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mcconnellg.bsky.social
@mcconnellg.bsky.social
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Enjoys a bit of cycling, Punk Rock, Rock and Roll and Rugby League. Manchester resident by way of Shrewsbury, Bradford, Bingley and Glasgow.
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ledbydonkeys.org
Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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johnrobbofficial.bsky.social
The Stranglers : Manchester Apollo : Live Review
'51 years in and the Stranglers are still moving like a ninja. Louder Than War were there dressed in black.'

louderthanwar.com/the-strangle... via @louderthanwar
The Stranglers : Manchester Apollo : Live Review The Stranglers '51 years in and the band are still moving like a ninja'
The Stranglers '51 years in and the band are still moving like a ninja' The Stranglers '51 years in and the band are still moving like a ninja'
louderthanwar.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
If you share this thread or images, please credit @thenerve_news.

We are only 3 weeks old (!!) & can only do this work with your support.

And if there was ever a story that proves why Britain needs fiercely independent news outlets, it’s this.
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🙏🙏🙏

www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
The glamorous TV host, the web of influence and a mysterious trip to Moscow – inside the downfall of Reform’s disgraced MEP
Ahead of a critical Welsh byelection for Reform next week, part two of our investigation into Nathan Gill uncovers the web of Russian influence that encircled him – and asks why it took so long to cha...
www.thenerve.news
October 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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newseye.bsky.social
This 20 seconds is pure art. It’s like the essence of Trump - the fraud, the lies, the simplistic idiocy - is reduced to its singularity.

Nothing in high office, anywhere, will ever be this stupid again.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 7
Trump: "This one chart really says it better than anything, if you look at this. This is great. But this chart is pretty amazing. Right here. All new numbers."
August 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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parodypm.bsky.social
Is anyone seriously saying the average 16 and 17 year old is less capable of making a rational decision than these Brexit voters?
July 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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bylinesnetwork.co.uk
Walking the Shipley woodlands is a reminder of the healing power of trees

As our climate hurtles towards total planetary collapse, trees provide more than a precious natural resource; they are an antidote to climate despair

By Alex Mair for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Walking around the wooded areas of Shipley is a timely reminder of the healing power of trees.
As our climate hurtles towards total planetary collapse, trees provide more than a precious natural resource; they are an antidote to climate despair.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
April 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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sirmichaeltake.bsky.social
To insult two highly respected and free thinking politicians like this is disgraceful.
It just shows how far standards in society have fallen.
Anyone reposting this insulting photograph should feel utterly ashamed.
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March 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
Ooh, I know this: it's because he's a bullshitting, imbecilic narcissist who is either (best case) too incompetent to avoid being played by Putin, or (worst case) an active Kremlin asset working for Putin from inside the Oval Office.

Do I get a prize?
BBC headline reading "Why Trump is struggling to secure fast ceasefire in Ukraine"
March 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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makevotesmatter.bsky.social
🚨 Voting reform mentioned in Parliament - again.

Great to see a cross-party group of MPs highlighting the real damage that First Past the Post does to our democracy.

Election turnout is falling and trust in politics is in crisis.

We need change - and we need it urgently.
March 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.
February 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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iandunt.bsky.social
I know everything feels grim right now but let's be realistic. These people are idiots. They're going to tank their economy. They're going to fuck-up every deal they sign. They're going to leave America looking shattered and deranged. And all those who supported them will look as idiotic as they are
February 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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rostaylor.bsky.social
I can accept Brexit happened, and I can understand why some people voted for it.

What I still struggle to accept is that otherwise intelligent people pretend it can be a success. That, perhaps, is one of its worst legacies. Fear.
January 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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josiah.writes.news
Excellent piece in Private Eye on Musk and company donations to political parties.

They make a good suggestion: companies should only be able to donate to parties when the ultimate owner can vote here.

Also interesting that Twitter UK is late in filing its accounts, a criminal offence...
In the City Dough nations TALK of a $100m donation to Reform UK from Elon Musk may have faded after the world's richest man dismissed its leader Nigel Farage is not the far-enough-right man to oust prime minister Keir Starmer. But the threat focused Labour and Tory minds on the long overdue need to change rules on corporate political donations. Legislation to prevent UK companies being conduits for otherwise banned foreign donations was first urged in 1998 by the independent committee on standards in public life and since 2013 has been backed by the Electoral Commission. At present foreign donors, although banned from personally making direct political donations, can do so if the money flows from a company which is incorporated and "carries on business in the UK". A definition sufficiently vague to be easily gamed. The Conservatives in particular have benefited from this loophole, which enabled donations from those not even living here. Eye 1638 reminded readers of donations linked to recently sanctioned Ukrainian oligarch Dmitriy Firtash. Questions were raised with the Electoral Commission (and by Private Eye, issue 1250) in 2008-09 about £4m-5m in donations made since 2003 by Bearwood Corporate Services, a relatively small, often loss-making Belize-owned company controlled by Tory party deputy chairman Lord (Michael) Ashcroft. The commission concluded in 2010 that Bearwood was a permitted donor as it was carrying on business here. Musk cannot make direct political donations because he is a foreign national (US/Canada/South Africa). But he does plenty of business here via Tesla and X, so it would not be difficult for a UK company to be a legitimate vehicle for donations. Tesla Motors had 2023 revenues of £2.47bn, net profits of £23.6m and accumulated/retained profits of £170m. Total revenues for 2022 (Musk took over that November) of £205m, net profits of £5.6m and accumulated profits of just under £29m. So plenty of potential Reform firepower. The Electo…
January 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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carolvorders.bsky.social
Hugh Grant urges POLICE to investigate Sun owners

And he’s absolutely right

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Hugh Grant calls for police to investigate Sun owners
He also wants to see the government launch part two of the Leveson Inquiry into press standards.
www.bbc.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
Nigel Farage, Liz Truss and Suella Braverman attend Trump’s inauguration (in a social club)
January 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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parodypm.bsky.social
This simply can't be true. Because if it was, it would mean that Boris Johnson is a shameless lying twat.
Guardian headline says: half of new hospitals promised by boris johnson will not be built for years
January 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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iandunt.bsky.social
One week in the life of Kemi Badenoch. She may well be the most hapless opposition leader we've seen in our lifetime. She makes Michael Foot look like Barack Obama. iandunt.substack.com/p/one-week-i...
One week in the life of Kemi Badenoch
She might be the single worst opposition leader we've seen in our lifetime. She makes Michael Foot look like Barack Obama.
iandunt.substack.com
January 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
💥 It passes!! 💥

The Youth Mobility (EU Countries) Bill has just passed its first reading.

No opposition voiced by the govt. your thousands of emails stopped them shutting it down.

Well done @jamesmaccleary.bsky.social on a superb speech. 👏👏👏
Picture of James MacCleary MP delivering speech.
January 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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rolandmcs.bsky.social
We really should do something to recognise 'Daniel Hannan Day' e.g. Self-flagellation and Morris Dancing.
geoffreyharris.bsky.social Geoffrey Harris @geoffreyharris.bsky.social · Jan 11
Barely more than 6 months now until we all get to celebrate Daniel Hannan day!
What Britain looks like after Brexit Daniel Hannan Jun 21, 2016 "It’s 24 June, 2025, and Britain is marking its annual Independence Day celebration. As the fireworks stream through the summer sky, still not quite dark, we wonder why it took us so long to leave. The years that followed the 2016 referendum didn’t just reinvigorate our economy, our democracy and our liberty. They improved relations with our neighbours. The United Kingdom is now the region’s foremost knowledge-based economy. We lead the world in biotech, law, education, the audio-visual sector, financial services and software. New industries, from 3D printing to driverless cars, have sprung up around the country. Older industries, too, have revived as energy prices have fallen back to global levels: steel, cement, paper, plastics and ceramics producers have become competitive again." "Now, the UK has again become a centre for world shipping. Shale oil and gas came on tap, almost providentially, just as the North Sea reserves were depleting, with most of the infrastructure already in place. Outside the EU, we have been able to augment this bonanza by buying cheap Chinese solar panels. In consequence, our fuel bills have tumbled, boosting productivity, increasing household incomes and stimulating the entire economy. During the first 12 months after the vote, Britain confirmed with the various countries that have trade deals with the EU that the same deals would continue. It also used that time to agree much more liberal terms with those states which had run up against EU protectionism, including India, China and Australia. These new treaties came into effect shortly after independence. Britain, like the EFTA countries, now combines global free trade with full participation in EU markets. Our universities are flourishing, taking the world’s brightest students and, where appropriate, charging accordingly. Their revenues, in consequence, are rising, while they continue to collaborate with research centres in Europe and around the world." "Unsurprisingly, several other European countries have opted to copy Britain’s deal with the EU, based as it is upon a common market rather than a common government. Some of these countries were drawn from EFTA (Norway, Switzerland and Iceland are all bringing their arrangements into line with ours). Some came from further afield (Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine). Some followed us out of the EU (Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands). The United Kingdom now leads a 22-state bloc that forms a free trade area with the EU, but remains outside its political structures. For their part, the EU 24 have continued to push ahead with economic, military and political amalgamation. They now have a common police force and army, a pan-European income tax and a harmonised system of social security. These developments have prompted referendums in three other EU states on whether to copy Britain. Perhaps the greatest benefit, though, is not easy to quantify. Britain has recovered its self-belief. As we left the EU, we straightened our backs, looked about us, and realised that we were still a nation to be reckoned with: the world’s fifth economy and fourth military power, one of five members on the UN Security Council and a leading member of the G7 and the Commonwealth. We recalled, too, that we were the world’s leading exporter of soft power"
January 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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andyburnham.bsky.social
Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it!

After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
The first Bee Network service pulls out of a snowy Altrincham Interchange early this morning.
January 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
Nigel Farage, who leads a constant revolt against the metropolitan elite and foreigners, is a multimillionaire former city trader, whose kids have German passports, and who works as a brand ambassador for a gold billion firm.
December 27, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
"We are not a party for the rich" says Farage, a multimillionaire former stockbroker and friend of the world's richest man, as he recieved £1m from the new billionaire chariman of Reform, 4/5 of whose MPs are multimillionaire former stockbrokers and bankers.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
UK politics live: Farage denies Reform UK now party for millionaires, as Nick Candy pledges at least £1m
Billionaire property developer appointed treasurer after defecting to party from the Tories
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Fuck these pompous judgemental cunts
yougov.co.uk YouGov @yougov.co.uk · Dec 6
Is it acceptable to swear at work?

Completely acceptable: 11%
Fairly acceptable: 31%
Not very acceptable: 33%
Not acceptable at all: 19%

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
December 6, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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petergeoghegan.bsky.social
Worried about #ElonMusk buying his way into UK politics? Think we need to take money out of our democracy?

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December 5, 2024 at 8:59 AM