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Teacher and Creative. Merseyside. Love nature, art, stories, science and history.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As well as a Britannia Magic Dome, Tories will build a Halo Array, a Stargate, a Dark Tower, and a Death Star - named respectively Spirit of the Blitz, Maggie's Opening, Boris-Dûr, and Churchill's Clacker - funded by sales of a new wellness smoothie made with carrot, ginger, and poor people's tears.
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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...
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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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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pathetic…..
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The fact that the Fairford suspects are all British Nationals proves nothing. I’m a British National and look at the damage I’ve already caused to the UK.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
said the former Russia Today favourite & Putin-admirer who was caught on camera accepting money from fake overseas donors, without a hint of irony
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ed Miliband, 'Every experience I've had in the two months that I've been Foreign Secretary tells me: our future lies in a deeper, stronger partnership with the EU." So much more refreshing and honest than Keir Starmer's disastrous make Brexit work nonsense.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cheers, Nigel Farage is crying now
Headline: men arrested near RAF airbase are UK citizens from London
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The police have asked everyone to please not speculate about the RAF Fairford incident, so naturally I'm going to waste no time in making up total bollocks to suit my own agenda.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Swiss private equity firm and UK investor buy 1,570-bed student accommodation. Another sector taken over by PE, loaded with debt, high rents, profiteering. Rents outstrip govt maintenance loans. No UK tax charged on dividends paid to foreign investors.
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Swiss private equity firm and UK investor buy 1,570-bed student housing portfolio
A Swiss private equity firm and UK investor have bought a 1,570-bed student housing portfolio for £165m.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The U.S. owes $40 trillion in debt. Everyone has an opinion about why. But there’s one question you almost never hear asked: Who’s actually getting paid?
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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC
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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
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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY…
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God @thegodshow.com · 25/09/2026
How are you feeling these days? God’s just watching in Heaven and wondering why you don’t rise up and put them all in prison and stuff? Think about how good that would feel.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Danny Tommo - Tiny Tears edition
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Robert's Right ✅️.......
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyone who believes this bunch of con artists represents their interests is either a billionaire or seriously misinformed. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/outr...
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Outrage as Reform-run council votes to shut 10 nurseries
Members of the public shouted “you should be ashamed” as Reform councillors approved the plans
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I doubt whether Nigel Farage's older supporters will be happy when they learn that Reform UK plan to abolish the state pension and our NHS ... meme via Drew Flanagan
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's a good question! #ReformCrooks
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Old Oakie @markingall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pay attention Reform voting pensioners, when Nigel says he wants to cut benefits he means he wants to abolish your pension.
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 The Innernet never forgets
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
'Sir Jim Ratcliffe fought a 6-year battle with his neighbours, planning authorities and conservationists for permission to build his dream £6m beach house on the coast in the New Forest. Months later, Ratcliffe plans to quit the UK for Monaco to save £4bn in tax.' www.theguardian.com/business/201...
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'It's a bit selfish': neighbours angry as Jim Ratcliffe quits UK
UK’s richest man had battled for six years to secure planning permission in New Forest
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
BREAKING; The UK has lost confidence in Jim Ratcliffe. Actually, that happened when he scooted off to Monaco to avoid paying tax, tried to force fracking on Britain, and claimed the UK had been ‘colonised by migrants’. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Billionaire Brexiteeer and Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK. Lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties. Demands state subsidies, including for building a Man U stadium. Why do billionaires resent people getting decent NHS, social care, public services?
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It takes a special kind of arrogance to wipe out large numbers of entire species and not care about it www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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One in nine migratory birds threatened with extinction, global report says
Findings on decline of species such as Arctic tern and turtle dove published alongside flyways pledge at Kenya summit
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform is owned by a few money laundering crypto billionaires. Farage is their greedy little broker. Happy to sell our country out to make even more money for the global tax-avoiding super-rich. Screw everyone else. Screw our rights. Screw our kids’ futures. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-uk-...
Reform UK Is Now a
Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry
As criminal investigations into Reform's funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage's shady funders
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TODAY AT 12:36

Photo: Bitcoin Magazine's Frank Corva holds hands with Nigel Farage as he holds up a copy of his proposed Cryptocurrencies and Digital Finance Bill in Las Vegas.Starmer and Burnham's governments have left the door wide open to Delo, Harborne and other crypto billionaires to sweep in and effectively buy up one of our major political parties.
This in turn has an impact on the reporting, which broadly continues to treat these donations as being a massive boon for Farage, rather than being the incredibly alarming evidence of potentially criminal behaviour that it actually is.
This all really matters.
Because whilst the recent reporting of Farage's funding woes appears to have caused the party to dip slightly in the polls, we are still a long way from the general election, at which point the tens of millions of pounds supplied by Reform's shady crypto donors could prove to be an absolute gamechanger.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform UK given £36m donation by a crypto billionaire convicted in the US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls, pardoned by Donald Trump. Is it legal? Dwarfs £15m from a Thailand based crypto billionaire What have they been promised? Hate politics funded by the rich.
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Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire
Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/09/2026
And why is that? 🤔
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Northern & proud 👊 @gazlancs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oh get fucked. Where were your violins when working class kids were having their playing fields sold and their budgets slashed?? 😡
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Sel 🏳️‍🌈 @selonsky.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A couple of dolls, one is wearing a red jacket, the other a red spotted dress. They are both looking perplexed and shocked. They are wearing hats
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Clearly “Never again” didn’t apply to fashion choices…
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Return of the Blackshirts. Dozens of men dressed in black, wearing balaclavas blocked the road at Dover. Organised to frighten people Crime and Policing Act 2026: "the wearing or otherwise using of an item that conceals identity when in an area designated by police" is a criminal offence.
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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions
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Mike 🏳️‍🌈 @lpoolmike.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Pensioners protesting genocide = terrorist Masked and dressed in black blockading a port = protestor The only winners? Coke dealers in Dover I reckon
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Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
if they were dressed in orange & opposing the fossil fuel industry they’d be dragged off the streets & right-wing papers would demand jail
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nigel Farage has threatened to abolish the House of Lords, restrict court powers, and remove civil servants if anyone stands in his way should he become Prime Minister.This sounds eerily similar to certain 1930s regimes. Yet, the turkeys will continue to vote for Christmas.
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
👏👏👏 Always a problem for far-right fuck faces. Hardly anyone outside of Kid Rock is happy for them to use their music.
Screencap of tweet by Kevin Rowland: 

"I, Kevin Rowland (the son of Irish immigrants) and the main songwriter of 'Come On Eileen, am disgusted to learn that Nigel Farage has used our song to make his entrance for his party conference. Myself, and all of Dexys are passionately against Farage's politics."
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I for one have had enough of people who can barely speak English, living on benefits, ignoring our laws and wearing weird clothes that cover up their faces. So it was disappointing to see a few hundred of them gathered in Dover today.
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Reform UK Ltd : "Counter Terror Police won’t let Farage on stage" West Midlands Police : "We can confirm that Counter Terrorism Policing have had no involvement" www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
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Chris Mason
Political editor

"Counter terror won’t let him on stage yet” a senior Reform figure says, explaining the delay in Nigel Farage’s speech at the Reform UK conference.20:08 4 September

Jack Fenwick
Political correspondent

West Midlands Police say the decision to delay Nigel Farage's conference speech "was made by Reform UK".

A senior Reform figure earlier told the BBC that Farage's speech was delayed because "counter terror won't let him on stage yet".

But West Midlands Police say: "We can confirm that Counter Terrorism Policing have had no involvement in the delivery of the Reform UK Party Conference 2026."
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Have we seen anything like this at a party conference before? I recall an elderly gentleman being manhandled by stewards at a Labour conference years ago but this is on a different level. This is a mob mentality at work. bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The image versus The reality.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The investigation will focus on avoiding getting caught next time.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Dear Diary, Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck bollocks"
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I forgot to mention at the time that this poll was commissioned by Reform and paid for illegally with foreign money. Silly me.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oops, I seem to have been caught red handed taking illegal foreign donations and being a corrupt sack of shit.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What really struck me watching Channel 4 investigation into Reform is that the wilful breaking of electoral law isn’t an accident - it’s by design At every turn it’s Reform - Orr, Dan Jukes - saying how to break the law Exactly why I’ve been banging on about weak election law for so long
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Farage’s ludicrous minions selling what’s left of their souls for coins, while either not knowing or caring that their boss secretly trousered five million for his ‘personal use’. He makes absolute twats of everyone who trusts him. And this James Orr character is supposed to be some sort of genius…
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Travellersuzy @travellersuzy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Farage says we're a " complainant society". I think we're more a " law abiding society" and we fucking hate whining grifters.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It is always the same betrayal: the public interest is sacrificed for the sake of immensely wealthy people. And Andy Burnham has already gone and done it. My column on how Burnham needs to defy the ultra-rich if he's not to follow Starmer out of the door. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Andy Burnham has already made a mistake that will cost him his premiership: he lost his nerve over political donations | George Monbiot
Being subservient to the interests of the wealthy now means that his hands are tied, and he will be unable to tackle Britain’s most pressing issues, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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