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Sarah Murphy
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Welcome to my shiny new echo chamber… hoping here that I can keep it clean and tidy and ‘woke’.

IRL - lawyer (of the lefty, campaigning variety).
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · Oct 5
We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
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roberthutton.co.uk
It's the only game that matters. My SKETCH of British politicians playing the Trump Game.
The first rule of the Trump Game, played by politicians around the world, is you do not talk about the rules of the Trump Game. The object of the game is to pretend that the President of the United States is a normal, rational statesman, perhaps an eccentric one, but fundamentally someone who is acting according to some strategy that the rest of us might one day hope to fathom. On no account are you ever to admit that he’s nasty, vain, venal, capricious and obviously unaware that his own doctors are testing him for signs of dementia. The 2026 round of the game got off with a literal series of bangs, as the US military attacked Venezuela and kidnapped its president. On Sunday morning we were greeted by the sight of Nicolás Maduro being led down a hall at the Drug Enforcement Administration in New York. The floor had been painted with the slogan “Rule of Law”, to allow Americans to walk all over it.
January 4, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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paulbernal.bsky.social
Much more honesty about what just happened from inside the U.S. than from outside. The world is full of dishonesty and cowardice.
January 4, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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In which Mumsnet women persuade each other that voting Reform will give the establishment “a kick in the arse”
Oh well done, you lot. Brexit again. Falling for the con and risking it all, cos that’ll teach them.

It won’t. It’ll just ruin life for everyone. Your children most of all.

(Sunday Times)
Headline: Left-leaning mothers of Mumsnet are deserting Labour for Reform Extract: Reform has become the top political party for traditionally left-leaning mothers. a survey of Mumsnet users found, in what has been taken as a wake-up call for Labour. The parenting forum has become a barometer for mothers voting intentions. Analysis of Murnsnet conversations correctly predicted the country would choose to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum. Now research shows 20 per cent of users intend to vote Reform UK in the next election, placing the party ahead of Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats. It is the first time since the Mumsnet political poll began in 2009 that Labour has been usurped by any party. Justine Roberts, the co-founder of Mumsnet, said she was surprised by the results from the poll of more than 1,000 adults, but understood "why many mums have hecome disillusioned" with the government. Analysis or conversduons on Mumsnet found there was anger about rising taxes, failed welfare reforms, NHS pressures and the perceived effect ofimmigration on public services. a general disillusionment with Labour having not achieved what people hoped they would have achieved. There is also increasing worry about two issues, the cost of living and immigration. In November, Shabana Mahmoud, the home secretary, announced changes to make it less attractive to claim asylum in the UK and easier to remove failed asylum seekers. Roberts said: "Shabana Mahmood's latest sally on immigration, I think, may land with our users, because what they want is effective government. They want people to effectively deal with these issues. But, if they don't, and they carry on bundling along as they are - that goes for Labour and the Tories - people will vote for Reform, even if it feels like a protest vote.” Many of those intending to vote for Reform suggested it was a protest against Labour and the Conservatives. One user said: "I will vote Reform. I am educated and never thought I would say this but the establishment needs a kick in the arse. Of course Reform won't last but it will kick existing parties into shape. Sorry but nothing can stop them now."
January 4, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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jamesrball.com
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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“Far from acknowledging the dangers of a Trump presidency…., the likes of Farage and Johnson have actively sought to assist him, while personally profiting by association.”

Traitors all. They do us nothing but harm. Just how many times do we need to be warned?

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/trumps-ill...
Trump's Illegal Assault on Venezuela Opens the Door to Even Darker Foreign Adventures
It's time for the President's apologists to admit that those of us warning about the grave global threat he poses were right
www.adambienkov.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela.

Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe.

Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.
January 3, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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sundersays.bsky.social
Nigel Farage expresses support for Trump's "unorthodox" breach of international law - on grounds that they may "make China and Russia think twice"

But the main impact on Russia and China will be to help them to legitimise aggression in cases like Ukraine and Taiwan, citing Trump/US as analogous.
January 3, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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nixonsimon.bsky.social
A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d
JUST IN: Trump says the U.S. has captured Maduro and his wife and flown them out of the country.
January 3, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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jamesrball.com
Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.
January 3, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Trump’s America is a rogue state.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
Venezuela latest: Explosions heard as smoke rises in Caracas
Footage appears to show smoke rising in multiple locations in the Venezuelan capital.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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charlotte2153.bsky.social
There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.
January 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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sarahowen.org.uk
X/grok creating and platforming sexually explicit material of children isn’t just a lapse, it’s criminal.

Elon Musk and his companies should be held to account.

It’s been over a year since I dumped X. It was the right decision then and even more so now. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Grok Posts Sexual Images of Minors After ‘Lapses in Safeguards’
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said “lapses in safeguards” led to the generation of sexualized images of minors that it posted to social media site X.
www.bloomberg.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:48 AM
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Tax breaks for foreign millionaires but mass deportations for the rest. Huge austerity and NHS cuts, replacing NHS with insurance model, scrapping NetZero, workers’ rights and online safety act. And a trade war with the EU.

Reform:
Corrupt. Ruinous. Racist. Moronic.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
10 Reform policies that would clobber Brits
Whether it's mass deportations, slashing hundreds of billions of spending, or tax cuts for the super-rich, Reform UK and Nigel Farage have set out their pitch to voters
www.mirror.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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Farage confirms he’s glad his (schoolboy) racism has been exposed, that he’s enjoying the electoral kickback it’s given him amongst his racist supporters and expresses absolutely no shame or guilt about it at all.

Racist man. Racist party. Racist voters.

(iPaper)
Headline: Reform to spend £5m on May elections Key paragraph (circled by me in red) The Reform leader said claims - including that he told a Jewish classmate that "Hitler was right" and said "gas them" - will not have an electoral impact because they were seen as an attack on him from the "mainstream media". "It's having zero effect," he said. "It's solidifying our core support.”
January 2, 2026 at 8:44 AM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
One of the first things a Farage government will do will be to make sure "the young are
taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)
One of the first things a Reform govern- ment will do is make sure the young are taught correctly about our history,
January 1, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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Farage going all out for the locals this May… spending millions to con voters into believing he’ll fix what he made sure he broke. Pleased that his base likes his racism. Strutting around in his brexity soiled pants like the big I am.

Please let’s bin him off now.

www.thetimes.com/article/04be...
Farage is planning to focus his campaign on the broad slogan that "Britain is broken, Britain needs Reform" in a campaign coalescing around three areas: law and order, the cost of living and migration. Farage said: "It's double or quits. As far as I'm concerned we are just going to go for it. If we come out of it without a single penny in the bank account and everyone is exhausted ... It is the single most important event between now and the general election. "On it depends the future of our prime minister, the future of the leader of the opposition and indeed my own relative strength or otherwise as leader of Reform. If we bombed people would ask questions. My entire focus and energy is on the planning and preparation for it."
January 1, 2026 at 5:19 PM
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Dot-to-dot for the UK:

Prejudice and lies brought us Brexit.
Brexit rocket-boosted racism.
Racism empowers Farage.

Failing to join these dots and hold the traitorous shit to account is ruining us. In every sense of the word.

Let’s do better in 2026.

(Independent newsletter)
The Brexit Headlines Delay to post-Brexit deal costs UK £100m a week, analysis shows Labour government hits out at critics, denouncing it as a 'shame' that they are not supporting its progress in forging closer ties with the EU Farage is still popular despite racism claims, poll finds Claims that the Reform leader was a racist bully in his school days appear to have left his reputation unscathed among voters
December 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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2025 Awards:

Racist of the year: Farage
Incompetents of the year: Reform run councils
Traitor: Nathan Gill, Reform
Grifter: Farage
Most ruinous policy of the year: Brexit (9th year running)

New Year’s resolution for 2026:

Not having these howling failure monkeys leading in the polls.
December 31, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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gxldsociety.bsky.social
BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”

Read that again.
December 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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God honestly. Doesn’t this just sum up Reform. And their plastic patriotism.
Can’t even give a straight answer or follow the rules on their unbelievably naff merch.
So on brand.
Oh well. You sell or wear one of these, you’ve told us all we need to know about you.

(iPaper)
Picture of a Farage Football shirt with the dodgy ‘made in Britain’ logo Headline: Reform UK merchandise does not have permission for its 'Made in Britain' logo Extracts; Reform UK has been using a "Made in Britain" logo on a range of promotional football shirts without permission from either ofthe two UK "Made in Britain" trademark schemes, Thei Paper has found. The shirts sold by Nigel Farage's party range in price from £39 to £359, with funds going to Reform UK. Three styles have been released as merchandise, including a recently launched black and gold shirt signed by Farage himself. They are prominently stamped with the official-looking logo… It is strikingly similar to the logos connected to MadeinBritain.co and the registered trademark that belongs to MadeinBrtain.org, which were both set up with the aim of protecting British manufacturing. Both organisations require companies to pass an audit in order to be accredited and gain permission to use their logo. Use of the trademark from MadeinBritain.org, a not-for-profit organisation, is stricter and a licence fee of at least S195 must be paid annually. Misleading a customer to believe an item has a level of accreditation is potentially a criminal offence. A spokesperson for Reform UK said: "The logo displayed was materially different and simply denotes that this product is made in the UK” The main supplier for Reform's shirts does manufacture them in the UK, The i Paper understands. One of Reform's "Original Edi- tion" tops purchased by The i Paper featured an address for a Leicester-based manufacturer. Upon visiting the site, the address was not a factory but a small office where one person works. A spokesperson for Reform said: "Each and every Reform FC shirt is made in the UK.”
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Oh excellent news. Brexit sovereignty strikes again.
‘Global’ Little Britain gets to plead with foreign powers not to screw us over. And foreign powers say no.

We will be doing this shit for years. What an idiotically avoidable waste of our time and resources.

www.farminguk.com/news/chlorin...
December 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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johnfugelsang.bsky.social
“You guys, Hitler wants to see Poland succeed”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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writesbright.bsky.social
Chatted to my great uncle yesterday – a northern, working-class guy, not that political. I told him my job involved exposing Farage.

His first question was: “who funds him?”

Investigations into Farage’s donors can have a major impact on Reform’s support – as this research has already shown 👇
New research reveals the best attack lines to use against Reform
How to stop Farage...
writesbright.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
“Farage had an uneasy end to the year”

Where “uneasy” = exposed as racist with corrupt/traitorous links to Russia and useless at running councils.
But no worries. They’ll just join forces with the failed Tories to “end the left wing tyranny.”

They can all go to hell.

(Sunday Times)
Josh Glancy If support for Reform has hit a peak, a Tory pact looks a lot less distant Photo of Farage Extracts: Another danger for Reform is tactical voting and the left uniting to keep Farage out, which is what happened in the Senedd by-election in Caerphilly two months ago.. Put all these factors together and it’s no surprise that there is speculation once again in Westminster about a Reform-Tory pact. If Reform has hit a plateau and can’t get there alone, what about uniting the right by teaming up with the rump of the Tory party? If Farage and Badenoch can’t get along — the pair have barely met and share a mutual antipathy — then perhaps a more Reform-friendly Tory leader, likely Robert Jenrick, could do a deal to ensure an end to left-wing tyranny? Farage had an uneasy end to the year Such an arrangement could take many forms, from an explicit deal not to compete across the board to a quiet, implicit, “gloves-off” agreement in key seats. Publicly, of course, both sides reject this suggestion — to do otherwise would be to admit their own limitations. Farage has called the idea “ludicrous” and insists his party will “swallow” the Tories, not join with them. Grubby deals with the hated Tories would dull Reform’s insurgent sheen. Privately, however, the conversation has a different tone. This month the Financial Times reported that Farage had told donors he expected an election deal to happen (a story he later described as “fake”). Many Tory MPs also privately admit that some form of deal may be their only path to power. “If Tory MPs are faced with a choice of going into coalition with Reform as a moderating force in government, or Britain being governed by some kind of rainbow alliance of the left, they will obviously choose power over five more years in the wilderness,” says the Tory source. “They can be as high-minded as they want in opposition, but if the opportunity arose they would jump at it.”
December 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM