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Brit, European, progressive. If you think persecuting immigrants and asylum seekers improves your life then you are racist. Read books. Be curious. Build bridges, not WALLS. Humans vary, human rights must not. There must be a better way. ANTI FASCIST

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DJ @djwils.bsky.social · 3d

A wonderful passage in the Nobel Prize press release.
It's the antidote to Trump (and all tyrants).

#Felon47 #nomorekings

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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 6m

From 3 years ago - Farage & Tories' Russian links.
'Sergey Nalobin, senior diplomat, father an FSB general, hosted a party at the Russian Embassy establishing the Conservative Friends of Russia.'
'Ambassador Yakovenko himself met Farage in the Russian Embassy 2013'
bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...

Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It

Peter Jukes tracks Vladimir Putin’s long war against the West and the allies he has found in the pro-Brexit establishment in the plot to derail Britain

bylinetimes.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 38m

Go on then Nigel Farage, keep telling us you know nothing about Russian influence…

The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic

www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic

Worker for Farage’s group in EU parliament was ‘frequent visitor to embassy’ and accused of role in propaganda stunt

www.theguardian.com

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DJ @djwils.bsky.social · 1h

Folk told em Reform would have no idea...
FAFO

Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 1h

County Durham residents fear higher bills as Reform UK plans council tax changes
Reform UK won control of Durham County Council in May, hoping to cut council tax; they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

County Durham residents fear higher bills as Reform UK plans council tax changes

Reform UK won control of Durham County Council in May, hoping to cut council tax; they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax

northeastbylines.co.uk

DJ @djwils.bsky.social · 1h

Shades of "famous British people visiting Hitler" in the 30s.

DJ @djwils.bsky.social · 15h

This man does not and never will deserve the Nobel Peace prize.
You cannot call him a peacemaker when he's selling the weapons.
#nobelpeaceprize
#trumpcriminal
#Felon47

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

His Nobel pitch needs a little work

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DJ @djwils.bsky.social · 15h

An horrific man

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Dizzygirl @dizzygirl.bsky.social · 1d

He wasn't shot.
He didn't win.
He's on the list.
He's not going to heaven.

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DJ @djwils.bsky.social · 16h

One giant circle jerk.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 19h

This goes even higher up. Forget Medvedchuk. Forget Medvedev

According to former Brexit Party MEP and defected Reform MP Rupert Lowe, the individuals at Gill's meetings claimed to be "close to Putin"

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 1d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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DJ @djwils.bsky.social · 1d

Viz correspondents with fingers on the pulse as usual.

DJ @djwils.bsky.social · 1d

Leopards and spots...

DJ @djwils.bsky.social · 1d

Bloody hell.
Tree probably took quite a bit of the sting out. Good job no higher.

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

Reform… links to Russia.. how very dare you… Don’t look at that👇🏼 No look at the Migrants, thousands of them invading..

Richard Tice, accepted a £1,400 stay at the French Riviera home of Lubov Chernukhin, a Conservative donor and the wife of Russia’s former deputy finance minister, new filings show👀

Richard Tice accepted stay at French Riviera home of Tory donor

Reform deputy leader’s trip, worth £1,4000, to Lubov Chernukhin’s property was for ‘discussing gas power in UK’

www.theguardian.com

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Rejoin Campaign @rejoincampaign.bsky.social · 1d

IMAGINE…

Imagine the people in Soviet Russia didn’t know what communism was. Unlikely, right?

Now imagine Britain today where people didn’t know the name of the dominant ideology that’s been with us for 40 years and is responsible for the shit we’re in now. They don’t.

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DJ @djwils.bsky.social · 1d

I'm hoping the Tories will be consigned to the dustiest corner of the cobweb bedecked attic.
Sadly this'll leave space for the grift reform loons who'll pick up the Tory waifs and strays that refuse to get in their post attic stairs box!

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

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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nlwa.bsky.social @nlwa.bsky.social · 1d

….enough said!

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DJ @djwils.bsky.social · 1d

This.
At least the Tories hid their treachery (Conservative friends of Russia etc)...
The Reform leader actively admires Putin.

mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 1d

Dear people of the U.K. (ostensibly England and Wales)

Until you realise this country is fucked because of 14 years of terrible mismanagement in every way by the Tories….

You will end up with Reform U.K. Ltd (Tories on crack) running this country.

And you think it’s bad now?!

DJ @djwils.bsky.social · 1d

With occasional looks direct to camera!

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 1d

"The government have actively avoided looking for evidence Russia interfered."

The Intelligence & Security Committee's Stewart Hosie said the government didn't investigate alleged Russian interference in the Brexit vote, and no one wanted to touch this "with a ten-foot pole".

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DJ @djwils.bsky.social · 1d

Doh...
Dyed.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage went to Dulwich College which when he attended was more expensive than Eton

He earns £1.5m a year, 92% of which comes from dodgy donations

His girlfriend pays £885,000 in cash to buy houses but she's a waitress.

He's not a 'working man' he's very rich and corrupt

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DJ @djwils.bsky.social · 1d

Still has pride of place on my book shelf... And my mum, a died in the wool tory, loved her copy.
And now refuses to vote.

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DJ @djwils.bsky.social · 1d

US Navy takes out potential drug boats with heavy clumsy guns blazing missiles, leaving no witnesses or Intel. With possible dodgy Intel to start with.
Royal Navy and Royal Marines... "keep my brew warm I'll be back in a jiffy"
One round. One boat. 35 mil of dodgy powders and crooks
BZ.
#bootneck

UK Defence Journal @ukdefencejournal.org.uk · 2d

Royal Marine snipers aboard a Wildcat fired a precision shot to stop a high-speed drugs boat in the Gulf of Oman, as HMS Lancaster seized £35 million worth of illegal narcotics.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/royal-marine...

Royal Marines sniper halts £35m drug boat in Gulf of Oman

Royal Marine snipers aboard a Wildcat fired a precision shot to stop a high-speed drugs boat in the Gulf of Oman, as HMS Lancaster seized £35 million worth of illegal narcotics.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk