Berty Trouser
@bertytrouser.bsky.social
Tinker with music, play keys/ synth/samples with https://skapacollective.bandcamp.com/ and me https://soundcloud.com/berty-trouser. Concerned about climate change and right-wing post-truth era.🚲🎛️🏴🎹
Won't generally follow back prople who don't engage
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Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
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…
petition.parliament.uk
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
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Noteworthy because of Farage/Reform's donors, who include Jeremy Gosling (energy investor) and David Lilley (metals and renewables), and their proximity to the climate change denying Heartland Institute (sponsored and spoke at conference)
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Noteworthy because of Farage/Reform's donors, who include Jeremy Gosling (energy investor) and David Lilley (metals and renewables), and their proximity to the climate change denying Heartland Institute (sponsored and spoke at conference)
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imprisonment of climate protestors.
And then secondly those defending those patriots scampering the country to tax havens are the same people who bemoan being ‘held hostage’ by teachers and doctors asking for a return to their real term wages of 15 years ago by going on strike.
And then secondly those defending those patriots scampering the country to tax havens are the same people who bemoan being ‘held hostage’ by teachers and doctors asking for a return to their real term wages of 15 years ago by going on strike.
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
imprisonment of climate protestors.
And then secondly those defending those patriots scampering the country to tax havens are the same people who bemoan being ‘held hostage’ by teachers and doctors asking for a return to their real term wages of 15 years ago by going on strike.
And then secondly those defending those patriots scampering the country to tax havens are the same people who bemoan being ‘held hostage’ by teachers and doctors asking for a return to their real term wages of 15 years ago by going on strike.
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"I didn't do it. And if I did do it, it was years ago, so it doesn't matter".
Oh, but it does matter Nigel. It matters a great deal.
"They're only making these claims now, because I'm leading in the opinion polls".
The claims were reported 13 years ago, Nigel... 🤮
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Oh, but it does matter Nigel. It matters a great deal.
"They're only making these claims now, because I'm leading in the opinion polls".
The claims were reported 13 years ago, Nigel... 🤮
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nigel Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate
Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"I didn't do it. And if I did do it, it was years ago, so it doesn't matter".
Oh, but it does matter Nigel. It matters a great deal.
"They're only making these claims now, because I'm leading in the opinion polls".
The claims were reported 13 years ago, Nigel... 🤮
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Oh, but it does matter Nigel. It matters a great deal.
"They're only making these claims now, because I'm leading in the opinion polls".
The claims were reported 13 years ago, Nigel... 🤮
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I don't know what all these news guys are going on about because it's not budgie day until March ...
www.budgerigardener.com/world-budgie...
www.budgerigardener.com/world-budgie...
World Budgie Day - budgerigardener
World Budgie Day March 21st - how it started and how can we celebrate budgies, the world's most popular pet birds!
www.budgerigardener.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I don't know what all these news guys are going on about because it's not budgie day until March ...
www.budgerigardener.com/world-budgie...
www.budgerigardener.com/world-budgie...
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As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Ukip founder Alan Sked: 'The party has become a Frankenstein's monster'
He may have founded Ukip, but Alan Sked's moderate, Brussels-boycotting party has gone rogue. Stuart Jeffries meets the academic who's desperate to stop the bandwagon he first set rolling
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
I'm so bored of hearing about the budgie.
youtu.be/st6qnWeePDY?...
youtu.be/st6qnWeePDY?...
Bob Vylan - GDP (Official Visual)
YouTube video by Bob Vylan
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November 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I'm so bored of hearing about the budgie.
youtu.be/st6qnWeePDY?...
youtu.be/st6qnWeePDY?...
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I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth
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Clement McCheese
England and Wales, Census, 1891
England and Wales, Census, 1891
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Clement McCheese
England and Wales, Census, 1891
England and Wales, Census, 1891
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Rutger Bregman accuses BBC of censoring his Reith lecture on Trump
Rutger Bregman accuses BBC of censoring his Reith lecture on Trump
Dutch writer says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed
The BBC has been plunged into a new row over its treatment of Donald Trump, after an academic accused it of censoring his remarks about alleged corruption by the US president.
Rutger Bregman, a Dutch author and historian, said the BBC had removed a “key line” from a flagship address he had been invited to give by the corporation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Rutger Bregman accuses BBC of censoring his Reith lecture on Trump
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This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 26,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
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 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 26,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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They say they're defenders of free speech even as they aggressively seek to silence all criticism and legitimate questions
Reform showing more of their open, different approach to politics.. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
They say they're defenders of free speech even as they aggressively seek to silence all criticism and legitimate questions
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When the racist comedian Bernard Manning fell out of fashion in more tolerant times and stopped appearing on TV he defended his long history of appalling offensive "jokes" as nothing more than "banter"and insisted that he "had a go at everyone".
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
When the racist comedian Bernard Manning fell out of fashion in more tolerant times and stopped appearing on TV he defended his long history of appalling offensive "jokes" as nothing more than "banter"and insisted that he "had a go at everyone".
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
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Reminder that In the 1990s Farage sought the backing of the disgraced former Conservative MP and notorious racist Enoch Powell and twice asked him to stand as a candidate for UKIP.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Nigel Farage asked former Conservative MP Enoch Powell to back Ukip
Despite his ‘rivers of blood’ speech, the Ukip leader has said the central thrust of Powell’s immigration arguments hold true
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Reminder that In the 1990s Farage sought the backing of the disgraced former Conservative MP and notorious racist Enoch Powell and twice asked him to stand as a candidate for UKIP.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
So he has admitted to doing this indirectly and it's ok?
Is he calling his victims liars?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Is he calling his victims liars?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nigel Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody'
The Reform UK leader was responding to reports he made racist remarks to his peers in school in the 1970s.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
So he has admitted to doing this indirectly and it's ok?
Is he calling his victims liars?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Is he calling his victims liars?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Today's GB News TV advertisers include *Sky *WeFixLondon *AllClearTravel *Emerald_Cruises *SunLife *Windows5Star *Boxt *TonicSurgery *westminstergb *ManeUK *CPMcoins *AvantiTravelInsurance *Staysure *LtdShowers *VinceTheVet *PolishTourismOrganisation *GrosvenorMobility *TBCconversions *iDry
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The demand (from Prescott and others) that the BBC be held to higher standards on impartiality than others shows precisely why Ofcom's failure on GB News is so damaging.
All broadcasters must be impartial *within themselves* not have one partisan broadcaster balanced by a differently partisan one.
All broadcasters must be impartial *within themselves* not have one partisan broadcaster balanced by a differently partisan one.
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The demand (from Prescott and others) that the BBC be held to higher standards on impartiality than others shows precisely why Ofcom's failure on GB News is so damaging.
All broadcasters must be impartial *within themselves* not have one partisan broadcaster balanced by a differently partisan one.
All broadcasters must be impartial *within themselves* not have one partisan broadcaster balanced by a differently partisan one.
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These are the recollections of twenty of his school contemporaries
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?
Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
These are the recollections of twenty of his school contemporaries
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Auschwitz was bants lads says absolute tool and wealthy Russian asset
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Auschwitz was bants lads says absolute tool and wealthy Russian asset
They did this and also did not earn the trust of reform voters
They made a racist far right climate change denying anti- semitic conspiracy rich prick acceptable to more people
But the original reform crowd will always think the Beeb are communists.
They made a racist far right climate change denying anti- semitic conspiracy rich prick acceptable to more people
But the original reform crowd will always think the Beeb are communists.
BBC Chair Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb asked to explain why they drew up a plan, as revealed by Byline Times, to win back the "trust" of Reform voters, but haven't made similar plans for voters of any other party.
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
bylinetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
They did this and also did not earn the trust of reform voters
They made a racist far right climate change denying anti- semitic conspiracy rich prick acceptable to more people
But the original reform crowd will always think the Beeb are communists.
They made a racist far right climate change denying anti- semitic conspiracy rich prick acceptable to more people
But the original reform crowd will always think the Beeb are communists.
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Haha he should ask Black & Brown people.
In fact weren't there several Black & Brown women who left the BBC itself because they didn't trust its leadership?
In fact weren't there several Black & Brown women who left the BBC itself because they didn't trust its leadership?
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Haha he should ask Black & Brown people.
In fact weren't there several Black & Brown women who left the BBC itself because they didn't trust its leadership?
In fact weren't there several Black & Brown women who left the BBC itself because they didn't trust its leadership?
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It's not their responsibility to win the trust of any one group, it's their responsibility to report the news honestly, impartially and accurately
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
It's not their responsibility to win the trust of any one group, it's their responsibility to report the news honestly, impartially and accurately
They did this and also did not earn the trust of reform voters
They made a racist far right climate change anti- semitic bell end acceptable to more people
But the original reform crowd will always think the Beeb are communists.
They made a racist far right climate change anti- semitic bell end acceptable to more people
But the original reform crowd will always think the Beeb are communists.
BBC Chair Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb asked to explain why they drew up a plan, as revealed by Byline Times, to win back the "trust" of Reform voters, but haven't made similar plans for voters of any other party.
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
bylinetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
They did this and also did not earn the trust of reform voters
They made a racist far right climate change anti- semitic bell end acceptable to more people
But the original reform crowd will always think the Beeb are communists.
They made a racist far right climate change anti- semitic bell end acceptable to more people
But the original reform crowd will always think the Beeb are communists.