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If Farage's people are real, ordinary and decent then I must be pretend, weird and immoral.
Section 28 values. #Prejudice #LGBTPrideMonth 2016

Dysgu Cymraeg, byw ym Manceinion
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ucu.org.uk
UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm.

It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance.

58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY
September 14, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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antireform.bsky.social
"... the Electoral Commission has now confirmed it is considering a complaint concerning hospitality provided to Nigel Farage and senior Reform figures during fundraising events in Dubai"
via Truth Against Hate

ps Dubai is a Muslim country with Sharia Law - which Reform say they hate
September 15, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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somersetchris.bsky.social
Just a reminder that this is the post that Farage put on X and then deleted
#politicslive #RNLI
September 15, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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andyscollick.bsky.social
The spirit of our dear departed Janey Godley is in Doonbeg, Co Clare, Ireland today.
September 12, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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hleehurley.com
'Just protecting women and children unless the children need fed'
flyingrodent.bsky.social flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24d
An entire politics and worldview animated by a lively terror that somewhere, somebody might be eating a free cheese sandwich
Sharron Davies HoL MBE O @sharrond62 x.com Accept they're not free really are they? The cost the tax payer, when giving children a breakfast can be achieved for 50p at home. The cost to the tax payer is far far higher per breakfast than 50p
September 11, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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petergeoghegan.bsky.social
We only went and won it (again)

Democracy for Sale specialist newsletter of the year at the Future of the Media awards @lucasamin.bsky.social @jennacorderoy.bsky.social @isabelleroughol.com

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September 10, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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electionmaps.uk
Burnage (Manchester) Council By-Election Result:

🌹 LAB: 42.1% (+12.8)
🌍 GRN: 32.0% (-13.8)
⚙️ WPB: 14.4% (+12.1)
➡️ RFM: 9.7% (+7.2)
🔶 LDM: 1.0% (-2.1)
🌳 CON: 0.8% (-1.3)

No Ind (-0.5) as previous.

Labour HOLD.
Changes w/ 2026.
September 11, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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marcusjdl.bsky.social
So the BBC has cancelled Drag Race UK, I Kissed A Boy/Girl so the message is if you’re LGBTQ and pay the TV licence fuck you
September 9, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.
localnotail.bsky.social Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 26d
Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has today marched his private army of blackshorts to Daily Mail HQ to demand a new house for his mum within 48 hrs, after they doorstepped her for a feature on him.
Apparently he plans to blockade them + cry at them until they do

Bet those lads are glad of the balaclavas
September 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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scottygb.bsky.social
Channel 4 has just announced its biggest cuts to its workforce in its history, with 28% of employees to lose their jobs.
September 9, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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scottygb.bsky.social
This era in british broadcasting:

Sky buying ITV.
Channel 5 being bought by Paramount.
BBC making £500m of cuts.
and now C4 making biggest workforce cuts in its history.

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
Channel 4 to axe about 300 jobs in biggest layoffs in its history
Exclusive: Staff expect ‘brutal’ cutbacks as broadcaster seeks to reduce costs amid advertising slowdown
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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thegodshow.com
Trey Parker & Matt Stone announce that ‘SOUTH PARK’ will be renamed to ‘SOUTH AMERICA’. “Inspired by the bravery & patriotism of Apple & Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount — a Skydance Capitulation.”
September 8, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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paulhebden.bsky.social
What a ridiculous question. Once again the BBC drives a nail into it's own coffin.
September 8, 2026 at 6:28 AM
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keithbeard.bsky.social
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Bernie Sanders is 85
Bernie Sanders the veteran US socialist representative for Vermont is 85 today Five years ago he was in London talking about class war. The Guardian’s account is here: Arguably one of the great nea…
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September 8, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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happytoast.co.uk
Easy to follow guide from the British press
An elderly lady being carried away by the police, labelled intimidating, and two black clad, balaclava wearing men standing in front of someone’s car, staring at them.
September 8, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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alfie.photography
And 90 years later we have Mosley’s grandson running the UK arm of Palantir. A company that should not be within a million miles of the Police and NHS.

Pretty much every time you see Louis Mosley on tv, he’s dressed like this.
Could be that he just likes black shirts, I guess.
September 7, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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samfr.bsky.social
This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price.

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September 8, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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hleehurley.com
'cosiness'

They beat a woman with a metal pole, Peter.
peterwalker99.bsky.social Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 28d
Thinking back on the Reform UK conference, one of the big impressions it left was *cosiness*. This sounds odd given the rhetoric, but it reminded me of some Tory conferences and Labour under Corbyn, where it was often a comfort blanket for members, with no beliefs or failures really challenged.
September 7, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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robertsaunders.bsky.social
Dan Chater, whose Bethnal Green constituency had a large Jewish population, was one of many MPs to warn of the scapegoating of Jews and immigrants.

The Jewish peer Lord Reading warned that antisemitism was being whipped up as part of a wider attack on "the free institutions of this country".
I am convinced that this constant preaching night after night, this implanting of the idea in the minds of the people that practically all their troubles are due to the Jews who reside there, must sooner or later lead to an outbreak of disorder directed especially to the pillage and destruction of Jewish property. I have watched the whole growth of this kind of propaganda in the East End and I am not afraid to state that, observing it as carefully as one can, it coincides in every particular with the methods, the manner of the propaganda and the psychology which was created in other lands and which led to the establishment of dictatorships there.
September 7, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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robertsaunders.bsky.social
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects.

The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
September 7, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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hagenilda.bsky.social
More bootlicking, this time, Head of Public Affairs at LSE Greg Taylor fawning over how much he loved the Reform conference. #UKHE
LinkedIn post from Greg Taylor: I was looking forward to the Reform UK Conference. I've been going to conferences for 21 years, but this was new: I didn't know what to expect, or what the vibe would be. And it didn't disappoint. We had great conversations with interesting people, held a well-attended The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) event, and stayed up way too late talking policy (and gossiping) with friends. A few more reflections as a fascinated neophyte: 📈 It was a slick, professional set-up in a HUGE venue (perhaps too huge). PA folk were there in droves, and there was a real interest in policy and fringes: events were packed, attendees keen to talk about all sorts, from devo to growth, immigration to education. It was the chattiest and most freewheeling conference I've been to. We encounted no antipathy to HE from members (just from the main stage!). 📉 The slickness and professionalism was a pain for some dyed-in-the-wool members, who didn't enjoy the queues and delays that come with rising popularity. There was palpable frustration that the slightly tatty family car has transformed into a shiny juggernaut, like the monster trucks proudly on display. The faithful are still on the journey, for now, but it’s a big difference between being part of an upstart party and yet another huge, distant organisation. Watching how that develops will be fascinating.
September 8, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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wilch2710.bsky.social
And heres another feel-good story
September 8, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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brokenbottleboy.bsky.social
A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.
Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’
September 8, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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petergeoghegan.bsky.social
The Channel 4 exposé "will make it even harder for Reform to attract donors, legal or otherwise. And it has given the Labour government the best excuse it ever needed to take money out of British politics."

New by me on @zeteo.com UK zeteo.uk/p/anti-forei...
Anti-Foreigner Reform UK’s Shocking Foreign-Funding Scandal Is a Wake-Up Call
‘We just don’t have British-resident donors,’ a top Nigel Farage ally told an undercover US reporter on camera. Isn’t now a good time to get big money out of UK politics?
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September 7, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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happytoast.co.uk
I'm sat in a coffee shop surrounded by people drinking tea and coke and eating toast or if they're lucky a slice of cake while babies scream and dogs outside bark and I can't see a single person being bought champagne and oysters and I'm starting to wonder if Farage actually is a man of the people.
September 4, 2026 at 9:12 AM