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“I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism”
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captmarkkelly.bsky.social
No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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politicsintheuk.bsky.social
Oh look the Daily Mail treasonous c*nts screaming ‘Liar resign’. The same paper that cheered on every Tory budget that actually crashed the economy.
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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felixdrost.bsky.social
Putin's "whole economy, his whole society, his whole politics, his whole preservation of self revolves around having this war go on.”

So says Fiona Hill, perhaps the most insightful Russia analyst of these times.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
‘Putin’s whole life revolves around war – he is manipulating Trump,’ ex-US aide warns
Fiona Hill, a Russian expert and former White House adviser, who witnessed meetings between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, tells The Independent podcast World of Trouble’s Sam Kiley that the Russian...
www.independent.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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vivamjm.bsky.social
The Brexit "news" never is @nick1webb.bsky.social

Brexit choices were always
1/ Trying to take back (border) control, meaning greater rocketing prices for far less choice & empty shelves
OR
2/ Giving up all semblance of control meaning
unilaterally advantaging the EU (their exporters) & smugglers
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
The Telegraph, ladies and gentlemen.
November 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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dfreedman7.bsky.social
Glad the UK has come around to this. The US has seen a dramatic decrease in mortality related to chickenpox since vaccination began in 1995.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Children offered chickenpox vaccine on NHS
All young children in England and Wales will be offered a free chickenpox vaccine by the NHS from January 2026.
www.bbc.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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jaimiddleton.bsky.social
Nathan Gill was an MEP for the Brexit party and Ukip, and later became Reform UK’s leader in Wales. Now he has been jailed for 10 years for taking bribes to make pro-Russia statements. Luke Harding reports
How Nigel Farage’s ‘right-hand man’ in Europe was unmasked as a traitor – podcast
Nathan Gill was an MEP for the Brexit party and Ukip, and later became Reform UK’s leader in Wales. Now he has been jailed for 10 years for taking bribes to make pro-Russia statements. Luke Harding re...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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peterjukes.bsky.social
The current Russian troll farm defence of its invasion, massacres and tortures is to go ‘what about Israel’?

Don’t be derailed. Human rights are human rights whether in Palestine or Ukraine
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Former US military lawyers speak out:

"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."

Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes

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• If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a “non-international armed conflict,” as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to “kill everybody,” which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give “no quarter,” and to “double-tap” a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes. • If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder. Highlighted sentence at the end of the document reads: Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are “patently illegal,” anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
What happened is precisely what the world's leading macroeconomists predicted would happen.
November 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Read this.

A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
November 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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schmoller.net
Stanford University's November working paper in the economic impact of Brexit. (Abstract below, including authors.)
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
This paper examines the impact of the UK's decision to leave the European Union (Brexit) in 2016. Using almost a decade of data since the referendum, we combine simulations based on macro data with estimates derived from micro data collected through our Decision Maker Panel survey. These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%. These large negative impacts reflect a combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources from a protracted Brexit process. Comparing these with contemporary forecasts – providing a rare macro example to complement the burgeoning micro- literature of social science predictions – shows that these forecasts were accurate over a 5-year horizon, but they underestimated the impact over a decade.
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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ibykus.bsky.social
Oligarchs owning newspapers and football clubs, sitting in the House of Lords, PM partying with KGB in Italy, bribes for questions in parliament, paying for Brexit, lots of well heeled Russian stooges have welcomed it all
stevebasnett.bsky.social Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 1d
People have causes they care about. That's fine. To me, this petition is the most important UK one of all because it concerns 10+ years of sickeningly successful Russian interference in politics, law, media, the private sector, fiance, and even British society as a whole. So much we care about.
peterjukes.bsky.social Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d
I've signed. Have you?

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Why wouldn’t you want to know? What have you got to fear? Losing your precious Brexit? Being revealed as a traitor and a liar?
Surely, anyone decent and honest who genuinely cares about our country and our democracy has nothing to lose from this. So, sign up.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
‘Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he had ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.’

Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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rachel4742.bsky.social
They helped break it!!

We need reform not Reform.

#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
ottoenglish.bsky.social Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d
Slightly obsessed with Reform UK's teeny tiny photoshopped breakfast.
We have launched a major ad campaign across 6 national newspapers today, Our message is simple: Reform UK stands ready to fix Broken Britain
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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harryhpalmer.bsky.social
Best thing in the world was for these charlatans to take power in #Brexit voting Councils, exposing how fucking clueless they are, and showing how they'd wreck the country if elected to Government.
mikegalsworthy.bsky.social Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d
The black hole in Durham County Council’s budget has grown by £11.1mn in the past two months under the control of Reform UK.

Its cabinet has been forced to approve a £10mn list of cuts.
Reform cabinet backs £10mn cuts to start filling Durham’s growing black hole
Reform is now learning that running a big council is not as easy as it probably thought
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
t4yorkshire.bsky.social
"If courts decide that a foreign government can reach into data stored inside another country simply because a provider has a commercial presence there, it changes the entire meaning of sovereignty" www.theregister.com/2025/11/27/c...
Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty
: OVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand access
www.theregister.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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viviane49.bsky.social
I see all the headlines today refer to ‘Benefit Street’

What they don’t tell you is 60% of those on benefits are in work.

No outcry on those employers not paying enough or concocting hours to enable people to claim UC.

First it was immigrants. Now it’s those on benefits.
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 AM
t4yorkshire.bsky.social
But we have blue passports.... #Brexit www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Businesses left asking - what happened to growth?
Significant pro-business measures were thin on the ground in this year's Budget.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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yankeluh.bsky.social
Face it, Putin paid for Brexit to start trying to break up the EU.
josiahmortimer.bsky.social Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 3d
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey just called for a national investigation into Russian interference in British politics.

(PM doesn't commit but slams Nigel Farage's party for the Nathan Gill bribery scandal)
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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stephvbothmer.bsky.social
to whoever party wants “less europe”:

it’s immensely idiotic and will cost every single one of your citizens dearly.

stop being selfish, pompous, whining, misleading, you’re wrong and you know it.

#brexit
Figure 8: Estimated impact of Brexit (since 2016) GDP Estimated impact of Brexit on GDP (%) by 2023: ca -8.5% Business investment Estimated impact of Brexit on business investment (%) by 2023: ca -19% Whole economy employment Estimated impact of Brexit on whole economy employment (%) by 2023: ca -3.8% Whole economy productivity Estimated impact of Brexit on whole economy productivity (%) by 2023: ca -4.3% Notes: Estimates for employment, productivity and GDP are for the whole economy. Whole economy micro estimates for employment and productivity are constructed by scaling private sector estimates by their share in whole economy employment. Productivity impacts are based on TF 6% of the capital stock and using a depreciation rate of 4%. Micro estimates are annual and are for financial years (shown as red diamonds which are plotted for Q3). Macro estimates are quarterly. The macro estimates represent the average of the UK relative to 5 different comparator country metrics: GDP weighted; GDP/air distance weighted; UK trade weighted; formal synthetic control; and simple umweighted. Macro estimates for 2020 Q2 to 2021 Q1 are calculated by interpolating between estimates for 2020 Q1 and 2021 Q2 to smooth through the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic)
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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em-westlondon.bsky.social
More than 70,000 have signed the petition for enquiry into Russian influence in UK politics. At 100,000 we can ask for a debate in parliament. #Brexit

Please sign and share.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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petitions.bsky.social
This petition was rejected because it was too similar to another petition: "Have a new referendum on EU membership"

#RejectedPetition
Petition: Have a new referendum on EU membership
I want the government to offer the people of the UK a further opportunity to reconsider the position of our communities leaving the EU.
petition.parliament.uk
November 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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steven-hughes.bsky.social
FOR A FEW DAYS: POND SCUM UNDERBELLY EXPOSED

Relevant to us for how many "British Patriots" and other right-wing accounts were in India and the like.

Both pro-Scot indy (Netherlands) and pro-Brexit (Russia) accounts were exposed.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts
Dozens of pro-Trump accounts are being accused of misleading followers after the social media site began showing user locations.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM