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John Rob

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The Beatles, Classic Films. Proper Books, and Manchester United. Not in any particular order. Oh, and I'm definitely not interested in... 🚫 Crypto 🚫 porn bots 🚫 God squads! 🚫 Maga! 🚫 bare chested men!

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 3h
"Your enemy is not travelling by small boat, they are travelling by private jet" via The UK Against Hate Ps Nigel Farage was so concerned about struggles of ordinary people he flew to super-rich conference at Davos by private jet to tell billionaires they'd be even richer of he got into No. 10
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Busby Babes will NEVER die @trevthered.bsky.social · 4h
Last Friday was the deadline for City to lodge their appeal. The panel must report in 12 weeks. Twelve weeks from 2nd October is 25th December! The best ever Christmas Present would see massive punishment for the noisy neighbour cheaters Happy Christmas City 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
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Manchester Is Red Man Utd
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 4h
Reform UK are foxes looking after the chickens "Reform councillor James Sawkins—who was literally IN CHARGE of "Safer and Stronger Communities"—forced to STEP DOWN after appearing in COURT over Class A drugs and illegal medicine charges! ..." www.facebook.com/politicsinth... via Politics in the U.K
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 2h
More lying-by-omission right-wing outrage exposed meme via FascinatingAvocados
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 4h
'Robert Jenrick wants you to believe Reform fixed 200,000 “potholes and roads” in Nottinghamshire. What he doesn't mention is where the money came from. £44.7 million of the council's £52.4 million highways capital funding came through East Midlands Combined County Authority.' via Truth Against Hate
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 3h
"We don't want violent men in ill fitting balaclavas intimidating people and trying to take over – that's not democracy and they're not patriots " via The UK Against Hate
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 3h
Things are getting rather interesting over at Reform UK. Nigel Farage has now been questioned by the parliamentary standards commissioner over the £5 million gift he received "Nigel Farage questioned by standards commissioner over £5m gift" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Suzanne Brown @suzannebrown.bsky.social · 4h
This Tory is actually expecting us to believe that less regulation will make property developers more likely to build safer homes. As young people say "Is he on crack?" #r4today
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nailed it 👇
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Suzanne Brown @suzannebrown.bsky.social · 4h
Are we going to hear any minute now that the US (aka Oceania) is no longer at war with Eurasia and is instead at war with Eastasia? #r4today
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 5h
Reform councillor arrested over election papers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform councillor Ryan Coogan arrested over election papers
Ryan Coogan, the party's group leader at Huntingdonshire District Council, is currently on bail.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 5h
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
Value of the
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Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · 22h
Remembering Janis Joplin #otd 🎶'Little Girl Blue'
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John Rob @dennisobell.bsky.social · 15h
Just out of interest. What do you think of my ink drawing that I drew freehand from the excellent Pen & Ink Drawing, by Alphonso Dunn.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This 👇 Here Too.......
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Ben Habib, ex-Deputy Leader of Reform UK ... alleges that Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson were each paid £1 million by Christopher Harborne to "rig" the 2019 election in Johnson’s favour." www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUgx...
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Ben Habib alleges Farage & Johnson took £1m to "rig" election; Farage denies £5m "pay-to-play" gift
YouTube video by Original Jedi Watching
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 17h
Lovely afternoon on the doorstep in Holborn & St Pancras, with Camden’s own Sagal Abdi-Wali – she’s led a such a positive and progressive campaign. Sagal’s story shows our country at its best. Choose hope, back Sagal and vote Labour on 8 October.
Bridget Phillipson and Sagal Abdi-WaliNatasha Irons, Bridget Phillipson, Sagal Abdi-Wali and Liam ConlonLabour activists in Holborn & St Pancras
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18h
That's pretty smart comms
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
4 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators.
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 22h
For a long time I have heard rumours of secret flights into Dubai: plane loads of complete nutcases. I have never believed it and still don’t. If true, it should bring down Isabel Oakeshott as she is one. 🤪
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Dinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh no! They came over on #BrexitBoats! The Home Secretary should resign! Who was Home Secretary in 2023? Oh yes: Suella Braverman.
BREAKING: Officials say the two Iranian men accused of plotting a terror attack on Jewish people in Manchester arrived in the UK by small boat in 2020 and 2023
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There's an argument for scrapping the £100K salary limit for childcare but saying those on £100K salaries are uniquely hard working is bollocks. Workers on the early bus on their way to cleaning, caring, hospitality jobs work just as hard. Tories believe wealth is acquired by virtue. It ain't.
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Marlowe_UK @irishdreamer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jesus Facebook is a depressingly racist shit hole. Utter scum cheering the deaths of children in the Chanel. Utter scum refusing to learn the laws about asylum seekers. Grown adults pretending all rapes are committed by refugees and ALL refugees are rapists.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just like Nigel Farage's hero Donald Trump has tried to distract from his #EpsteinFiles raping of girls by starting a war Reform UK are screaming 'Stop The Boats' ever louder to get media attention away from ... "Don't forget......" via We Demand UK
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Labour are delivering hope again 🌹
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Tories’ position on pensions is falling apart. A Shadow Cabinet member wants to replace the State Pension as we know it with something that offers 'dramatically less'. Only Labour will protect a rising state pension while building a new National Care Service. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Senior Tory privately urged ‘radical’ shake-up of triple lock
In a leaked recording in June, Katie Lam appears to break from Kemi Badenoch’s position, saying an ‘entirely new pension system’ may be needed
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tucker Carlson is a sick Nazi fuck. Prove me wrong.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reform-run Derbyshire County Council blacklisted a journalist after he exposed its £50,000 fence fiasco. Its deputy leader justified the move with a claim he later admitted was wrong. This is Reform’s answer to scrutiny. Attack the press. #NoAccountability
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Farage has described Burnham’s new EU stance as 'Brexit betrayal' The real Brexit betrayal was Farage & Johnson promising NHS and economic nirvana they knew would never happen " ... by the end of 2025 Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%"
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Susan 🐝🐓🪴🌻🇪🇺🇺🇦 @susanf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
BBC Breakfast airing Farage again as ’most attacked politician’ and his lies about being ‘refused’ protection - all without challenge. No politician should fear for their life, but sick of BBC pushing Refuk narrative without fact checking
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John Rob @dennisobell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you're Nick Timothy, and you really don't want to try and answer a tricky question from Naga Munchetty, in relation to the 50'000 prison places that you'd apparently build if you win the next election...
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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“The Tories are taking the public for fools. Across 14 years in government, they added just 500 prison places and closed 23 prisons. Now Kemi Badenoch expects the British people to believe they'll build 50,000."
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of the seats had been vacated after the Reform incumbent failed to turn up to any meetings for six months. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/lab...
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Labour claim double by-election gain from Reform
Labour have won two council by-elections in Northumberland in wards that had previously been held by Reform UK.
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
EXCLUSIVE Reform MP Sarah Pochin asked a question about the impact second homes have on rural areas, just 48 hours before buying a £800k second home in Wales… willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/reform-mp-...
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Reform UK MP buys £800k Welsh second home just days after questioning their impact
Is this a case of politicians saying ‘do as I say, not as I do’?
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John Rob @dennisobell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reform run Kirklees Council. Looking to see what books people would like to see in libraries. And just maybe what they don't want to see as well? It's interesting that the survey is also open to none users who are very unlikely to have a clue about the kind of books libraries currently hold anyway.
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 02/10/2026
Amble (Northumberland) Council By-Election Result: 🌹 LAB: 38.8% (+0.4) ➡️ RFM: 33.5% (-10.9) 🌳 CON: 21.0% (+3.8) ◼️ RES: 6.7% (New) Labour GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2025.
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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BBC website. Me me me it’s all about me Chris Mason. Mason has deliberately turned a none issue over Burhan’s comments about Man City into a major event when no such issue existed. Mason is a snivelling little runt who should be sacked.He’s a nasty little man.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Braverman blathering on about who can be English, Farage starting his me-me-me tour of the country telling audiences he’ll fix the country in 100 days or they’ll all sack themselves… apart from him… and Yusuf fanboying that racist thug who got refused bail… A moron festival. Come on, UK. Enough now.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Congratulations to Suella Braverman for her Question Time appearance - I didn't think it was possible for her to come across as any more deranged and stupid than usual, but she somehow managed it.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 01/10/2026
Welcome to the new Reform roadshow. Same as the last but more desperate #JohnCrace Nige is not rattled that the UK likes its new PM. Or that Reform is second in the polls. Oh no. Because Nige believes in Nige www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Welcome to the new Reform roadshow. Same as the last but more desperate | John Crace
Nige is not rattled that the UK likes its new PM. Or that Reform is second in the polls. Oh no. Because Nige believes in Nige
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage has strongly hinted Reform UK's internal investigation will CLEAR two senior aides suspended following Channel 4's undercover donations investigation. Asked about the inquiry today, Farage said: "It's been done. It'll be out in public very soon."
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Utter vacuous bollox Farage couldn’t stop a tap running.. even with one on one training for a week
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Only Reform will take £5 million bribes, accept illegal foreign donations, let convicted fraudsters bankroll them, buy houses in their girlfriend's name to avoid tax, help crypto billionaires get richer and do fuck all for ordinary people. 😊
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John Rob @dennisobell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Escape to the Country has really excelled itself today. Young couple looking for their first home together, with a budget of ¾ million to spend. Blimey.
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AnthonyF272 @anthonyf272.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I watch Farage on TV news stirring things again. How much longer before investigations into his finances come to a conclusion? It is not good enough that he gets away with all his shenanigans.
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Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every wednesday my husband cooks dinner for a group of pensioners, his dad and some of his parents pals. They are politically and financially mixed. All said they dont care about the triple lock but all want social care sorting.
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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
DO IT, DO IT, DO IT!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This mindset is the least we deserve from a leader. Of course it has to be turned into action. But this kind of ambition and love for the country, this kind of personal but positive vision is what takes people with you. How feeble-minded Farage and Badenoch seem. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Photo of Burnham waving to the audience in front of HOPE AGAIN backdrop Burnham was not going to die wondering. He knew he might be delivering one of the longest suicide notes in history, but he did it anyway. Because he couldn't not do it. Better to go down remaining true to his principles than being slowly airbrushed out of history like the previous six prime ministers. Failures all. Andy was prepared to burn through all his political capital right there in Liverpool, right then. Not just for his own legacy but for a country he wanted to rebuild. It was the only way he could look himself in the mirror.
Honour his parents.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No surprise that the Tories, like Reform love free speech as long it’s what they like to hear and block anything they don’t like.. Let’s face it.. with 100% of Reform MPs being ex Tories*, today’s Tories are just Reform members who havent sunk that low and joined yet Tice & Farage are ex Tories
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've been blocked from attending Conservative Party conference. Just a few weeks after Badenoch blasted Reform for doing the same thing... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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