Rachel
ewelamb56.bsky.social
Rachel
@ewelamb56.bsky.social
School librarian & staff wellbeing co-ordinator. Border Collie owner. Farmer's daughter. North Easterner in Cumbria. Not a Tory. Views my own.
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Except that’s not true.

Gill was the head of Reform UK in Wales only a few years ago - in 2021.

Gill was constantly seen by Farage’s side since his first election - as a UKIP MEP - in 2014.

Reform must come clean with their Russian connections.
Reform UK's Zia Yusuf calls Nathan Gill 'ancient history'
The party's head of policy says he has never met Nathan Gill, who served as the leader of Reform UK in Wales in 2021.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”

Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Farage says he didn’t promise to cut Council Taxes (all Reform Councils are raising it), he leads the party & sets policy

However Warwickshire Reform Party leaflet said ‘we will cut your taxes’. Worcestershire leaflet said ‘We will reduce waste and cut your taxes’

Did someone say Reforms dodgy AF🤔
No 'free tickets' on council tax under Reform
Most councils have indicated they will need to raise council tax next year as they grapple with budget shortfalls.
news.sky.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Stop. Policing. Poppies. That's. Not. What. Remembrance. Is. About.
This is the fearless journalism Britannia deserves.
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I genuinely think there is a concerted effort by the media to bring this government down. It's sinister and undemocratic.
October 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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British.
October 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Cheesy leeks are great with roast chicken. That is all.
October 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Zack Polanski: I went on Question Time, I put to Reform that their former leader in Wales was in the pocket of Putin, taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia while an MEP, they had no answer, because patriots don’t peddle for Putin. metro.co.uk/2025/10/10/z...
Zack Polanski: I went on Question Time - I was blown away by the response
The response has been quite overwhelming.
metro.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.
October 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right…
What a grim betrayal of our democracy.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins
Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
September 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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@samcoatessky.bsky.social hi Sam, this morning you stated “…the main opposition parties, the Cons and Reform UK…”

Unless I missed 67 Parliamentary by-elections since July, the Lib Dems are very much the main opposition party with the Cons, not Reform.

Do we have to keep doing this?
September 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Beg pardon?
Witkoff: "There's only one thing I wish for: that that Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since that Nobel award was ever talked about."
August 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
August 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
August 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The piano on You Are My World. @richardcoles.bsky.social. phenomenal 😍
August 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
So, arrived home from holiday today and three Union Flags have randomly appeared on lampposts in my street. Question is, do I take them down?? 🤔
August 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Here's a fact for you all.

Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK.

Not ONE.

This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit.

But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
August 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Same 🙌
“Who’s going to pay for universal healthcare, affordable housing & social supports? You???”

This is always asked as a gotcha. As though the person expects me to recoil and say of course not.

The answer is Yes.

I would happily pay my fair share to ensure everyone is cared for.
August 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Fantasy world of Farage adviser:

UK should not have fought Nazi Germany.
Could “regain” former colonies.
Should copy mass incarcerations as in El Salvador.
Should not support Ukraine.

Elsewhere Reform opposes worker rights, wants US style healthcare, return to gold standard for currency.
Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2
Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may ‘regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
This is the best one yet... "Columbus" - Because of the maps! 🤣🤣🤣
Nearly choked on my coffee!
August 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM