[News] Nigel Farage and Reform

[The Clamp]

Talking of Farage, the TUC have played a blinder in Clacton. More of this please.

They just sort of shrugged it off with a “No! not our Nigel!

Doesn’t matter anyway. He could propose to have all private homes seized and given to the government. As long as he framed it so that it was to stop foreigners living on your street, people would willingly hand over the keys.






I’m not even joking.

 

[Berty23]

They just sort of shrugged it off with a “No! not our Nigel!

Doesn’t matter anyway. He could propose to have all private homes seized and given to the government. As long as he framed it so that it was to stop foreigners living on your street, people would willingly hand over the keys.






I’m not even joking.

Yeah. He won’t take away things those people like. Just things they don’t.

 

[Eeyore]

Talking of Farage, the TUC have played a blinder in Clacton. More of this please.

Although they may reconsider before going back to the Tories as it was they who introduced those policies.

 

[BadFish]

Talking of Farage, the TUC have played a blinder in Clacton. More of this please.

Surprised?

Those people were surprised??

What a world we live in.

I suppose that next up we'll have the "what Donald?" lot.

 

[Bodian]

Talking of Farage, the TUC have played a blinder in Clacton. More of this please.

Does she really not know what he wants??

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Starmer keeping a straight face whilst talking about growth whilst not doing anything to remove any part of the Brexit ball and chain is beyond parody. You're in government now, not fighting for votes. You've got a massive majority, so take some massive action. Serve the nation, not self-preservation.

Yes, failure to address the 'boring' elephant in the room with the resulting failure to bring growth and improve the lot of the many will play into Reform's hands. Releasing a few videos trying to look tough on immigration isn't likely to be appealing enough to be heard over the siren call of populism.

Grasp the nettle of Brexit and Reform will be politically emasculated. When it comes to preserving Labour's political power, attack will be the best defence.

Time to collectively admit the nation's mistake, bite the bullet and reverse the direction immediately as a matter of national economic necessity.

I want that but I expect labour to be booted out if they promote that.

Never underestimate the intransigence of a loser electorate that think they have won.
'We' have taken back control.
Nobody wants to lose that control.
Do they?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Talking of Farage, the TUC have played a blinder in Clacton. More of this please.

The problem is those mugs will have dismissed all that unpalatable truth as fake news by tea time.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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Another fact.
You know that.
I know that.
But millions don't care/understand.
They have taken back control, and that's all that matters.

 

[hart's shirt]

I want that but I expect labour to be booted out if they promote that.

Never underestimate the intransigence of a loser electorate that think they have won.
'We' have taken back control.
Nobody wants to lose that control.
Do they?

If they don't promote that, they've got a real chance of being booted out because centrists like me may increasingly turn against them for not acting.

Brexit will continue to hold back the UK for as long as it's ignored, giving the populism of Reform time to establish credibility with a section of the electorate rather than being faced down immediately. The time for a conspiracy of silence is over.

H, I think we're in agreement here, but we're working on different timelines.

It used to be said that a week's a long time in politics. With social media, instant stories and information overload seen in the deluge of executive orders being signed across the pond to flood the media zone, it seems to have shrunk to a day or so. A groundswell of public support for immediate action for positive change can be created quickly.

With an unashamedly isolationist America more likely to impose tariffs than initiate trust until 2029 at the earliest, Britain's effectively found itself friendless. All the backtracking and silver-tongued pleasantries of ministers isn't likely to change the Oval Office. Let's be clear, a former Director of Public Prosecutions and a convicted felon are never likely to become the easiest of bedfellows. Thus the decision to continue this needless exile from our closest friends and trading partners and subsequent economic self-flagellation because of either the loss of national face or the fear of an election loss 4 years away is as mystifying as it is enraging.

Reversing Brexit is of such magnitude that it has to be initiated at the earliest opportunity. Grasp the nettle.

 

[Simster]

I am with you @hart's shirt. I'm fairly centrist, perhaps slightly left of centre compared to your right of centre way of thinking, but if Labour don't address the mess Brexit has made by reversing some of it, then they are letting the country down. It's that simple. And if they do that, I'll be voting for the stronger of the Lib Dems or Green in my constituency and won't give two shits if that risks letting Reform or The Conservatives in.

Pussy footing around the issue will indeed lend credence to this ridiculous idea that Brexit hasn't been damaging and is all about how we haven't implemented it properly. As a bare minimum, I expect Labour to be in talks about rejoining the single market. And IMO we should already be in talks to rejoin the customs union.

 

[Berty23]

I wonder if there has ever been a more obvious clue about who funds a political party. No wonder they are loved by Russia when they want to tax anyone using renewables. A world where trump wins and reform come to power is scary. Taxing people who want to stop us being reliant on fossil fuels would please Russia and Saudi!

 

[Berty23]

Good from JHB here. Calling out Reform for being a Russian mouthpiece. At some point the penny will drop that reform are just rich boys backed by oil who are pushing people’s racist button. Anyone who votes for reform in a low income job should realise that reform would strip them of their rights at work.

 

[Scappa]

 

[Cordwainer]

I wonder if there has ever been a more obvious clue about who funds a political party. No wonder they are loved by Russia when they want to tax anyone using renewables. A world where trump wins and reform come to power is scary. Taxing people who want to stop us being reliant on fossil fuels would please Russia and Saudi!

You’d almost have to hope that was the case, as if it wasn’t they would come off as a group of wilfully ignorant, politically illiterate populists.

 

[WATFORD zero]

You’d almost have to hope that was the case, as if it wasn’t they would come off as a group of wilfully ignorant, politically illiterate populists.

It's just a small group of greedy people who don't give a shit about anyone trying to encourage a larger group of stupid people who don't understand shit about anything into drowning themselves in an ever increasingly toxic circle of shit.

That's my opinion and I'm entitled to it, so don't you go cancelling me

 

[BBassic]

There's a joke brewing in my brain about Farage not even being a Poundland Trump anymore due to inflation.

It'll come to me.

Watch this space.

 

[Eeyore]

There's a joke brewing in my brain about Farage not even being a Poundland Trump anymore due to inflation.

It'll come to me.

Watch this space.

For me, it's more his desperate desire to be his friend. One would have thought that after Musk has his say on him he would have backed off. Trump cares nothing for him, or at best he is an occasionally useful idiot. He's like the weedy kid toadying up to the class bully. It's painful to watch someone making such a desperate case to be relevant.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Any friend of Trump is no friend of mine

 

[Bodian]

edit - already posted!

 

[Simster]

Literally seven posts above yours.