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@simmo7484.bsky.social
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Dad of 2, Boro fan, born and bred Teessider, love my sport especially F1, footy, cricket and Golf.

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She died in breathless agony because our shitty parliament is stuck in the 1850s. #RIP #AssistedDying
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Paloma Faith speaking with Krishnan Guru-Murthy on #C4News "I did play at a concert with Ed Sheeran to raise money for Ukraine, so he wasn't being apolitical doing that" "My perspective, my motivation, as a mother, I've looked at the pictures and what I've seen is abominable"
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
At what point does ‘the masked men on the street have legitimate concerns’ and ‘Just Stop Oil/Palestine Action are terrorists’ become two tier policing?
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
channel4news.substack.com
Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Gaz Ono @gazono.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
👇... exactly this, journalism has disappeared over the hill when it comes to reporting the facts, replaced by sensationalism.
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026
I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Who thought that playing a final game for 3rd and 4th spot was a good idea? No one cares about that match. The fans don’t. Nor the players that have just been eliminated in the semi-finals. It’s rubbing their noses in it. Let them go home instead of suffering this indignity. #worldcup
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The danger of using voxpops in place of real analysis. Cameras are a magnet for motivated activists. These two made it into four different reels + a dozen print pieces. The illusion is that we're getting an insight into "Clacton voters". In truth, we just know what Farage Megastans Jim & June think.
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Random Hajile @elimodnar.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Vox pops don't gauge opinions, they reinforce them. An editorial decision is made to broadcast a tiny selection of the people interviewed.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
On my way, Clacton.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Glorious
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Untypicalboro @untypicalboro.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
As bent as a nine bob note.
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Boro_Brick_Road @borobrickroad.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Bravo Wrexham 🤣
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Excellent thread.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
One detail in this fascinating BBC investigation into the Russia-instigated attack on Keir Starmer's home is the way it shows, in passing but very clearly, that Tommy Robinson is to all intents and purposes a Russian asset. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.
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simmo7484.bsky.social @simmo7484.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Hours like this last one on @lbc.co.uk hosted by @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social are utterly utterly depressing and make me fearful of what the next election brings. Caller after caller of people utterly deluded into thinking that Nigel Farage is the answer to all our problems, as thick as bricks
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I am not even remotely surprised by this. So much attention has been directed towards Twitter/X, and while it is a huge problem, much larger groups of particular demographic groups are on Facebook - often those with poor digital literacy.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Nigel Farage tells The Sun's Harry Cole that Elon Musk offered to give Reform loads of money "if we said certain things" and he refused. "I can't be bought." Two things: 1. This is an allegation of attempted bribery. Very serious. 2. It shows the obvious: donors expect something for their money.
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Boro_Brick_Road @borobrickroad.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Spot on!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Can guarantee the grifting beer-soaked 70s novelty ashtray won’t be hiding from the press today. So while he’s crowing about the elections, can journalists do their job and ask Farage about the £5m donation he tried to hide? And where his girlfriend got the £885k to buy their Clacton house in cash?
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
From Tim Shipman in The Spectator spectator.com/article/its-...
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Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.
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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
There is absolutely zero chance any civil servant would have taken responsibility for such a decision without cast iron Ministerial cover.
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
There are still people who publicly pretend this man has a moral compass and is somehow completely different to the moral vacuums that he followed. Will the scales ever fall from their eyes? #r4today #Mandelson #OllyRobbins bsky.app/profile/adam...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Keir Starmer in 2020: "I had 8,000 staff as Director of Public Prosecutions and when they had victories I celebrated on their behalf and when they made mistakes I carried the can. "I never turn on my staff. You should never turn on your staff"
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Exactly. Passing (or attempting to pass) the buck, when he *must* have known how sensitive the appointment would be at the time, points to a serious flaw in Starmer's character. Shirking responsibility now is simply cowardice. #r4today #Mandelson #Robbins
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Middlesbrough FC News @middlesbrough.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Kim Hellberg spoke to Mark Drury following Middlesbrough's 1-0 defeat. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0ncx1mp?… #boro
bbc.co.uk
Middlesbrough - Hellberg: Boro 'not good enough' against Portsmouth - BBC Sounds
Kim Hellberg spoke to Mark Drury following Middlesbrough's 1-0 defeat.
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Ads Harvey @adsharvey.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Well that was a fun 7 months but I think that’s it for us. The loss of momentum since Coventry has been stark, easy to say the further we get from it but our business in January wasn’t what it needed to be and I think we will be lucky to limp in to the playoffs with any type of form/confidence
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The Prime Minister’s plan for immigration will keep people working in key industries like care in temporary status for a decade or more, it will keep people in insecure work, make them more easily exploitable, poorer and marginalised - when did that become the policy of a Labour government?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
As the police find no evidence whatsoever of illegal family voting or voter coercion in the Gorton and Denton by-election, the BBC should ask themselves why, on the morning of the result, they gave so much airtime to these absurd and obviously racist claims from Nigel Farage
bbc.co.uk
No evidence of 'family voting' in Gorton and Denton by-election
An investigation into alleged
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Simple reality is so long as Labour focuses its attention on trying to attract Reform voters who will never support it, and alienating progressives who are leaving for Greens and Lib Dems, via a constant raft of hostile policies and rhetoric against marginalised groups they are toast, and rightly so
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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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Grrr Booley @guybailey.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Lord Glassman and his fellow Blue Labour smooth brained megaminds have done more damage to this government than Momentum could have dreamed of.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Well this took a turn www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"Ask not what your country can do for you — what you can spend your whole time avoiding doing for your country." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Britons should strive to pay minimum tax legally possible, says Richard Tice
Reform UK’s deputy leader comments came as he was responding to questions raised about his own tax affairs
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Librarianth @librarianth.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
On today's episode of "Instantly Believeable"...
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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Me too!🥺 I think most🇬🇧 people don’t want us to get involved at all & object to🇺🇸 planes using🇬🇧 airbases. I question why some newspapers & news outlets are allowed to continue? They project a distorted narrative, usually the viewpoint of a narrow group. Perhaps banning overseas ownership would work?🤔
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Ricky Kumar T @rickykumart.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
…deserves another share! As Penny Mordaunt goes on TV this morning demanding more warfare, comedian Vittorio Angelone exposes her! #BBCLauraK
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%
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Christine Bell @teenbell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
And it seems that the vessel was unarmed which was a condition of taking part in the naval exercises. And the us knew that.
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Chickyholic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @chickyholic.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Dispicable. The US has become a rogue state. End of.
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Vox pops are used by lazy journos & broadcasters, esp. at election time & during crises, to pad shows & substitute for investigation Research shows that the unrepresentative VPs used by broadcasters affect audience opinions. Stop it @evanhd.bsky.social #bbcpm journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
Reform fury as someone else wins
by Our By-election Editor
Tim Shipsink
The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost
comprehensively to someone else.
"It's totally unfair and rigged,"
said Goodwhinge.
"I shouldn't
be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost."
Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me.
Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X.
"We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families."
Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice.
They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green."
Reform leader
Mr Farage,
speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said,
"It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either."

PLUMBER DEFEATS
MATT GOODWIN

Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… 
I've stopped the cock
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Trump threatens to halt trade with Spain because its govt refused military base access. The felon demands obedience and has tantrums when sovereign govts refuse to be part of his illegal war. Tariff/Military wars are part of his delusions of world domination. More need to resist.
bbc.co.uk
Trump threatens to halt trade with Spain over air base access
Trump lashed out after Spain barred the US from using its military bases to carry out strikes on Iran.
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