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Dave Simpson 🇪🇺

@nemumdave.bsky.social
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Botanist, retired, still active. The last designated Keeper of a very large Herbarium. Taxonomy. Conservation. Sedges. Birder. Probably too much about politics. Utterances purely personal.

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Dave Simpson 🇪🇺 @nemumdave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Last time in power, Tories took away our freedom of movement, our European citizenship, inflicted austerity, massively increased the country’s debt, etc etc. And they want us to believe they should be elected again. As Thatcher said, No, No, No.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just the dumbest collection of halfwit confetti emerging out of that conference. Tax cuts everywhere, paid for with imaginary spending cuts. Huge spending projects with precisely zero utility, except to anchor their 'defence day' narrative. Clowns.
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Dave Simpson 🇪🇺 @nemumdave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tory policies as odious and pointless as ever #r4today
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reading the details of the US execution story from last night and it is absolute barbarism. Like reading a history of the medieval period.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sadly there was a climate & nature shaped hole at the heart of Burnham’s speech. Nothing on the benefits of nature restoration & same old words on a “pragmatic” approach to N Sea drilling. There’s nothing pragmatic about pouring fuel on a scorching earth - he should rule out Rosebank & Jackdaw now
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
humanists.uk
Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thank you for this, @privateeyenews.bsky.social Farage needs ridiculing far more. It’s a form of scrutiny he can’t cope with and one he so richly - yes pun intended - deserves.
TV HIGHLIGHTS
72 Up
The award-winning documentary series continues, charting the progress of one posh little boy, Nigel, over the years.
The last time we saw him was over a week ago in 36
Up when he had been given £36 million out of the blue.
In the latest instalment Nigel is given another £36 million, making the total donation a jaw-dropping £72 million.
This is a life changing moment for the former prep school boy who was recorded in the first episode singing the Horst Wessel song and coming up with charming but embarrassing comments about admiring Hitler.
As the clock moves forward
to 72 Up, viewers now see a completely different Nigel from the one we have come to know so well over the years
- from Europe-hating MEP to Brexit-promoting campaigner to the triumphant bin-defeating statesman of today. It's been a roller-coaster ride for Nigel
- and indeed the viewer - and this remarkable series ends with a poignant and moving climax in a Clacton oyster bar, where the older but no wiser Nigel faces the prospect of being Prime Minister and/or going to jail after criminal proceedings.
EYE VERDICT: "Boring, boring, Boring! Nothing to see here
- put a sock in it, love." 

(Insert photo of him slurping up oysters)
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/09/2026
Sounds like good news to the rest of the world...👀 "The US President's effort to curb mail-in voting is dead in the water, and his toxic brand may cost the party both chambers of Congress"
inews.co.uk
Trump's plan to save the midterms has failed - Republicans are starting to panic
The US President's effort to curb mail-in voting is dead in the water and his toxic brand may cost the party both chambe
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what. rnli.org/support-us/g...
rnli.org
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21/09/2026
The correct answer to hate ♥️
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Dave Simpson 🇪🇺 @nemumdave.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Prof. Dave Goulson speaks out on game shooting markavery.info/2026/09/21/p...
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Prof. Dave Goulson speaks out on game shooting – Mark Avery
Mark Avery
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
Reform UK
Follow
@reformparty_uk
Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Isn’t Sir Jim Ratcliffe an immigrant to Monaco? Happy to be corrected on this of course …. And do British people abroad only consider themselves “expats?” And never “immigrants?”
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Inheritance tax is paid by less than 5% of estates and couples can already transfer up to £1m in property tax-free. Abolishing it would be regressive, unmeritocratic and a bad use of £9bn.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It would be more helpful for him to acknowledge and explain the role that his austerity policies played in encouraging people to vote for what he correctly critiques here.
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Joe Molloy 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @freelancewebdev.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Away with ya now and don't bother coming back ya gobshite."
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
REFORM: Rolling in Evidently Foreign Owned Rinsed Money
screenshot from Democracy for Sale "80% of Reform's funding comes from two crypto billionaires"
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Harborne calls his latest bung to Farage a “philanthropic gift to the country”. Philanthropy isn’t funding racists and climate deniers. Or funnelling cash into deregulation and removal of our rights so tax-avoiding billionaires can profiteer from the chaos. That’s just corruption. We don’t want it.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
nothing says “party of the ordinary workers” than taking a £36m donation from a crypto tycoon convicted in the US in 2022 for failings in an anti-money laundering programme before being pardoned by Donald Trump
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
According to a column in the Times, gangs of masked vigilantes blocking roads have demands which "represent a consensus view across the country". This is very patently utter bollocks. Daniel Thomas, the organiser, is a far-right racist thug. His views are not in any way mainstream.
Should anyone wonder that groups of angry white men in balaclavas have now started occupying Dover and blockading coaches sent to ship more and more men into this utterly negligent system? It’s astonishing it hasn’t happened sooner. I don’t mean I want to see gangs of masked bricklayers marauding around ports. I don’t. But I do think that if you have spent three years allowing masked Gaza activists to take over the streets because police are too scared to stop them, and five years blocking policies such as Rwanda that would actually stop the boats, you cannot start hyperventilating the moment working-class British men take to the streets non-violently, as in Dover if not Portsmouth, to make their feelings known.

The non-violence is obviously critical. This was not a riot, as we saw in 2024. It was not a campaign of harassment. It did not target random people. And unlike the Gaza marches or “stop oil” stunts, its demands represent a consensus view across the country and relate to something under the government’s direct control. They amount to: “Can the government please do what it promised and stop ferry-loads of undocumented foreign men arriving on our beaches to fill up regional hotels and roam around town centres?” They might reasonably also ask for the Home Office to stop handing out asylum to the thousands who falsely claim it while visiting on student or work visas.
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 08/09/2026
Glacier loss could break the 2022 record after a series of heatwaves this summer, raising the risk of falling river levels and deadly ice avalanches
newscientist.com
Glaciers in the Alps are on track for record-breaking ice loss | New Scientist
Glacier loss could break the 2022 record after a series of heatwaves this summer, raising the risk of falling river levels and deadly ice avalanches
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
At what point does ‘the masked men on the street have legitimate concerns’ and ‘Just Stop Oil/Palestine Action are terrorists’ become two tier policing?
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Last time the far-right won an election in Germany: 5 March 1933. Nazi Party: 44% Tonight:
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Dave Simpson 🇪🇺 @nemumdave.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Why do Reform always play the victim card? #LBC
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/09/2026
There's an argument for calling them masked thugs, because that is factually true. There's an argument for calling them pathetic cosplaying loser incels, also true, and laughing at them damages their tough-guy self image and hurts recruitment. There is no argument for calling them protesters.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Farage's grinning response says it all. Every day Reform and its supporters reveal themselves for who they are and yet the media continues to treat them as just another normal political party.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Well it appears that the UK political and media class have decided that tutting loudly is the most appropriate response to a large gang of masked racists. Utterly pathetic.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
bbc.co.uk
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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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Wonder if they'll be dealt with as harshly by the criminal justice system as the various environmental activists jailed after blocking roads etc. 🧐
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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just Nadine Dorries digging a hole so cavenous and wide as to be visible from Pluto. youtu.be/9Et3igGEKUs?...
youtu.be
Nadine Dorries quizzed over Reform’s secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage should attend a park run, a game of football, a Primary School in Clacton, a Prom concert before he goes all "Broken Britain" The country is NOT broken. It's millions of people, born without Farage's privilege, trying cheerfully trying their best for their families and communities.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026
Trump’s audience uncomfortably laughs as he makes a premature announcement that ranchers can now kill wolves who are on the endangered species list
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 04/09/2026
Reform goes goes from bad to worse as Zia Yusuf has been accused of conspiring to replace Nigel Farage as leader of Reform UK amid a police investigation into alleged foreign funding for the party, prompting a social‑media video and speculation about his political ambitions
huffingtonpost.co.uk
Zia Yusuf Accused Of Plotting To Replace Nigel Farage Amid Donations Row
Reform UK is facing yet more financial scrutiny.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 04/09/2026
Three senior Reform figures were involved in those Channel 4 revelations we saw last night. Two have been kicked out. The third is Nigel Farage. Farage should be suspended while this matter is investigated. He has very serious questions to answer.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"We've done nothing wrong but the people who did it have been sacked for (not) doing it," is quite the defence. And is it just me or Does. Farage. Get. Even. More. Comically. Staccato when he's straining his own enormous capacity for lying?
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026
So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Possibly the most shocking revelation in this whole thing is that Nigel Farage was at one point in Clacton.
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Dave Simpson 🇪🇺 @nemumdave.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Please don’t let that bunch of corrupt eejits called Reform (?aka Regress) get anywhere near government #r4today
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollster JL Partners' slogan - "giving you the conviction to lead" - has really taken on a new meaning tonight...
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conviction to lead.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So it looks like Reform policy chief James Orr has straight up broken the law here. It's also exactly the same crime Farage has been accused of re: George Cottrell donating via his mother and which Parliament is currently investigating.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"champions of free speech" latest
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Dave Simpson 🇪🇺 @nemumdave.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The obsession with small boats continues. Is it really worth the licence fee? #t4today
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Reform.... present themselves as the anti-establishment insurgents, but banning independent journalists like me from party conference isn’t anti-establishment. It’s the establishment playbook.” Am taking being barred from Reform conference as badge of honour! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform UK bans three journalists who have investigated party from its conference
Guardian City editor Anna Isaac, investigative reporter Peter Geoghegan and broadcaster Michael Crick refused entry
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Dave Simpson 🇪🇺 @nemumdave.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Honestly, they're just a bunch of petulant kids www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform UK bans three journalists from its conference after critical reporting
Guardian City editor Anna Isaac among those who had credentials to cover event declined
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Dave Simpson 🇪🇺 @nemumdave.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Thames Water, I refuse to pay the sewage charge in my bill while you pollute Britain’s rivers and coastlines | Jenny Jones
I will calmly read all the threatening letters and await the court case against me. But I will take a stand even if our government won’t, says Jenny Jones, a Green party peer
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Illiterate, desperate, embarrassing. More propaganda than journalism. The Telegraph doing their best to confirm our assessment of their decline at Origin Story Live last night.
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