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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian view on the IMF’s warning: Britain’s economy runs hot for profits, cold for pay | Editorial

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 1d

What can possibly go wrong!

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 1d

Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence

“…. that a quarter of the typical energy bill in 2024 was profit”. Pure greed

Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 1d

Scrutiny will be the death of Reform! Hatred is all they have.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

So, Reform would rocket-boost austerity, slash welfare *but not taxes*, cancel net zero progress, do mass deportations, huff out of the ECHR (torching the Brexit deal and our human rights)…
And to top it all off, there’d be this gem of US-funded christofascist authoritarianism on offer too.
Grim AF.

Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 2d

If you wondered why Nigel Farage turned up in US Congress in September speaking about "freedom of speech", this story has the answer

His appearance was orchestrated by a powerful American anti-abortion group that is trying to increase its influence in the UK by influencing the free speech debate

Jane Bradley @bradleyjane.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 2d

Top spec Bentley and a bag of cash. Just normal for far right racists.

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 2d

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Top spec Bentley and a bag of cash. Just normal for far right racists,

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 2d

"I would go as far to say he was the architect."

Emily and Jon on their revelation that Tony Blair has been a pivotal player in the Gaza peace plan - much to the chagrin of civil servants.

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 2d

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny – Byline Times 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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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 2d

Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits

Every bit of scrutiny shows what a joke they are. Let in the sunlight.

Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 2d

Richard Tice confirms Reform abandoning firm commitment to most of the £90bn tax cuts in its 2024 manifesto – UK politics live

Scrutiny will be the death of Reform!

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3d

#SavePortland

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 3d

UK ministers take control of £10bn Lower Thames Crossing

Retaining this but scrapping the A12 widening when Essex has so many new houses coming, makes no sense.

Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 3d

Reform will die with proper scrutiny.

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 3d

Reform will die with proper scrutiny. They have nothing but hatred.

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 3d

Reform will die with proper scrutiny

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 3d

Reform will die with proper scrutiny

Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 3d

Reform will die with proper scrutiny

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

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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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 4d

Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds

Voters recoil at Farage’s fossil fuel funding.
Via @desmog.com @writesbright.bsky.social

Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds

Reform UK’s oil industry interests are a major turn-off for voters, new research reveals. The think tank Persuasion UK tested five anti-Reform messages on 6,000 adults. According to the research, “by ...

www.desmog.com

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 4d

Reform will die with proper scrutiny

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4d

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

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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