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Richard Bentall #FPBE

@richardbentall.bsky.social
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Political refugee from the cesspit formerly known as Twitter; clinical psychology professor; husband of lovely Sam; dad of two amazing kids and two wonderful stepkids; radicalized by the idiocy of Brexit. Obviously, my views are not those of my employer.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Susanna Reid: "what does anyone expect in return for £72m?" Kevin Maguire: ".. funnily enough Reform doesn't have anybody to speak on social care.. but it has a very detailed policy on crypto currency.. & it would coincidentally make these billionaires even more money" #GMB
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Kevin Maguire: "I've never understood why we don't cap donations.. and we allow rich people to buy our democracy" Kevin is spot on, we should cap donations from a single individual at £5,000, and I think the reason politicians haven't done it is quite obvious #GMB
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Reform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-uk-...
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Reform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry
As criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders
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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Today I’m setting off on Offa’s Dyke, from Hay-on-Wye to Llangollen, with camera and sketchbook. Come along from your favourite chair. Photographs, watercolours and field notes—free. Photo: Montgomery, 2022. www.digest.andymarsh...
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thank you Count Binface - absolutely the right question- anyone know the answer ….?
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Emathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All the money in the world won’t make Reform’s moronic policies workable. It won’t make their people less racist or idiotic. It won’t sort out their ridiculous egos or end the investigations. It won’t make the majority of us loathe them any less. In fact, the money may well bury them. Let’s hope so.
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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026
Joining the war against cancer on the side of cancer

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Joined NoviỊ24
Even if Al could 'cure cancer' that cure would be owned by the billionaires who would patent it and make it so expensive you couldn't afford
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It would likely lead to something worse and it wouldn't bring back those we've lost
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
'Bring back premature death, lung damage in children and more hospital admissions' is quite the bold campaign slogan.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
BREAKING on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth was the lone Cabinet secretary on Trump's secret flight out of Turkey. Remaining on the 'decoy' plane: Marco Rubio, Scott Bessett, Stephen Miller, Steven Cheung, and other Trump officials.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A big boy did it and ran away, apparently.
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Charging £3,600 (£3,000 plus VAT) for a "Platinum" pass to drink champagne with Nigel Farage reveals Reform UK’s populist anti-establishment schtick for the grift it really is. It’s working-class cosplay funded by elite cash. How is this draining the swamp? 🥂 #FBPE
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Reform UK charge astonishing sum for 'champagne breakfast with Nigel Farage'
ARE you a rank bad yin with £3000 burning a hole in your pocket?
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Well wouldn’t you know it? The Telegraph is having to report that Britain has suffered the biggest fall in wealth in the world! Who knew that cutting a trading country off from its own economic hinterland would make us poor? #BrexitBrokeBritain #RejoinEU #BrexitDisaster
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Two of these people around Farage were in and out of the Russian Embassy discussing Gold and Diamond deals. The third has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison for taking Kremlin Gold. How does anyone believe Nigel didn’t know?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Manages to be racist, homophobic, misogynistic, unconvincing and deeply stupid. The very best of his work.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The so-called president of the United States is a massive money launderer and cut off by the bank that discovered it. Yet the story barely registers with the legacy media. What a disgrace.
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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I mean this in all seriousness, this is a severely mentally ill & delusional person who not only should be removed from office under the 25th amendment, but he should be in a psych ward. This is pure insanity on so many levels. He lives in a fantasy world. He is unwell & has lost touch with reality.
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The man is so lost.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Joshua Bonehill-Paine Self-styled "nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights” who was jailed in 2015 for antisemitic online posts.... Selected as a Tory candidate.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I can’t believe that Reform UK turned out to be financed by a bunch of money laundering fronts for Russia. It’s just so unexpected.
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
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Malcolm X-Bluebird-X 🇪🇺 #FBPE 🇪🇺 #RejoinEU @brothermanshaft.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
As meaningless as express polls tend to be, we can't let Quitters validate their nonsense with it. Share widely. #FBPE
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Polanski very stupid for what he shared, but Reform’s pivot from bringing a woman who called for hotels full of asylum seekers to be burned down as their guest of honour at conference, to saying the Green leader should be jailed - is a difficult circle to square
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
WHO ELSE AGREES WITH MATTHEW?! 🤚
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Reform are going to be fighting so many investigations they won’t have time to plan the new Reich.
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Police investigate donations by Richard Tice company to Reform UK
Britain Means Business, owned by the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice, made two donations of £250,000 in the run-up to the 2024 general election.
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Richard Bentall #FPBE @richardbentall.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I despise climate change deniers even more than I despise ideological Brexiters - although they are usually the same people.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Which is the more ridiculous lord - Frost or Hannan? Frost - a pompous droning-on-and-on bore who never says or does anything interesting or worthwhile ever… Or Hannan - an absurdly preening Tory whose vanity means he’ll never admit to being stratospherically wrong about everything?
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Larry the cat's commitment to public service remains strong.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/07/2026
I wasn’t ready for this. ☠️ 😭 Low T Pete will never live this down.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Brexit let hate out of the box. Remember pro EU marches. Family affairs, safe and gentle. Remember those Leave marches? Now compare the language of the left to that of the right, in particular Farage and his ilk. Hate, bigotry and division have been made normal and its dangerous path.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/07/2026
POCAN: I think the problem is you're talking to rich people. Maybe this will help. Who pays tariffs? LOEFFLER: 80% of tariffs are paid by foreign countries POCAN: Okay. That would be like me saying I have long flowing red hair. It's complete BS. Small businesses pay tariffs.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Clacton residents on Nigel Farage calling a byelection, Man, "He's done nothing in Clacton so far, so I don't see the point" Lady, "He promised all these things and has gone back on his promise. He's in it for himself"
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Labour increasingly opting for barbarism over civilisation
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The prospect of Nigel Farage fighting a people vs the establishment by-election in which the only other candidate is Count Binface - is too hilarious for words.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Commenting on Nigel Farage’s resignation today, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak said: “Let’s call this Nigel Farage announcement out for what it is – a cynical political stunt to distract from his dodgy dealings with crypto crooks and super rich aristocrats."
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Because it means he doesn't get to have a me vs the establishment campaign. And his likely victory isn't taken as vindication by anyone. Plus it makes him look silly and desperate.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
So, a joke MP with 5 houses bought for cash, links to criminality and a £5Mill ‘gift’ in his bank… is so enraged at being held to account… that he resigns from the MP role he never did anyway…and demands a “people v the establishment” by-election to vote him back in. What an insufferable wanker.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
YES! It’s the only way. 👏
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CaroleOntheGo🇨🇦 @caroleonthego4u.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
If you bought anything he is selling, you deserve to be conned.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Had a lovely time slagging off the UK with a man who works for a fat orange rapist.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Evening.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Times report on BBC investigation into people-smuggling… Lots of talk of “losing” access to critical information. Rather than Johnson not bothering to secure it. And Farage wanting an even harder Brexit. The stubborn refusal to face the consequences of our own govt’s stupid choices has become absurd
Brexit lets people-smugglers move to UK
Matt Dathan - Home Affairs Editor

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Immigration officers have blamed Brexit for allowing active peoplesmugglers with convictions in other European countries to enter the UK. 

An investigation by the BBC found that one prominent smuggler who had been jailed for five years in France in 2016 had claimed asylum in the UK and was living in Leicestershire.


Lucy Moreton, the professional officer at the ISU union, which represents Border Force staff, said Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union had cut off access to databases for sharing criminal data. She said she was not surprised that convicted peoplesmugglers had been able to enter the UK undetected.

Moreton told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “Once we left the European Union we lost our ability to share what’s termed low-level data. We still have Interpol data but that is not this level of criminality.

“So ultimately, as long as you’ve not been fingerprinted in the UK before, the identity you give us when you arrive and give us your fingerprints — if you even give fingerprints — is going to be the only identity that we know you by.”


The most important criminal database that was lost after Brexit was the Schengen Information System (SIS II), which was used to get real-time information about the movements of criminals, missing persons and objects of interest. The UK lost access to 40,000 alerts about investigations in other European countries. The Interpol database shares information only on the most serious criminals.

The UK also lost access to the European Criminal Records Information System and the Europol Information System. It no longer has access to Eurodac, the fingerprinting system that shares biometric identities of all people who claim asylum in the EU.

Sir Keir Starmer has tried to restore access to these databases, but a deal has yet to be agreed. Britain now relies on bilateral agreements with countries to share criminal data.
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