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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Urgh. When did NT at home start using this bloody horrible font?

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is quite blunt considering it's the BBC.

Summary
Nigel Farage has won the Clacton by-election, which was boycotted by other major Westminster parties

Farage won 22,239 votes, with Count Binface in second with 9,455 votes

The contest was triggered when the Reform UK leader resigned as an MP last month, in order to have a by-election he would stand in

Farage made the announcement while under investigation for a £5m gift he didn't declare

He didn't attend the result declaration in person, with Reform saying police advised against it - the BBC understands that is not the case

"I am damned if I am going to stand on a stage, having won a resounding victory... and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies," Farage told supporters before the result was confirmed

Turnout was 44.37%

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is a real thing on the BBC Website. What a time to be alive.

Screenshot from the live summary of the Clacton by-election on the BBC website.

A picture of Count Binface posing for a group of photographers. The headline above it reads "Count Binface: Farage more establishment than space warrior."

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I take it the football didn't go to plan.

A screenshot of three bluesky posts in a row from three different people.

Tits McGee - fucking knew that would happen.

Greg Jenner - FUCK

Matt Green - FFS

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

It's double the average temperature for May, and people on the BBC'S vox pops are saying it's "brilliant".

A still from the film "Don't look up". The characters played by Jenifer Lawrence and Leonardo DeCaprio look on in disbelief as news anchors make light of the threat facing the planet.

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Is it 'cos you keep banging on about it?

Screenshot of a headline on the BBC website that reads

"Chris Mason : Why a quick meeting is overshadowing the King's speech"

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I love the photos they've picked for this.

Screenshot from BBC news website with the headline "Reform politician criticised for speech on children identifying as cats".

The story is accompanied by a photo of two young, long-haired cats looking directly at the camera.

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

That's an odd way of spelling Australia.

Screenshot of Pool F teams for the Rugby World Cup in 2027. The teams are
England, Wales, Tonga, and Zimbabwe

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness 😀

The second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon from Doctor Who.

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Catrin Hâf Jones interviewing bloke from Reform. Now with English subtitles.

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Uffach. Ma' bobol yn mynd i foto i'r lot 'ma.

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

👇 Am bobol sydd a digon i ddweud, mae'n nhw'n dawel iawn am beth yw'r plan.

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Oh, come on! They know this is bullshit. They know!

Section of a letter from David Lammy to Sarah Champion.
It reads: "The Government has carefully considered the risk of genocide, including when permitting exports to the F-35 global programme. The high civilian casualties, including women and children, and the extensive destruction in Gaza, are utterly appalling. Israel must do much more to prevent and alleviate the suffering that this conflict is causing. As per the Genocide Convention, "the crime of genocide occurs only where there is specific ‘intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group." The government has not concluded that Israel is acting with that intent.”

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

When I saw the Farage thing yesterday I said to myself, "Give it two days and Yvette Cooper with be saying this". But I was wrong. It was one day.

Screenshot from the BBC news headline from yesterday that reads - "Farage calls on police to share immigration status of charged suspects"

Screenshot of a BBC News headline from today that reads - "Guidance for police on sharing suspects' ethnicity must change, home secretary says"

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

"Palestine does not meet the international law criteria for recognition of a state, namely, defined territory, a permanent population, an effective government and the capacity to enter into relations with other states." And why do you think is, shit-for-brains?

Screenshot from the BBC news website:

Some of Britain's most distinguished lawyers have warned the UK government that recognising a Palestinian state would breach international law.

In a letter to Lord Hermer, the attorney general, a group of 40 members of the House of Lords, many of them lawyers, write that proceeding with recognition would be "contrary to international law" because important criteria have not been met.

The BBC has not been able to obtain a full list of signatories, but according to The Times they include the prominent barrister Lord Pannick KC, the former Supreme Court judge Lord Collins of Mapesbury, the former justice minister Lord Faulks KC, and Lord Shamash, the Labour Party's solicitor since 1990.

Part of the letter says: "Palestine does not meet the international law criteria for recognition of a state, namely, defined territory, a permanent population, an effective government and the capacity to enter into relations with other states.

"This is set out in the Montevideo Convention, has become part of customary law, and it would be unwise to depart from it at a time when international law is seen as fragile or, indeed, at any time."

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

What an odd reason. Especially from someone who reckons the country is full.

Screenshot from the BBC News website. It shows a photo of Nigel Farage and the headline "we would scrap two-child benefit cap to make it easier to have children, says Farage."

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

This makes me sick. Maybe it's all in my head, but I do feel like a lot of people have stopped watching and/or voting in Eurovision, while at the same time, others are making a point of voting for you know who "to own the libs".

The result of the UK audience vote for tonight's Eurovision which has Israel in 1st place.

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Interesting change of tone from the Beeb.

Screenshot from the BBC News website.

A photograph of a young man carrying an injured child. The headline reads "BBC cameraman haunted by Gaza's malnourished children captures Israeli strike on hospital"

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

They're not going to take any notice of this bit.

Screenshot of a BBC article on today's Supreme Court ruling on the interpretation of the equality act. It reads -

The Supreme Court was asked to decide on the proper interpretation of the 2010 Equality Act, which applies across Britain.

Lord Hodge said the central question was how the words "woman" and "sex" are defined in the legislation.

He told the court: "The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

"But we counsel against reading this judgement as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another, it is not."

He added that the legislation gives transgender people "protection, not only against discrimination through the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, but also against direct discrimination, indirect discrimination and harassment in substance in their acquired gender".

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This little bit of Charlotte Church's speech at an anti-austerity rally in 2015 has stayed with me ever since I saw it. Unfortunately, it still needs saying ten years later, so here it is.

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

You've been murdered. Whom do you want on your case?

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"You're taking it from my daughter, and you're putting it in your pocket" That's it. That's the line. This is how we make this stick.

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