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Alison Webster

@pepperperson.bsky.social
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Interested in what makes the world go round and playing in a brass band. Be kind if you can. Following Pompey since 1967, a rollercoaster ride! Proud alumna of the University of Portsmouth.

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yesterday we had Liam Halligan, the current director of the Centre for Policy Studies. Today we have Alys Denby, former deputy editor of CapX which is owned the Centre for Policy Studies. Small world... #politicslive bsky.app/profile/paul...
Aly Denby on Politics LiveTransparify thinktank website rating Centre for Policy Studies as "Highly Opaque"
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is a blatant threat to the RNLI, who are currently out of action in Portsmouth - ergo not saving lives, because staff are being terrorised. When will Mahmood take domestic terrorism of this nature seriously.
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One thing I can’t forget is that Nigel Farage used to hiss like a gas chamber to his Jewish classmates. Says all you need to know about him.
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Alison Webster @pepperperson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
After many years of the culture wars banging a wedge into British society I think we have reached a rubicon. The RNLI is the physical embodiment of everything good in Britain and we should support it, no equivocation, no ifs no buts. This is a line that no-one of good conscience should cross.
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WilliamHaugh @williamhaugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
#FarageFerries
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Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.eurosky.social · 01/10/2025
#FarageFerries #BrexitBoats
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Alison Webster @pepperperson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
38d.gs/jpcf
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 The 1930 Watsonville Anti‑Filipino Riots is another forgotten chapter of American history. The violence that took place was disgusting. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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Jan. 19, 1930 | White Mobs Attack Filipino Farmworkers in Watsonville, California
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Alison Webster @pepperperson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Open a criminal investigation into Nigel Farage!
An undercover investigation has just revealed Nigel Farage’s latest corruption scandal. It’s time we get answers.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Amongst other things this reveals the dishonesty of the pretence that hostility to immigrants is based on a concern about 'integration'.
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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Precision matters, especially in headlines, especially on the BBC.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 24/08/2026
Says Richard Tice, a divorced man in a relationship with Isabel Oakeshott, also a divorcee, speaking for a party led by a twice-divorced man, as he tells us unmarried people should be deprioritised for social housing. One rule for me. Another for thee.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
And other find from @monkemma.bsky.social: Arday blogged all those marathons in real time. I can’t remember the dozens of journalists who told me there’s no evidence he ran them. Are any of you big enough — or good enough journalists — to correct your error?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18/08/2026
The UK is on fire. Reform UK's response? Let's "enjoy" the heat. This is madness.
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Alison Webster @pepperperson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
UK Government Sues Conservative-Linked VIP Lane PPE Firm for £90 Million open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...
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UK Government Sues Conservative-Linked VIP Lane PPE Firm for £90 Million
EXCLUSIVE: Documents obtained by Byline Times reveal how a Conservative MP whose office is housed in a building owned by the firm, lobbied officials to push through the deal
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So often what are called “culture wars” are one set of people saying “please can we live without perpetual persecution” and another saying “no, f*** you” but the press considering the latter group have “legitimate concerns” and must be perpetually platformed
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...
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A Digital Lynching
A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather
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Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
REMEMBER: They all knew.
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Alison Webster @pepperperson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
11 days ago Jason Arday resigned, saying he was at his limits. The press wrote 188 more articles. 9 days later Jason Arday was found dead. Enough is enough: Demand an urgent inquiry into the role the media had on his death: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Sign the petition: demand an inquiry into the culture of the press after Jason Arday's death!
Tragically, Professor Jason Arday has died after a vicious and deeply personal campaign of press attacks over the last few weeks. The Government must urgently launch an inquiry into the culture and b...
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Alison Webster @pepperperson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#FarageFerries
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Repeated dawn raids by the police on peaceful, decent people who have made social media posts supportive of Palestine Action. They are being treated as if they were building bombs. Tell me this isn't authoritarianism. www.middleeasteye.net/news/this-is...
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'This isn't the Britain I grew up in': The activists raided by police over Palestine Action videos
Activists say police searched their entire homes, confiscating personal devices and items bearing the Palestinian flag, even rifling through personal diaries
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Five have commissioned an ITN documentary examining Nigel Farage’s finances: Nigel Farage: Where Does the Money Come From? airs Saturday 22nd August, 9.30pm
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Alison Webster @pepperperson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Shock horror! Farage being economical with the truth.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Talk TV host André Walker has been found guilty of assaulting a climate protester at a pro-Trump Dinner, Byline Times can reveal The judge found the presenter at the Rupert Murdoch-owned station assaulted NHS doctor Kush Naker, dragging him into a side room at the event without CCTV
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Talk TV Host André Walker Found Guilty of Assaulting Climate Protester at Pro-Trump Dinner
Presenter at Rupert Murdoch-owned station assaulted protester and NHS doctor Kush Naker, a judge finds
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve.
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Alison Webster @pepperperson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Just throwing some statistics out there - Prison pop. Eng & Wales 2010 = 84,725 Prison pop. Eng & Wales Nov 2024 = 87,900 Additional spaces added between 2010 and 2024 = 482 Source gov.uk, prisonstudies.org, statistica.com
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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Okay, let's let Darwin take it from here.
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People are refusing transfusions from donors vaccinated against covid | New Scientist
Patients are requesting that blood transfusions come from people who they know have not been vaccinated against covid-19, which can cause dangerous delays
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I believe Clacton deserves an MP who will spend their time shining a light on everything the area has to offer. And why wait till I'm elected? I've been to visit one of the constituency's most stunning landmarks.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Like all entitled pricks who think the rules don't apply to them, our first reaction to the slightest bit of legitimate scrutiny is to play the victim and threaten to take legal action.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
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Alison Webster @pepperperson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We should refer to the 'small boats' as Farage Ferries - 'cos we didn't see them before Brexit. #FarageFerries
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A baby platypus is known as a puggle and has teeny-tiny eyes, a flat head and silky-smooth looking short hair. Original post
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Alison Webster @pepperperson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
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Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Count Binface’s Clacton manifesto. I could definitely go for some of these.
1. I will boost the region's economy, prestige and fame.
2. I will cut your taxes, and raise everyone else's.
3. Bus fares to be capped at £1.99, and 99 Flake ice-creams to cost no more than 99p.
4. I promise to spend more time in Clacton-on-Sea than in Washington DC, and to champion the area.
5. MPs who resign mid-parliament to be barred from the resulting by-election.
6. MPs who change party mid-parliament to be forced to face a by-election.
7.I pledge to build at least one affordable house.
8. Arcade grabber games to be made fairer so players actually have a chance to win.
9. Oil and gas companies to pay for solar panels for everyone. (From Jack, aged 10)
10. Regeneration of Walton Pier so it is just as great as Clacton Pier.
11. A windfall tax on cosy crime novels written (or 'written') by celebrities.
12. Potholes to be filled, using copies of the 2024 Labour Party Manifesto.
13. Parliament to be moved to my new Bin HQ, in Weeley, while the Palace of Westminster is restored.
14. People who drive past Clacton station with annoyingly loud exhausts to lose their licence.
15. I will not accept £5 million gifts from crypto billionaires (on Earth).
16. A referendum on whether Pluto should regain its planet status.
17. The hand-dryer in the gents' toilet at the Great Himalayas restaurant, Southport to be moved to a more sensible position.
18. Wayne Rooney to be new expert summariser for the BBC at Eurovision.
COUNT BINFACE
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CLEAN UP CLACTON
19. Count Binface to represent the UK at Eurovision 2027, with Clacton hosting Eurovision 2028.
20. I stand by my past manifestos: Ceefax, speakerphones, nationalising Adele, renaming HS 'FFS', the hand-dryer at the Crown & Treaty, I've got it covered.
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Alison Webster @pepperperson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Can someone help? I've trawled the internet for Laura Kuenssberg's interview with Liz Truss where she is asked about an early General Election but can't seem to find it.
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Alison Webster @pepperperson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Truly hurty words open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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Truly hurty words
The murder of Ann Widdecombe and the question of incitement
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Reform’s Sian Astley wants to be Mayor of Manchester, but doesn’t even know that the Mayor has no responsibility for pothole repairs. Probably because all she cares about is giving a plug to JCB, whose boss gave Reform £200,000.
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Alison Webster @pepperperson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Sign the Petition
Replace Chris Mason with a neutral voice
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Alison Webster @pepperperson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Here I am in 2017 pretending I hardly knew George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who calls me "Daddy" and was my right hand man and a key fundraiser during the Brexit campaign.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Reform UK's Zia Yusuf is currently delivering a speech accusing his party's critics of using language that will put his colleagues' lives at risk. In other news, here's Zia Yusuf two months ago
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Just me walking up the road so I can turn round and march back down again like a tit for the camera.
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Alison Webster @pepperperson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Lindsey Graham On Ukraine and Trump open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Lindsey Graham On Ukraine and Trump
In His Own Words
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I thought the best person to go on Laura Kuenssberg to defend me against charges of financial irregularity would be Nadhim Zahawi, who claimed £6,000 to heat his stables and hid £27m in an offshore account then threatened to sue anyone who asked about it.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 23/06/2026
Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Sums it up nicely
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 18/06/2026
🔴It is Day 985 since Oct. 7, 2023 It has been 2 years, 8 months & 12 days since Israel last allowed the Internat'l Committee of the Red Cross to visit Palestinians held in its prisons & detention centers, where torture, rape & other forms of abuse are systematically carried out against detainees...
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Kentish Fran #FBPE @kentishfran.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Bots are not just pushing Reform to make it look more popular than it really is but they're also pushing violent threats. The bots then disappear as mysteriously as they arrive. We have got to get to grips with this problem. The only solution is some serious regulation. #reform #bots #deaththreats
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