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Gytha Ogg

@gythogg.bsky.social
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Refugee from the #deadbird, but have missed the people I regularly follow there. With grown ups back in charge in the UK, was hoping to enjoy cat videos... and then the US elections happened. Still a proud EUropean

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Trumpton @trumpton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
We need a British version of this (mainly because the people who need to see won't empathise unless it has a Union Jack)
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 16h
Reform’s self declared National Emergency due to a migrant invasion by boat lacks a key ingredient.. There’s no boats landing❗️ It’s like Declaring an emergency to stop all the Shark attacks in Hyde Park 🤡
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Lady Anytimenow working with Sir Nearlythere @lady-anytimenow.bsky.social · 12h
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5h
George Monbiot explains why the UK should rejoin the EU, "There's a reason why Russia tried to intervene in the Brexit vote, they knew that it would harm the UK and the EU if we left" "They were very clear about that and boy have they been proved right"
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 8h
Farage promised voters the bad apples would be “long gone”. Tonight, ITV caught Reform doing the opposite: tell them to say sorry, tell them to hide it, and keep them in the party. Reform UK must publish the vetting files. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...
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Steff Ap Cennydd @steffapcennydd.bsky.social · 7h
Oh no! Not the poor cash strapped banks!! How dare the Chancellor even think of taking a slice of the measly £15bn in profits they struggled to make in the first 6 months of the year!!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Banks say Healey is planning Budget tax raid on their profits
Senior banking executives have told the BBC they expect to be "on the menu" in the chancellor's Budget tax later this month.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 5h
Reform have shown on several occasions they’ve no qualms beating up women and roughing up disabled pensioners etc How long would it take for those thugs to bd armed & in uniforms a Trump like militia if Farage ever saw power❓ Given revelations of racism, misogyny, extreme violence etc 🤷‍♂️
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Gytha Ogg @gythogg.bsky.social · 4h
Giving this the oxygen of publicity via RW rags will probably only give every single-digit-braincell arse the incentive to attack those they blame for what the billionaire (including press owning) class has done to this country. It needs to be treated as any other terrorist threat would be
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 11h
The destruction of homes, whether HMOs or family houses, simply because of the race of its inhabitants, is a dystopian and terrifying vision of where racist rhetoric leads. A very strong response is required.
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MKC @mkc44.bsky.social · 11h
Do the Question Time commissioners have a contract that they must include a Reform politician every week? Tonight we have James Evans who was expelled from the Tories. Oh shitttt I forgot. Robbie Fucking Gibb.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 9h
Is anyone even surprised by these racist and sexist Reform revelations? When you lay down the welcome mat for these wrong’uns …what do you expect?
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 20h
Years ago, Farage commented that there was no room for racists in UKIP. I took it to mean they'd have to join a waiting list. Reform are Continuation UKIP.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15h
Ukrainians are bravely fighting for the freedom of all of Europe. We need to stand with Ukraine. Always.
theguardian.com
Volodymyr Zelenskyy feels ‘betrayed’ by Donald Trump over Starlink access
Ukrainian president accused US president of picking the other side after four years of war
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 7h
Reform isn’t keeping the far right out. It’s teaching them how to get in. ITV filmed Reform’s then Chester branch chair advising a would-be candidate who said he’d backed Tommy Robinson online. www.youtube.com/live/BqLPy1L...
Reporter: I previously got, um, an account where I've been showing some support for Tommy RobinsonIan Frost: Delete them all really. Ian Frost: And what Nigel Farage has learned over 30 years being in politics is you've got to play the game a little bit.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 9h
I just don’t understand it. What is it about my racist party full of racist people with racist ideas that seems to attract racists?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 7h
When Ron was a boy London was getting bombed flat in the Blitz... and hammered by doodlebugs and V2s ...and about 30,000 people were killed and millions made homeless.... ...and you know I suspect folk were slightly more concerned about that than the colour of other people's skin.
took 92-year-old Ron back to the streets
where he grew up in Tottenham for the first
time in 56 years


When he was a boy it was ~99% white
British. In 2021, it was just 23.2%,


On the way home, he told me I had given him
nightmares for the rest of his life.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 14h
Reform supporter Chris called in to say… “The problem we’ve got is BBC News is hell bent on destroying Reform” MAAAATE Not letting you have that…
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12h
Ofcom rules say broadcasters cannot use politicians as newsreaders, interviewers or reporters in any news programmes. Sign our petition to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action: bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Andy Burnham hugs Volodymyr Zelenskyy and welcomes him to Downing Street with a ceremonial guard of honour. This is how you treat the leader of the free world.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This Reform Councillor actually said “I’m not racist but..” at one point No Party does vetting like Reform vets its candidates, selecting only the most racist, bigoted, ignorant, hateful, scum to represent their Party and its values 🤬
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Reform UK says "there's no room for racism in the party" - hang on, I thought that was the whole fucking point of them?
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.
"I can confirm that tonight SpaceX has implemented a speed limit on Starlink terminals while in motion.

The limit currently applies to the StarShield “military package” and is set at 100 mph.

Our defense forces were not given notice of this limit, and this has resulted in the disruption of a number of missions.

It is clear that this action cannot be a coincidence and is related to the current political situation."
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/10/2026
Rafael Behr responds to Reform UK's plans to effectively suspend Britain’s asylum system for five years: "If you actually want to apply it in government, you'll find you're changing the character of the country in a way that I'm not sure people are actually on board with.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
FTR shattering letter about how the Conservative Government ignored the entirely credible threat from Putin in favour of feeding The City (& Tory Party) roubles👇 March 23 2022 Carl Scott, Air Commodore (Retired), UK defence attaché in Moscow for five years, 2011-2016 www.ft.com/content/857d...
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Letter: A defence attaché despairs at inevitability of conflict

From Carl Scott, Air Commodore (Retired), Oakham, Rutland, UK

[Photo of Sherlock Holmes and Watson monument at the British Embassy in Moscow]

MARCH 23 2022The recent article by Maria Stepanova "The war of Putin's imagination" (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, March 19) was exemplary. However, one jarring note was the unfounded notion that no one expected this aggression from the Kremlin.

I served as the UK's defence attaché in Moscow for five years, 2011-2016, during which time this long, dark march to war was obvious, the path to conflict lit by the many pronouncements emanating from the dark red walls of Vladimir Putin's palace.

We reported the inevitability of conflict in detail, regularly and with the despair of Cassandra. One of the earliest reports opened with a line from Sherlock Holmes, whose statue stands outside the British Embassy wall: "There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast."The evidence of Putin's chosen path was never concealed. His many declarations were meant to be heard and understood: the colossal rearmament programme, the demand for more complex, more lethal weaponry; the militarisation of society; the distortion and seizure of the popular narrative; domination of education, the media and the courts to exclude contrasting views and, ultimately, the alienation and destruction of those among the Russian people who understood the folly of his declared ambition.

The list is remorseless, the consequences could not be ignored. But they were.

It was not until I returned to the UK on the eve of our withdrawal from the EU, a manoeuvre which greatly emboldened those in Moscow, that I understood how our society had changed in the years I was serving overseas.All was subjugated to the City, all served the interests of our lucrative status as a safe haven for corrupt, and corrupting, wealth. The values we were demanding of other nations had long since faded from our own actions.

I despair at the decisions Putin has taken, but even more at the prospect of finding credible leadership at home in the UK among those who have compromised so long with his regime and the wealth it offered.

Carl Scott

Air Commodore (Retired)

Oakham, Rutland, UK
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Without Margaret Thatcher this would have been the UK.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/10/2026
👀 Andy Burnham: "We worked out in that interview that she wasn't a defence expert, and I think Mr Ferrari is still waiting for an explanation."
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“We know that hostile actors have been seeking to interfere in our democratic process. That is a matter of fact. We need to call that out” Prime Minister Andy Burnham #PMQs
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is true! 🇪🇺 The EU's Single Market is designed to let the various countries of Europe work together as a unified entity so Europe can compete with USA and China. For that, the Single Market needs the free movement of goods, services, digital services, capital, businesses, workers and people.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The only Emergency is Farage & Reform drowning in exposées of serial racism, weapons grade corruption, and sleaze whilst spiraling down the polls.. like a t^td down a toilet End of 🤷‍♂️
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Sean Woodcock MP @seanlwoodcock.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Foster carers provide something every child needs: safety, stability and the feeling of belonging. You do not have to assume fostering is not for you because you do not fit a particular picture of what a foster carer looks like. The first step is simply to ask and find out.
oxfordshire.gov.uk
Fostering | Oxfordshire County Council
Find out more about fostering with Oxfordshire County Council.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/10/2026
Ed Miliband: "When I think about our security and defence, when I think about our trade, when I think about our values, I think we do need a deeper and stronger relationship with the European Union." UK’s future lies back where we belong: Europe ♥️
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Zelenskyy: “I thank His Majesty King Charles III for the audience. It is important for me to have the opportunity to personally thank him for his unwavering support for Ukraine. We appreciate all the assistance provided by the United Kingdom.”
Zelenskyy and Charles shake hands. Photo by PA’s Aaron Chown
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/10/2026
Week after week, Nigel Farage is allowed to host his show on GB News. Even though Ofcom rules say broadcasters cannot use politicians as newsreaders, interviewers or reporters in any news programmes. Ask Ofcom to investigate ⬇️
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ooh, I know this one. It's 'no'.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No wonder Badenoch and Farage are shitting bricks at the suggestion that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum. Their whole business model relies on Brexit and the racist anti- immigration bomb that it detonated. Their next bright idea - to leave the ECHR - would delight Putin too.
Gazette
ECHR withdrawal 'gift to Putin'
By Jonathan Rayner | 22 March 2012

Britain’s withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights in favour of a British bill of rights would be Vladimir Putin's
'best present ever', an East European delegate at a Council of Europe event for lawyers told the Gazette last weekend.

The source, who asked not be named, said that Putin, just re-elected as president of Russia, has always said that the Strasbourg court's policing of human rights was ‘meaningless'.
Another unnamed source, a former north European government lawyer, described the UK government's attitude to the Strasbourg court as 'Britain shooting itself in the foot. If the British don't engage with Europe, they'll lose influence and shouldn't be surprised if
Germany and France fill the vacuum?
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In preparation for the ITV undercover investigation of Reform UK I am preparing my response: -It was just locker room banter -That’s how people talk outside the Westminster bubble -The person being racist was just a contractor -The investigation was illegal and we are suing them
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Badenoch will surely be shocked when she finds out that the Tories kick-started and largely negotiated the Chagos deal - under Johnson, Truss and then Sunak. And when she finds out she was a Minister in each of those leaders' Governments.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
What a picture.
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Sean Woodcock MP @seanlwoodcock.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The 14th October marks Allied Health Professionals (AHP) Day - a chance to celebrate and thank all the hard work done by those in the 14 AHP professions such as physiotherapists, radiographers, podiatrists, paramedics, and occupational therapists.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/10/2026
Andy Burnham to Badenoch: "I'm going to commend her for drawing a line on a decade of division, when she drew a line with the party over there (Reform UK) for suggesting that her children weren't British. "That is wrong in every single respect."
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Gytha Ogg @gythogg.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
i think murder has far harder conviction requirements than manslaughter & it would be tragic if MuskRat got off on a technicality
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marksmithresister.bsky.social @marksmithresister.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The question now is for the board at Tesla to decide if Musk is worth losing Europe's business... www.the-independent.com/news/world/e...
the-independent.com
Poland blasts Musk for slowing Kyiv’s Starlink: ‘Big man, are you playing politics?’
‘We are watching you’, said Polish foreign minister Sikorski amid growing outcry over the restriction of the technology
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Gytha Ogg @gythogg.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Can it also be classified as manslaughter?
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ukrainian drones lost satellite connections mid-mission, while allied early-warning systems failed during two consecutive days. Ukrainian forces detected incoming missiles only as they approached the capital, leaving sleeping civilians with little warning.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"Incredibly big and clear drop in online support for Reform, after Russian data centres destroyed. Only one conclusion, Reform have support from Russia whether they know it or not." via Dale Vince
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch spent most of PMQs pouring doubt on Andy Burnham's claims about Russian interference in our democracy, yet her spokesman can't tell me whether she has yet read the Russia report, which was published some six years ago during her own time in Government
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