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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
BBC Breakfast report that on BBC Newsnight that Zack Polanski did not apologise for accepting a collab post on Instagram They don't mention the 4 times BBC Newsnight interrupted live TV to read out messages from Reform UK live on air
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lukewarm24.bsky.social @lukewarm24.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Farage is totally corruptible He must be sacked as MP to never return in any form !!!
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I thought this was on Point….
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Alexandros 🇨🇦 @alexandros2112.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Those who have a problem that #Rush has a female drummer can fuck off. Anika is amazing and I can’t wait to see her live in Toronto #Rush #FiftySomething #Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I guess Suella simply forgot that May, Johnson, Truss, and Sunak all became PM without standing as the Tory Party leader in a general election. Perhaps it's a little harder to explain why she forgot that she too attempted to become de facto PM in precisely the same way when Johnson resigned.
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Dennis Chatterton #FBPE᯽꩜𖣂 @dennischatterton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Kremlins Dmitriv on Starmer resigning. "We did it together". With who?. Kremlin influence?. First ever PM to be attacked by Russian puppets. Concerned yet.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Reform stamping their little authoritarian feet demanding a general election is farcical. They’re either unelected themselves or they’ve become a recycling bin for Tory MPs who thought they’d do better with a turquoise rosette, but refused to give their constituents the same choice. Sod off.
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The Brexit conspirators spent 30 years plotting to leave the EU and have had another 10 years since the referendum to come up with a plan. But still the Quitlings haven't a clue how to make it work.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Reform councillors think that like Nigel Farage they're entitled to a big salary + expenses for being absent & doing no work ... "​Under current rules, councillors can actually go up to 6 months without attending a single meeting before they face losing their seats. " www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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PeteGulls @gullssinceaboy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Sane UK parties must act. I’m sick of hearing: - “Brexit wasn’t implemented properly”. It was! - “The “people” chose”. A small majority TEN years ago. Brexit won before the US elected a maniac as President! Time to rejoin the EU, to hell with the far right.
theguardian.com
Two-thirds of EU citizens back UK rejoining bloc, survey finds
Poll also finds three quarters of people in Britain want closer ties, with majority accepting free movement
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Anti-Muslim attacks. Doesn’t seem to be getting the same attention as when the alleged perpetrator is non-white.
bbc.co.uk
Man charged after suspected anti-Muslim attacks in Edinburgh
Two people were injured close to a mosque and a man was later seen battering the door of a pizzeria as members of the public run away.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Want to know why we currently cannot trust what The Observer says about Starmer? The current Observer editor was editor of the Times from 2007 to 2012. Starmer was DPP from 2008 to 2013, where he prosecuted several people in the media over the phone hacking scandal. 1/2
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 21/06/2026
REVEALED “Have you made money out of this?": Nigel Farage’s crypto-epiphany The Nerve has unearthed Farage’s earliest yet known public promotion of cryptocurrency, a 2020 Facebook video promoting his subscription newsletter He encourages viewers to join him and explore this wealth opportunity 1/
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Brexit “exposed a political class that appears unable to govern, sitting atop a state no longer fit for purpose. We voted to take back control, but discovered our leaders couldn’t handle it” … and that our media was largely unwilling to call it out or hold Brexiters to account. (Sunday Times)
Ten years on, our politicians still can't be honest about Brexit.
Has the 2016 vote crushed us or set us free? Neither, argues Tom Mc tague. It merely exposed our leaders’ historic reluctance to come clean about the painful trade-offs in dealing with Europe…

Extracts:

The voters, it seemed to me, had arrived at a set of conclusions that are, on the whole, far closer to reality than most of us in the political and pundit class usually manage. Brexit neither crushed us nor set us free. 

The truth about this ignominious period in our history is not that complicated, as these voters intuitively understand. In economic terms, Brexit almost certainly left us poorer than we would otherwise have been. On borders, it delivered even higher levels of immigration and — quite obviously — did nothing to stem the flow of illegal Channel crossings. And on the rest — schools, hospitals, roads, railways — it never had anything to do with our failures anyway. 

Had we voted Remain, then, the current fiscal pinch would be a little less sore. But we wouldn’t know, because no one lives their life by hypotheticals. And we would still be angry, because Britain’s membership of the EU was not, is not, and never has been the principal source of our ills.


It is hard to avoid the conclusion that we have spent ten years trying either to take back control or to make Brexit work, but have given up. On the other side, of course, the costs of Brexit are never acknowledged, cannot be, it seems — and so we 
muddle on, unable to address what is in front of our noses.

 
It took three and a half years from voting to leave the European Union before “Brexit Day” arrived on January 31, 2020. “A New Dawn For Britain”, ran the Daily Mail headline above an image of the White Cliffs of Dover. “Small Island”, replied the Guardian. 


Britain’s long indifference continues, and so does the dishonesty of our political class wrestling with the conundrum that will not go away.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 21/06/2026
A Farewell to a King, a welcome to a Queen: Rush on tour The great 70s prog-rock band Rush are back on the road and they have a new drummer wowing the fans | Bruce Smeath @sussexbylines.co.uk
sussexbylines.co.uk
A Farewell to a King, a welcome to a Queen: Rush on tour
The great 70s prog-rock band Rush are back on the road and they have a new drummer wowing the fans
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism
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©️garethaethwy 2024 @garethaethwy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Only a special kind of cunt could bring immigration in to discussion of yesterday’s tragic events. And yet…
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
ANGELA LANSBURY once told how her daughter fell under the spell of a Hollywood deadbeat who’d pick her up from school & get her to steal money & food from her parents. Worried, Lansbury moved the entire family to Ireland. The ‘deadbeat’ was Charles Manson.
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loriagne.bsky.social @loriagne.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Nigel Farage’s £9m Donor Profits From Putin Propaganda Platform While Holding MoD Stake – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/12/16/n...
bylinetimes.com
Nigel Farage’s £9m Donor Profits From Putin Propaganda Platform While Holding MoD Stake
Reform UK's biggest donor is profiting from ties to a pro-Kremlin platform that hosts a Russian intelligence-backed influence operation
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The ultimate irony of "Global Britain" is that the rest of the globe viewed Brexit with complete horror. Historian Peter Frankopan shows how our self-isolation alienated international partners and left us utterly exposed. A tragic empire of delusions. 🗺️💔👇
thenewworld.co.uk
How the world recoiled in horror from Brexit
In the aftermath, the world reacted with a blend of bemusement and opportunism that signalled a new world order would emerge in the next decade, with the UK as a lost and aimless spectator
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Farage has links directly and indirectly to Epstein, Trump and Tommy Robinson. You’d have to hate your country to want him as PM. 2026. The year even the Reform fans can’t be conned.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Farage confirms he’s glad his (schoolboy) racism has been exposed, that he’s enjoying the electoral kickback it’s given him amongst his racist supporters and expresses absolutely no shame or guilt about it at all. Racist man. Racist party. Racist voters. (iPaper)
Headline:

Reform to spend £5m on May elections

Key paragraph (circled by me in red)


The Reform leader said claims
- including that he told a Jewish classmate that "Hitler was right" and said "gas them" - will not have an electoral impact because they were seen as an attack on him from the "mainstream media".
"It's having zero effect," he said.
"It's solidifying our core support.”
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Marlowe_UK @irishdreamer.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Farage wouldn’t cross the road unless there was a pay cheque involved. He most certainly doesn’t care about fictional sick children. He removed FOM from millions of British Children already, impacting their future lives severely
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
You have to ask yourself is Twitter a force for good or evil and then act accordingly. #StopUsingX #UseBlueSky
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
23,000 lives were lost following Boris Johnson’s Covid decisions, yet he still claims £115,000 a year for life, paid by the public. Families who lost loved ones deserve justice, not rewards for failure. This entitlement should end permanently. Like if you agree.
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
So delighted for poor, victimised Michelle Mone. She can keep her 15K weekly income from the mansion she rents out. 🥳 It’s a mere pittance for an entrepreneur who has inspired so many & who is loved by millions. Let’s hope 2026 is a better year for this kind & noble woman. 🙏🏻❤️
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
“GB News has been accused of risking inflaming tensions over crime committed by migrants after presenting unscientific research that counted the number of defendants with “foreign-sounding names”.” www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
theguardian.com
Ofcom receives complaints over GB News item on defendants’ ‘foreign-sounding names’
Lib Dem MP says way figures were compiled on ‘non-British-sounding’ surnames in court was ‘frankly racist’
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
propublica.org
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 04/11/2025
Seventy-five years ago, Britain helped write the European Convention on Human Rights. It protects fairness, liberty and the rule of law. Those attacking it now are not defending Britain. They are trying to free government from accountability. We must defend it.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Conservative Bernard Jenkins humiliated on PoliticsLive First he claims the ECHR stopped the Rwanda scheme when it was the UK Supreme Court that stopped it Then he claims there are safe and legal routes, there are not Dishonesty from politicians is a stain on our democracy
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Julian 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 🐟🌊🔶 @jjbrownbridge.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Your daily reminder according to Brexiteers the EU has been going to fail for 11,566 days.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
And still… 9 years on… Farage is front and centre grifting away - pretty much free from challenge or accountability - peddling bullshit to everyone.. claiming he’ll fix the things that he broke, turning inflamed (by him) prejudice and angry resentment into votes.
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The March Back Home @themarchbackhome.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Ah, but kids not dying is 'woke'.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
It’s bloody ridiculous. And a total abdication of the media’s responsibility to scrutinise and inform. Instead, they grab for headlines, sensationalise and give out free passes like smarties to a ‘party’ fronted by grifting liars, with a joke manifesto and a track record of taking the piss.
By any measure this was a good result for Keir Starmer's party. Yet that was not how it was reported.
"Labour's by-election win is no victory for Starmer" instead claimed the Times, in a
headline that appears to have redefined what the word "victory" actually means.
"Rather, once again it is Reform's political prospects that now look brighter."
So when Labour wins, it's actually a defeat, but when Reform loses it's actually a victory.
Heads Reform wins, tails Labour loses.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Johnson put a border in the Irish Sea, sold out the fishing industry, all SMEs trading with the EU, our farmers, universities, musicians, young people, scientists, all of us… And now he sits in the mess he made throwing insults at those who are clearing up after him. What a monumental piece of shit.
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
👇 bsky.app/profile/ajs1...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
There is something so troublingly pathetic about the right wing bigotry and entitlement that has our country in a headlock when it comes to Europe. We will stay stuck in an isolated shitcreek if we can’t grow up, sort out who we are and embrace a more constructive relationship with our neighbours.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
It’s precisely because Brexiters howl about betraying fish and talk shit about sovereignty/immigration *and our media amplifies their nonsense*, that govt is trapped by fear, unable to freely negotiate in our best interests in case Farage/Daily Mail have a meltdown. Beyond time for the goddam truth.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The nasty little knot of far right ugliness that is Andrea Jenkyns (now Mayor of Lincolnshire) says it’s ‘no more soft touch Britain’. How lovely. Voters have basically handed her a loud dog whistle and told her to kick the people and policies they don’t like or understand. Failure is inevitable.
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Stephen 🔶🌹💚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @thestephenralph.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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Delticman @delticman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Badenoch supported this, now she seeks it undone. Schadenfreude. #BrexitReality www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/the-...
lbc.co.uk
The farmer forced to bin 300 tonnes of strawberries because of Brexit paperwork
The UK’s leading berry farmer has told LBC he has been forced to let hundreds of tonnes of strawberries rot in fields because of Brexit red tape - and warned UK shoppers should expect shortages and so...
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This story shows how deeply the BBC is accommodating far-right climate-denial politics, giving in to Farage.
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Drew @drewdavies68.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Tonight in 1912 Titanic sank. The worst peacetime maritime disaster in British history. Here’s my minute by minute account from iceberg to sinking. Podcast: podfollow.com/dan-snows-hi... YouTube: youtu.be/k3oA09u8vZg?...
youtu.be
Titanic: As It Happened | Countdown to Disaster
YouTube video by History Hit
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Vote Leave spent millions on Facebook targeting the old, young, animal lovers and others with adverts which were just lies. Most people now know Brexit was a disaster. Time for politicians to acknowledge it.
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 09/04/2025
“The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK In this film, senior FT writers and British businesspeople examine how Brexit hit the UK economy, the political conspiracy of silence, & why there has not yet been a convincing case for a 'Brexit dividend'” www.ft.com/video/91b8a3...
ft.com
The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK
The UK's recent disastrous "mini" Budget can trace its origins back to Britain's decision to leave the European Union. The economic costs of Brexit were masked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the crisis ...
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