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Andrew #FBPE @andydownie.bsky.social · 6h

Amazing that Fracking Farage is MIA just when everything Reform touch falls apart.
He’s a coward, and well as lying scum.

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Andrew #FBPE @andydownie.bsky.social · 7h

Does anyone else wonder where Fracking Farage has gone?
It’s as if with all these scandals - Russian connections, Russian money, Clacton houses, lying, fracking, Brexit ruined economy, rogue councillors, farcical economic policy, etc. - he’s suddenly all camera shy.
Don’t give him such an easy ride.

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Andrew #FBPE @andydownie.bsky.social · 7h

Not much use in prison

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Andrew #FBPE @andydownie.bsky.social · 7h

Start by getting Fracking Farage on a commons committee to answer qs about ‘his’ Clacton house, his Russian links, Reform vetting, councils raising tax, his part in Brexit, etc.

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Mr Peter Lyall @missedmycue.bsky.social · 1d

Why is the Reform Party's Russian links not a major news story?

Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 1d

Given how much the China spy case has dominated headlines, it really does beg the question: why is our political-media class so uninterested in Nathan Gill, his Russian bribes, his once close associate Nigel Farage, and Reform UK?

Our new Byline Times edition investigates what the media won't 👇

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Andrew #FBPE @andydownie.bsky.social · 1d

Odd that they never call Trump, Epstein et al’s victims children, and yet they were children!

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Andrew #FBPE @andydownie.bsky.social · 1d

And why do they conflate anti-sematism and anti-Isreal, if not to play the victim.
Their fans cause trouble; they look for it.; they want it. They behave like the IDF.
Oh, and Israel isn’t in Europe anyway.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums.

Thank you.

An Aston Villa fan.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

"Epstein... walked around his desk, picked up a grainy photograph, and handed it to me. The image had been taken from some distance, but it was unmistakably my little brother. I felt a stab of fear.

“We know where your brother goes to school,” Epstein said."

This man was a monster. I feel sick.

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

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Andrew #FBPE @andydownie.bsky.social · 2d

‘Full force’ = shoot to kill?

Andrew #FBPE @andydownie.bsky.social · 2d

Has he cleared up the Clacton House purchase lies, or the Russian connections and money, or the Fracking fiasco or the Reform council tax increases? or are they just forgotten about.
Farage is lying scum - do not let home ‘move on’.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 2d

Bloody brilliant 👇

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

British.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

On the 8th of August 1963, The Great Train Robbery took place, they stole £2.63m.

That's far less even with inflation than the £145m Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman owe.

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 2d

Tim Davie BBC Reform & previously Tory Chief Propaganda Officer AKA Director General wanting ppl prosecuted if they don’t pay the licence fee is no surprise as he wants £’s to promote Farage & Reform

What really got my goat is him saying its journalists act “without fear or favour” Utter bollox❗️😡

BBC boss Tim Davie backs prosecution of people who evade licence fee

The director-general made his comments as he answered questions from his own staff on the BBC Breakfast sofa.

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Angrily Living in a Red State. @ra59050.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously he knows he's been blowing up fishermen, not narcos.
ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-jokes-...

Trump jokes people are afraid to fish after Venezuelan boat strikes

Troops have conducted at least five strikes on vessels in the southern Caribbean, which the Trump administration has described as involved in drug trafficking, without providing evidence. “If you wan...

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 2d

Lest we forget one month ago Angela Rayner resigned over underpaying stamp duty on her £800,000 flat in Hove

Within a week Farage exposed not to own a £885,000 house in #Clacton he claimed he’d bought & accused of avoiding £44,000 in tax by funding his girlfriend to buy it

It got buried quick eh❗️😡

Angela Rayner resigns after underpaying tax on Hove flat - BBC News

Her departure comes after the PM's ethics adviser concludes that she breached ministerial rules.

www.bbc.com

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Andrew #FBPE @andydownie.bsky.social · 2d

Well said both.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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Andrew #FBPE @andydownie.bsky.social · 2d

But they can de trusted to run the country.
They are a joke and a disgrace.
Fracking Farage is lying scum.

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 2d

FarRage wants us to get bored asking who funded his house.

I’m not getting bored I’m getting angrier. Our media are hopeless (not news but worth saying again). FarRage smirks his way through Russian betrayal and dodgy house deals.

He is a Traitor.

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Andrew #FBPE @andydownie.bsky.social · 3d

The issue, tho, is what was discussed? Were any brown envelopes exchanged? What was asked for in return?
Remember - no such thing as a free lunch.

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Andrew #FBPE @andydownie.bsky.social · 3d

Bloody spellcheck/AI.
Foghorn

Andrew #FBPE @andydownie.bsky.social · 3d

Can I borrow ‘for horn of ignorance’ please.
There are a few politicians it fits.

Andrew #FBPE @andydownie.bsky.social · 3d

Can I borrow ‘for horn of ignorance’ please.
There are a few politicians it fits.

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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 3d

#Pinks #ProudBlue
Fifth deadly strike carried out by U.S. military on fishing boats in the Caribbean. This brings the death toll to 27. These strikes violate U.S. and International law.
www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article...

US kills 6 people in strike on boat accused of carrying drugs near Venezuela, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela. The Republican president said Tuesday in a social media post six people aboard the.....

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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social · 3d

I sat in the room with Mike Johnson as Epstein’s survivors told their stories. He looked them in the eyes and promised accountability.

Now he’s blocking the vote to release the files. Swear in Congresswoman-elect @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social—now.

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Andrew #FBPE @andydownie.bsky.social · 3d

Bentley and a bag of cash - sounds like the Elite entrance fee!

goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 3d

Indeed - though the idea of yaxley-lennon as elite is nauseating 🤢