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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 16m

Today I think I might finally unlock economic growth by doing the same things that haven't worked for 18 years.

Robert Thomson @robertthomson54.bsky.social · 40m

Labour: “We’re going to spend a fiver on feeding sick babies” Tory cheerleaders: “THIS IS INSANE, WHERE IS THE MONEY COMING FROM????” Kemi Badenoch: “Fancy a 10bn iron dome anyone?” Tory cheerleaders: “You’re a genius Kemi, the new Thatcher. Make it 20bn or 30!!” Some country this 😂🤯

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 13h

Oh and "Would-be [Tory] candidates must sign a "memorandum of understanding" backing ECHR withdrawal" and scrapping Net Zero targets. I'm sure Lib Dems will come flooding back!

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 13h

Politico: "CCHQ is working to a strategy aimed at appealing to the center, then hoovering up right-wing support to kill off Reform...The plan centers first on winning back middle class Lib Dem & Labour voters" They're starting that by...pledging to abolish Natural England and the Environment Agency

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Lee @justlee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

...and yet we are being told we should see Badenoch as a political superstar?

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Robert Thomson @robertthomson54.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Had two alerts about Trump’s views on Chagos already. Does anyone in the real world care about this issue? Genuinely never heard anyone mention it

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Robert Thomson @robertthomson54.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

All this breathless analysis of Burnham meeting Trump is meaningless. The madman could wake up tomorrow, call him the biggest arsehole he’s ever met then be his pal again by tea time. So tiresome

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Robert Thomson @robertthomson54.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And your life will have been 100x better for it (bar all the parties and announcements you miss)

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Paul killick @paulkillick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I called out a friend for sharing his stuff on facebook who previously had been well balanced and not racist or even publicly political before. That mix is how Britain First started too lots of light hearted memes for likes that get shared and then the darker stuff

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 14/09/2026

I'd misclassified Rupert Lowe as a Twitter thing. But he's now *really* gaming Facebook's new algorithm with a mixture of 'remigration' and 'who remembers' memes. Crazy levels of engagement and he's all over the feed of every boomer I know regardless of their politics. www.facebook.com/rupertlowemep

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Robert Thomson @robertthomson54.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Tories’ only hope of winning seats is by being palatable to these people in enough areas. But still they allow the odious Chris Philp to run about magnifying Reform’s talking points for them. Make it make sense!

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Robert Thomson @robertthomson54.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So depressing watching Farage click his fingers and everyone scurries around having the arguments HE wants to frame. At some point people are going to have to learn to stop doing it. It’s madness. BBC having a real lightweight political editor doesn’t help 🤯

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My theory is that Harborne (and possibly Delo) are chancing it. They know the donations could be ruled illegal. But it creates a lot of headlines and turns the debate around the elections bill into one of Labour “targeting” Reform UK bylinetimes.com/2026/09/14/w...

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Why Reform UK Could Be Forced to Hand Back Their £72m Donations From Crypto Billionaires

Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo gave a record £36 million each over the weekend to Nigel Farage's party, but a new law means they may have to take it all back

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Robert Thomson @robertthomson54.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

How did Farage handle his grilling about Epstein, Bannon, Thiel and Reform’s funding today?

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James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

NEW: Understand Scott Bessent and Nigel Farage discussed Diego Garcia and Chagos during their dinner at Davos. US Treasury Sec believed to have credited Farage for getting this issue in the President’s in-tray and subsequent Trump stance.

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Robert Thomson @robertthomson54.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

So they’re not just a bunch of kindly souls worried about the erosion of free speech? Stunned!

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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Fire Brigades Union leader, Steve Wright: “If people think that Nigel Farage, a city trader millionaire & his mate, Richard Tice, are gonna be the people that can fix this country for the benefit of the majority, they are wrong” #politicslive

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Robert Thomson @robertthomson54.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Zack Polanski can say what he likes because nobody of any significance knows who he is, so his words don’t matter. Government is a serious business requiring serious, sober responses to rapidly changing and largely unpredictable events

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Robert Thomson @robertthomson54.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Nice to hear grown ups speak on social media occasionally Govt is difficult, very difficult, if not nigh impossible. The lunatics on here and elsewhere would have their PM wading into every issue like a bull in a china shop, never getting anything done. Starmer has taken the only course right now

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 05/12/2025

A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

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Robert Thomson @robertthomson54.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Club TV comes out in support of the manager...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Putin is a far more successful manipulator of Western psychology than he is a conqueror of Ukrainian defensive positions share.google/t4tDq7zXBj7o...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The "Rachel from accounts" thing is sexist, classist, misogyny, and anyone who uses it should be utterly ashamed of themselves. Too many dinosaurs in this country who cannot abide women who succeed. Conservative Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers MP should do better 👇 #PMQs

Kemi just roasted the nasal knight
and Rachel from accounts

If Reeves was a CEO she'd be down the
job centre

Starmer should get a backbone and
sack her.

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Robert Thomson @robertthomson54.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I’m sure Prof Edelman is the life and soul at parties

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Magazine that accuses anyone who even dares to think about criticising the Israeli government of ‘antisemitism’ apparently fine with Farage not apologising for allegedly saying ‘H*tler was right’ and making gas chamber noises to descendants of holocaust survivors. Through the looking glass stuff.

THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
By Stephen Pollard
Opinion
The Guardian, the BBC and the weaponisation of antisemitism against
Nigel Farage

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Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Required (if depressing) reading on this subject

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Robert Thomson @robertthomson54.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The people who shout and scream loudest, stamp their feet the most today are the same people who brought us this disaster.

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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...

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The Economic Impact of Brexit

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Robert Thomson @robertthomson54.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This stuff would end most politicians in a semi-normal country. Sadly, give it 24hrs and he’ll be the victim here.

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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I knew Gill and Farage and the rest of the UKIP crew in the European Parliament They were crooks and shysters to a man They repeated Putin talking points and appeared on Russia Today UKIP then and Reform now are both a threat to our democracy www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill

How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

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Robert Thomson @robertthomson54.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The “train drivers are all overpaid, lazy bastards”- “definitely a terror attack” - “got to be illegal immigrants” - “wait, they were born here” - “but Matt Goodwin says that’s not enough” - “name them both” - “wait a minute, it’s just one” - “train drivers are heroes” story arc has been some watch

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Fwiw, the trend towards disclosing the ethnicity/nationality of suspects in high-profile cases has not solved any problem (disinformation is still thriving) and only fuels polarisation and creates opportunities for grifters.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...

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Our politics is increasingly normalised to racism – because politicians are addicted to X

The platform has quietly dragged British politics into a dark place

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

They've tried Reform voter chasing. It hasn't worked. Why not just do the right thing? Not just on taxes btw, but on everything. On migration, higher education, Brexit.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Counterpoint: at this stage they're probably stuffed regardless, the moral imperative is to stop thinking about 2029 and just bloody well govern

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

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Robert Thomson @robertthomson54.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I really hope someone is keeping a list of all the crazy things people like the increasingly unhinged Andrew Griffith and his ilk are personally blaming Keir Starmer for? In 2025 it seems the UK PM is responsible for (and involved in) every decision taken by every public body. A nation of loons

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