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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 1h

This 👇🏼

Millionaires Nigel Farage and Richard Tice are not your friends.

They are getting richer off your backs.

Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 1h

The far right is corrupt to the core #Reform

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 1h

at this point nobody is "enabling reform" more than the labour govt. they've chosen to fight the next election on nigel farage's terms. they've chosen to validate his scaremongering, knowing full well they could never compete with his measures.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2h

Britain has lost control of its borders, home secretary admits on.ft.com/477w3pn

Britain has lost control of its borders, home secretary admits

Shabana Mahmood says public trust in state will be weakened unless politicians ‘bring order’ to immigration

on.ft.com

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Frank @frankieboy1964.bsky.social · 1h

Labour truly have Morphed into Tories, all as Corrupt as each other, all Self Serving Greedy Corrupt Bastards, we need to rid the Cesspit of Corruption, to save the 4 Nations of the UK.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 59m

If Labour had listened in 2023, they would not have come unstuck now.

Instead, Brexit is going to do for them just as it did for the Tories.

(You can't point to Brexit's real damage AND claim you can Make Brexit Work. And yet Labour are doing just that.)

medium.com/@edwinhaywar...

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Dan Wellman @danwellman.bsky.social · 57m

RW Tories doing all they can to usher in a far-right government. 🙄

The right will always trend to the far-right. Look how far the Tories moved the Overton window during their 14 year reign of misery and decay. It’s almost as if they wanted to drive the electorate into the arms of the far-right

Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 13h

Here it is! 💥💥💥
The start of the Tory-Reform election pact. Arch-Brexiter Rees-Mogg is telling Tories in the Caerphilly by-election to vote RefUK. With Plaid Cymru leading in the progressive camp, the other anti-fascist parties have to get behind Plaid!

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Marv Scott @marvscott69.bsky.social · 53m

Low-paid workers go hungry in Starmer’s Britain

A damning new report shows that three in five low-paid workers have been forced to skip meals. Two workers spoke to Socialist Worker about life on the minimum wage

socialistworker.co.uk/labour/low-p...

Low-paid workers go hungry in Starmer’s Britain

A damning new report shows that three in five low-paid workers have been forced to skip meals. Two workers spoke to Thomas Foster

socialistworker.co.uk

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Cllr Andrew Varney 🔶 @cllr-andrew-varney.bsky.social · 51m

“We have long said that climate sceptics have their heads buried in the sand. But if the energy industry and all those who are concerned about bringing bills down don’t take on the lies of Farage and Badenoch now, it will be us who have our heads in the sand.”

www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

Ed Davey to urge energy sector to ‘take on the lies of Farage and Badenoch’

The Liberal Democrat leader will address energy industry leaders.

www.independent.co.uk

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jupite5.bsky.social @jupite5.bsky.social · 49m

#Reform #Farage #itvnews #bbcnews #Skynews #C4News #GBnews

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 1h

If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.

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The Greenwichian (this/that/the other) @thegreenwichian.bsky.social · 1h

It's a genuine question. Why are all these children of immigrants (Labour and Conservative) so against immigrants?

James Cleverly
Suella Braverman
Priti Patel
Sajid Javid
Shabana Mahmood

And for balance

Yvette Cooper
Grant Shapps
Amber Rudd, and of course,
Theresa May

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 5h

If Mahmood wanted to tackle declining in trust in politicians a good step would be being honest about immigration. It isn't migration which is the issue, it's the misinformation demonising migrants which surrounds it. Europe's border policies already cost lives.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Border failings in Europe are eroding trust in nation states, warns Mahmood

Home secretary to tell meeting of interior ministers that international cooperation is way to curb irregular migration

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 5h

If Mahmood wanted to tackle declining in trust in politicians a good step would be being honest about immigration. It isn't migration which is the issue, it's the misinformation demonising migrants which surrounds it. Europe's border policies already cost lives.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Border failings in Europe are eroding trust in nation states, warns Mahmood

Home secretary to tell meeting of interior ministers that international cooperation is way to curb irregular migration

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 1h

Fed up with Farage? Me too. I’ve signed the Never Nigel Pledge. Add your name today, and help show that division and hate have no place in our communities.

secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/170649/... @hopenothate.org.uk

Take the Pledge: “I’ll never vote for Nigel Farage”

Join thousands across Britain taking the Never Nigel Pledge. Say no to hate and division and help stop Reform UK from tearing apart our communities. Let's show there is strength in standing together f...

secure.hopenothate.org.uk

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Tina Leonard 🧡💙 @leonard3tina.bsky.social · 1h

Enough governments have signed the

🐟Global OceanTreaty 🐟

for it to come into force next year!

It will help protect 30% of our oceans by 2030🐟

We need UK government to sign the Treaty into law immediately‼️

‼️Call on Keir Starmer to sign the Global Ocean Treaty into law now‼️

Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 2h

The lesson? Nature can heal - but only if we stop destroying it.

Cut fossil fuels. Protect the ocean. Let ecosystems recover.

Take action now for our oceans: act.gp/4oo5ovr

Keir Starmer: deliver a Global Ocean Treaty now

act.gp

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Alex Hope @dralexanderhope.bsky.social · 1h

Well it's clear that the govt of former human rights lawyer Keir Starmer is intent on rolling back human rights across the board.

The trans bashing provides no political benefits except to bigots who'd never vote for them anyway.

It's pretty despicable really.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Stuart Gwynn 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦 @stuartgwynn.bsky.social · 4h

If Starmer isn't asking to see the MI5 file on Farage, hes not fit to run the UK.

Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO @dailyherald.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 4h

Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights sent TWO letters warning of possible human rights violations by the UK government, one about protest, one about trans rights. BBC mentions one in the headline and buries the other at the bottom of the report. #r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 4h

A Broken World 🌍 🌎 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 4h

Good to know, from this piece, that the #ToryBrexitDisaster has been a major cause of destroying the very Party that took us out of the EU.
Let's hope they never recover.

Now... will Labour inflict the same fate on themselves by not immediately REJOINING the EU, stopping Farage too?

#r4today #EU

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23h

You can’t be an effective party for successful people in midlife (sort of the *point* of the Tory party ultimately) if you are at odds with them over the most consequential thing you did in office. This week’s column:

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4h

Labour is telling you VERY LOUDLY who to vote for if you value human rights. And it's definitely NOT LABOUR.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 17h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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GJdop @gjdop.bsky.social · 4h

Swindler and a scoundrel, Nigel Farage, was funded to weaken and damage the European Union. Throughout his political life, #Farage vigorously campaigned for #Brexit, which has been described as the biggest self-inflicted disaster in history and the main source of all of our problems.

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John Johnston @bawsman.bsky.social · 4h

Quite astonishing the difference between “Fleet Street” and the toxic BBC’s coverage of Farage and Rayner situations.

LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 4h

That £900k house in Frinton. Has anyone mentioned how it was paid for yet? Any laws broken, or all above board?

Anyone investigating? Media grown a conscience? Any journalist working for the British people? Anyone?

Half way through another week of silence then.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 6h

Just a point to add to this.

In a Times article mentioning the same issue, it notes about dependents of migrants that:

“At present they do not have to speak any English at all.”

Which isn’t the case - at all.

The tougher language requirement will not apply to family members who come with migrant workers, known as dependants.
Separate changes will require them to learn a standard of English equivalent to GCSE.
At present they do not have to speak any English at all. The government has not said when the changes for dependants will be introduced.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 5h

UK faces highest inflation in G7 this year and next, IMF warns.

Biggest cause is profiteering led by energy, water and food businesses. No govt checks it.

Real average wage stuck at 2008 level. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Govts needs to remove cash from the rich.

UK faces highest inflation in G7 this year and next, IMF warns

According to fund’s World Economic Outlook, Britain is on course to average 3.4% this year and 2.5% in 2026

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 5h

Climate Change Committee warns we aren’t doing enough to stem/plan for global warming.

Meanwhile, in response to proposed solar farm,Tice says they “will do all [they] can to stop investors and developers; nothing is off the table”
Reform: a constant whining drag on progress, prosperity and sanity.

UK must prepare for 2C of global warming by 2050, climate advisors warn
CLIMATE GLOBAL WARMING WEATHER
• Wednesday 15 October 2025 at 6:53am
Martin Stew
Science Correspondent
Credit: i-Stock
The UK must prepare for a 2C rise in global temperatures by 2050, according to new analysis from the Climate Change Committee (CCC), commissioned by the government.
The report forecasts that risks from heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires could double over the next 25 years, with some peak river flows increasing by as much as 40%.
itv.com

The Times:

Reform vow to fight 'crazy Miliband over solar farm

Miliband has approved plans for Britain's biggest solar farm, prompting Reform UK to say it would fight to reverse the decision.
The Tillbridge Solar project, in Lin-colnshire, would cover an area equivalent to about 2,000 football pitches.
Farage's party said the scheme would destroy valuable agricultural land, but Labour said it was needed to meet green energy targets and reduce dependency on energy from abroad.
Tillbridge Solar is the tenth large solar project Miliband has approved since taking office. Half of them are in Lin-colnshire, prompting opposition from local Reform and Conservative MPs.
Tillbridge Solar aims to generate electricity for 300,000 homes and the scheme would cover about 1,400 hectares of mainly agricultural land
Michael Shanks, the energy minister, said: "Solar is one of the cheapest and quickest power sources we can build. It is crucial in our mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower, giving us energy security, good jobs and growth across the country."

A report by the Planning Inspectorate said that the project would lead to the loss of about 1,200 hectares of farm-land, including 11l hectares of the highest grade land, and acknowledged the cumulative impact of other solar arrays in Lincolnshire. However, it concluded that this would not be nationally "significant" , with solar taking over less
than 1% of UK farmland.
It added that the biodiversity would benefit from the end of intensive farming on the land and that crop planting
"could be restored should it be needed in the future" for food security.
In a blunt warning to companies behind the schemes, Richard Tice, Reform UK's deputy leader and the MP for nearby Boston & Skegness, said: "We will do all we can to stop investors and developers; nothing is off the table."

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 6h

What’s that Jeremy? Your private healthcare couldn’t save your life but the NHS could?

People need to think long and hard about voting for Reform, Farage openly says we need insurance based healthcare, but what about people who can’t afford it?

They die. It’s simple.

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.

Jeremy Clarkson reneges on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment

Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster’, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him

www.independent.co.uk

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Professor Christopher Painter @prfchrispainter.bsky.social · 5h

ReformUK tainted with bribes for Russian propaganda lines; a still unexplained house purchase: Farage raking in a fortune through lucrative sidelines to the day job; Reform-controlled local councils reneging on promises or descending into chaos. Should anyone remotely trust this lot of hustlers!!

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