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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

"Hands up if you didn't want Robert Jenrick to join Reform because that would mean you were no longer the biggest gobshite in the party"

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 16/01/2026

The real Trump Derangement Syndrome isn’t hating Trump. It’s defending his lies no matter how obvious, bending reality to fit his words, and calling anyone who points it out “obsessed”. That’s how delusion becomes power, and it's only going to get worse from here.

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The Real Sufferers of 'Trump Derangement Syndrome" Are His Supporters

The right has long accused Trump's critics of being blinded by hatred, but the truth is very different

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

When you have a government for 14 years is natural to fall in to the mind set of 'why should I care?'. But now we have a grown up government who IS improving the country, it's time for us to wake up (become 'woke' so to speak) and do our bit to help our country recover. 1/2

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 16/01/2026

Jenrick’s incredible journey – from self-centred halfwit to self-centred halfwit. Reform’s latest defector from the Tories is a politician whose eye has only ever been on his own ambition. #JohnCrace www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Jenrick’s incredible journey – from self-centred halfwit to self-centred halfwit | John Crace

Reform’s latest defector from the Tories is a politician whose eye has only ever been on his own ambition

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/01/2026

"I frankly wouldn’t pay any attention to anything that Elon Musk puts on that cesspit of his called X. He was the guy who advocated getting Donald Trump elected," says Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary. "He's an idiot. Very wealthy, but he's still an idiot."

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Elon Musk is an idiot: CEO of Europe’s biggest airline says after dismissing claims of offering Starlink on its flights, Tesla CEO responds - The Times of India

Tech News News: Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has publicly called Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk an ‘idiot’. O’Leary’s remarks came after Europe’s biggest airline servi.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Will Britain walk the Trumpian path? As with Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2024, few in the media are actually taking Nigel Farage and his party to task. But with your support, Byline Times' Reform UK investigations unit can fill that scrutiny gap. 👉 subscribe.bylinetimes.com/reformscruti...

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–Reform's Route to Power – Byline Times Shop

The Scrutiny Gap and Reform UK’s Path to Power Reform UK’s rise is accelerating at the same moment rigorous investigation is retreating. Byline Times can fill that journalistic void – but only with yo...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

If the Conservative party were in government and if Farage was genuinely in reach of Downing Street then this would all be significant. As it is, he's scooping up failures and sacked MPs and in the process undermining his entire USP. It's actually spectacularly stupid.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/01/2026

Brilliant questions. 🚨 "And finally, to Nigel, isn't it embarrassing that last year you said that Robert Jenrick is a fraud?"

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/01/2026

This hasn’t aged well...

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Reforms key message is now you absolutely can get exactly the same politics as the last losing Tory government only under the auspices of the somewhat invisible MP for Clacton. Some real strong positioning here

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Kercle @kercle1.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Jenrick describing the decline of Britain that he helped oversee is not the gotcha he thinks it is 🤦‍♀️

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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Long Tailed Tit and rosehip! 😍 Taken recently at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset. 😊🐦 My 2026 Birds calendars are further reduced, why not treat yourself (or a friend! 😀) You can buy them here; www.carlbovis.com/2026-birds-c...

Long Tailed Tit perched on a bare branch next to a red rosehip berry

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 15/01/2026

I'll say it again: watching Robert Jenrick do "cunning politics" is like watching a toddler hide behind a cushion. "Where's Robert gone? THERE HE IS! Oh no! Where is he? THERE HE IS!"

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Suffolk Broad (aka Anna) 🇬🇧🇵🇱🇪🇺 @annadamski.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Top trolling from the TUC! 👏

On Twitter, in response to Kemi Badenoch firing Robert Jenrick, the Trades Union Congress writes:

"Robert Jenrick, do you need a union rep x"

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MrsVB @mrsivb.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

If Jenrick does join Reform, it even more underlines that Reform are the Tory rejects party.

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 15/01/2026

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

An edit of a 'Traitors' confessional shot with Robert Jenrick sat in the chair. The caption identifies him as 'Robert' 44, Wannabe PM and a traitor'.

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I've highlighted in red 18 countries who've qualified for the World Cup finals (or are still in contention with a few play-off places still to be decided). If the fans (and the players?) can no longer get US visas, how can FIFA continue to justify proceeding with the tournament in the US?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

“It seems unlikely not to have occurred to [Farage] that the reason he is so popular… is that so many people have had enough not just of people like Zahawi, but in this case, people who literally are Zahawi” Here’s to hoping their piss-taking opportunism does for them both. (Times sketch)

Extract:

Farage's one-man band adds a disgraced banjo
Tom Peck
Political Sketch

the sketch writers keep saying we're a one-man band,"
" said Nigel Farage,
48 hours after some idiot sketch writer in The
Times had called Reform UK a one-man band. The sketch writers clearly needed to be taught a lesson but what happened next was surely overkill, when out on to the stage and back into the political big time strode Nadhim Zahawi.
How would we describe Reform
UK now? What part of the one-man band is the party's newest defector? Is there even such a thing as a
discredited mouth organ? A disgraced banjo? There was no time to think about that. First there was a pre-roll video of Zahawi, a stirring montage biography of the kind you used to see on the X Factor judges' houses episode, immediately before a painter and decorator from Croydon murders a Michael Buble cover next to Simon Cowell's swimming pool.

"l've gone from councillor to chancellor of the exchequer," Zahawi said, looking beyond the camera and into the middle distance, where a brighter future may theoretically lie.
Zahawi is extremely proud of his time as chancellor of the exchequer, which lasted exactly two months and was mainly spent paying his own tax bills to HMRC. "Westminster watchers",
, as
Zahawi called us, may recall the very first thing he did as chancellor, which was to get hold of a piece of HM Treasury notepaper and use it to write a letter to Boris Johnson, who had appointed him fully 48 hours before, to tell him to resign.
"Britain is drinking in the last chance saloon," said Zahawi, over soft string music, "and it really does need Nigel Farage as prime minister."

In the questions at the end, someone had the temerity to bring up a social media post, written by Zahawi in 2015, in which he had said of his new best mate: "I would be frightened to live in a country run by you." Zahawi let out a little smile. "If I thought this man next to me had an issue, in any way, with people from my background, I wouldn't be sitting next to him," he said, and then he reached over and placed a loving hand on Nigel's elbow. Smiles can say a lot. This one specifically seemed to be saying, "Come on, guys, if you actually believe a word I say, we're not going to get very far, are we?" Which was just as well, because no one does.
As the press conference wore on,
Farage did not seem his usual ebullient self. Smiles were forced.
Brows were creased. Farage is as canny as they come. It seems unlikely not to have occurred to him that the reason he is so popular, the one reason that towers above all others, is that so many people have had enough not just of people like Zahawi, but in this case, people who literally are Zahawi.
Zahawi seemed to think people would be "shocked" to see him defecting to Reform. People were shocked, but not quite for the reasons he thinks. That Zahawi decided to ask Farage out is no surprise at all. What is more surprising is that Farage said yes. The Tory stampede to Reform is now very much in full swing. At some point, Farage will surely have to say no to someone. He must have a limit.
It's a remarkable thing to say, but at the moment Farage can't seem to find the bar.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Well this all looks fine

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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

All of Reform's 12 councils will raise council tax this year despite pledging not to in campaigns. Some of the planned rises include: Worcestershire - 10% Derbyshire - 4.99% West Northamptonshire - 4.99% Kent - 3.99% Staffordshire - 3.99% #NeverVoteReform

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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Today, a federal judge ruled that a major offshore wind farm off of RI and CT Trump sought to shut down can resume work towards completion. Revolution Wind is 90% ready to provide power for the two states. How stupid would it be to shut the project down at this point? Trump stupid is the answer.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

'Some inside Reform are worried Nadhim Zahawi's high-profile defection to the party looks like "naked opportunism"' While opportunism fits well, the word "naked" is not one that anyone ever wants to hear juxtaposed with Zahawi.

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Kathie @kathie75.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

👇👇 is the message the left needs to be pushing out at every opportunity. But a Reform gov won’t just be more of the same Tory governance we had for 14 years, it will be much worse. Not only have the Tories & these defectors moved further right, but they are now in bed with Farage etc

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 13/01/2026

➡️ Lowest Reform % in Any Poll since April 2025.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 12/01/2026

As the former pandemic vaccines minister, wasn’t Nadhim Zahawi “at all bothered that Reform had given a platform to a medic who said the king’s cancer had been caused by the Covid vaccine?” Apparently not. Savagely brilliant piece @mrjohncrace.bsky.social 🔥 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Step forward, Nadhim Zahawi: the latest, highest-profile rat to flee the Tory ship | John Crace

As a member of Reform, Nadhim was adamant he had more to give. Even if none of us really wanted him

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12/01/2026

ReTories are telling voters, really quite directly, that this is now a rebranding exercise, a quick change of costume. Zahawi on why Badenoch won't be the next PM: "She's got the baggage of a defunct brand; a brand that the nation has decided it can no longer trust." ~AA

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Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This really matters. Even if you don’t have x weeks service you should get paternity leave to spend time with your newborn - and now all dads will.

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Starmer hails parental leave changes as putting ‘dignity back at heart of work’

The Government states this will offer an additional 1.5 million parents increased flexibility to share childcare responsibilities

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 12/01/2026

The number of homicides of young people in London continues to fall. When I set up the Violence Reduction Unit in 2019, the capital’s homicide rate of under-25s was three times higher than it is today.

Graphic showing a line chart with the headline text “HOMICIDES OF YOUNG PEOPLE AT LOWEST LEVELS THIS CENTURY”.
Subheading text reads: “Targeted work to tackle violence affecting young people led by the Violence Reduction Unit has contributed to under-25 homicides falling to a historic low.”
The chart shows yearly data from 1997 to 2025 on the horizontal axis and numbers from 0 to 80 on the vertical axis, with a blue line fluctuating over time and dropping sharply by 2025.
Large text across the chart reads: “60.9% LOWER THAN 1997”.
Source text at the bottom reads: “Source: MPS recorded homicide data for period 1st January to 31st December, 1997 to 2025.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

NOEM: “We can’t trust the government anymore.” BASH: “You are the government.” NOEM: “Yes, that’s what I’m saying.”🤔 The only honest thing @KristiNoem said today

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Cartoon by @kamenskyvienna.bsky.social.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Zahawi is very much part of that ‘defunct brand’. He doesn’t get to saunter off to another party and claim his Tory grubbiness gets left behind. Oh no, Mr Zahawi, the stink of corruption and political failure follows you wherever you go. Reform already reeks of it.

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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Ricardo @rjam33.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Jane, Retired and mostly happy @likesretirement.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

If people were fed up with 14 years of the Tories, why would they want to vote for the #Refuk party which is now populated almost entirely by those Tories?

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

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bevmount.bsky.social @bevmount.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

But.. but… but.. Farage didn’t want any washed-up Tories in his party.

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Lord Jeffrey of Nottingham #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇬🇱 @onemoregoodman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

So what's on the bingo card for this? They got another huge donation? An endorsement by Trump? They're planning a British ICE? They're going to legalise paedophilia? Can't wait to find out.

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Jo from Rotherfield @equalityearthling.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

So biggest peddlers of lies (let’s call it what it is), are Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage & Katie Hopkins- the trifecta of evil far right fascism in the UK. How are there people out there who still believe a single word any of them say?? 🤯

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Polly_Titian @pollytitian.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

However unlikely a Tory win may be they need to include a ‘Badenoch Clause’ too.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

It’s almost a RefUk tradition ReFuk mayor candidate has had 2 companies struck off by the Companies House regulator in 2023/24 for failing to file legally required documents. In true ReFuk style she says she did nothing wrong despite having been a prosecutor. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Several businesses linked to Reform’s London mayor candidate struck off

Laila Cunningham has been unveiled as the party’s candidate for the 2028 election

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

100% this!👇

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Savonian Fella 🇫🇮 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 @savonianfella.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Robert Reich: Donald Trump poses a threat to civilization Who: Robert Reich is a former 🇺🇸 US secretary of labor www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Donald Trump poses a threat to civilization | Robert Reich

The moral purpose of civilized society is to prevent the stronger from attacking the weaker. The US was founded on that principle

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Jane, Retired and mostly happy @likesretirement.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I currently use Bluesky on web browser as it's a decent experience Have been away for a few months Are there any decent apps out there yet - full screen for starters - which mirror the good standard twitter ones on iOS and android?

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds. Net migration to the UK fell by more than two-thirds to a post-pandemic low in the year ending June 2025, but 67% of the people polled thought it had increased www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds

Exclusive: Voters say they have little confidence that government can control borders despite sharp falls in net migration

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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?

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