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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 23/05/2026

NEW The Harborne Receipts: Follow the Money Billionaire Christopher Harborne gave millions to Nigel Farage & Boris Johnson & their parties. Then the pro-crypto announcements began. We mapped a timeline of Harborne's £30m political donations and crypto-friendly announcements by Farage & Johnson 1/

Pic of Harborne with headline Farage Johnson and the Crypto King

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jeff hunt#FBPE 🇪🇺 @jeff14.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

www.theguardian.com The UK has summoned Israel’s chargé d’affaires as international outrage escalates over a video posted by the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, in which he is seen taunting activists detained after a Gaza-bound flotilla was intercepted. Too, bloody right!🤬

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UK summons Israel’s chargé d’affaires over video of minister taunting activists

Foreign Office denounces treatment of Gaza flotilla activists as outcry over Itamar Ben-Gvir’s video escalates

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

That’s how you do it! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @MayorofLondon

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

There will be lots of understandable scepticism about this, but Burnham really has been a long time advocate of electoral reform. Would be a big step forward if he follows through www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Andy Burnham to back electoral reform if he becomes prime minister

Labour’s Makerfield byelection candidate wants to make politics ‘less point-scoring, more problem-solving’

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Christopher Moakes @iwsouthchris.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The welfare bill does not need to come down. We have the lowest pensions in Europe. Unemployment benefits are worth less than they were in Thatchers time. What needs to happen is to force employers to pay better wages and forcibly cut rents allowing councils to take back former council homes as well

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"This guys a pretty reprehensible individual if he's fighting for Putin" Govt minister Lucy Rigby in response to being asked about a British national fighting for Russia. Why didn't Sophy Ridge also ask her about the British nationals fighting for the IDF?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Not a fan of Burnham anyway, but seriously, what is the point of changing leader if they are going to keep the same inhumane and hostile policies Starmer supports which have pushed so many voters away from Labour. Whoever takes over needs to u-turn on them, fast. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Burnham to back Shabana Mahmood’s immigration changes, allies say

Exclusive: Greater Manchester understood to support home secretary’s push to limit legal and illegal migration

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Afanasiew @afanasiew.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

We need a radical plan to combat right wing misinformation and propaganda, firstly by banning foreign and non-dom ownership of newspapers and similarly for political donations.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Lucy Rigby boasts about the govt making buses free to use for children in England in August. Why just kids & why just August? Make buses free to use for everyone all the time. It would have a massive immediate impact for so many people.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The Green Party select local nurse Chris Kennedy as their candidate in the Makerfield by-election. Zack Polanski says they will "use the byelection to press Andy Burnham on what kind of MP and Prime Minister he would be, given his mixed track record..."

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Anne Greensmith @snowleopardess.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

They have already found one, with their lies and shit-stirring about benefits claimants and the disabled.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Wes Streeting isn't likely to stand in a leadership election if Burnham wins in Makerfield, his allies tell the Times, but will instead angle for a job in his Cabinet

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 21/05/2026

Disgusting on every level Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has sparked a diplomatic crisis by publishing footage of Israeli security forces abusing international activists who were detained as they tried to sail to Gaza with aid.

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Israeli security minister stirs diplomatic outrage with flotilla activist abuse video — The Guardian

Far-right figure Itamar Ben-Gvir shares footage of himself taunting bound international detainees

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I was just remembering that Farage didn't hold any surgeries in Clacton for months (I mean, does he now?) citing the fact that he was very vulnerable because gov't had not given him enough public money to keep safe. But it now turns out that he had already pocketed £5m for security. Hmm. 🤔

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Devutopia @devutopia.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present your new "left wing progressive" hero, who's backing Shabana Mahmoud's Reform style migration laws. What's it Burnham fans say, their man or Reform? 😂😂

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 20/05/2026

Claims that “over two million” people attended last weekend’s Unite the Kingdom march in London are circulating online. But this isn’t true. Police estimates put it at around 60,000, and an independent expert told us it definitely wasn’t millions.

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No, there weren’t ‘over two million’ people at last weekend’s Unite the Kingdom march – Full Fact

We’ve seen several social media posts quoting this figure, but both the police and an independent expert have said it’s much too high.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

So I went on a deep dive last night into the archives of the suspended X account of Reform UK’s Makersfield election candidate, Robert Kenyon. This is what I found… bylinetimes.com/2026/05/20/r...

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Reading the Riot Act: Reform UK’s Makerfield By-Election Candidate During the Summer of Trouble

The archive of Robert Kenyon’s suspended X account reveals intense activity after three children were murdered in Southport in 2024

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Keep up the pressure! It's important to make fascists like Farage exist in OUR reality, not theirs.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Channel 4 News's Clare Fallon tracks down Nigel Farage who was absent from Parliament today avoiding questions about the £5m donation She asks him about it He jumps into his car and drives off

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Lorna the Sloven @duffycaramole.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

An excellent, careful analysis. Well worth reading.

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John Johnston @bawsman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

He’s toast

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Farage’s various Brexits were always Ponzi schemes, with Russian and US investments. Don’t be surprised if the latest one collapses suddenly and catastrophically

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Where’s Farage ? There’s two places not worth looking for him, the House of Commons and Clacton

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

'Invasion': LATEST Looks like Refuk and the Tories don't need to strip us of our human rights after all.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Keir Starmer's spokesman does not deny reports that Morgan McSweeney is now advising the Prime Minister again

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This is how the Israeli minister Ben-Gvir is treating the European hostages Israel kidnapped in International Waters. Where is the outrage? Our Media and Politicians are owned, get them OUT.

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Anne Greensmith @snowleopardess.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"The harsh reality is that Nigel Farage and his party simply appear indifferent to the apparent views of some of their members." They don't care because many of their voters share the same views. It's time to call out Reform supporters for the racists they are. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Why Reform UK couldn’t care less about the controversial views of its candidates

Political editor David Maddox looks at why Reform UK selected Robert Kenyon as their Makerfield by-election candidate despite him being Facebook friends with neo-fascist leader Gary Raikes, the founde...

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Anne Greensmith @snowleopardess.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

There is surely enough evidence of financial irregularities and misconduct now to bring Farage down...

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Anne Greensmith @snowleopardess.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This kind of childish jibe about @zackpolanski.bsky.social does Starmer no good at all.

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 20/05/2026

Dear Prime Minister, you said to big tech: 'If you profit from harm & abuse, you lose the right to self-regulate' - yet you've done almost nothing to tackle scam ads? An Open Letter to the Prime Minister from MSE and Which? highlighting the Govt's repeated, ongoing, flaccid treatment of scam adverts

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It *will* be difficult. It will be expensive. But water privatisation was probably the second biggest disaster visited upon us by the Tories. The biggest was Brexit. That will take some reversing, too. But it doesn't mean we shouldn't try! Time for @greenparty.org.uk influence in government!

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Anne Greensmith @snowleopardess.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It's exactly the same as with Trump and MAGA in the States. Same playbook, same cultish followers.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I realise facts don’t matter when you belong to a cult… but, Farage wants to take away workers’ rights, reduce NMW, scrap the Equality Act, take us out of the ECHR, implement a deregulation bonanza to ditch our consumer protections and sell off the NHS. He couldn’t give a shit about working people.

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With the British Steel factory in Scunthorpe in the news this week, Nigel Farage and Reform UK have attempted to portray themselves as being on the side of the working people in the UK.
However, all four Reform UK MPs voted against the Employment Rights Bill workers rights, including voting against banning zero hours contracts and giving all workers sick pay from day one - policies which are overwhelmingly popular across the country.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A Reform voter tells me: "[Farage] cares about working people. He will make this country great again.” Such devotion, such faith in one so unworthy. It does my head in.” You and so many of us @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social Disgusted by the man and the abject failure to hold him to account iPaper

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"The govt encourages supermarkets to cap prices on food basics.." "The govt urges supermarkets to limit some food prices.." ".. prices could be frozen. That's the chancellors suggestion to the supermarkets" Encouraging, urging, suggesting. Why Labour is where it is.

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Gary Gilligan @garygilligan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Ten Names Tommy's company which handled all the money donated for last Saturday's rally was shut down yesterday. No accounts published. Odd that. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Cpv...

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Anne Greensmith @snowleopardess.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The results probably reflect the fact that most "left wing" members have now left the Labour Party...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Water privatisation has been outright theft. Whoever is next PM must commit to ending this scandal and take our water back into public ownership. No more failed regulation. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Billionaire Trump donor in line to make millions from Thames Water bid

Paul Singer is founder of a leading creditor in the hedge fund consortium locked in talks with the UK government

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Anne Greensmith @snowleopardess.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"The increase in Universal Credit claims over the period you referred to is not solely the result of additional people entering the benefits system. A substantial proportion reflects the ongoing transfer of claimants from legacy benefits to Universal Credit." www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

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Exclusive: Statistics Watchdog Raps Kemi Badenoch Over Universal Credit Claim

The Tory leader was accused of misrepresenting the size of the welfare bill.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

All over the UK, council tax payers are picking up the bill for Reform UK's inept, cursory, lying, non-existent vetting procedure while Farage blames a 'botched' vetting contract AKA 'it wasn't me, guv'

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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

As more and more of the Government come out in support of rejoining the EU, it is clear that the political taboo around Brexit is beginning to fade. The support from the public, politicians, and the EU is there, so why aren't we making #RejoinEU a priority?

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