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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Brexit has been a Tory masterclass in ideological madness. It’s widely accepted by the country as a barrelling shitshow but *still* their entitled little reps strut about insisting we can’t be allowed to vote on it again. Who TF does this person think she is? And why TF should she decide anything?

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch’s whole shtick is slash and burn, which is red meat for the Westminster-brained, but for the wider electorate… what actually is her vision for what emerges from the ashes? What sort of country does she want us to become? Seemingly just one that’s punitive, uncaring and nasty?

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

Voters loathed the Tory party when they booted them out in 2024.They really needed to shake off their disgrace with humility and better ideas. They haven’t. They’ve doubled down. More Brexit, more austerity, more anti-immigration ugliness, more tedious arrogance… and no good reason to vote for them.

Party seems to have learnt nothing from 2024 defeat
John Oxley

The Conservative Party is keen to show it is now ready to return to government, two and a half years after a
historic defeat.

Their self-soothing explanation posits that defeat came from not being able to do what they wanted

No such pivot is happening at the current conference. The Tories have come to Birmingham calling for a return to orthodoxy, with similar lines about cutting benefits and regulation. Even so, they seem trapped by the same contradictions
- pledging to cut benefits, but not the winter fuel payments and triple lock on pensions that go to their voters.
There is no "hug-a-hoodie" moment in Birmingham. The Conservative Party is not indicating that it has changed or seeking to broaden its appeal. It is doing the opposite: it is a party returning to its core, restating all the old ideas voters have rejected but louder.

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

Kemi Badenoch on Kemi Badenoch: “I never make gaffes or need to apologize or clarify my statements, as I think carefully about what I say.” Kemi Badenoch on her ‘Britannia Shield’ ‘plan’….

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Seriously… how can a party that insists on scrapping all progress with the EU, binning NetZero and leaving the ECHR, so that it can abuse its power without accountability… how can that party claim “the soul of the nation”. The ruin - maybe. The soul - definitely not.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.

THE
TIMES
Wednesday October 7 2026

Badenoch promises tax cuts in 'battle for the soul of this nation'

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?

THE TIMES

Thursday October 8 2026 | thetimes.com | No 75158

Tories will make you better off
Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and abolish Labour's levy on properties worth more than £2m

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

All authoritarian cults resemble one another. All democracies are democratic in their own particular way.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you for this, @privateeyenews.bsky.social Farage needs ridiculing far more. It’s a form of scrutiny he can’t cope with and one he so richly - yes pun intended - deserves.

TV HIGHLIGHTS
72 Up
The award-winning documentary series continues, charting the progress of one posh little boy, Nigel, over the years.
The last time we saw him was over a week ago in 36
Up when he had been given £36 million out of the blue.
In the latest instalment Nigel is given another £36 million, making the total donation a jaw-dropping £72 million.
This is a life changing moment for the former prep school boy who was recorded in the first episode singing the Horst Wessel song and coming up with charming but embarrassing comments about admiring Hitler.
As the clock moves forward
to 72 Up, viewers now see a completely different Nigel from the one we have come to know so well over the years
- from Europe-hating MEP to Brexit-promoting campaigner to the triumphant bin-defeating statesman of today. It's been a roller-coaster ride for Nigel
- and indeed the viewer - and this remarkable series ends with a poignant and moving climax in a Clacton oyster bar, where the older but no wiser Nigel faces the prospect of being Prime Minister and/or going to jail after criminal proceedings.
EYE VERDICT: "Boring, boring, Boring! Nothing to see here
- put a sock in it, love."

(Insert photo of him slurping up oysters)

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Between 2019 and 2025, export volumes slumped 31 per cent as Brexit added border checks and trade complexity, pushing up costs for businesses” … and threatening our food security. Why TF would *anyone* want this for our businesses and our country? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

giftarticle.ft.com

Brexit and Donald Trump’s tariffs push UK’s food and drink trade deficit to £21bn

In the first half of 2026, the sector’s export volumes fell 11.7% to hit their third-lowest level on record

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What’s your legacy Johnson? Brexit. Total collapse of trust in politics. And this. The small boats symbolise your dishonesty and your failure. You’re responsible for nothing but damage. Not one good thing. Not one proud moment. You’re forever a shameful disgrace who threw his own mandate in the bin.

Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson
X.com
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate from the people. He has no real ideas, and no plan.
BORIS JOHNSON: UK is defenceless against migrants without...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tom Tugendhat in Sunday Times insists on leaving the ECHR to tackle “soaring” immigration. What a miserable rat. Lying to us all. Betraying our country’s best interests. Threatening to flounce out of our human rights framework, trashing our treaties and torching our protection from abuses of power.

The Tories are planning to make the ECHR a dividing line at the next election. Last week the party announced plans to deport every foreign criminal, apart from those convicted of the most trivial offences, and said their plan for ECHR withdrawal meant only the Conservatives were equipped to take on the problem of soaring immigration. One of the problems withdrawal would create is a legal dispute over whether it breaches the Good Friday agreement, which committed the UK to fully incorporate the ECHR into Northern Ireland's justice system. Tugendhat said the issue had not yet been raised in his conversations with lawmakers in the US, adding:
"There's a lot of work to be done."

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Farage honks his mouth off about ongoing police investigations, when told not to. His Welsh leader is in prison for taking bribes from Russia. He whips up riots. He’s in bed with Trump, foreign money, crooks and crypto billionaires…. A massive problem with national security is Farage himself.

sky news

'We have a massive problem with national security': Farage challenged on Fairford speculation
Reform UK leader told his social media followers the five men arrested after an RAF Fairford situation were "Iranian nationals". Sky's Rob Powell spoke to him after it was confirmed the men arrested are British nationals.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "Homes, water, energy, transport, care, broken up and sold off." "The British right talk about taking back control. Never let them forget they are the ones. That gave it away in the first place."

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the Convention [ECHR]. It is whether, in an increasingly dangerous world, we can afford not to” Political liars and lightweights, like Badenoch and Farage, must never be allowed to take that risk. www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...

The Law Society
Gazette

In short, if Britain were to leave the ECHR, it would not be
'taking back control. It would be surrendering influence over the rules and institutions that help keep us safe.
The debate about the ECHR is too often conducted as though it were a choice between national sovereignty and international law. That is a false choice.
The Convention advances British interests because it reflects British values: liberty under law, democratic government and the accountability of power.
Walking away would not make Britain freer. It would make Britain weaker.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…

Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This intensely stupid right wing idea is an extension of Brexit ignorance and prejudice. It represents the failure of our politics and our media to act in our best interests and to inform voters properly. Brexit is more than enough idiocy. Leaving the ECHR shouldn’t even be on the radar.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)

Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.

As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From the new Private Eye

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If anything screams, 'we are the party that doesn't care' this is it This nihilist approach to our environment stinks and in the true sense of nihilism suggests the Tory party has lost its way on beliefs and values...but I think we probably knew that already 🫤 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As Nick later says he "WAS" the Tory Mayoral candidate and indeed it was as a result of running for the gig that he was ultimately brought to justice. This wasn't "a thing that happened"

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sensational. Can’t believe it dropped just after I filed a column about her epic ridiculousness, though.

Kemi Badenoch describes herself as captain, coach and owner of the Conservatives.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch: "I don't understand why all of a sudden, some people are policing other people's identity? I think identity is something very personal" Less than a minute later: "Men are men, and women are women, I'm very strict on that"

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's like watching Bart Simpson doing a classroom presentation in front of Mrs Krabappel after zero preparation.

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Forza Bahab @forzabahab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And again, the shock is that you're not shocked...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Perfectly put.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000

Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Braverman will surely be horrified when she finds out that she was Home Secretary when her fellow Refukker 'Honest' Bob introduced the plan to house asylum seekers in disused military bases.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wonder what it is about off shore tax hating billionaires being so drawn to Nigel Farage's "people's party"

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Harborne has given Reform £36 million to match Delo's £36 million. The Telegraph describes it as a "show of force" from Reform's donors. The two men's £72 million is greater than all of the spending by all political parties on the 2024 GE www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Britain is just looking on as a handful of tax hating billionaires buy our political future.

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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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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What an arrogantly vile man Harborne is. How patronising to describe his entitled buying up of our democracy as ‘philanthropy’. Get over yourself and go and build some hospitals, fund children out of poverty, eradicate disease… Sticking your grubby wealth in Farage’s pockets can only do us harm.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Harborne is a philanthropist in the same way that Kid Rock is a small child made of limestone.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I too wish Harry and whats-her-name hadn't come back, because it would have protected us from all the most tiresome twats in the world droning on about it.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New immigration stats show that the numbers of asylum seekers in hotels is down to 16k - falling 50% in a year. Small boat crossings down 23% in the year to June. Numbers waiting for initial decision down from almost 180k to 40k.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Trump… and Farage “are good at raging at how things are, but incapable of making them better.“ They’re pisstakers not policy makers. Lazy, vain and corrupt. They peddle grievance to the disenchanted but will never care or think enough to actually help them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Donald Trump can’t beat Iran and Nigel Farage can only beat a bin. When it counts, these populists are just losers | Jonathan Freedland

The pattern in the US and Britain is clear. They serve up stunt after stunt to mask incompetence and the betrayal of all those who trusted them, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I see Jenrick/Reform are grabbing headlines and airtime before their latest nasty little idea has had any scrutiny or reality check. Wall to wall coverage will follow. Before the inevitable conclusion that it’s yet more cruel, unworkable and ludicrously costly bullshit. Let’s stop doing this.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026

A former director of BBC News speaks:

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