Posh Nigel
@nigel-hewlett.bsky.social
Family man, keen (mostly ineffective) angler, Peterborough United sufferer, old prog-rocker, who loves nature, alive and well. Retired. Dreaming of France.
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Posh Nigel
@nigel-hewlett.bsky.social
· Sep 25
Some people need to understand this.
If you find that I'm generally in agreement with you on political matters, don't jump down my throat the moment I'm not.
If you cannot stand any criticism of your beloved Starmer/Davey/Polanski at all, then you're no longer engaged in politics, but tribalism.
If you find that I'm generally in agreement with you on political matters, don't jump down my throat the moment I'm not.
If you cannot stand any criticism of your beloved Starmer/Davey/Polanski at all, then you're no longer engaged in politics, but tribalism.
Aren't Government Arms Length Bodies really useful.
They distance Government from problems and everyone, including journalists who should know better, can have a pop at them, whilst never upsetting anyone actually in Government.
The gift that keeps on giving.
They distance Government from problems and everyone, including journalists who should know better, can have a pop at them, whilst never upsetting anyone actually in Government.
The gift that keeps on giving.
England's bathing water results are out! I've mapped them here:
MAP: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
Defra says it's an improvement but I'm not so sure. A few thoughts here about what the results don't tell you:
watershedinvestigations.com/the-environm...
MAP: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
Defra says it's an improvement but I'm not so sure. A few thoughts here about what the results don't tell you:
watershedinvestigations.com/the-environm...
England’s bathing water results are out, but do they tell the full story? - Watershed Investigations
The Environment Agency has released England’s latest bathing water classifications and Defra is calling the results a success, but the testing regime masks a host of potential problems.
watershedinvestigations.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Aren't Government Arms Length Bodies really useful.
They distance Government from problems and everyone, including journalists who should know better, can have a pop at them, whilst never upsetting anyone actually in Government.
The gift that keeps on giving.
They distance Government from problems and everyone, including journalists who should know better, can have a pop at them, whilst never upsetting anyone actually in Government.
The gift that keeps on giving.
A victory for Trump.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A victory for Trump.
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Why Nigel Farage, is the scale of it too big?
Maybe you could ask Arron Banks to fund it!
#ReformRussianBribes
Maybe you could ask Arron Banks to fund it!
#ReformRussianBribes
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Why Nigel Farage, is the scale of it too big?
Maybe you could ask Arron Banks to fund it!
#ReformRussianBribes
Maybe you could ask Arron Banks to fund it!
#ReformRussianBribes
Thought and prayers for all Reform UK Councils at this difficult time.
BREAKING: DOGE has been shut down by the Trump regime to cut cost (?).
Elon came in, cancelled a bunch of government contracts, made sure his companies got billions in government contracts, stole millions of Americans' data, then left.
Elon came in, cancelled a bunch of government contracts, made sure his companies got billions in government contracts, stole millions of Americans' data, then left.
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Thought and prayers for all Reform UK Councils at this difficult time.
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Important Messages.
Just surfacing here briefly to make a few public service announcements for the greater good:
No, it is not Christmas, it's November.
No, it's not "Black Friday" this week. We live in the UK. (And anyway, today is Monday).
Thank you.
No, it is not Christmas, it's November.
No, it's not "Black Friday" this week. We live in the UK. (And anyway, today is Monday).
Thank you.
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Important Messages.
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This is a small, rocky planet where three dictators are fighting to become the most powerful of them all.
Meanwhile, the inhabitants are exterminating other species and making their world uninhabitable – but they are too narrow-minded and greedy to take that into account.
@NASA/JPL - Caltech SSI
Meanwhile, the inhabitants are exterminating other species and making their world uninhabitable – but they are too narrow-minded and greedy to take that into account.
@NASA/JPL - Caltech SSI
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
This is a small, rocky planet where three dictators are fighting to become the most powerful of them all.
Meanwhile, the inhabitants are exterminating other species and making their world uninhabitable – but they are too narrow-minded and greedy to take that into account.
@NASA/JPL - Caltech SSI
Meanwhile, the inhabitants are exterminating other species and making their world uninhabitable – but they are too narrow-minded and greedy to take that into account.
@NASA/JPL - Caltech SSI
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A mansion tax isn't how you hit the wealthy - who have a small proportion of their wealth tied up in housing. A mansion tax is how you hit the middle classes - whose only valuable asset is their house.
More cowardice from Labour: afraid to go where the real money is, to go after the super rich.
More cowardice from Labour: afraid to go where the real money is, to go after the super rich.
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A mansion tax isn't how you hit the wealthy - who have a small proportion of their wealth tied up in housing. A mansion tax is how you hit the middle classes - whose only valuable asset is their house.
More cowardice from Labour: afraid to go where the real money is, to go after the super rich.
More cowardice from Labour: afraid to go where the real money is, to go after the super rich.
But, then they'd be immigrants.
November 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
But, then they'd be immigrants.
Government by Daily Mail gossip column.
Great. More vilification from Labour.
Plays right into the hands of the lying liars who wildly overstate instances of benefit fraud, just like kicking the forrins plays into the hands of those burning to give them a good kicking.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Plays right into the hands of the lying liars who wildly overstate instances of benefit fraud, just like kicking the forrins plays into the hands of those burning to give them a good kicking.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Government by Daily Mail gossip column.
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We should not rest until the last foodbank closes due to lack of demand
The fact we have any food banks is the best indicator that wages have been flatlined as corporate profits surge. our system is broken and needs a re-set. .GOV should not need to top up folks wages and folk should not need charity to eat in the 21st century. We've gone wrong somewhere.
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
We should not rest until the last foodbank closes due to lack of demand
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How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...
September 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...
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Today is 92nd anniversary of Holodomor. Soviet Russia inflicted a man made famine on Ukraine that killed millions. Today we are trying to wipe the country off the map.
The only difference is the USA is on our side now.
The only difference is the USA is on our side now.
November 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Today is 92nd anniversary of Holodomor. Soviet Russia inflicted a man made famine on Ukraine that killed millions. Today we are trying to wipe the country off the map.
The only difference is the USA is on our side now.
The only difference is the USA is on our side now.
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NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
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Hmmm
I wonder how many took Russian bribes
And how much was taken to get Brexit done
Brexit was a Russian foreign policy
I wonder how many took Russian bribes
And how much was taken to get Brexit done
Brexit was a Russian foreign policy
November 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Hmmm
I wonder how many took Russian bribes
And how much was taken to get Brexit done
Brexit was a Russian foreign policy
I wonder how many took Russian bribes
And how much was taken to get Brexit done
Brexit was a Russian foreign policy
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Is this what they mean when they talk about ‘prison reform’.
November 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Is this what they mean when they talk about ‘prison reform’.
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Very proud of former Reform MP, James McMurdock. Who better to stand up for women and girls than a man sent to prison for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend?
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Very proud of former Reform MP, James McMurdock. Who better to stand up for women and girls than a man sent to prison for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend?
"I'm a cowboy. On a steel horse I ride..."
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
"I'm a cowboy. On a steel horse I ride..."
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime"
- "Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain, 1869
- "Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain, 1869
October 17, 2024 at 2:17 PM
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime"
- "Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain, 1869
- "Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain, 1869
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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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BREAKING: Elon Musk has immediately disabled the "Account based in" feature on Twitter after more than 50% of the MAGA grifter accounts were found to be based outside of the US.
Most of the pro-Israel and MAGA propaganda accounts were being run from India.
Most of the pro-Israel and MAGA propaganda accounts were being run from India.
November 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
BREAKING: Elon Musk has immediately disabled the "Account based in" feature on Twitter after more than 50% of the MAGA grifter accounts were found to be based outside of the US.
Most of the pro-Israel and MAGA propaganda accounts were being run from India.
Most of the pro-Israel and MAGA propaganda accounts were being run from India.
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Nathan Gill was a 'bad apple' says Head Bad Apple of the Bad Apple Party.
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Nathan Gill was a 'bad apple' says Head Bad Apple of the Bad Apple Party.
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Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers.
Direct result of racism and insecurity unleashed by major political parties.
Not enough home trained doctors. Takes years and high debt to become a doctor.
A healthcare crisis in the making.
Direct result of racism and insecurity unleashed by major political parties.
Not enough home trained doctors. Takes years and high debt to become a doctor.
A healthcare crisis in the making.
Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures last year that imperils NHS
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers.
Direct result of racism and insecurity unleashed by major political parties.
Not enough home trained doctors. Takes years and high debt to become a doctor.
A healthcare crisis in the making.
Direct result of racism and insecurity unleashed by major political parties.
Not enough home trained doctors. Takes years and high debt to become a doctor.
A healthcare crisis in the making.
Can anyone explain the benefit of the UK government not taking similar action?
Is it apathy, ignorance or fear that keeps UK government on X and complicit on the views expressed there?
Is it apathy, ignorance or fear that keeps UK government on X and complicit on the views expressed there?
France has added Musk’s Grok to an ongoing cybercrime investigation after it produced French-language posts echoing Holocaust denial about Auschwitz.
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Can anyone explain the benefit of the UK government not taking similar action?
Is it apathy, ignorance or fear that keeps UK government on X and complicit on the views expressed there?
Is it apathy, ignorance or fear that keeps UK government on X and complicit on the views expressed there?