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Retired Engineer Likes walking, cycling, and gliding. Do not likes. The Tories or their Brexit. EV Owner.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Please ignore the fact that small boat crossings are down 44%, deportations are at their highest level in ten years and immigration is 82% lower.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That 1980s boom he’s talking about is because we sold off the family silver, which lead to decades of the highest energy & rail fares in Europe plus sewage in rivers.. oh and being held to ransom by fat cats warning that if we want anything to improve we need to pay all over again. Fuck off Simon.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Avg GDP growth 1945-79: 2.8% Since then: 1.6% And this apparently "broken, economically stagnant" basket case kept its AAA status right through the Winter of Discontent We lost it under Cameron, and it fell again under May, then Johnson, and then Truss: i.e. the whole time Clarke was in govt
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The UK has always had a right-wing media. But they are now a hysterical, disinformation spreading cartel. Weaponised by Brexit lies, Corbyn smears, defending Boris Johnson, spreading racism & trying to delegitimise the very idea of a Labour Govt. Another rotten vested interest needing reform.
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It is four years tomorrow since Liz Truss’s mini-budget. So drink heavily, move the cat out of kicking distance, and relive the experience. No paywall. But you're responsible for your own therapy sessions. russincheshire.substack.com/p/it-would-a...
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“It Would Almost Be Endearing if it Wasn’t So Completely and Utterly Fucking Mad”
It is four years since Liz Truss’s mini-budget. So drink heavily, move the cat out of kicking distance, and relive the experience in this excerpt from Four Chancellors and a Funeral.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut They don't mention the cost: £12bn They don't mention who gets the £: ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing ❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall ✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners 🧵:
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I just finished reading this, and it really is jaw-dropping. Especially the chapters about Facebook’s relationship with China.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So the ‘negotiation’ involves blowing smoke up Putin’s arse, asking him what he wants then attacking Ukraine for refusing to concede it. Never forget the huge swathe of UK media & political figures who celebrated Trump’s ascent while claiming to care about Ukraine. Absolute heels, the lot of them.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What an arrogantly vile man Harborne is. How patronising to describe his entitled buying up of our democracy as ‘philanthropy’. Get over yourself and go and build some hospitals, fund children out of poverty, eradicate disease… Sticking your grubby wealth in Farage’s pockets can only do us harm.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Harborne calls his latest bung to Farage a “philanthropic gift to the country”. Philanthropy isn’t funding racists and climate deniers. Or funnelling cash into deregulation and removal of our rights so tax-avoiding billionaires can profiteer from the chaos. That’s just corruption. We don’t want it.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ffs. Well, it’s up to us to make sure that their grubby ‘investment’ is a phenomenal waste of money. Reform is a shitshow of crooks and idiots who have no idea how to behave, let alone govern. The majority of us who loathe them must unite to keep them out of power forever.
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
rorycellanjones.substack.com/p/google-and... Google and Apple have a stranglehold over the mobile internet and complain bitterly about foreign governments trying to regulate them - but when Trump tells them to jump, their only question is how high?
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Google and Apple - Studies in Spinelessness
They were dubbed a few years ago the Magnificent Seven, the seven giant American tech companies* whose growth seems unstoppable .
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Look into the face of the far right - that man with a stick is the perfect image of what a Reform obsessive looks like - finally , a National Front that is given proper support and encouragement by the media
Vicious man grabs protestors face Another view of his hate With his walking stick raised Thug
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage is never drinking pints when he doesn't know he's being filmed but is always drinking pints when he does...
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover filming shows Nigel Farage celebrating illegal foreign donations Footage shows a plan to break electoral law by funnelling money from a US ‘businessman’ through a UK donor The donations funded a series of widely reported polls secretly commissioned by Reform
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Andy Burnham's first speech, "From the 1980s this country took a series of wrong turns" "Political power was centralised" "Economic power, privatised" "The country, deindustrialised" "Austerity followed" "And then Brexit compounded the damage" "Change begins with honesty"
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
2026: James Cleverly says the Conservatives want to "level up" communities and help struggling places do better. 2022: Rishi Sunak boasts about changing the funding formulas to move money away from "deprived urban areas" so affluent places like Tunbridge Wells received more.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Yes, Iceland are an independent sovereign state. Who also happen to be in the Single Market, the EEA and the Schengen zone, with freedom of movement for people, goods and services. But if the UK did that I'd be screaming about Brexit betrayal and being an EU puppet.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Iceland is not in the EU, but it is a member of the Schengen area. It’s also a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and is part of the Single Market, meaning it enjoys freedom of movement with the EU. Good to know that doesn’t impact their independence. Maybe we should try it, Nige.
Nigel Farage 
@Nigel_Farage
Congratulations to Iceland on voting to keep their independence.
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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
No-one knew for sure in 2016 how #Brexit might turn out, says @yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk letter. We do now. Which is why many Leave voters agree they were lied to by eg. #Farage & Boris Johnson. 5-to-1, Brexit's failed. "Eurosceptics' better off Britain claims have been debunked." #RejoinEU
Letter headed "The facts about Brexit", which appeared in the Yorkshire Evening Post on 27 August 2026. The writer says no-one knew in 2016 how Brexit might work out, but today the evidence is clear and promises Britain would be better off have been "debunked".
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As I board the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki, I’m reminded yet again of three things about the EU: 1) You don’t sacrifice any of your national identity or culture by being part of the EU. Estonia remains Estonia. Finland remains Finland 2) Schengen is great. 3) Brexit was and is shit.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Jason's 30 marathons in 35 days was a life-defining achievement. And everything I have referenced so far was available for journalists to find. But they chose to claim there was "no evidence" of it happening. Imagine what that must have felt like for him 😢 11/
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The amazing Emma Monk 👏 Are we happy that citizen journalists like her (or me during Tories), acting with no resources, working in our own time, untrained and unpaid, can so easily expose so much that the BBC, Telegraph and Times *somehow* manage to miss? It's almost like they're not trying.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
via Arrest Nigel Farage
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Unregulated power and insatiable greed come in tailored suits ... via Truth Against Hate
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Just in case you're wondering why poor Nigel is being persecuted... Maybe you could let a voter in Clacton know, so they can feel extra special about electing him again.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
#TheYearInReform Look, it's very simple. Nothing to see here. Move along. Reform UK is a party - sorry - a company built around British Patriotism and being frank with the public, and it is led by straight-talking anti-elite Nigel Farage.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage
The new Royal Navy presence in the Channel off to
a terrible start...


The gunwhales on the vessels are too high to pick
up migrants, so the RNLI & Border Force are doing
the job instead!


The Navy are then going around picking up the
empty dinghies,


Waste of time and resources!
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Rachel Gilmour, MP for Tiverton and Minehead @rachelgilmourld.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Joseph Fourier described the greenhouse effect in 1824. That's 202 years of denial. And suddenly, the Telegraph has decided science is right after all. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...
Climate change is real – and the Right needs to get serious about it
The evidence is stacking up – we only have to look out of our windows
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is very troubling. Protesters not prosecuted as terrorists as prosecutors feared they would not have been convicted. So charged with criminal damage. Guilty. And now CPS wants them sentenced as terrorists. bit.ly/4x5xiRf What is happening to our sense of justice?
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
We either do something about climate change or it will do something about us
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We're just at the end of your last ten year plan. Not gonna lie, the results ain't that great.
DAVID FROST

I too have a 10-year plan – but unlike Burnham's, mine works
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Boris sharing articles referring to Ed Miliband as the worst possible choice for Foreign Secretary. A reminder that when Johnson was foreign sec he was busted getting a blow-job under his desk, had Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailed in Iran & got drunk & "accidentally" attended a KGB house party
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Of course we want a fiscally responsible government but oh my God, the handwringing about “where will this £850mn come from?” from the same country that spaffed £40bn on a Brexit divorce bill plus a further £100bn a year yet no one seemed to give a shit where that would all come from!
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Social media is weird. 2 years after writing this, it's suddenly being reposted by the hundred. It's fun, I think. Give it a moment of your time.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 20/07/2026
🚨Andy Burnham is expected to take Thames Water into Special Administration today Bad news for those who have taken £12 billion out of the company in dividends. Wonderful news for ordinary households! Anything less than permanent public ownership as a next step would be a grave betrayal
A graphic that shows the different models of water ownership in Britain, with private ownership in England, Not-for-profit in Wales and public ownership in Scotland
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
PwC fined £3,248,437 for delivering dud audits at Babcock for the years 2019 and 2020. 3 years ago fined £5,625,000 for botching the same audit for 2017 and 2018. Fines passed on to clients in higher fees. Big firms deliver dud audits. None shut down. Regulator now reducing audit inspections.
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Sanctions against PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Mr John Waters
Executive Counsel of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has issued a Final Settlement Decision Notice (FSDN) under the Audit Enforcement Procedure and imposed sanctions against PricewaterhouseCoope...
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The thing is, England got invaded by a French force in the 11th century and those people are still basically in charge of everything. So I don’t know why we’re pretending otherwise. Although then a bit later England ended up being ruled by a Scottish king. The Auld Alliance. I’m half Welsh anyway.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Wessex Water, owned by a Malaysian entity via Jersey, CEO got 14% base salary increase despite bonus ban over sewage spill. 3.5% for workers WW loses 70m litres of water to leaks daily. Dumps sewage in rivers. Customer bills to rise 21% Bosses rewarded for robbing people, damaging the environment
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Wessex Water chief pockets above-inflation pay rise despite bonus ban over sewage spills
CEO’s pay packet surges to £791,000 as union says public ‘sick of obscene pay’ and bosses ‘feathering own nests’
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A little friendly disagreement. Thatcher left office 36 years ago. Thatcherism didn't. Those are different things. Politicians leave. Political settlements can last for generations. I think we're still living inside the one she created.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 09/07/2026
Breaking News! Code: UFB!!! It's official! The "Super El Nino" has begun, with Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperatures now 2.0°C (3.6°F) above the 1991-2020 baseline. The Climate 8-ball is getting racked.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Number crunching: “Reform is now the party of workers” From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 07/07/2026
MUST READ: NATO Summit Day One: Trump Questions the Alliance as Allies Build Around Ukraine 10 hours of work, packed into a 14-minute read. www.onestnetwork.com/nato-summit-...
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NATO Summit Day One: Trump Questions the Alliance as Allies Build Around Ukraine
The first day in Ankara has produced two sharply different visions of NATO: one focused on rebuilding the alliance to confront an increasingly coordinated group of adversaries, and another questioning...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 07/07/2026
A few things on this. - He will almost definitely be pulling a DARVO. Hard. - Blame will be laid thick at the feet of the media - the same ones that have spent years and years wheeling him out at every opportunity.
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