Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt

Three more school contemporaries who claim to have witnessed Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage racism have rejected the Reform UK leader’s suggestion that it was “banter”, describing it as targeted, persistent and nasty.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Note on household analogies

The very first thing the Prime Minister does is use the household budget metaphor.

A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."

Why is the government trying to mislead the country?

Believe it or not, this scene didn't seem to concern British censors when it was first submitted to them. The distrib wanted an A (the equivalent of today's PG), so they just trimmed some of the nastier bits. But sexy gals who like to take it ALL off? No problem! 😉🤣

Betraying Democracy, again.

Nobody wants NF to probe Russian influence on Reform. That would be like asking Boris Johnson to 'launch a probe' into Partygate - we all know what the result would be. Unless, of course, the result of any such probe is itself subject to a more serious investigation by the relevant authorities...

There may be "nothing new in ZP's fantasy economics", but PLENTY that's hidden from the public to persuade them austerity is an economic - rather than a political - choice. 'Debt'. 'Borrowing'. 'Interest repayments'. All misnomers, designed to mislead. Hateful lies with real world consequences.

Nigel Farage thinks the song ‘Gas 'Em All’ is just bants. Pass it on.

We don't have to accept this slop.

How on earth can you possibly be racist and/or antisemitic in a way that *isn't* hurtful or insulting?...

True enough. But we can't rely on the American people NOT to elect someone just as bad as Trump (or worse) in the future. They've done it twice already. Which is why ZP is right to suggest replacing NATO with something less reliant on the US. We just can't take the chance.

Like immediately 'shutting down' the hugely important point that the economy is NOT like a household budget, and any attempt to maintain that fiction acts as cover for austerity politics. ZP ain't having none of it... 😉

MMT Tools for Sceptics: How to Convince Your Friend You’re Not A Conspiracy Theorist Easy Ways to Explain Modern Monetary Theory with Quotes, a Key Graph, Deficit Spending, and Government ‘Borrowing’

MMT Tools for Sceptics: How to Convince Your Friend You’re Not A Conspiracy Theorist

Easy Ways to Explain Modern Monetary Theory with Quotes, a Key Graph, Deficit Spending, and Government ‘Borrowing’

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The butler did it, and the ship sinks at the end.

There. Spoiled it for you.

😉🤣

Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays? Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses

Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK Budget’s pensions tax raid to raise over £3bn Expected move by chancellor Rachel Reeves next week faces strong pushback from businesses

Taxes don't 'raise' anything in a monetarily sovereign fiat currency regime such as ours. £3bn of taxation is £3bn removed from the economy. What matters is the effect on the overall economy of the government's fiscal actions of spending money into existence and taxing it out of existence.

That bit on the cover should have read: "Leave Nato (but ONLY after we've replaced it with something better, ie. less reliant on an increasingly unstable US)". ZP's enemies like to use only the first two words as a stick to beat him with...

YouTube video by PoliticsJOE What's next for the Green Party? Zack Polanski interview

Lower bills. Tax billionaires.

We're just getting started.

What's next? with @politicsjoe.bsky.social

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Nathan Gill: How WhatsApp messages revealed ex-Reform politician's pro-Russian bribes The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has admitted bribery and will be sentenced on Friday.

Has Nigel Farage or Zia Yusuf remembered who Nathan Gill is yet?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Is it not time that we had a proper consideration in this House of changes to the voting system, so that the next election is not a disaster for democracy?"

Great question by @maxwilkinson.bsky.social

The Government must wake up and get to grips with First Past the Post before it’s too late.

How WhatsApp messages revealed ex-reform politicians pro-russian vibes.

Reform's former Leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, a 10.5 year jail term for taking bribes from the Kremlin.

Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill.

Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?

23,000 lives lost in the 1st wave alone.

The tragedy is that this bastard and his lickspittle lackeys won't see the inside of a courtroom - let alone a jail cell! - for any of this. Which means future lazy self-serving bastards will get the message loud and clear: Do it again, you won't be touched.

🚨Sorry to Jeff Bezos but we found the biggest billboard we could for this one. 🚨

Our schools and hospitals need money and Amazon has avoided £2 billion in tax in just five years.

MAKE CORPORATIONS AND BILLIONAIRES PAY THEIR TAX.

📍 Near Amazon's Manchester HQ

Old dark house horror meets gruesome early teen slasher in cool '60s Brit style. Lurid shocker with a great cast, bloody tension and killer kitsch. 1969.
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And while we're at it, we should know our enemy. Spiked always makes it easier to do just that.

The revenge of the entitled. From Zack Polanski to Zohran Mamdani, the angry bourgeoisie is in revolt against populism

Entitled to lower bills.

Entitled to a liveable planet.

Entitled to make hope normal again.

Know your entitlement. Know our collective power.

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💯 “The electoral system is at breaking point now, because we're in this multi-party system, because of political fragmentation.”

🎙️ @alexsobel.co.uk, chair of the @appgfairelections.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk #CrossQuestion

Martin (1977) 🎥
Directed by George A Romero

A young man, convinced he's a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvanian town, where he tries to suppress his bloodlust.

#FilmSky

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Thankfully, ZP has clearly anticipated what he would face and has an answer for all the shit they try to throw at him. He faces it down, which means it will eventually (hopefully) go away. Farage just throws a tantrum ("Look, luv...") whenever he's asked anything even remotely substantial.

Doesn't get nearly as much love as the (excellent) first film, but is easily my own favourite of the original trilogy. I mean, they tried to top the plate-glass death scene and at least managed to equal it! What's not to admire?!...