spikeos.bsky.social
@spikeos.bsky.social
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Why are Labour so scared of fighting Reform?

Regulating political donations is a win for everybody. Even if Labour thinks that it can somehow attract big donations in the next few years - their opponents are likely to get more.
December 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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And have you noticed a big uptick in “benefits” stories at the moment?

Probably completely unrelated(🤔) to the fact we’ve had the longest run with no small boat crossings for 2 years, and the latest immigration stats are down at pre-pandemic levels…

They’ve gotta find a scapegoat somewhere🙄

9/9
December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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What’s the point of Keir Starmer employing an economics advisor if he ignores her on the biggest economic issue of the day?
December 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Virgin Media fined £23.8m for leaving vulnerable customers 'at risk of harm'.

Disconnected telecare customers during migration to digital landlines.

Directors must have known but put profits before people.

Execs not fined. Fines will be passed to customers. Where is the deterrent?
Virgin Media fined £24m for leaving vulnerable customers 'at risk of harm'
Ofcom has fined Virgin Media after an investigation found it had left thousands of vulnerable telecare customers at risk.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist

Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill

Or about who bought his house in Frinton
November 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The British press poses a genuine and profound threat to our democracy and our shared prosperity. They howl out their right wing, wealth-protecting agenda and want Farage as PM. We will all pay a very high price for their selfish greed and their utter indifference to social inequality.
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Two final points.

In 2019 Boris Johnson celebrated his General Election Victory with Alexander Lebedev

In 2022, Canada sanctioned Alexander Lebedev for being on of Putin’s inner circle

Just ponder that.
Since we released this @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social documentary two years ago, more information has come to light that Boris Johnson went to this meeting to discuss a 'backchannel' to Putin with Alexander Lebedev, who was working for the Kremlin in Crimea at the time

youtu.be/QkZzN3XHEPY?...
Boris Johnson's KGB Links EXPOSED - John Sweeney FULL Documentary
YouTube video by Byline TV
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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As billionaire owned papers tell the poor to pity millionaires, Britain’s fash dads are groomed by foreign bot farms. Nothing screams “take our country back” like funding Lamborghinis for the foreigners you claim to hate because you fell for their fake racism. Unbelievable.

youtu.be/JDyGTaLKp5o?...
Fash Dads Fund Foreign Bots? Yes, Really…
YouTube video by Supertanskiii
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Now Nigel Farage has finally answered questions about his close aide Nathan Gill, sentenced to 10.5 years for working for Putin's interests, what about his other close associates? Or indeed himself? bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t... 🧵 1/10
The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia
As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with
bylinetimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy is now within touching distance of 80,000 signatures!

LET’S KEEP GOING!

If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Everyone is doing this ironically, but someone has to state it plainly. Chris Mason is exactly what is wrong with BBC politics coverage. Infantile coverage via soap opera and constant fawning over Reform and the archetypal Reform voter's supposed views.
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Dear Bluesky,
www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners.

We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!
This is the Observer's coverage of the Reform Russian Spie Scandal... 600 words on page 22 of the printed newspaper.

observer.co.uk/news/politic...
More MEPs investigated in Russian bribe probe | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Turns out that MTG may be the smoothest scammer of them all. Accumulate wealth she never had in elected office, while doing nothing for the people, and stay long enough to qualify for a pension on the taxpayers.
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.

One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.

What could go wrong?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
Acquisition likely to trigger in-depth investigation by regulator after agreement between DMGT and Redbird IMI
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.

The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
November 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”

If they support them they will too.
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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I've never felt more ashamed of being a Labour supporter. Not even during Iraq, where at least we had cabinet members resigning in disgust. Now: just jostling for position.

If I wasn't already turning my back on the party I've backed my whole life, I would be now.

#ImmigrantsWelcome
#NotInMyName
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.

The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Another chilling aspect... The Tories simply passed a law declaring Rwanda "safe".

Do we really trust that this govt or the next won't resort to similar tactics if this finds them politically convenient?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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I'm pretty old (71), so I remember clearly the National Front in the 1970s. They were pariahs that the main political parties wouldn't touch with a 10ft pole. What is shocking is that the LABOUR party is now coming out with the same policies. What on earth would the likes of Benn, Foot etc. think?
No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Britain’s biggest housebuilder urges government to support first-time buyers.

Not a word about cutting profit margins, ever rising profits, gobbling previous stamp duty support, building substandard homes, builders secretly exchanging data to hike prices.
Britain’s biggest housebuilder urges government to support first-time buyers
Taylor Wimpey chief Jennie Daly calls for revival of help-to-buy equity loan scheme to revive property market
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Immigration is NOT tearing this country apart.

Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.

I despise them for it.

Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.

What a disgrace.
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM