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Mike

@mikem51.bsky.social
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Retired International Education Consultant,keen photographer, loves travel, dining out and the odd drink or two. #FBPE

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 6h
“Every election is determined by the people who show up.” ― Larry J. Sabato
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 7h
He’s not an elected official. He never has been. He could have stood in Holborn but he’s too 🐔… So why are the @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social giving Zia Yusuf a platform to tell the country that Reform would instruct the Navy use “lethal force” against people in the channel? 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Wobbly Sausage @wobblysausage.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's kinda hilarious how fast Nigel Farage jumps to Putin's defense over Russia meddling with the EU referendum. How can he call Burnham a liar? How does he know? he's not privy?
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 8h
Farage disgracefully attacking the disabled community once again. Motability cars are not free cars handed out by the state. Disabled people use their own disability benefit to lease them so they can have reliable, suitable transport that supports their needs.
Nigel Farage Post on X
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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 9h
If Trump really believes those who illegally entered the USA should be expelled then Melania and Musk should be first.
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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 9h
They can’t run councils yet some believe they can run a country.
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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 10h
Fartrage - the Nazi
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 11h
After every arrest, two racist millionaires shed Go Fund It tears (extra spending money on their next holiday in Muslim Sharia Law Dubai "Boxer Ty Mitchell ... confront far-right British activist Tommy Robinson at a sporting event in Dubai" www.youtube.com/shorts/WQtGp... ) via Truth Against Hate
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 23h
This traitor needs locking up!
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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 10h
Absolutely right the BBC is becoming as unpatriotic as Reform distorting every bit of positive news but highlighting every negative bit over and over.
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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 10h
The destruction of the Russian bot farms has proved how Russia has interfered with elections and politics in Europe and beyond. Denial by Farage and Johnson immediately shown as disenguist drivel. Trump and Musk outraged as there support shown to be fictitious.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h
Ukraine has stabilised the front line and "broken Russia's ability to advance".
bbc.co.uk
Russia's offensive ability is broken, Kyiv's former top general tells BBC
In his first interview since being forced from his post, Gen Syrskyi speaks about Ukraine's future in the war.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 10h
... and Reform UK, full of lethal austerity-manufacturing ex-Tories, led by Thatcher worshipper, Liz Truss praiser Nigel Farage, will do the same ... meme via The UK Against Hate
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22h
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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 11h
I’m swimming 🏊‍♀️
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 11h
A bleak question I'd be keen to hear from UK lawyers about. Will the US' public execution - if it goes ahead - be blocked in the UK, under the Online Safety Act (unless the platforms showing it have age verification)? Or some other law? Or is this situation so mad/unique that we don't know?
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KTeaTalks @kttalks2.bsky.social · 12h
Burnham is stepping up?
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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 12h
The real reason Trump is upset with Zelenskyy
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Bronn #FBPE 🇨🇵 🇭🇰 🇪🇺 @serbronn.bsky.social · 12h
The BBC studiously avoiding the information that the destruction of russian data centres has changed the bot landscape to the benefit of democratic discourse across the world
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 13h
The Times today
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Temu version!
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
He's just a violent thug in a suit
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Gary Sheffield @profgsheffield.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I'm very glad that Andy Burnham has been open about Russian interference in the Brexit referendum. Farage's reaction tells us Burnham has hit the nail on the head.
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 13h
“drop in bot activity following Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres…dramatic drop in activity around far-right German party, the AfD…On X, social media posts from Reform figures have taken an engagement hit in the wake of the great bot silencing.” www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...
thelondoneconomic.com
Reform figures see social media engagement drop as bot accounts 'fall silent'
The social media engagement on posts from Reform UK figures appears to have dropped in the wake of Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“The political, strategic and economic momentum for a reversal of Brexit is growing” and ultimately, despite - and maybe partly because of - the idiotic Tory and Reform tantrums about it, it’s becoming unstoppable. Where there’s a will, there will be a way… giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Beyond the difficult technical negotiations involved in reversing Brexit, it is the bigger strategic question that really matters. Do both sides see a common interest in Britain rejoining the EU? If the answer to that is a clear yes - then it can and should happen.

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Has Nigel 'Mr Brexit' Farage commented on the confirmed Russian involvement in the referendum - an actual national security issue - or is he too busy demonising asylum seekers?
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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 12h
Our professional military will be fully aware that firing on unarmed civilians is a war crime and that the legal plea of ‘just following orders’ is no longer valid following the Nazi trials at Nuremberg. Now service members have an explicit legal obligation to disobey manifestly illegal orders.
mirror.co.uk
Outrage as Reform MP says navy should be allowed to use lethal force in Channel
Reform MP Robert Jenrick said that if Nigel Farage becomes PM, marines will be able to use 'lethal force' to stop small boats - a statement branded 'horrific' by Labour peer Lord Alf Dubs, who fled th...
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Russian Bots would certainly explain many of the false views of the EU held by Quitters such as Pearson! #Brexit #Rejoin #RussianBrexit
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13h
1) making countries accept returns 2) problems finding third country hosts 3) building enough detention centres 4) legal obstacles Oh and the unforgivable inhumanity… Farage’s hateful fever dreams need to be torn down like this - with the contempt they deserve. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/482...
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The four major flaws in Reform’s plan to shut down asylum system
Farage’s proposal would void existing asylum applications and reject any new ones – but the scheme features some serious pitfalls
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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 12h
I rarely know the so called celebrities on TV programs these days.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ukraine has hit a huge Russian data centre linked to bot farms. In unrelated news, does anyone know why every Reform account on Twitter is getting hardly any likes and shares?
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Farage's Reform are nothing but a Trump tribute act now. Out of desperation. Not strength. Today Farage has used the same words as Trump in 2016 to dismiss Russian state interference calling it a "Russia hoax." While Zia Yusuf wants a UK ICE: state sponsored thuggery & brutalism.
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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 22h
Badenoch thinks the EU deal done by Johnson and Frost was the best possible when it was lazily and slovenly negotiated with the easiest options taken for speed. Even the EU leaders were surprised how easily the UK caved in and agreed to the worst options.
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Spouting any old ragebait crap to stay in the news
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🇨🇵 Clare Price-Jones 🇪🇺 @clucksky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My admiration for Zelenskyy is off the scale. The word "hero" doesn't come close.
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Claire @clairepull.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If Farage calls someone a liar, you can almost guarantee that they're not. He's being paid to say that, as was Nathan Gill. He's also hoping that no more Russian data centres get hit by Ukraine as he needs this bullshit to get to a wider audience.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Putin is dragging Trump down with him.
chadbourn.substack.com
On Board The Sinking Ship
Trump’s allegiance to Putin will destroy him
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If they’re admitting 81 planes, drones and helicopters worth $3.3 billion have been lost in Iran, imagine what they’re not telling us. The real cost is likely far higher, and our grandchildren will be paying for this unnecessary war and his reckless spending. www.businesstoday.in/amp/world/st...
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Your deal does nothing for Americans, there isn't enough diesel there for even half a day! All it does is create a precedent of removing sanctions during an active war, and paves the way for you and your cronies to return to sweet business deals with Russia.
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bogwoppitt59.bsky.social @bogwoppitt59.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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🦋 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖊® @thorchrs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
👇🇷🇺🇺🇦 So Trump Was Talking Out Of His Ass Again "Ukraine doesn't deserve 'respite', Russia's Lavrov says, as Zelensky says he'd support Trump's energy ceasefire"
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Russia-Ukraine live: Ukraine doesn't deserve 'respite' ceasefire would bring, Lavrov says
The Kremlin says it will comment on the apparent truce, announced by President Trump over the weekend, when "we have anything to say".
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kaybell27.bsky.social @kaybell27.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Farage is a traitor to the UK calling Burnham 'a liar' over Russian interference in Brexit. Farage reinforces his support of Russia by deny the truth that many of us now accept, Russia financed the Brexit campaign and are still interfering in our politics today. Farage the Russian stooge.
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
From The Archives #492 That time in October 2019 when Farage got all his Brexit Party MEPs to vote against EU plans to tackle Russian propaganda. 7 years later, almost to the day, he accuses Burnham of lying that there was Russian interference in Brexit...
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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Awesome
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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This Will Hold @thiswillhold.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🚨President Z is taking out “data centers” that run Putin’s bot farms just three weeks before the U.S. midterms. After the third strike on Yandex's data center, Russian bot activity dropped to zero. This is why Trump and Musk are calling for President Z’s removal. It has nothing to do with diesel.
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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Fighting the far-right on Twitter can be compared to playing soccer against a team with 12 players, with the referee whistling in favour of your opponent. This is perfectly pointless, which is why progressives should leave Twitter as soon as possible. The EU should ban it for good. #BanX
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