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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 14h

I’m the party of common sense.

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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Had wondered what the most stupid take might be today Jury still out but this must be near the top

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Help To Buy was inflationary of property prices in expensive areas last time, right? www.gov.uk/government/p... Has anything meaningful changed (apart from the party in government)?

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Evaluation of the Help to Buy scheme: evaluation findings report

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit fucking.”

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just me saying that any effort to tackle misinformation must be an attack on Reform, thereby admitting that Reform are helping Russia to spread far right narratives and create dissent and unrest.

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Dirty foundling, you don’t have to feel.” That’s how the hostess hepped them to the deal.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Former PM Rishi Sunak in the Sunday Times challenges the rise of ethno-nationalism in British politics, as an argument within the right about Britishness being about ancestry, DNA and ethnicity www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Memecoin scam victims are so funny. "I was hoping to profit at someone else's expense - but it seems that someone else has profited at my expense!". Bro, from the point of view of me you are both someone else, this is just "someone else made money out of someone else"

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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 14/09/2026

I think some of the stuff about cryptoassets being used for political donations is a bit muddled: a) there’s no reason a payment in crypto is hard to handle. You can easily make systems that only accept payments *after* a KYC process.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Very good piece by @josiahmortimer.bsky.social. A couple of things I'd add. One, on the point below, one reason Harborne gave for his £36M donation was "competitive spirit" to match Delo. That aspect of it is pathetic willy-waving: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic... 1/4

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Yorkshire-born billionaire Christopher Harborne donates £36m to Reform

Reform UK has received a second £36 million donation from a cryptocurrency billionaire.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Please, please let the movie version of ‘Dix Pour Cent’ (Call My Agent) have all the beautiful cynicism of the original.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Did I just imagine section 7 of the Public Order Act 2023?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.

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National Audit Office @nao.org.uk · 09/09/2026

Patients are still facing long waits at A&E and delayed discharge from hospitals, despite efforts from NHS England to improve A&E performance. Read the full report here: www.nao.org.uk/reports/mana...

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Managing the flow of patients through hospital from A&E - NAO report

This report looks at how well patients flow through A&E into the wider hospital in England and at the support NHSE provides.

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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

To paraphrase JM Barrie, every time someone does a symposium on COPD management without mentioning smoking, a fairy dies.... #ERScongress @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social @europeanlung.bsky.social

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It risks actively misleading people who haven’t watched the C4 or verbatim film

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

'What has the BBC ever done for me' campaign I found v irksome. In my case I've had the occasional dose of good drama and sports, and the price I've paid is watching my country misinformed and the BBC assist a racist and fascist movement into the mainstream, one that will eat the BBC if it can.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And the 'Farage may have to pay more attention' thing is just outrageous. It's accepting the ludicrous lie that he wasn't paying attention at face value.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If, despite all the money paid to you as a superstar presenter, you can't find your own words to describe in plain English what any sensible person can see in the video with their own eyes, at least quote the legal expert @channel4news.bsky.social used.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It amounts to disinformation for anyone who hasn't seen the video or read the excellent @channel4news.bsky.social write up. And it insults the intelligence of anyone who has.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I for one have had enough of people who can barely speak English, living on benefits, ignoring our laws and wearing weird clothes that cover up their faces. So it was disappointing to see a few hundred of them gathered in Dover today.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A vacuous, cowardly piece by the BBC here, which does little more than launder into the public domain the lies and excuses of Reform www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talks

The Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job.

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Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For me I find the numerous "jokes" about how the millionaire could give them personally a few quid. Really undignified begging, by people eating in Claridges.

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I have stepped back from health policy in order to clear my name.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As is Richard Tice who says that Reform had no involvement in the polls that they dictated the scope of, agreed the price of, had placed in national newspapers and got an impermissible donor to pay for

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nadhim Zahawi wearing nonce glasses and chatting to Jake Berry #ReformConference

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bravo to the Boris Johnson Fanzine’s timeless sense of what news is. 10/10; no notes.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Also JL Partners breached British Polling Council rules in one of the most egregious ways possible.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So it looks like Reform policy chief James Orr has straight up broken the law here. It's also exactly the same crime Farage has been accused of re: George Cottrell donating via his mother and which Parliament is currently investigating.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New from me for @news.sky.com - a review of Reform’s performance in polls and elections over the past year as their conference gets underway. One of a series which will cover each of the main parties over conference season: news.sky.com/story/is-nig...

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Is Nigel Farage shifting from Reform's greatest asset to polling liability?

This is the first part of a series examining the polling and electoral performances of each party as they gather for their national conferences.

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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

He's so blase about accepting cash from anyone that he, checking, triggered an entire by-election on the basis he should be allowed to take money from anyone without any questions

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In enjoying the rich comedy of nationalist patriots Reform’s leadership accepting and trying to hide illegal foreign donations to covertly influence public opinion, let’s not forget the sheer silliness of their attempts to refer to journalism as a ‘hit job’.

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Possibly the most shocking revelation in this whole thing is that Nigel Farage was at one point in Clacton.

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