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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Former Royal Navy Officer Brands Reform's Small Boats Plan 'A Crock Of Shit' www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a-croc...
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'A Crock Of Sh*t': Former Royal Navy Officer Slams Reform's Small Boats Plan
The French government has also rejected the policy.
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Matthew Stadlen @matthewstadlen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
As we near the end of another bonkers day in British politics, it’s worth pausing for a moment to reflect on the astonishing political illiteracy of Reform’s entirely unworkable policy of landing Royal Navy boats in France without French permission.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Christ. Are the Tories using the same vetting team as Reform? What a repulsive mess the whole of the rightwing has become.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.
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The Eagle's Perch @theeaglesperch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
So, after the utter disaster that was the World Cup Final.... Well apart from Spain winning it, can we all agree that America should never host a World Cup again, and 30 minute half time shows be confined to the dustbin of football history?! Infantino needs to GO!
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 22/07/2026
The sighting followed more than 15 weeks of monitoring by volunteers as they watched the adult puffins courting, mating, carrying nesting material and, since late-May, repeatedly delivering fish to the nests hidden deep within the crevice. 📷: Martin Shaw; Cathy Lewis; Pete Christie
A volunteer sits on a small fold out stool placed on a rocky path by a cliff. He has binoculars held up to his eyes to monitor wildlife along the coastA National Trust ranger in a red t-shirt with oak leaf logo and wearing a hat looks across from a boat, to the cliffs monitoring birdsA puffin swimming on the water
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“Britain is economically weaker and poorer thanks to Brexit, for which Trump’s friend Nigel Farage was one of the main cheerleaders. A strong prime minister should make the case that populism of the kind Farage traffics in has failed to deliver for the people.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Burnham must avoid Starmer’s Trump mistake
Experience shows that voters reward leaders who stand up to the US president
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My statement on the United States administration’s intention to impose new tariffs on Canadian goods:
My statement on the United States administration’s intention to impose new tariffs on Canadian goods.
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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Does this mean Farage is a liar? Just asking questions...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Never has a team more richly deserved to lose than Argentina.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Farage seems to have totally lost track of where all his money is coming from... He's got himself tangled in his own conflicting stories about donations. Very messy indeed. open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
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Farage just lied about his ‘Posh George’ gifts
And I can prove it...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sending ICE Agents to intimidate voters at polling places, declaring martial law to try to delay or cancel the election, seizing ballots-As he gets more desperate, there's nothing he won't do to try to save his pathetic orange ass. ALL states should preemptively prepare to defend Democracy! 🇺🇸 ✊
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Gary Gilligan @garygilligan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 18/07/2026
Today I made an unannounced visit to ICE’s facility in Scarborough, Maine. What I heard was unacceptable: no body cameras, no training, and no accountability. Johan Guerrero should be alive. Congress must act. Abolish ICE. End qualified immunity.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Nigel Farage is swimming in dodgy crypto dosh – he has never looked closer to drowning app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/74154/...
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Nigel Farage is swimming in crypto—and has never looked closer to drowning
The Reform UK leader’s man-of-the-people act is losing its magic
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
An absolute masterpiece of finding a local angle on a story. I did indeed live in Doncaster for the first eighteen months of my life! www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/reform-...
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Reform UK has slammed a Doncaster broadcaster's "disgusting" attack on Nigel Farage
Reform chairman Lee Anderson has complained about the presenter’s remarks
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is the party currently demanding that I apologise for comparing Nigel Farage to a poo…
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In May we said Nigel Farage probably didn't owe tax on his £5m gift. The Guardian now reports the gift followed talks where Farage said he'd need £5m to return to frontline politics. *If* that's right, we think there's a high risk of a £3m tax bill - payable by Reform.
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 Go on @skynewsrss.bsky.social Ask him about this.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 15/07/2026
Headlines will never be the same again. This landmark ruling today against the Daily Mail will reverberate across the sector. pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/da...
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Dale Vince wins damages on appeal over 'unfair' Daily Mail headline juxtaposition
Dale Vince wins three-year battle against the Daily Mail after he was misleadingly pictured next to a headline about a "'sex pest' donor"
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
PM Starmer: "The economy has been stabilised, we've got stronger public services, half a million children are being lifted out of poverty, we've made the biggest investment in defence and security since the 1980s, and our international standing has been restored. That's...a plan being delivered."
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 15/07/2026
You know things have got bad when even a novelty candidate in a Fox costume start saying “this is all a bit too unserious for me, I’m out.” Which is quite a shame really, as I’d loved to have seen a fox v. Fox storyline in this growing farce.
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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 @dannythefinkExtracts:

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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MarkNew @marknew15.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Nigel Farage.... "Don't you DARE use Galic,Irish or Cornish on your election leaflet's!......But give me £80 and i will shout up the RA"
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Anything to stick the knife into the #NHS!🤮 That headline *should* be about crooked wealthy lawyers bleeding the system! To my dying day, I will stand up for our NHS. That day is still in the future, almost certainly *due* to the NHS! share.google/KUsaV9dxWOLO...
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Avoidable mistakes cost NHS £3.2bn a year in compensation
In the year to March, 15,236 clinical negligence claims were submitted but legal fees often exceeded payouts to patients
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
And Driver - you did get some flowers from the petrol station on the way down here, didn't you?
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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The latest @bylinetimespod.bsky.social ... A deep dive into Reform UK's Head of Policy who also uses his post at Cambridge Uni to recruit students - in breach of safeguarding rules. With @nafeez.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social 🎧 pod.fo/e/446f62 📺 youtu.be/ZbskBu4y4JE?...
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Byline Podcast: James Orr: Reform's Cambridge Kingmaker
Adrian Goldberg highlights a brilliant Byline Times investigation by Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes which exposes the links between Cambridge University, Reform UK and the Trump-supporting US tech bi...
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
GB News has now lost over *£131 million* as major advertisers continue to steer clear of its toxic output. Your support can help up the pressure: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fight-the-...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Chancellor Rachel Reeves says that because of what she's done over the past two years, families are better off. Do you feel better off?
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It is pure coincidence that I resigned just before the story broke about the police investigating a £500,000 donation from the mother George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who bankrolled me.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The face of a man trying to defend the idea that The Establishment somehow doesn’t include a privately educated multi-millionaire who was handed the family property business or the aristocratic family who gave him even more money.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A thin-skinned bad-tempered prick who's seriously starting to lose his shit? Me?
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 10/07/2026
Anne Widdecombe was quite literally very racist and dedicated a huge amount of her career to the project of demonising refugees and migrants.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Days after resigning as an MP due the furore over his gifts from crypto investors, Farage is due to speak at a crypto-backed conference. Seriously.
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Farage and Truss Jamboree Backed by Crypto Lobbyists
Nigel Farage is set to headline at a right-wing event backed by a Bitcoin lobby group, amid a political furore over his ties to crypto investors. The Reform UK leader will be the star speaker at the i...
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Matthew Stadlen @matthewstadlen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The attempt to portray a man with a bin on his head as the establishment is almost as hilarious as the claim that Nigel Farage is not the establishment.
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
NOW DO TICE!!!
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Apologies for bumping this but it's about time it was all over the media @vicderbyshire.bsky.social
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Report to National Crime Agency of £5m Farage gift is ‘deeply serious’
Labour party chair says Reform UK leader must cooperate with authorities instead of trying to distract public with byelection
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I feel very moved by this decision in part because of my work focusing on how victims of domestic abuse continue to be criminalised www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jul...
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Ruth Ellis, last woman hanged in UK, granted posthumous conditional pardon
Ellis, 28, was executed in 1955 after fatally shooting her abusive partner David Blakely
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
GB News has announced it's cutting up to *a third* of its workforce, as losses mount and advertisers steer clear of its toxic content /1 www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
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GB News faces a swathe of job cuts
The hard right channel is understood to be cutting a substantial number of jobs, with as many as 90 at risk – more than a third of its entire headcount
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
From the archive 🔎 Robert Jenrick's Alleged £40k Donor Pled Guilty to Wire Fraud in California Ponzi Scheme – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/04/28/r...
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Robert Jenrick's Alleged £40k Donor Pled Guilty to Wire Fraud in California Ponzi Scheme
Police are examining allegations that the Reform UK MP's Conservative leadership campaign was unlawfully funded by a US-based investor who pled guilty to fraud
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
One Earth Solar Farm has been approved, and will be the 2nd largest solar farm in the UK The decision comes a week after approving the mega Peartree Hill and Dean Moor solar farms It's the 30th nationally significant clean energy project approved by Govt since July 2024. Enough to power 19m homes.
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Government approves UK’s second largest solar farm
Families and businesses will benefit from more solar power as the government has approved a major new solar power project.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Never underestimate the self-pity of the ruling classes.
Photo of Nigel Farage during his lament.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 08/07/2026
A by-election was meant to reset the debate. Instead, with no major party contesting Clacton, scrutiny has remained fixed on Farage's £5m gift | The Bear
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Farage, the £5m questions and a by-election
A by-election was meant to reset the debate. Instead, with no major party contesting Clacton, scrutiny has remained fixed on Farage's £5m gift
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/07/2026
The question for Nigel Farage now is whether it's less embarrassing to un-resign and claim that was an establishment stitchup, or to spend a month competing with a bin. Neither is exactly a *great* option. Neither solves his ongoing scandals. And it's a mess entirely of his own making.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Over the past year, the Reform leader has only mentioned his constituency twice in the House of Commons, and six times since being elected – an average of once every four months." open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
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Farage the absentee MP asks for Clacton’s help
New data reveals Farage’s lack of interest in his own constituency...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Count Binface has become the most important person in British politics overnight.
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