Kristof
@kristofm.bsky.social
Photographer, data wrangler and Cancer Survivor. Lover of Free Movement, Hater of Brexit, "Do-Gooder". #Rejoiner
And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
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For the third by-election in a row Reform UK offered voters the politics of rage and for the third time in a row they have been roundly rejected as a result. How Andy Burnham's massive victory in Makerfield shows the wheels are now coming off of the Nigel Farage project
Makerfield By-Election Result: How Voters Rejected Nigel Farage's Politics of 'Pure Cold Rage'
For the third time in a row Reform have sought to stoke division and violence on Britain's streets and been roundly rejected by voters as a result, reports Adam Bienkov
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"Brexit, a decade ago, was a self-imposed disaster for this country. It erected barriers between our manufacturing and service industries and our largest market. It divided us into a range of cultural, artistic, environmental and academic policies."
Brexit has been a disaster – it’s time the guilty men felt some shame
Ten years after Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, it is telling that none of the leading campaigners for L
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Today’s independent front page Brexit has been a disaster – it’s time the guilty men felt some shame
👏 Mick Lynch: "We believe we pay for each other through a fair tax system in where wealth is distributed properly so that all people can advance." "You believe in isolating people and taking advantage of poverty so that you can divide them and make your friends even richer."
On Nigel Farage urging unions to affiliate with Reform UK, TUC chief Paul Nowak: “Let’s be crystal clear: Reform are no friends of working people. “If they were, they wouldn’t be planning to rip up workers’ rights like day one sick pay and protection from fire & rehire and zero-hours contracts."
“The memory of 2016 is visceral for everyone who lived through it. But 2016 was not a vote against Europe. It was a vote against an establishment that had failed working people for decades, and Europe was the nearest available target,” writes Naomi Smith. Read here:
The Signal That Would Change Everything
By Naomi Smith, CEO of Best for Britain
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Nigel Farage is a threat to national security inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...
Nigel Farage is a threat to national security
This is what he does. It's who he is
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Well done @iandunt.bsky.social for not letting Reform cllr Alex Wilson take the high ground for what Farage did.
🚨 Economist Mariana Mazzucato on Brexit: "What both Farage and Johnson did... was to lie and lie again, and still have not been held accountable for such a problematic policy."
"for now we must treat this claim as unsubstantiated unless and until some further information emerges". @ciaranm.bsky.social, former Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, on Farage's claims of Russian hacking. www.linkedin.com/posts/cyberc...
Ciaran Martin@ciaranm.bsky.social · 2mo agoFor a more serious analysis of this from me see below www.linkedin.com/posts/cyberc...
On point ⬇️ "Lots of our issues, lots of the things we're talking about tonight and the economic problems we're facing are as a result of Brexit."
It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.
Lady with wavy hear slams the incompetence of politicians #BBCQT
A youth mobility scheme gives young people opportunities, boosts the economy, and is backed by voters. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-visas-backed-voters-despite-migration-warning-4348840
Brexit visas for under-30s backed by voters - despite migration warning
Nearly half are in favour of allowing the age group to live, work and travel between Britain and the EU
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Very Ukrainian accent: "Oh Mr Vance, is it hard to negotiate peace? Is it difficult to come to a deal when both sides have fundamentally irreconcilable positions on key issues? Does not being able to trust your counterparty make things tricky? Why do you hate peace, Mr Vance?"
a man with a beard is sitting in a chair .
ALT: a man with a beard is sitting in a chair .
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Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.
1/ This Yanis Varoufakis screed made me so angry the only way I can salvage my day is to go through it line by line as catharsis. You are welcome to come on the journey toward my aneurism with me. An angry h/t to @sianushka.bsky.social for bringing this into my life. unherd.com/2026/04/why-...
Why I went to Moscow
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🚨BREAKING🚨 Starmer: "Our long term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union." "We will announce a new summit with our EU partners and I can tell you that at that summit the UK will not just ratify commitments made at last year's summit."
Chancellor Rachel Reeves argued that where it was in the national interest, the UK should be “prepared to align with EU regulation, including in further areas of the single market”. Reeves is right. Deeper alignment is the quickest way to deliver economic growth and unlock Britain's potential...
All the signs that Labour wants to undo Brexit
The Government says it will not rejoin the customs union or single market, but senior figures have been pushing for clos
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Reeves: "Brexit has not been good for our country, for growth, for prices in the shop. It’s almost 10 years since we voted Leave. That ship has sailed but there’s a lot we can do to improve our trading relations. Where that requires alignment in our national interest, we should absolutely align.”
Rachel Reeves bets on closer ties with EU to boost UK economy
The chancellor will make the case for greater alignment with the bloc after saying Brexit was not good for the UK
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One of the best foreign policy podcasts around - do subscribe if you want proper insight from experts rather than just political commentators about what's happening in the world and how it might affect us.
Arthur Snell@snellarthur.bsky.social · 5mo ago🚨🚨Iran emergency episode with Charlie Gammell🚨🚨 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
Accusations of cheating and sectarianism show that Reform UK pose a danger to our democracy, even in defeat. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/green-victory-labour-reform-david-aaronovitch-uk-politics-b2928907.html
Reform UK is in big trouble – which means it will fight dirtier than ever
The Gorton and Denton results should encourage the government to seriously look at introducing an alternative vote syste
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Labour needs to be the progressive party that so many around the country want it to be. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/01/labour-reform-progressives-gorton-and-denton-party
Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan
The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by b
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It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious
🇪🇺 Nicolas Bloom, Stanford University: "The most obvious (reason Brexit failed) is you just make it harder to trade. Regulations have gone up a lot with Europe." ❓"The second was uncertainty. If you can't predict, you tend to pause on investing. ⌛ "And finally, the enormous amount of wasted time."
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
