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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I've had multiple letters and leaflets from Mr Farage, he seems very concerned I may not vote for him. I wonder however why he didn't answer any of my emails over the last two years?

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Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Labour's red lines won't last forever. When they go, Freedom of Movement of People comes back onto the table. Millions of lives become simpler overnight. Less paperwork. Less bureaucracy. More opportunity. Life between the UK and Europe starts working again.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Farage plans to ditch workers’ rights, cut the NMW, scrap the Equality Act, legalise discrimination, take us out of the ECHR and have a deregulation bonanza to remove our protections and make it easier to exploit and endanger us… for profit. He couldn’t give a shit about working people.

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Reform UK is the true party of the workers now If I am prime minister there will be no tax payable on overtime. Millions will be noticeably better off

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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We cannot allow the debate about Brexit to be all about the Labour leadership battle. The debate needs to be about what's best for the country, not what's best for Burnham. www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...

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We need to talk about Brexit

Editorial: Don’t let the ugly civil war breaking out in the Labour Party over the EU deter us from the fact that we need to rerun this painful debate 10 years after we left

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

In nearly 40 years working I had some useless bosses. Sometimes, however we had a good team underneath & we were able to deliver very successful projects despite the fool in charge. Other times we had people who wanted to politically undermine the boss for their own gain & nothing useful got done.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Brexit ‘no mates’ Britain still sitting in a sulk outside the room because yet another prime minister doesn’t have the courage to say how geopolitically insane and economically illiterate this is. Or admit the lies they’ve all told about immigration and freedom of movement. What failure.

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Some Jehovah's Witnesses just knocked on my door. I had a good few minutes chatting, trying to turn them into atheists, sadly they ran away before I had quite got them convinced.

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Anyone else getting loads of leaflets/direct letters from Reform UK. They must be spending a fortune (Where do they get the money from?) Or maybe they are just really concerned I may not vote for them? I wonder what gave them that idea? Maybe Farage as my MP has read some of my e-mails after all?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

What a spectacle of incoherence. Reform’s Welsh leader promises not to go down the NHS/insurance route…while Farage keeps that option open for the rest of us. Probably because he’s already committed to selling us out. Corruption and betrayal nailed on with this lot. www.politico.eu/article/uk-n...

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Nigel Farage breaks with his Welsh leader over insurance system for the NHS

Reform UK’s Welsh leader Dan Thomas told POLITICO he would rule out moving to an insurance-based system after Nigel Farage said it would be a “national decision ahead of a general elect…

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

We don’t have a functioning democracy when the people who lied to our faces to ‘get Brexit done’ are never held to account for the damage they’ve caused… and, worse still, are rewarded for life, for cynically or moronically selling our country out. They deserve nothing but our contempt. Forever.

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Larry & Paul @larryandpaul.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

SHOCK: UK Studio Goes SILENT After USA🇺🇸 Rant 😳 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWPO...

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SHOCKING: UK News Host Has USA Meltdown - #BrokenNews

YouTube video by Larry & Paul

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I’m sure Indian billionaire, Sunny Varkey, wants to give Farage a ton of cash to improve the lives of the people of Clacton. And definitely not to lobby for crypto or fossil fuels or to have first dibs on the firesale of British assets (eg the NHS) that Farage is bartering for power. FFS wake up UK.

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

We've got used to the MSM, if someone says it's raining having someone on who'll say it's not, if that suits their political agenda, while refusing to look outside to check. You have to laugh at the US at the moment, re the Good murder, trying to do the same when everyone is standing in a downpour.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Please repost if you want the full restoration of our EU Freedom of Movement.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Farage says leaving the ECHR is the “unfinished business" of Brexit and that the UK is "not sovereign” while we are in it. But Farage lies. And Brexit is a shitshow. So, “finishing” it should fill us all with dread. Sovereignty without rights is dictatorship. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

independent.co.uk

Leaving the ECHR won’t stop the boats, 300 organisations warn in rallying cry

Prime minister Keir Starmer urged to make positive case for ECHR after Kemi Badenoch pledged a Tory government would leave the treaty

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I can't help wondering why Mr Trump, who previously claimed he could "shoot someone in 5th Avenue" or "grab a woman by the..." well wherever and not lose voters is suddenly so concerned about what voters might think should they learn what the Epstein files have to say about him?

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

It's so sad, I was talking to someone today who's very angry about a local issue, they're blaming the Government, suggesting if Reform was in charge it would be fixed, completely oblivious to the fact that they only have this issue in the first place as a direct consequence of Brexit!

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP
Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television.
Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg."
She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce."
"I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough.
There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Reform UK supporting Matt Goodwin says because we are broke taxes have to go up Brexit costs us £40 billion a year in lost tax income from trade with the EU, this is why we are broke If you vote for Reform you're voting for the same people who made us broke, to fix us being broke 🤷‍♂️ #BBCQT

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The thing about the current Royal scandals is when you think it would have only taken a helicopter crash or a slip from the deck of a warship back in the 1970s for it to now be "King Andrew" who was having to deal with them!

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025

Farage: epic grifter

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Don't mean to single out Nick Ferrari specifically but this sums up the problem with our mainstream media at the moment. Rather than simply reporting the facts about what's happened the most important thing to them is that whatever they say presents their own political viewpoint in the best light.

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Also on @mrjamesob.bsky.social podcast "Everybody knows we have too much debt." Nobody challenged this. All money was originally created by the Gov. "Gov. debt" is another name for the money put into the economy which now exists as private wealth. If there was no Debt there would be no money supply.

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I listened to @mrjamesob.bsky.social daily podcast from @lbc.co.uk . The top 1% pay 33% of the tax, that sounds unfair but I'm amazed no one asked "Do the top 1% have 33% of the income" If so 33% of the tax seems quite fair, if they don't not so much, but if they've more than 33% of the income...

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Such a relief that Russia lost in Caerphilly.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Sorry @theipaper.com but WHY is this guy talking to us about what will make the UK poorer? He was happy to grenade our economy twice… Brexit and then his batshit budget with Truss. He should be in political oblivion for the mess he made and the price we all have to pay for his party’s failures.

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Wealth taxes will make the UK poorer
Labour's logic appears sensible but it defies economic reality

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Not surprising at all. 16M people voted against leaving the EU, OK slightly more voted for, but I doubt many of the 'remain voters' have since been persuaded they were wrong and for nearly ten years all the main parties have completely ignored them.

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

We all condemn Hamas' attacks on Israel but todays headline seems to sum up the war in Gaza.... "terrorists fired on Israeli troops in Rafah, killing two soldiers. Israel responded hitting Hamas targets across Gaza, with hospital sources saying 44 people were killed."

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I consider myself politically in the centre. I don't ideologically support any party. I don't like far right or far left views. I'll vote for the least worst option. Parties should be trying to attract my vote. Note to Party leaders, leaving the EHCR is going to make sure you get DON'T get my vote.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Many pundits today are pushing the line that everyone who protests the genocide in Gaza is basically either antisemitic or tolerant of antisemitism. But isn't that precisely the conflation of the actions of the Israeli gov't with all Jewish people, which is at the heart of this wave of antisemitism?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Nigel Farage Broke Britain.

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BrianinFrance @brianinfrance.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The Tories became irrelevant after Johnson banished the remaining sane party members. Since then, they have continued their journey into the political wilderness. Anyone temped by their latest wheeze to ditch human rights protection for UK citizens must be beyond help.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Every election is a sort of collective entrance exam into the future. It occasionally happens that populations fail the exam. But for the US to fail essentially a resit of its 2016 exam, featuring the same questions, having studied the answers for eight years, is much rarer and pretty unforgivable.

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Anyone else get really irritated with letters from TV Licensing? I've not had a TV for 12+ years. They expect me to keep telling them I don't need a licence. So many other things I don't have and don't need which I don't have to justify. But it's their language "You 'claim' you don't need a licence"

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

21st century Britain where it's illegal to project an image on a wall but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Dear Reform voters, These guys are laughing at you. They promise to make your lives better… but they couldn’t give less of a shit. You’re their playthings. Their route to power. When they’ve got it, they’ll be done with you. And they’ll trash the place. Get some self-respect. The rest of the UK.

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

The problem with our politics: I have friends who plan to vote Reform, I ask why, what do they want? They want funded NHS, potholes fixed, cost of living addressed etc., none of which Reform will deliver but the issue is I can't suggest another party to vote for who I think will.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Farage promise to "stop the boats within two weeks of winning gov't" unravelling. Apparently, it means "after passing laws", "as quickly as possible", he "believes", the boats will still cross, but all will be deported "if necessary" and "sensible", "unless we have a duty of care". Bravo, Beth! 👏🏽

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

When Farage makes such claims people should recall that this is exactly how the Brexiters dismissed the NI border issue pre-referendum. 'Oh it will be easy, nothing will change, don't forget there's a CTA' etc. It then became maybe the central & still enduring problem for delivering Brexit.

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Jimmy Raskin, a US Congressman yesterday called my MP a "Putin loving free speech imposter and Trump sycophant" I can't criticise the Congressman because I agree with him! I'd email my MP and ask why he is in the US and not representing me in Parliament today but he never answers my emails.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events: "I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians “The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy” eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

eastangliabylines.co.uk

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians

The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I turn the news on this morning BBC leads with some policy announcement by Badenoch, Sky by Farage. WHY? there's no election soon they cannot (fortunately) enact those policies. Concentrate on the mess the elected Government is making, try to influence them, anyone would think our news media biased.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/08/2025

The overall goal here is clear: Trump wants full control of the U.S. economy. That’s reckless no matter who the president is. But it’s a ruinous mission for a president who obviously has no idea what he’s doing. trib.al/VnbR4iD

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The Trump Recession Is Coming

The president’s assault on the independence of the Federal Reserve is only the latest of several reckless economic actions that have put the country on the brink of economic disaster.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The Times says Reform “has no track record to weigh it down”… Other than: Islamophobia, racism, inept councillors, MP absenteeism, admiration for Putin, love of Trump, brazen grifting, idiotic manifesto, dodgy donations and Brexit… the single stupidest thing the country has done in our lifetimes.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Isn't it remarkable just how much more of a clear-eyed perspective a little distance, in this case from the Wall Street Journal in the US, can provide?

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 27/08/2025

It would be a thousand times better for Labour and for Britain if the national debate were about whether to rejoin the EU or not, rather than how hard to punch down at immigrants. Instead, Labour chose to propagate Farage's argument for him by accepting it had SOME validity and trying to nuance it.

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