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Matthew

@mattroth82.bsky.social
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Dad. 40 something, political enthusiast. Scouser. Views are entirely my own. Liberalism. Social democracy. 🏳️‍🌈

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Not surprised to see Knowsley MP Anneliese Midgley get chief whip. She’s known as a brilliant organiser and fixer. Wrote this about her background and life a few weeks ago for anyone interested.
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The Merseyside MP helping to power Andy Burnham's rise
Knowsley MP Anneliese Midgley was one of the key figures behind the successful Makerfield campaign - but what is her background and what role could she play in a Burnham administration?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It remains hilarious that his cult will still insist, to this day, that Donald Trump is an "expert deal maker."
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 07/07/2026
nuff said
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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
£5 million for Nigel Farage. £450,000 bill for the taxpayer. He could fund this by-election himself, but instead he's chosen to make the public pay for his vanity project. That money could provide free school meals for around 1,000 children for a year. Priorities.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage should easily win a by-election in Clacton, which he already won with a large majority in 2024 when polls were much less favourable for Reform than they are now. A complete waste of public money, designed solely to serve himself
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Matthew @mattroth82.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Post of the day !!!
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
God he's such a whining crybaby
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Oh get on with it, you whining coward.
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Absolutely extraordinary story from the Sunday Times that is going to be very hard for Farage to deflect. "Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal" www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
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Tiago Dias @tiagodf.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Would definitely read a behind the scenes feature on how French diplomacy became a trolling juggernaut
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Cool G @colg.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
And then there was one...
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EASTMAN @eastmanblue.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If Trump uses tactical nukes on Iran, Russia will not hesitate to use them on Ukraine, and that could open the door to an all-out nuclear exchange. Donald Trump has to be removed from office before he can use the nuclear codes to slaughter BILLIONS of human beings.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
To be clear, we totally can pretend it's not our war on the simple basis that it isn't.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Truly one of the all time great takes
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Matthew @mattroth82.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Well worth a listen! Shocking and frankly all a bit odd!
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Matthew @mattroth82.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Yes.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 28/03/2026
When Tory Nick Timothy saw Ramadan prayers in Trafalgar Square, he said it was an "act of domination". He was praised by Tommy Robinson, and Kemi Badenoch asked if these events "fit" with British culture. Do the Tories have a problem with Muslims? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/do-t...
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Do the Tories have a problem with Muslims? | The News Agents
When Conservative shadow justice secretary Nick Timothy witnessed Islamic prayer taking place in Trafalgar Square, he rushed to share photos of the Ramadan event on social media, describing it as an…
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Matthew @mattroth82.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Delusion is alive and well. Starmer is unpopular, fact. Folks should watch the programme and understand why.
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Matthew @mattroth82.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Excellent pod this weekend @lewisgoodall.com
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Matthew @mattroth82.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The fundamental issue with our political landscape right there ⬇️
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Matthew @mattroth82.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Really enjoyed this @lewisgoodall.com
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ssej25.bsky.social @ssej25.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Just a few months ago, America threatened Canada, a few weeks ago ago, it was Greenland. They’ve called our soldiers useless, they’ve said the UK has no free speech (the USA is the one silencing people), it’s been a non-stop barrage of bullying. Trump ruined the ‘special relationship’. #UK #Media
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 08/03/2026
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into this illegal war, even though the President has no plan for what comes next. There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
On Tony Blair’s intervention… 1) Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he… 2) It’s not “America asking”. It’s Trump raging… 3) Seriously now… STFU.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This is nothing like Iraq where the UK are concerned because thank God the government seem to have learned the lessons of Tony Blairs mad involvement. Even if Tony Blair has not.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/03/2026
President Trump’s administration spent the past year dismissing Europeans as pathetic and irrelevant. Now, as he wages a war alongside Israel to force regime change in Iran, he wants Europe to cheer him on.
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Trump team bashed Europe for a year. Now he wants support in war on Iran.
European leaders are ramping up their response to the crisis spreading outside Iran but remain wary of a conflict that could have untold ramifications.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
It really is something to see politicians, commentators and media outlets whose whole identity is based on being so-called ‘patriots’ frothing with excitement as they line up to back a deranged megalomaniac who consistently attempts to belittle and bully the country they claim to love
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The history books will show that this brutal US regime was murdering its own people.
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The most staggering thing is that Rachel said “if I was a faithful” and no one seems to have clocked it #TheTraitors
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Donald Trump is going to impose 10% tarrifs on the UK unless we agree to let him invade Greenland. I condemn all those who have enabled him, particularly those who told Congress to sanction the UK.
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Sally Luxmoore @sallyl.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
100% THIS 👇🏽
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
ONCE upon a time (a few months ago) a group of over-excited British commentators argued that one Brexit benefit was that the UK would not be involved in a trade war between Trump and the EU. Well.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Don’t turn away. See what ICE did.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Channel 4 News close to examplary this evening. It pains me to point out that some people working for the broadcast partner of Bari Weiss's CBS News, the BBC, could learn a lot from Matt Frei & Anushka Asthana. But I also wonder how much 'balance' we give to obvious liars, however powerful they are.
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Matthew @mattroth82.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Sat watching JD Vance. Quite clearly preparing the ground to cancel the midterms. Expect more and more of this rhetoric! Also, telling the type of president he’d be. A younger more emboldened, radicalised Trump! @lewisgoodall.com @jonsopel1.bsky.social
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 08/01/2026
“This is how radicalised American media and politics is becoming on the right” “It’s really, really disturbing” Lewis and Jon discuss the “grotesque” reporting by MAGA media after a women was shot dead by ICE.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 04/01/2026
Just checking in on all those folks who just couldn’t vote for Kamala because of their ideals. How’s that working out?
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 03/01/2026
Wouldn’t be sleeping terribly easy in Nuuk tonight.
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Matthew @mattroth82.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
This. This. This and this!
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Matthew @mattroth82.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Superb 👌 well worth a listen! @lewisgoodall.com @patrickmaguire.bsky.social
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Ricky Gervais @mrrickygervais.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Can’t imagine anyone objecting to this.
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Matthew @mattroth82.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Actually ‘lol’d’ at a lot of this 😂
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
TV moment of the year right here.
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Matthew @mattroth82.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
@lewisgoodall.com Philp changed his tune between Kuenssberg and LBC interviews about determining Pochin’s overt racism! 🤔
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We go live now to Donald Trump's Nobel Prize application letter
If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go and kill them. Thank you for your attention in this matter? 
- Donald J. Trump
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 05/10/2025
SUNDAY WITH LEWIS GOODALL @lbc.co.uk FROM 10 -Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood -Shadow Home Sec Chris Philp -Green Party leader Zack Polanski -Former top Met copper Neil Basu -Former top BBC exec Danny Cohen Best analysis Natasha Clark Join us! Sunday shows don’t have to be boring.
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Matthew @mattroth82.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The very folk you allowed here… now you will remove. Gas lighting at its finest
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Matthew @mattroth82.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Got to the last episode! This is a must listen ! Truly fascinating. Top notch Lewis!
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