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Notts County, left wing, never trust a tory, Lord of the Rings and Discworld, books books and more books (audio), mostly 80s/ 90s indie music, but not solely and dogs πŸ•

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Reform-led council slammed over plan to spend Β£75,000 on flags The 164 flags are set to be displayed across 82 locations, costing Nottinghamshire council Β£475 each

Nottinghamshire Reform led County Council is spaffing Β£75,000 on new flags and flag poles... even as council tax is set to rise by almost 5%

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

25.10.2025 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 875    πŸ” 417    πŸ’¬ 116    πŸ“Œ 40
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Reform UK Nottinghamshire Council decided not to move offices to a newly built headquarters and to retain the old County Hall.

The previous administration had planned to sell it due to the high running and maintenance costs once the new building was completed.

23.10.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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19.10.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well done Nottingham

10.10.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

10.10.2025 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3767    πŸ” 1325    πŸ’¬ 109    πŸ“Œ 60

Did he really say that? You're quoting from the Express

30.09.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Farage in a flap after claims migrants eating swans rejected by Royal Parks | LBC The Royal Parks have rejected Nigel Farage’s claims that migrants are killing and eating swans from their grounds.

In a bizarre bid to out Trump Trump, the embarrassing Reform UK leader made the ridiculous claim that eastern europeans are "eating swans in Royal Parks" only for the Royal Parks to confirm that NO swans had been killed or eaten in London’s eight Royal Parks. www.lbc.co.uk/article/nige...

24.09.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Farage’s Trillion Pound Black Hole: The Real Cost of Reform UK’s Mass Deportation Plan Exclusive: Reform's plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about Β£70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis of official statistics a...

Nigel Farage claims his mass deportation plan would save the UK hundreds of billions of pounds over the coming decades.

New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period

24.09.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1305    πŸ” 588    πŸ’¬ 135    πŸ“Œ 44
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THE NHS WRECKER: FARAGE’S DISASTROUS PLAN

Nigel Farage has been warned his bid to deport legal migrants could cripple the NHS and care sectors that rely on them

23.09.2025 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 811    πŸ” 298    πŸ’¬ 66    πŸ“Œ 16
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Nigel Farage admits he was wrong to say he had bought house in Clacton Reform UK leader says he should not have claimed he was buyer of property that was really bought by his partner

He didn't "misspeak". He lied. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

06.09.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2048    πŸ” 699    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 38
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Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…

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

05.09.2025 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4848    πŸ” 2142    πŸ’¬ 161    πŸ“Œ 93
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Reform local media ban is a glimpse of what may happen with Farage in power As Nigel Farage attacked the state of free speech in the UK in front of a congressional committee in Washington DC, The Independent’s political editor David Maddox discusses Reform’s attitude to a fre...

Reform media ban in Nottinghamshire is a disturbing glimpse of a future with Farage in power

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

05.09.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 711    πŸ” 296    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 14
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Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

03.09.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 21263    πŸ” 6861    πŸ’¬ 1318    πŸ“Œ 1415
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Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".

03.09.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1407    πŸ” 541    πŸ’¬ 76    πŸ“Œ 167
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Reform leader bans engagement with Notts Live in unprecedented step All of Reform UK's Nottinghamshire county councillors will now refuse to speak to any of our journalists

Reform UK council leader bans engagement with Nottinghamshire Live in unprecedented step

www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...

27.08.2025 05:36 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 5

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

26.08.2025 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 8508    πŸ” 3308    πŸ’¬ 496    πŸ“Œ 260
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Come on County

23.08.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Coincidence, I'm reading Origins as well 😁

12.08.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Nigel Farage is to blame for the small boats migrant crisis Martin Shipton You wouldn’t know it from the way he is weaponising the issue for his own political ends, but if there’s one person more responsible for the β€œsmall boats” migration crisis than anyone e...

OPINION: Why Nigel Farage is to blame for the small boats migrant crisis

nation.cymru/opinion/why-...

10.08.2025 06:12 β€” πŸ‘ 350    πŸ” 145    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 2

She is so horrible

07.08.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The right thing to do

07.08.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Brexit tide has turned

πŸ—³οΈ Latest poll:
πŸ”΅ Remain: 52%
πŸ”΄ Leave: 29%
βšͺ️ Wouldn’t vote: 11%
βšͺ️ Don’t know: 8%

But if you remove the non-voters, real result is:

βœ… Remain: 64%
❌ Leave: 36%

That’s nearly a 2:1 margin to rejoin.
Mandate gone.

#Rejoin #BrexitReality #EU

03.08.2025 07:39 β€” πŸ‘ 223    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 7

Amen, although at half time and the way we were playing i thought a win was on the cards, still at start of the game I'd have settled for a point

02.08.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is their only route left to raise more taxes, better do it sooner rather than later

31.07.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Labour MPs challenge Richard Tice over Reform UK’s plan to scrap green projects Exclusive: Letter signed by 59 MPs criticises party’s deputy leader after his warned energy firms over new contracts

I signed this letter.

This isn't about party politics but about my constituents.

Only last week Japanese manufacturer Astemo confirmed Β£100 million of investment into new highly-skilled jobs for the electric vehicle supply chain right here in Horwich.

Reform would rip that up. Irresponsible.

19.07.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 297    πŸ” 101    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1
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Stephen Flynn, "On Brexit, everyone across the UK right now feels that Britain is broken"

"And the guy who orchestrated Brexit, Nigel Farage, doesn't have to face the consequences of the economic damage that Brexit has done to the UK"

20.07.2025 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1935    πŸ” 630    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 35
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β€œBeing gay is a sin.” Says Reform UK’s Councillor Rory Green of Nottinghamshire County Council.

Yes, the same Cllr Green that was pen friend to the mastermind of 9/11.

13.07.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 181    πŸ” 85    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 5

If we had PR I'd be happy with this, however I'm filled with the dread of unintended consequences

04.07.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thought Day the Law Died was available on it's own, sure I've a copy

02.07.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bit worrying for our voting system were any party can win with less than 28% of the share of vote. We need PR sooner rather than later

13.06.2025 11:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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