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Steven Washington

@swashington.bsky.social
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Europhile extrodinaire. Vehement hater of Tories.

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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just 4 months after the local elections, Reform UK (RefUK) have lost 158 of their local councillors: -55 resigned -42 went Independent -28 defected -24 were kicked out -5 lost their seats -2 disqualified -2 suspended. Appalling record - and a waste of taxpayers’ money!
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔴 The £72million pound question - how worried are you about big money in British politics? Democracy for Sale is running a survey to find out what the public thinks about money in politics - and what we should do about it Please take it!! And share widely!! thx! 😀 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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How concerned are you about UK political funding? – A Democracy for Sale survey
We're Democracy for Sale, a newsletter covering dark money and influence in UK politics. We're trying to better understand our readers' and the wider public's opinions and concerns about political fun...
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David Lewis @davidclewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The RNLI are national heroes: the pride of Britain. Fuck any wheezingly impotent Nazi scumbag who says differently. The Masked Micrococks haven’t even got the nerve to show their faces in a gaggle of no-custody divorcee cockrings, let alone do something remotely courageous for the country.
RNLI Statement:

The RNLI is a charity that exists to save lives at sea.
But recent events have generated deliberate misinformation and a misunderstanding about our purpose and our Lifesaving work in the Channel.
As a result, some of our volunteers and staff have been the subject of online and, in some cases, physical abuse.
This is unacceptable.
The RNLI's people represent the very best of society. For over two hundred years they have dedicated themselves to rescuing people they've never met before, without judgment, fear or favour.
We are tasked by HM Coastguard to help those in distress, and we'll do so whenever, wherever and whoever they are.
We launched 9,058 times in 2025.
Only 109 of those launches were to those in distress in the Channel
- 1.2% of our total rescue work. Anyone rescued from a small boat by the RNLI is then taken into the care of the relevant UK authorities.
To those who stand with the RNLI, thank you. For more than two hundred years, we've saved lives at sea around the UK and Ireland, and that commitment remains unchanged.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
You have to choose. You can't be nice to everyone. Appeasing corporations and billionaires means abandoning everyone else. When it comes to policy, it's us or them. And for far too long political leaders in this country have sided with them. If Burnham is to survive, this is what he needs to change.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
And now I see that the boss of Scottish Water has been given a bonus of £115,000 top of his £315,000 salary… Unbelievable!!!
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 26/08/2026
Found this old print ad for AI from when they first tried to sell it
An old print advert for AI
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Narrator: Richard Tice is divorced from his wife of 24 years with whom he shares 3 children. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Couples with children should be married, Reform UK’s deputy leader says
Richard Tice also said ‘British-born children’ are a ‘good thing’ and should be encouraged
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 21/08/2026
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
So the allegation of plagiarism in his PhD was investigated and dismissed. It turns out he did run all those marathons. So tell me, precisely, all you online sleuths — what exactly did Jason Arday do wrong? (Apart from being the wrong class and colour of course)
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 14/08/2026
@libdems.org.uk
Paddington pushing Ed Davey off a paddle board - No ai used
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Checkmate, Nige.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 11/08/2026
#clacton @countbinface.bsky.social
A poster for Count Binface urging Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters to get out and bin FARAGE
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Two of these people around Farage were in and out of the Russian Embassy discussing Gold and Diamond deals. The third has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison for taking Kremlin Gold. How does anyone believe Nigel didn’t know?
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
As an aside, those politicians who created the current crisis - increasing prison sentences for tabloid applause while cutting prisons and courts to the bone - may want to quietly reflect on their culpability, instead of running for the megaphone in an unedifying fumble for clicks.
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Steven Washington @swashington.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Please sign this petition to dual the A1 in Northumberland and save lives: c.org/WcFBBbfN9r
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Sign the Petition
Re-examine the case for dualling the A1 in Northumberland
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.
Map showing the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa.Screengrab from Politico piece that explains, citing Reuters, that 48,300 of the 50,000 recent crossings have already been expelled or voluntarily returned to Morocco.BBC report on Friday, still echoing the RW disinformation - or at the very least not challengning it sufficiently.

"Spain's PM blames traffickers after 60,000 migrants reach Ceuta from Morocco
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What triggered the mass migrant crossings into Ceuta?
Sofia Ferreira Santos and Sarah Rainsford, Southern and Eastern Europe
correspondent
31 July 2026
Spain's prime minister has blamed trafficking gangs after about 60,000 migrants crossed into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco. At least 57 people died during the surge, according to local media."Daily Mail and Daily Express from this weekend, with front page headlines "Ministers MUST stop the Spanish border invaders reaching UK" and "SPANISH BORDER CRISIS IS 'WAKE-UP CALL' FOR UK", respectively.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Not sure who did this but they should be arrested immediately.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 20/07/2026
"You know Keir, Being King is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman"
Starmer meeting King Charles in his traditional Swiss Tony suit
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Funnily enough I don't remember Andrew ever expressing these concerns the last four times a Conservative MP became Prime Minister outside of a general election.
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 07/07/2026
How do you resign from a job you weren't actually doing? Asking for a friend
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Personally funded by far-right billionaires, including a £5m gift that could fund the average annual salary for the whole of his Clacton constituency almost twice over, Farage has lined his own pockets while shafting and laughing at the rest of us.
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 06/07/2026
Being told you’re corrupt by UEFA and Sepp Blatter is like being told you have a few mad ideas by Liz Truss.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I always thought that if the Cottrell story cut through it would hurt Farage because it's not just corruption, it's weird. The guy calls him "Daddy".
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 25/06/2026
Amazing that he considers both things to be insults. I guess he'd rather Burnham was some guy off a TV show who sexually assaults people.
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 24/06/2026
In a BBC documentary, Boris Johnson admits: “We didn’t have a plan for what to do next. We didn’t think it was our job to have a plan.” Ten years on from the vote to leave the EU, and after seeing the consequences that followed, what should the plan be for the UK to rejoin the European Union?
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ten years ago today Britain voted by a narrow majority (51.9%) to leave the EU Most Brits living in other EU countries couldn’t vote. Commonwealth citizens in UK could The Leave campaign featured a pack of lies and promises that did not materialise Today, a growing majority want to rejoin the EU
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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
He should do his first post as Labour leader on here and close down his twitter account.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This bsky.app/profile/phys...
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 19/06/2026
Reform's sexist plumber didn't win in Makerfield. Thank fuck for that.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Last week the Lib Dems said we needed to be in the Customs Union. Today they're saying Single Market. At this rate they'll join their voters (& Lab & Green ones) in supporting Membership of the EU by July. Half way houses don't turn voters on. Look at those flat lines until you get to Membership.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
As long as the government remains on the fascist enabling X nobody can take anything they say seriously with regards to social media and safety
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/06/2026
"A decade later, the pound has never returned above its pre-Brexit level, hitting British holidaymakers in the pocket. From close to $1.50 against the dollar and €1.31 against the euro just after polling closed, the pound stands at $1.34 and €1.15." Brexit has made us all poorer...
theguardian.com
How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts
Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU
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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The "I'll Tell The Children" Simpsons meme which shows a worker and architect standing around a table. The worker has removed his hardhat and is staring down with a despondent look on his face, while the architect clutches a now redundant blueprint with an air of defeat. The wording reads: "There'll be no TikTok or unboxing videos for under-16s then. I'll tell the children via a post on X: the Nazi-owned platform that promotes extremist views.". Made in reference to Keir Starmer's announced plans to prohibit social media for anyone under the age of 16. Good luck with that, mate. They'll run rings around you on this one.
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 12/06/2026
Interesting how the most powerful man in the world and the richest man in the world are both narcissistic racist man babies who love fascism and will never truly be happy. And by “interesting” I do of course mean mortifying, shameful and existentially depressing. But hey, at least it’s the weekend.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 10/06/2026
Just remembered that Elon Musk's father is accused of sexually abusing his own children and stepchildren. I guess little stephen Yaxley and his followers don't care about that stuff anymore
tommy robinson hanging out with elon musks dad
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
💡 DID YOU KNOW? The surname “Farage” is an old English contraction of “far right rage”.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It just gets worse. "The UK health department’s top official was a shareholder at a private equity-owned children’s care home business, which imposed sharp fee increases on local authorities." www.ft.com/content/710e...
ft.com
Top health official held shares in key children’s home operator
Samantha Jones, permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care, had multiple private-sector interests
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Could we stop treating Farage like a PM-in-waiting? Latest from IPSOS:
Britons are slightly more likely to prefer an Andy Burnham led Labour party against Farage, compared to other Labour politicians
If you had to choose, which party would you prefer to win the next UK General Election and form the next government?
Lead
The Labour Party led by Andy Burnham
Reform UK led by Nigel Farage
46%
30%
Labour +16
The Labour Party led by Keir Starmer
Reform UK led by Nigel Farage
43%
32%
Labour +11
The Labour Party led by Wes Streeting
Reform UK led by Nigel Farage
40%
33%
Labour +7
The Labour Party led by Angela Rayner
Reform UK led by Nigel Farage
39%
33%
Labour +6
Base: 2,101 Crane British adults aged 18+, 8-12 May 2028
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Ipsos
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 02/06/2026
Nigel Farage shouting from his rooftop with his massive dog whistle bat signal
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 29/05/2026
Following the acceptance of an episode using AI guests, Question Time evolves to its final form.
Question Time advert announcing all of next weeks guests will be Nigel Farage from different eras
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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Blair is right that things are wrong but he’s wrong about which things are wrong, and Starmer is right to say Blair’s got it wrong but he’s still wrong about what’s wrong and how to put it right.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Every time I think I have reached maximum disdain for Tony Blair , he crops up and proves that I have to dig further down into the cess pool where he teabags for despots and cash
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
💥 97,500!💥 This Rejoin petition is so close to completion. Let’s tip it over the 100,000 mark to force the government to respond. Given the party in power now realises they need the pro-EU base - are they really going to refuse a debate in parliament on this? Let’s find out! Sign and share!
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK
We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...
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