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Stuart Gwynn 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦 @stuartgwynn.bsky.social · 2h

If Starmer isn't asking to see the MI5 file on Farage, hes not fit to run the UK.

Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO @dailyherald.bsky.social · 23h

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 1h

Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights sent TWO letters warning of possible human rights violations by the UK government, one about protest, one about trans rights. BBC mentions one in the headline and buries the other at the bottom of the report. #r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 1h

A Broken World 🌍 🌎 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 1h

Good to know, from this piece, that the #ToryBrexitDisaster has been a major cause of destroying the very Party that took us out of the EU.
Let's hope they never recover.

Now... will Labour inflict the same fate on themselves by not immediately REJOINING the EU, stopping Farage too?

#r4today #EU

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20h

You can’t be an effective party for successful people in midlife (sort of the *point* of the Tory party ultimately) if you are at odds with them over the most consequential thing you did in office. This week’s column:

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2h

Labour is telling you VERY LOUDLY who to vote for if you value human rights. And it's definitely NOT LABOUR.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 14h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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GJdop @gjdop.bsky.social · 1h

Swindler and a scoundrel, Nigel Farage, was funded to weaken and damage the European Union. Throughout his political life, #Farage vigorously campaigned for #Brexit, which has been described as the biggest self-inflicted disaster in history and the main source of all of our problems.

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John Johnston @bawsman.bsky.social · 1h

Quite astonishing the difference between “Fleet Street” and the toxic BBC’s coverage of Farage and Rayner situations.

LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 1h

That £900k house in Frinton. Has anyone mentioned how it was paid for yet? Any laws broken, or all above board?

Anyone investigating? Media grown a conscience? Any journalist working for the British people? Anyone?

Half way through another week of silence then.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3h

Just a point to add to this.

In a Times article mentioning the same issue, it notes about dependents of migrants that:

“At present they do not have to speak any English at all.”

Which isn’t the case - at all.

The tougher language requirement will not apply to family members who come with migrant workers, known as dependants.
Separate changes will require them to learn a standard of English equivalent to GCSE.
At present they do not have to speak any English at all. The government has not said when the changes for dependants will be introduced.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3h

UK faces highest inflation in G7 this year and next, IMF warns.

Biggest cause is profiteering led by energy, water and food businesses. No govt checks it.

Real average wage stuck at 2008 level. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Govts needs to remove cash from the rich.

UK faces highest inflation in G7 this year and next, IMF warns

According to fund’s World Economic Outlook, Britain is on course to average 3.4% this year and 2.5% in 2026

www.theguardian.com

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

Climate Change Committee warns we aren’t doing enough to stem/plan for global warming.

Meanwhile, in response to proposed solar farm,Tice says they “will do all [they] can to stop investors and developers; nothing is off the table”
Reform: a constant whining drag on progress, prosperity and sanity.

UK must prepare for 2C of global warming by 2050, climate advisors warn
CLIMATE GLOBAL WARMING WEATHER
• Wednesday 15 October 2025 at 6:53am
Martin Stew
Science Correspondent
Credit: i-Stock
The UK must prepare for a 2C rise in global temperatures by 2050, according to new analysis from the Climate Change Committee (CCC), commissioned by the government.
The report forecasts that risks from heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires could double over the next 25 years, with some peak river flows increasing by as much as 40%.
itv.com

The Times:

Reform vow to fight 'crazy Miliband over solar farm

Miliband has approved plans for Britain's biggest solar farm, prompting Reform UK to say it would fight to reverse the decision.
The Tillbridge Solar project, in Lin-colnshire, would cover an area equivalent to about 2,000 football pitches.
Farage's party said the scheme would destroy valuable agricultural land, but Labour said it was needed to meet green energy targets and reduce dependency on energy from abroad.
Tillbridge Solar is the tenth large solar project Miliband has approved since taking office. Half of them are in Lin-colnshire, prompting opposition from local Reform and Conservative MPs.
Tillbridge Solar aims to generate electricity for 300,000 homes and the scheme would cover about 1,400 hectares of mainly agricultural land
Michael Shanks, the energy minister, said: "Solar is one of the cheapest and quickest power sources we can build. It is crucial in our mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower, giving us energy security, good jobs and growth across the country."

A report by the Planning Inspectorate said that the project would lead to the loss of about 1,200 hectares of farm-land, including 11l hectares of the highest grade land, and acknowledged the cumulative impact of other solar arrays in Lincolnshire. However, it concluded that this would not be nationally "significant" , with solar taking over less
than 1% of UK farmland.
It added that the biodiversity would benefit from the end of intensive farming on the land and that crop planting
"could be restored should it be needed in the future" for food security.
In a blunt warning to companies behind the schemes, Richard Tice, Reform UK's deputy leader and the MP for nearby Boston & Skegness, said: "We will do all we can to stop investors and developers; nothing is off the table."

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 3h

What’s that Jeremy? Your private healthcare couldn’t save your life but the NHS could?

People need to think long and hard about voting for Reform, Farage openly says we need insurance based healthcare, but what about people who can’t afford it?

They die. It’s simple.

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.

Jeremy Clarkson reneges on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment

Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster’, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him

www.independent.co.uk

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Professor Christopher Painter @prfchrispainter.bsky.social · 3h

ReformUK tainted with bribes for Russian propaganda lines; a still unexplained house purchase: Farage raking in a fortune through lucrative sidelines to the day job; Reform-controlled local councils reneging on promises or descending into chaos. Should anyone remotely trust this lot of hustlers!!

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EleriTudor @eleritudor.bsky.social · 3h

Now cover the Russia Report on Putin's interference in our politicis and then look closer at Farage's Russian links.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Government under growing pressure to release collapsed China spy case evidence

Both the Tories and Liberal Democrats are calling on the government to publish evidence it submitted in the now-collapsed case.

www.bbc.co.uk

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AngryGeriatricGenx @angrygeriatricgenx.bsky.social · 3h

Reform are dripping in Russian money. Farage, Nice, and Gill all parroting Putin's messages.
Gill was convicted of being a Russian asset, are they all?

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/13/r...

Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister's wife – HOPE not hate

IN BREACH OF PARLIAMENTARY RULES: REFORM UK’S RICHARD TICE Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register lavish hospitality...

hopenothate.org.uk

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 3h

Just when Farage claims migrants aim to shoot him, footage has resurfaced of him saying in May 2017 “I would don khaki, pick up a rifle and head for the front lines” if Theresa May failed to deliver the Brexit he wanted. She failed, Johnson promised to get Brexit done. Farage helped him get elected.

The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe he should deal with questions about Nathan Gill before he eyes up Number 10...

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2h

Yet more troubles in Reformland

Local government is not proving to be the cinch that Nigel Farage’s party assumed it to be

www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

Yet more troubles in Reformland

Local government is not proving to be the cinch that Nigel Farage’s party assumed it to be

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Emma @emmamurphy1965.bsky.social · 2h

REFORM and the Tories don’t want UK citizens to have the rights our parents fought for in WW2. They want Trumpist authoritarianism and idiots out there are ready to give it to them

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

“The European Convention on Human Rights protects us all. The rights within it are the reason why families devastated by disasters like Hillsborough could demand justice, why victims of abuse can seek safety, & why disabled people are treated with dignity in care

youtu.be/ceukUFLBrFo?...

🚨UK will leave the ECHR if Tories win next election Kemi Badenoch has announced

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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il-nb.bsky.social @il-nb.bsky.social · 2h

Pensioners ‘risk becoming second-class citizens’ under Keir Starmer’s scheme

https://www.newsbeep.com/il/75582/

Millions of pensioners risk becoming “second-class citizens” in their own country thanks to digital ID, a leading campaign…

Pensioners 'risk becoming second-class citizens' under Keir Starmer's scheme - Israel News Beep

Millions of pensioners risk becoming "second-class citizens" in their own country thanks to digital ID, a leading campaign group has warned.

www.newsbeep.com

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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 2h

The latest PLMR polling shows that UK voters' biggest issue is the cost of living and the economy

And yet a huge number say they'll vote for Reform's Farage....the very person who collapsed productivity and drove up inflation through his BREXIT!

Perhaps we deserve these useless tossers

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Rachel Steele @rachcsteele.bsky.social · 2h

What a Black Sheep Joke Tells Us About Nigel Farage
open.substack.com/pub/uglypoli...

What a Black Sheep Joke Tells Us About Nigel Farage

One criminal act should not indict a whole community.

open.substack.com

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Loon Watcher @loonwatch.bsky.social · 2h

Rachel Reeves says it: #BrexitIsTheft

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3h

"There is no doubt that the impact of Brexit has been severe and long-lasting", Rachel Reeves tells Sky News, as she suggests that taxes will now have to go up as a result to "make sure the numbers add up".

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Skipai Otter @skipai.bsky.social · 2h

The current polling suggests that the UK Government can just end Brexit today and not get hit that much at all.

Around 75-80% wants this thing to end, the support for continuing Brexit plummented due to deaths with Covid and the amount of damage done in areas, plus living costs shooting up.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 2h

What is ridiculous is to conclude correctly that Brexit is the source of economic pain and then do nothing to reverse it.

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A Bit Political @abitpolitical.bsky.social · 2h

Like most thinking people I'm glad the government is bringing up Brexit as an anchor to growth and prosperity in the UK so it can hang it round the neck of Nigel Farage, but have they waited too long?

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2h

BREAKING: “There is no doubting that the impact of Brexit is severe and long lasting” says Chancellor Rachel Reeves

It’s about time!

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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 2h

“There is no doubting that the impact of Brexit is severe and long-lasting." Says Rachel Reeves. It’s become convenient for the Chancellor to tell the truth about Brexit, at long last…

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