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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · Dec 14

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 2h

If only there was a clear majority for that in Scotland 😏

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 3h

“why did Farage protest “I’ve never met the Russian Ambassador”?
Russian embassy website hosted a picture of Yakovenko greeting Farage in May 2013 – the moment Russian policy pivoted over to its plan to disrupt the EU, before invading Ukraine.”
#ReformRussianBribes
bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...

The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia

As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with

bylinetimes.com

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 5h

And (that reminds me) his stance on the Salisbury poisonings.

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 5h

And Banks. “Katya Banks had entered Britain on a passport sequentially numbered to the passport of Katia Zatuliveter, a woman MI5 had claimed was a Russian spy and who had had an affair with the Portsmouth MP, Mike Hancock.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022...

Arron Banks may have been ‘used and exploited’ by Russia, court hears

Journalist Carole Cadwalladr gives evidence as she defends her reporting on multimillionaire Brexit backer

www.theguardian.com

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 5h

“Commitment to his beliefs?”👇”we believe”.
“Just imagine what the Tories would do to workers’ rights if we voted to leave..a bonfire of rights that Labour governments secured within the EU” He ordered a 3 Line Whip for A50 without a SINGLE protective amendment.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 6h

This would be a headline leading scandal for a Labour or Tory politician, rightly⬇️

The BBC, esp #BBCLauraK & #BBCQT, give #ReformUK the platform of a major party but NOT the scrutiny. Why?

Will Laura K even raise it with Nadine Dorries?

#NathanGill #ReformRussianBribes

Adrian Gosling @digitalsunshine.bsky.social · 6h

Dear Laura Kuenssberg

Don't you think it time you gave PROPER coverage to the issue of Reform, Nigel Farage, Nathan Gill & Russian bribery?

You seem reluctant. Just as Fiona Bruce seemed desperate to shut it down when Zack Polanski brought it up on #BBCQT

WHY?

#bbclaurak
#BBCBreakfast

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 8d

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.

Farage is still silent.

It’s deafening.

#ReformRussianBribes

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Who believes Nigel Farage when he says he was “shocked” to find out Nathan Gill took bribes (after a week of saying nothing and being incredibly close to him for a decade)?

#ReformRussianBribes

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 5h

“Gill met pro-Russian leaders in Ukraine & Moldova on multiple trips organised by suspected agents from Russia’s FSB. Gill was a close ally of Farage & one of only a handful of former UKIP MEPs to stand for his new Brexit Party at the 2019 European elections.”
#ReformRussianBribes
archive.ph/WuszR

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 5h

“a major figure in the Brexit movement will now go to jail for accepting bribes for acting as an agent of influence for Russian interests.” #ReformRussianBribes national.thelead.uk/p/the-lead-u...

The Lead Untangles: The Reform leader’s Russian influence scandal

Not unreported, but certainly not given much spotlight, what do the Russian bribes taken by a former Reform UK leader tell us?

national.thelead.uk

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Seems @Nigel_Farage is trying damage limitation on the Reform Russian Bribes scandal.

He’s known Nathan Gill for 20 years, and claims he knew nothing.

No one believes you, Nigel.

Keep the story moving. Questions must be answered.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 19h

Reform UK’s Nathan Gill met with EU President Tajani to lobby him based on Russian Bribes.

Even then, Nigel Farage didn’t bat an eyelid.

Remarkable video. He had never shown an interest in free speech related to Ukrainian TV channels before.

#ReformRussianBribes

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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 6h

Did the Russians pay Farage to say this…just asking questions…

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 8h

Our media:

Tony Blair met with Epstein 6 years before he was known to be a pedophile. Full coverage.

Nathan Gill admits to 8 counts of treason last week. Silence.

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 6h

“Just imagine what the Tories would do to workers’ rights if we voted to leave..a bonfire of rights that Labour governments secured within the EU’
Imagine a Labour leader then ordering a 3LW for A50 w/o a SINGLE protective amendment. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 17h

Farage "forgot" meeting Russian Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko, too, until shown a photo.

Yakovenko also had multiple meetings to discuss "gold & diamond deals" with Brexit moneyman & Farage's close friend Arron Banks, which Banks later lied about to a parliamentary committee.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 19h

Nigel Farage was regularly being paid by Putin's public TV propaganda arm Russia Today (RT) in the years before Brexit, while he was failing to represent UK interests as an MEP.

At least 17 appearances from December 2010 - March 2014

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Nigel Farage's relationship with Russian media comes under scrutiny
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The Ukip leader's Euroscepticism makes him a shoo-in at the Russian state broadcaster that is often called Putin's mouthpiece
Patrick Wintour and Rowena Mason
Mon 31 Mar 2014 21.37 BST
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Nigel Farage's near monthly appearances on state-owned Russia Today have come under scrutiny after his expression of admiration for Vladimir Putin this week.

In one of his 17 appearances on the channel seen by the Guardian and transmitted since December 2010, he claims Europe is governed not by elected democracies but instead "by the worst people we have seen in Europe since 1945".

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/31/nigel-farage-relationship-russian-media-scrutiny

The Ukip leader has appeared so frequently that he is cited in literature for the TV station Russia Today as one of their special and "endlessly quotable" British guests. "He has been known far longer to the RT audience than most of the British electorate," Russia Today claims.

The Ukip leader did not issue a word of criticism of Russian democracy in any of the Russia Today interviews viewed by the Guardian. Last August he told the channel that British intervention in Libya and Syria would go ahead regardless of any vote in the UN, and said he was still not sure President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons.

Farage's relationship with Russia has been under the spotlight since his comments last week on Ukraine. In a TV debate with Nick Clegg (pictured above) he said Russia had been provoked and that the EU had blood on its hands for trying to force Ukraine to choose between itself and Russia.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 19h

Who did Nigel Farage have lunch with after resigning as UKIP leader 4 July 2016?

Noted Russian bribe enthusiast Nathan Gill - seen here giving an important news briefing on his behalf to Russia Today.

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 6h

“Putin is the leader I most admire”

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 6h

“Farage & his MEPs voted against measures calling for transparency of donations from ex EU to political parties.
It came in a series of anti-Putin proposals..Ukip were joined [by] the Front National, which has received funding from Russia.”
archive.ph/WM4R5

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21h

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 7h

“Farage & his MEPs voted against measures calling for greater transparency of donations from outside the EU to political parties.
It came in a series of anti-Putin proposals..Ukip were joined in opposing the measures [by ]the Front National, which has received funding from Russia.”
archive.ph/WM4R5

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 7h

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny – “Sources identified the location as Nathan Gill’s Strasbourg office, & the diary schedule of ‘NG’ on the calendar behind him on the wall…” bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 7h

I have and it came good the second time. so have posted. Bit odd.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 22h

Farage, Arron Banks, and convicted Russian asset Nathan Gill have all parroted the Russian lie that NATO and EU expansion provoked Putin into invading Ukraine.

That's a lie for a Western audience. Putin is much more honest about Russia's imperialist motives when he's speaking to a Russian audience.

Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 11d

Pu spells out Ru's imperialist motivations for the war. He calls the conquest a long-held dream and historical destiny.

He beclowns those who insist NATO expansion caused the war. Let's see if anyone from the Mearsheimer fan club admits the claim has been falsified.
www.kremlin.ru/events/presi...

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