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Madame Defarge

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Dipper of toe in the Bluesky water. Scunnered with the state of the world right now.

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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 8h
“If you try to go back into the EU, you’ll divide the country,” says Andrew Neil on #newsnight Keep up, Andrew. Brexit already did that.
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Murmuration @murmeration.bsky.social · 23h
“Burnham betrays Brexit” is the headline. Brexit betrays Britain …. Is the reality
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sally Nugent working from the Laura Kuenssberg interviewing manual, trying to get the ‘gotcha’ moment from Lucy Powell. What’s the point? Does she seriously expect LP to announce that the triple lock will disappear on a TV interview? #bbcbreakfast
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Let me be categoric, Chris Philp. You had 14 years in power to deal with the country’s issues. You failed. #bbclaurak
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well-paid journalist who has never experienced obesity (or poverty) gives us all the benefit of her knowledge of the subject 🙄 apple.news/AWN0851tHQdG...
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Opinion: There’s no excuse for being fat — The Telegraph
Given the availability of new weight loss treatments, we shouldn’t feel afraid of telling it how it is
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mo from Glasgow is one of the best contributors to #bbcaq I’ve ever heard
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What a reprehensible woman Sarah Elliott is. Happy to take the BBC appearance fee for #bbcaq but doesn’t want to contribute to the cost of the corporation.
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New technology is one of the biggest threats to the climate #bbcaq
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Meet the ‘I’m Alright Jack’ generation. In a position to retire early but were “bored” so instead of looking for volunteer roles where they could’ve given something back to their communities, they chose to hoover up the kind of jobs young people could be doing. apple.news/A48AU8Vb5R6m...
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Meet the part-time pensioners: ‘15 hours a week pays for my holidays’ — The Times and The Sunday Times
Fiona Lockyer was looking forward to a life of leisure in retirement until boredom hit. She took early retirement from her job in hotel management when she was 56 and hoped to spend her time travellin...
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I seem to recall that Richard Tice and Reform had a lot to say about young people and mental health, dismissing concerns and criticising mitigations. Why didn’t the BBC ask them to respond to this? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Young people are not snowflakes, head of mental health review says
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Prof Peter Fonagy says being young is much harder now than it was.
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Does #bbclaurak have an ounce of self-awareness? (rhetorical question) No-one knows about Lib Dem policies because Laura and her MSM colleagues prefer to platform a private company of grifters with a fraction of the MPs the LDs have. “Why aren’t the Lib Dems cutting through?” she asks. Get a mirror.
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Very telling that Matt Chorley immediately shuts down the discussion on immigration as soon as Neil Kinnock mentions Brexit #BBCNewsnight
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There was a TV programme a while back (Channel 4?) where some folk opposed to asylum seekers were taken to some of the countries people had fled, plus put on a dinghy to cross the channel. To a man/woman, it opened their eyes to reality. Perhaps the residents of Piddington could do the same?
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What kind of country have we become when RNLI volunteers are being warned not to make it obvious that they’re part of the organisation? When a charity is forced to increase its security measures for fear of reprisals? The UK is on a dangerous path.
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Tim Hill of Antifa, #FBPE @tjrh.uk · 06/09/2026
PSA It's Daniel Thomas and Stephen Yaxley Lennon, not those Peter Pan alter egos beloved by journalists. Use the name that's on their extensive criminal records, please.
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Charlie Stayt, doing the job of an actual journalist and insisting. that a politician answers questions, is met with the response, “that’s unreasonable to ask that ” James Cartlidge having a ‘mare on #BBCBreakfast We need to see more of this from the media
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Who knew that a baby echidna was called a puggle? ❤️ apple.news/A-aYMrHk-TW2...
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Exclusive video of world’s first echidna puggle to be born at a university — New Scientist
Echidnas are a difficult animal to breed in captivity, but scientists in Sydney have now managed it, which could improve our understanding of the evolution of pregnancy in mammals
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Why is BBC News giving the orange shitgibbon the oxygen of publicity with his ridiculous renaming of Lake Ontario? They (and the rest of the media) should be ignoring him.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'd say "Something for nothing" culture is getting paid £100,000 a year of public money, plus expenses, for a job that you then fail to turn up to for months on end
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Nicklebutt @nicklebutt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is being used as distraction from £5 million "gift" scumbag criminal, Farage, received. Let's make Reform jobless. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JydB... @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @skynewsrss.bsky.social @houseofcommons.parliament.uk @lbc.co.uk @channel4news.bsky.social
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Reform UK's Plan To Scrap PIP Is GENUINELY EVIL! (A Disabled Person's Perspective)
YouTube video by Thomas Harries
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
📌 ICYMI — Reform UK Paid £440,000 to Firms Linked to Party Insiders — Max Colbert Exclusive: Electoral Commission filings reveal payments to companies run by Reform activists, donors and a former party chairman
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Reform UK Paid £440,000 to Firms Linked to Party Insiders
Exclusive: Electoral Commission filings reveal payments to companies run by Reform activists, donors and a former party chairman
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Well, that eclipse was a classic case of ‘apart from viewers in Scotland’ ☁️☁️☁️
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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Conservatives are copying Nigel Farage’s Reform Party with an “unserious and unworkable” proposal to bar foreign nationals from social housing. Ironic after the Tories' right to buy reduced social housing so much. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Tories unveil ‘unworkable’ plan to evict foreign nationals from social housing
Conservatives accused of copying controversial Reform policy while government data shows nine out of 10 social lets already go to UK nationals
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bicycle-fat-bloke.bsky.social @bicycle-fat-bloke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If there were a mob of people outside Jewish people's homes trying to break police lines so they can attack the residents. I don't think any presenter on #BBC or #r4today would be calling it a protest. #Thetford
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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
BBC news web page doesn't mention Farage but 12pm news on 5 Live carried an excerpt of his speech along with Yusuf comments Farage should have no platform on our 'impartial' broadcaster whilst the by-election is in process
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Shortbreadfairy©️ @shortbreadfairy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Just a reminder of Passive Niges violent speech which was defended as being metaphorical when he was leader of UKIP Nigel Farage would 'pick up a rifle' if Brexit is not delivered www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Nigel Farage would 'pick up a rifle' if Brexit is not delivered
It is not the first time the former Ukip leader has threatened civil disobedience over Brexit
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
What are these sources of cheap energy that Claire Fox is banging on about? Please say it’s not oil? Does she understand the maturity of the North Sea basin, and the oil markets? #bbcaq
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Reform UK donor and Farage ally George Cottrell carried a fake Swiss passport under the name ‘Oscar Drewitt’. Cottrell was hired under the name by the future Reform treasurer Mehrtash A’zami. A’zami later vetted Cottrell’s mother's donations to Reform, now the subject of a police investigation
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‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures
Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...
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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Cryptocracy? Farage went the extra legislative mile for those particular financial interests that happen to coincide with those of Christopher Harborne. He didn’t do the same for anyone else - no one - not for: social carers first time house buyers schools policing UK cost-of-living crisis
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Performative patriotism He’ll wear the shirt but dodge the tax #bbclaurak
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The determination of Farage and the right wing press to pump out the idea that Widdecombe’s murder was political on the basis of zero facts is predictable but execrable
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Sorry, Labour lady on #bbclaurak the WHOLE country is not united behind England in the World Cup.They have not brought the whole UK together. That you think so reflects the problem with Labour - Starmer was wilfully ignorant about the parts of the UK that are not England and Burnham will be the same
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It’s clear that Reform’s media training has taught them to bulldoze their way through appearances by simply talking and talking and talking, not allowing anyone to get a word in. They all do it, as Zahawi is doing on #bbclaurak. What pi**es me off is how they’re allowed to get away with it 🤬
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cólz @colz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Nigrl Farage, in the drawing room, with the candlestick
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A £4mn property portfolio, jobs paying £22k an hour, £5m bungs, quaffing in exclusive London private member’s clubs, picking & choosing whether he turns up as an MP or for an inteview as and when he can be bothered. But don’t forget, he’s not the elite apparently.
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Nigel Farage’s £4m property portfolio — and the transparency question
From ‘skint’ in 2017, the Reform UK leader now owns five mortgage-free homes with his partner Laure Ferrari. Only two have been declared to parliament
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Yvonne @geordiesocialist.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Desperate calls from the right for a #GE because they know Reform's support is falling away and it's now or never for Farage. I'm no fan of Labour these days, but they must resist these demands for all our sakes.
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Just catching up with #bbcqt ‘Zia’ Yusuf really is an objectionable little 💩
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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darkdaysusa-uk.bsky.social. @darkdaysusa-uk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Nigel Farage has attended Westminster to vote very few times in 2026 — only 7 recorded votes — even though he could have attended over 80+ voting opportunities so far this year. This places him in the bottom 8% of all MPs for voting participation. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Farage’s Brexit anniversary bash at French eatery – as MPs debate defence budget
Exclusive: Reform UK’s leader, Nigel Farage, is believed to have spent hours at Saint Jacques, a fancy restaurant in St James’s, central London, where diners can order snails and foie gras
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Listening to the very sad stories of the families who have lost babies due to systemic failure, and hearing how each was told theirs was an isolated case. Struck by the similarities between this and the Post Office scandal. Those with power trying to wriggle off the hook. Disgraceful. #BBCBreakfast
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Is that the work of Steve Bray I hear in the background as Starmer is giving his valedictory speech?
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Where’s the condemnation of the anti-Muslim attack in Edinburgh from Reform? Any word from Farage, Tice, Offord or Kerr? Have I missed it?
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
“Britain used to be seen as the solid citizen on the world stage”, says Simon Case on #BBCLauraK We were, but then we (and I use that term loosely) elected Boris Johnson as PM
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
And to prove the point in my last post, Mel Stride can’t even get the name of the by-election constituency right 🙄 #BBCLauraK
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
If Mel Stride thinks the Aberdeen South result heralds a recovery for the Tories in Scotland, he’s totally deluded #BBCLauraK
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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Well said that man. 👏👏👏
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This is why I love living in Scotland. 10pm and the light is still bright. We pay the price in winter, but it’s a price I’m happy to pay to enjoy the amazing long summer nights.
Street scene in northern Scotland  in full  daylight at 10pm. The sky is a clear blue with tinges of gold
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
So, #Reform plan to charge a premium on companies who employ overseas workers instead of UK workers? That means for example the care homes who rely on foreign workers will load the costs onto the residents and their families who already face eye-watering high bills 🤬 Reform are a disgrace.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Oh dear, it seems Reform members are unhappy because we're - exposing Farage's absenteeism, 13 jobs, corruption - calling incitement to riot terrorism - showing Reform policies are anti worker - uncovering foreign billionaires funding Reform - listing Reform councillors who resign, posted racism
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Helen McDade telling us we need to slash spending as the only way to deal with the problems the country faces sounds very much like George Osborne and David Cameron telling us the same in 2010 and implementing austerity policies. How did that turn out? #bbcaq
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