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Gill West
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Poiché è difficile distinguere i profeti veri dai falsi, è bene avere in sospetto tutti i profeti...(Primo Levi)
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Gill West @gillwest.bsky.social · 1d
Riddle me this: is it a prerequisite that any Home Secretary must have strong authoritarian tendencies, or do they metamorphose into one upon assuming office?
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d
When I see announcements like this, I have to ask - how many of the people out there who are so vehemently anti-migrant would actually pass English at an A-Level standard?
Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK Passports Fast Track My hote of Passports ePassports UK Border
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Gill West @gillwest.bsky.social · 1d
OFGS I bet most UK graduates don’t have A-level English due to dropping to 3 subjects. Where would they take this English A-level? Working in the UN years ago, a lot of non-native English speakers wrote better than mother tongue staff, and it was often their third language. British exceptionalism!🙄
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d
Carolin Lucas, "The level of disgust and distrust in the population is like nothing I've ever seen before"

"It's really dangerous and scary"

"It's so important there is a voice out there offering hope and solutions and isn't afraid to say what it thinks"
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 2d
He is far from alone.
Do you know how many people I know, journalists, thinktankers, civil servants, politicians, who always excel at explaining to you why what is currently happening was always bound to happen, from which they conclude that it should happen?
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Feelingantsy 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Maker of Puns @feelingantsy.bsky.social · 2d
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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d
A thread from my @prospectmagazine.co.uk colleague, @aloner.bsky.social.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 2d
Trump is in the Knesset waiting to speak, where there has been a long line of standing ovations for Netanyahu and his wife, Ron Dermer, Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner and Ivanka trump
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Gill West @gillwest.bsky.social · 2d
Tripe 🤢
Burn After Reading 🤬
Come on Eileen 😩
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Gill West @gillwest.bsky.social · 2d
Two hours and 49 minutes into the victory parade/Oscars-vibe ceremony in the Knesset, and finally the word Palestine/Palestinian is actually mentioned.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d
Given the abject horror that has taken place you'd think, for once that Trump wouldn't make it all about himself. But like a stuck record, there he is... going on about himself
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Gill West @gillwest.bsky.social · 2d
Never going to kick the habit of a lifetime. Doing the greatest hits by having a pop at Hilary Clinton. Plus ça change. It is a very disturbing event and doesn’t have much of a peaceful feeling to it.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d
Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.
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Gill West @gillwest.bsky.social · 2d
Listening on @LBC and it is disturbing & wholly the wrong tone for this day. The fact they warned people dissent would not be tolerated & only applause welcome spoke volumes. To then listen to the rewriting of history & denial of genocide was awful. It’s a victory parade instead of a day of peace.
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Gill West @gillwest.bsky.social · 2d
NB apologies for not crediting the late George Carlin for the last line, it was his, not mine.

youtu.be/YpFYpoIwQec
Abortion | George Carlin | Back In Town (1996)
YouTube video by Official George Carlin
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
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Gill West @gillwest.bsky.social · 2d
They have no clue the UK is not a Christian fundamentalist country. Having lived in the US years ago & ran the gauntlet of the pro-life lobby while attending antenatal appointments, I would take to the streets to oppose this nasty, punitive bunch here. They’re not pro-life, they’re anti-woman.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d
Corrupt chancers urged to come up with an economic plan that isn’t utter bullshit. So, no tax cuts and austerity on steroids for a country already stuck in Farage’s Brexit dead end.
But hey, some super wealthy industry big (k)nobs will come on board to help con the little guy.

(Times)
Times Farage to abandon manifesto's big plans for tax cuts Extracts: Farage will break with his manifesto pledges of £90 billion in tax cuts as he attempts to bolster his party's economic credibility. The leader of Reform UK will promise not to reduce taxes before reducing spending, deep cuts to the civil service and a ban on borrowing to fund government expenditure in his first big speech on the economy next month. "Reform will never borrow to spend, as Labour and the Tories have done for so long; instead, we will ensure savings are made before implementing tax cuts. I will have more to say on all this in the coming weeks." Speaking on the campaign trail before the Caerphilly by-election to the Welsh parliament on October 23, he did not respond to demands to name his shadow chancellor but suggested he would soon be able to draw on backing from the business community. Several high-profile figures from industry have privately indicated they would be willing to serve in a Reform cabinet, party officials said Farage said: "We will be launching between now and the budget, a new campaign — an economic campaign ... it's going to be very impactful. It'll another high-profile individual coming into politics from outside of politics, who's been supremely successful in their world." Promising a "total change of attitude" on the economy, he said: "We are not a party dominated by corporate thinking. The Tories and La-bour are both dominated by corporate thinking." The IFS has questioned whether Reform's economic plans are credible warning last year that the party had overestimated how much it could save through spending cuts: "Even with the extremely optimistic assumptions about how much economic growth would increase, the sums in this manifesto do not add up." Right-leaning think tanks have also urged the party to set out more credible policy. The Institute for Economic Affairs last month called for Reform to "put some serious economic policies on the table".
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Gill West @gillwest.bsky.social · 2d
The endless platforming and sane washing of Farage/Reform continues apace with a Times spread ahead of his revised financial policy, 3-4 years out from an election. Troubling that business backers are interested in serving in a Reform cabinet: I mean, that’s working so well across the pond..! 👀
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Gill West @gillwest.bsky.social · 3d
As Trump was still president, Biden (or any incumbent in those circumstances) would have no authority to order any agency to take action on their behalf. Meanwhile, the guy in charge at that time, applauded the ‘patriots’ & held off calling in the national guard he’s now so keen on, for hours.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d
Zack Polanski, "Reform UK's Zia Yusuf was full of b*llocks and I think it was important to call that out on #BBCQT"

"What has become clear about Reform UK, they're a bunch of cowards"
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d
“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs
What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?
www.thenerve.news
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3d
Just brilliant by @thenerve.news - I can just imagine Stewart Lee running around on bypasses snatching flags.

Well done that man.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 3d
🔗 Read the full piece

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs
What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 4d
stop thinking right now
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Gill West @gillwest.bsky.social · 4d
Given the proclivity to circumcise baby boys in the US, even if this batshittery were true, that would be a scary % of the American male population!👀
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d
Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 5d
On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!
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