Greg Thornton
@gregthornton.bsky.social
Late adopter of neologisms and americanismphobic. Grumpy old man in training. 🏳️🌈
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NEWS! MP’s fury at Christmas Pudding being renamed ‘Human Rights Trans Small Boats Pudding’ newsthump.com/2025/12/05/m...
MP’s fury at Christmas Pudding being renamed ‘Human Rights Trans Small Boats Pudding’
Reform MP and noted intellectual Jeremy Thickhead has spoken out against Christmas Pudding being renamed ‘Human Rights Trans Small Boats Pudding.’
newsthump.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
NEWS! MP’s fury at Christmas Pudding being renamed ‘Human Rights Trans Small Boats Pudding’ newsthump.com/2025/12/05/m...
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A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant movement led by 'ordinary' women, which is backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and is regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant movement led by 'ordinary' women, which is backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and is regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
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🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
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75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
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75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men
Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
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Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat"
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat"
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
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So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"
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Lib Dem leader Edward Davey calls for a national investigation into Russian political interference in British politics:
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Lib Dem leader Edward Davey calls for a national investigation into Russian political interference in British politics:
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
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Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
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NEWS! 'My vision for Twitter was always an army of foreign nationals monetising propaganda to influence US voters', insists Elon Musk newsthump.com/2025/11/25/m...
‘My vision for Twitter was always an army of foreign nationals monetising propaganda to influence US voters’, insists Elon Musk
After Twitter added a new feature that showed the locations of many high-profile, well-followed MAGA accounts to be outside the United States, Elon Musk has insisted this was his plan all along.
newsthump.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
NEWS! 'My vision for Twitter was always an army of foreign nationals monetising propaganda to influence US voters', insists Elon Musk newsthump.com/2025/11/25/m...
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“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?”
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?”
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
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Both openly supported Russia.
Gill did it for cash, Farage did it for ......love of his hero Putin?
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Gill did it for cash, Farage did it for ......love of his hero Putin?
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November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Both openly supported Russia.
Gill did it for cash, Farage did it for ......love of his hero Putin?
<img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h6mlwpw4iedy63qxzk6ux2oh/bafkreigasgxhlkqrbs7g7dn6s3kcpqfqqwzdsmdltcf4nucyxae2a7avd4@jpeg"/>
Gill did it for cash, Farage did it for ......love of his hero Putin?
<img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h6mlwpw4iedy63qxzk6ux2oh/bafkreigasgxhlkqrbs7g7dn6s3kcpqfqqwzdsmdltcf4nucyxae2a7avd4@jpeg"/>
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
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In 2014, 87% of asylum claims were processed within 6 months.
At the start of 2017, that figure was still 70%.
By late 2018 it was 26%.
Smoking. Gun.
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
At the start of 2017, that figure was still 70%.
By late 2018 it was 26%.
Smoking. Gun.
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
November 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
In 2014, 87% of asylum claims were processed within 6 months.
At the start of 2017, that figure was still 70%.
By late 2018 it was 26%.
Smoking. Gun.
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
At the start of 2017, that figure was still 70%.
By late 2018 it was 26%.
Smoking. Gun.
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
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First Farage said we needed to leave the EU, now he is coming for the ECHR. Brexit hurt us all - this would too.
https://www.politico.eu/article/haunted-by-brexit-a-fresh-remain-campaign-is-firing-up-uk-echr/
https://www.politico.eu/article/haunted-by-brexit-a-fresh-remain-campaign-is-firing-up-uk-echr/
Farage is gunning for Brexit 2.0. Can he be stopped?
U.K. officials vow to “get on the front foot” as populist Brexiteer Nigel Farage picks his next target: the European Convention on Human Rights.
www.politico.eu
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
First Farage said we needed to leave the EU, now he is coming for the ECHR. Brexit hurt us all - this would too.
https://www.politico.eu/article/haunted-by-brexit-a-fresh-remain-campaign-is-firing-up-uk-echr/
https://www.politico.eu/article/haunted-by-brexit-a-fresh-remain-campaign-is-firing-up-uk-echr/
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Reform UK Leicestershire are crooks.
They announced consultants Newton would do a £1.4m savings review.
That’s ballooned to £30m in 6 just days.
Leader Dan Harrison is a con man.
Leicestershire you’ve been had.
leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-n...
#ReformLies
They announced consultants Newton would do a £1.4m savings review.
That’s ballooned to £30m in 6 just days.
Leader Dan Harrison is a con man.
Leicestershire you’ve been had.
leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-n...
#ReformLies
Firm leading council savings review could receive £30m
The county council currently needs to plug an expected £90 million gap in its day-to-day spending
leicestermercury.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Reform UK Leicestershire are crooks.
They announced consultants Newton would do a £1.4m savings review.
That’s ballooned to £30m in 6 just days.
Leader Dan Harrison is a con man.
Leicestershire you’ve been had.
leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-n...
#ReformLies
They announced consultants Newton would do a £1.4m savings review.
That’s ballooned to £30m in 6 just days.
Leader Dan Harrison is a con man.
Leicestershire you’ve been had.
leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-n...
#ReformLies
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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On the same day that two senior execs resigned from the BBC for a misleading edit to a Trump speech, Trump himself shared as true a fake story (from a satire site) about Obama getting royalties from Obamacare.
I wonder who'll be forced to resign for spreading such obvious fake news?
Anyone?
I wonder who'll be forced to resign for spreading such obvious fake news?
Anyone?
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
On the same day that two senior execs resigned from the BBC for a misleading edit to a Trump speech, Trump himself shared as true a fake story (from a satire site) about Obama getting royalties from Obamacare.
I wonder who'll be forced to resign for spreading such obvious fake news?
Anyone?
I wonder who'll be forced to resign for spreading such obvious fake news?
Anyone?
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For so many years the rightwing UK media, especially the Murdoch press, has gaslit us that the BBC is leftwing.
They think we are idiots and we haven’t noticed stuff like the relentless platforming of Farage.
They think we are idiots and we haven’t noticed stuff like the relentless platforming of Farage.
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
For so many years the rightwing UK media, especially the Murdoch press, has gaslit us that the BBC is leftwing.
They think we are idiots and we haven’t noticed stuff like the relentless platforming of Farage.
They think we are idiots and we haven’t noticed stuff like the relentless platforming of Farage.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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The Archbishop of York was forced to cut short a visit to a family in the south Hebron hills on Saturday, after Israeli police ordered the Church of England delegation to leave the area. #WestBank #Israel #Palestine #ArchbishopofYork
Israeli police order C of E delegation to leave West Bank village after stand-off with armed settlers
Archbishop of York’s pastoral visit to the south Hebron hills was cut short
www.churchtimes.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The Archbishop of York was forced to cut short a visit to a family in the south Hebron hills on Saturday, after Israeli police ordered the Church of England delegation to leave the area. #WestBank #Israel #Palestine #ArchbishopofYork
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“MPs’ problem with the EHRC guidance was not that it failed to address every conceivable scenario, but that it set out fundamentally unworkable instructions to businesses that go far beyond what the supreme court actually ruled, and which places them at risk of costly litigation.” - Rachel Taylor MP
Equality commission’s guidance after sex ruling is fundamentally unworkable | Letter
Letters: The EHRC has ignored warnings about the contradiction between possibly being sued for challenging someone’s gender versus being sued for failing to, says Rachel Taylor MP
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
“MPs’ problem with the EHRC guidance was not that it failed to address every conceivable scenario, but that it set out fundamentally unworkable instructions to businesses that go far beyond what the supreme court actually ruled, and which places them at risk of costly litigation.” - Rachel Taylor MP
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Michael Mullaney, the leader of the Liberal Democrat group on the council, said:
"£1.4m is a lot of money to spend on consultants to cut costs. The reality is the council has been cutting its spending for years and if there were more savings to be found, they would have been identified."
"£1.4m is a lot of money to spend on consultants to cut costs. The reality is the council has been cutting its spending for years and if there were more savings to be found, they would have been identified."
Reform in Leicestershire to hand consultants £1.3m of pubic money to tell it what to do
Leicestershire County Council is run by a minority Reform UK administration. And like Reform up and down the country, it took power with no ...
liberalengland.blogspot.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Michael Mullaney, the leader of the Liberal Democrat group on the council, said:
"£1.4m is a lot of money to spend on consultants to cut costs. The reality is the council has been cutting its spending for years and if there were more savings to be found, they would have been identified."
"£1.4m is a lot of money to spend on consultants to cut costs. The reality is the council has been cutting its spending for years and if there were more savings to be found, they would have been identified."
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Tonight!
Join me on BBC Radio Three at 9:45pm this Tuesday, as I take you on a journey to the cave of St Robert of Knaresborough, to explore if a place of faith such as this can ever, truly, be abandoned.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Tonight!
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The Chancellor is calling out the damage Brexit has done to our economy. Our polling shows the British public agrees - 62% say that Brexit has been a failure.
We’ve asked voters in Reform UK constituencies if they benefited from Brexit.
The answer? A resounding No.
We’ve asked voters in Reform UK constituencies if they benefited from Brexit.
The answer? A resounding No.
October 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Chancellor is calling out the damage Brexit has done to our economy. Our polling shows the British public agrees - 62% say that Brexit has been a failure.
We’ve asked voters in Reform UK constituencies if they benefited from Brexit.
The answer? A resounding No.
We’ve asked voters in Reform UK constituencies if they benefited from Brexit.
The answer? A resounding No.