillor Who said that Nigerians should be melted down to fill in pot holes
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Delivery People and their Dog Friends 🩷
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