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Look at that... soo close to 1,000 people chipping in to help out.

Please help @bylinesnetwork.co.uk get over that mark!!

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23.10.2025 19:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 72    ๐Ÿ” 47    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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21.10.2025 13:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Angela Rayner resigns after underpaying tax on Hove flat - BBC News Her departure comes after the PM's ethics adviser concludes that she breached ministerial rules.

Lest we forget one month ago Angela Rayner resigned over underpaying stamp duty on her ยฃ800,000 flat in Hove

Within a week Farage exposed not to own a ยฃ885,000 house in #Clacton he claimed heโ€™d bought & accused of avoiding ยฃ44,000 in tax by funding his girlfriend to buy it

It got buried quick ehโ—๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ก

16.10.2025 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 361    ๐Ÿ” 199    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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16.10.2025 16:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dear all -

Iโ€™d be very grateful if you could do this and share it.

I know many of you are Bylines readersโ€ฆ and this is s big community build. So please take a little time - and get some big love from all of us at Bylines Network.

THANK YOU!!!

15.10.2025 20:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 187    ๐Ÿ” 175    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Labour admits Brexit was terrible. Now itโ€™s time to act For years now, the economic situation facing this country has been buried in the small print

Finally. Letโ€™s start holding Farage to account for the relentless shitshow that is Brexit.
Because..
โ€œWhat could be more elementary than asking voters to judge a candidate on their previous assurances? What more basic function of democracy could we ask for?โ€
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/398...

15.10.2025 17:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 716    ๐Ÿ” 236    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Cryptocurrency: lawlessness disguised as liberty Cryptocurrency is sold as radical innovation and financial liberation. In reality, itโ€™s an old familiar story: fraud

The Reform Party now takes cryptocurrency donations. Ireland banned them. The UK welcomes them. And Farage calls it freedom. Itโ€™s not. Itโ€™s money without accountability โ€“ and thatโ€™s a threat to democracy, argues Prof Richard Murphy.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

15.10.2025 16:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 480    ๐Ÿ” 191    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

15.10.2025 17:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27079    ๐Ÿ” 9478    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 912    ๐Ÿ“Œ 490
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There is Lots Of Misinformation And Scaremongering About Digital ID, Says Tech Secretary Liz Kendall has told MPs that there has been 'a lot of misinformation' and 'scaremongering' spread about digital ID as the government tries to sell...

There is a lot of misinformation and scaremongering going around about the government's plan to bring in digital ID, technology secretary Liz Kendall told MPs on Monday night

@matildamartin.bsky.social reports from Westminster

13.10.2025 20:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

You cannot start everything st the same time.

13.10.2025 20:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No government produces drugs.

09.10.2025 19:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
SAFE Framework: the 4 principles for HMG Brand Safety - GCS The SAFE Framework introduces new standards for digital brand safety in HM Government advertising.

I do hope someone in government, or the wider Labour Party looks at the Governmentโ€™s safe communications strategy. www.communications.gov.uk/publications.... It's difficult to see how continuing to use X for government communications is remotely consistent with those principles.

09.10.2025 16:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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And another fun fact - he didnโ€™t update his Register of Members' Financial Interests, which contains information about any financial interests an MP has, or any benefits they receive since April. Where are the corrupt MSM journos? #ukpolitics

09.10.2025 11:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 85    ๐Ÿ” 35    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Why is it a bumper year for acorns? A warm spring is one of the factors that has led to a so-called

Are you in the UK and have noticed a huge number of acorns and beech nuts on the ground? That's because it's a mast year!
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

05.10.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Reform UK donors are now footing the bill for his security, understood to be more than ยฃlm per year. All of Mr Farage's security is now privately funded, because his team decided that having two different providers, one private and one public, would be unworkable.

Reform UK donors are now footing the bill for his security, understood to be more than ยฃlm per year. All of Mr Farage's security is now privately funded, because his team decided that having two different providers, one private and one public, would be unworkable.

In trying to elicit sympathy, The Teleform may have landed Farage in trouble instead. I don't see this declared as a donation anywhere in his register of interests...

03.10.2025 10:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 411    ๐Ÿ” 143    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 33    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Oh my god.

Have I Got News For You just referred to this completely false claim as a fact!!

03.10.2025 21:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 477    ๐Ÿ” 184    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 44    ๐Ÿ“Œ 51
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Starmer significantly more popular than Farage in head-to-head polling - LabourList When head to head Starmer and Labour prefered to Farage and Reform by a significant majority.

Funny how these polls never get a mention. labourlist.org/2025/09/excl...

01.10.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 147    ๐Ÿ” 69    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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โ€œI would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channelโ€ ๐Ÿ‘

PM Keir Starmer

01.10.2025 07:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1973    ๐Ÿ” 758    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 156    ๐Ÿ“Œ 92
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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...

27.09.2025 10:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3544    ๐Ÿ” 2003    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 184    ๐Ÿ“Œ 106

The revelations about Musk, Thiel and Bannon maintaining links with Epstein while he was apparently targeted by Russian intelligence is the missing story

27.09.2025 16:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 126    ๐Ÿ” 75    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Jeffrey Epsteinโ€™s Russian โ€˜Tech Maidensโ€™ โ€“ Byline Times Digital / Print Edition As the scandal around the release of the Epstein Files continues to follow Donald Trump, Peter Jukes investigates the late sex offenderโ€™s ties to Vladimir Putin-linked individuals with a curious caree...

For Putin โ€œEpsteinโ€™s network of tech people who work on artificial intelligence and supercomputers โ€ฆ would have been the equivalent of penetrating the Manhattan Project in World War Twoโ€.

subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/77/j...

27.09.2025 16:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 84    ๐Ÿ” 44    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Letโ€™s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trumpโ€™s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesnโ€™t like.

18.09.2025 14:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 62198    ๐Ÿ” 19822    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2033    ๐Ÿ“Œ 927

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power.

This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations โ€” from television networks to newspapers โ€” are capitulating to these threats.

18.09.2025 20:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35868    ๐Ÿ” 10109    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1629    ๐Ÿ“Œ 640
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Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

18.09.2025 20:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20620    ๐Ÿ” 10701    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1113    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1092
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โš ๏ธThis is the Jimmy Kimmel monologue that got his show pulled.

Not hate. Not celebration of death.

Just the truth: Republicans rushed to blame the left before any facts about the shooter or motive were known.

Keep sharing it. Spread the truth.

18.09.2025 17:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2437    ๐Ÿ” 1476    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 87    ๐Ÿ“Œ 71
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Remember
 โ€ข Jeremy Hunt forgot he owned 7 flats
 โ€ข Geoffrey Cox failed to declare ยฃ400K,
 โ€ข IDS forgot a company paid him ยฃ25k,
 โ€ข Theresa Villiers forgot she owned ยฃ70k of Shell shares,
 โ€ข Zahawi forgot to pay ยฃ4.8 million in taxes
 โ€ข Johnson and Sunak forgot everything

Remember โ€ข Jeremy Hunt forgot he owned 7 flats โ€ข Geoffrey Cox failed to declare ยฃ400K, โ€ข IDS forgot a company paid him ยฃ25k, โ€ข Theresa Villiers forgot she owned ยฃ70k of Shell shares, โ€ข Zahawi forgot to pay ยฃ4.8 million in taxes โ€ข Johnson and Sunak forgot everything

None of them had to resign.

05.09.2025 21:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 370    ๐Ÿ” 164    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Thereโ€™s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer wonโ€™t do it | Rafael Behr Labourโ€™s reluctance to name Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasnโ€™t stopped Reformโ€™s rise. Itโ€™s time to try the truth, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Farageโ€™s โ€œprobity and judgment were sold as the product called Brexit. It turned out to be a piece of shit.โ€
And, unbelievably, this Labour govt finds itself trapped because it has refused to call this out.
What a profound - and now dangerous - political failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

27.08.2025 07:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1347    ๐Ÿ” 518    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 83    ๐Ÿ“Œ 31

If he wasn't dirty, they would have released them.

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21.08.2025 17:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 981    ๐Ÿ” 363    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18
Fairness in the Lords
Reflecting voter support, Reform UK should be represented in the upper chamber

Much diminished from the glory days when it fielded prime ministers and vetoed legislation, the House of Lords remains an important part of Britain's democracy. Though still in constitutional limbo while politicians argue over whether it should be reformed or abolished, the Lords, with or without hereditary peers, performs an essential task in scrutinising legislation, raising issues of public concern and tidying up poorly drafted laws. Its strength is that it is
increasingly non-partisan. Many peers are appointed after a lifetime of public service and sit as crossbenchers. They bring varied experience to the chamber, independent opinions and voting patterns untrammelled by party diktats.
True, too many are still appointed as reward for slavish loyalty, as compensation for careers cut short or for filling party coffers. True, some recent appointments have been breathtaking in their frivolity and cynicism. It is true also that there are simply too many peers, with some turning up only for the minimum time to qualify for the daily allowance while their voices remain unheard and their views unknown.

However it is finally constituted, the upper chamber, as in other western democracies, should be broadly representative of the nation, its voters and its vital interests. Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK,
is therefore absolutely right in
demanding that his party should be represented. It won 4.l million votes in the general election, gained many seats in local elections, controls ten councils outright and may do well in future elections. The Greens, the Democratic Unionist Party, Plaid Cymru and the Ulster Unionists, all winning fewer votes, have 13 peers between them.
Bizarrely, nomination to the Lords is entirely in the prime minister's gift. There are several serious politicians affiliated to Reform. Sir Keir Starmer should put their names forward straight away.

Fairness in the Lords Reflecting voter support, Reform UK should be represented in the upper chamber Much diminished from the glory days when it fielded prime ministers and vetoed legislation, the House of Lords remains an important part of Britain's democracy. Though still in constitutional limbo while politicians argue over whether it should be reformed or abolished, the Lords, with or without hereditary peers, performs an essential task in scrutinising legislation, raising issues of public concern and tidying up poorly drafted laws. Its strength is that it is increasingly non-partisan. Many peers are appointed after a lifetime of public service and sit as crossbenchers. They bring varied experience to the chamber, independent opinions and voting patterns untrammelled by party diktats. True, too many are still appointed as reward for slavish loyalty, as compensation for careers cut short or for filling party coffers. True, some recent appointments have been breathtaking in their frivolity and cynicism. It is true also that there are simply too many peers, with some turning up only for the minimum time to qualify for the daily allowance while their voices remain unheard and their views unknown. However it is finally constituted, the upper chamber, as in other western democracies, should be broadly representative of the nation, its voters and its vital interests. Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, is therefore absolutely right in demanding that his party should be represented. It won 4.l million votes in the general election, gained many seats in local elections, controls ten councils outright and may do well in future elections. The Greens, the Democratic Unionist Party, Plaid Cymru and the Ulster Unionists, all winning fewer votes, have 13 peers between them. Bizarrely, nomination to the Lords is entirely in the prime minister's gift. There are several serious politicians affiliated to Reform. Sir Keir Starmer should put their names forward straight away.

So, The Times acknowledges that recent appointments to the House of Lords โ€œhave been breathtaking in their frivolity and cynicismโ€ but says Farage should have some of his lot in there.
God knows who they think are the โ€œseveral serious politicians affiliated to Reformโ€. Canโ€™t think of a single one.

17.08.2025 13:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 313    ๐Ÿ” 66    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

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