Gerry Bolton

Gerry Bolton

@gerryb.bsky.social

Retired Northern Grandad living in exile in the Deep South. Interested in politics economics , business and crime / spy fiction If you think an opening response to one of my posts is to insult or pick a fight don’t bother I will ignore you and block you

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Who is bankrolling Nigel Farage's party? What interests are they seeking to advance? Are they acting in Britain's best interests? Reform UK are engulfed in sleaze and scandal. Labour will protect our democracy from foreign influence. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

independent.co.ukTrue scale of Reform UK’s donations from overseas donors revealedExclusive: 80 per cent of the money received by Reform UK from donations in the year 2025-26 has come from individuals or companies who have been based abroad in the past two years

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Farage tying himself in angry knots here ... as he refuses to answer the basic question: Is it racist to call Kemi Badenoch a "Nigerian scammer"?

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The allegations against Donald Trump for sexual assault seem to have a common denominator: He is physically violent and intentionally inflicts pain on his victims. He likes to slam women and girls up against doors and walls as he roughly manhandles them. Donald Trump is a sick and twisted person.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

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Ten years on, the Brexiters plan to leave the EU and cosy up with the US looks even more disastrous. That their Brexit was boosted by Putin makes it even more historically catastrophic. We mustn’t forget the people who did this or let them near power again bylinetimes.com/2026/06/23/w...

bylinetimes.comWhatever Happened to the Brexit Battalion Media Corps?Ten years and six prime ministers on, Byline Times looks at the fate of Brexit’s most prominent media cheerleaders

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I'm sure followers of Reform UK sites would love to know ... "Muslim community members in Bradford, England, helped save the city’s historic Reform Synagogue from possible closure by raising funds for essential repairs and supporting efforts to secure additional financial assistance" via Humanistan

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Just heard Hunt on the radio saying Labour needs to "put the economics before the politics" in the Budget. The bloke who created an unaffordable cut in National Insurance prior to the election, which he knew the Tories would lose. Utter charlatan.

Peter Smith@redpeter99.bsky.social

The reinvention of Jeremy Hunt as a sage and elder statesman overlooks his role as a participant in the creation of the current shitshow. #BBCLauraK

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Jeremy Hunt criticises Labour for having a million NEETs, even though 872,000 of them were under a Conservative gov He then argues against FOM because Europeans will come to Britain and take jobs, conveniently ignoring that some of those NEETs could go to other European countries to find employment

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Reform UK complain about migrants not integrating - but hate mixed marriages even more ... "Imagine being so offended by a family appearing in an IKEA advert that you take to social media to complain about seeing people who aren't white on British television." www.facebook.com/TruthAgainst...

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Two major polls today putting Labour back into the thirties. This one puts Reform firmly in third place and would give Labour a majority of around 134

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Obama: "That well-known evil empire Canada. That historical adversary of ours. Canada! *laughs* It's your neighbor. It's a few minutes' drive over the bridge! These are the people who gave us Martin Short and maple syrup. They are the nicest people! And someone we've gotten them so mad."

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The Bust Lie "Boris Johnson suggested that Obama removed a bust of Churchill from the Oval Office because of his race. The attack came on the eve of a presidential visit to UK to bolster the Remain campaign. Obama was annoyed by the 'racially-tinged' remark which echoed attacks made by Republicans"

thetimes.comBarack Obama called Boris Johnson a British Trump over ‘part-Kenyan’ remarkBarack Obama called Boris Johnson the British version of Donald Trump for referring to his “part-Kenyan ancestry” during the referendum campaign.Mr Johnson suggested that President Obama removed a bus...

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Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: “Our support for Ukraine is not charity. “It is an investment in our own security and in the future of a democratic and peaceful Europe. “We cannot allow Russia to succeed. The fight for freedom must continue.”

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As a former prime minister, Liz Truss is a significant political figure. But after branding the Financial Times part of the 'deep state' and describing the left as 'Islamo-communist', she has clearly degenerated into a full-on gibbering rightwing whackjob.

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Replying to @torstenbell.bsky.social

Selling out Britain’s future goes back to Thatcher. Had we invested oil/gas revenues we’d have a fund worth £1 trillion now. Selling off assets at less than they were worth (think council houses/utilities) + spending not investing the proceeds trashed the UK’s balance sheet

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Double check every Reform UK claim - they're mostly blatanmt lies! "The far right has pulled off a spectacular trick, they've convinced ordinary people to base their entire worldview on impossible numbers. We hear it all the time ..." via Stop Brexit & Restore Hope www.facebook.com/stopbrexitma...

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The proposal is only for greater flexibility in teachers' working hours. Not a reduction in the total. Farage's usual faux outrage is particularly ludicrous, coming from a man who only turns up for work once a week (in parliamentary term-time), and does bugger all of use, even when he's there!

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Q: You must know now who ordered the Starlink access in Ukraine to be restricted. Who was it? TRUMP: I wouldn't tell you if I did know. How are you with Q: CNN, sir TRUMP: Why would I tell CNN?

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Reform UK insists it will protect the state pension triple lock, a particularly important promise to older voters. So why did the party appoint an economist who had previously argued that the very same guarantee should be abolished?

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😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

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Pensioner poverty has halved in the past 30 years, as the shadow work and pensions secretary Helen Whately claimed. But how much of this was down to the Conservatives? Almost all the fall she’s talking about happened under Labour.

fullfact.orgHow much of the fall in pensioner poverty is ‘thanks’ to the Conservatives? – Full FactConservative shadow minister Helen Whately claimed that the halving of pensioner poverty was “in no small part” thanks to her party. But most of that fall happened when Labour was in power.

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Stephanie Flanders, "This entire global economic landscape that we have taken for granted over the last few years is just being picked apart" "Green Party's Ellie Chowns is right, this isn't just about raising defence spending, it's about all of us facing a more expensive world"

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