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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Currently somebody in Thailand can immediately influence British politics by simply paying £5 million...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Reform will end something for nothing Britain" says the MP who has wasted £250,000 on a by-election after being paid £98,599, plus expenses for chronic absenteeism from the House of Commons and zero constituency surgeries in Clacton meme via Truth Against Hate
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Why oh why is BBC headlining half arsed policies, by a minority Party with just 8 MPs, that’s in a tailspin down the polls, awash with financial investigations over dodgy dealings❓ It’s clearly a diversion.. 🤷🏻‍♂️ LibDems have 71 MPs, when was the last time one of their policies got such coverage🤔
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Reform UK benefits ban for foreign nationals would include EU citizens
The move would require renegotiating the UK's Brexit deal and could risk stripping British expats living in the EU of similar rights.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There are 71 Lib Dem MPs in Westminster. There are 8 Reform MPs. When was the last time a Lib Dem press release led the BBC News headlines or was the main story on the BBC News website? (Rhetorical question)
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Today is the 81st anniversary of the nuclear bombing of #Hiroshima. Yet despite the gut wrenching horror, the 9 nuclear states have *already* amassed the equivalent firepower of 145.000 Hiroshima bombs & still want more. This is madness. #NoMoreHiroshimas @cnduk.bsky.social
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
And now, a little Vivaldi. Michel Tirabosco, a renowned pan flute player, collaborating with Raphaël Froissart. He is a professor at the Geneva Conservatory. Born with physical differences, he began playing the pan flute at 7 and has achieved international recognition for his skill. #streetmusic
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
How the hell have journalists allowed Farage and Yusuf to pretend that their Royal Navy idea is a ‘humanitarian’ mission if ‘innocent’ immigrants are taken back to France, but a full-scale war-like ‘invasion’ of ‘illegals’ if coming our way? I mean, seriously. Please don’t be this hopeless…
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I see Richard “if Rayner had any integrity she would offer her resignation” Tice is being investigated. Again
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
As the UN Secretary General says, every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous & our world less secure. I hope Andy Burnham is listening. Caving in to the fossil fuel lobby as the planet burns would be unforgivable
theguardian.com
Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling
Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Sinking in Polls, Farage Plans Week of Attacks on Immigration" Reform plan to make next week Immigration Week It could finally be the moment for broadcast media to notice the > 75% drop in net migration since 2024. There is also a 42% drop in boat crossings
Bloomberg: Sinking in Polls, Farage Plans Week of Attacks on Immigration

Reform UK party is planning to hold multiple press conferences on immigration to turn public attention to the issue, despite the number of migrants arriving in the country nearly halving from the same time last year.
A total of 14,200 immigrants have arrived in the UK via small boats so far this year, down 44% compared to the same period last year, with the Home Office and National Crime Agency increasing seizures of small-boat engines and improving enforcement cooperation with the French.
The issue of immigration threatens to be riskier territory for new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who is already facing disquiet from backbench colleagues over reforms proposed during his predecessor's tenure.
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it's an uncivil war @lucyksy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
IDK who needs to hear this but polio and smallpox never reached natural herd immunity. They were eradicated by vaccines.
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gillyruss.bsky.social @gillyruss.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
13 MILLION adults in England are locked out of an NHS dentist, and preventable tooth decay is the #1 reason kids end up in hospital. No more dental deserts. No more DIY dentistry. Sign the petition now to tell our new PM to fix NHS dentistry for good: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fi...
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Fix and fund NHS Dentistry NOW!
Thirteen MILLION of us are still locked out of dental care. After two years of ministers promising to finally fix NHS dentistry, shocking new data just revealed that almost nothing has changed. That ...
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nypapajoe.bsky.social @nypapajoe.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Why is Kemi Badenoch never asked about the hefty funding the Conservative party has taken from the oil industry and its lobby groups whenever she talks about her decision to scrap her commitment to Net Zero?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"Reform UK platformed and celebrated a woman who publicly called for hotels full of asylum seekers to be set on fire. Yet the moment Nigel Farage is on the receiving end of hostile language, we're suddenly told words matter after all." via Truth Against Hate
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Reform's Zia Yusuf had claimed the state was "providing no protection whatsoever" to the party's MPs. In fact, Nigel Farage had been offered a package that would have given him the same level of protection as Kemi Badenoch - but he turned it down.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Almost £10 billion of the £15 billion that Boris Johnson's Government spent on PPE during the pandemic was wasted, the Covid Inquiry has concluded. The Inquiry found money was wasted on a "vast" scale, with companies with "connections to government" given first preference for contracts
theguardian.com
Johnson government wasted ‘vast’ sums on PPE, Covid inquiry finds
Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report
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Just a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Norway beat Israel 5-0 in the World Cup qualifiers and then donated the prize money they won to Gaza and that’s why everyone should be rooting for them.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When Lucy from Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, was victim to shoplifting people told her to install CCTV. Instead she put this ancient book thief curse on the wall from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona so book stealers would be consumed by "the flames of hell" with "their members blasted".
A Curse Against Stealers Of Books
For him that
stealth a book from
this place, let it
change into a
serpent in his hand
and rend him.
Let him be struck with
palsy,
& all his members 
blasted.
Let him languish in 
pain crying aloud for
mercy, & let there be be no surcease to his 
agony till he sink to
dissolution.
Let bookworms gnaw
his entrails in token of 
the Worm that diets not,
& when at last he
goeth to his final
punishment, let the
flames of
hell consume him
forever & aye.
(Monastery Of San Pedro, Barcelona.)
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gillyruss.bsky.social @gillyruss.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
surveys.38degrees.org.uk/to/F0dipDoG
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Click here to vote today:
Do you think Nigel Farage represents the “people” or the “establishment”?
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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 05/07/2026
The NHS is 78 years old today … which means that if it were a person, having spent the whole of its life with free healthcare, it would be statistically more likely to vote Reform than any other political party. Reform want to get rid of the NHS. Go figure that one out.
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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
2 years on from the 2024 General Election, I'm still working hard to represent my constituents. Governments and Prime Ministers - they come and go, but my job stays exactly the same - fighting for the people of #Winchester and the Meon Valley.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Kudos #BookSky
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/07/2026
NEWS: Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building antenna. They are holding a banner that reads: “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace”
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The sums involved in the MPs expenses scandal were chicken feed compared to the Farage £5m. HIs reaction - mind your own business - suggests he may not be cut out for this democracy thing app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73952/...
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We must learn the truth about Nigel Farage’s £5m donation
The Reform leader should be made to understand that transparency is part of standing for high office
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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." #Booksky
Image is of author and essayist George Orwell at his typewriter. Text reads: Dear World, Did you not read my book? Sincerely, George Orwell
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Essa Suleiman faces three charges of attempted murder But Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood spend an entire day giving interviews and only mentioned two victims Why did Starmer and Mahmood only talk about the two Jewish victims and ignore the third, a Muslim victim?
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StoptheFarRight @stopthetories.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Just think, while the newspapers were hounding the new PM for accepting a pair of glasses, Nigel Farage was counting his £5,000,000 bribe to run as a Reform candidate for Clacton.
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Emma-Jane @e-jc.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Boris Johnson didn't pass vetting when Theresa May appointed him Foreign Secretary. The media must have missed that one.
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Trump's remarks that 'a whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again' lay bare his plan to issue wildly illegal orders. I signed this letter to the Prime Minister. We must withdraw access now to all UK air bases, or risk British soil being used to commit Trump's war crimes.
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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
📢 CAMPAIGN WIN: Henry Beaufort School Bus📢 I am delighted that Hampshire County Council has finally listened to the calls from parents, carers and students about this short-sighted decision. This service is retained until July - so we will be continuing to campaign for its survival for next year.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
As the police find no evidence whatsoever of illegal family voting or voter coercion in the Gorton and Denton by-election, the BBC should ask themselves why, on the morning of the result, they gave so much airtime to these absurd and obviously racist claims from Nigel Farage
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No evidence of 'family voting' in Gorton and Denton by-election
An investigation into alleged
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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Can you imagine a world without antibiotics? Superbugs developing abroad do not respect borders. Climate change puts healthcare systems under strain, creating the ideal conditions for infection and resistant bacteria. We have to act now to monitor disease to keep superbugs at bay.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Who do they represent? Themselves. Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman missed NINE votes in Parliament last night, all because they had a more important Reform UK rally on the Isle of Wight. They think they are too big to do their job.
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Gary1955 @gary1955.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Now you know why we are where we are today. Last year, he said we destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities. That was another lie.
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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Whether we are taking about vaccines or climate change, politicians who weaponise scientific facts and ignore scientific advice for the sake of political culture wars, end up damaging both public health and the economy.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 14/02/2026
The Dublin Agreement was a huge deterrent. People knew if they arrived in UK & had claimed elsewhere, approved or denied, they would immediately be returned. Now that data sharing is no longer an automatic right. The UK lost access to several shared mechanisms when it left the EU
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Nigel Farage tells GB News that Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador shows his judgement is "seriously wrong" and he should stand down as Prime Minister. Here's what Farage said when Mandelson was appointed
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gillyruss.bsky.social @gillyruss.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
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Call off the King’s visit to the US for the 250th anniversary of America's independence
With the current political chaos in the US and Trump’s failure to adhere to international norms, and given his apparent obsession with the Monarchy, calling off this visit would send a powerful messag...
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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Over the past week, I have received many emails from constituents about banning harmful social media for under-16s. I could not agree more and here's what we need to do about it: dannychambers.substack.com/p/why-it-is-...
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Why it is high time that we ban harmful social media sites for under-16s.
In the past week, I have received well over a thousand emails from deeply concerned constituents, all calling for a ban on social media for under-16s.
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Koningwoning @koningwoning.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
If the UK media now do not apply equal harsh measures to Nigel Farage than they did to Angela Raynor, then they are complicit in a) a Mysoginist narrative where men are forgiven and women 'should have known better' and b) are actively saying they are okay with Farage in charge.
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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Free speech isn't a defense for inciting violence, undermining democracy, hate speech or promoting medical misinformation. Much of the content promoted on X is dangerous and unethical. youtube.com/shorts/LsxZ6...
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Free speech does not mean freedom to abuse
YouTube video by Danny Chambers
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
100% this!👇
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Why is Nigel Farage on next week Ed Davey is the leader of the third party #bbclaurak
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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Children often think chatbots are their friends - they shouldn't be using them for mental health advice and support. We need to regulate chatbots that give medical advice to the same standard as qualified medical professionals. youtube.com/shorts/Z2z01...
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It's time to stop the bots
YouTube video by Danny Chambers
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
'Honest' Bob Jenrick will surely be furious when he finds out that the last Tory Govt lobbied hard for this (dual) British citizen to be freed from Egyptian jail - and if anyone tells him he was Immigration Minister and thus a part of that Tory Govt, he might even completely implode...
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