Sarah Murphy

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler. Farage told us the flag-raisers were just ordinary folk sticking it to the system. A few months worth of local journalism later, that now looks like a shaky claim.

Urgh. What a repulsive bunch of racist shit-stirrers. And, of course, Farage never far from the stink.

Absolutely right. A huge media problem. Constantly giving airtime, without scrutiny, to the conniving arrogant bastards who’ve lied their way to wealth and power, and made our country pay so heavily for their ideological idiocies.

Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.

More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I don’t.

And it’s both, to be fair… yes govt needs to improve people’s lives but we do also have to take responsibility for our votes.

The Racism Premium Far from being a disadvantage, hostility to people from different races and cultures has now become an active requirement for career advancement on the right of British politics ADAM BIENKOV

For these reasons I still believe that if both Reform and the Conservatives go into the next general election as parties in complete opposition to the modern, diverse face of Britain as we know it, then it is an election they are likely to lose. While racism and hate crime is on the rise, Britain is still not a majority racist For these reasons I still believe that if both Reform and the Conservatives go into the next general election as parties in complete opposition to the modern, diverse face of Britain as we know it, then it is an election they are likely to lose. While racism and hate crime is on the rise, Britain is still not a majority racist country and there is an electoral disadvantage to portraying your political party as being on the wrong side of that divide. The fact that seven out of ten ethnic minority voters and a plurality of voters overall, see Reform as being a 'racist party' demonstrates the gap between how things are seen in Westminster and how these things are seen in the world outside. and there is an electoral disadvantage to portraying your political party as being on the wrong side of that divide. The fact that seven out of ten ethnic minority voters and a plurality of voters overall, see Reform as being a 'racist party' demonstrates the gap between how things are seen in Westminster and how these things are seen in the world outside.

The world is not X or Spectator parties. Reform and Tory politicians seem to think brazen racism is their meal ticket. In a country that’s far more tolerant and decent than they are, that needs to be an election-losing strategy. It’s up to us to make sure of it.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-racism...

And David Jones’s genius solution? Rip up any improvements made by Labour and huff out of the ECHR as well. And without any excuse for that ruinous idiocy either because they’ve had years to think about it. Made mad by prejudice.

It’s pitiful. Reform’s idea of a ‘better deal’ is a ‘no deal’ Brexit and flouncing out of the ECHR too. Trying to claim that *this* Brexit is a bad one because they rushed at it is genuinely laughable. #shitshow

Challenged on whether he questioned Gill over the statements, Farage said: "I didn't know anything about it; all I knew was that he'd been to Ukraine. I told him not to go, he defied me and went, I was completely unaware of any statements that he made." However, multiple sources who worked with Farage and Gill in Brussels and Strasbourg said the two men had been close. (Photo of Farage and, behind him, Gill after a historic vote for the Brexit agreement at a session of the European parliament on 29 January 2020. Photograph: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images) Gill was described variously as Farage's "enforcer" and "right-hand man" by some who recalled they had adjoining offices. One former Ukip MEP from that time told the Guardian: "Gill was in the thick of organising. He was the right-hand version of Farage. His office was right beside Farage's."

Can we please not have Farage wriggle out of this one. His denial is not where this should end. He’s up to his grubby neck in dodgy shite. Beyond time our media stopped handing him free passes and started to properly scrutinise him.

back at ya 🍷🍷

Perfect with wine on a Friday night. Tells the bad stuff in the week to do one. Cheers 🥂

Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television. Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg." She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce." "I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”

Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.

Thank you

His ego has been massively overinflated by a media too complicit to really hold him to account. The idea that this deeply inadequate hateful little man could be PM is such a tragic and shameful indictment of our political and media landscape.

A thug singles out the vulnerable to make him feel better about himself. He punches down because that makes him feel like he’s a success. Reform is a club for the socially inadequate. Always accusing and whining. Never helping.

Jaywick named most deprived area - again A seaside neighbourhood in Essex, part of the parliamentary constituency represented by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, has once again been named the most deprived in England. The latest official data showed that an area of the coastal village of Jaywick, close to the town of Clac-ton-on-Sea in the local authority of Tendring, has been classed the most deprived neighbourhood for the fourth time. Areas of Blackpool again make up most of the rest of the top 10, along with new appearances for neighbour-hoods in Hastings and Rotherham. Yesterday's data, published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), presented relative levels of deprivation in areas or neighbourhoods of England in 2025. The data highlighted "the scale of the challenge" but does not "reflect the progress made since 2019 or the strength of the people who call Jay-wick Sands home" , the Tendring District Council website said. MHCLG said Middlesbrough, Birmingham, Hartlepool, Kingston upon Hull and Manchester had the highest proportions of neighbour-hoods among the most deprived in England.

Farage earns more than £1m a year for non-MP work GETTY IMAGES - photo of the grifter Damian Grammaticas > Political correspondent 17 August 2024 Nigel Farage has revealed he is earning well over a £1m a year from work he does outside parliament, in addition to his job as an MP. It is thought his outside income is significantly higher than that of any other member of parliament.

Compare and contrast.
Absentee MP -v- his constituency.
Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood.
He really couldn’t give a shit.
He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream.
(iPaper & BBC)

Photo of Musk - underneath that: Crown prince of the world's right, Musk's talk of civil war is not a warning of violence but a call to it. Extract from article: There is no evidence that asylum seekers are more likely to commit crime than other people, of any sort. The message the hate engine transmits is simple. It is that asylum seekers are an invading army who pose a threat to women and children. This is the obvious narrative behind Musk's commentary. It is what explains Nigel Farage's insistence that men who cross the Channel are of "fighting age" and therefore threaten "major civil disorder". It's why Robert Jenrick talks of his "fears" for his daughters. This is the trick they try to pull on the public. They aim to eradicate any sense of compassion, of common decency, of human imagination. They wish to replace it with civilisational conflict where any newcomer from a different culture is treated as a security threat. Every demographic has people in it who are violent or abusive. White people born in Britain commit murders and sexual assault every week. But they are not defined by this action whenever it is perpetrated. Only refugees and asylum seekers are. This is an industry of grievance and division, a machine designed to spread hate, which now operates across the British right. Don't let them fool you. Don't buy what they're selling

The apparent alacrity with which our media and politicians react to certain crimes, while studiously avoiding others, has become genuinely disturbing.

“This is an industry of grievance and division, a machine designed to spread hate, which now operates across the British right.”

Joke politician. Joke party. Joke award ceremony. Joke magazine.

None of this is serious-minded, responsible politics. It’s nasty culture war bullshit. An entirely partisan and unreflective celebration of the right’s descent into mindless extremism.

Yes. I heard that and swore.
It’s such an infantile deceit. As if a democracy has to pin itself to the result of a dodgy referendum forever, when the world has changed, people have changed their minds and the outcome is a perma-shitshow.

Absolutely nailing it.

What happens when you get a bunch of viciously prejudiced and useless politicians in govt for 14 years and then replace them with a govt that seems unwilling to really challenge them, in case the Daily Mail loses its shit.

Nah. That wouldn’t save me. I’d look at them and think.., we knew, we all knew (except maybe Nadine and Jenkyns)… and we did it anyway.

It’s all failure, isn’t it? Compounding failure. Imagine being responsible for inflicting that on your country. The weight of the shame of it would devastate me.

Trade’s contribution to UK GDP ‘stagnated’ since Brexit, warns WTO Export of goods are languishing at 17% below pre-Covid levels

“In its first formal review of UK trade policy since Brexit, the WTO found that UK trade performance had weakened since the 2008 financial crisis, with Brexit named among the chief causes of a marked slump in goods trade since 2018”

God, failure is tedious…

www.ft.com/content/8f4d...

Public concern about immigration remains unusually high and has not yet caught up with the reality of falling immigration. However, by the 2029 general election there will have been several years of low net migration. A sharp fall in immigration could impact Reform UK, who are currently leading opinion polls, especially if asylum seeker numbers also fall. However, a fall in net migration of 300,000 a year would increase the deficit by about £2o billion. The government are already having to make unpopular tax rises and spending cuts in the upcoming budget, but would have to make more if the deficit increases. A fall in international student numbers will put further pressure on universities that are struggling financially, especially the 22 universities expected to lose their sponsor license.

Reducing immigration will not necessarily increase the number of jobs available for British people as some employers are responding to tightening immigration rules by increasing outsourcing. Some job vacancies will become harder to fill, particularly in care homes. This will be even worse if a lot of people emigrate because they do not want to wait 10 years for ILR. Conclusion Net migration will fall very sharply in future years as a result of immigration restrictions brought in by both the current and the previous government. Furthermore, emigration will continue to increase, particularly of people with graduate visas. Any political benefit the government may gain from this fall in immigration could be jeopardised by the economic damage that it causes.

Hey, look where years of scapegoating immigrants and devising punitive immigration policies gets you…
Further into debt, collapsing universities, tax rises and spending cuts.
Prejudice and govt dishonesty have high price tags.
Slow hand clap to all those responsible.

Nigel Farage loses major vote as he's accused of 'making career by damaging UK' Nigel Farage's call for the UK to leave the European Convention for Human Rights (ECHR) was voted down by MPs, with Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey branding it "un-British"

Farage gets voted down on leaving the ECHR… for now.
Ed Davey quite rightly tears a strip off him.

But really, the corrupt leader of a racist party threatening to remove our protection from abuses of power by our own government, should be the biggest red flag going.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage Exclusive: Five women said Reform leader’s comments that they were victims of other types of sexual abuse were ‘degrading’

What a hideous man he is.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Oh… it’ll be Kent Council’s constitution… before they fed it into the shredder by handing it to Reform.

"We've undeclared the climate crisis, which will free us up further down the line to make many more savings when we start to unpick all the net zero targets that have been sort of baked into the constitution. Then we can save a lot more money in the long term." ClIr Kemkaran, leader of KCC, last month called for the return of international railways to the county CIr Kemkaran said she had appointed an internal Department of Local Government Efficiency or "Doge team" which was scrutinising each Cabinet member on what savings could be made.

Oh no. Ask Reform. They’ve “undeclared the climate crisis” so it’s not a thing anymore.
No one told hurricane Melissa obviously…

Most of us took out insurance the moment Musk bought Twitter and set up accounts elsewhere. Why a Labour govt would not bother doing that defies sanity really. It allows itself to be shaped and kicked about by that toxic hellpit and does nothing to protect its citizens from its damage.