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Owen Jones
@owenjones.bsky.social
Jul 11, 09:04 PM
What a timeline to live in.
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"Nigel Farage, who is the son of a stockbroker, educated at a prestigious public school, made a killing in the city as a commodities trader, gets showered with a £5 million personal gift from a Thai-based billionaire who is the richest British board person alive, who gets paid vast sums for selling gold bullion, who lives in a five-storey house right by Buckingham Palace thanks to a convicted fraudster on top of his own property empire, who is personal friend to the President of the United States, yes, but Nigel Farage claims this is the people versus the establishment. You cannot make this shit up."
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Owen Jones
@owenjones.bsky.social
· Jul 10, 07:07 AM
What a timeline to live in.
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 10, 12:33 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Farage claims he's &quot;being treated like a war criminal.&quot;
Not true...
He's not been given access to RAF bases, military intelligence &amp; training, nor provided with diplomatic cover, and his opponents haven't been threatended with defunding and imprisonment.</p>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 10, 07:13 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">But idiots will still believe him! How can people be this stupid?!</p>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 10, 07:10 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">He’s joining the war of people versus the establishment on the side of the establishment.</p>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 10, 07:18 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">If he is anti establishment then surely the first policy he will want is to get rid of the royal family? Is there anything more establishment than the royal family.</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">mynameisdieter 🍉</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 10, 07:49 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">If Clacton vote him back in, they deserve everything that comes to them. There’s no excuse anymore
We all know what he is and who he represents and it isn’t for anyone but himself and his rich corporate donors</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">James S. Fallows</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 10, 08:59 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Not all of them. Sometimes it doesn&#39;t matter how progressive you are if everyone else is falling for the grift.</p>
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&lt;span class=&quot;text-[9px] text-slate-600&quot;&gt;· Jul 10, 09:01 AM&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words&quot;&gt;Look I get what you’re saying but if the turnout is low and he gets in then I will not feel sorry for them&lt;/p&gt;
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&amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;text-[9px] text-slate-600&amp;quot;&amp;gt;· Jul 10, 09:03 AM&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;
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&amp;lt;p class=&amp;quot;text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words&amp;quot;&amp;gt;True. I&amp;amp;#39;m mainly speaking for those who do choose to vote for Binface. my area voted in Reform, I sure as hell didn&amp;amp;#39;t.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 10, 07:10 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">I hope you're telling everyone to vote for Count Binface. Better than Farage in every respect.</p>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 10, 07:45 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Vote Farage out, bloody spiv on the make</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">CraigsBar 🇪🇺</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 11, 09:42 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">#VoteBinface</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">James S. Fallows</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@timewarpjf.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 10, 08:58 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">And the worst part of all of this is that it'll work</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">nyebevanwasright.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@nyebevanwasright.bsky.social</span>
<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 11, 05:45 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Owen, you need to get your bid in now for a press pass for the hustings in Clacton. Surely the bloke who called the election won't duck out of it! Farage should feel at home sharing a platform with swivel eyed loons only this time they won't be on his side.</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">DamonTheDemon</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 10, 01:44 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">It actually sounds like you did make it up. But you didnt. There lies the rub.</p>
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