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DaveB

@scouserdave.bsky.social
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Scouser bringing culture to Wigan ;-) Amongst other things I enjoy cooking, reading, gardening, science and technology. Makerfield voter, we saw them off! :-)

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The French got rid of this in 1793, the Russians in 1917. Why have we still got it in 2026?
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DaveB @scouserdave.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Another brilliant article from John Crace.
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Long-term proteges and verifiable reality must be jettisoned for Saving Private Nige | John Crace
Has Farage’s brain been hacked? Has he started talking in his sleep? There’s no shortage of explanations for this scandal
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is deeply shocking.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
And as with Jason Arday, you can see the problem here. Because a handful of gatekeepers decide what is ‘news’ & what isn’t. This is a stunning investigation but if & how it catches fire depends on the follow-up…& Times & Telegraph are embarrassed & implicated. So much now depends on the BBC…
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Electricity in the UK isn't expensive because of net zero. Electricity in the UK is expensive because privatised energy companies are ripping us off.
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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
An open letter to the new MP for Clacton #UKPolitics #Clacton #Farage #benefitculture #ptsd
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.
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DaveB @scouserdave.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Anyone who thinks asylum seekers get every luxury under the sun thrown at them should read this thread FULLY. It's time for the reform/restore/right-wing zealots/whoever to realise they're being played like fiddles. It's time to become a decent country again.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It was always unlawful, under the Highways Act 1980. But I don't suppose Suella would know that, being a lawyer, MP and former Attorney General.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It's depressing that this moved me so much, but did. First time I've heard a politician praise a group of immigrants, without caveat, for a long while.
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DaveB @scouserdave.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I absolutely love this style of writing, it's a joy to read.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️
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Pants Shaton @pantsshaton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Farage is done, eh pal? @rajworks.bsky.social No way back from this
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Dean Morrison #FBPE #Breturn @deanmorrison.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Everybody in Clacton should bet £50 on Count Binface to win the Farage bung byelection then vote for him. Ker-ching! Everyone in Clacton is £100,000 better off - & you can afford a lot of 99p croissants for that! @countbinface.bsky.social
2000-1 Count Binface betting odds.
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Yes, yes and yes again, if we do not listen to Alf Dubs on asylum then we have lost our way completely. @andyburnham.bsky.social if you do not listen to these voices then we are, all of us, doomed. We need better.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
One of the lessons of the last two years is that Labour urgently needs to stop being afraid of its own shadow. Burnham should appoint whoever he thinks would be the best Chancellor and throw his authority behind them. The Daily Mail will try to kill them anyway. So just govern.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
All it takes for Reform to fail is the shadow tanker fleet of the BBC, right wing press, and nervous media oligarchs, to turn away from their current course, and actually report some rather inconvenient truths about political corruption around crypto and money laundering
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot
The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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jenson-keen.bsky.social @jenson-keen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Hey Tommy 'No nuts' Robinson or Nigel 'Pure Rage' Farage where are your calls for violence and protests tonight? The victim's description doesn't include the word 'White' I assume. www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
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Chris 🏳️‍🌈 @scoobschris.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I'm far more terrified of gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets kicking in doors, checking cars, attacking anyone they want with apparent impunity than I am of being stabbed by someone with a different religion or country of origin.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.
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Harmonica 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @harmonica2.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The BBC was all over the Angela Rayner story for weeks. Don't expect them to feature this story though - they have a policy of ignoring negative Reform stories.
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We Will We Will Rock You... 🌈
Freddie Mercury on stage in front of thousands of people
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Dan @sirstan74.eurosky.social · 05/06/2026
Great from Marina. Farage: the two tier politician. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When does Nigel Farage 'speak for the nation'? When it suits him | Marina Hyde
Compare his response, or lack of, to three murders over the past decade – Jo Cox, Sarah Everard and Henry Nowak, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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DaveB @scouserdave.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I'm a Makerfield voter and this thing is what Reform want to look after my interests. He's going to absolutely destroy Starmer in any debate, isn't he? Honestly, how can sane people look at this and think, "Yep, that guy's for me".
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/05/2026
Absolutely shocking. No clue. No idea. No respect for workers rights - doesn't affect him so he doesn't seem to care...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
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Janey 🏳️‍⚧️ @janeykb.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Have you found yourself in the position of having a Reform councillor?

Here’s how you can help your brand new councillor settle into local government properly: email them this week with an actual council problem to solve.

Got rubbish piling up? Email them.

Bus vanished from existence? Email them.

Streetlights dead? Email them.

Care package delayed? Email them.

Pavement like the Somme? Email them. 

Send them in by the hundred.  Make sure they’re made very clear on what their job is.  

Being a councillor is not standing in front of the Union flag shouting about dinghies on GB News.  It’s reading committee papers at midnight, attending meetings nobody enjoys, holding surgeries in church halls, and dealing with the endlessly glamorous world of drains, social care budgets and recycling disputes.

Welcome to local government. 

The boats are in Kent. The bins are in your ward.

The email address for your ward councillor can be found on your local council website as soon as it’s updated.

Feel free to copy and paste to share wider.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 09/05/2026
I’m an immigrant, a former NHS worker and someone who genuinely wanted Labour to succeed. I did not vote for them on Thursday, and they have heartily earned the loss of my ballot. The election results we saw this week prove it - Labour’s rightward lurch is a catastrophic mistake.
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Labour’s Death March to the Right
How many voters is Labour willing to lose chasing people who will never vote for them anyway?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Welcome to Reform's Farage Camps. A determined attempt to politicise and weaponise migrants with threatening language and behaviour that evokes the worst excesses of tyranny in the 20th century. #FarageCamps
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paulcompassrose.bsky.social @paulcompassrose.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I will never understand why people like Farage and why the automatic assumption that Labour should lose thousands of councils at a local level because of national issues. Why get rid of decent councillors.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 29/04/2026
If you’re going to take away our civil rights, don’t be surprised when we stop acting so civil
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks. The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is appalling. How on earth can the trip planned by King Charles possibly go ahead after this?
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Maaaaaaarrk!!!!🏳️‍🌈 @thisismarksworld.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
It would be a terrible thing to fuck with Farage by sending ReformUK's election vomit back to their freepost address costing them money.... But I definitely will!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
A little bit obsessed with all the nut clusters currently ‘ashamed to be British’ because Starmer didn’t sign us up to this shit show.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The Times calls Keir Starmer's decision to hire Peter Mandelson an "egregious error" which deserves an "inquiry into the appointment process." Not included is any demand for an inquiry into their own appointment of him, long after his post-conviction relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was exposed
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
He tried both Labour and Conservative then became a Fascist - sound familiar?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Clear impartial analysis. Well worth 1 minute 46 of your time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Unpicking the second Minneapolis shooting frame by frame
BBC Verify has analysed footage of the shooting from multiple angles, piecing together a detailed picture of what happened.
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WeRThe48Percent @werthe48percent.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The view from the BBC in the UK - Ross Atkins. #Minnesota #ICE #Minneapolis #Trump #AlexPretti #RIPAlexPretti #POTUS #RepublicanLies
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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Well worth a listen from Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos summit.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
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Kercle @kercle1.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Liz Kendall has confirmed the way X is behaving is illegal. Liz Kendall forgot to say when the British govt would stop using an illegal platform.
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Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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