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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people. Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people. We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The "appropriate response" is to broadcast everything that Trump did and said on that appalling day for American democracy and then to tell this moron to sling his hook.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11/11/2025
Farage: "I can tell you, a decade on almost from the referendum, that in every single industry, from financial services to fisheries, the burden of regulation, the threat of the regulator is worse now than it was then." And who's fault is that? bit.ly/4qQJHpS
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Nigel Farage accused of 'disaster' plan that would 'drown' small businesses
Nigel Farage gave a press conference to owners of small firms where he claimed Reform UK is the party of small business - catch up on updates below
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
REFORM threw everything at Caerphilly, all their dark money, all their big name, far right agitators, they played the race card, as usual, and got well and truly shafted by Plaid. #anyonebutReform
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Hopeless
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality. Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook. Our duty is to stand up to brutality. Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.
The image is an X post by user Joshua Reed Eakle from 20 hours ago, stating: "The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this." The post includes a profile picture and a verified badge.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Kemi Badenoch wants a UK ICE. Given that US ICE is destroying America, this is not a smart idea.
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.” Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.” Donald Trump: “My favourite president.” Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.” Meanwhile... in Argentina www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty
The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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blukryptonian.bsky.social @blukryptonian.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Strong arguments from @liambyrnemp.bsky.social on how best to tackle the threat of Farage.. Do so where he’s weak: The economy⚠️he’d do a Truss++ Workers’ rights⚠️he’s against them Welfare⚠️he’d strip it away NHS⚠️he’d dismantle it. “Populists govern badly but campaign well” So blow up their campaign.
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Fantasy economics mean Nigel Farage is heir to Liz Truss
Liam Byrne
Our Decoding Populism study shows Reform’s support is not a single army marching in step. It’s a fragile alliance of 5 “tribes” bound more by grievance than values. They feel under pressure, in precarious communities, pessimistic about the future, angry about immigration, and feel politics is broken. But two of these tribes, about 40 per cent of Farage’s base, are very persuadable. They worry about pay, pensions, bills, social security and the NHS. They are open to Labour, the Lib Dems, even the Greens.

So what messages work?We found that four cut through most. First: the economy. Farage has tabled billions in unfunded promises. That means higher mortgages, higher bills, higher prices. Second: employment rights. Reform would scrap safeguards on sick pay, safe hours and zero-hours contracts. Third: social security. They want to cut £140 billion of support to pensioners, families and disabled people, leaving the vulnerable out in the cold.Fourth: the NHS. Farage has mused openly about a US-style insurance model, threatening free provision at the point of need.

By contrast,attacks painting Reform’s leader as “Britain’s Trump” or focusing on immigration don’t move the dial. Populists thrive when debate rages on their chosen turf of immigration and identity. We must not fight on their battlefield.

Populists govern badly but campaign well.And the price is high: international research shows countries under populist rule end up over 10 per cent poorer within 15 years. That’s a pay cut Britain simply cannot afford. So the strategy must be clear. Stop tilting at Farage’s windmills. Expose his offer as Liz Truss 2.0 — a sugar rush of fantasy economics that would leave Britain poorer. And counter his fake nostalgia with a real story of national renewal: a country fairer, stronger and more secure. Farage can be beaten — but only if we fight him where he is weakest, not strongest.
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Darrennc @darrennc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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European Movement Staffordshire @emstaffs.uk · 26/08/2025
Despite the media attention he receives, Farage does not represent the majority of people in Britain, nor the values that our country is built on - cooperation, democracy, fairness, human rights and the rule of law. Don't let him persuade you his policies are popular. @europeanmovement.co.uk
Image by European Movement UK which says:
Leaving the ECHR won't fix migration. But it will:
Destroy our relationship with Europe.
Destabilise the UK.
Put us in Putin's camp.
Take away protections for our human rights.
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Marie-Pierre Cleret @marie-pierre.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Here’s an update I found ..
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Peter McKinnon @6thsense4u.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Damn right. Let's step this shit up and keep fighting like hell against Traitor Trump and his worthless, criminal regime.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🔴Shock and Orr: Meet the Farage-Supporting ‘Philosopher King’ of British Authoritarianism The Cambridge professor providing the intellectual underpinning for JD Vance and Nigel Farage, is described by one colleague as ‘more Tommy Robinson than St Thomas Aquinas’ bylinetimes.com/2025/08/26/j...
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Shock and Orr: Meet the Farage-Supporting 'Philosopher King' of British Authoritarianism
The Cambridge professor providing the intellectual underpinning for JD Vance and Nigel Farage, is described by one academic colleague as being 'more Tommy Robinson than St Thomas Aquinas'
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Ivana’s Ghost 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Anti-fascist @ivanasghost.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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Kevin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺💚 #VoteGreen @kevbro1969.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
After many years of #Tory austerity & the continuation of it by #Labour, is it any wonder? As the 6th richest country in the world, it's about time we stopped pandering to the wealthy & distributed our money fairly. But there is no chance that happening under Labour, #Tories or #Reform.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Is there anything much more repulsive than a very wealthy, safe, privileged Tory/Reform MP/commentator targeting deliveroo drivers and asylum-seekers in dismal hotels with their anti-immigrant, racist bile - to whip up civil unrest that they hope to use as their lever into power? No.
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2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Thread 🧵 of my most “successful” Skeets over time… No.3042 bsky.app/profile/2ton...
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
That this is presented by the media as “policy” is why we are in this mess. These are not serious people. These are monkey tennis ideas, as divorced from the reality of criminal justice as you might expect from a company fronted by multi-millionaire simpletons.
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KMark1969 @kiwimark1969.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Accurate summary.
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2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Thread 🧵 of my most “successful” Skeets over time… No.2966 bsky.app/profile/2ton...
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Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
London is over
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Darrennc @darrennc.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
True courage, this is how to stand up to authoritarian governments. A middle finger to the piece of shit that is Viktor Orban!!!
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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Darrennc @darrennc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
How is this making America Great again? Zip-tying Grandmas and children? WTF is wrong with these police officers?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Keir Starmer vows to press on with welfare cuts as rebellion grows. Wrong. Listen to the poor, sick, disabled; your backbenchers. Govt can cut corporate welfare, tax the rich. HMRC didn't collect £46.8bn of taxes last yr. We are all one illness/accident away from needing benefits Oppose the cuts
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PM vows to press on with welfare cuts despite growing rebellion
More than 120 Labour MPs are backing plans to block cuts to disability and sickness-related benefits.
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Dutchguydownunder @dutchguydownunder.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It was DOGE, it was always DOGE! Funny how the "stop the steal crowd" ended up stealing an election themselves.
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2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
#FuckFarage
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
As Trump deploys the National Guard against his own citizens, the importance of protecting our own human rights from abuse at the hands of govt has never been clearer. But *still* the Tories push to strip us of our protections, in a desperate bid for power for themselves. Important letter (Times)
Human rights
Sir, The Conservative proposal to repudiate the European Convention on Human Rights is not a technical reform (letters, Jun 7; news & leading article, Jun 6). It is a profound rupture in the postwar order that Britain, using its soft power, helped to build. As a founding signatory of the 1949 Treaty of London, the UK undertook to "accept the principles of the rule of law and of the enjoyment by all persons within its jurisdiction of human rights and fundamental freedoms" (Article 3). These are not optional. To repudiate the ECHR would lead only in one direction: withdrawal, or even expulsion, from the Council of Europe.Who benefits? Certainly not the British people, whose rights and freedoms the ECHR has long protected. But autocrats such as Presidents Putin and Xi would benefit, as well as others who seek to dismantle the international legal order that Britain helped to shape.
Winston Churchill knew better. But his successors in today's Conservative Party are not his heirs. He urged us to rise to the level of events. Yet we see the same pattern as we saw with Brexit: strategy subordinated to spectacle, judgment to gesture. This is the mark of a politics content with triumphs in the moment, bought at the expense of both our past and our future.
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Senior lecturer in law, University of Exeter
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Darrennc @darrennc.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This works for me. Please make this happen!!!
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.
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The Romano Report @theromanoreport.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Denise Ireland @ireland0828.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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💙🦋 @humanity101.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/05/2025
Brilliant from @mortenmorland.bsky.social on yesterday's UK-EU Summit. And why those shouting 'betrayal' are, thankfully, no longer the adults in the room.
Morten Morland Times cartoon
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2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The Doctor often has a quote that is a propos...
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 16/05/2025
Could this be Starmer's logic? "People voted for Labour last time to get the Tories out. Reform are hated even more. So if they are seen to be our main opponent by 2029, we'll pick up mountains of votes NO MATTER WHAT WE DO. Bwahahaha!" (Just a hunch, but it would explain his behaviour perfectly.)
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Ron @caribbeanbasin.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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