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@gigsandgrounds.bsky.social
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I love gigs and groundhopping. Quite partial to whiskey and real ale too. Happily woke. Several not very careful owners and seen better days 😀 I may post without my reading glasses, so expect typos...

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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Couples with £1 million and a family home will be able to avoid contributing anything to the collective good of their children’s and grandchildren’s country says Kemi Badenoch. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Couples would be able to leave £1m and family home exempt from inheritance tax under Tories, says Badenoch – UK politics live
Conservative leader says proposed measures would halve the number of families paying inheritance tax
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Farage is using people whipping up hate to protect himself and his Brexit ..... that's all it's about." via We Demand UK
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'seven women...have told the Guardian they are survivors of domestic abuse carried out by key figures in the anti-immigration street patrol movement. All have chosen to come forward to make the public aware of the patterns of violence behind this new form of activism.'
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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TuxedoAlbedo @jerryork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump wanting an American city destroyed. WTF??
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Suspended sentence for man found to have a collection of more than 114,000 indecent images of children. Tommy Robinson and co are going to be all over this. They'll be SO angry... Just you wait... Any second now... ...
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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My 9 albums #my9albums my9albums.org/s/f2193672bbd4
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I love talking our country down While offering no solutions Because I’m a grifting gobshite Who likes to incite unrest Small boat crossings are down 44% Deportations are the highest in 10 years Immigration is 82% lower But who needs facts When you can make up lies
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Reform’s world leading vetting excels again A Reform councillor stepped away from his cabinet role, over concerns re his alleged arrest Police carried out warrants at properties in Grimsby and Waltham, seizing suspected unlicensed prescription drugs and class A drugs. #ReformCrimsInc
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Reform UK cabinet councillor steps aside amid police inquiry
The leader of North East Lincolnshire Council says Reform UK's James Sawkins remains a councillor.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 04/10/2026
Trump inherited an economy The Economist called “The Envy of the World" and ran it into the ground, just like everything else he inherited.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
'2 year suspended sentence and 200 hours community service/unpaid work' "Imagine the carnage if this guy was brown!......" via We Demand UK
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In these challenging times someone might need these: Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 Age UK: 0800 169 6565 Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650 Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 MH text support: SHOUT to 85258 Please share x
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm furious about the two Iranians who came across as part of the surge in small boats created by my Brexit and under a Home Office run by my MPs Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Remember that Farage deifies Thatcher and wants even more privatisation designed to make the super-rich wealthier and the rest of us poorer or destitute 'Absolutely everything rotten in the UK can be traced back to Thatcher' via St Helens Resistance
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JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org · 02/10/2026
Have you visited Bo'ness? I never thought it would have so much to offer: a railway museum, a motor museum full of movie props from James Bond, Doctor Who, and Star Wars, you name it! Plus Kinneil House, witch trials, the Antonine Wall. Enjoy! :-) Repost pls youtu.be/T9sR1r7w9x4 #Scotland #history
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Why Is NO ONE Talking About Bo’ness?!
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A legal requirement concerning grandparents and German (as opposed to Jewish) blood was established under the Nuremberg Laws which Adolf Hitler introduced and enforced. ‘I’m not English. My parents weren’t born here. My grandparents weren’t born here’ Suella Braverman.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Personally I'm against ending the pension triple lock (preferring to #TaxTheRich to save money) but Farage's attack on Labour is utter hypocrisy ...
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most corrupt administration in the history of the US by far. You could add up all instances of corruption by every other admin in US history and it will not equal the amount of corruption perpetrated by this one in less than 2 years.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rich privately educated prick who wasn’t even born until 1984 recasts era of rioting, poverty and mass unemployment as Britain’s golden age. Thatcher was the worst thing that ever happened to Britain
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reform UK’s Welsh leader works for firm that helps foreign workers migrate to the UK nation.cymru/news/reform-...
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Reform UK's Welsh leader works for firm that helps foreign workers migrate to the UK
Martin Shipton Reform UK’s leader in Wales works part time for an organisation that helps foreign migrants obtain visas to work in the UK, we can reveal. Helen Jenner recently took over from Dan…
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
After the Brexit referendum in 2016, Nigel Farage predicted that the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Austria and Italy. 2016 to 2025: each country has become more pro EU 🇳🇱 Netherlands - from 72% to 81% 🇩🇰 Denmark - from 62% to 85% 🇸🇪 Sweden - from 64% to 85% 🇦🇹 Austria - 37% to 51% 🇮🇹 Italy - 33% to 52%
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Walter Alvarez @walter2864.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bibi showing Trump how to get around pesky elections..
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Ann Buckley @annbuckley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rui Pinto will no longer be a protected witness under Portuguese authorities. This is getting dark, quickly
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Novocastrum @novocastrianufc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#NUFC #ManCity
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On my daily propaganda show tonight I will be pretending that Brexit wasn't a complete and unmitigated disaster based on the lies of a handful of rich grifting twats who don't give a shit about ordinary people.
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We Are Brighton @wearebrighton.com · 30/09/2026
"If a nation state bought Brighton for the main purpose of sportswashing their human rights record and then debased the 125-year history of #BHAFC by thinking financial rules did not apply to them, I would be livid" Read: www.wearebrighton.com/newsopinion/...
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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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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 29/09/2026
Al Jazeera did a lovely summary of the Manchester City cheating scandal.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.
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Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
Mahmood's
reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The police have asked everyone to please not speculate about the RAF Fairford incident, so naturally I'm going to waste no time in making up total bollocks to suit my own agenda.
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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.co.uk · 27/09/2026
NEW POST 📣 11 clubs that changed the course of football history… Might be the odd surprise in here for you… #Skystorians #HistorySky outsidewrite.substack.com/p/11-clubs-t...
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11 clubs that changed the course of football history
In my first book, Origin Stories: The Pioneers Who Took Football to the World (2021), I explored the roots of football around the world. A handful of remarkable clubs really stood out. Here’s why.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Perhaps Reform UK could protect women & girls better by focusing on the paedophiles, rapists, domestic abusers among its own members, rather than promoting lies ... meme via Sponge Dan
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
True patriots would surely welcome such a plan. Unless they have something to hide?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Marco Rubio: “Iranians are radical religious lunatics.” Also: Have you met Paula White, the White House faith advisor?
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Bob Griffiths @bobgriffiths20.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can this new centre also have a really good look at Johnson, Farage, Rupert Lowe, Arron Banks, Wigmore, Patriotic Platform, Tommeh, Tommo and their involvement and their reach past and present in the dissemination of misinformation, propaganda and Russian influence?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Billionaire Brexiteeer and Man United owner says he has "lost confidence in the UK"... A man who is so 'patriotic' to our country that he doesn't even live here! He lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties." via Jay Church
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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
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Callum @theclashcallum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Starting to think the billionaire class aren't as loving and selfless as once thought.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sir Jim Ratcliffe suspends production at key UK plants blaming high gas prices
Ineos said natural gas in the UK is twelve times more expensive than in the US.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026
'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org
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