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Sarah Murphy
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Welcome to my shiny new echo chamber… hoping here that I can keep it clean and tidy and ‘woke’.

IRL - lawyer (of the lefty, campaigning variety).
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · Oct 5
We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
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Farage the politician *is* Farage the schoolboy losing his shit over seeing the name ‘Patel’ on the school roll and telling black pupils to go back to Africa. There’s really no difference. Except now he wants (and may be bought) the power to deport those people.
It’s not the past. It’s now.
#NeverPM
December 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Interesting what Crick notes.

Farage like Mogg and Johnson are really just grown up versions of their teenage selves. Lots of public school boys leave fully formed - and armed with an entitlement and a sense of empowerment that takes them through the rest of their lives.
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2h
On why Farage doesn’t apologise for his schoolboy racism:
“if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Exactly.
He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry.
#NeverPM

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
With his party riding high in the polls, toasting a game-changing £9m donation and welcoming its first Tory defector in the Lords, Nigel Farage seems to be sitting pretty. But creeping allegations of racist schoolboy behaviour — and his belligerent response to them — could harm his chances of winning over wavering voters, writes Josh Glancy (Cartoon of shocked? angry? frightened? people under the money bags holding placards saying ‘BIGOT’, ‘RACIST’ and ‘NAZI NIGEL’) Crick believes that there is a clear line to be drawn between Farage the sixth-former and Farage the politician. "So much of his character is the same as you can see at Dulwich," he says. "The boy who's desperate for attention, who loves debating, who loves division. The English nationalism, the interest - almost obsession - with immigration, the admiration for Enoch Powell, the free-market Thatcherism; all of that began at Dulwich." Much of the public has already made up its mind on Farage. In as much as this story cuts through to the wider elector-ate, some will think it deeply unfair to judge Farage on his adolescence; while others will see it as fair game and reflective of the man he later became. But there will be many who are still undecided on Farage and, for this last camp, his belligerent response to the allegations will be a test. He has the polling support. He has the Tory defections. He has the money now too. But does he have the ability to woo and keep voters who once found him unsavoury? Farage is unlikely to change tack now. "He's got to be true to him-self," says the senior Reform source. "There is precious little point in apologising to people like Ed Davey." Additional Reporting: Harry Yorke
December 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
On why Farage doesn’t apologise for his schoolboy racism:
“if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Exactly.
He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry.
#NeverPM

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
With his party riding high in the polls, toasting a game-changing £9m donation and welcoming its first Tory defector in the Lords, Nigel Farage seems to be sitting pretty. But creeping allegations of racist schoolboy behaviour — and his belligerent response to them — could harm his chances of winning over wavering voters, writes Josh Glancy (Cartoon of shocked? angry? frightened? people under the money bags holding placards saying ‘BIGOT’, ‘RACIST’ and ‘NAZI NIGEL’) Crick believes that there is a clear line to be drawn between Farage the sixth-former and Farage the politician. "So much of his character is the same as you can see at Dulwich," he says. "The boy who's desperate for attention, who loves debating, who loves division. The English nationalism, the interest - almost obsession - with immigration, the admiration for Enoch Powell, the free-market Thatcherism; all of that began at Dulwich." Much of the public has already made up its mind on Farage. In as much as this story cuts through to the wider elector-ate, some will think it deeply unfair to judge Farage on his adolescence; while others will see it as fair game and reflective of the man he later became. But there will be many who are still undecided on Farage and, for this last camp, his belligerent response to the allegations will be a test. He has the polling support. He has the Tory defections. He has the money now too. But does he have the ability to woo and keep voters who once found him unsavoury? Farage is unlikely to change tack now. "He's got to be true to him-self," says the senior Reform source. "There is precious little point in apologising to people like Ed Davey." Additional Reporting: Harry Yorke
December 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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What traitorous dolts the British rightwing were to oblige Russia and the network of oligarchs who hate the power of EU collaboration and prosperity. Now we find ourselves isolated, the EU weakened and Ukraine being betrayed.
Shame on all who paved the way…
Farage, you’re front of the queue.
eunews.social European News @eunews.social · 18h
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
On Twitter/X, Elon Musk says: “The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people.” Dmitry Medvedev, ex-President and ex-Prime Minister of Russia, a close ally of Vladimir Putin and currently the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, then replies to Elon Musk’s post approvingly, saying “Exactly.”
December 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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peterjukes.bsky.social
Here is the whole Trump, Brexit, Russia story neatly summed up for you

The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power
December 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Farage hopes he can breeze into power without scrutiny. But his racism, corrupt donations, shady links to Russia and MAGA… make it harder for him to hide. And his tantrum reactions to being challenged reveal him for the nasty inadequate he really is.
#NeverPM

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
The Wheels Are Falling off the Nigel Farage Project
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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reformexposed.bsky.social
I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing
Yinka Bankole
I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing
The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. I’ve never forgotten his – it felt malicious
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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thomaswpenny.bsky.social
This little boy was 9, Farage was 17. The epitome of a school bully.
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d
"'Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’ with an accompanying hand gesture pointing towards a place far away."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Great from @roberthutton.co.uk on the Truss clown-car, as she repeatedly drives it into the wall of shame.
This time with her own YouTube show. Most of us would have tired of the indelible humiliation by now. Not Liz.

liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/408...
Liz Truss is back to tell her story on YouTube - but there's a twist After her political career ended in humiliation, Truss's new series is about affirmation 5th December 2025 4:50 pm 'Liz Truss is far from the only politician to try a move to TV', writes Rob Hutton (Image: The Liz Truss Show/YouTube) "They tried to silence her. They failed." The trailer for the newest thriller to hit our screens doesn't disappoint. It's a tagline that conjures images of Sigourney Weaver or Angelina Jolie, locked and loaded and out for justice. So who is 2025's heroine, staring down the camera as she sets out on a quest for revenge? Get ready... for former prime minister Liz Truss. "It's time to fight for the West," Truss, still speaking very much like someone who might be spraying bullets around in the final act, told X (formerly Twitter) as she announced her newest venture, a YouTube show. But the whole show promises to rest on Truss's galactic levels of un-self-awareness. "The problem we've got in Britain," she told Solomon, is that "we have a ruling elite who just don't like their own country." There's no better way for a former prime minister to make the point than to slag the rest of us off for the benefit of Americans. Truss may need money. Although she can claim back up to £115,000 a year for costs associated with her public duties as a former prime minister, this isn't the same as a salary, and having lost her seat in Parliament, she no longer gets paid as an MP. But what she needs more is affirmation. We are all the heroes of our own narratives. Truss's political career ended in failure and humiliation at a level unmatched in modern British history. For her to still be the hero, this disaster must have been the work of some pretty special villains. "I'm going to expose the truth about what happened to me and who was behind it," Truss promised Solomon. The rest of us know what happened, of course, but one woman can never face it. This will be her story.
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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“We want growth. We know this is the single best way of getting it…
We could then challenge Farage… to either continue with our economic recovery, or to halt it in its tracks and take us backwards.”

Finally. Weaken Farage by doing something that actually works.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘The only idea around’: will Labour return to a customs union with the EU?
The desperate search for economic growth is pushing the party to confront the issue that dare not speak its name
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
Thank God for Bluesky
Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.
iandunt.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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petergeoghegan.bsky.social
🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history

75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men

Is this what democracy looks like?

New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men
Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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nickduza.bsky.social
Clown shit.

People in 100 years are going to learn about this moment in history in disbelief.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Fortunately David Lammy you have the chance to vote for a customs union by backing our bill next week.

See you in the Aye lobby?
“Lammy breaks ranks on Brexit. Rejoining the customs union would boost growth, says Deputy Prime Minister, days after Starmer ruled it out.”
December 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
And nor should it. Farage is a dangerous racist and yet is being fast tracked into No.10 on a ruinous populist agenda, funded by shady right wing money and malign foreign interests.
People must know who and what they are voting for. That’s the very lowest bar in a democracy.
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Dubai immigrant, Isabel Oakeshott, whines that Farage got nothing from his deal with the Tories last time, so why should he do that again.

Christ. The whining victimhood of these spoiled brats. Squabbling over power, while the rest of us live with the mess they’ve made of our country and our lives.
REFORM AND THE TORIES REFORMUK Kick in teeth for putting country first The Daily Telegraph In 2019, having stood aside in hundreds of seats to give the Tories a clear run, Nigel Farage's party was left empty-handed. To "get Brexit done", they had done what politicians always promise but rarely honour - and put the country first. What did they get? A kick in the teeth. (Isabel Oakeshott)
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
Because, you see, buying influence is only a worry if a Labour peer donates a couple of "freebie" outfits to close friends. When a man, whose business is literally DARK MONEY, single-handedly rescues a near-bankrupt far-right party, leading in the polls, he's doing it because he believes in Nige.
December 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Short-fused racist has tantrum at BBC for asking him about being a racist bully at school. Then tries to claim that Reform was given £9M by crypto billionaire, Harborne, for “absolutely nothing in return”.

That’s all that sorted then.
Racist *and* corrupt.

news.sky.com/story/politi...
December 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
The super-rich rightwing are pouring money into Reform. Do ordinary voters really think their aim is to even out social inequality and make their lives better? Do they think they’re doing it so Farage invests in infrastructure and public services? Ffs. Democracy being beaten to death in plain sight.
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
So the Daily Mail owner's wife has just given £50,000 to Nigel Farage's Reform UK
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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samfr.bsky.social
This is the guy who gave Boris Johnson £1 million and then won a big MoD contract....
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Tice on #r4today says that those reporting Farage’s schoolboy racism are talking “twaddle” and that “no one has done more for the Jewish community” than him and Nigel. Because they wanted the pro Palestine protests banned.
Not so much pro-Jewish as anti-Muslim then.
Just peddlers of hate.
December 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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drjennings.bsky.social
The normalisation of extremism in British politics and parts of the media is shocking - as is the complacent response of so many supposed anti-racists.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
I absolutely do not care about Rachel Reeves’s junior chess competition.

I absolutely do care about whether Farage is racist or not.

And, given the deranged but distinct possibility that he may become PM, we all should.

Ps… Narrator: there was no Damascene conversion.

inews.co.uk/opinion/expo...
OPINION By Peter Ettedgui I was targeted by Farage at school - this is why he should be exposed. More than 20 former classmates of Farage have now come forward to accuse him of schoolboy racism 3rd December 2025 11:37 am 'Farage's denials of racism is as offensive as the original verbal abuse, ,' writes Peter Ettedgui (Photo: James Manning/PA) By evading the issue of his teenage racism, by denying the memories of so many people, Farage appears to be trying to whitewash his past. I think the British public should know what exactly he is hiding with his denials, and why. That he held racist and fascist beliefs up to the age of 18 can surely no longer be in doubt following the recent reports. Does he still hold the repellent views he expressed during his teenage years in some dark recess of his being? Or did he have a Damascene conversion at some point, after which he stopped uttering the racist slurs and chants that characterised his behaviour at school? I strongly believe these are questions worth asking of Farage, and worth his while answering, preferably with an honesty that has so far been lamentably absent.
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM