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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 11h

Get in Josh Tarling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🥇 🌈 #Santiago2025

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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 13h

Nigel Farage has gone "on strike" from PMQs, saying he won't return until he next gets a question

There's just one problem: Reform UK knows the rota for qus for the rest of the year.

His next question is on Nov 12

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Nigel Farage stages ‘strike’ despite date for next PMQs q...

Reform party leader has moved to the public gallery after claiming he is excluded from process in the chamber

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Fabrizio Romano (MIRROR) @fabrizioromano.yopro20.com · 15h

🚨 Benjamin Šeško: “When I heard I can move to Man United… I was burning”. 🔥 “To be fair it’s not just mine, but probably loads of people, football players’ dream. Something that you want to achieve in your career”, told Sky Sports.

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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 15h

Il bet you any money you want that not only will Starmer be labour leader in the new year, he will lead the party into the next GE

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16h

A very worrying escalation of online harassment.

Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"

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Europa Ineffable on X: "In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match: "it's a game of two halves" 🥴 https://t.co/b5YNKyaQtu" / X

In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match

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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 16h

300th United game for Bruno tomorrow 🇵🇹 🪄. Nice little interview with Simon Stone here www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Man Utd: Bruno Fernandes on future at club, team-mates and putting team first

Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes says he will not discuss his future with anyone until after the World Cup.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alex Gallagher @alexgallagher.bsky.social · 18h

Every media and Tory attack on Starmer and Labour is made up, lies and deliberate falsehood.

Here's another.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Will the media sensationalise for days over this?

Not on yer nellie.

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

China spy case witness removed 'enemy' from evidence under Tories

Security adviser Matthew Collins says the term

www.bbc.co.uk

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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 16h

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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 16h

Agree with that. There’s always that danger. In the last GE there were a few websites who did a good job at identifying who to vote for tactically to ensure the Tory lost.🤞there will be the same to keep reform out next GE. The fact that so many voted tactically here to do that is encouraging for me

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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 1d

Renters’ Rights Bill
1. Abolishes “no-fault” evictions
2. Replaces fixed-term tenancies
3. Limits rent increases to once per year
4. Introduces a Decent Homes Standard
5. Bans discrimination against tenants with children or on benefits.
6. Gives tenants a legal right to have pets,

Labour👍

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 17h

this is utterly hilarious, turns out that it was the Tories who took the word "enemy" out of the crucial witness statement in the collapsed China spy case

over to you, Kemi Badenoch?

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Adviser removed ‘enemy’ from China spy case witness statement

Matthew Collins says he deleted the word from the final draft in 2023 because it did not reflect the Conservative government’s view

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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 17h

I’m the opposite. I now have much more confidence that we can keep out reform than I was before yesterday’s vote. The progressive vote share was around 60%+

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 18h

And in so doing re-enforces the sense in which the current bout of flag-flying isn't a symbol of shared belonging but a political, and, here, an explicitly party political, statement.

BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 19h

🙄 Reform UK will spend £75,000 putting up 150 Union flags across Nottinghamshire in a bid to "strengthen community spirit"

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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks Jenny. I’ve gotta be honest I was dreading the result when I went to bed. Was delighted by the scale of the loss for reform cos they literally threw everything they had at this election ☺️

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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 19h

Caerphilly resident here. You haven’t got a clue.

John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 19h

And still get the analysis wrong

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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 19h

The newsagents are absolutely bobbins. They go with the crowd nearly always. Such a disappointment

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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 19h

Dan is still on one 😂😂

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 21h

Wooooah!

So the China spy case witness statement initially described China as the 'enemy'.

But that word was removed before submition, because it was NOT government policy at the time.

The government when this happened were the Tories.

So arguably the Tories are the reason the case collapsed!

Key China spy case witness removed 'enemy' from evidence under Tories

Security adviser Matthew Collins says the term

www.bbc.co.uk

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 21h

Kemi Badenoch’s ability to plant political time bombs that blow up in the face of the party she leads is truly unparalleled.

What’s particularly impressive here is she could have found this out herself before raising the profile of this issue at PMQs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Key China spy case witness removed 'enemy' from evidence under Tories

Security adviser Matthew Collins says the term

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 20h

The Welsh Rugby Union is set to go for three regions with one in the west, one in the east, and one (surprise!) in Cardiff / Caerdydd, WalesOnline understands.
www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/...

WRU to cut to three teams as players told dramatic news

Welsh rugby will have three teams going forward, although four will remain for now

www.walesonline.co.uk

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 1d

Sorcery in Caerphilly:
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social visits the Welsh valleys on the trail of a Russian spy, his wife, a Reform politician taking bribes, party leader Nigel Farage and a vanishing by-election candidate.
Here's a sneak peak of John’s film - coming tomorrow only in the Nerve

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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 20h

As a Caerphilly resident I can confirm. Once everyone got a good grip as to who was in the best position to beat reform, we voted accordingly. I’m a labour supporter btw, and I’m actually buzzing that the fash got sent packing

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h

Farage is 32-61 across Britain (12% VERY favourable and 50% VERY unfavourable), and 32-65 with the Wales sample in this poll (with 59% very unfavourable).

The idea that this Caerphilly result mainly product of existence of a nationalist party in Wales & Scotland not England makes v little sense

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h

The pattern that a third of voters like Reform (a sixth strongly) and 6/10 don't like Reform is shared across Wales and England. It simply is not the case that having a 1/3 approval and majority disapproval reputation is only a problem in Wales - because a party with v different voice/voters won

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