Mike Boyle
@mdboyle.bsky.social
Retired UK senior civil servant. British/Irish. Dog-lover. Fervent pro-European 🇪🇺. Crystal Palace fan.Thoroughly woke. Sorry, but after some weird experiences I'll only reply to DMs from people I know itrw.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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Pay back your travel expenses Jenkyns!
Reform UK’s Andrea Jenkyns is claiming travel expenses for her job as Mayor of Lincolnshire, why? Because she lives in Yorkshire (despite saying she lives in Lincolnshire on her nomination forms).
Reform UK’s Andrea Jenkyns is claiming travel expenses for her job as Mayor of Lincolnshire, why? Because she lives in Yorkshire (despite saying she lives in Lincolnshire on her nomination forms).
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Pay back your travel expenses Jenkyns!
Reform UK’s Andrea Jenkyns is claiming travel expenses for her job as Mayor of Lincolnshire, why? Because she lives in Yorkshire (despite saying she lives in Lincolnshire on her nomination forms).
Reform UK’s Andrea Jenkyns is claiming travel expenses for her job as Mayor of Lincolnshire, why? Because she lives in Yorkshire (despite saying she lives in Lincolnshire on her nomination forms).
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Thx to Julie Ivory on Facebook for a great meme
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Thx to Julie Ivory on Facebook for a great meme
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
What does Europe mean to you? Watch European Movement UK's video featuring Caroline Lucas: bsky.app/profile/euro...
To so many of us, Europe is more than a place, it’s a part of who we are. Hear what the public had to say when we went out and asked them what Europe means to them.
November 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
What does Europe mean to you? Watch European Movement UK's video featuring Caroline Lucas: bsky.app/profile/euro...
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No boat crossings at all in the last 7 days.
The BBC hasn’t sent this to our phones as breaking news.
The BBC hasn’t sent this to our phones as breaking news.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
No boat crossings at all in the last 7 days.
The BBC hasn’t sent this to our phones as breaking news.
The BBC hasn’t sent this to our phones as breaking news.
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He’s doing it again.
Cosplaying Reform is a validation of Reform.
Cosplaying Reform is a validation of Reform.
August 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
He’s doing it again.
Cosplaying Reform is a validation of Reform.
Cosplaying Reform is a validation of Reform.
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Reform UK’s “Britain is Lawless” campaign isn’t about making us safer – it’s about manufacturing fear for political gain
By The Bear
By The Bear
The Great British fear factory: manufacturing a lawless London
Reform UK’s “Britain is Lawless” campaign isn’t about making us safer – it’s about manufacturing fear for political gain
eastangliabylines.co.uk
August 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Reform UK’s “Britain is Lawless” campaign isn’t about making us safer – it’s about manufacturing fear for political gain
By The Bear
By The Bear
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Ursula Von der Leyen:
July 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Ursula Von der Leyen:
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At the 1:00 mark, an agent fires point blank at an unarmed civilian trying to tell them that she lives in the apartment behind them
Longer version on our FB page
Longer version on our FB page
June 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
At the 1:00 mark, an agent fires point blank at an unarmed civilian trying to tell them that she lives in the apartment behind them
Longer version on our FB page
Longer version on our FB page
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Imagine if a referendum were held in which 52% of those who voted declared that the Earth was flat.
And that subsequently everyone in the UK was forced to behave as if the Earth was indeed flat, and all main parties said "Ok, flat it is. Evidence be damned."
That's Brexit.
And that subsequently everyone in the UK was forced to behave as if the Earth was indeed flat, and all main parties said "Ok, flat it is. Evidence be damned."
That's Brexit.
May 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Imagine if a referendum were held in which 52% of those who voted declared that the Earth was flat.
And that subsequently everyone in the UK was forced to behave as if the Earth was indeed flat, and all main parties said "Ok, flat it is. Evidence be damned."
That's Brexit.
And that subsequently everyone in the UK was forced to behave as if the Earth was indeed flat, and all main parties said "Ok, flat it is. Evidence be damned."
That's Brexit.
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Whatever EU deal is announced on Monday the benefits to UK will inevitably be inferior to membership of the EU. The UK side will try to limit the many damages of Brexit but frictions and costs will remain and we will probably have to pay for the benefits we obtain. Brexit will always be a negative.
May 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Whatever EU deal is announced on Monday the benefits to UK will inevitably be inferior to membership of the EU. The UK side will try to limit the many damages of Brexit but frictions and costs will remain and we will probably have to pay for the benefits we obtain. Brexit will always be a negative.
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May 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Please repost, if like me, you will never accept Brexit.
It harms the British people. It was obtained through foreign interference and by far the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history, and it robs us of freedom and citizenship.
#RejoinEU
It harms the British people. It was obtained through foreign interference and by far the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history, and it robs us of freedom and citizenship.
#RejoinEU
May 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Please repost, if like me, you will never accept Brexit.
It harms the British people. It was obtained through foreign interference and by far the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history, and it robs us of freedom and citizenship.
#RejoinEU
It harms the British people. It was obtained through foreign interference and by far the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history, and it robs us of freedom and citizenship.
#RejoinEU
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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In short, what @sophgaston.bsky.social hints at is that gov't is approaching the UK/EU reset not driven exclusively by UK interest. Not even responding to public opinion (which poll-after-poll shows wants us to be closer, faster), but in part according to how vested media interests might react. ~AA
Crucial point by Sophia Gaston to Commons C'tee:
"The existence of a 'Brexit betrayals' narrative" has a "profoundly depressive" impact on how gov't is approaching the UK/EU relationship. And that is "problematic" because it does not even reflect public opinion, but "coerced by media opinion." ~AA
"The existence of a 'Brexit betrayals' narrative" has a "profoundly depressive" impact on how gov't is approaching the UK/EU relationship. And that is "problematic" because it does not even reflect public opinion, but "coerced by media opinion." ~AA
May 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
In short, what @sophgaston.bsky.social hints at is that gov't is approaching the UK/EU reset not driven exclusively by UK interest. Not even responding to public opinion (which poll-after-poll shows wants us to be closer, faster), but in part according to how vested media interests might react. ~AA
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Not to mention the most disgusting misunderstanding of those who serve.
Yes. That is what military personnel do. Every. Single. Day. They put themselves in harm's way "defending somebody else". Not to mention police, fire service, and all the "greedy unions" you denigrate for getting a payrise. ~AA
Yes. That is what military personnel do. Every. Single. Day. They put themselves in harm's way "defending somebody else". Not to mention police, fire service, and all the "greedy unions" you denigrate for getting a payrise. ~AA
Reform UK stooge doing a bang-up job of defending their links to Putin.🤣
"We think what Putin has done is disgraceful. BUT... What are you going to do? Put our armed forcees in harm's way to defend somebody that we don't have that much to do with?" ~AA @jeevunsandher.bsky.social
"We think what Putin has done is disgraceful. BUT... What are you going to do? Put our armed forcees in harm's way to defend somebody that we don't have that much to do with?" ~AA @jeevunsandher.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Not to mention the most disgusting misunderstanding of those who serve.
Yes. That is what military personnel do. Every. Single. Day. They put themselves in harm's way "defending somebody else". Not to mention police, fire service, and all the "greedy unions" you denigrate for getting a payrise. ~AA
Yes. That is what military personnel do. Every. Single. Day. They put themselves in harm's way "defending somebody else". Not to mention police, fire service, and all the "greedy unions" you denigrate for getting a payrise. ~AA
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Still waiting for Farage-mesmerised BBC to devote more than passing sentence to fact that Greens have more councillors than Reform and that Ed Davey's Lib Dems have all bit wiped out the Tories in their traditional shire heartlands....
May 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Still waiting for Farage-mesmerised BBC to devote more than passing sentence to fact that Greens have more councillors than Reform and that Ed Davey's Lib Dems have all bit wiped out the Tories in their traditional shire heartlands....
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Hey British media,
It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning.
Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10
It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning.
Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10
May 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Hey British media,
It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning.
Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10
It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning.
Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10
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Essentially *all* research and expert assessments show that this does not work. It will not counter Farage, but literally push votes towards Reform.
It genuinely is impossible to overstate how profoundly stupid and strategically illiterate this decision is.
You cannot out-Reform Reform.
It genuinely is impossible to overstate how profoundly stupid and strategically illiterate this decision is.
You cannot out-Reform Reform.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing tougher measures on immigration to stem a record flow of arrivals across the English Channel and stave off the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party after it made sweeping gains in this week’s local elections.
Starmer Plots Harder Line on Migration to Counter Farage Threat
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing tougher measures on immigration to stem a record flow of arrivals across the English Channel and stave off the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party after it made sweeping gains in this week’s local elections.
bloom.bg
May 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Essentially *all* research and expert assessments show that this does not work. It will not counter Farage, but literally push votes towards Reform.
It genuinely is impossible to overstate how profoundly stupid and strategically illiterate this decision is.
You cannot out-Reform Reform.
It genuinely is impossible to overstate how profoundly stupid and strategically illiterate this decision is.
You cannot out-Reform Reform.
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Fair point. Well made.
April 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Fair point. Well made.