“So, Mr. Vickers, MP. Can you tell me what you did at work today to represent your constituents?”
“Well, I made up some Winston Churchill fake quote and posted a twatty video about not putting pictures of otters on £5 notes.”
“Wow. As attention-seeking dickmoves go, that’s pretty goddam pathetic.”
Farage can’t cope with any scrutiny at all. Let’s have the battle. He bears huge responsibility for the mess of it all. Make him face up to that reality rather than shielding him from the consequences and allowing him to continue bullshitting and threatening us with more of his Brexit shite.
Sure. But given Brexit has inevitably become a tedious unpopular drag for the country, it would be good if Labour could be bolder and swifter at tipping it into the bin and showing the benefits of doing so.
I can’t bear it. The cynicism of it is repulsive too. The relentless narrative that immigrants must be blamed for the state of the country because otherwise voters might actually hold governments to account… ie those who are *actually* responsible.
I just cannot see a rational explanation for this… or indeed for any of the post-Brexit immigration tiny-mindedness. Just shrinking horizons, denying opportunities, trashing our soft power and torching our universities.
A radicalised bloody-mindedness that’s turning us into a mean little backwater.
It’s such a moronathon. Generational damage because some wealthy, bigoted English right wingers couldn’t cope with being part of a team and didn’t think rules should apply to them.
Ugh. Life was better before anyone was made aware of him.
“Reeves has been ratcheting up the rhetoric on closer EU relations which she described as the “biggest prize” in trade”
If only we’d acknowledged this BEFORE we threw it away in a fit of arrogant prejudice. Getting back in the room is far harder than flouncing off
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Reform voters… be warned.
Politicians who promise you prejudice will always make sure you pay for it.
Well whoever this Ant is, he’s certainly “Simple!”. Loud and clear on that.
The greedy, unpatriotic tax-dodging and brazen racism came out pretty strongly too.
Another repulsive rightwing douche.
We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.
Shame can be a destructive emotion, but this is what a culture without shame looks like.
And it's consistently rewarded and indulged.
“We tried to be nice to everybody… and it didn’t work.”
Said someone who hasn’t got the first clue about what it takes to be nice.
Badenoch is so tediously aggressive… and dim.
There’s a hell of a lot to hate about him.
It sooooo would. But better to never have to find out for sure.
No one should vote for these sinister clowns.
Reform doesn’t know. So, no one else can.
What a spectacle of incoherence.
Reform’s Welsh leader promises not to go down the NHS/insurance route…while Farage keeps that option open for the rest of us. Probably because he’s already committed to selling us out.
Corruption and betrayal nailed on with this lot.
www.politico.eu/article/uk-n...
Same for Palantir - they should not be offered contracts by govt departments or agencies in the UK which gives them leverage over critical state functions. It's an overtly evil organisation run by fascists.
It is extremely difficult to construct a practical case against this position. Net Zero is now as much about patriotism as it is about climate change.
Honestly think it could make the rightwing spontaneously combust if we switched to the Euro. The “not coping” would power the grid.
“Reform and the Tories are now ideological satellites of extreme US conservatism, adopting Maga-coded positions on culture war issues and foreign policy by default”
Badenoch was clumsier on Iran than Farage. But both paraded just how dangerously useless they are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.
No. What’s “deeply depressing” is having such dismal politicians wasting our time and trying our very limited patience with this utter bollox.
He should try this leadership shit it in other areas. Binning off Brexit, for example. Or implementing a more honest and honourable immigration policy….
The rightwing is fallible and often wrong. Governing with integrity and belief is persuasive.
I know. Same.
Some people’s days are very very different, aren’t they? God knows how politicians justify spending any time worrying over this, let alone expressing outrage about it. Ffs.
Oh dear.
Can’t quite believe that journalists are having to report this latest visceral spasm of rightwing idiocy. How feeble-minded our politics have become for the leader of the opposition - and Farage of course - to feel they have to turn this utter non-event into a culture war moment. Dear god.
Occasionally you can mask stupid. But you can’t fix it.
This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?
“Farage… helped fool everyone about Brexit - which he wants to renegotiate, naturally. Surely the British people can't take this absurd man seriously again? After all, even Trump doesn't.”
Beyond time to boot Farage and his stale band of Tories off the stage.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel...
