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Knowgum

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Unremarkable, sociable & with no edge. On 🦣 Mastodon (@UKnoGum@mastodon.social), 🐦 X/Twitter (twitter.com/uknogum) & 🧵Threads (threads.net/@uknogum). Make #TaxParasites pay their taxes | #NHSLove | #FBPA | Will block Trolls.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
10 JOB NIGEL Never in Clacton, hardly in Parliament. Nigel Farage rakes in £1m doing anything but being an MP. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
walesonline.co.uk
The amount your MP earns from second jobs
Reform UK's Nigel Farage is top of the list
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
To qualify that further, those 2 hour waits that signify a destroyed economy only concern the ultra wealthy if we're talking wait times for luxury items ordered for home delivery. For the rest of the country, finding things that are still affordable, or being paid enough, is of greater concern.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Right-wing politicians seem perfectly happy to inflict cruelty as a means to subjugate scapegoats, increase their own control & inflate their own personal wealth. Beware those that promote these ideologies... ...for it reveals how little they value your rights...or your freedom
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Funnily enough I don't remember reading similar front pages when Jeremy Hunt bought *seven* luxury seaside apartments from a Conservative donor, in breach of his government's own money laundering rules
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Worth noting that, according to right-wing politicians & the wealthy tax avoiders that 'own' them, the 'fix' for the unfairness of low pay is to demonise Universal Credit claimants, reduce the benefits & make it harder to claim. They do this to avoid to paying people more money or taxing the rich.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Right-wing politicians are in the pockets of the wealthy. They do as they're paid to do by cutting public services, subsidising low wages with UC, & lowering taxes for the rich. In return, we subsidie their greed with revenue syphoned to tax avoiding companies through crony contracts for donors.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
A good idea that'll never happen because the greedy companies that won't pay decent wages & won't pay tax, also own the politicians who would have to change the UC & tax rules to make their paymasters pay staff more or pay more tax... ...& that'll never happen.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Most companies making vast profits also pay their staff pitiful wages. Their staff end up claiming Universal Credit in order to survive. UC is funded from taxation which the greedy companies (& wealthy tax avoiders) avoid paying. Which means we're subsidising greedy parasites that buy politicians
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Larry Hochman @larryhochman.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Wholesale inflation up .9%. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Strikes out with make-believe peace meeting. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein $60 million taxpayer money on golf outings. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein
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Newnet @madoe2014.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Eternal shame on the USA
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Cartoon by Guy Richards Smit.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Trump even walks crooked...
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
If the sun was shining when Fartage was woken by his alarm clock, he could appear on UK media to claim that, by setting his alarm, he caused the sun to rise... ...& not a single right-wing media hack would call him out for mendacious deception. #NeverTrustARightWingPolitician
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Elected because Tories had created a shambles by neglecting everything they couldn't cut or steal, Labour inherited debt & failure. So instead of making lives better, they've tried, & failed, to be more Tory than the Tories. ...Maybe it's time Labour were the Labour we wanted when we elected them.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Farage: We Brexiters don't want the UK to make deals with the forins... Also Farage: Why won't the forins make deals with us... I guess being a two faced grifter makes it easy for Farage to look both ways, hold opposing viewpoints, & simultaneously insist both are his position.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Nothing better sums up the threat to our democracy and country than this far right cosplaying champion of the working class lolling about in a Belgravia club and the Sunday Times giving him a megaphone to honk out his ruinous Trumpian populism to a public tired of govt failure (that he helped cause)
Photo of Farage grinning as he reclines on leather seats in a Belgravia club


Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the bar of Boisdale of Belgravia, his unofficial office, last week
SUNDAY TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE
Nigel Farage: If I can't give young men a voice, wait till what comes after me The Reform leader on his plan for taking power, starting by tearing down the parliamentary system
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A 9th anniversary Brexit analogy. Imagine the deals, benefits & freedoms the EU gave us were represented by a bowl of water. Brexit meant the UK tipped out all of the water & we replaced the bowl with a sieve... ...& ever since, Brexiters have tried to convince us that Brexit still holds water.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Brexit is magic. Somehow, it made all the wealth vanish into the pockets of the billionaires that conned the public to vote for Brexit... ...plus, it's consequences hide in plain sight & no one ever mentions the cause or questions how the wealthy got away with the Brexit scam.
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Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 11/06/2025
Trump's private army...
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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
😈 @mjfree.bsky.social Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree · 7h HOLY HELL! Look at what’s happening in #LA! Someone call the #NationalGuard! Oh, wait… that’s Jan 6… my bad 😳
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Nailed it.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
If you're thinking of voting Reform & you or your family receive healthcare or take medicine, think again. Reform will abolish free healthcare. It's their policy. You'll need insurance but existing conditions aren't covered...& you'll pay the full manufacturer price for meds. #NeverVoteReform
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Imagine you employ a cowboy gardener named Nigel to reform your garden. He imports toxic orange soil from the US, makes you pay extra for sunlight & rain, & destroys the garden but blames the neighbours. & he's never around to do the work, but always appears when it's pay day. #NeverTrustReform
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Blue Tsunami #NoKings @bluefuture.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Irony central.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Reform invent scapegoats & bogeymen with which to enrage the gullible. Then, once elected, Reform triumphantly announce they've solved the problem they invented. That they only exist in the minds of Reform voters is irrelevant as reality & Reform don't inhabit the same space. #NeverTrustReform
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Reform highlight the vast cost of UC & draw attention to proposals to cut it from some claimants, but... They don't mention that many need to claim while working full time just to afford food. That's because many businesses (& Tory/Reform donors) avoid tax & pay minimum wage to increase profits.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
To decide whether a politician is trustworthy, ask yourself, do they serve the public interest or their own self interest. Those that change their colours & therefore their principles, at the drop of a hat, or rejected politicians desperate to get reelected, are wronguns...& Reform is full of them.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
DEI - Choosing the right person for the job, so long as they have the right qualifications. Right-wing politics - Choosing the white person for the job, so long as the have the right connections.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Tories wanted to abolish the BBC & turn it into a subscription service. That change would've enabled them to sell it to a US billionaire owned right-wing media group... ...So they loaded BBC news with right-wing management... ...who now platform Reform who'd sell it, & the NHS, to Trump's mates.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
You know that you're being conned when former Tory MP, Andrea Jenkins, ditches her Tory colours, dons a Reform hat & blames the appalling state of the country on the Tory party she represented. So let the problems pile up, change your badge & then carry on scaming the public.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 30/04/2025
Canada learned the hard way that Trump can’t be trusted to keep to his deals. With British farming, online safety and our NHS at stake, Keir Starmer must stop dodging the issue and give Parliament a vote on any Trump trade deal.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Farage is a millionaire. He was a city trader from a public school before politics. He supported the fascist National Front at Uni. Every 'solution' he's backed (Truss, Brexit, ending free healthcare, cutting public services, low taxes for the rich) are politically disasterous for the UK.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Products were locally made until the wealthy realised they'd make more money if made cheaper abroad & sold for the same price. That destroyed local jobs. Now the wealthy object to cost of the crisis their greed caused & demand right-wing governments cut their taxes & protect their grubby profits.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
When the news tells you the government has had to borrow lots of money... ...remember, they borrow because the greedy rich didn't pay the taxes they owed... ...& the borrowing is to to make up the revenue shortfall caused by wealthy tax avoiding #TaxParasites.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🚨🚨I understand there is massive pressure on Zelenskyy (US threat of walking away from negotiations) to agree a ceasefire deal (including accepting Russian occupied territories) but the reported #Trump proposal is very bad for #ukraine and he should reject it. 🧵 kyivindependent.com/final-draft-...
kyivindependent.com
Trump's reported 'final' ceasefire offer includes accepting Russian occupation, few benefits for Ukraine
The U.S. reportedly presented its peace proposal last week during a meeting with Ukrainian officials in Paris.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
As the news report that US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth had a second signal chat in which he shared detailed military plans with his family One wonders if he was inspired by Mission Gainsborough from this episode of Blackadder Goes Forth 👀
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 13/04/2025
President Trump deemed in ‘excellent’ health at his listed weight of 224lbs and 6-foot 3-inch height
independent.co.uk
President Trump deemed in ‘excellent’ health after annual physical
Trump’s annual physical was completed on Friday
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Reasons to abolish crony peerages...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/04/2025
Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Trump says his tariffs are medicine. This is the same Trump that recommended drinking bleach (don't, it'll kill you) & appointed a Secretary of Health that opposes vaccines... ...so when it comes to medicine, his position is nothing but harmful.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The only reason a very rich country like the UK would Brexit is to turn the UK into patchworks of corporate sovereignties and use State aid for companies as corporate welfare.
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Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Let’s be clear. He sold $2.4 billion of his stock the day before he announced tariffs. He’s now crashing the stock market deliberately. He will then buy stock when it’s fallen through the floor. All this is is him stiffing everyone to get richer. That’s it.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Now we know why his casinos went bankrupt... Trump is clueless: An economic moron with the business sense of a tinned peach & the IQ of a spoon.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Protectionist economic policies rarely protect the consumer & never benefit those least able to bear the increased cost. Conversely, as the economic hardship grows, bankruptcies rise & poverty escalates, the greedy billionaires that enacted the policies make a killing.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Like knotweed, right-wing ideologies are insidious. Their tendrils hidden beneath the surface, interconnected & spreading... ...but each instance nothing more than a new face of the same opaquely funded conglomerate of billionaire greed, fueling yet more hateful misinformation.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Trump imposed tariffs on the penguin inhabited Heard Island & McDonald Islands... Can't think why...
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Putin couldn't have hoped for a more useful idiot that Trump... ...& as a bonus,Trump's insane executive orders & the incompetent dolts he appointed to run the administration undermine the US & destabilise world peace. I wouldn't be surprised if Putin had a permanent erection for President Trump.
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Knowgum @uknogum.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The fundamental reason for Brexit was tax avoidance by the rich. Brexit let the ultra rich evade new EU tax laws. It also lets Tory created Freeports & SEZs water down employment rights, syphon profits to billionaires & avoid paying tax. Shockingly, Labour seem OK with that stupid idea.
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