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Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 7h

I agree about the obscenely rich and the political influence of insane billionaires and Wolfie makes some good points but getting them to pay more isn't going to solve all our problems and certainly not easily and quickly. "Make someone else pay" is the easiest of slogans.

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Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 8h

Not really in my opinion. A lot of voters like to hear slogans offering simple solutions and Wolfie Polanski is offering just that, especially if someone else is paying.

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Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 8h

I'd ask the same question about voters.

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Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 19h

Nazi scum together.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 1d

Is the Israeli propaganda rally broadcast over yet?
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
@lbc.co.uk #lbc

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Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry but I've had to switch off. That @lbc.co.uk are handing over airtime to a genocidal war criminal is unsettling but then we do know where the owners stand.
Not sure how long @mrjamesob.bsky.social thinks he can carry on working for this organisation.
#lbc

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Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 1d

Citizens of Gaza and the West Bank must be wondering what the hell is in store for them after this Nuremberg-style neo-fascist Israel "peace" rally. Shocking stuff.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
@lbc.co.uk #lbc

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Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 1d

Even @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social would be gagging at some of this stuff surely.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
@lbc.co.uk #lbc

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Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 1d

Why the hell are we having this shit poured down our throats?
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
@lbc.co.uk #lbc

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Rupert Lowe on Nathan Gill, former Reform leader in Wales, who has pleaded guilty to taking bribes from pro-Russian proxies:

"I had absolutely no idea. I was new to the European Parliament, Nathan had been there for years alongside Farage - they were very close."

Shots fired. ~AA

Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10
I have received A LOT of questions about Nathan Gill, having sat as a Brexit Party MEP alongside him in Brussels and Strasbourg. He was also the Reform leader in Wales. For those who don’t know, he has pleaded guilty to taking pro-Russian bribes over a number of months.

Obviously, I had absolutely no idea. I was new to the European Parliament, Nathan had been there for years alongside Farage - they were very close. He was the head of the delegation of our MEPs, so with the whip ran the day-to-day affairs of our grouping and organised activity in Brussels/Strasbourg. He was one of just two MEPs from the previous term Farage allowed to stand again.

He seemed particularly interested in Russian/Ukrainian developments which I found peculiar. There was one event, right at the beginning of our term, which he asked me and other MEPs to attend. Due to his position in the grouping, I agreed. It had a very pro-Russian slant, with individuals who claimed to be close to Putin there. For obvious reasons, I did not attend another such event.

I thought his obsession with that part of the world was strange, but given his years in the Parliament and position in the party, I didn’t think there was more to it. Other MEPs also found it unusual, but we just got on with job.

So to journalists asking, there is my response.

It is disgraceful behaviour, treasonous behaviour.

I am ashamed to have ever sat alongside him.
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Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 1d

This is much more a victory parade than a celebration of peace.
Awful.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
@lbc.co.uk #lbc

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Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 1d

This is dreadful stuff. Was Nuremberg like this?
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
@lbc.co.uk #lbc

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Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 1d

When do we get to hear a Palestinian being introduced on the stage?
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
@lbc.co.uk #LBC

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 1d

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 1d

This caller's got you by the short & curlies, @mrjamesob.bsky.social.
@lbc.co.uk #lbc

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 1d

As long as Netanyahu stays in place the genocide will not be over. Cast your eyes towards the West Bank as well.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
@lbc.co.uk #LBC

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 1d

Get it trending

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 1d

VAT on school fees : pupil numbers from Scottish councils show fears of private schools unfounded bit.ly/4hgJiZC but the campaign against it goes on

Private school VAT raid ‘did not drive pupils to state sector’

Local councils reject claims by the Scottish Council of Independent Schools that Labour’s policy has added to burden on taxpayers

bit.ly

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 1d

As with everything GIGO applies - especially in the case of AI.

Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 2d

Special relationship, eh?

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

This Is Fascism

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 2d

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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