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Semi-retired public sector accountant. Into sport, music and transport. Marginal interest in politics. Fan of adult Lego.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Multimillionaire Brexiter, Tim Martin, urges pubs to back Reform. Just like he urged the country to vote for Brexit. Too bad if it makes you poorer. Too bad for the children he’ll push back into poverty. Tim wants more money. And he couldn’t give a shit about the cost for everybody else. (iPaper)
Wetherspoon boss urges pubs to back Reform
By Henry Saker-Clark
The founder of Wetherspoon has urged other pubs to back
Reform UK.
Sir Tim Martin, chairman of JD
Wetherspoon, said Reform's plans to slash beer duty would help the sector move towards "tax parity with supermarkets".
Nigel Farage's party announced a series of proposals to support pubs last week.
They included pledges to cut
VAT in the hospitality sector by 10 per cent, cut beer duty by the same fraction. Reform also said it would reverse the recent rise in employers' national insurance contributions (NICs) for the sector and gradually remove business rates for all pubs.
The party has said it would fund this package with around 23on, which it plans to secure through reinstating the two-child benefit cap, except for families with two British-born parents.
In a lengthy stock exchange filing yesterday, Martin (inset) told industry leaders "there's no question that this initiative would utterly transform the competitiveness of pubs"
He said: "By eliminating the tax differential between supermarkets and the hospitality industry, and restoring margins to devastated businesses, these changes would enable pubs to regain some, or all, of their lost trade.
"You would think that this offer from Reform would have been greeted by a crescendo of enthusiasm, ecstasy and support from the licensed trade and its supporters.
"However, surpris-ingly, initial support has been underwhelming, at least from the great and the good in the hospitality industry"
Last month, Labour announced additional business rates support for pubs. The announcement was a U-turn following complaints from pubs about rates changes in November's Budget.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Out of the Trump shitstorm comes opportunity. To join forces with Europe and Canada, “ditch Brexit delusions… and leave Farage marooned on the wrong side of public opinion, fanboy to the man who insulted Britain’s war dead.” Yes please. The only sane response. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As the world finally punches back, was this the week Donald Trump went too far? | Jonathan Freedland
The US president took his bullying doctrine to Davos and hit a wall of opposition. If this creates a new western alliance against him, all to the good, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
This is pretty much the only post anyone should need to understand that Farage is a traitor, a conman and a populist simpleton who must *never* be given power.
Nigel Farage MP •
• 08/05/2025
X
We have a pro-British American President in the White House.
Striking our own deal with America is another benefit of Brexit.
BBC

(Photo of Farage)
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Clarification: Nigel Farage (who earns thousands of pounds a year from his X blue check) describes calls to ban the site "appalling." I'm sure he does.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
It's not voters fault. It's the fault of a media which deliberately spreads misinformation.
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Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same. Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
politicshome.com
It is time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter
Grok is just one of many reasons why Westminster should finally get off the website.
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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging govt to leave X, arguing that it should "show direction to others in the UK" The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Farage says he will now vote against scrapping the two-child limit. In case it benefits “foreign-born people”. It’s not just the racism, it’s the out-of-control personal greed, combined with the staggering meanness. He’s a repulsively inadequate man. www.thetimes.com/article/0ab2...
Ministers introduced legislation in the Commons yesterday to end the ban on paying some benefits to large fami-lies. They say that this will take almost half a million children out of poverty.
Farage, leader of Reform UK, told a press conference on Wednesday that his party would vote against scrapping the two-child limit, despite having previously suggested he could back the change. He said he was concerned that it would "benefit huge numbers of foreign-born people". 
BBC news extract from 2024

Photo of Farage 

Farage earns more than £1m a year for non-MP work
GETTY IMAGES
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
“Farage’s populist outfit pledged to root out waste in a drive inspired by Musk’s [DOGE]… But less than a year later…. Reform-led councils are turning to tax rises, asset sales and service cuts to help balance their books” Always lying. Always failing you. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Reform UK councils unveil plans for tax rises and service cuts
Party controls nine English councils and leads three minority administrations after last year’s local election wins
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Jan 1. Jan 3.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Tax breaks for foreign millionaires but mass deportations for the rest. Huge austerity and NHS cuts, replacing NHS with insurance model, scrapping NetZero, workers’ rights and online safety act. And a trade war with the EU. Reform: Corrupt. Ruinous. Racist. Moronic. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
mirror.co.uk
10 Reform policies that would clobber Brits
Whether it's mass deportations, slashing hundreds of billions of spending, or tax cuts for the super-rich, Reform UK and Nigel Farage have set out their pitch to voters
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
2025 Awards: Racist of the year: Farage Incompetents of the year: Reform run councils Traitor: Nathan Gill, Reform Grifter: Farage Most ruinous policy of the year: Brexit (9th year running) New Year’s resolution for 2026: Not having these howling failure monkeys leading in the polls.
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 29/12/2025
As I (and thousands of other people) predicted, Labour's non-deal with the USA wasn't worth the paper it isn't printed on. Starmer set Britain up to be Trump's chew toy. Absolutely catastrophic to have traded our EU membership for this turbocharged farce. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
They'll blame you for them coming and blame you again for them leaving. Why politicians trying to appease the anti-immigrant press is a complete hiding for nothing
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I'll strip civil servants of their pensions, but I'm keeping my £73,000 EU pension, despite my attendance record being the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
"Dear Diary, My latest brilliant plan is to prosecute civil servants for letting in foreign sex offenders. By which, of course, I mean 'bad' sex offenders, not good ones like my mates Andrew Tate, Donald Trump, Connor McGregor, or my cheeky upskirting nephew..."
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Yes, but no problem if you're an MP who was sent to prison for beating up his girlfriend.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Man who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax and moved his business to Singapore after the Brexit he voted for wants your sympathy.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Some people do my head in. This arse is one of them. Why TF would we care about his business…? Did he care about all the SMEs bankrupted by Brexit? Does he feel any anxiety or shame about just how much that stupid idea has cost our country and many of us personally. No. He can absolutely do one.
The Telegraph
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Sir James Dyson has said he may not be able to pass his business down to his children because of Rachel Reeves's inheritance tax changes.... See more

Sir James Dyson: Rachel Reeves has put my family business at risk
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Hunting is completely impractical, causes immense damage to farming, benefits nobody and is very cruel indeed. No wonder Britain's leading Brexiter backs it.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
Farmers' anger grows as
Australian beeffloods
into Britain


Meat imports surge 80pc as free-
trade deal sparks criticism over
impact on local producers
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
I'm deeply honoured to have had a beer named after me.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The future Trump class warships.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The worst, most dishonest prime minister we’ve ever had, rocks back and forth in his Daily Mail cubbyhole spewing out idiotic bilge to kid himself that he and his disastrous Brexit weren’t an almighty national fuck-up. A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.
Daily Mail+

BORIS JOHNSON: If Labour MPs try to reverse Brexit they will be walking into a hail of machine gun fire - and if that's the fight they want, bring it on! But they should heed my warning before things get bloody...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This is just utterly disgraceful and dangerous stuff from Badenoch. It's appalling that the leader of a major party should be engaging in this sort of rhetoric
It's not 11-year-old boys who are
committing violence against women
and girls.


We need to get people who have
come from cultures that don't respect
women out of our country! Not all
cultures are equally valid.


Labour's plan to lecture schoolboys to
respect women and girls is a complete
distraction. This is what a government
looks like when they're completely out
of ideas


Deport all foreign criminals. Put more
police on our streets. Conservatives
have a funded plan to recruit 10,000
extra officers.


Pretending a few extra lessons
in school will fix this is complete
nonsense. Labour need to stop
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Because our politics is in such a terrible place, I think we downplay quite how awful Kemi Badenoch has been. In any other era the leader of the Conservatives saying 'only migrants commit sex crimes - mass deportations now' would have not just been career ending but would've sunk the whole party
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
£18 - hourly rate for a resident doctor after the 29% rise £24 - hourly rate for a physicians assistant If you're ok with assistants earning more than actual doctors, congratulations, you've fallen for Streeting and Starmer's attack on the people who will keep you safe when you fall ill, doctors
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.
Daily Mail headline 

£6BN COST OF STARMER'S NEW BID TO SUCK UP TO BRUSSELSIndependent headline 25 November 2025

Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue a year, new analysis shows
Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote: 'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.' By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
Welcome to the UK. Where you
go to prison for 18 months for
anti-immigration tweets.


This is insane
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
When oh when are the British people going to receive an apology from Nigel Farage and the other UKIP liars!
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Urging Trump to destroy the BBC is unforgivable. Truss, Badenoch & Farage would rather betray this country than offer the BBC or the British government their support against a narcissistic foreign liar and a threat to democracy. It’s an appalling betrayal. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-...
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Trump Lawyers Use, Er, Liz Truss Quotes To Support His $10bn Defamation Claim Against BBC
Kemi Badenoch was also mentioned in the anti-BBC dossier.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Day 1391 of my 3 day war. A $40,000 Ukrainian drone sank a $400,000,000 Russian submarine. I remain a master strategist.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Who better to talk about the civil service than a man who’s never had a proper job and has zero idea what government workers actually do? Everything is easy when you don’t know what the fuck you are talking about.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Fraser Nelson is the latest Farage apologist to dismiss the racism allegations against him, saying that there's never been any evidence of him ever being racist as an adult. Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
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Nigel Farage Is a Racist
The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.BBC
'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Emily Atkinson
Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST
2 min read

A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed.

Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat.

Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
His opportunism is bad enough. But never forget that this is the same Nigel Farage who allegedly made hissing noises and whispered "Hitler was right" to a Jewish contemporary at school. Things he has NEVER apologised for.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Left: Zia Yusuf claims Zack Polanski is committing treason for proposing a legal asylum solution Right: Yusuf’s Reform UK colleague Farage was friends with Gill for 20+ years. Both long promoted anti-EU, pro-Russian views. Gill is now jailed for taking bribes from Putin-a crime essentially treason
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
2016 Daily Mail: We want foreigners out! We don’t care if it makes us poorer. Brexit means Brexit! 2025 Daily Mail: Foreigners are leaving Starmer’s Britain because this country is poor and shit! This country would be so much better off without this hypocritical, incendiary, irresponsible rag.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned. Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11/12/2025
⚠️ Even the most ardent Brexiteers now accept the damage done by Brexit... 💷 £90 billion in lost tax revenue... EVERY YEAR! ❌ That is over £20 billion more than the entire education budget. Scandalous. www.ft.com/content/d3581bbe-98c6-44…
ft.com
Kemi Badenoch cites Brexit as ‘shock’ to UK
Tory leader’s comments come amid debate on whether Britain should rejoin EU customs union
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This is what you don't hear every time this junktank appears on the BBC. *Why not?* Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Dubai immigrant, Isabel Oakeshott, whines that Farage got nothing from his deal with the Tories last time, so why should he do that again. Christ. The whining victimhood of these spoiled brats. Squabbling over power, while the rest of us live with the mess they’ve made of our country and our lives.
REFORM AND THE TORIES
REFORMUK
Kick in teeth for putting country first
The Daily Telegraph In 2019, having stood aside in hundreds of seats to give the Tories a clear run, Nigel Farage's party was left empty-handed. To "get Brexit done", they had done what politicians always promise but rarely honour - and put the country first.
What did they get? A kick in the teeth.
(Isabel Oakeshott)
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The idea that I would ever work with Tories is absurd. If you don't believe me just ask Lee Anderson, Nadine Dorries, Danny Kruger, Andrea Jenkyns, Jonathan Gullis, Sarah Pochin, Jake Berry, Marco Longhi, Peter Bone...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Farage. Grifter-in-chief. Racist. Russian asset. Trump groupie. He gets an MP’s salary and spends his time doing anything but. A professional piss-taker and national security (and sanity) threat, leading the polls to be the next PM. Come on UK. Get some sodding self-respect.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill - a rare effort to address inequality of power. “A large majority of voters backing Nigel Farage also want stronger working rights. Yet he and his MPs voted against every item in the bill.” But of course they did. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It’s under fire from left and right – but Labour’s workers' rights bill is a huge achievement | Polly Toynbee
It makes no sense for union leaders to cry betrayal when it will be their members who benefit from these sorely needed reforms, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The OBR is run independently from Government. It literally was somebody else's fault. You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not
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