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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Another corporate scandal.

Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing.

98% of the the 23,000 homes fitted with botched external wall insulation need repairs.

Companies have vanished, people left with the problems.

Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds

Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp

www.theguardian.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Holding govts to ransom.

Goldman Sachs warns Rachel Reeves against tax rises on banks.

Banks happy to be bailed out, take QE, mis-sell products, not to be prosecuted for frauds, hike charges, pay lousy rates on savings.

Need windfall taxes. Raise top rate of income tax.

Goldman chief delivers warning to Reeves over bank tax hikes

David Solomon urged the chancellor during a private meeting last week not to hit the industry with savage tax rises in her crucial budget statement next month, Sky News learns.

news.sky.com

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European Movement in Scotland @euromovescotland.bsky.social · 2d

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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 3d

Fartrage lying. I'm shocked I say, shocked

(PS he looks a bit agitated in this pic)

Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 3d

After weeks of Reform distancing itself from Nathan Gill, Nigel Farage finally admits he's known him 'for a very long time'

leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nige...

Nigel Farage finally admits to knowing Nathan Gill after senior Reform figure repeatedly claimed he didn’t

Farage has admitted he knew Gill for 'a very long time' but claims he didn't know anything about his pro-Russia activities...

leftfootforward.org

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Gill West @gillwest.bsky.social · 3d

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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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d

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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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d

It feels like we are moments away from the National Guard being told to arrest anyone not dancing in the streets.

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
He needs to be tried in court and imprisoned. But that only happens to us: the little people.

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Sara @saralou.bsky.social · Sep 16

What a relief! Lovely story.

Larry & Paul @larryandpaul.bsky.social · Sep 15

⛔️ ICYMI: Epstein Scandal Over. Everybody Found Innocent.

👀 Please watch and share this #BrokenNews report.

youtu.be/DAmF-n31N2I?...

Epstein Scandal "Now Over" - #BrokenNews

YouTube video by Larry & Paul

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James Kennedy ✊️ @jameskennedy.bsky.social · Sep 15

Surely, when the richest man on earth urges the working class to 'fight' from behind the safety of a video camera a thousand miles away from the batons, pepper spray and prison time - surely then, you know you’re being played like a puppet. Surely...

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Kercle @kercle1.bsky.social · Sep 15

Thank god for channel four!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’

Broadcaster to dedicate Wednesday night schedule to unpicking US president’s false or misleading statements

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · Sep 16

Beautiful piece.

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · Sep 15

Divorced, Defected, Danny! My SKETCH of Reform recruiting the next MP to inevitably fall out with Farage.

Divorced, Defected, Danny Kruger | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

“Britain is not broken,” said Danny Kruger, with the pained look of a man who believes he holds his nation’s fate in his hands, and that to save it he must turn his back on his friends.

thecritic.co.uk

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Marek Michalak @marekmichalak.bsky.social · Sep 15

As a double divorcee, Nigel might not be the best person to pontificate about stable relationships and families.

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Tired and Angry @dndnerd69.bsky.social · Sep 15

Farage is funded by far-right, anti abortion, christian nationalist think tank billionaires in the US, like The Heritage Foundation, and Project 2025, his agenda is nothing more than full on culture wars and division

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 15

This is thinly disguised homophobia by Farage.

The same far-right figures who have spent years coming for my trans friends & colleagues are emboldened again against anything different from their "normal."

Today and everyday I stand with the whole LGBTQIA+ community.

Your struggle is my struggle.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 15

Nigel Farage:

"Children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life... The most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men & women... There's an awful lot of kids in the country not getting the kind of start... they deserve."

Farage has two ex-wives.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · Sep 16

Reform MP Danny Kruger

Eton > Edinburgh University > Oxford > Think Tank > MP.

What’s that Farage and Tice say about career politicians?

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Sep 15

Here is Danny Kruger MP in Parliament, as a Tory MP before defecting today, berating Reform UK for "simply replacing the words Conservative Party with the words Reform Party... in a desperate search for relevance", then warning they would "spend money like drunken sailors". ~AA

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Sep 15

2022 Nigel Farage would be FURIOUS with 2025 Nigel Farage. ~AA

Nigel Farage MP

@Nigel_Farage
Christian Wakeford defects as an MP from Tory to Labour.

If he calls a by-election then that's fine.

If not, he is the Dishonourable Member for Bury South.
12:02 PM · Jan 19, 2022

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · Sep 15

Nigel Farage (Dulwich), Danny Kruger (Eton), Richard Tice (Uppingham) and Isabel Oakeshott (Gordonstoun) aren't 'standing up to the elite'. They are the elite.

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celticbhoy1888.bsky.social @celticbhoy1888.bsky.social · Sep 15

Farage is a grifter & he is now promoting Christo Fascism directly imported from the US via Thiel & Muskrat, do not fall for his bullshit, sadly many will.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Sep 15

The private family life of twice divorced Nigel Farage, who had children with both of his ex wives.... and now lives with his girlfriend.... is none of my business... just as the private family lives of everyone else are none of his.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 15

Nigel Farage:

"Children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life... The most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men & women... There's an awful lot of kids in the country not getting the kind of start... they deserve."

Farage has two ex-wives.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 15

This is huge. 3 more London councillors leave Labour and join @greenparty.org.uk.

We're now on more councils than the Lib Dems in London.

Labour - you're next.

Chris Williams @chrisw100.bsky.social · Sep 15

🔴-->🟢 3 more Labour to Green Council defections today... in Barking and Dagenham

Warm welcome to Faruk Choudhury, Moin Quadri and Victoria Hornby 👏

Greens on a roll and there's so much more to come!

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · Sep 14

James singer 'disgusted' as Tommy Robinson uses 'Sit Down' to promote hate

They're considering legal action against Tommy Robinson over the Unite the Kingdom's march's use of 'Sit Down'
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

James singer 'disgusted' as Tommy Robinson uses 'Sit Down' to promote hate

They're considering legal action against Tommy Robinson over the Unite the Kingdom's march's use of 'Sit Down'

www.thecanary.co

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · Sep 15

Who better to represent the interests of the working man than Danny Kruger, he being an old Etonian son of a wealthy property developer & Dame Prue Leith, as well as having been political secretary to old Etonian Boris Johnson.

He’ll smash the metropolitan elite in no time.

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Sara @saralou.bsky.social · Sep 15

‘Man of the people’ 😒

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