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Nigel Farage promised that Reform councils would cut local government "waste" in order to slash taxes.

Now the party's flagship Kent administration is set to actually raise taxes and has just started asking opposition parties for help after failing to identify the millions in savings they promised
Reform Council Asks Opposition for Help Making Cuts After ‘Desperate’ Search for Savings Falls Short
Exclusive: Nigel Farage's struggling flagship Kent administration is now reaching out to other parties, after failing to identify the millions of pounds in savings they promised
bylinetimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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UK and EU reportedly negotiating British return to Erasmus programme
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
UK students get chance to study in Europe from January 2027 under new Erasmus deal
The EU is pushing for a rapid agreement for Britain to rejoin the student exchange scheme
inews.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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September 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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this doesn't look like a normal distribution
September 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Kemi Badenoch's refusal to even mildly criticise a convicted far-right criminal and his billionaire mate, openly calling for violence on our streets, tells you everything you need to know about her leadership
September 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Is Andrew Tate "really that bad" asks the Spectator, while giving him and his brother the opportunity to blankly deny the countless charges of rape and sexual trafficking against them, before concluding that "I can’t help believing them"
September 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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#RestInPower
Breaking: Melissa Hortman has been vindicated. The special election to replace her seat was won by a Democrat.
September 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue

deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...
‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Once Again Aims To Help Working Actors Get Health Insurance With New Casting Notice
Jimmy Kimmel wants to help actors get health insurance with a new casting notice for his talk show
deadline.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Kemi Badenoch says that the justice system does not "apply equally to all citizens".

"Laws brought in to protect everyone [have been] used by left wingers to protect certain groups over others..."
September 2, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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Do we all need the Daily Mail to approve the pictures we hang in our homes or is it just the Prime Minister?
August 30, 2024 at 6:46 AM
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GOOD.
August 27, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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If on Twitter you were a Tweep, does that mean on BS you’re a Bleep?

So…we’re up to 6.9k followers. Can you help us reach 7k today by quote posting this and telling your followers why they should follow the Bylines Network, home to the UK’s biggest citizen journalism project?

Many thanks. 🙏
August 25, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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🔴The Boris Johnson Cronies Who Are Suddenly Very Concerned About Cronyism

After spending 14 years defending the most morally compromised government in living memory, Labour's opponents have suddenly rediscovered their principles
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-boris-...
The Boris Johnson Cronies Suddenly Very Concerned About Cronyism
After spending 14 years defending the most morally compromised government in living memory, Labour's opponents have suddenly rediscovered their principles
www.adambienkov.co.uk
August 24, 2024 at 10:12 AM
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so strange they think racists and far-right thugs have been treated too harshly
It's remarkable to see Reform voters suddenly becoming social liberals on sentencing.
August 24, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Is the Henry Newman now complaining about 'cronyism' in the Labour party the same Henry Newman who was reportedly <checks notes> "interviewed" for a gov't job, in a bedroom, during an ABBA party, in the middle of pademic lockdown?

Surely, not. ~AA 🧐
August 23, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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🔴 Robert Jenrick took £50k from company with no employees and never made a profit

*Third* time in as many months that Tory leadership contender has taken cash from a loss-making company

Where did the money come from?

New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/robert-jen...
Robert Jenrick accepts donations from loss-making company - AGAIN
New transparency data also reveals how Labour Together has become the party’s “first SuperPac”
democracyforsale.substack.com
August 21, 2024 at 7:51 AM
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We shouldn't dismiss everyone who took part in the recent disorder as fanatics, says Kemi Badenoch, shortly after dismissing everyone who took part in the recent pro-Palestinian protests as anti-semites.
August 18, 2024 at 7:48 AM
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More than half of British voters think Nigel Farage is personally “responsible” for the riots which broke out across the UK earlier this month.

He ranked higher than Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
August 18, 2024 at 9:03 AM
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Sorry I don’t know the source of this, but it’s too good not to share.
August 17, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Currently listening to Alexi Sayle's Strangers on a Train on Radio 4.

It is a delightful programme!

Last one of the series today 😦 but Listen Again is available.

'Alexei Sayle takes a train journey and breaks the golden rule of travelling by train in the UK...'
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Alexei Sayle's Strangers on a Train
Alexei Sayle takes a train journey and reveals the stories of his fellow passengers.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 17, 2024 at 9:51 AM
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When you're an LGBTQ+ kid growing up in America, one book in which you see your life reflected can save you from self-harm. This mountain of books thrown in the trash by the GOP ideologues who have ruined New College of Florida is bone-chilling to see. www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
New College of Florida tosses hundreds of library books, empties gender diversity library
A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft Cook Library on the campus of New College overflowed with books from the Gender and Diversity Center.
www.heraldtribune.com
August 15, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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Indeed … good question …
August 16, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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Apparently ousted ex MP Liz Truss is refusing to hand over casework to the new Labour MP for the seat Terry Jermy

A spokesperson for Truss says she's still doing it

A) All ousted MPs hand over casework
B) How/why is she doing casework without being an MP? She has no formal role or clout anymore...
August 16, 2024 at 7:31 AM