Tim Atkins #JoinAUnion

This builds on earlier @peterjukes.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social stories

Whilst Manuel “I know nothing” Farage would have us believe he was stunned to hear of Gill’s Russian asset work it really is not remotely believable.

See my 🧵 below outlining for how long Farage’s been a 🇷🇺 helper rôle

‘I think we were so desperate to get out of the EU that at the time we basically came up with a very bad deal.’

Former Tory Brexit minister David Jones, who has since defected to Reform UK

#Traitors

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

Thorough piece on Farage’s close colleague and friend Nathan Gill and the Kremlin cash he took

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Lady on PIP explains she's job hunting but also suffers from anxiety

Reform UK's Matt Goodwin doubles down criticising those on disability

#BBCQT

Sharon Graham, UNITE, "If you've got a £1,700 bill, £500 of that is profit.. They've made £30 billion in a single year.. It's obscene"

Meanwhile Labour go after the poor, the disabled, the elderly, instead of windfall taxing energy companies. Disgraceful

YouTube video by kliksphilip The Flaming Tar Barrels of Ottery St Mary 2019

Having grown up in Ottery St Mary in East Devon, there's no contest as to which is more important! 🔥🔥🔥
youtu.be/QRYh-Sq5IlM?...

Gent in tie, "I'm a senior leader at a secondary school"

"Since the pandemic, I'm telling you, there are more children struggling with their mental health"

"We try desperately to help them but we don't have the funding"

Reform UK would let ministers ignore international law, Kruger says Party’s efficiency chief says he would cut civil service and close six government offices – most of which are already closing

As much as anything else, why would any country work with us or trade with us if we just routinely ignored international law? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Lady with necklace, "If we're so concerned about the welfare of women why aren't we investigating the increase in femicide, the increase in domestic violence, increase in assault and sexual harassment"

"And why misogyny is still not a hate crime" #BBCQT

Depends if the Toronto Blue Jays beat the LA Dodgers tonight and win the World Series. If not, they're playing the decider tomorrow so the invasion will be on Sunday.

YouTube video by LBC Firm linked to Tory peer must pay back £122m for breaching Covid contract

🚨My new book VIP Lane: Croynism and the Pandemic is out now.

Available to buy here: viplanebook.com

It was great to chat about this with @mrjamesob.bsky.social a few weeks ago. Full interview here ⤵️

@bylinetimes.bsky.social youtu.be/uB58NJi63Co?...

Compare Matt Goodwin's introduction with Faiza Shaheen's introduction #BBCQT

Chat GPT says: "The framing favors MG because it makes him sound more neutral or credible (academic + media presence) while making FS sound more partisan or controversial"

We are already helping several employees sue employers for enforcing the EHRC Interim Guidance, which *we think* is unlawful. Should the High Court agree, we plan to make available in generic form, for free, and in a usable state, all the legal materials a trans employee needs to sue their employer.

When you consider the grooming gang he's drawing attention *away* from has resulted in just two prosecutions, one of which is may result in a pardon FFS, the real level of the evil of the right wing in the UK is revealed..

There is no hierarchy of sexual abuse & rape, Mr. Goodwin. You are a ghoul.

Reform UK's Matt Goodwin's response to Prince Andrew and Epstein is to talk about Pakistani grooming gangs preying on white girls

Far right populists don't care about rich white men in grooming gangs abusing white girls

#BBCQT

I'd prefer tied-to-a-post-fascist, but that's just me, perhaps being a bit post-liberal 🤔😂

Lady in scarf, "We are the only country in the G7, apart from Italy, that doesn't charge an exit tax" #BBCQT

"The CEO of Revolut bank - net worth £11 billion- who has decided to take his money to the UAE"

"He's not taxed on the money he's made, but a cleaner is taxed on her minimum wage"

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...

Underrated skeet! 👏👏

Faiza Shaheen corrects lady in blue's assertion that the rich will leave if we tax them more #BBCQT

"For those looking to leave, we need an exit tax"

"Secondly, be patriotic, this country is only going to get better if we do something about wealth inquality"

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.

At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

Amid all the fuss, remember that for much of the 1960s and 1970s, "the Spare" Andrew Windsor was just one unfortunate incident away from being the next king.

Hopefully, this appalling saga will lead to a proper national debate on our hereditary monarchy.

Long, long overdue.

'Just getting started': Zack Polanski reacts as Greens SECOND in new poll ZACK Polanski has welcomed a new poll putting his party in second place at Westminster.

So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform....

Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.

It's time for Proportional Representation.

www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...

Where I work, we did a "tail to teeth" exercise - reduce back office costs & spend more on operational activities. The symbol was that of a tiger.

The organization is now like a tiger that is starving because it can't balance and has no dexterity to catch pray, because it has hardly any tail.

I keep being told spending cuts are easy. Honest proposals such as those recently outlined by Policy Exchange show they are not

My column www.ft.com/content/f086...

When it comes down to it, any company that can afford to pay its CEO (iirc) £277,000,000, it can afford to do two things; pay its employees better; and pay more tax, especially if the industry causes social harm.

“Innocent flutter” is perhaps the most disingenuous way to describe gambling. Any additional tax isn’t going to touch the enter the work Grand National sweepstake. But the gambling industry is both highly toxic and undertaxed. It should pay for the harm it causes. /1

Suella Braverman defends Reform MP Sarah Pochin.

Braverman "believes" what Pochin said "about the number of black and Asian faces" in TV ads is accurate

As it happens: South Asians are significantly under-represented in TV ads (compared to share of population)

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...

EHRC withdraws transphobic interim opinion on Supreme Court ruling The equalities watchdog's move came in an eventful week for British trans rights

Under pressure from Europe, court cases and MPs, EHRC withdraws transphobic 'interim update' calling for segregation of Trans+ people

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/ehrc-withdraws-transphobic-interim-opinion-on-supreme-court-ruling-and-demands-ministers-act-at-speed-to-publish-new-statutory-guidance/

Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇

1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK

2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves

3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...