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Iain Ogilvie

@theaeronut.bsky.social
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British European #FBPE #RejoinEU. People, Photography, Aviation, Lotus Cars, Motorcycles and Scale Models. Politeness and decency cost nothing - be kind. No unsolicited DMs please.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 25/09/2026
Brexit and Trump’s tariffs push UK’s food and drink trade deficit to £21bn ft.trib.al/tVOaA8Y
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Brexit and Trump’s tariffs push UK’s food and drink trade deficit to £21bn
In the first half of 2026, the sector’s export volumes fell 11.7% to hit their third-lowest level on record
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A bird crashed into the glass and lay motionless, but its companion didn't abandon it. It stayed by its side until it was sure that they could both fly again. Original post
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/09/2026
The feminist movement was never a threat to men. Secure men have always understood that. They stood beside women, fought for equality, and some proudly called themselves feminists too. If women having equal power feels like oppression to you, feminism isn’t the problem.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
An alien's take on the Bayeux Tapestry.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
To answer your question Mr Lowe, I do. His name is Nasser Hamid. He was 16 when he left his village, to escape Sudan's civil war. He could not speak English. Look what he achieved! I admire his courage, resourcefulness and intelligence. All qualities sadly lacking in... certain people 🤮
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Nearly a fifth of UK pensioners live in poverty. Two-thirds of single pensioners in poverty are female. Low wages prevent private pensions DB pension schemes gone Gender pay/pension gap Full state pension is less than 50% of minimum wage Yet neoliberals push lower state pension. archive.ph/W6cH3
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Nearly a fifth of pensioners now in poverty - how experts say it should be fixed
The fastest increase has been among those who have never married, followed by divorced pensioners, research has revealed
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It feels great to be an MP again. Now I can get back to never going to Parliament, never visiting Clacton, never holding any surgeries and doing fuck all for the people who voted for me.
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Stephen or Steve "EMV" Cobb @scobb.net · 14/08/2026
Go Beeb! BBC for the win!
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God @thegodshow.com · 14/08/2026
Their assets are frozen, construction is suspended, and their deal is under investigation for fraud. SMITE!
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Bless The Albanians Who Stopped Jared And Ivanka
Dear Humans,
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Patricia 🦀🐅 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @crabbytiger.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
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haversack @hsack121.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Imagine that, making people happy increases their productivity?! Microsoft Japan's 4-day work week boosted productivity by 40 percent mashable.com/article/micr...
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Microsoft Japan's 4-day work week boosted productivity by 40 percent
Ditch Fridays, and also long, stupid meetings.
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Kay 💙 @kayfultz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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David Clark @david-k-clark.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The problem with Farage’s lie about being advised by the police to stay away from the count on security grounds is that he’d already given the real reason.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🔴 Reform UK Paid £440,000 to Firms Linked to Party Insiders Exclusive: Electoral Commission filings reveal payments to companies run by Reform activists, donors and a former party chairman bylinetimes.com/2026/08/14/r...
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Reform UK Paid £440,000 to Firms Linked to Party Insiders
Exclusive: Electoral Commission filings reveal payments to companies run by Reform activists, donors and a former party chairman
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I find it fascinating that everyone's idea of Heaven is untouched paradise with crystal clear waters, clean air full of birdsong, lush forests teeming with wildlife and a utopia classless society WITH enough food for everyone, where nobody goes hungry. a utopia of peace, unity and happiness. 
But if you suggest we try to do that here on Earth 
YOU'RE considered AN evil leftist ideologue, by the GOP!
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Iain Ogilvie @theaeronut.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A reminder:
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Iain Ogilvie @theaeronut.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So, after a by-election and weeks of campaigning #Clacton still doesn't have a working MP. Have I got that right?
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Standards watchdog resumes investigation into Nigel Farage over financial gifts www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Standards watchdog resumes investigation into Nigel Farage over financial gifts
Reform UK leader’s return to Clacton restarts inquiry into £5m gift from cyrpto-billionaire and support from fraudster
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 14/08/2026
#LiarFarage ran away lying from the Count who won almost 27% of the votes cast smashing the previous highest ever vote for a novelty candidate of 4.2%. Plenty of #Clacton voters will be prepared to sign a recall petition when #LiarFarage will face all the other parties and @countbinface.bsky.social
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This morning the website of Parliament’s standards commissioner has been updated to confirm that his investigation is no longer suspended
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Okay Clacton. Let’s go.
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Clacton you would instantly be on the map. People would come from all over just to see the Galactic Lord, spending money in pubs, shops, restaurants & hotels. Let’s put Clacton on the tourist map & bring some real prosperity to the town. Vote Count Binface!
Count Binface
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bin Day cometh.
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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Vote the bin, not the trash!
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 13/08/2026
NEWS! Voters of Clacton head to the polls to choose between 33 attention seekers and a bin newsthump.com/2026/08/13/v...
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Voters of Clacton head to the polls to choose between 33 attention seekers and a bin
Voters in Clacton are heading to the polls today to decide which of 34 candidates they would most like to represent them in Parliament, with the choice reportedly boiling down to 33 people desperat…
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I believe Clacton deserves an MP who will spend their time shining a light on everything the area has to offer. And why wait till I'm elected? I've been to visit one of the constituency's most stunning landmarks.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Blackrock US Billionaire is using 13,000 gallons of water a day to keep his grass green and trees watered in Wessex, England, where drought has been declared. They just think they can use everything up because the rules only apply to you.
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Paul Stenton @paulstenton.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Farage headline odds still 1:10, however, Vote Share crumbling from 50% down to sub-35% a huge drop from his 2024 performance. ​Count Binface Vote Share 25% and going up.
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#BlueStormComin1🌪️🦋🇺🇸 #Resistance 🦋🙌🏻 #Blues @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Why are we stuck with this monster #Blues
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Imagine purporting to be a Christian, and thinking Jesus was into swords, not ploughshares
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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
🧵 1 of 2 UNESCO has approved the inscription of Sebastia in the occupied West Bank on the World Heritage List and designated it as in danger. History belongs to all of us. Preserving it is an investment not only in our shared heritage, but also in our shared humanity. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
The UNESCO committee has approved the emergency inscription of Sebastia
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Iain Ogilvie @theaeronut.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
View from downstairs just now...
View from an old Cotswold barn across the field behind.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Choices have been made politically for many years to change the way we access food, and we import far more than we export, making us highly vulnerable to infrastructure shock"
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Farmers warn food shortages are 10 days away – the signs suggest they’re already here
As farmers sound the alarm about a growing food crisis, experts say that Britain’s food insecurity needs to be treated as a growing national emergency. Climate change and conflict are affecting fragil...
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Call me crazy, but maybe two men who fathered 19 children with 7 different women shouldn’t be lecturing us about family values.
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Mar-a-Hell-No! @mara-hell-no.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
To those who think this is about politics - it isn't. It's about morality.
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Eric @techpriest4.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Great shot of a solid lineage. I have it's little cousin, 03 VFR-800 my favorite of the current herd.
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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Susan SB Count Binface Appreciation Society My Dad: my hero!! He's 94 and partially deaf but he ran rings around this Reform Councillor today who was canvassing fof Nigel Farage Also my Dad never ever swore in front of us growing up when he said that's absolute b*ll*cks it made my day! #BinfortheWin
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Iain Ogilvie @theaeronut.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
View from my desk yesterday evening at sunset... #cotswolds #cotswoldsunset #ruralengland #farming
Looking across the field to the very pink sunset yesterday evening.
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Iain Ogilvie @theaeronut.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
In good company earlier yesterday evening... Out for a much needed 150 mile blat on my 1985 Honda VF1000F-II Bol d'Or yesterday - ending up back at the cafe at Kemble. #vf1000 #boldor #classicmotorcycles #bikersofbluesky #vjmc #kemble #canberra
Silver Honda VF1000 motorcycle parked in front of a silver Canberra PR.9 aeroplane.
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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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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 22/07/2026
“A political lobbying firm founded by electoral strategist for Johnson secretly pays journalists to write pieces favourable to their clients…lobbyists told an undercover reporter that they had paid journalists to place apparently independent stories in newspapers” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press
Exclusive: Guardian investigation of CT Group uncovers practice that appears to seek hidden influence over public opinion
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Andy Burnham is being urged by business & economists to consider reversing Brexit Frontier Economics study: Rejoining EU could unlock £92 billion: a minimum 3.6% GDP boost. Much more than current “Re-set”. And benefiting north & midlands the most. bestforbritain.org/eu_membershi...
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EU membership to supercharge UK economy by at least £92bn, report suggests - Best for Britain
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 22/07/2026
Global sea-surface temperatures just reached their 50th consecutive record hot day and are expected to continue to rise for another month. This is so far beyond 'bonkers' (technical climate science term) that the Climate 8-ball has decided to start drinking early today.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/07/2026
Former Southern Water employees to face trial over alleged cover-up in wastewater testing
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Former Southern Water employees to face trial over alleged cover-up in wastewater testing
Ex-chief executive Matthew Wright among those named in criminal proceedings by Environment Agency Britain’s ⁠Environment Agency (EA) is ⁠bringing ​a fraud case against ⁠four former Southern Water employees, including ⁠the former chief executive ​Matthew ‌Wright, over ‌allegations they manipulated wastewater ‌testing results. The regulator said the four had allegedly conspired ‌to defraud the Environment Agency and ​water regulator Ofwat between 2012 and 2017 by ⁠creating artificial “no-flow” ​events ​at wastewater treatment ​works to ​influence ‌compliance checks. Continue reading...
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Iain Ogilvie @theaeronut.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Off out for a much needed motorcycling day tomorrow with some friends - taking my 1985 Honda VF1000F-II Bol d'Or as it's the comfiest. Not taken her out for a run in ages - hopefully she'll behave! 😊 #clssicbikes #classicmotorcycle #vf1000 #boldor
Silver 1985 Honda VF1000 out in the sun - checking for any leaks prior to run out tomorrow.
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