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Sandip Patel

@plastic1flowers.bsky.social
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Sandip Patel @plastic1flowers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They're not even trying to hide the shrinkflation thanks #lidl
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
If you think £5 million could influence my policies, just imagine what £24m would do. In unrelated news, Reform will scrap net zero and drill baby drill! www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
desmog.com
Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
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Sandip Patel @plastic1flowers.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I wonder when Farage's pure cold rage will start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Men who allegedly helped rapist drug and abuse wife can be named
13 men are accused of helping a man abuse his wife over a period of years.
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Eleonora Alabrese @eleala.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
🧵 New working paper out today: "Measuring the Regional Economic Cost of Brexit: Evidence as of 2026" with @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social @trfetzer.com & Shizhuo Wang Here's what the data say about who paid the price in these 10 years from the referendum 1/…
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The closer you look, the shadier he becomes.
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?
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Ben Goldsborough MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
To all my colleagues still using X: is this not enough evidence that you must stop using it?
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Sandip Patel @plastic1flowers.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
@libdems.org.uk, @greenparty.org.uk Why are you still on Twitter and providing legitimacy to the platform? Lead by example and leave that hate filled, racist platform.
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Sandip Patel @plastic1flowers.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social a highly educated population is a society benefit, not just an individual benefit. Restricting access to higher education through debt has jad a highly negative impact on British society. Look at the voting demographics for Brexit: www.statista.com/statistics/5...
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nigel Farage Listens to the News
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Sandip Patel @plastic1flowers.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The greatest transfer failure was Liverpool not getting Mo Salah in Jan 2014. This was Liverpool's team that year: ​Simon Mignolet ​Glen Johnson, Martin Škrtel , Kolo Touré , Jon Flanagan ​Steven Gerrard, Jordan Henderson, Philippe Coutinho ​Raheem Sterling, Luis Suárez, Daniel Sturridge
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 09/04/2026
Israel's continued strikes in Lebanon are undermining any hope of peace. The UK must act now: sanction Benjamin Netanyahu and his security cabinet, and halt all UK arms exports to Israel. We must also finally proscribe the IRGC and support multilateral plans to disarm Hezbollah.
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Sandip Patel @plastic1flowers.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social The best thing the King could do is excuse himself from the visit due to illness from this can we treatments and send Harry and Meghan instead. That would really wind them up.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I see Iranian media has released an animated cartoon to help Trump understand what's happening. #Iran
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I have asked the BBC to scrutinise + correct the factually inaccurate claims made by Mr Nigel Farage about why net migration fell in 'Political Thinking with Nick Robinson' Here is the link if you want to do something like this. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
Nigel Farage in answering Nick Robinson's question about why he believes Britain is broken gave an analysis of falling net migration that is demonstrably factually inaccurate.

"It is so broken and its declining so quickly that anybody with a dispassionate view can see it. It is quite interesting. Just look at the net migration numbers. 'Oh isn't it good net migration is coming down?' But do you know why? It is because there is an exodus. There is now an exodus.Those who are of a situation and a financial position to have a choice are now fleeing the country in numbers".

This is factually incorrect. Net migration fell year on year by 465,00 in the most recent Official of National Statisitcs figures: the year to June 2025. This was not because of an "exodus" (an increase in emigration). It is because immigration fell by 401,000 (to 898,000 from 1.299 million the previous year). That accounts for 90% of the big drop in net migration. The increase in emigration by 41,000 was a minor component. Most of the increase in emigration was of non-EU nationals. British citizens made up a third of emigrants, but there was no significant increasse in British emigration, which was at very similar levels in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025: it is not a significant cause of the drop in net migration.

Nick Robinson did tell Mr Farage that he was exaggerating the number of people who don't speak English - and BBC Verify did produce an analysis showing that was a five-fold exaggeration. But this central incorrect claim about immigration and net migration was not caught in the programme, or before broadcast.  

It should at least be scrutinised and corrected afterwards - so that an accurate account of why net migration fell (primarily a reduction in immigration visas to the UK) can be communicated to the audience.
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable. Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours. Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The impact of Brexit on UK immigration - new research by @johnspringford.bsky.social & me for @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukandeu.bsky.social Brexit a) reduced EU-origin employees by 785K (2.3% of workforce) b) increased non-EU origin employees by 992K (2.95%) www.cer.eu/insights/imp...
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The impact of Brexit on immigration to the UK
A new analysis finds that Brexit raised the number of foreign-born workers in the UK by about 200,000, but resulted in a more dramatic shift in the countries of origin.
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Sandip Patel @plastic1flowers.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"And when Trump saw the breadth of the Epstein files, he wept, for there were no more countries to conquer."
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 05/03/2026
What’s got Nigel Farage so rattled? ❓ At a press conference yesterday he tried to dismiss new polling about Reform UK’s membership. But the survey was carried out by Survation, a respected polling company. 🧵
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I doubt Rupert Lowe will be able to maintain his "no boundaries at all to racism" policy to Restore Britain - which the online racists see as vital - but this will depend on how the media, political and civic society voices scrutinise and challenge him over this. Worth unpacking the issues.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"So here’s a simple rule for Trump and his friends: if you don’t want to be called Nazis, stop hiring Nazis, quoting Nazis and posting Nazi imagery." From my piece from last month.
theguardian.com
The Trump administration has a Nazi problem | Mehdi Hasan
Think I’m exaggerating? Consider the copious amounts of evidence
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/02/2026
💸 Brexit is predicted to have cost the UK economy a staggering 6-8% according to the latest study. 💰 That is equivalent to £180bn - £240bn A YEAR! 📉 And that has left HMRC about £90 billion shorter a year. 🪖 150% greater than the UK's defence budget.
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No tub-thumping has died down, how about putting actual Brexit truths on a bus?
Labour's 'red lines' are enabling the enormous economic damage from Brexit to continue. The solution is a no-brainer, if
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Why isn't this a major news story?
Churchwarden linked to
foreign-born billionaire is
behind £200k Reform gift
The man whose firm made the donations will
not discuss where the money came from, nor
his ties to wealthy Farage allies who may not
hold citizenship


Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor
Saturday January 31 2026, 8.00pm, The Sunday Times


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A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works
for the family of a highly secretive,
Kazakhstan-born billionaire can be revealed as
the man behind £200,000 of donations to
Reform UK.,


John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/01/2026
RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet theonion.com/rfk-jr-demonstrates-ho…
RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/01/2026
The new Epstein files production features numerous allegations made against Donald Trump and others.
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Sandip Patel @plastic1flowers.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Lets see how racist the people of Gorton and Denton are if they are willing to vote for a white Suprematist that thinks people with immigrant parents are not British. He's so racist he even thinks the King isn't British. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform byelection candidate refuses to disown claim that people born in UK not necessarily British
Matthew Goodwin, who is standing in Gorton and Denton, said UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British
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Havoc @havoc147.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Firearms belong to liberals now.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 24/01/2026
Board of Peace - Season 1
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.”  It sounds fierce.  It feels righteous.  But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless.

The Gestapo was a secret police force.  No warrants.  No courts.  No lawyers.  And no appeals.  People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything.  The knock on the door was the sentence.

ICE isn’t that.  Not even close.

ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials.  Its agents file reports.  They seek warrants.  They lose cases.  Judges stop them.  Lawyers challenge them.  Some detainees go home.  That’s not tyranny.  That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse.

You can hate immigration policy.  You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad.  You can work to have the law changed if you wish.  That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do.  

But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil.  You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor.  And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize.

In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight.  This one hasn't yet.  It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses.

That difference matters.

Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history.  We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with.

And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
desmog.com
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
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T-Rexit @t-rexit.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
We all know Farage is a racist prick…. But there’s a good chunk of people who suspect Russian influence…do you? 🔽 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 26/11/2025
‘Is Nigel Farage a Russian asset?’ ‘Are you seriously asking me that?’ @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social refuses to back down while questioning Reform’s Zia Yusuf.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
She’s just asking questions.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/11/2025
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
siepr.stanford.edu
The Economic Impact of Brexit
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 25/11/2025
£100 billion of trade a year and over a million jobs since Brexit have been lost. We agree with Sir John Major, Brexit is a flop, but now, we must fix it.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
"He told the BBC he had been contacted by people "who were nine years old and Nigel Farage, when he was 18 years old, marched frequently into the playground where they were playing and they were told to 'go back to Africa." www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
thetimes.com
Nigel Farage’s abuse was persistent, not banter, claims ex-schoolmate
Peter Ettedgui says he was targeted at Dulwich College. The Reform UK leader denies he racially abused anybody
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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The Economic Impact of Brexit
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Sandip Patel @plastic1flowers.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Waiting for all the football pundits to lambast Crystal Palace for their treatment of Marc Guehi in his failed transfer to Liverpool just like they attacked Isak.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Here's a piece from a year ago with research done at Durham www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Before Brexit there was no small boats crisis: more proof that leaving the EU made everything worse | Jonathan Freedland
Keir Starmer insists there’s no case for rejoining. But his migration plan and other desperate Tory fixes merely seek to repair the damage, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Here's a fact for you all. Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK. Not ONE. This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit. But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
After “rule of law”, “separation of powers”, “habeas corpus”, our next legal term for those following the ongoing US constitutional crisis is “insurrection”. This is like the most dismal 101 course in constitutional law (and lack of law) ever, played before us in real time.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.
A cartoon showing various activity at an airport, including an extorted luxury jet, an exploding X rocket, a ketamine enthusiast wheeling a barrow of money to his plane, many ICE officers -- some taking people to an El Salvador plane, another with a zip-tied child being blocked by a federal judge -- scientists boarding a plane to Europe, a medical self-educator covered with pox, and more. All the people are represented by various animals. The story is made in the style of a Richard Starry children's book.  Alt text borrowed from Mastodon..
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
My grandmas were immigrants, my mum & sisters in law are immigrants; my sister & nephews are migrants. My kids study maths, Shakespeare, dance, act & score tries alongside the kids of immigrants. My dad’s life was saved by immigrants. Immigrants have made us richer, wiser, stronger Win the fight
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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