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Rob Garbett

@robgarbett1961.bsky.social
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Built in Yorkshire. Runs on coffee,beer,whisky & music. Love Europe, hate Brexshit. Recently arrived from X & hoping that some of my followers will join me here. Owned by 2 cats 😺😺. 🇬🇧 🤝 🇪🇺

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.
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Badenoch promises tax cuts in 'battle for the soul of this nation'
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Investigate Reform's foreign funding now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...
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Sign the petition to hold politicians to account
Together, we can make sure no one - however rich or powerful they may be - is allowed to take us or our democracy for a ride.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All the money in the world won’t make Reform’s moronic policies workable. It won’t make their people less racist or idiotic. It won’t sort out their ridiculous egos or end the investigations. It won’t make the majority of us loathe them any less. In fact, the money may well bury them. Let’s hope so.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Musk and his money should have no bearing on our politics, our democracy or our safety. We don’t have to put up with him, his radicalised thugs or their racist incitement. Time our politicians said so. As loudly and as clearly as @mrjamesob.bsky.social does here. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/468...
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Racists think they can do what they like in Britain. We can prove them wrongHappily, this danger is easily assuaged. Politicians of every persuasion need to make it abundantly and absolutely clear that scenes like the ones in Thetford last week or Belfast in June or Southampton that same month are utterly unacceptable. You do not discuss them through the lens of other people's “peaceful protests" and you do not caveat your condemnations with talk of supposedly "legitimate concerns".
But most obviously, and most urgently, you do not let Elon Musk continue to allow others to use his platform to spread hate among our population and foment violence on our streets.
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ten years ago today the whole country and its future were sacrificed on the altar of Boris Johnson’s ego, David Cameron’s stupidity and Nigel Farage’s prejudice. A decade thrown away and a nation left angrier and poorer. Thanks, you absoute pricks.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The question is valid... 😂👇
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“Voters see Brexit as a “big disappointment” and “not worth it” resulting in a rise in support for rejoining the EU… The decision to leave the EU has “not withstood the test of time”” It never could have done. The journey back may be long but it’s underway. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Majority of voters want Brexit to be reversed, says Britain’s leading pollster
Exclusive: There has been a ‘decisive and consistent shift away from Brexit’ since the referendum 10 years ago, says John Curtice
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Imagine your “greatest concern” being tax and inheritance tax on global assets. And then imagine thinking people like that are going to do what’s best for the country or your life. It’s all so unhinged, it’s genuinely intolerable. Ffs, UK. Wake TF up. This is embarrassingly stupid now.
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Reform demonise those from abroad who chose the UK, want to work and pay their taxes here. Yet they suck up to millionaires who’ve fucked off abroad purely to avoid contributing to our society. It is repulsive, Trumpian and will only make everything worse.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
80% of Reform's funding comes from people who avoid tax by hiding money offshore. Our idea of true patriotism is to hoard money while contributing nothing towards public services. Just ask Richard Tice.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Happy Birthday, Pete Townshend! 🎶 What's one of your favorite The Who or Townshend solo songs? 🎶 Born in Middlesex, England, on May 19, 1945, he joined the Detours in late 1961. In 1963, the Detours recorded one of the 1st songs that Townshend wrote, "It Was You." By 1964, the band changed their 👇
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
How long do we have to continue with the utter farce of this deeply corrupt spiv being considered seriously for our highest political office? Farage should be nowhere near power… but it seems it’s being bought for him by a crypto billionaire who thinks everything’s for sale. Including our democracy.
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
My wish list for Starmer: Increase taxes on the wealthy, find some money to increase the pace of change. People won’t mind you breaking a pledge for millionaires! Bring in PR - if you can’t keep Farage out by persuading people to vote Labour put that in place as a backstop. Stop chasing Reform.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
What you get with Reform UK. Spread the word.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hi Nigel Farage, tell us again about how Trump and Isreal were right on going to war with Iran.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Brexit diehards raging at the EU marmalade renaming is both hilarious and exposing… CITRUS SPREAD Citrus spread is all they’ve managed to get angry about after years of hunting for outrage …and then they even got that wrong Imbeciles.
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KitKat 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇦🇺🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @uk501.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“That’s why Reform’s fossil-fuel funded politicians are so opposed to climate science and… Net Zero… Not because Net Zero is an economic failure but because its success will hit their donors’ profits” Farage: Never acts in the national interest. Only ever his own. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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Farage's fossil fuel donors profit from Iran war
Democracy for Sale analysis finds 'war premium' driving up energy costs is also boosting the portfolios of some of Reform's biggest backers
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
When are we gonna admit that billionaire‑ism is an illness? They’re hoarders No control, insatiable greed & their hoarding just drains every one of us They cut wages, buy politicians & bleed the planet just to watch a number tick up that they’ll never spend Sick in the head.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Joyful to see Goodwin and Farage having a huge wettie and rightwing media scrabbling around for credibility in the rubble of their cocky predictions and polling. You don’t have this in the bag.We voted for change in 2024. That never meant hate-fuelled populism. It meant hope. You don’t give us that.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Release the Epstein Files. That is all. That's the post.
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KitKat 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇦🇺🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @uk501.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
What has happened to America when it can’t see that a sex assaulting, paedophilic, lying, thieving, charity stealing, cruel convicted criminal bully is the bad guy? Did they not watch the same films we did growing up?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Farage the politician *is* Farage the schoolboy losing his shit over seeing the name ‘Patel’ on the school roll and telling black pupils to go back to Africa. There’s really no difference. Except now he wants (and may be bought) the power to deport those people. It’s not the past. It’s now. #NeverPM
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Farage hopes he can breeze into power without scrutiny. But his racism, corrupt donations, shady links to Russia and MAGA… make it harder for him to hide. And his tantrum reactions to being challenged reveal him for the nasty inadequate he really is. #NeverPM www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
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The Wheels Are Falling off the Nigel Farage Project
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Name a song with the word "Rain" in the title or lyrics...🎶
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Dubai immigrant, Isabel Oakeshott, whines that Farage got nothing from his deal with the Tories last time, so why should he do that again. Christ. The whining victimhood of these spoiled brats. Squabbling over power, while the rest of us live with the mess they’ve made of our country and our lives.
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Kick in teeth for putting country first
The Daily Telegraph In 2019, having stood aside in hundreds of seats to give the Tories a clear run, Nigel Farage's party was left empty-handed. To "get Brexit done", they had done what politicians always promise but rarely honour - and put the country first.
What did they get? A kick in the teeth.
(Isabel Oakeshott)
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
These are all moves for a govt that plans to strip away our rights and protections in a race to the bottom. Worker exploitation. Consumer risk. Environmental irresponsibility. Human rights abuses. All to make the rich, richer. You think Reform’s agenda of hate will make our country better? Get real.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The super-rich rightwing are pouring money into Reform. Do ordinary voters really think their aim is to even out social inequality and make their lives better? Do they think they’re doing it so Farage invests in infrastructure and public services? Ffs. Democracy being beaten to death in plain sight.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Why wouldn’t you want to know? What have you got to fear? Losing your precious Brexit? Being revealed as a traitor and a liar? Surely, anyone decent and honest who genuinely cares about our country and our democracy has nothing to lose from this. So, sign up. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Nigel Farage thinks the song ‘Gas 'Em All’ is just bants. Pass it on.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Have to say.. very tired of this now. We all know Brexit is a shitshow. Nothing is better. No one is happier. No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Alexa, show me pathological narcissism in visual form
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
What's one of your favorite George Michael songs? 🎶 Released on November 2, 1987, George Michael's debut solo album Faith is one of the best-selling albums, ever, with over 25 million copies sold worldwide. Besides playing multiple instruments on the tracks, Michael wrote & produced every song on 👇
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Name a song with the word "Side" in the title or lyrics...🎶
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
My answer in comments. What about you? 🤔
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
It is. 😅🤣😂
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Rob Garbett @robgarbett1961.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Who's your all time favourite stand up comedian? I'll go first. Sir Billy Connolly. GO.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Name a song with the word "Star" in the title or lyrics...🎶
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
After you write your quote, go guess the movie on someone else's quote. 📽 💬 🎬 Have fun!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Strong arguments from @liambyrnemp.bsky.social on how best to tackle the threat of Farage.. Do so where he’s weak: The economy⚠️he’d do a Truss++ Workers’ rights⚠️he’s against them Welfare⚠️he’d strip it away NHS⚠️he’d dismantle it. “Populists govern badly but campaign well” So blow up their campaign.
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Fantasy economics mean Nigel Farage is heir to Liz Truss
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Our Decoding Populism study shows Reform’s support is not a single army marching in step. It’s a fragile alliance of 5 “tribes” bound more by grievance than values. They feel under pressure, in precarious communities, pessimistic about the future, angry about immigration, and feel politics is broken. But two of these tribes, about 40 per cent of Farage’s base, are very persuadable. They worry about pay, pensions, bills, social security and the NHS. They are open to Labour, the Lib Dems, even the Greens.

So what messages work?We found that four cut through most. First: the economy. Farage has tabled billions in unfunded promises. That means higher mortgages, higher bills, higher prices. Second: employment rights. Reform would scrap safeguards on sick pay, safe hours and zero-hours contracts. Third: social security. They want to cut £140 billion of support to pensioners, families and disabled people, leaving the vulnerable out in the cold.Fourth: the NHS. Farage has mused openly about a US-style insurance model, threatening free provision at the point of need.

By contrast,attacks painting Reform’s leader as “Britain’s Trump” or focusing on immigration don’t move the dial. Populists thrive when debate rages on their chosen turf of immigration and identity. We must not fight on their battlefield.

Populists govern badly but campaign well.And the price is high: international research shows countries under populist rule end up over 10 per cent poorer within 15 years. That’s a pay cut Britain simply cannot afford. So the strategy must be clear. Stop tilting at Farage’s windmills. Expose his offer as Liz Truss 2.0 — a sugar rush of fantasy economics that would leave Britain poorer. And counter his fake nostalgia with a real story of national renewal: a country fairer, stronger and more secure. Farage can be beaten — but only if we fight him where he is weakest, not strongest.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Reform is racist. Let’s just say it. Loudly and often. They’re racist. Don’t take them on on how they plan to fund their nonsense. They don’t care. They don’t say it because they’ve worked it out. They say it for headlines and for voters who want prejudice as policy. They’re racist. They’re failure.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
On most issues, most of us disagree with Farage: Brexit, leaving ECHR, paying Taliban for refugees, Trussonomics, tax breaks for the wealthy, huge welfare cuts, binning NetZero, scrapping workers’ rights, arselicking Trump… Our politics should reflect us, not him. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain. Here’s how to stop him
It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This one is fun! 🤘
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
What on earth has possessed people to believe that Reform’s motley collection of our most abysmal, prejudiced and corrupt politicians - all with a proven track record of epic and piss-taking failure would be a remotely credible government? Seriously people… and media… you’ve lost your goddam minds.
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