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Musician, Tutor, Composer #IamEuropean Married to a Mexican girly swot. Remainiac. No DMs/lists please. #FBPE #FOM #Vote4Democracy PRSforMusic 🚫Reform 🚫MAGA

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's great to hear these statements. They've been made before, but hopefully they will reach a bigger audience this time. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Richard Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🇲🇽 @roberts127.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I just signed a petition to stop Big Oil killing cleaner flights. Planes can already fly on cleaner fuel made from waste, and the EU has a law to make it happen. But the oil giants like BP and Shell are lobbying to kill it. Add your name now: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-09...
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Keep Big Oil out of our skies
Share the petition and you'll help multiply the impact of this campaign: Keep Big Oil out of our skies
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Richard Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🇲🇽 @roberts127.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Britain's future relationship with Europe is being debated in Parliament on 12th October. I've just asked my MP to attend. Will you ask yours? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...
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Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
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Richard Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🇲🇽 @roberts127.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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My generation had no voice on Brexit – but Burnham gives the young fresh hope on Europe | Ceira Sergeant
Brexit didn’t create all the problems young people now face, but renewing close ties with Europe will give us so many opportunities, says student and activist Ceira Sergeant
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Richard Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🇲🇽 @roberts127.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I just signed a petition demanding governments make rich polluters pay. Billionaires and fossil fuel giants are profiting while communities pay the price. Join me & add your voice. #ClimateJustice #PollutersPay www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...
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Oxfam GB | Make rich polluters pay
I just signed a petition demanding governments make rich polluters pay. Billionaires and fossil fuel giants are profiting while communities pay the price. Join me & add your voice. #ClimateJustice #Po...
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Richard Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🇲🇽 @roberts127.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A new government sets its direction early. I've just signed European Movement UK's petition asking Andy Burnham to drop the red lines on Europe and set out a real plan for the UK's European future. Add your name: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/5_asks_for_a...
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Our 5 Asks for Andy Burnham
Andy Burnham must seize the moment to build a bold, forward-looking agenda for his administration to lead the UK towards a new European future.
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Richard Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🇲🇽 @roberts127.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I've just signed "Tell Andy Burnham to launch a National Commission on Electoral Reform" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/na...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf 2/
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Reform UK pledges new tax on employers for hiring foreign workers, to fund national insurance reduction for employers. No impact assessment produced. Reform may define "foreign" by colour? Crazy plan would destroy the NHS, social care, farming, transport and more. And the knock-on effect?
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Reform UK pledges new tax on firms hiring foreign workers
The party says the move would allow it to reverse last year's National Insurance rise for British workers.
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Richard Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🇲🇽 @roberts127.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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The Broligarchy's First World War?
AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict
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Richard Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🇲🇽 @roberts127.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I've joined @cancerresearchuk.org's campaign to call for a #TurningPointForCancerInWales this election. Will you add your name as well? action.cancerresearchuk.org/page/184746/...
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Join the campaign
This election could be a turning point for cancer in Wales. But we need your help.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/12/2025
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
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The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 09/12/2025
COVID schemes fraud and error cost taxpayers £11bn
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COVID schemes fraud and error cost taxpayers £11bn
COVID-19 Fraud and error cost the taxpayer nearly £11bn, a government watchdog has found.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Reform UK Staffordshire Ian Cooper: sacked for racism. Wayne Titley: resigned after calling on Navy to sink small boats with gunfire. Peter Mason: exposed for racism. Mike Broom: sanctioned by council for accepting concert tickets. Tracey Dougherty: resigned job due to a conflict of interest.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Absolutely this.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Maximum monthly State Pension. Luxembourg £5,426 Norway £1,839 Switzerland £1,657 Denmark £1,486 Sweden £1,373 Belgium £1,338 Netherlands £1,322 France £1,254 Spain £1,238 UK £997 Guess which is unaffordable?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The 8 Kent offenders sent to jail for more than 100 years. These are the most common types of faces of sex offenders. White British.
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Open Britain @openbritain.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
What's behind Nigel Farage's deregulation plans for corporations? Follow the money 👀 He isn't a party leader. He's a CEO. And his investors have spoken.
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Johanna Saunders @johannasaunders.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
In the last General Election, the people opted to obliterate the Tories into extinction, rightfully so, but now those same Tories are defecting to Farage’s Reform & the people are like “Ooh give me more of your corruption, lies & disgraceful behaviour just in a lighter blue.” It’s painfully stupid.
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Richard Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🇲🇽 @roberts127.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Up yours Farage, keep your snout out of Wales. There’s no welcome in the hillsides for you or your ilk…be gone!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🇬🇧🇲🇽
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Suggest you jump in on this poll. —> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...? And share…
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The more I think about her actual words, and how appallingly under-reported/understood they still seem to be, the more shocked & disgusted I am.
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Richard Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🇲🇽 @roberts127.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The ECHR was Britain’s response to WW2 fascist regimes. With authoritarianism on the rise again, we’d be mad to give up the protections it provides. Tell your MP we won’t let that happen! actionstorm.org/petitions/pr...
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 20/10/2025
Then fix it.
Screenshot from BBC: Rachel Reeves blames Brexit deal for long-term damage to economy.

Rachel Reeves made the comment about the 2020 deal at a key meeting of the world's leading finance ministers and central bankers.
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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes. It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia. Investigation now! #InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Brexit is Farage and his fellow Brexiters' shitstorm to own. He/they can't be allowed to just pivot from heckle to heckle and bad idea to worse - while blaming everyone else - without consequences. So the suggestion that Labour are going to amplify that truth is to be welcomed.
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Kevin ANTIFA Ressler 💙🐈‍⬛😁 @kevinressler.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Same shit, same asshole.
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 08/10/2025
The numbers are clear. Most Britons now believe leaving Europe was a mistake. The next generation knows our future lies in cooperation, not isolation.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
People would have signed this off. Others will have been shown the product. Further individuals will have put them in the goodie bags. How on Earth did nobody spot it? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate
Misprinted wrappers pulled from Manchester goodie bags after derision on social media
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Starmer on the “Farage boats”, Rachel Reeves on the economic benefits of youth mobility… Are the Labour leadership starting to poke their heads out of their shells and dare to see a pro-EU pathway as a route both to fixing our woes and also attacking Farage’s Achilles’ heel? Let’s hope so.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
“Farage “broke Britain" with Brexit and is now, outrageously, capitalising on the vast damage he caused” Article argues there’s no need to mention Reform’s racism as the Brexit shitshow is failure enough. But that had its roots in racism too. So let’s do both. app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
Yet it's a potentially fruitful line of argument.
Many of the UK's current problems stem from something most of us would prefer not to dwell on - Brexit. Depressed investment, low productivity, stagnant economic growth and living standards, the strain on the public finances and thus public services, food prices, the "Boriswave" of more than 2 million (legal) immigrants, increased red tape and border hassles for businesses, farmers and travellers... all can be traced back, to a greater or lesser extent, to 2016 and the EU Referendum. And who, as he reminds us again now, spent 30 years of his life campaigning for Britain to leave the EU? Farage. 
It is he, Farage, who 'broke Britain' with Brexit and is now capitalising on the vast damage he caused
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Johanna Saunders @johannasaunders.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It’s pretty simple really, vote Reform, get Putin. Personally I prefer Governments that aren’t lapdogs of warmongering dictators. Sick to death of Putin’s influence over British politics, and of people oblivious to the fact that they’re doing his bidding to disrupt the west.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Please follow @thenerve.news! Were a new female-founded publication that launched yesterday…& it was a huge team effort to get a website up & this investigation over the line. We’re all exhausted but we want to do journalism that matters & we need your support. Thank you!!🙏 www.thenerve.news
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The Nerve
Fearless, independent journalism covering culture, politics and tech
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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
If inciting racism doesn’t make you a racist, what does???
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Johanna Saunders @johannasaunders.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Farage convinced a lot of people to choose to make themselves poorer and screw up the country, all it took was a dash of racism, now Farage is fuelling that racism in order to convince people that he’s the one to solve the problems that he created. Stop listening to Putin’s pet.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security. It’s time for a public inquiry.
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Nathan Gill’s treachery puts him in same league as the “Cambridge Five”
Reform’s Russia connections may endanger our security – time for a public inquiry
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Data from the Office of National Statistics shows Londoners are less likely to be violent crime victims (26.4 offences per 1,000 pop) than the rest of England & Wales (31.9 offences). Violent crime has fallen in every London borough in the past year.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The nerve of this is simply incredible. Will the right-wing press continue to provide cover?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏
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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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This withered little bellend will say anything in order to ingratiate himself with Trump. He hasn't had an original thought since the cries he let out on the ill-fated day he was born.
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Richard Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🇲🇽 @roberts127.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The homepage on my LBC app. What’s happening to this country!
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