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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14h

No doubt all the people who printed, posted or broadcast this now disproved story respect their readers/viewers/listeners/followers enough to correct the record asap… www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...

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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left

TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Captain Thugwash 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £354m a year tax free from the tax payer including £132m personal spending money and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed. Like if he needs a pay cut. RT if you want the Monarchy gone. #NotmyKing

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Do BBC news work for Reform?" via Harry Eccles

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wow. That C4 Dispatches on SYL/Robinson was DARK. I mean, the grift was always obvious, but the amounts are staggering and the treatment of that poor grooming gang victim is utterly heartbreaking. Really worth watching. www.channel4.com/programmes/t...

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Tommy Robinson: Where's the Money Gone?

For Dispatches, Matt Shea examines the complex finances of Tommy Robinson

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 09/09/2026

🍿 WATCH: ‘Tommy Robinson: Where’s the Money Gone?’ TONIGHT at 10pm on Channel 4. Then head back here after the show. We’ve got more to reveal.

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026

Tomorrow night, Channel 4 Dispatches airs the findings of a year-long investigation into Tommy Robinson’s finances. Watch it. Then come back here. We’ve got more to show you.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This Neo-Nazi is attempting to target RNLI volunteers. The police have to act, and the Prime Minister should be making a public statement.

Neo Nazi attempts to target RNLI volunteers

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Over on X, the far-right British Patriots have launched a hate campaign against the RNLI They are recording RNLI volunteers in order to dox them, reveal their identities and publish details of where they and their families live These men are dangerous

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party

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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...

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JR @isthisallthatsleft.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

WTF?!? Half time player interviews are a hard no for me #Arsenal

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

String of really nasty offences detailed in Clacton and Frinton and Essex. Surprised Nigel hasn't called them all out. Wonder why that is. www.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/2646426...

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Essex criminals jailed for sex crimes, domestic violence and burglaries

Eleven criminals have been put behind bars across Essex so far this month, from domestic abusers and burglars to dangerous drivers and serious…

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

Ugh. Farage has done nothing for Clacton except humiliate it. His idiotic by-election is basically a massive tantrum at being scrutinised over his v dodgy finances. He’s unfit for public office. He just wants power. This is all a waste of everyone’s time. He’s a loser even if he wins. (iPaper)

Farage odds on to hold Clacton seat but nationwide poll backs Binface

Nigel Farage is expected to hold on to his Clacton Parliamentary seat with the odds placed at 1-100 following a boycott from the main political parties.

While most bookmakers have Far-age down to win 1-100, rather than the early 1-7 odds before his main opposition dropped out, the latest polling shows he would be beaten by Count Binface if the whole nation was voting.
Polling by More in Common shows that 37 percent of Britons would prefer to be represented by the self-professed "intergalactie space war-rior" dressed in a long silver cape and dustbin-shaped helmet, while 32 per cent would back Farage.
But the likely victory in Clacton has led Parage to believe he could
"replicate this level of support across Essex", with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch's seat of North West Essex in his sights.
He told The Telegraph that Reform will "pump big resources" into Essex, suggesting that halfthe Shadow Cabinet - including the opposition leader - could lose their seats at the next election.
Badenoch recently said in a message to Clacton residents that they
"deserve better" than Farage, criti-cising the "needless election" and adding that he should "not be ex-empt" from the Parliamentary rules.
His decision to force a bv-election by standing down last month to hold a "people versus the establishment" vote may have backfired. The opposition branded it a
"media cireus" and an attempt to evade scrutiny, as stepping down as an MP paused an investigation by the parliamentary standards watchdog into his finances.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, had been investigating undeclared donations, including a £5m gift from Thai-based cryptocurrency billionaire Harborne.

That investigation was paused when Farage resigned his seat, but will resume if he wins the by-election.
If the Parliamentary watchdog rules against him, he could face a second by-election - this time, against all the major political parties.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

📌 ICYMI — Did the Trump Administration Have a Role in the Ceuta ‘Migrant Invasion’? — Simon Nixon Trump-aligned think tanks have previously advocated using Ceuta to exert pressure on Madrid, reports Simon Nixon

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Did the Trump Administration Have a Role in the Ceuta ‘Migrant Invasion’?

Trump-aligned think tanks have previously advocated using Ceuta to exert pressure on Madrid, reports Simon Nixon

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Merry Christmas, as in the other place. @hellobluesky5694.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

'Runcorn Reform MP Sarah Pochin slammed for 'shameful' World War II post'. 'A French account replied with: "I don't understand why you're so eager to show the world how stupid you are, but rest assured, I admire your dedication."' Liverpool Echo. Bloody love the French account reply.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

FFS we cannot keep doing this… A handful of the richest people hoovering up wealth from everyone else while quite literally making the planet unlivable At what point does someone grow a fucking spine and do something?!

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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JR @isthisallthatsleft.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Murkier that the average UK river

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The revelation that Sunak has paid £1M in tax in the last 3 years 0.13% of his £720m wealth. While the average person has paid about £45k or 14%, 100x as much. Should open your eyes to just how much and how blatantly the rich dodge tax

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JR @isthisallthatsleft.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Tice, Farage, Dyson, Harbourne, Rothermere,and all the other patriotic tax dodgers - stick that in you red, white, and blue pipe and smoke it.

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

England & Wales water firms lose 2.87bn litres a day, 20% of all water pumped through network. Hosepipe ban would save 577m(4%) litres a day. Violating hosepipe ban is a criminal offence, potential penalty of £1,000. No water execs fined or prosecuted. No new reservoirs built since privatisation

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Water firms in England and Wales ‘leak five times what hosepipe ban would save’

Greenpeace UK says 2.87bn litres lost daily, a fifth of all water pumped through network

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"Reform's latest attempt to gaslight knows no bounds. Asking other MP's and people to tone down the rhetoric against them, without any acceptance of poor language choices on their end or assurance they'll tone down their hate" via The UK Against Hate

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JR @isthisallthatsleft.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Yes folks we have a winner 🏆

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

After Zia Yusuf accuses critics of endangering Reform politicians with violent language, he is read a list of quotes where he called Reform's opponents "lunatics who deserve extinction", "sick arsonists" and "traitors" who will face a "reckoning". He says these are in "a totally different category"

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lukewarm24.bsky.social @lukewarm24.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Farage refused the taxpayer funded security in the past Why?? Because he didn’t want security to know where he was or who he visited!! Will he accept it now….?

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JR @isthisallthatsleft.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

How much more of this pantomime do we have to endure??? 🤬

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Good analysis of Farage’s disrespectful, self-serving “people v the establishment” garbage where “people” are only the small minority who agree with him. The rest of us don’t count. “Populism usually ends in the erosion of democracy, and Farage's nonsensical by-election couldn't sum that up better”

Why Nigel's no longer a man of the people
Populism usually ends in the erosion of democracy, and Farage's nonsensical by-election couldn't sum that up better
Daniel Finkelstein @dannythefink

Extracts:

Count Binface is not the joke candidate in the Clacton by-election. To accord him that status requires taking Nigel Farage’s mirthless gag seriously. Even his own party doesn’t do that. On Monday Farage’s deputy Richard Tice was talking about a distant time when his leader was no longer in parliament. He apparently hadn’t noticed he already wasn’t in parliament, having resigned from it. By his casual words Tice revealed he knew what everyone else knows. That the whole thing is a meaningless stunt.

To be fair, Farage did accompany his otherwise grimly unamusing comedy act with a genuinely funny statement. “The really big question that I want to pose is: do we want leaders that know how to make money?” he asked the audience tuned in to watch his Flounce of the Year show. It clearly hadn’t occurred to him that one can answer “yes” to this question without also answering “yes” to, “Do we want leaders who know how to accept a £5 million gift from a Thai cryptocurrency billionaire without declaring it?” That one would be a “no” from me.

We might want more successful entrepreneurs in parliament while still replying “perhaps not” to, “Do we want leaders with convicted fraudsters in their inner circle?”

I only stopped laughing when he reached the punchline. Because his resignation I found completely unamusing. Part of this is for a slightly pompous reason.

I regard becoming an MP as a very serious undertaking and the gaining of that office a true honour. So it pains me to see someone treat it frivolously.

An objection which I hope is more widely shared is my problem with the question he ludicrously wishes the people of Clacton to adjudicate: the people or the establishment?

The aim is not merely to reject the authority of anyone trying to hold Farage and Reform to account. It is to deny their (our) humanity. Being a “real person” is not a natural endowment, apparently, but something achieved and sustained only by agreeing with Nigel Farage.

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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

So much radical. So much populist. So much anti-establishment

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"If he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I wont stop him." <stop stop he's dead gif>

Rachel Reeves
@RachelReevesMP
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I will accept Nigel Farage's request to be appointed Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.
It is a farce and a desperate distraction, and the people of Clacton deserve better.
But if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him.
1:49 PM Jul 8, 2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Guaranteed Reform UK & Farage tactic: when in doubt, tell a load of lies posing as 'the whole world's against me' victim though a far right politician setting Rupert Murdoch up as the villain may not be such a good idea ... 'So he's gone after Murdoch good and proper...' via Paul Elston

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

absolutely spot on re Nigel Farage’s speech - from Tom Peck

He was angry, mainly, at all the attention that has been given to the highly unusual sources of his now-considerable wealth. But don't worry, hes definitely earned it.
"Going back to the Nineties, I was in the commodity markets and I had a very, very good, high-earning career," he explained. "I gave that up at a huge cost. Being a member of the European parliament for 20 years cost me a huge amount of money." Being a member of the European parliament for 20 years earned Nigel Farage about two or three million euros. He also, as luck would have it, will be 63 next year and so eligible for a nice little £80,000 a year pension for his dedicated service to Brussels.
Since then, he has, he explained,
"had the equivalent of a lottery win".
This lottery win is the f5m that appeared in his bank one morning, shortly betore he became an MP, and which he didn't think it would be necessary to declare to anyone.
The standards commissioner is investigating this matter so we don't wish to pre-empt his findings, but if he does conclude it was the
"equivalent of a lottery win", then the matter will surely be declared over. Until now, it hadn't been known that millions of other people had bought tickets from the Thai-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne and one lucky man, called Nigel Farage, had been randomly chosen as the winner.

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

Screenshot from the linked article, with the following text highlighted

"The noble Lord had stated, that it was unusual to refuse the Chiltern Hundreds, except on account of mental incapacity, or where proceedings were pending for the expulsion of the applicants from their seats. In this case, however, the House had decided that compromises had been entered into, which had the effect of obstructing the investigation of bribery; "

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Robert Jenrick has a meltdown on #C4News He refuses to accept that there are parliamentary rules that Nigel Farage may have broken And insists the only people who can judge Nigel Farage are the people of Clacton 😅 - Whatever you do, please don't share this humiliating clip

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nigel Farage £5 million 'gift' from a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it was money laundering. The whistleblowers alerted the NCA as they were "not satisfied they could trace the ultimate origin of the funds."

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Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns

Exclusive: Latest Guardian revelation about gift from cryptocurrency tycoon comes as Reform UK leader forces byelection

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🔴 ‘There’s No Money In Politics If You’re Straight’: How Farage’s Words Are Coming Back To Haunt Him The Reform UK leader once claimed that only the corrupt could make money in politics. Now questions about his own multi-million pound fortune threaten to bring him down

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‘There’s No Money In Politics If You’re Straight’: How Farage’s Words Are Coming Back To Haunt Him

The Reform UK leader once claimed that only the corrupt could make money in politics. Now questions about his own multi-million pound fortune threaten to bring him down

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Here I am slagging off Keir Starmer for accepting some free glasses. Because that is so much worse than accepting £5 million from a crypto billionaire or using the house of a convicted fraudster while he pays for my staff, security and social media.

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