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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I hope you share and this makes people seriously think about our society!

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Pollsters Redfield and Wilton, which have consistently produced some of the highest figures for Reform of any firm, employed a senior aide to Farage to oversee their political polling, without disclosing his role. A second Farage aide was also used to place exclusive polling by R+W in the press

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Nigel Farage adviser had unpublicised role at polling firm

Exclusive: Chris Bruni-Lowe used Redfield & Wilton Strategies role to develop potential campaign tactics, sources say

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Brexit effect • Reduction of UK economy by 6%-8% in real GDP terms • Total cost of £180bn to £240bn as of late 2025/2026 • A £3,700 average decrease in GDP per person • £90bn lost in potential tax revenues per year • £29bn drop in business investment #politicslive www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Brexit cost 6% of UK economy, Bank of England company data suggests

Analysis showed how much the UK could have grown if it had not exited the EU.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/10/2026

Andrew Griffith delivers one of the all time rhetorical stinkers. My Tory conference SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/an-h...

On reflection, it would have been better for Andrew Griffith if he’d abandoned his speech when the announcer got his name wrong. He is the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, supposedly the second most important figure in the Conservative Party. If they don’t even know what he’s called, he should take the hint.

It was an oration that party managers will describe as a cautionary tale to generations of MPs yet unborn

He didn’t, of course. Perhaps he thought that after such a slip, things could only get better. If so, it was a judgement in which he was profoundly mistaken. He was about to give one of the all-time terrible party conference speeches. It was an oration that party managers will describe as a cautionary tale to generations of MPs yet unborn. Some speeches are written terribly. Some are delivered terribly. This one was so terrible in every way that it should be sealed in lead and buried at the bottom of the ocean.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love talking our country down While offering no solutions Because I’m a grifting gobshite Who likes to incite unrest Small boat crossings are down 44% Deportations are the highest in 10 years Immigration is 82% lower But who needs facts When you can make up lies

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)

Value of the
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Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.

As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

After he’s dead, we’re gonna find out that the man who ruined our country was never actually elected, aren’t we?

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Data scientist Hannah Ritchie explains why the UK failing to adequately reduce its one percent of GHG emissions helps make catastrophic warming inevitable by enabling other countries producing similar levels of GHGs to more easily evade taking action. #politicslive open.substack.com/pub/hannahri...

World in data graph showing that the amount of carbon emissions generated by countries who domestically create less than 2% amounts to 36% in total.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just because I strongly oppose any measure to tackle Russian misinformation, doesn’t mean I’m on Russia's side. In unrelated news, one of the few times I bothered turning up for work as an MEP was to vote AGAINST measures to tackle the spread of Russian misinformation...

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Lady with an opinion @ladymitopinion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m tired of our justice system being predicated on the idea that people are innocent until they run out of money

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Trueharmony @trueharmony.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is how he answers a reporter.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Why can't they integrate?

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This should be required reading for BBC journalists, so when they're interviewing Farage or Tice or Yusuf or Jenrick and they start spouting their well-worn lies about climate change and renewables and net zero, they can call them out rather than letting it slide. www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-re...

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Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy - Carbon Brief

Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has emerged as a major force in UK politics in recent years – pushing…

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 14/09/2026

🧵 Peter Keeley, a former MI5 agent who spent 15 years undercover in the IRA, now works for Stephen Lennon AKA Tommy Robinson. He’s supplying covertly-procured information while being supported by the British taxpayer. hopenothate.org.uk/lennons-secr...

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Lennon's Secret Agent

A former MI5 agent who operated as an IRA bomb maker is now working for Stephen Lennon. Despite still being supported by the British taxpayer, Peter Keeley appears to have broken the law by supplying ...

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The leader of the free world sleeps while the person he put in charge of health spouts conspiracy bollocks and anti-vax jibberish. What a time to be alive.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The arguments trotted out against leaving fossil fuels in the ground are strikingly similar to the arguments trotted out against ending the slave trade, 230 years ago. 1. If we stop trading slaves / extracting fossil fuels, Britain’s economy will collapse 🧵

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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Chaos for Reform in the last 24 hours: Nigel Farage’s military Channel plan faces legal backlash Tice is under investigation Farage’s comeback story keeps shifting. Unity talks with Restore are collapsing into public infighting. Yet some people think they are the answer to Britain’s problems?

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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

How come Farage is allowed to hold a press conference, which was broadcast on the BBC?

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Shane @incompleteness.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

ex-Reform deputy leader Ben Habib claims the 2019 election was a stitch-up; that there was a financial deal between Johnson and Farage for Farage to stand down his Brexit party candidates In return – Habib said – Harborne gave them £1m a piece

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David Tomkins 🦋 @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-gra...

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The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News

Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most ...

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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Oh what bad luck and what bad timing for the man who would be sniffing round for Farage's job if things went wrong. What are the odds that this should come to light this of all weeks? 🤔🤔🧐🧐

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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The Ridiculous Party are full of crooks.

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hi Moscow Bob tell us about your time living in Moscow doing legal work for Russian Oligarchs. Also tell us about your wife’s advising of them too in the wake of Putin’s invasion.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The National Crime Agency have been "unable to identify the original source" of a £1m donation to a Reform fundraising vehicle. The NCA is now "seeking help from a foreign partner" in order to identify it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Millions of pounds and many, many questions: the untold story of why Reform figures face NCA scrutiny

Exclusive: The details behind the financial transactions that bankers have flagged up to the National Crime Agency

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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

“You have broken all the rules” says man being asked about breaking rules. I’d like to see evidence that any journalist has harassed his family because that feels like desperate, made up bullshit to me.

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This isn't going away Nigel Farage. The public need answers.

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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

You know Farage is in trouble when GB News starts doing journalism 😂

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"Hands up if you start screaming about a witch hunt and dark forces being out to get you every time you are caught red handed being a sleazy grifting sack of shit"

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Darren Jones: "Foreign money has for too long been trying to warp our elections and sow division in our country for its own vested interests." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Ministers to crack down on political donations as Farage faces calls for second inquiry

Measures to be announced to make funding more transparent amid new revelations about Reform UK leader

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Things are starting to look very dark for Farage. He's stuck in a ferocious scandal where he cannot get his story straight and his excuses raise more questions than they answer inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Interesting to see if Gabriel Pogrund can shed any light on exactly why Farage's LeaveEU associate Andy Wigmore forwarded documents about Cottrell's US arrest to Sergey Fedichkin, "third secretary" at Russia's London embassy. Can think of only one likely explanation.

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

From a Trump rally... Perfetto. 🤌 'Farage knew about the conviction because he was travelling with Cottrell back from a Trump rally when he was arrested.' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Nigel Farage did not declare gifts from crypto entrepreneur convicted of fraud

Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick says Farage accepted staff, security and accommodation from George Cottrell before becoming an MP

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Lest we forget... Kemi Badenoch hacked Harriet Harman's website. #pmqs #politicslive news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_poli...

Screencap of BBC website article (25 Apr 2008):

'Labour Deputy Leader Harriet Harman is the latest MP to become a victim of internet hacking.

An item was posted on her personal site for several hours announcing her defection to the Conservatives.

It began: "To friends, foes and fans, below is a copy of the resignation letter that landed on Gordon's desk this morning."

Beneath it was a link to a spoof Harriet Harman blog. Ms Harman was not available for comment.

Her "resignation letter" was based on the statement made by MP Quentin Davies when he defected from the Conservatives to Labour last year.

The site, harrietharman.org, appears to have been taken offline following the discovery of the rogue message, which was highlighted by widely-read Westminster gossip blog Guido Fawkes.

In 2006, then environment secretary David Miliband was forced to shut down an experimental wiki site after it was bombarded with surreal and abusive additions.'

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A reminder of what came immediately after the vote (also from The Decade In Tory)

Johnson, meanwhile, demonstrated his suitability for the job by knobbing off to play cricket with some aristo pals, and then holding a massive piss-up at his farmhouse. When he did deign to return to work, it wasn’t as a prospective Prime Minister, but in his moonlighting job as a Telegraph columnist; and it was an absolute dog’s dinner. While the markets crashed, and to prevent catastrophe the Bank of England had to spend 12 percent of our entire national annual income in a single day, Johnson got squiffy and floundered through a series of confused statements that clearly demonstrated he hadn’t got the foggiest notion what to do next.
“We who are part of this narrow majority must do everything we can to reassure the Remainers”, he wrote. Is it time for another bleak-laughter break already?

His article continued: “We had one Scotland referendum in 2014, and I do not detect any real appetite to have another”, to which Scotland collectively said, “Oh is that right, pal?” and hung up another Saltire.
“British people will still be able to go and work in the EU; to live; to travel; to study; to buy homes and to settle down” Johnson assured us, whilst simultaneously insisting we would be able to prevent Europeans immigrants having those same rights to live, work, and study in the UK. We would, he explained, remain members of the lucrative single market, but also free ourselves from every bit of legislation that makes a single market into a single market.
“There is no need to invoke Article 50”, he wrote, and declared that Leave voters were not remotely anxious about immigration.

Leavers, who until now had been left to themselves to work out what Brexit meant, now found that Boris Johnson’s vision was not their own. What do you mean: we’re not leaving the single market? What do you mean: we’re not changing immigration? What do you mean: we’re not invoking Article 50?
The Johnson camp said he was “tired”, and that of course we would leave the single market, which is why they’d guaranteed we wouldn’t leave it during the campaign. And then promised we would. And then not. And now it was back again, but only because Johnson was knackered.
Johnson had performed so many juddering, crashing reversals in the last week that by this time he was basically corrugated. Whilst Britain was right in the middle of the biggest constitutional crisis we had seen since WW2, it was becoming clear the leader of the revolution hadn’t got a scooby doo, and was making up policy on the hoof, often while inebriated.

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Tim Abbott @tim-abbott.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A chief architect of Brexit (another was given £5m as a reward, don't you know!) defined in this eloquent piece from @russincheshire.bsky.social . Reading it I wonder if the journalistic career of this arch specimen of moral anti-matter also heralded the dawn of fact free reporting as 'news'.

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Tim Abbott @tim-abbott.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"These climate predictions are just scaremongering." Climate predictions... "Hold my beer" This one arrived 24 years early.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“Britain is only going to move on when it starts realising it’s one little cog in a whole load of cogs that make up the EU, that make up global geopolitics, and the UK on its own, not being a cog anywhere, is really unwise” “Independence Day” How bloody stupid. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘A total, utter nightmare’: small businesses on Brexit, 10 years on

Cheesemakers, farmers, exporters and wine merchants say red tape, lack of vision and rising costs mean they have stopped trading, sold up or retired early

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Africa is becoming an EV growth story. The FT reports that the energy crisis has supercharged African demand for electric motorbikes and buses. Start-ups rolling out charging infrastructure are raising record sums. The transition isn’t just a Europe, US and China story anymore.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey has unveiled a billboard campaign across the UK to mark the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum today. The billboards call out Reform leader Nigel Farage’s £5 million "reward for campaigning for Brexit, whilst people across the country feel the pinch."

Lib Dem billboard of Nigel Farage laughing, captioned "Ten years on… do you feel better off?" above a Telegraph headline "Farage: I was given £5m as a reward for Brexit". Orange Lib Dem placards in the foreground.

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Keith Burge @carryonkeith.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Rather than a General Election, I think I'd favour a full investigation into Nigel Farage's finances.

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Tim Abbott @tim-abbott.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

10 years. The lie has come home to roost. By every meaningful measure, we’re worse off.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Yes, Farage, where are the Leave celebrations "Boris Johnson says rejoining the EU is 'out of their tiny mind' Here's what his Brexit actually delivered: 📉 GDP down 6-8% per person 💸 £100-200bn lost every single year ... If it's so great, Boris where are the celebrations?" via Rejoin EU Party

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Amra Watson @amrawatson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

No mandate!’ cries Zia Yusuf — the man who bought a front-row seat in Reform without ever facing the voters. The irony is doing heavy lifting.

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