Smike#FBPE @smike - Bluesky Profile

Due to an admin error, we have lost our @oxfordforeurope.bsky.social account. (As you can see that account hasn’t posted for a while). So - after many attempts with the Bluesky team to regain the account - this is the new account.
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏

10.11.2025 07:09 — 👍 99 🔁 114 💬 4 📌 11

Stasis, sanctimony and the liberal paradox. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog with such Brexit news as there is, but mainly analysis of what 'responsible Farage' tells us about the tensions in Reform and what the BBC row tells us about Brexitism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/stas...

14.11.2025 07:54 — 👍 112 🔁 60 💬 12 📌 9

Immigration, indecency, and incompetence <a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.online/@ChrisGrey">Mastodon</a>

A great blog, Chris Grey absolutely nails far right and vested interests detrimental to our society/democracy chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/immi...

31.10.2025 22:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Appears to be a copy of a copy of a, so quality not brilliant but great personal memories for me

31.10.2025 21:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Nosuch Library Radiohead - Werchter (30 June 2017)

Woah… this was last time I saw Radiohead live, Werchter 2017, have seen this Proximus coverage many times but with in gig ads…. this seems to be ad free… so any R’head fans out there fill your boots before the YouTube ad goblins realise 😁👍 youtu.be/JWwryVJCWG0?...

31.10.2025 21:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

Brexiters don’t care about the damage www.theguardian.com/business/202...

31.10.2025 18:44 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Let’s go Canada! 🇨🇦 Keep up reminding Americans how insane all of this is.

It certainly triggered him.

WAKE UP AMERICA!!! Before its too late!

#SaveOurDemocracy
#Pinks
#Canada
#Elections
#SpreadTheWord

25.10.2025 14:08 — 👍 718 🔁 489 💬 27 📌 21

I called Reform MP's comments racist - I was told I couldn't call her one It seems clear that Pochin doesn't think of Black or Brown families as being representative of this country.

The Reform MP's racist comments were disgraceful. Her so-called apology doesn't cut it.

So I called it out in Parliament.

It is up to all of us to bravely call out racism - and we will. 👇🏾

metro.co.uk/2025/10/28/c...

29.10.2025 10:53 — 👍 98 🔁 18 💬 6 📌 0

From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles | Owen Jones We’re watching the Orbánisation of the US – and as in Hungary, control of the media is key to consolidating power, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

29.10.2025 10:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reform wheels out Danny Kruger, the ‘brains’ of Nigel Farage’s operation | John Crace A man with no experience of government is to prepare the party … to govern. What could possibly go wrong?

Wonderful to see this supportive article about me. Several pictures and the entire article is about my experience of government and the fact that I am the brains of Reform.

I celebrated with a set of private prayers after breakfast with several lucky footmen.

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

29.10.2025 09:05 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

It’s frightening how media has controlled and manipulated this at the behest of big money interests, there is no way out

26.10.2025 21:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Splitting The Atom Beth Gibbons - Rock Werchter 2025

Haven’t been able to see Portishead live for years, here’s Beth from Wercter this year…she was superb youtube.com/watch?v=J0YA...

26.10.2025 20:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

👍

21.10.2025 08:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Poll asking whether Rachel Reeves is right to blame Brexit for the state of UK economy, currently voting 52%-48% in favour of Yes…spooky 😁

21.10.2025 08:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Suggest you jump in on this poll.

—> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...?

And share…

21.10.2025 07:34 — 👍 990 🔁 836 💬 332 📌 87

‘Johnson had a consistent ideology’ wtf he swung to whatever served his own self indulgent corrupt lying purpose. How the hell can you defend this ?

19.10.2025 20:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I struggle with this. You cannot compare Johnson the mendacious self serving lying corrupt grifter to Starmer, despite his faults

19.10.2025 20:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

YouTube video by Splitting The Atom Beth Gibbons - Rock Werchter 2025

Beth was beautiful at Rock Werchter this year : youtube.com/watch?v=J0YA...

19.10.2025 19:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for shining the light on this corrupt bastard

19.10.2025 19:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting

"The US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier"
on.ft.com/4n9nlNd

19.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 2298 🔁 1088 💬 346 📌 206

It’s been raining most of the day today, Water Companies: wrong sort of rain, too much to collect, not wet enough, …. but because it’s raining open the sewage sluices and pour raw sewage into rivers and the sea. I hate these privatised bastards so much

19.10.2025 19:46 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Just remembered this post. And realised it has a very different resonance now.

We now know his close friend and ally Nathan Gill was accepting Russian bribes when he posted this

19.10.2025 17:42 — 👍 714 🔁 325 💬 9 📌 7

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!
1/

18.10.2025 08:53 — 👍 1666 🔁 1014 💬 30 📌 65