Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
It’ll be the poppy patriot season starting soon
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
It’ll be the poppy patriot season starting soon
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Always with cheese and bread Cheese and bread was the staple diet
Byline Times (@bylinetimes.bsky.social) reposted
🔴Undue Influence: The Reform-Supporting Online Network Using AI to Monetise Anti-Migrant Hate A social media campaign for Brexit and Boris Johnson has morphed into a large-scale network boosting Reform and pushing anti-migrant hate, reports Kat Denkinson bylinetimes.com/2025/09/01/i...
Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social) reposted
“In April 2025, Starmer was instrumental in continuing Palantir’s capture of crucial digital infrastructure in UK public institutions, he oversaw Coventry City Council’s signing of a £500,000 deal with Palantir for a "strategic AI platform"”
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
You can keep it
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Haggis is a national dish of Scotland cawl is a national Dish of wales they not national dishes of Britain 😉
Zoe Gardner (@zoejardiniere.bsky.social) reposted
Today Nick Ferrari asked if treaties like the ECHR & the Refugee Convention that were drawn up in the wake of WWII are still relevant to modern Britain. I said the context of racial hatred towards Muslim immigrants now echoes the hatred of Jewish immigrants in the 20th century. We need these laws.
Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) reposted
Ukrainian drones last night destroyed two Mi-8 military helicopters worth around $30 million in a strike on the Hvardiiske Air Base, Simferopol, occupied Crimea, the intelligence service says. #explodey
The National (@scotnational.bsky.social) reposted
A 'remarkable' Bronze Age hoard discovered on land that was due to be turned into football pitches will go on display next summer after being saved
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Looks like he’s got a marksman badge aswell
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Looks like one of the light infantry regt insignia on his shoulder and signallers badge in his arm
Bylines Network (@bylinesnetwork.co.uk) reposted
🧵 Farage is whipping up anger against the ECHR with false claims (see thread). As The Bear brilliantly writes: “The ECHR [is] the foundation that protects you from your own government.” That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah I agree it’s almost as if being a compete fucking nonce is a prerequisite for a life in politics Birds of a feather ?
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Well colour me pink Not another lord of the land nonce bastard making our laws ? Abolish the lords it’s a fucking cess pit !
Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed.bsky.social) reposted
Never mind the flag bans, where are the policies? Assessing 100 days of Reform-led councils
Scottish Greens (@scottishgreens.org) reposted
The real enemies of Scotland don't arrive by small boat; they arrive by private jet. People seeking asylum didn't sell off community centres, privatise buses, or bail out the banks, it was the super-rich and their friends in Westminster. Greens believe in a welcoming Scotland.
Otto English (@ottoenglish.bsky.social) reposted
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Doubt it it’s all about the leader It’s the cult of personality same as Boris Johnson and the Torys If you take farage out of the picture the rightwing would collapse Farage is the face of the right in the uk
Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed.bsky.social) reposted
Nigel Farage and the Anti-Migrant Protestors Do Not Represent the ‘Silent Majority’ hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/29/n...
Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed.bsky.social) reposted
Extremist language is being amplified and normalised by Reform UK www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed.bsky.social) reposted
Genius: Copies of the Nottingham Post begin appearing on lamp posts newsthump.com/2025/08/29/c... via @newsthump
DCminx 🕊🌍🔥🌱 (@dcminx.bsky.social) reposted
‼️ Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring significant environmental benefits. www.france24.com/en/europe/20... 👇
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Call Cheese on wheels for your wheels of cheese
Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) reposted
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted
Reminder that the US Trump regime conspired to over throw Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, a direct attack on democracy in Ukraine and worldwide.
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
The National (@scotnational.bsky.social) reposted
An emergency 'counter-demonstration' to 'defend refugees' being housed in Falkirk has been called after a last-minute march on the hotel was announced 👇
Niall Harbison (@niallharbison.bsky.social) reposted
I can't believe how good he is starting to look already. One of the kindest and most gentle dogs we've ever had.
Edwin Hayward (@edwinhayward.com) reposted
In August, Keir Starmer has tweeted 61 times. 22 of those tweets were about immigration. 100% of his tweets about immigration painted immigration in a negative light. If you're not on Twitter, you won't be aware of what you're missing. This thread collects EVERY tweet he posted about immigration.
“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴🇪🇺 (@markrich68.bsky.social) reposted
🏴INDEPENDENCE, OR FASCISM🇬🇧 What we need to do is show soft NO voters this, and ask them to choose which of these Rights they look forward to losing if they don’t vote for an independence party at Holyrood 2026? We should also tell them to look at what’s happening in the US, because that’ll be us
Byline Times (@bylinetimes.bsky.social) reposted
🔴Reform UK’s Darren Grimes Under Investigation Over Fake AI Asylum Video of Keir Starmer Grimes faces an official complaint to the council after using manipulated imagery and attacking asylum seekers as ‘deviants’ bylinetimes.com/2025/08/29/r...
Ian Dunt (@iandunt.bsky.social) reposted
Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism iandunt.substack.com/p/labours-co...
Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) reposted
🚨NOW 402 DAYS since our nuclear test veterans - national heroes in their eighties - requested a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss how he will honour the commitment Labour made to their campaign for justice and compensation in opposition youtu.be/hSQNLn2Ocr8?...
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Stupid woman says stupid things and gets her just desserts
Sarah Murphy (@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social) reposted
Any fool blithely saying they’ve now had a bit of a think about the ECHR and we should leave - is part of why we’re now stuck in the mess of Brexit, being told by the far right to hand our human rights over to them to administer. FFS people. Have you learned nothing from the last decade of failure?
Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed.bsky.social) reposted
Nigel Farage wants to abolish the UK Human Rights Act of 1998 www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08...
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social)
This Woman on sky with a cardboard cut out of Farage in her house says “we are told it’s not safe to go to Somalia but there are Somalian men coming here” There’s a good reason for that has any one told her there’s a fucking civil war going on in Somalia? Hard to believe these idiots walk among us
LBC Watch (@lbcwatchuk.bsky.social) reposted
Judeo-Christian values latest: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... #Farage #Blackshirts
Gary Gilligan #FBPE #KTTO (@garygilligan.bsky.social) reposted
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed.bsky.social) reposted
Reform’s horrific vision for the UK normalises cruelty and barbarism www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed.bsky.social) reposted
Reform councillor closes 5 Derbyshire adult education centres without consultation in private meeting www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
Governor Gavin Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) reposted
Where is Trump’s attention to this matter?
Josiah Mortimer (@josiah.writes.news) reposted
Via SNP: "The SNP has hailed the benefits of public ownership of essential services...Earlier this year, Scotrail was ranked the best large rail network operator in the UK by passengers. A survey showed customer satisfaction levels have risen from 67% to 91% since coming into public ownership" (1/2)
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump says a lot of things and everything he does say is complete and utter bullshit
Rosie Holt (@rosieisaholt.bsky.social) reposted
Reform MP says they will negotiate with the Taliban.
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Gulagians lol
Lorna MacGillivray (@elemjay.bsky.social) reposted
Oh, man. The USA is frucked all the way up. open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...
Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
Well, Trump IS a Russian asset — or, as I like to call him, Putin’s bitch.
The National (@scotnational.bsky.social) reposted
NEW: Reform UK's newest MSP has been left red-faced after past comments resurfaced which appeared to put him at odds with the party line 👀
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
No surprise there
Bylines Network (@bylinesnetwork.co.uk) reposted
How influential is the Israeli lobby in British politics? We look at MPs’ links with Israel @sussexbylines.co.uk
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Far right infiltration ? Ffs
HOPE not hate (@hopenothate.org.uk) reposted
❗The biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade is coming to Great Yarmouth and we need your help to stop it. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...
Femi (@femi-oluwole.bsky.social) reposted
Why is Iain Dale shitting in my mouth, then telling me my breath stinks? #Brexit
Byline Times (@bylinetimes.bsky.social) reposted
🔴Reform UK Councillors ‘Exploited Legal Loophole’ to Dodge Spending Limits on Farage Election Leaflets At least 12 newly elected Reform UK councillors in Durham did not declare costs for mass mailings from party leader that attacked local council’s spending bylinetimes.com/2025/08/28/r...
Ballot Box Scotland (@ballotbox.scot) reposted
Graham Simpson, Conservative MSP for Central Scotland since 2016, has just defected to Reform UK. This is the second time they've had an MSP via defection, following Michelle Ballantyne ahead of 2021. She led the Scottish arm to 0.2% of the vote; times have certainly changed since then.
WillieMillersMoustache (@williemillersm1.bsky.social) reposted
Odious wee shite, does odious wee shite things.
maxmoran.bsky.social (@maxmoran.bsky.social) reposted
Village Show, Carmarthenshire, Wales 23.08.25 #HumansofBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #photography #photo #PhotographersofBlueSky
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Simpson wasn’t elected he got in on the list ! Just Another list seat trougher jumping ship
Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed.bsky.social) reposted
This analysis shows why Reform UK think it’s easy to shout slogans, but have no detail, crucial, fatal detail. Are Reform UK’s plans for dealing with 'illegal migration' legally feasible? www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/refo...
Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social) reposted
Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup. "Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."
cordeliaappleby.bsky.social (@cordeliaappleby.bsky.social) reposted
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted
The Battle of DC is underway, brave US troops march on the nation’s Capitol, meeting the enemy head on in a desperate struggle against littering. With steel in their hearts and plastic bags in their hands, the troops brave behind enemy lines.
The National (@scotnational.bsky.social) reposted
NEW: Bitter row erupts as Tory source claims 'nasty' Reform UK defector Graham Simpson bullied young female staffer
Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed.bsky.social) reposted
Farage party picked a dead woman to run for Croydon Mayor insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) reposted
The DUP falsely claims that the withdrawal agreement breached the Good Friday Agreement - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... In fact (as the BBC fails to mention) this claim was rejected by every judge in three courts, up to the UK Supreme Court - supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc...
Edward A. Rowe (@edwardarowe1.bsky.social) reposted
www.huffpost.com/entry/gavin-...
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp... Every little helps
The National (@scotnational.bsky.social) reposted
NEW: Nigel Farage claims he's 'antidote to far right' after being challenged on his role in the rise of violent, anti-immigrant rhetoric
The National (@scotnational.bsky.social) reposted
NEW: MSP demands 'formal apology' from BBC after host echoes far-right rhetoric used by Tommy Robinson
John Swinney (@johnswinney.bsky.social) reposted
Energy bills are already too high - yet under Labour, they’re going up again. They promised lower bills, but today’s hike means bills are £187 higher since they took office. In energy-rich Scotland, this is indefensible. Only independence can deliver lower bills for good.
Stephen Gethins (@stephengethins.bsky.social) reposted
Nigel Farage is in Scotland lecturing us about a migration problem that he helped create. The UK was part of the Dublin convention as an EU member that meant returns. That was abandoned. Reform would rather do deals with the Taliban than our closest neighbours in the rest of Europe.
George Eaton (@georgeeaton.bsky.social) reposted
Labour can’t agree on how to fight Farage – my column on the growing split between Starmerites and the soft left. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Labour jam tomorrow
OpalEidolon (@opaleidolon.bsky.social) reposted
People are put off Woody Allen by his appearance in Moscow? Wow - it was the pedophelia that put me off him decades ago.
Ian Fraser (@ianfraser.bsky.social) reposted
The Guardian on Nigel Farage’s ugly, Nuremberg-style rhetoric.. “This is an attack on democratic norms—the kind that paves the way for repressive rule by and for economic elites, under the guise of national restoration. That’s Trump’s game. It’s Farage’s too.” Well said @katharineviner.bsky.social
WillieMillersMoustache (@williemillersm1.bsky.social) reposted
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Absolutely nothing
Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed.bsky.social) reposted
Nigel Farage’s ‘mass deportation plan’ is doomed to failure www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel...
Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed.bsky.social) reposted
Nigel Farage's Reform UK 'handing torturous regimes a gift' www.thenational.scot/news/2541676...
Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed.bsky.social) reposted
Farage can’t be trusted to rewrite our rights www.bestforbritain.org/farage_can_t...
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
He's always shown us who he is.
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Radar undersea drone ? Radar ?
The Guardian (@theguardian.com) reposted
Old master painting looted by Nazis spotted in Argentinian property listing
BremainInSpain (@bremaininspain.com) reposted
Why Nigel Farage’s ‘fag packet’ migrant deportation plans don’t add up www.independent.co.uk/politics/far...
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Wtf is wrong with that cunt ?
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
RFK jr is a fucking idiot
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
The man’s a pure fekkin rocket
Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed.bsky.social) reposted
Robert Bloom, North Northamptonshire Reform UK councillor resigns over serious racism allegations. This is shocking. Reform UK has a racism problem. www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...
Bylines Network (@bylinesnetwork.co.uk) reposted
Every dog has their day: celebrate your four-legged friends! Today is International Dog Day!
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
They’ve done the work ? That’s a good one
Adam Bienkov (@adambienkov.bsky.social) reposted
Reform Zia's Yusuf says a Farage Government would rip up protections against human rights abuses, torture and trafficking, in order to deport more migrants. Remember that these protections apply to everyone living in the UK. Once they're gone, they're gone for all of us
Loping ted (@lopingted.bsky.social) reply parent
There’s nothing that can be renegotiated The Good Friday agreement is a done deal The man is a total fraud
Adam Bienkov (@adambienkov.bsky.social) reposted
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?