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Robert Newton

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Pro EU Pro UK anti-Tory, (current) Worried about Trumpism/Farage /Fascism Retired engineer working in pharma ind Living in North Yorkshire Interests inc: Coastal Skipper Hiking 40 m/wk Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am Keeping Merc SL350 running

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Don Comer @doncomer.bsky.social · 18h
Old Joe didn't get credit for a frick'n thing:
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 9h
I hadn’t had plague down on my four horseman of the Apocalypse bingo card for 2026 More seriously, Putin — a master poisoner with Novichok and polonium — always accuses others of his own crimes, hence the whole Ukrainian biolabs bollox
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 9h
Under-fire Nigel Farage interviewed in probe over £5million gift from crypto billionaire www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 8h
Only two options really. FTA model, plus or minus depending on what the UK wants to put on the table with regard to people. Or membership. The rest for one reason or other can't work.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 8h
What did we do to piss off Bulgaria
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Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 7h
4 STARS from the ever fair Chortle. "The performance is unrivalled" "Packed with astute, astringent and legitimate rage" "His robust defence of London as a success of multiculturalism...brings a lump to the throat" JonathanPie.com for Tickets
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 7h
Can you imagine the derisory coverage and outright mockery if any other party with single-digit MPs decided to "declare a General Election" and go on a bus tour? Yet when this outlandish nonsense comes from Farage, it is treated as somehow brilliant. "Subscribe to continue..." No thanks. I'm good.
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Nigel Farage campaigning in Southend-on-Sea for the local election in May
Nigel Farage campaigning in Southend-on-Sea for the local elections in May Credit: Geoff Pugh for The Telegraph
Nigel Farage is to “fire the starting gun” on Reform UK’s general election campaign with a nationwide tour beginning next week, The Telegraph can reveal…
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 9h
TRUTH 👇........
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GJRboston @gjrboston.bsky.social · 5h
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 5h
I particularly love the distance travelled in a month by the Mail's Jason Groves, from "living in the past" to "old school values".
Britain's problems? I blame Thatcher and Brexit, says Burnham: No wonder Kemi mocked him for 'living in the past' as the 'Messiah without a mandate' made his Commons debut as PM
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Spare us the history lesson, Burnham...
By JASON GROVES, POLITICAL EDITOR
PUBLISHED: 23:43, 1 September 2026 |Kemi's common sense blueprint: Unveiling policy blitz at party conference, she hails 'old school values' on economy, law and order and borders as the key to election victory
By JASON GROVES, POLITICAL EDITOR
PUBLISHED: 01:46, 5 October 2026 |
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 5h
Badenoch, last month: Why is PM obsessed with Thatcher? SO WEIRD! I was not even born. He wants to take us back to the 70s. Badenoch, this week: I'm like Thatcher, a new Thatcher, possibly possessed by Thatcher, LOVE Thatcher, Thatcher was right, and I'll take us back to the 80s. Tory Conference:
Actual Thatcher outfits on display.Priti Patel displaying Thatcher merchandise.Limited edition Thatcher toby jug, £47.50Telegraph: "BADENOCH: I'LL TURN BRITAIN AROUND LIKE THATCHER"
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GJRboston @gjrboston.bsky.social · 5h
this is what you voted for: a fucking idiot that threatens the american people how's those cheaper eggs taste this morning??
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TonyHQ @tonyhq1985.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Like I already said, he used to go into denial but now he’s brazen about his treason and contempt for the nation.
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Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. @witwarrior.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Force them to be like us." Sounds like the dreaded mass conformity of Communism.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 23h
If this isn’t bribery, what is bribery? And for those who think he'll pay you, how’re those Doge, and Tariff checks treating you?
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 23h
For policy reasons relating to Europe, immigrants and economics Harold Macmillan Anthony Eden Ted Heath Benjamin Disraeli William Gladstone David Cameron Alec Douglas-Home and Winston Churchill wouldn't have been allowed in your cabinet, you feckless wazzock www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I'm a classic old school Conservative, says Kemi Badenoch
The Tory leader seeks to echo Margaret Thatcher as she sets out her guiding political principles.
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GJRboston @gjrboston.bsky.social · 23h
#TaxTheRich
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TonyHQ @tonyhq1985.bsky.social · 23h
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 23h
A cynical person might ask, of course, why are "young men of fighting age" wearing hijabs? 🧐
Main on Sunday front page: 

"As one of Kemi's top female frontbenchers calls them 'instruments of suppression...
UK HANDS OUT 1,000 HIJABS TO CHANNEL MIGRANTS"
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GJRboston @gjrboston.bsky.social · 23h
boo hoo hoo just another shitty repugnican Senator IDGAF about
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Why does every woman know another woman that was raped. But no man knows a rapist?” The above line has been posted on images that have gone viral recently as the media has covered the Cornell University
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23h
"Canada, EU plan to link next-gen payment systems, easing transactions" Thankfully, Labour ditched Starmer and Reeves, the 'make Brexit work' crew, and with any luck, the UK can get in on this action.
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TonyHQ @tonyhq1985.bsky.social · 20h
Muskrat’s Conflict of interest doesn’t bother us because we worry about the more dangerous parts that Muskrat plays. First Doge and now the Pentagon
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 20h
Why stop there? Scrap the treasury to make the national debt go away Scrap the NHS and cure cancer Scrap the MOD and lo: world peace www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Memorable Presidential Quotes In History From FDR: "The only thing we have to fear... is fear itself." From JFK: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." From our Vulgarian-In-Chief:
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 18h
Republicans Want "Purity At The Ballot Box" Sounds like excluding certain Races from Voting. youtu.be/i0_Il2YQkJk?...
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Briscoe Cain Wanted Purity At The Ballot
YouTube video by Lone Star Left
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Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. @witwarrior.bsky.social · 14h
David Rothkopf overcomes the trauma of surgery to help us overcome the trauma of Trump.
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Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. @witwarrior.bsky.social · 14h
One Priority Above All Others davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/one-priori...
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One Priority Above All Others
We Must Drain the Poison Out of Our Body Politic If There Is to Be a Better World After Trump
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
For years, Project 2025 architect Russell Vought has set out to erode our system of checks and balances of power and to concentrate power in the hands of one person: President Trump. Now he’s quietly making it all happen. 🔊 Listen to this episode: propub.li/3TzIyaA
“I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” - Russell Vought, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 13h
Reform councillor arrested over election papers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform councillor Ryan Coogan arrested over election papers
Ryan Coogan, the party's group leader at Huntingdonshire District Council, is currently on bail.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13h
That over 3,500 have been arrested for non violent protest, and less than ten for actual criminal behaviour, is a stain on Starmer, Cooper, and Mahmood. Baron Hain calling it shameful, is just the tip of the iceberg on how history will document this Labour policy. Labour needs to do better.
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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 13h
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING with @shabanamahmood.bsky.social - fascinating on so many levels - faith; Palestine, immigration, why Starmer had to go and so much more. We were both impressed. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Shabana Mahmood: Palestine Action, Faith and What I Told Starmer
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 4 October · 1hr 15min
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 13h
Well, there we go again with the limits on UK trade policy imposed by the need to be nice to major partners. Reports that the UK will impose tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicles, which will please both EU and US but not the UK consumer... www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Britain expected to impose tariffs on Chinese electric cars
Ministers are ready to match the EU’s 45 per cent levy to avoid pain of Made in Europe proposals
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 13h
Nigel Farage questioned by standards commissioner over £5m gift www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nigel Farage questioned by standards commissioner over £5m gift
Reform UK leader was interviewed for half an hour last month over money from crypto billionaire
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12h
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12h
“A party the country still regards as toxic is determined to double down on its toxicity.” The Tories: so tedious in their relentless idiocy. Another, great cathartic piece… (loved Philp’s new name too…)
To illustrate her point, Kemi proudly drew Laura's attention to her rather desperate pamphlet The Right Way, which the Tories have published as their new credo. Six principles of Conservatism to get them through the bad times. To remind them they are right even when the country thinks they are unelectable. Kemi's Kemistry, as she hopes we will call it. The first rule is that Kemi never makes mistakes. Asked to name anything she has changed her mind about, she comes up with nothing. The laws of physics will change long before Kemi. She wants us to think of The Right Way as her foundational document that will be spoken of in hushed tones for decades to come. It will be lucky to survive
until tomorrow.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12h
Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor. www.ft.com/content/38a5...
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Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor
British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He Told Her To Calm Down. Oil on canvas. 🎨: Henri-Léopold Lévy
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
😅😅🔥🇨🇦 #Canada #LakeOntario
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Rangeeni @rangeeni.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
“Trump abhors consequences, and there are some truly unavoidable ones, staring him down. The problem is they may result in cataclysmic changes if we don’t reign this errant administration in, post haste.”
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Labor-intensive commode manufacturing workshop in Pakistan. youtube.com/shorts/duG9z...
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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Badenoch won’t actually commit to cutting inheritance tax [which only 4% actually pay] but says “it’s morally right” and also insists the Tories are a “strong team of people who actually like each other”. Until the next one exits to Reform… As yet none have left for the Restore fascists.
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okthen25.bsky.social @okthen25.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Their money goes a long way - be wary Everybody has to vote
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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you need a reason not to support the death penalty, read this. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/o...
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Opinion | I Consulted With Christa Pike’s Death Row Team. I Knew This Could Happen. (Gift Article)
Lethal injection failures are not glitches; they are features of the process.
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
❗️Over three months of the 🇺🇦Unmanned Systems Forces operation “Crimean Switch Off” (6 July–3 October 2026), 456 energy nodes were struck in the temporarily occupied territories and in Russia; in the last 10 days,
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Calls grow for investigation into Reform UK’s ‘extensive’ links with UAE" 'FairSquare wants the relationship examined by the government’s Defending Democracy Taskforce. It has also called for the UAE to be placed alongside Russia and Iran ...' thedailybritain.co.uk/reform-uk-ua...
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Curious Bystander @curious-bystander.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hard to disagree with Denis...
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We need Dan Rather in our main stream media again. He was not a coward in his reporting.
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