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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The Times calls Keir Starmer's decision to hire Peter Mandelson an "egregious error" which deserves an "inquiry into the appointment process." Not included is any demand for an inquiry into their own appointment of him, long after his post-conviction relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was exposed
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
McSweeney going is excellent news. It doesn't fix any problems by itself, but it is the precondition for fixing those problems.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Excellent work by Reform at Kent Council, who made a £40m saving by briefly proposing to spend £40m on something then deciding not to. Using this model, every Reform council can save £billions! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Leg Spinner🏏 @judeet44.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
"out of friends"....no, he isn't, that's merely what media are constantly churning out in their desperate attempts to get ReFUKKK into power. He has cabinet and lots of hardworking MPs beavering away locally doing their jobs, but without slebbish social media one-liner memes for the benefit of media
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MrsVB @mrsivb.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
more of this please. Utter shower of shite.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
BREAKING: Keir Starmer is to provide an update as early as tomorrow on how the government will address issues highlighted by the Mandelson scandal
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Reclaim Decency @katelane613.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Can I offer you a different perspective? I believe Starmer is a decent man - who listened to his advisor. That advisor was wrong. A failure of judgement. The world is in a dangerous place. This is NOT the time for a change of leadership but a time for strong, principled leaders to come together
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
BREAKING: “This was the wrong decision… I don’t think it’s good for the country to be changing its Prime Minister every eighteen months. It has an economic cost, it has a confidence cost, it has an international reputation cost” Work & Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I warned Starmer about Mandelson. My wife Bunty did So did Dean our paperboy Ramrod our Lab did. Jill in the village shop baked some warning baps for him & Simple Sally, who helps Jill, warned him using dance & spit. Ronnie Pickering warned him. So did Chaka Demus. And Pliers. Why didn’t he LISTEN?🤦🏻‍♂️
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
“It could take years to restore Brexit losses” Especially if Farage comes along and tears up the ‘reset’ as he threatens. Honest to god.. it’s such a tedious, idiotic, resource-sapping mess. There’s really nothing patriotic about it. Prejudice costs such a lot. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Post-Brexit sales of British farm products to EU fall by 37%
NFU warn it could take years to restore Brexit losses despite efforts to smooth negotiations on farming and other elements of UK-EU reset
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
A lot of racists in UK media & politics are currently limbering up to hold Donald Trump to an infinitely lower moral standard than they did Gary Lineker. Starting with Farage, inevitably…
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Reform UK will face a police investigation in Gorton and Denton after admitting it sent out letters from a “concerned neighbour” which did not state they had been funded and distributed by the party www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform faces police investigation over ‘concerned neighbour’ byelection letters
Material distributed in Gorton and Denton did not have legally required imprint stating it was funded by party
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
BREAKING: Gordon Brown defends Keir Starmer "I can look in his eyes and see he is a man of integrity. "He wants to do the right things. Perhaps he has been too slow to do the right things. But he must do the right things now. "Lets judge what he does"
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
BREAKING: Gordon Brown says Keir Starmer should stay as PM to "clear up the system and tackle corruption”
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Have a read of this. Great scoop, obviously, but it’s also an absolute masterclass in how to report on these jokers. Plenty of London-based hacks could learn a lot from Martin Shipton here. If they actually wanted to… nation.cymru/news/the-new...
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The new leader of Reform UK Wales lives in Bath, not Wales
Martin Shipton The newly appointed leader of Reform UK in Wales hasn’t moved back to his home town in the Valleys, but has bought a £1m house near Bath, we can reveal. Dan Thomas, the former Conservat...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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Patrick Wintour • @patrickwintour
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Striking that it is from outside government in the shape of Gordon Brown that a plan is laid out to end the systematic abuse of power revealed by Mandelson scandal.
Much of it derived from Transparency
International and Brown's own report A New
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(Emphasis) Current anti-corruption Tsar Margaret Hodge (emphasis) upgraded to independent parliament appointed anti corruption commission with power to seize assets; controls on political lobbying including 91 peers currently paid to give political advice; existing Ethics and Integrity Commission to be given statutory powers to investigate bank accounts and initiate investigations; public select committee hearings to vet appointment of senior diplomats; end to MPs second jobs (with professional training exceptions) & controls on ministerial private external communications.
Brown says Starmer could introduce a comprehensive bill within 3 months.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/02/2026
The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting. A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
But they all seem so honest & competent!
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Just a word of thanks to our fantastic media. Despite my racist bullying at school, having a senior colleague imprisoned for being a traitor, breaking the MP’s Code Of Conduct 17 times, my dodgy house purchase and even being in the Epstein Files, nobody is demanding I resign!
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is the highest level in 10 years
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Almost 60,000 illegal migrants removed from UK since Labour came to power
Some 58,500 unauthorised migrants and convicted criminals have been removed or deported from the UK since Labour came into power.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"I should just point out that this is the SIXTH time we have invited unelected gobshite Zia Yusuf onto Question Time"
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Remember the fan fare to Johnson’s levelling up fantasy? Now we have a PM delivering levelling up through his Pride of Place programme with a £5bn allocated budget spread across the country Tumbleweed. The media don’t give a toss about you and your home.
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I must say, even as a Tory, that Reform can never be accused of hypocrisy. For instance Nigel Farage saying Mr Starmer’s association with Mr Mandelson was a “Grave error of judgement” & he should resign. Mr Farage’s ‘associations’ could NEVER be called grave errors of judgement.🤔
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks. Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
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canuckuk @canuckuk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I have just one thing to say to Nigel Farage in light of his Mandelson/Starmer criticism...Nathan Gill.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🚨Gorton and Denton by-election “I’ve said it time and time again - we need to leave the ECHR” says Reforms candidate Matt Goodwin The European Convention on Human Rights protects us all. It grants our right to protest, our right to privacy, our right to fair trials. And so much more
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is really cringey listening BUT the prime minister actually allowing journalists from lots of different media outlets into the room and trying to answer their very hostile questions does at least show we’re not yet the United States.
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"We need to check we've got that the right way round" 🤣
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Embarrassing moment for GB News as poll on Starmer doesn't go as planned
There was an embarrassing moment for GB News as one of their polls on Keir Starmer didn't quite return the results they were expecting.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Some rare good news!
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Yes, quite. It's the biggest scandal of this administration, so far, probably. It's an average Tuesday under Johnson.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Nigel Farage tells GB News that Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador shows his judgement is "seriously wrong" and he should stand down as Prime Minister. Here's what Farage said when Mandelson was appointed
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Boris Johnson’s Deputy Chief of Staff here, worried that secretly-funded lobby groups masquerading as ‘think tanks’ might finally be held to account. Because of course she bloody is.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/02/2026
🔼 Spoiler: They did raise council tax in the end... But hey, you know what journalists are like - definite non-story 😉
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Keir Starmer is to announce a cash injection of £800m to rejuvenate the most deprived communities, which he admits have been "undermined by political neglect" news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...
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Sir Keir Starmer pledges to 'reverse devastating decline' with £800m extra investment in 40 communities
In a speech on Thursday, the prime minister will attack what he calls the "scorched earth of Tory austerity", while recognising the threat from Reform UK, comparing it to a "contest between renewal an...
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Pete Rutherford @asneakypete.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Repeat after me. Corbyn gave us Johnson, Truss and Sunak.
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Phil Leighton @joseph-yossarian.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
McDonnell knows all about success having stood shoulder to shoulder with Labour’s leader that led the party to its worst ever election defeat.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Something to make you smile today
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
In case you missed it .. Barry Gardiner is the Brexiter who argued against a second ref because it would "upset the far right" ...
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MrsVB @mrsivb.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
with all the other noise going on, this piece of good news might be missed ...
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Families of children with cancer to have travel costs covered
The government sets aside £10 million a year to help families and young people under 24 access cancer treatment.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Oh.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Thanks to @daveproudlove.bsky.social for alerting me to this wonderful exchange 😂
Lee Anderson MP 

Oswald Mosley?

Wasn't he a Labour MP?

Cathy Beesley @beesley_cathy.

But most of us don't want Mosley's facists, or the National Front or the BNP, UKIP or Reform UK Ltd.

We don't want masked men killing peo.

Parody Nigel Farage

He tried both Labour and Conservative then became a Fascist - sound familiar?
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Andy Burnham out today giving his full backing to Labour candidate Angeliki Stogia for Gorton and Denton. Andy was clear - we are united against the division of Reform
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The world is aflame, but luckily the Muppets are back to save us www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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The Muppet Show: this thrilling return is so great I can’t even count how many times I laughed
Sabrina Carpenter fangirling Miss Piggy, Beaker losing his eyes … yes, Kermit and co are back for a trip down memory lane – and it’s a perfect, saucy joy
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Goodwin literally had a hissy fit when Alan Rusbridger & David Aaronovitch went for dinner after an event they all did together & chose not to ask him. He’s palpably desperate to go to fictional dinner parties that exist only in his warped imagination. Instead he gets to suck lemons with 30p Lee.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 01/02/2026
Douglas Alexander: "That vision of unity, of pride, of coming together, speaks well to the kind of country that I want to live in." "That is in direct contrast to what we get from Matt Goodwin."
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Here we see working class Mancunian lad Matt Goodwin campaigning vigorously and winning over yet another voter in the Gorton and Denton by-election.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
JANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Very much enjoyed meeting Matt Goodwin and his surprisingly honest supporters.
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