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Ian A

@sandy-w-anker.bsky.social
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Left loving, right hating, Remaining, vaccinated, dad³ and granddad². 50s. Photographer, budding artist, walker, numismatist, nerd, traveller, dreamer. UK but two-eighths Ukrainian, the rest Polish/Russian so make of that what you will! Woke AF.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 7h
Piers Morgan blocked me because I posted this. Feel free to quote Tweet it and get him to block you too.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h
Oh, Donald . . . That's not a gym. It's a gay bathhouse. And you have *never* looked like that.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 8h
I don't know how many lines have to be crossed before the remaining democratic West realises this fucking maniac cannot be permitted the power he's accumulated. We have Musk. Or we have established international security norms. We can't have both.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Just as Saint Nige thought it was safe to reappear, along comes pesky ITV | John Crace
How dare the channel reveal more racism and bigotry within Reform just as he was planning a press conference?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Royal Mail has been told that it could save £650m by only delivering things 3 days a week. Did you know that the taxpayer could save £4,000m a year if Royal Mail had never been privatised, or if it was renationalised, and deliver 5 days a week. I'd go with that.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"Kathy Burke has spoken out about how working-class people are treated in Britain, particularly those who are struggling financially, and she’s made it pretty clear what she thinks about the way some newspapers portray them." via British Comedy Classics #BlameMillionairesNotMigrants
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"There was a time when men devoted their thought to machines, in the hope that they would make them free. But this only allowed other men with machines to enslave them." No that's not an AI prediction, that's from the book Dune printed in 1965.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I do hope Farage is consistent, and tells his followers to refuse treatment by migrant, black & brown doctors, nurses, healthcare workers - waiting lists would disappear, the rest of us a whole lot better off ... meme via Anthony Halsall
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
For the billionth time, "putting inspirational people" on British banknotes is a relatively modern phenomenon. Even the Queen didn't appear until 1960. Animals on money, however, are a much older idea. There was a wren on the farthing way back in 1937.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
On the birthday of Margaret Thatcher, let us take a moment to remember what a cruel, heartless piece of shit she was.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Man who enobled a KGB agent's son... despite SIS raising concerns... says what?
This is just not true. As soon as I became
foreign secretary I asked the security
services the same question and they
replied that there was no evidence of any
successful interference in the 2016
referendum, by Russia or any other power


Either the security services have changed
their view - which would be very odd - or
Burnham is lying about what he has been
told. After all Starmer was in power for two
years and had access to exactly the same
information.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I mean her party is polling on average 18% in the polls. She's 'set' for a general election at Xmas in the same way I'm set for winning a grand slam tennis tournament next week
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hmmm… who to believe… Andy Burnham or the compulsive liar who got sacked twice for lying, lied to Parliament, lied to The Queen, cheated on two wives and ignored the Ministerial Code. Tricky one.
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
From The Archives #492 That time in October 2019 when Farage got all his Brexit Party MEPs to vote against EU plans to tackle Russian propaganda. 7 years later, almost to the day, he accuses Burnham of lying that there was Russian interference in Brexit...
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So it's official! 💥 Brexit was simply the first salvo in a Putin-backed attack upon the West. The same battle is now being fought throughout Europe. If the UK turns its back on Brexit and rejoins the EU, it will be seen as a victory for the whole of Europe against Putin and the rise of fascism.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Nigel Farage calls Andy Burnham a liar after Burnham states that there was indeed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum. He’s fully there isn’t he, Farage, actively working to undermine western democracy, Europe and the U.K. Farage is an actual traitor.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
some of us worked this out a decade ago but it’s refreshing to see a prime minister say it out loud
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Times from ten years ago this week. They were wrong. In fact Brexit is costing the UK economy roughly £100 billion a year. #ProjectFear
Hard Brexit
could cost
£66bn a year


Leaked Treasury papers reveal lost revenue


Sam Coates Deputy Political Editor
Ollver Wright Policy Editor


Cabinet ministers are being warned
that the Treasury could lose up_to
£66 billion a year in tax revenues under
"hard Brexit", according to leaked
government papers.


GDP.could fall by as much as 9.5 per
cent if Britain leaves the single market
and hastorely on WorldTrade Organi-
sation rules for trading with the conti-
nent, compared with ifit stayed within
the EU,theforecasts show.Such a steep
drop in revenue would force ministers
to slash public spending or raise taxes.
The £66 billion drop, contained in a
draft cabinet committee paper seen by
The Times, is nearly a tenth of the
£716 billion that the government is pro-
jected to collect in taxes this year,and is
equivalent to 65 per cent of the annual
budget of NHS England.


Business leaders are_increasingly
worried that the UK could fail to nego-
tiate a deal with the 27 remaining EU
members by the time it leaves the
union, and will face a "cliff edge" of
trade tariffs and barriers,


Several cabinet ministers who sup-
ported Remain are stepping up efforts
to prioritise business concerns and the
economy in Brexit discussions, fearing
that Leave supporters fail to realise the
scale of potential damage, It comes as:;
○ Theresa May faces a potential legal
challenge by a group of Conservative
MPs over the decision to begin Brexit
negotiations without parliament's
approval. The prime minister's spokes-
man ruledoutgiving MPs a voteyester-
day,saying thatitwould"second guess'
the will of the British people.
○ Dominic Grieve, the former attor-
ney-general, said that unless the gov,
ernment could agree,a deal supported
by parliament it would not survive.
e


A Tory backbencher suggested that
British companies should hire disabled


Tuesday October 11 2016 | thetimes.co.uk | No 72038


people to do the work of EU migrants
after Brexit.


Mrs May visited Denmark and the
Nethe…
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Andy Burnham first PM to confirm Kremlin role in Brexit vote The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk
From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confir...
The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Russia has been at war with Britain for years and the EU referendum was an open goal which they exploited. That doesn't mean that "Putin made Brexit happen" but his troll farms and media operations certainly played a part Brexiters may hate to hear it but to deny it is to deny a dangerous reality.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Why did five prime ministers leave voters in the dark about Russian interference? Theresa May Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak Keir Starmer Shame on all of them.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In the least surprising news of the century, vast majority of racist flag shaggers who go about brandishing crosses and saying that we're a Christian country... don't pray, or go to church or read the Bible www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Andy Burnham confirms what previous PM's - May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer - failed to, that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Brexit is forever tainted with disinformation, foreign interference, murky vested interests, ugly prejudice, unforgivable costs and now deep unpopularity. If you really cared about our country and wanted to fix its problems, you’d admit this… Good that Burnham is finally doing so…
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God @thegodshow.com · 10/10/2026
Bless this LEGO designer in particular.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Aren’t they all repulsive… These corrupt, evil, traitorous men… Farage is particularly pathetic, in his little cap, selling us out to his monstrous sugar-daddy.
Photo of Trump and Putin shaking hands on their deal… 


EUROPE
Zelensky furious after Trump announces deal to buy diesel deal from PutinTrump and Farage grinning to camera. Farage wearing a Trump baseball cap. Loser.


Nigel Farage jets off to meet Donald Trump and 'talk down
Britain' over dinner
Mirror
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Protests that started in Spain and then spread to France and Brazil have now started in Belgium. People are sick of being told there is 'no money' by billionaires who are becoming trillionaires.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 09/10/2026
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The King’s cut from your electricity bill bit.ly/4yx46ng he gets 12% of crown estate profits through the Sovereign Grant
bit.ly
Crown Estate sea bed auctions could add £38 a year to energy bills
The business that manages the King’s land has put wind farm projects at risk with move away from capped fees for developers, a University of Oxford study warns
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨 NEW: Labour has taken a council seat directly from Reform UK in an overnight by-election in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Labour's Andrew Fox-Hewitt won the Town ward with 431 votes, beating Reform's Adam Griffiths on 249.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just wondering where and when are the riots over this White Paedophile Gang, just convicted? Did I not get the memo? Did I miss the Invite?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Crazy Rupert Lowe has a new angle. Ban folic acid in flour. Follows a mandate that all non-wholemeal wheat flour must be fortified with synthetic folic acid (vitamin B9) by the end of December 2026 to prevent upward of 200 neural tube birth defects including spina bifida and anencephaly each year
The official petition to end the mandatory
fortification of white flour with folic acid
has just hit 100k.


Great news.


It helps me take the fight to the
establishment in Parliament


Let's end it.


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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you’re reading today’s papers and thinking, did I watch a different Badenoch speech, may I recommend our sanity-restoring review? “The same people who could not build a railtrack from London to Manchester for £100bn, will build the Kemi Death Star for 10bn. It’s so ludicrous as to be offensive.”
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All the unions in Spain are going on Strike for the 2 weeks before the election on November 25. Showing that if they do not get a Government that will make housing affordable they will continue to strike. This is how you do it Left Wing, you have the power, not the billionaires
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?
theguardian.com
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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