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It’s all my own hair….

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Post image 16.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 521    🔁 158    💬 14    📌 8
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Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that | Zoe Williams ADF, a conservative Christian lobby group that counts among its allies JD Vance, has stated that its goal is to see abortion rights curtailed in Britain, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Another reason to despise the frog faced liar; just in case racism, aligning with Russia, and Brexit isn’t enough

www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

16.10.2025 09:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rachel Reeves, just tell voters why taxes must go up – and then do it | Polly Toynbee The Thatcherite notion of tax as wicked must be challenged in the upcoming budget. Target unearned wealth; explain that tax creates a decent society, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Polly Toynbee nailing it

We need to challenge ‘tax burden’; it is investment.

we need to challenge tax minimisation

Perhaps a simple presumed level of tax overarching the system - use all the clever tricks but pay a minimum of 45% when you earn over £100k

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

14.10.2025 09:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

10.10.2025 21:15 — 👍 1067    🔁 541    💬 24    📌 21
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RFU could use ‘anti-pee paint’ to placate Twickenham locals in push for new licence Residents have complained about post-event behaviour but the RFU wants to stage more events to fund Twickenham expansion

Why is it that in the modern age people can’t see the simplest answer and instead seek punishment or technology.

People are having a drink and there aren’t enough places to go to the toilet.

So sponsor more toilets near the ground - idiots

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

12.10.2025 08:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines

What a refreshing change

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

11.10.2025 16:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is it only me that considers these locusts more fitting for passport cancellation than anyone else pursued by the right wing press.

They grifted the public during a worldwide pandemic - f***ing cockroaches

11.10.2025 09:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

Pop off to another country. With flights paid for by whom?
Don’t spend any time doing your actual job

Slag off the state education system - that you DIDNT attend

What a complete twat

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

09.10.2025 18:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is it because directly through her actions we have a decimated industrial landscape, profiteering and failing private run public services and 2m missing council houses?

09.10.2025 13:20 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On the anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street, let us remember that the Daily Mail was cheering on Fascists then and continues that proud tradition today.

04.10.2025 18:29 — 👍 514    🔁 204    💬 11    📌 6

Presumably orange and foundation are also banned along with;

Wordsoup, illiterate, cock womble

05.10.2025 12:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nothing says you oppose incitement to violence like using your conference to platform someone who urged people to set fire to hotels full of migrants.

04.10.2025 19:54 — 👍 599    🔁 138    💬 13    📌 5
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Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration

Absolute madness.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

05.10.2025 07:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Netanyahu suggests ‘weakness on terrorism’ led to UK synagogue attack Israeli PM calls for ‘strength and unity’ while foreign minister accuses UK of inaction against antisemitism

Have to disagree with you there ‘Bibi’, treating your neighbours like crap for decades then bombing and starving them leads to radicalisation.

Hopefully we will soon get the chance to see whether I am right when you stop the genocide and proceed to jail

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

03.10.2025 08:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We all know why Nigel Farage is accusing Labour of inciting violence against him while cutting his security. Because if he didn’t, people might remember to ask him who paid for his house in Clacton and why he hangs around with people who take bribes from Russians.

02.10.2025 17:54 — 👍 1771    🔁 551    💬 55    📌 8
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VIP lanes and 25m faulty gowns: what PPE Medpro trial reveals about Tory response to Covid Case against Michelle Mone-linked company showed pressure to award contracts to those with political connections

Worlds smallest violin required for grifter (sorry Lady Grifter), who trousered £29m during a PANDEMIC and now expects delicacy and respect

Pay back the money - do not pass go, proceed directly to jail

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

02.10.2025 16:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Snowflake Farage filmed saying the violence is the fault of the Left, threatening to pick up a r🚫fle and
at🚫ack the Government. #ukpolitics

02.10.2025 14:09 — 👍 82    🔁 35    💬 13    📌 5

But it won’t stop the Mail or the BBC giving undue prominence to every utterance of the lying toad

02.10.2025 09:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨 New YouGov poll: In a head-to-head, Brits pick Starmer over Farage for PM by 45% to 33%. Despite Reform’s rise in vote shares, far more voters still prefer a Starmer premiership. #ukpolitics
🔗 labourlist.org/2025/09/excl...

01.10.2025 17:35 — 👍 130    🔁 32    💬 14    📌 7

A brilliant synopsis of the man to whom it would appear shit cannot stick. A Teflon mini Trump and his invisible wealthy backing group. Nigel Farage and the petro chem attractions

01.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So Farage is not only funded by the same people as Trump; he uses the same scripts ….

He has always been and will always be a grifting, low rent Trump wannabe.

01.10.2025 13:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rachel Reeves to guarantee paid work for young people unemployed for 18 months The chancellor will commit to

This is massive; i assume that it will be either ignored or accompanied with a ‘how are they going tonpay for it’ message by the normal media channels

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

29.09.2025 10:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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German media seems to be taking more seriously than ours the fact a leading light in the party UK press keeps saying will be next government took bribes from Russia to spout their lies. Maybe it’s because they put NEWS ahead of propaganda

28.09.2025 14:29 — 👍 799    🔁 325    💬 32    📌 12

Extraordinary level of blatant lying on the Mail’s front page this morning.

29.09.2025 06:48 — 👍 631    🔁 190    💬 64    📌 7
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Farage’s Reform UK is wrapped in a global web of dodgy companies, properties, and family-linked shareholders - from London to Tortola, Canada, France, Iran, Kazakhstan. Cash flows through shell firms while Farage grins for bought journos. Brexit hype, money laundering, zero accountability.

28.09.2025 08:10 — 👍 145    🔁 90    💬 12    📌 8
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As Reform's Nathan Gill admits taking bribes from Russian 'secret service pawn' Oleg Voloshyn, here’s a nice photo of Nigel Farage with Voloshyn’s wife.

26.09.2025 20:44 — 👍 1263    🔁 708    💬 40    📌 33
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Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh thrown out Chief magistrate at Woolwich crown court rules that charge brought against musician is unlawful and ‘null’

Is the technicality that they are not terrorists - they are musicians??

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

26.09.2025 14:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

25.09.2025 16:45 — 👍 21169    🔁 7917    💬 679    📌 348
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Trump hangs autopen photo instead of Biden portrait in new presidential gallery Latest snub is part of US president’s attempts to delegitimise his predecessor with unproven claims

Petty, vindictive, small minded and absolutely lacking in class

That’s why the UK by a massive majority think Trump is a wanker

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

25.09.2025 09:16 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Borrowed from elsewhere but nails it pretty well

25.09.2025 08:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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