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Pete Masterman

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Retired and living in Spain

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 7h
Just for a sec imagine ITV exposed Labour, LibDem or Green Councillors/Activists.. ohh the righteous indignation Mason would voice & the disgust.. with the Parties response tacked on at the end… But it’s Reform so 🙉🙈🙊
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h
The goal of sane people must be to defund Elon Musk and get him as far away from politics as possible. robertreich.substack.com/p/defund-m…
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 7h
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Infamy, infamy they’ve all got it in for me!
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 3h
Whatever the truth of the Musk/Trump theatricals over Starlink, we should pause to think about the fact that key defence systems are controlled by a psychopathic megalomaniac and a white-supremacist egomaniac.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 8h
Zelenskyy tells FT that Ukraine will restart strikes on Russia’s oil refineries as he expresses anger over “dangerous” withdrawal of US intelligence and weakening of Starlink satellite internet service “The block [on attacking refineries] is out. We’re done" www.ft.com/content/4d79...
ft.com
Ukraine to resume strikes on Russian refineries, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian president expresses anger in FT interview at ‘dangerous’ withdrawal of US intelligence sharing and weakening of Starlink satellite internet service
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7h
Ukrainians are bravely fighting for the freedom of all of Europe. We need to stand with Ukraine. Always.
theguardian.com
Volodymyr Zelenskyy feels ‘betrayed’ by Donald Trump over Starlink access
Ukrainian president accused US president of picking the other side after four years of war
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 9h
Chris Mason has spent the last few days looking for a gotcha with Andy Burnham and his relationship as Greater Manchester mayor with Man City. Mason's peers in ITV have done an excellent, and brave, expose of Reform. The contrast speaks volumes.
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 4h
“I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan” says Trump. He would obviously still prefer a public execution live-streamed to the world. If anyone qualifies to be called scum, he does
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Pete Masterman @pedallerpedro.bsky.social · 9h
He was a useless chancellor and an even worse Secretary of State for Health!
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15h
Here’s Kash Patel
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10h
If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11h
Ukraine's drones made inoperable by restrictions on the speed permitted by SpaceX's Starlink network. Musk blames Trump. Any country relying the US or foreign tech companies will be held to ransom, can't defend itself. Need own satellites and systems to fight new imperialism.
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Starlink: Musk says US government may be behind slowdown of Ukraine drone speeds
Ukraine says Starlink access has improved but it is still facing speed limits which are disrupting its battlefield "missions".
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12h
Once again… This is not a vetting problem. This is a Reform problem. This is a Farage problem. Only grim losers like this are going to sign up to a racist, misogynistic, extremist, mass-deportations and tell-the-Royal-Marines-to-murder-people-at-sea kind of party. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...
Inside Reform: Councillors and candidates' extreme and racist views on camera
POLITICS REFORM UK
• Wednesday 14 October 2026 at 7:32pm
Daniel Hewitt
Investigations Editor
Warning: This report contains racist and offensive language.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 11h
Trump’s a Russian asset, Farage’s party is a racist enterprise, Putin wanted Brexit & if you tried to make a list of all the UK politicians & pundits who’ve backed all three, you’d be here for hours.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 14/10/2026
“Musk is deciding who wins a war and who loses it? He’s not the president of the United States! “But Musk and Trump are now back on the same side - and that side is Russia.” Why is Musk using his control over the skies to help Putin, and has it got something to do with Trump?
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 23h
This is true! 🇪🇺 The EU's Single Market is designed to let the various countries of Europe work together as a unified entity so Europe can compete with USA and China. For that, the Single Market needs the free movement of goods, services, digital services, capital, businesses, workers and people.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
He is a psychopath and he is psychotic. What's it going to take to get the American media to talk about it?
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Pete Masterman @pedallerpedro.bsky.social · 21h
If it was rigged he actually lost then? Definitely deranged!
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Zelensky speaking the truth. The US is now a Russian ally, and the Starlink decision is a massive benefit for the Russian military (and it has nothing to do with Ukraine attacking Russian refineries). The US is literally riding to Putin’s rescue.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23h
Former UK Defence Attache John Foreman tells #C4News Krishnan Guru-Murthy that we don't know whether it was Elon Musk or Pete Hegesth and Donald Trump, who restricted Ukraine's satellite access. He compares it to, "Trying to fight the Battle of Britain without radars"
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23h
No wonder Badenoch and Farage are shitting bricks at the suggestion that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum. Their whole business model relies on Brexit and the racist anti- immigration bomb that it detonated. Their next bright idea - to leave the ECHR - would delight Putin too.
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ECHR withdrawal 'gift to Putin'
By Jonathan Rayner | 22 March 2012

Britain’s withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights in favour of a British bill of rights would be Vladimir Putin's
'best present ever', an East European delegate at a Council of Europe event for lawyers told the Gazette last weekend.

The source, who asked not be named, said that Putin, just re-elected as president of Russia, has always said that the Strasbourg court's policing of human rights was ‘meaningless'.
Another unnamed source, a former north European government lawyer, described the UK government's attitude to the Strasbourg court as 'Britain shooting itself in the foot. If the British don't engage with Europe, they'll lose influence and shouldn't be surprised if
Germany and France fill the vacuum?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni tells the Senate: Trump’s diesel deal with Putin “legitimises Moscow while it bombs Ukraine”. “The surge in fuel prices is due primarily to the war in Iran, not the conflict in Ukraine.”
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Goes without saying that I would rather this was accompanied by explicit statements of condemnation of US actions, but failing that this implicit criticism will have to do.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The "party of Reagan", assisting a bloodthirsty Russian maniac
Zelensky post, pointing out Russian attacks in breach of Trump's fantasy "ceasefire"
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/10/2026
"There is no dancing around it. The sitting President of the United States has shared a snuff video on social media, and he seems to have done it for little reason other than he found it interesting – or he saw an opportunity for self-aggrandisement."
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Trump's sadistic tiger videos are a hideous window into his mind
The US President shared footage of a British man being mauled to death – followed by AI slop in which he wrestles a tiger
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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 14/10/2026
You might have seen my post on this yesterday. While I got lots of nice messages, I also got a load of hateful bile, so I've written this article to set the record straight. The dehumanisation of disabled people has to stop www.normalisland.co.uk/p/disabled-p...
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Disabled people are not riding around in free cars. That’s not how it works.
Sorry folks, but I’m breaking character today because Nigel Farage has pissed me off and I need to set the record straight.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In 2016 Nigel Farage said that leaving the EU would mean fewer (white) migrants from the European Union. Suggesting we would have more (black and brown) migrants from Commonwealth/other countries. So when Brexiters are upset at the migration mix, not only were the told this, but they voted for it.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/10/2026
👀 Andy Burnham: "We worked out in that interview that she wasn't a defence expert, and I think Mr Ferrari is still waiting for an explanation."
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/10/2026
Palantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George Monbiot
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Palantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George Monbiot
Tom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump and Musk are doing everything they can to try and force Ukraine to surrender to Putin while Musk spends over $300 million to try and buy the midterm elections to maintain total power. The American government under Republicans are on the side of evil. Vote them out.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump and Musk going all out to protect Putin
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14/10/2026
Putin's bombs are killing Ukrainian civilians, and Donald Trump is funding them by buying Russian diesel. The UK must stand up and call this what it is: another Trump betrayal of the Ukrainian people and European security.
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Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The President of the United States taking the piss out of a mentally ill man who died just a couple of days before. Frankly, I expected nothing less from this sociopathic arsehole.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
You can hold all these views: That the Russians almost certainly interfered. That we need to know the extent of that interference to protect against it happening in future. And that no matter how effective it was, millions still felt angry enough with the status quo to risk change.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It doesn't matter what your view of Brexit is. Even if the interference proved decisive, it wouldn't take away from the fact that millions of Brits felt discontented enough to demand change. But to close your ears to it is to prioritise your ideology over your sense of national responsibility.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Badenoch's position on Russian interference in the Brexit vote is a patriotic disgrace really. Her view seems to be that because she approves of the outcome of the referendum, no-one can mention that there was very likely to have been foreign interference in it.
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I think it's absolutely fantastic. It shows what an extraordinary country I live in and that refugees can fully integrate and participate in society
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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Gah. Stop this nonsense. FOM is a benefit. Stop framing it as a negative. Also, FOM is one of the four freedoms. Without it, you can’t be in the EU and can’t even be in the single market. This isn’t difficult.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Much of the coverage today is absolutely nuts. The facts are on Wikipedia. The full Intelligence and Security Committee (Russia) Report is online. Tory media & politicians once again banking on their average consumer/voter being too daft/busy/blinkered to notice...
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The US justice system is a barbaric, medieval disgrace. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Emergency calls from botched Christa Pike execution released to US media
A series of calls, obtained by the Associated Press, reveal emergency services were delayed in reaching Pike.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Was that the same security services you dumped to visit ‘ex’ KGB colonel Alexander Lebedev and party in Umbria just after the Novichok Salisbury attack? Or the same security services whose advice you defied to put his son Evgeny in the House of Lords? Those security services?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Man who enobled a KGB agent's son... despite SIS raising concerns... says what?
This is just not true. As soon as I became
foreign secretary I asked the security
services the same question and they
replied that there was no evidence of any
successful interference in the 2016
referendum, by Russia or any other power


Either the security services have changed
their view - which would be very odd - or
Burnham is lying about what he has been
told. After all Starmer was in power for two
years and had access to exactly the same
information.
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 12/10/2026
Green MP Carla Denyer calls for joining the EU.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12/10/2026
Andy Burnham: “If she is saying she is happy with the status quo, she is in a minority in this country. People know Britain can do better than this." 🚨 Burnham is right: the public is unhappy with our current relationship with the EU. In fact, 628 out of 632 constituencies now want EU membership.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 12/10/2026
For too long, successive governments have turned a blind eye to the huge damage caused by the Johnson-Farage Brexit deal. I really hope this marks a real turning point. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Rejecting closer EU ties would be dereliction of duty, PM to say
Addressing the Commons, Burnham is expected to say that a new deal with the EU could help tackle illegal immigration and boost economic growth.
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 12/10/2026
Exclusive: Do you remember the polling company Redfield and Wilton, which appeared from nowhere in early 2020, whose polls quickly appeared in lots of publications? The company’s director is a registered solicitor, prompting questions over where the polling expertise came from. Here’s the answer…
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Nigel Farage adviser had unpublicised role at polling firm
Exclusive: Chris Bruni-Lowe used Redfield & Wilton Strategies role to develop potential campaign tactics, sources say
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."
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