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Some graffiti has appeared on the Reform UK office in Caerphilly.

Following a by election last week which Reform lost someone has written “now you can fuck off home”.
Reform had made immigration a key issue in by election.

These pictures are the copyright of Matthew Horwood.

Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners."

In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.

Maybe Beth is on a diet.

Caerphilly byelection result live: Plaid Cymru beats challenge from Reform UK to win pivotal Welsh parliament vote Party that wants Wales to become independent seizes constituency from Labour and resists a fierce challenge from Reform UK

"This is insane. Turnout 50%. Up on 41% in 21. Young Plaid organiser telling me of all the texts and DMs from apolitical friends that they’re turning out to stop Reform."
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Absolutely. Delighted for him and his family; the last couple of years must’ve been hellish. I hope we don’t expect too much of him though.
Don’t get me started on Barton!

Oh definitely. I thought we were rubbish for more than three quarters tbh. I was impressed with Dart too. Plenty of the season left to turn it around. Anyway, it’s all okay cos Tommy Locks is back!

Oh, I beg to differ…

NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.

So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?

Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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Yes I was so bemused by it on the bus back from Rovers to Abbey Wood on Saturday that I also took a picture. I was hoping it was all part of some weird fever dream where we’d just lost 4-0 at home.

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
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It’s time for a REAL Russia report Putin’s fingerprints are all over our politics. It’s time to prove it.

It’s time for a REAL Russia report
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Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters on.ft.com/4pTvJ62

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

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

Are you Unwell Ian?! Boom tish! Great band.

Wow.

Proof, if proof were needed, that current climate is the result of organised, sustained disinformation.

"Official figures indicate net migration is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974." ~AA

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

Ooh, you are awful…

From Brexit to Brexitism. New post starting the 10th year of my now retitled Brexit & Brexitism Blog, analysing the current politics of Brexit, this summer's confected crisis, and the new terrain of post-Brexit politics. Long read: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/from... 1/2

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Ah yes, hold the World Final in a field in a remote corner of northern Germany - that’ll be good for the sport!

Nigel Farage was humiliated earlier today by a brilliant Rep. Jamie Raskin who called him a “far-right pro-Putin politician” and a “Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe”.
Not sure Nigel will want to come back to the US after that 😂

Just can’t listen to him. It’s bad enough when I switch on at 10 and he overruns!

On Sunday, Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick attended a rally organised by the Homeland Party – described as one of the UK’s largest fascist groups. Jenrick was photographed with Eddy Butler, co-founder of a Nazi terrorist organisation called Combat 18. Jenrick posted that photo himself.

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Headline from the Daily Mail, 11 April 1927: "Stop the Flapper-Vote Folly!"

The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...)

Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21.

Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...

New research reveals the best attack lines to use against Reform How to stop Farage...

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Tell The Government: Strengthen UK-EU Environmental Cooperation Climate change and environmental problems don't respect borders. The UK and EU must work together to protect our shared environment, tackle the climate crisis, and preserve biodiversity for future gen...

I just signed this petition calling for better cooperation with the EU on the environment. Will you add your name, too? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...

40 years ago tonight I was watching Bruce at Wembley Stadium. The sun setting over the Twin Towers as he opened with, of course, Independence Day. Magical.