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The results: Greens win big. Farage/ Goodwin sorest losers in party sore losers. Starmer gone into hiding. Telegraph/Mail etc spin into "end of liberal democracy" wank fest. Tories lose their deposit. Party Elon Musk backed, Advance UK, beaten by Sir Oink A Lot.

If Labour wants to win back Green voters after Gorton & Denton, maybe it should have… greener policies? Polling by @moreincommonuk.bsky.social finds nature ranks highly as a priority for Labour defectors Stop bashing newts & bats; increase access to nature 🐸🦇🌳 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just for a few hours we can dream of a truly decent future for the UK under a completely new political ideology. Then the british media will shit all over it and try to rebuild the hopes of Farage and his filth.

A shock result from Gorton and Denton the #BBC have lost. Their candidate had his arse handed to him. Despite hours of adoring coverage for Farage and racism the Green Party have taken a stunning victory. Rupert Murdoch did everything he could to help. Congratulations Hannah Spencer!

Gorton/Denton isn't a leafy suburban winnable or an eco sticker in the window Bristol seat. It's a staunch wc area. I'm solid Labour but I've also long been in favour of a Red/Green coalition of ideas. So get in there the Greens and sod off Farage you poundshop Trump conspiracy whinger.

Farage's party of privately educated ex-Tory millionaires, tax dodgers, and expatriates ... defeated by a Green Party plumber/plasterer. The Reform elite/establishment is crumbling? Hannah Spencer (Green) 14,980 (40.69%, +27.53%) Matt Goodwin (Reform) 10,578 (28.73%, +14.67%)

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Reform are finding their anti migrant & divisive rhetoric is not working anymore. I think people are sick of it and want solutions.. Farage doesn't have any of those solutions because he pretends to be a man of the people but he's a man of the wealthy people.."🎯

Just pictured Farage tearing up his crowing victory lines & telling his PA to decline all media requests today. Try it yourself, lip-smackingly delicious 😋 xx

Leading in the polls, promoted non stop by their cheerleading media and supposedly going to win the next election, just another loser in Farage’s footsteps.

It’s definitely a wake up call, but mainly for the BBC. They should get their heads our from up Farage’s backside. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

If the story of today is now less likely the UK will make the same mistake with Farage that America did with Trump, yay.

Joyful to see Goodwin and Farage having a huge wettie and rightwing media scrabbling around for credibility in the rubble of their cocky predictions and polling. You don’t have this in the bag.We voted for change in 2024. That never meant hate-fuelled populism. It meant hope. You don’t give us that.

Just a quick FUCK YOU to Reform, Farage, & the Right wing media, too. There’s a lot more people who oppose your message of distrust, disunity & hate than there are who support it. FUCK YOU ALL!

Every journalist who covered Reform’s conference but not the Greens’, or tried to conflate the two as both as bad as each other, or reported everything Farage said about immigration but not what Polanski did on wealth… You guys took a hell of a beating. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Mick Lynch: Farage didn't build a political career, he built a bonfire out of migrant families and called it leadership. #UKPolitics

The Reform spin doctors are working overtime to push 'family' and 'sectarian' voting copium, because despite having the media and millionaires on their side, they still couldn't win in Gorton and Denton This is the same, re-hashed Islamophobic nonsense we've seen peddled by Farage and co many times

Summary: The electorate is restless. Labour is rudderless. Greens are hope. Tories are hopeless. And Reform’s silent majority has once again turned out to be a noisy minority.

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

Reform UK fact check: how many churches have been turned into mosques? 41 There are 38,500 churches in the UK, compared with about 1,895 mosques.

We stand in solidarity with the Muslim community following this week’s frightening incidents at Manchester Central Mosque and Worcester Muslim Welfare Association’s community centre, which took place during the holy month of Ramadan. Read our statement in full: friendsoftheearth.uk/latest/frien...

Farage is a scumbag. Labour need to do more than point at them and say look how shite they are.

. The former Labour PM Gordon Brown is right - don't vote for the lying snake-oil salesman Nigel Farage and his bunch of second-rate tories in Thursday's byelection in Gorton and Denton! #r4today #bbcbreakfast #GMB #politicslive #PMQs #C4News #Newsnight #toriesgone600 #GortonAndDenton .

Reform, Restore: the same (literal) shit repoured into a fresh pint glass. They want to sell off more of our environment to the highest bidder, deregulate what they can, fire sale of the little we have left. The only regulation they seem interested in regulating is people's sex lives and gender.

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

Let's hope so. 🤞 Keep Reform out. Be a nightmare if they get another MP.

Scotland has mandated swift bricks in all new homes. A petition has been set up to get the UK Government to do the same here in England. Use this link to sign url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/nuK8CNk3kS...

DAILY MIRROR: Why we must stop Reform #TomorrowsPapersToday

Will some reporter please ask him this simple question: Mister President: what's wrong with you?

Beech tree, Exmoor. #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw

People in Clacton are calling Nigel Farage: Nigel Mirage.

Fantastic @andyburnham.bsky.social 👏

Plenty have clocked how Nigel Farage talks to women journalists — pure condescension: “listen, love,” “go write your silly little story.” Know your place. No shock from a man who praises Andrew Tate. The real surprise? It’s only being called out now.

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good. Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies. So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

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#GetBrexitUndone #RejoinEU

An important reminder

The arrest is for the courts. Accountability is not. If it is to survive this crisis, the Royal Family must finally answer questions about how it conducts itself. My latest: The Humbling of the House of Windsor open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Farage's fossil-fuel-financed gang of privately-educated former Tories wants to scrap the Equality Act, halt action on the climate crisis and frack the UK. A vote for Farage is a vote for Trumpist politics in the UK: www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades eos.org/articles/res...

"We're not like other parties, and I won't tolerate disloyalty," says Farage, as he introduces a cabinet that is 50% disloyal people from another party. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Those pushing fertility politics aren’t concerned to support a woman’s choices. They are concerned to determine a woman’s worth. Help call this ‘debate’ out for what it is and join me calling for policies deliver for every parent and carer and the families they love. If you agree share this video.

Why didn't Farage just answer the question about Reform's education policy? Why did he seek to mock and ridicule the journalist asking a perfectly legitimate question and try to deligitimise the FT? Easy. That's who he is. An arrogant man who doesn't have any policies beyond pointing at the sea.

Look at that ridiculous man. The absolute king of whataboutery. The crown prince of entitlement. The Emperor with no clothes.

It’s been raining for longer than Liz Truss was Prime Minister.

The Leave campaign's divisive rhetoric around immigration had real-life consequences. Research shows that young people from ethnic minorities living in areas with strong support for Brexit felt excluded and their mental health declined.

Reform once again showing they lack any sense of decency and compassion. lancashire.thelead.uk/p/reform-uk-...

It’s beyond insane that the BBC World Service might end in 7 weeks when its funding runs out. A beacon of information, education and UK soft power - Ministers would be crazy not to find money to support it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Racism in football, it’s time to kick Jim Ratcliffe out A Manchester United fan's perspective on the abhorrent comments by Jim Ratcliffe that the UK has been 'colonised by immigrants' | Mark Cunliffe @northwestbylines.co.uk @markcunliffe.bsky.social

A multi-million-pound nature restoration project covering 3,000 hectares of land has launched in the Cotswolds. The Evenlode Landscape Recovery Project, in Oxfordshire, is the third scheme of its kind in England, and will cover an area the size of Cheltenham. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...