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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 5h

What worries me is that are a lot of averagely intelligent people out there who now see them as normalised & might vote for them as a ‘non of the above’ alternative. Then we’ll be totally screwed. Personally I don’t believe the polls in the context of a (still long way off) GE BUT…

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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 17h

If you don’t see Reform as a bunch of grifting wankers you’re really not paying attention.

Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 1d

Two certainties in life are water is wet and Reform lie incessantly❗️

Tice admits £90 Billion (not million) of tax cuts PROMISED in their Manifesto wouldn’t happen❌
8 Reform County Councils will raise Council Tax after promising to cut it❌

Supporting them is like giving an arsonist a box of matches

Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits

Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 17h

Oh my days Nana Mouskouri! Them were the days. And Demis Roussos. Did Greece ever have it so good? 😂

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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 17h

I can still remember the registration of my brother’s 1973 Chrysler Avenger. And a few later ones.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19h

All perfectly normal

Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 1d

www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/t...

Tommy Robinson told police ‘not a chance bruv’ when asked for mobile pin. He had more than £13,000 and 1,900 euros in cash with him, told officers he was driving his silver Bentley to Benidorm for a couple of days when he was stopped. As you do!

Tommy Robinson told police ‘not a chance bruv’ when asked for mobile pin, court told

Tommy Robinson, 42, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is standing trial after being charged under the terrorism act

www.standard.co.uk

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20h

Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change"

"All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern"

"I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened"

"And I get more scared every single day"

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 18h

"It's just the weather"

"The first "tipping point" for the Earth has been reached, according to an international report from 160 scientists in 23 countries.

More than 80 per cent of coral reefs worldwide have bleached in a marine heatwave in the past two years."

#GlobalBoiling

Planet's first climate tipping point already reached: international study

An international report from climate scientists suggests tipping points for coral reefs have been reached, putting them at risk of dieback.

www.abc.net.au

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 19h

"Brexit must be destroyed".
www.thenewworld.co.uk/jonty-bloom-...

Labour’s overdue war on Farage and Brexit has arrived. Here’s how to fight it

Blaming Reform’s leader for impending tax cuts only makes sense if you push the UK closer to the EU, too

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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John Petrie @johnpetrie.bsky.social · 19h

Russia is to Farage as Epstein is to Trump

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Gerry Bolton @gerryb.bsky.social · 18h

Without any sense of iron he still publishes as if an expert

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Arvind Ethan David @arvd.bsky.social · 18h

Very much looking forward to this event with @brianklaas.bsky.social at @ucl.ac.uk next week -- discussing #DouglasAdams #Politics and #People #BookSky

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/douglas-ad...

Douglas Adams: People are the Problem

Arvind Ethan David in conversation with UCL Professor Brian Klaas.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 17h

Please sign

www.europeanmovement.co.uk/keep_uk_in_e...

Open Letter: Keep the UK in the ECHR

Sign the European Movement UK's open letter now if you agree that the UK must remain in the ECHR.

www.europeanmovement.co.uk

Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 17h

I seriously hope this will go on tour!

Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 19h

Another of my favourite BBC science programs being cut. The BBC becoming less relevant by the day…

Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · Mar 5

In the latest issue of Private Eye (thanks to a friend for sharing) -
"So farewell then, Science in Action..."
Wishing I could tell EJ Thribb that reports of the programme's demise are premature, but that may depend on support from outside the BBC. ☹️

Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 20h

Gutted. But thank you Roland 🙏

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 23h

Always makes me giggle that naive flag shaggers up and down the land fund all this and his many holidays. Utterly gullible fools.

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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 2d

"Persuasion UK presented DeSmog’s findings that the party raised £2.3 million between the 2019 and 2024 elections from climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests – equivalent to 92 percent of its funding over the period."

Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds

Reform UK’s oil industry interests are a major turn-off for voters, new research reveals. The think tank Persuasion UK tested five anti-Reform messages on 6,000 adults. According to the research, “by ...

www.desmog.com

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

"No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire"
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

www.mirror.co.uk

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 1d

This (Clarke-nominated) book really is excellent. Highly recommended.

Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 1d

I've decided that whilst critical success is lovely, I'd like to sell some books.

If you liked EXTREMOPHILE, recommend it to a pal! (If your pal is fucking COOL and not a narc)

Eco-terrorism biohacking body horror, smart shit with dumb characters. Your new favourite book

Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · Oct 30

'A visceral, doesn't-give-a-damn biopunk thriller that treats the "punk" part of that subgenre not as mere window-dressing but as an antifascist shriek... vital and urgent SF that reaches places realist writing never could' ― @interzone.press

If you like cool shit get this 🕶️

geni.us/extremophile

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

At long last. A look at the details of Farage's fantasy economics.
An economically illiterate attempt to con the voters.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

So it now appears the woman Farage and Gill were so close to has a direct link not only to Putin’s “Man in Ukraine” Medvedchuk, but his predecessor as President, Medvedev

These are top Russian agents.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Rupert Lowe on Nathan Gill, former Reform leader in Wales, who has pleaded guilty to taking bribes from pro-Russian proxies:

"I had absolutely no idea. I was new to the European Parliament, Nathan had been there for years alongside Farage - they were very close."

Shots fired. ~AA

Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10
I have received A LOT of questions about Nathan Gill, having sat as a Brexit Party MEP alongside him in Brussels and Strasbourg. He was also the Reform leader in Wales. For those who don’t know, he has pleaded guilty to taking pro-Russian bribes over a number of months.

Obviously, I had absolutely no idea. I was new to the European Parliament, Nathan had been there for years alongside Farage - they were very close. He was the head of the delegation of our MEPs, so with the whip ran the day-to-day affairs of our grouping and organised activity in Brussels/Strasbourg. He was one of just two MEPs from the previous term Farage allowed to stand again.

He seemed particularly interested in Russian/Ukrainian developments which I found peculiar. There was one event, right at the beginning of our term, which he asked me and other MEPs to attend. Due to his position in the grouping, I agreed. It had a very pro-Russian slant, with individuals who claimed to be close to Putin there. For obvious reasons, I did not attend another such event.

I thought his obsession with that part of the world was strange, but given his years in the Parliament and position in the party, I didn’t think there was more to it. Other MEPs also found it unusual, but we just got on with job.

So to journalists asking, there is my response.

It is disgraceful behaviour, treasonous behaviour.

I am ashamed to have ever sat alongside him.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Corrupt chancers urged to come up with an economic plan that isn’t utter bullshit. So, no tax cuts and austerity on steroids for a country already stuck in Farage’s Brexit dead end.
But hey, some super wealthy industry big (k)nobs will come on board to help con the little guy.

(Times)

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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