"Nigel meets tens of thousands of people on an annual basis ultimately, he can't be held accountable for the actions of every single person who he comes in contact with."
-Zia Yusuf, head of Reform UK Department of Government Efficiency.
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"Nigel meets tens of thousands of people on an annual basis ultimately, he can't be held accountable for the actions of every single person who he comes in contact with."
-Zia Yusuf, head of Reform UK Department of Government Efficiency.
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10.10.2025 16:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Reform UK is a whole bad orchard
10.10.2025 16:14 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Remind me which Party was in power for 14 out of the last 15 years.
08.10.2025 11:22 β π 53 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents β he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism.
The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.
The Greens say enough is enough.
It's 88,000 now! Hard to keep up...
07.10.2025 09:56 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The Tories typically have their annual conference in Manchester every other year; there are always loads of angry protests. This time - tumbleweed. I can think of no better symptom of their decline.
06.10.2025 18:22 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This also applies to the UK ...
06.10.2025 05:16 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 4 π 0In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least Β£7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...
02.10.2025 06:01 β π 1326 π 664 π¬ 95 π 62'A sharp leftwards turn'?! Goodness knows what he would have made of the politics of former Tories like Macmillan and Heath
28.09.2025 10:33 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Elon Musk deleted this Tweet.
You wouldn't want to repost it... oops.
Sadly Reform are not a minority Party
27.09.2025 14:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0They can. Our voting system means that Deform only need about a third of the vote to have a governing majority.
27.09.2025 13:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0'The day is long' - the day being referred to is presumably the 25th December in Svalbard
27.09.2025 10:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Have emailed you
27.09.2025 10:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I believe the last time Labour failed to be in the top two in a Manchester City Council ward was in 1983 when Michael Foot was Labour leader, and even then the percentage wasn't as low
26.09.2025 12:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Labour were tweeting during the campaign "Only Labour can beat Reform in Woodhouse Park". I guess that messaging didn't work.
26.09.2025 12:13 β π 12 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0His Party and Her Party
26.09.2025 12:08 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The way Starmerism is crawling before the proto fascist tabloids is stomach turning. It's why the UK is stuck with Brexit, has no PR voting, and all of that with a historically exceptional majority in Parliament. What an utter waste of opportunity. Pathetic.
26.09.2025 08:34 β π 36 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
The BBC seems to be full of them
20.09.2025 10:07 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Welcome Thelma!
18.09.2025 18:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What was the second prize - two Farage shirts?
18.09.2025 17:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That is a terrible insult to angry weasels; no wonder they are angry
15.09.2025 17:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Especially the Epstein files. Hmmmm
12.09.2025 11:51 β π 27 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0'useless corrupt clown' is far too complimentary
11.09.2025 18:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There's no such thing as 'road tax'. You presumably mean vehicle excise duty levied on many cars - it goes into the general pot of Government income.
09.09.2025 13:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Fossil fuel companies have spent $billions
telling lies about causing climate change
for more than a century, and the entire
corrupted mass media is complicit
"Billions are spent on framing perceptions and controlling the narrative."
via Anthony Corella