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@dazh68.bsky.social
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Left leaning Europhile LFC supporter. Got zero time for Conservatives, Reform, etc etc. I know an arl arse when I see one, and Farage is an arl arse.🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies? By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has drawn up plans to win over Reform voters by changing its news and drama output. BBC Director General Tim Davie and other execs discussed altering "story selection" in order to win the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
bylinetimes.com
BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Kuenssberg forgot to add: Gulping Philp was the creator of the budget Farage described as the best of his life. #ukpolitics
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
UK is corruption island, ripping you off for essentials far more than anywhere else on the planet.
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Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The Day After…..
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Just Liz Truss at the launch party for a new whiskey being sold by a bare-knuckle boxer who only recently came out of prison after beating up a 78-year-old in a pub. metro.co.uk/2025/06/02/l...
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Liz Truss helps boxer who beat up pensioner to launch whiskey in bizarre video
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
2005
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Today's ethical question: which is worse - dodging a fare or claiming public money for the same journey twice?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The fact that someone as dishonest and hypocritical as Robert Jenrick was not long ago shamed out of public life is a damning indictment of the state of politics and media in the UK www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/robert-jen...
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Robert Jenrick's Honesty-Dodging
That someone as dishonest and hypocritical as the Shadow Justice Secretary was not long ago shamed out of public life is a damning indictment of the state of politics and media in the UK
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Pro Zionist Maria Eagle at her most disgusting!! youtube.com/shorts/3j4l5...
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UK Weapons Minister at Israeli Event Boasts of Spying on Gaza
YouTube video by Declassified UK
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🔴Labour Minister Defends RAF Gaza Surveillance Flights Amid Growing Scrutiny of UK-Israel Relationship Defence Minister Maria Eagle spoke at a private Israel Independence Day meeting and said the UK would continue to back the country bylinetimes.com/2025/05/16/m...
bylinetimes.com
Labour Minister Defends RAF Gaza Surveillance Flights Amid Growing Scrutiny of UK-Israel Relationship
Defence Minister Maria Eagle spoke at a private Israel Independence Day meeting and said the UK would continue to back the country
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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
On Tuesday evening, Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and Jimmy Carr attended a party hosted by the Israeli embassy, while they commit genocide in Gaza. Minister Maria Eagle gave a speech boasting of "the RAF conducting surveillance flights over the Eastern Mediterranean.”

Distorted portraits of Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch, Jimmy Carr and Maria Eagle against a bright Green backdrop.
Text: Who celebrates a genocide? Greens Organise logo.
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dazh68.bsky.social @dazh68.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Sack Tim Davie
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 30/03/2025
"If a multimillionaire paid 2% more in tax, they’d still be a multimillionaire. But for a disabled person losing PIP, it’s the difference between survival and destitution." A damning letter to the editor. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
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Tax the super-rich? Unthinkable. Cut disability support? Sensible.
A 2% wealth tax could raise £24bn, yet we're cutting disability benefits instead. Who are we protecting?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Kemi Badenoch accepted a £14,000 week-long "residential" for her family and shadow cabinet, courtesy of the chair of climate change denying lobbying group Net Zero Watch. Weeks later she announced that she has ditched her party's commitment to reaching Net Zero bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Tory party packed with Russian money, slashed our army forces, sold off key industries to their mates, and let public services rot - now they’ve got the nerve to act like they care about national security. #ukpolitics
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Northumbrian Water dumped 945,000 tonnes of sewage into sea in 2024. Every day story of England's water companies with 1,135 criminal convictions. Permitted by OFWAT to fleece customers, operate illegally, create health hazards. Govt refuses to end abuses.
bbc.co.uk
Northumbria Water 'released one million tonnes of sewage' to sea
The water firm says its own estimate of discharge to the North Sea at Whitburn cannot be relied on.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Keir Starmer's promised 'decade of national renewal' is increasingly promising to be a decade of national disappointment instead www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/austerity-...
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Austerity of Thought
Keir Starmer's promised 'decade of national renewal' is increasingly promising to be a decade of national disappointment instead
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... " www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
usatoday.com
Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
So tax breaks for tech bosses and welfare cuts for the disabled
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
So nearly two thirds of Americans are not. Got it.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Every single Democratic Senator voted for Marco Rubio as Sec of State!
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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Incredible scoop here from Hope not Hate:
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 27/02/2025
"Other senior business figures, who have funded either the Leave campaigns or Brexit think tanks, made their millions in Russia or have major investments there." | Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com
Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It
Peter Jukes tracks Vladimir Putin’s long war against the West and the allies he has found in the pro-Brexit establishment in the plot to derail Britain
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Anyone paying any attention knew this… Also, nearly half of all homes pay more council tax than Buckingham Palace …including a 3-bed terraced houses in Blackpool Council tax reform now.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Poorest fifth in England pay 4.8% of income in council tax; richest fifth 1.5%. 27% real term cut in council funding since 2010, govt hand tax cuts to corporations/rich. Poor hit with regressive taxes VAT Fuel duty Wages taxed at higher rates than dividends, capital gains. Need tax justice.
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Poorest UK households pay rising share of income on council tax, study finds
Resolution Foundation report says failure to reform has ‘slowly recreated the issues that undid the poll tax’
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 17/02/2025
Despite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage. By @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
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Government is busy: but the media are not telling you
Despite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🇬🇧 The stone raft: stubborn isolationism or an EU reset Starmer seeks an EU reset, but sends mixed signals to the EU on trade and alliances, and clings to US ties.
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The stone raft: stubborn isolationism or an EU reset
Starmer seeks an EU reset, but sends mixed signals to the EU on trade and alliances, and clings to US ties
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I like that he posted a picture of a print-out of the email.
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Nothing from this weasel who stalks Rachel Reeves' LinkedIn account about the 2 million extra NHS appointments delivered by Labour. #ukpolitics
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 06/02/2025
The BBC is covering up UK support for Israel. 👉https://declassifieduk.org/national-scandal-the-bbcs-gaza-cover-up/
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
2019-2024: £44bn lost to fraud in UK Govt depts under the Tories - often run by members now in Badenoch's Shadow Cabinet. Contracts for cronies, PPE procurement, COVID loans & furlough scheme, Eat Out to Help Out, R&D tax credits. Ministers ignored concerns. Who is called to account?
mirror.co.uk
Kemi Badenoch's top team ran departments that gave £20k a minute to fraudsters
New analysis reveals that since 2019, over £44 billion of taxpayer money was lost to fraud in departments under the Tories - often while they were run by members of Ms Badenoch's Shadow Cabinet
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 02/02/2025
✍️ An overview of the myriad disappointments of the Starmer Labour government, 2024-25 "You wanted hope and change and what did you get? Austerity, repackaged with a red rosette." © Steve Pottinger 2 Feb 2025 @bigstevepoet.bsky.social with cartoon by @sdupp.bsky.social
Cartoon of a Labour-brandee ticket machine showing "promises" and "no change given"
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
At home, Trump has enabled Musk to stage a coup against the government with his army of unvetted stooges taking over the Treasury. Abroad, he's shut down aid & canceled malaria/ HIV programs & put 1000s of lives at risk. Meanwhile, top Democratic leaders are tweeting about egg and priza prices. 😠
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Emma Trimble, "1 in 12 people in London are illegal immigrants" Professor Jonathan Portes, "Emma has taken that figure from a story in The Telegraph.. That story was a lie.. The Telegraph has corrected it, The Times has corrected it.. The Sun has corrected it.. And The Daily Mail has corrected it"
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
BBC: Welsh Refugee Council staff 'harassed' after Musk shares X post www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Welsh Refugee Council staff 'harassed' after Musk shares X post
Staff at the charity say some colleagues have had death threats after Musk shared the post on X.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Greenland would now vote to join the EU. I wonder what's caused such a big shift? 🤔
Polling data showing Greenland now 60% for joining EU. It was only 40% in 2021.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
British people now dislike Elon Musk more than ever with more than 7 in 10 having an unfavourable opinion of him. Even Reform voters are now turning against him
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 12/01/2025
As turmoil hits the markets with the UK being hit harder than most, Chris Blackhurst looks at why saying Brexit is to blame for much of the difficulties we are in is still a taboo and why unless we confront that reality, Keir Starmer will find it hard to move on www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
independent.co.uk
Brexit has done enormous harm to the UK – Starmer needs to urgently repair the damage
As turmoil hits the markets with the UK being hit harder than most, Chris Blackhurst looks at why saying Brexit is to blame for much of the difficulties we are in is still a taboo and why unless we co...
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 12/01/2025
“With Labour maintaining a single-digit lead in the polls at the best of times and not having risen above 30% since October, there is every chance that Reform UK could take the lead.” Nigel Farage’s party poses a great threat to Britain’s future | James Jobson
northeastbylines.co.uk
‘The unknown threat of Reform’
Nigel Farage’s party poses a great threat to Britain’s future
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 12/01/2025
The claim that Musk would like to buy LFC did not go down well with fans. Elon does not have a good enough track record as a businessman for this particular fan | Craig Melia
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Musk claim a stinker with fans
The claim that Musk would like to buy LFC did not go down well with fans. Elon does not have a good enough track record as a businessman for this particular fan
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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
There's some rewriting of history going on today where people are saying: oh, Labour is struggling with the economy too, maybe it wasn't all the Tories' mismanagement...? The answer is that it's Brexit. It's Brexit! You can't fix the economy until you confront Brexit!
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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Brexit funder Arron Banks can't get a visa to the US. Wonder why? Something raising security issues in your files, Arron? 🤔
indy100.com
Arron Banks denied entry to US for his own Donald Trump inauguration party
Arron Banks, the former UKIP donor and businessman who co-founded the Brexit campaign group Leave.EU with Reform UK’s Richard Tice, will be unable to celebrate Donald Trump’s inauguration at his own p...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
2016: Nigel Farage says MEPS have "never done a proper job in your life" 2025: The people of Clacton must be proud that their MP who doesn't hold in person surgeries, like every other MP in the country, manages to find time for nine jobs
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 12/01/2025
So concerned were the Reform MPs at child abuse, as they claimed, that none even bothered to turn up to the Commons debate. So notes Pecksniff, East Anglia Bylines acerbic diarist. Read this and his cutting views on other news stories from this week. ⤵️
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Pecksniff: So concerned were Reform MPs at child abuse, none turned up to the Commons debate
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
"Once a hub for news, debate, and connection, Twitter has devolved into a cesspit of hate and chaos. Today, I’m sending my final tweet."
northeastbylines.co.uk
Goodbye to Twitter. Good riddance to X.
"Once a hub for news, debate, and connection, Twitter has devolved into a cesspit of hate and chaos. Today, I’m sending my final tweet."
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 11/01/2025
"Once a hub for news, debate, and connection, Twitter has devolved into a cesspit of hate and chaos. Today, I’m sending my final tweet." | Mark Ferguson
northeastbylines.co.uk
Goodbye to Twitter. Good riddance to X.
"Once a hub for news, debate, and connection, Twitter has devolved into a cesspit of hate and chaos. Today, I’m sending my final tweet."
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
You have to admire the chutzpah of Ted Cruz attacking Karen Bass and Dems in LA right now. Ted Cruz wasn’t on an official trip out of town when Texas snow storms hit & shut down his state - he fled to Cancun AFTER the crisis began, to stay at the Ritz & have a nice time. 250+ people died in Texas
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