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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a 2 minute radio program, never repeated, broadcast 18 times a week.

Bigger audience than Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon … combined.

Millions listen, with no need for the information it gives. Just to listen.

The BBC Shipping Forecast is 100 years old.

From John O'Connell.

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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 1d

#Farage - the party leader most people blame for #BrexitShambles - as a @yorkshirepost.co.uk letter notes. Brexiters keep trying (and failing) to present our #EuropeanUnion departure as a success. Just making stuff up again? #RejoinEU

This letter appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 14 October 2025. The writer takes issue with claims by a previous correspondent of exports increasing since Britain left the European Union.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Brexit is Farage and his fellow Brexiters' shitstorm to own. He/they can't be allowed to just pivot from heckle to heckle and bad idea to worse - while blaming everyone else - without consequences.

So the suggestion that Labour are going to amplify that truth is to be welcomed.

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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 1d

A cut 'em and shut 'em private healthcare company would have done the op double quick and sent me home. The NHS made no assumptions, did lots of checks and have found a serious digestive/stomach prob. This is what makes the NHS so good.

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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 2d

The hard right, Farage, Tice, Jenrick, Philp, Montie, everyone on #GoebbelsNews aren't fit to lick the NHS staff's boots. Every single curruptly obtained £ recovered by HMRC and SFA should be given to this amazing service.

Date/time of next post unknown. Be well everyone. 2/2

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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 2d

For those interested I'm in hospital. Can't eat, double hernia, severe groin pain.

NHS truly a gem; astoundingly wonderful from A&E nurses and doctors at the start, the ward docs, the consultants, the assessment nurses, the ward nurses, the assistants - just everyone. 1/2

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 9d

Infamy! Infamy!
They’ve all got it in for me!

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 9d

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t”

A Reform Councillor being introduced to what I like to call “uncomfortable reality”.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 9d

But, but, but… what about DOGE?

They promised.

UK politics
v Added
Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters
Nigel Farage's party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 9d

But, but, but… what about DOGE?

They promised.

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 9d

Kemi Badenoch says she will send people "back to where they came from"

Does that include "anchor babies" whose parents flipped into the country from Nigeria for a brief period to make sure their daughter could claim birth citizenship?

Then spent 16 years of her childhood in Nigeria

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 9d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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BrexitPirates @brexitpirates.bsky.social · 9d

Does she realise how fascist her policies sound?
She'll be suggesting a colony on Madagascar next...

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10d

Kemi Badenoch asked where she would send the 150,000 people she says she would deport every year, replies that it's an "irrelevant question".

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catwhisperer @catwhisperer.bsky.social · 9d

Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 9d

Something significant people might have missed on Nathan Gill’s indictment for bribery… “conspired with Oleg Voloshyn, and with others”

Maybe sentencing in November will make this clearer

www.spotlightcorruption.org/wp-content/u...

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BrexitPirates @brexitpirates.bsky.social · 9d

They also have no fucking clue that human rights laws enshrined by the ECHR literally are British laws.
Passed by a British parliament and protected by British courts...

Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 9d

The people (Tories and Reform) who tell you your rights are safe if we leave the ECHR as they’ll replace them with British laws also told you our trade, borders and NHS was safe if we left the EU because they’d negotiate amazing trade deals, take control of our borders and fix the NHS…..

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11d

The ECHR is much more than a treaty. It’s a quiet promise - a shield against abuse of power, a lifeline for the vulnerable, a declaration of who we are as a nation. In an age of upheaval and division, we must not let it be torn up for political convenience

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11d

Prime Minister Keir Starmer plans to change how judges interpret the European Convention on Human Rights – a move that risks weakening everyone’s protections.

The ECHR has become a convenient scapegoat for challenges around migration and sovereignty.

WE MUST PROTECT IT
youtu.be/Lmad4kujRhQ?...

🚨THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTS US ALL. WE MUST PROTECT IT

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

youtu.be

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 11d

Nigel Farage and Richard Tice campaigned with Nathan Gill from UKIP through being MEPs together, to him being Welsh Leader of Reform UK.

What did they know about Russian bribes?

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 11d

I wonder if I.C.E, like East Germany’s Stasi, will try to destroy all its records when the current dictatorship eventually reaches the end of its line?

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 11d

ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 11d

Made Reform UK look silly…

Victory for Nottinghamshire Live in battle with Reform UK over council ban

Victory for Nottinghamshire Live in battle with Reform UK over council ban

Reform UK's Nottinghamshire County Council ban on engaging with journalists from Nottinghamshire Live has been lifted after more than a month.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 11d

Family firm of Reform UK council leader threatened with compulsory strike off

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Family firm of Reform UK council leader threatened with compulsory strike off

Mansfield Carpets (Contracts) Limited faced Companies House action over four consecutive years of delayed filings

www.theguardian.com

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 11d

Don't care how, I want my sword, now! 😢

Donald Trump has a Veruca Salt moment

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 11d

“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”

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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 11d

Today is the 89th anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street when the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts through Stepney. Never has there been a more important time to remember this and other heroic events of Autumn 1936

historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi...

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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 11d

Read the article.

Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 11d

I hope the Democrats in blue states, cities and in congress have the balls not to give in to the orange criminal gangster and sexual perv who is currently polluting the White House.

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

Trump sees ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to punish Democrats as shutdown enters day two

Republicans and Democrats engage in war of words as White House also uses impasse to cut government spending

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 11d

Not a drag queen, not a gay man, not a trans person. A heterosexual conservative leading member of the GOP and
'pastor' praised by #PresidentPaedo and in his America, 6 months in jail is what you get for sexually assaulting a 12 year old.

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

Megachurch pastor and ex-Trump adviser pleads guilty to child sexual abuse

Robert Morris to serve only six months in county jail after charged with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with child

www.theguardian.com

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