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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just as a counterpoint to some of the obituaries this morning, here's the start of the Archer chapter in my history of political lying, The Lies of the Land:

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 16h

Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3h

Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.

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TIMES
Wednesday October 7 2026

Badenoch promises tax cuts in 'battle for the soul of this nation'

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Every single leader of Reform UK is an ex member of the Tory Party responsible for 14 years of austerity which killed thousands of old, poor, sick and disabled people Don't listen to their promises to make life better They are the problem "From one bin to another......" via We Demand UK

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Voters loathed the Tory party when they booted them out in 2024.They really needed to shake off their disgrace with humility and better ideas. They haven’t. They’ve doubled down. More Brexit, more austerity, more anti-immigration ugliness, more tedious arrogance… and no good reason to vote for them.

Party seems to have learnt nothing from 2024 defeat
John Oxley

The Conservative Party is keen to show it is now ready to return to government, two and a half years after a
historic defeat.

Their self-soothing explanation posits that defeat came from not being able to do what they wanted

No such pivot is happening at the current conference. The Tories have come to Birmingham calling for a return to orthodoxy, with similar lines about cutting benefits and regulation. Even so, they seem trapped by the same contradictions
- pledging to cut benefits, but not the winter fuel payments and triple lock on pensions that go to their voters.
There is no "hug-a-hoodie" moment in Birmingham. The Conservative Party is not indicating that it has changed or seeking to broaden its appeal. It is doing the opposite: it is a party returning to its core, restating all the old ideas voters have rejected but louder.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…

Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The #BBC strange idea of "balance" continues. #bbcqt continue their promotion of Reform: a party with a mere eight MPs: four of whom were elected as Tories and defected post-2024. Meanwhile the Lib Dems with 71 MPs: the third force in the UK Commons barely get a shout in.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban 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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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The UK has always had a right-wing media. But they are now a hysterical, disinformation spreading cartel. Weaponised by Brexit lies, Corbyn smears, defending Boris Johnson, spreading racism & trying to delegitimise the very idea of a Labour Govt. Another rotten vested interest needing reform.

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The sign being used in stores across Canada, thanks to Trump. =====================

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Should be reposted every month....

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Just A Grandmom🇺🇸 @grandmompa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm on board with this. Along with very lengthy prison terms for treason.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Dear Diary, The police have condemned 'unfounded, malicious speculation' about the RAF Fairford suspects. Fortunately they said nothing about baccy-stained grifters spreading lies to incite anger in a desperate bid to stay relevant"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tom Tugendhat in Sunday Times insists on leaving the ECHR to tackle “soaring” immigration. What a miserable rat. Lying to us all. Betraying our country’s best interests. Threatening to flounce out of our human rights framework, trashing our treaties and torching our protection from abuses of power.

The Tories are planning to make the ECHR a dividing line at the next election. Last week the party announced plans to deport every foreign criminal, apart from those convicted of the most trivial offences, and said their plan for ECHR withdrawal meant only the Conservatives were equipped to take on the problem of soaring immigration. One of the problems withdrawal would create is a legal dispute over whether it breaches the Good Friday agreement, which committed the UK to fully incorporate the ECHR into Northern Ireland's justice system. Tugendhat said the issue had not yet been raised in his conversations with lawmakers in the US, adding:
"There's a lot of work to be done."

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just been listening to Charlie Mullins saying that he'll only return to Britain if Farage becomes PM. Labour should put that on their election leaflets.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyone who believes this bunch of con artists represents their interests is either a billionaire or seriously misinformed. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/outr...

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Outrage as Reform-run council votes to shut 10 nurseries

Members of the public shouted “you should be ashamed” as Reform councillors approved the plans

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Tim Schofield 🌹 @timschofield.org.uk · 24/09/2026

Nigel Farage says an attack on Russia pushing disinformation in the UK is an attack on Reform UK When they tell you who they are, believe them.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I mean I know it's bad and the govt should say more about it. But god it's also pathetic. 100 twats in their crappy homemade outfits.

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Matt @thefleeb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nigel Farage is a foreign asset and an English asshole

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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Farage is worried about being prevented from spreading misinformation and cooperating with the Kremlin against the UK's and Europe's interests and security. #FarageRussia

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That thug sabotaging rescue efforts, racist riots, flags on lampposts, pink ladies wanting to burn down hotels, doxxing charity workers, ICE-style deportation plans, threats to scrap the Equality Act and leave the ECHR… “legitimate concerns” No. A tornado of hate and prejudice set off by Farage.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If only there was some way of knowing why Nigel Farage is so against a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just because I strongly oppose any measure to tackle Russian misinformation, doesn’t mean I’m on Russia's side. In unrelated news, one of the few times I bothered turning up for work as an MEP was to vote AGAINST measures to tackle the spread of Russian misinformation...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you for this, @privateeyenews.bsky.social Farage needs ridiculing far more. It’s a form of scrutiny he can’t cope with and one he so richly - yes pun intended - deserves.

TV HIGHLIGHTS
72 Up
The award-winning documentary series continues, charting the progress of one posh little boy, Nigel, over the years.
The last time we saw him was over a week ago in 36
Up when he had been given £36 million out of the blue.
In the latest instalment Nigel is given another £36 million, making the total donation a jaw-dropping £72 million.
This is a life changing moment for the former prep school boy who was recorded in the first episode singing the Horst Wessel song and coming up with charming but embarrassing comments about admiring Hitler.
As the clock moves forward
to 72 Up, viewers now see a completely different Nigel from the one we have come to know so well over the years
- from Europe-hating MEP to Brexit-promoting campaigner to the triumphant bin-defeating statesman of today. It's been a roller-coaster ride for Nigel
- and indeed the viewer - and this remarkable series ends with a poignant and moving climax in a Clacton oyster bar, where the older but no wiser Nigel faces the prospect of being Prime Minister and/or going to jail after criminal proceedings.
EYE VERDICT: "Boring, boring, Boring! Nothing to see here
- put a sock in it, love."

(Insert photo of him slurping up oysters)

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Perhaps the 79& of Reform UK supporters who favour public ownership aren't aware that Farage & his greedy cronies want MORE NHS privatisation to profiteer from ... "Your regular reminder that almost all of us reject NHS privatisation - no matter who we vote for" via @weownit.org.uk

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

All these platforms were originally sold to us as being liberating tools of free speech and expression. Now they're being actively used by their owners to suppress it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Dr. Dave @drdave1999.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“American journalism” is an oxymoron. Cowering in fear, and unwilling to report that the emperor’s new clothes are an illusion, the fourth estate no longer exists in the U.S. We have neither a free press, nor individuals with sufficient integrity to work in one.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jim Ratcliffe, tax-dodging Brexiter billionaire living in Monaco, says the poorest and most vulnerable should have their rights & benefits removed to bolster our economy. Don’t bother telling us this rancid man’s opinions unless you say how much he’s avoided in tax and what Brexit is costing us all.

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sam-27.bsky.social @sam-27.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

His Brexit has broken Britain. He doesn’t live and pay taxes here but expects us to subsidise his businesses 😡 Their riches are never enough for them. Nobody should be a billionaire

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This is the face of someone who is ruining the UK. It's not the people the papers want you to think His INEOS has received £166.8m+ in UK/Scottish government support, plus a £230m UK Government loan guarantee, and public support of circa £397m and avoided up to £4bn in UK tax by living in Monaco

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.

Reform UK
Follow
@reformparty_uk
Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

tonymurray1964 You see, Richard, your problem is that Reform is, basically, a bunch of horrible bastards doing horrible bastard things in a conspicuously horrible bastard way. In general, people don't like horrible bastards. I hope that's cleared things up for you Richard, you horrible bastard.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026

🤔 Nigel Farage leads a political party. He’s a sitting MP. And he now hosts his own weekly primetime show on GB News. 🚨Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias. 👇 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action.

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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...

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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed

GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Farage in 2016: “Vote Leave to save the £.” Farage in 2026: “Screw the £, we must have crypto.”

REFORMUK
EDITORIAL
66 Reform UK's crypto policies are making the party look out of touch
Editorial: Nigel Farage needs to end the impression that his party is the political wing of the crypto industry

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