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Matthew Bassett

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Bryann Thomas @bryannthomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These days, you get arrested and thrown in jail if you film yourself committing crimes. These days.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 07/09/2026
This is @mrjamesob.bsky.social's London.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
More evidence of fighting age men swarming uninvited into our towns.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Nigel Farage's Home Affairs spokesperson is a Muslim with parents born in Sri Lanka. Can't you see what's happening yet?" would obviously be a despicable racist attack on Zia Yusuf - very close to his own racialised attack on the leader of Camden Council. It is made by some racist opponents of his.
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Something about pots and kettles or something
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Celebrating our proud heritage" by importing a foreign obsession of sticking national flags on everything. We're British. We don't do that. Also it already *is* illegal to vandalise something that doesn't belong to you. share.google/AWTVUlf4neUL...
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Flags for Kettering founder vows to continue raising Union Jacks and St George Crosses until it is 'illegal'
Flags for Kettering’s founder has vowed to continue raising Union Jacks and St George Crosses on public lamp-posts until it is 'illegal', a year on from the start of the trend.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I just knew we'd get this bollocks. Farage - like the Telegraph- doesn't want progress or anything to improve he just wants Britain to sit in a miserable slump in which he can holler constantly about "migrants" and drink pints in slow motion videos with people who pine for WW2.
Farage: Burnham's pledge
to house homeless will
attract more migrants
Reform leader says rough sleeping plan
sends message that you get 'everything for
free if you come by boat
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It turns out the “organised campaign to disrupt and degrade the result” that Farage was so afraid of was the actual Clapton by-election that he himself organised.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Tice is a wanker
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Reminder of those in British politics who supported Trump. • Boris Johnson • Liz Truss • Suella Braverman • Andrea Jenkyns • Jacob Rees-Mogg • Nigel Farage • Lord Frost • John Hayes • Robert Jenrick • Sammy Wilson • Ian Paisley • Jake Berry • Kwasi Kwarteng • Tim Montgomerie
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/08/2026
I wrote a thing. I'll try not to make it a habit but it was either start typing or keep furiously pacing. dmitryopines.substack.com/p/listening-...
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Listening to the Monsters
A scream into the void about Professor Arday and flawed institutions in a bad faith ecosystem.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Reform’s electoral record at parliamentary by-elections: win by five votes when the previous Labour MP had literally decked one of his constituents. Lose. Lose. Lose. Lose. Lose. Beat a novelty candidate with no ground game while doing worse than the Tories in the same seat in 2019.
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It's not unreasonable to start campaigning for the real Clacton by-election. Johnson was strongly censured for what appears to be less egregious (although still bad) corruption than Farage. Binface won enough votes that turned into signatures for a recall petition would be successful.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Checkmate, Nige.
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Come on Clacton, make Bin Day Count!
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"In exchange, the UK would be allowed to join the EU’s free trade zone without having to accept controversial terms, such as freedom of movement" Thus not joining the EU internal market. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Burnham ‘handed post-Brexit plan that could see Britain rejoin EU single market’
The proposal would reportedly see Britain promise to extend the protection of Britain’s Armed Forces and nuclear deterrent across Europe, in exchange for access to the EU’s free-trade zone
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Thread 🧵⬇️ (especially the bit about the huge number of compute cycles spent on brute forcing the simulation of language)
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Britain's constitutional strategy? Fingers crossed.
Britain has spent years watching democracies fail. It's time we started taking notes.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage
The new Royal Navy presence in the Channel off to
a terrible start...


The gunwhales on the vessels are too high to pick
up migrants, so the RNLI & Border Force are doing
the job instead!


The Navy are then going around picking up the
empty dinghies,


Waste of time and resources!
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Looking for Greek detective stories, preferably contemporary but anything from the last 100 years is also good. Also needs to be translated to English for me to actually read it.
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
BBC News - Clacton by-election ballot list costing four times more - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This has some potential democratic issues, in the sense that a lot of voters are not going to bother even reading the whole list.
bbc.co.uk
Clacton by-election ballot list costing four times more
The list of 34 candidates standing in the Clacton by-election is nearly a metre long.
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Beautiful day in Henley yesterday. A definite motivation to train harder and improve my rowing technique ready for next year. Nice to see the rest of the club racing too (and see the clubs racing too).
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I can’t believe that Reform UK turned out to be financed by a bunch of money laundering fronts for Russia. It’s just so unexpected.
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Right, that's enough Farage for today (I mean any amount is too much, but anyway...) Now I wish to think about wholesome and happy things.
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I think it is the most interesting and has the potential to be the most entertaining. Very likely it is the least consequential. When Farage wins it will turn out to have been pointless and he'll still be investigated for his corruption. In the unlikely event of a Binface win, it's consequential.
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Luke @nufcmantis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
£50 can't buy a meal yet vulnerable people getting £72 per week in benefits are living the life of riley, Okay.
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A thing that seems to escape Reform in relation to the corruption investigations against them and Farage in particular is that these rules apply to all MPs equally and they are pretty generous in what they permit.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 22/07/2026
This could very well be the most important story in politics for the last decade and a half. Please read and share this equally harrowing and illuminating account by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social of just how dark the money in politics pit really goes. Absolutely mind blowing.
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Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Larry the cat's commitment to public service remains strong.
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Desmond Swayne is someone I vaguely remember having pretty repellant views and some frankly nasty behaviour, but this seems ok or possibly even good... ? Am I missing something?
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
You had one job (sacking Shabana Mahmood)
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Tony Tagliatelle does not like to engage in good faith discussion, but would rather rage bait. Presumably claiming to be progressive, but no more tolerant or pleasant than the extreme right wing twats left on twitter.
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Farage is one step away from claiming Reform need their own armed paramilitary organisation to protect party officials. No doubt £5m can buy a lot of brown shirts and ties.
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Was it really *waste* or was it *corruption*?
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Jules McHamish @julesmchamish.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
April 2024 - Nigel Farage ‘gifted’ £5 million from Christopher Harborne. SIX MONTHS LATER - September 2024 - Nigel references Kier Starmer’s acceptance of a gift of new glasses, all the time having £5 million in his back pocket! H/t @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Farage claims to be the most murdered MP of the modern age, so that's murdered at least twice, taking into account Jo Cox and David Ames.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We‘re back to the people v the establishment. The self-proclaimed candidate for the people is a multi-millionaire who went to a public school that costs more than 10000 pounds per term and has been a full-time politician since 1999.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style
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sjn1991.bsky.social @sjn1991.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Election of the people vs the establishment" says privately educated ex-city trader, who lunches at Mayfair hotels with millionaires and banks with Coutts.
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
There's much chatter about the established media now starting to 'turn' on Nigel Farage and Reform UK, following a number of by-election defeats and questionable gifts/donations. Farage has *always* been in need of scrutiny. That the press now decide to turn the lens on him is part of the story.
bbc.co.uk
Chris Mason: Accusations around Farage leave him looking vulnerable to his rivals
The Reform UK leader is in the news and at the heart of the headlines are questions about power, transparency and money.
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 01/07/2026
Ben Cullen, a leading figure of the "Raise the Colours" campaign, will stand trial for three separate charges regarding a total of 78 indecent images of children. I have only seen this covered in local newspapers, so far. Grim as it is, it needs wider coverage www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It looks like there is some chance that the people of Clacton may be able to have an MP representing them in Parliament after all. observer.co.uk/news/politic...
observer.co.uk
Clacton could be up for grabs after investigation into Fa...
As the inquiry into whether the Reform leader broke code of conduct nears its conclusion, opposition parties are limbering up for a possible byelection
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Starmer DID declare his suits and specs from Lord Alli (though he neglected to declare his wife's). Sorry, I know it's her, not you, but I had to shout at someone.
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GreyBruceInfo- Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦 @brucegreyinfo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Matthew Bassett @hewbass.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"Lowe was "less extreme" than Farage" 🫨
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Reform's lawyer says that until all three demands are met, neither Mr Farage nor any representative from Reform UK will appear on any BBC programme or platform." Oh no how sad. www.dailymail.com/news/article... (this is so OTT, btw, considering Chorley has written an apology already)
dailymail.com
Nigel Farage demands urgent apology from BBC over 'defamation' row
The Daily Mail has now been shown sight of a damning letter to the BBC from Mr Farage's lawyer, accusing the BBC host of 'racialising' the Reform leader's response.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 01/06/2026
👀 TheyWorkForYou tracks MPs' voting records and found that Nigel Farage has missed 77 votes in Parliament in a row. He last voted against draft regulations for the Employment Rights Act 2025 on the 18th of March. votes.theyworkforyou.com/person/263…
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