The Lib Dems won this seat from the Conservatives and beating Reform U.K. with an impressive 41.3% of votes cast, almost double the previous vote share.💪 This win in Richard Foord‘s constituency makes it a sweep of 13 out of 13 by-election wins for the Lib Dems in Devon this year. #Devon #LibDems🔶

Northumberland Deform councillor Shaun Knowles is accused of being “completely absent” after an FoI request showed him replying to 2 emails (from 948 received), showing up to 1 council meeting since May (to avoid instant sacking for non-attendance) and pocketing £9,340 expenses. Working for you?

I found this guide for Reform UK MPs, councillors and candidates. Hope it is of some help? 👍 #ReformUK #Farage

If you don’t like Lily Allen’s new album you can, quite literally, shove it up your arse! 🍑 🔌 stereogum.com/2481771/lily...

It’s time to rejoin the EU. No messing and no gnashing of teeth. There’s a clear majority for rejoin so let’s get cracking. We’ll be richer and more free 👌🇪🇺 #Brexit #Rejoin

Nothing encapsulates the spirit of Christmas more than someone troughing an entire advent calendar and shoving the remains in a dog poo bin 🎄

Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit By Anthony Robinson @anthonybylines.bsky.social

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Jonathan Gullis has joined Reform UK. Five years as a Tory MP clearly wasn’t enough for this execrable moron and now , having failed to find honest work, he wants another go in an effort to surpass his epic levels of cretinous incompetence in the House of Commons. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is it me or is the internet a bit slow today?

"The allegations that I used to use hammers to murder rabbits are only being made because people don't like my policy of killing rabbits with hammers."

Don’t forget, no matter how much Nigel Farage tries to shape Reform UK’s economic policy to win votes, at heart he’s a disaster capitalist. #Budget2025

If Donald Trump doesn’t want to be called a Russian asset, perhaps he should stop acting like a Russian asset.

Easy to criticise but I thought the budget was pretty decent actually. I’m well paid and have moderate assets and it won’t cost me a fortune. I would have been happy to pay a bit more income tax. Ed Davey’s comments re the EU are bang on though. Brexit has cost the UK a fortune. #budget

You're kidding me. We only rate dogs. This is a rainbow bagel. I really need you all to start sending us dogs, because we only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: mrpeanutbutter.69)

Avanti West Coast if you try to use their WiFi: #celebritytraitors

So we’ve now established that the way to win Traitors is to look like a massive traitor all the bleeding time! #celebritytraitors

It's the final weekend coming up in which you can pre-order our merchandise, produced by S66 Sportswear. Ideal for Christmas gifts. All sizes covered. Worldwide shipping. All royalties go towards developing cricket in Iceland. Shop: www.s66sportswear.co.uk/icelandcricket

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Dear Elon Musk, Get J.R.R. Tolkien’s name out of your filthy and stinking mouth. Regards, Tim (Tolkien fan and fascist hater)

Liz Truss: ***smiles***

Now perhaps he knows what it feels like to be on the receiving end of his relentless anti refugee race-baiting…

Never truly believe anything until the Kremlin denies it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Morning Bluesky. Lib Dem leader Ed Davey is calling on the UK to open the doors to US cancer scientists marginalised by the Trump administration.

First they came for the Lithuanians and Poles but I did not speak up because I’m not Lithuanian or Polish Then they came for the Muslims but I did not speak up… Then they came for my friends… Then they came for my partner… #Brexit #Farage #Nazis www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

That’s my girlfriend deported then. And a friend of mine. And another friend’s mum. And another friend’s wife. Surely this is the tipping point that makes people realise that Farage and his mob are nothing more than pound shop Nazis. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

20 All Out: The Ukrainian Cricket Team's Euro Cup Adventure 🇺🇦🏏 Some evening reading with cameos by @jonathan.tochnyi.info, @johnnield2.bsky.social, @smrwilkinson.bsky.social, @libdemtim.bsky.social, and our friends (still, just about) @icelandcricket.bsky.social! jonathancampion.com/2025/08/06/2..

100% agree. Free speech thrives when it coexists with accountability, ensuring that no voice causes harm to the broader social fabric. It becomes intimidation when it escalates to incitement to violence, hate speech, harassment, or the creation of a hostile environment that causes distress.

This is, I believe, the first official word from the Government on what happened yesterday in London. Not only inaction in the face of violence and hate, but a celebration of it. I passed through London twice yesterday with my two kids & what Labour seem to be missing is that people aren't just...

Musk inciting violence. The government needs to take a harder line.

I think it was 26 news.met.police.uk/news/update-...

Musk needs to be sanctioned in the U.K. Twitter too. Fake news which promotes the far right (yes this is *absolutely* far right) and Vladimir Putin is a danger to our democracy.

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

Just back from London. These “protestors” are all flushed pink with anger or pale like death. Shambling along with a flag on their back like weird ghouls. Obnoxious, drunk and spitting. One group abused an ambulance volunteer. I wouldn’t trust these thugs to “protect our girls” for a second. 😡

As a Southampton graduate I think I can live with this result 😁

Quick visit to Orford @juliansimpson.bsky.social and bumped into this chap. There’s no getting away from Dagon.

Land Of My FatheЯs? #bonkers

Private Eye nailing it, again! 👏👇

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While Farage is off in America talking Britain down, we gave Reform HQ a rebrand. We hope it will make him feel more at home.

Congratulations to Zack Polanski on being elected leader of the Green Party. However I fear the party members may have made a bit of a boob! 😉 www.thesun.co.uk/news/3653523...

This is both, true & funny. 😮

Controversial opinion: mango 🥭 tastes of soap and isn’t very nice.

👇💯% The BBC to their shame have pumped up Farage for years. This needs to be investigated.

It was an absolute joy to present the prizes for the Regatta for the Disabled on Saturday - especially the prize for the 'most enthusiastic'. Thrilled to be able to support this wonderful event yet again! Already in the diary for next year!

Quick bit of political lingo for you “Right wing think tank” = “liars who will manipulate you to blame anyone other than the right wingers for any of your ills” Their funding sources are largely hidden and they are completely opaque. A list of some the worst and most opaque in graphic

Guy votes for Trump because he wanted him to get tough on immigration. His British wife, who has lived in the US for 37 years, has now been thrown in a deportation facility over a 10 year old misdemeanour which was resolved at the time. Life comes at you hard! www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...