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griffj08.bsky.social @griffj08.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Attractive entertaining football, it’s enjoyable to watch… and to me that’s all that matters

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Dear government, don’t send startling, high-pitched alerts about wildfires to ordinary people's phones. Send them to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies and make them impossible to switch off until they stop the destructive plunder that's contributing to climate change.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Reform scores hat trick of losses in Manchester despite the hype, the polling and the noise around Farage. Over to you now, Clacton. Deal the killer blow and vote Count Binface in August. The country could do with the laugh. And without that grifting loser. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Bev Craig elected mayor of Greater Manchester in huge Labour victory over Reform

Meanwhile, it is Reform's third disappointment in Greater Manchester this year, after failing to win in Gorton and Denton or Makerfield.
Nigel Farage's party were made early favourites by the bookmakers when this by-election was first mooted, having performed well in the local elections here, winning 24 of 25 seats available in Wigan in May.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is surely curtains for Farage's political career. I don't think there's any coming back from it. I hope not, at any rate. Looks like there could be a strong basis for a criminal case as well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK

Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son

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Interstellar @interstel1ar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

In a rare moment of good news Andrew Tate and his brother have been arrested. HahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahaha!

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griffj08.bsky.social @griffj08.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Well he already does and what’s really, really, really bad…the checks and balances supposedly in place to stop any President corrupting and looting….well they’re just are not happening or working. That’s the real scary thing. No democracy.

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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The definition of a true fan: You’d rather see your team lose fairly than win unfairly.

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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

There’s nothing like the sweet smell of failure in the morning.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

First Caerphilly… Then Gorton and Denton Now Makerfield Even with the press and billionaires firmly on your side, you lose We don’t want your division, rage and riots Hope that’s clear now 🇬🇧❤️✌🏽

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Vote Reform for mass unemployment. If Farage and Tice win, they'll destroy a million jobs, while offering nothing in return. Spread the word: for the sake of their billionaire funders, they will throw you out of work. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.com

Nothing says stupidity like Reform's obsession with destroying British jobs | George Monbiot

Claims that our prosperity depends on oil and gas are bunkum – unless you’re a Reform backer with fossil fuel interests, of course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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

Fear, hate and racism whipped up by ugly politicians and irresponsible media. With Musk’s X spreading the word and organising their fascist foot soldiers. This is the rage that Farage called for. These are his people. This is his racist, hateful, angry Britain. app.independent.co.uk/2026/06/10/2...

Photo: Firefighters work to extinguish a fire in three cars parked on the street at Tigers Bay (Reuters)

Racists, online and in person, including politicians, have been showing us all what their real agenda is.
Far-right online figures, racist elements in England and the US have used Monday's events to justify spreading their poison.
People who know nothing of Belfast and probably have never been here are using what has happened to their own advantage.

Whether that is politicians speaking out of both sides of their mouths or online scumbags cynically capitalising on events to try to make a point.
The "protect our women and girls" crowd have thought nothing of being all sorts of abusive to journalists like me.
It is so depressing to see burning barricades and to know that non-white people are in fear for their lives because casually racist characters online and in the real world are frothing at the mouth to spread their hate.

Photo of police vans, rioters standing on them, smoke and chaos

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.

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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The most corrupt president in the history of our country.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Just watch this… And for the love of God, please see Farage for what he is. His response to Sarah Everard Vs his response to Henry Nowak Jaw dropping.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

So that’s two of the “Raise the Colours” organisers now charged with violent crimes & a fifth of the 2024 race rioters with domestic abuse. Makes you wonder whether “innocent patriotism” & “protecting women & girls” are just covers for thuggish racism & misogyny?

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Boom.

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Blue Tsunami #NoKings @bluefuture.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Donald Trump is the worst president in the history of the United States.

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griffj08.bsky.social @griffj08.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Or which shoe goes on which foot. So long as the problem is immigrants they really don’t care about anything else. Yet.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Our democracy is literally being sold out from under us. Crypto billionaires putting their man in power to make a killing. It should be front page, headline news every day until the criminal investigation is underway. And Farage is banned from public office. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-cameo-...

The Cameo Candidate

The biggest lie in politics is the claim that Nigel Farage, who has received more corporate bungs than any politician in our history, "cannot be bought"
ADAM BIENKOV
MAY 16, 2026

Photo of Farage laughing surrounded by bitcoin symbols

In other words, Farage not only plans to use his desired office as Prime Minister to hand huge tax cuts to his own crypto donors, but he then plans to personally profit massively from the ensuing transactions.
As misuse of the political process goes, it is hard to imagine anything more nakedly corrupt.
And yet Farage's planned ransacking of the British political process, for his own financial ends, is still barely being scrutinised by most of the British press.

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Southampton FC Statistics @saintsstatto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Just been crunching some numbers on the old spreadsheet. My analysis suggests that the optimal way to resolve the #spygate situation is for the Premier League to dock Spurs 15 points. Something I think we can all get on board with. #SaintsFC

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.

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bill @bill-66.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

"It's grifters like you and your colleagues who are the problem" #BBCQT Gent slams Reform UK and Conservatives for attacking migrants

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Why do we have to tolerate such unadulterated bollox from this hideous man? And why does the media give it all a veneer of potential respectability? Farage is pathologically corrupt and obscenely greedy. He’s a national security threat, a liar and a racist. Just say so. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

No obligation to declare £5m gift, Nigel Farage says

The Reform UK leader says the gift was

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

From raid to triumph. 🏆 On Monday, Hannah Natanson and the WaPo won the Pulitzer for Public Service for coverage of the Trump-Musk "DOGE" initiative. The win follows a chilling escalation in government pressure.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The populist right don't give a crap about solving real societal problems. Just running a cretinous pantomime for people who mistake “owning the libs” for improving their own lives — while the men at the top quietly fill their pockets and walk away richer than ever.

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Kentish Fran #FBPE @kentishfran.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Many sadly concluded we had to go through Brexit before people saw what a horrendous act of self-harm they had committed. I'm terrified the same thing will happen with #Reform - that people will vote for them without realising they've just screwed over their country, loved ones and themselves.

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Thanks to Brexit, Nigel Farage was one of the architects of an immigration system he now claims to loathe - and we shouldn’t let him forget it

writesbright.substack.com

Has Farage forgotten his own immigration promises?

We have the receipts, Nigel...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Brexit Racism Russian bribes Christofascist Trump links Clacton house purchase Multiple jobs Tice’s tax The Epstein files The ruinous policies The inept councils The wild corruption… For love of god. When will Farage be held to account? Once he’s been red-carpeted into No.10 and it’s far too late?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Strongly disagree with Nelson on his claim that Farage offers “*genuine* hope to people who feel betrayed by the established parties” As with Brexit, it’s hope built on lies and prejudice, funded by corrupt power-brokers who offer nothing but cost and loss to ordinary people. The ultimate betrayal.

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How did Nigel Farage manage to rustle up £215,000 to invest in Kwasi Kwarteng’s crypto company?
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Nine years ago, aged 53, he declared himself “skint” because “there’s no money in politics”.

Only two years ago he was telling friends that he could not afford to run in the coming election. Then suddenly, his fortunes seemed to change — and change utterly. How? The likely explanation emerged this week: he was given £5 million by Christopher Harborne, a Thailandbased crypto billionaire and Reform UK donor. The money, Farage says, was a personal gift — so, not disclosable. It was to pay for bodyguards, he said, making him “safe and secure for the rest of my life”. But such protection costs are, at most, £300,000 a year. Farage was given a lifetime of financial security, clearing the way for his return to the political arena. Albeit with a lifelong feeling of debt to Harborne, who sits in a web of interlocking global financial interests.
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Harborne says he wants nothing in return for his donations. Perhaps.

But it just so happens that Farage proposes a new “Big Bang” that could add tens of billions to crypto companies’ market value. A Reform government would order HM Treasury to stop work on its own digital currency apparatus, which could threaten the current crypto elite. The Bank of England would instead be told to hold Bitcoin, elevating it from a cowboy currency to a UK-approved official asset class.

Tax on crypto trades — and only crypto trades — would be cut from 24 to 10 per cent.

All this would greatly help Tether, a crypto giant in which Harborne holds a 12 per cent stake. Farage says the company is worth $500 billion. If he’s right, then Harborne could afford to give away £5 million a day, each day, for the next two years and barely eat into 1 per cent of his fortune. By the standards of UK politics, Harborne’s donations are enormous: no living man has ever given as much to any party.

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griffj08.bsky.social @griffj08.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Hmm, storage. Interesting that the vocal supported of FF invest heavily in green energy. I wonder Why that would be?

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Remember Angela Rayner having to resign as Labour Deputy Leader for a far lesser offence with Farage screaming for her head ... meme via Greg Stuart

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Candice Holmes @candiceholmes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

£5m from a donor before he even became an MP. Reform UK: "anti‑establishment" – until the cheques clear. Farage is just another politician bought and paid for. 💷👀

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Today in Brexit Britain you are being asked to believe that a Thailand-based cryptocurrency tycoon secretly gave Nigel Farage - the person, not his party - five million pounds without any hope or expectation of getting anything in return.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Farage said the NMW (£12.71/hr for 21+, £10.85/hr for 18-20) is too high. And he’s going to torch the welfare bill… Meanwhile, he’s the highest earning MP, trousering over £1M/year for not being an MP, taking foreign cash, investing in crypto with Kwarteng and just taking the piss out of everyone.

Daily Mail front page headline:

FARAGE:
I'LL WAGE WAR' ON BENEFITS CULTURE

Reform leader tells Mail he'll face down riots, protests and strikes to cut bloated welfare bill

BBC

Farage earns more than £1m a year for non-MP work

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal.

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BREAKING: Nigel Farage has purchased £2m of Bitcoin for Stack BTC - becoming the first sitting MP and the first UK political party leader in history to publicly buy Bitcoin.
A landmark moment for Bitcoin in British politics.

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Libra on Fire 🔥 ⚖️ @libraonfire.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

. When trump loses power, his assets AND HIS ENTIRE FAMILIES assets should be liquidated and returned to the American people. .

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

“Reform plagued by vetting issues” Candidates found to have “grotesque” views. Come on. It’s not the vetting, is it. It’s the party. Whatever they do, they’ll always attract the racists, homophobes, misogynists and haters. Because that’s Farage. That’s Reform. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

independent.co.uk

Farage urged to act against candidates with racist, misogynistic and homophobic views

Exclusive: Despite the pledge to employ the best vetting system in British politics, some Reform UK candidates have been condemned for their ‘grotesque views’ posted online

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

2026: Reform UK's party political broadcast on the BBC, Nigel Farage, "Whilst no one can wave a magic wand I'm proud of our record" 2016: Nigel Farage on Brexit, "The worst case scenario, economically, is better than where we are today"

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 21/04/2026

Wind and solar alone are currently providing nearly two thirds of electricity generation in Great Britain. Source: www.mygridgb.co.uk

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Asra is a very impressive young woman with a powerful story to tell. I am a trustee of the charity featured in her film, founded to honour the memory of my friend Andy by helping people with no connections or privilege get a break in the media. Do watch it if you can. youtu.be/Stlz6CEXRGA?...

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I Disappeared Into Pakistan for a Year

YouTube video by Asra Hussain

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Voting Reform is the equivalent of voting twice for Trump. It is an act of pure ignorance, or racism, or both. And, as we all know, it leads nowhere good. Please god UK. Do not let that happen. Learn from our mistakes. Learn from America’s mistakes. Just get your shit together.

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

"You're just jealous of rich people" no I'm angry that a man with 12 vacation homes is paying less in taxes than a nurse

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Reform is corrupt. Tice is a tax dodging cheat. They want power to make money for themselves. The foreign bribes, the crypto donations, the bitcoin investments, Farage and Kwarteng’s cosy little deals… They’ll treat the UK and the NHS as their own fire sale. We must never give it to them.

The total tax Tice's companies are known to have avoided through onshore and offshore entities, or failed to pay, in relation to Quidnet now amounts to almost £800,000.

Photo of Tice in House of Commons

Richard Tice is the MP for Boston & Skegness
HOUSE OF COMMONS/PA

How the company that donates to Reform benefited from the non-payment of tax

QUIDNET REIT
Dividends paid but not taxed into
TISUN 1,2,3 and 4
Arrows flow from each down into

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Corporation tax not paid by Tisun 1-4, leaving more cash for their parent company

Arrows join and flow into

Tisun Investments Ltd
REFORM
UK

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TIL paid loans, later converted to gifts, to Reform UK

Graphic by The Times and The Sunday Times

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