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Don't believe this nonsense in the media about Andrew living a Spartan life in a tiny cottage, cooking and cleaning for himself. His living conditions will be no different to what he's taken for granted all his life: servants, cooks and money, but perhaps only 20 bedrooms instead of 30!

Maybe that's how it'll play out. As a normal citizen Andrew is now subject to extradition to the US. Should that happen Trump would immediately pardon him to a luxurious life in Florida

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)

Another nice example of centre and left votes lining up behind the best candidate to beat Reform.

Normally I have no time for the monarchy, but consider the flawless and scrupulously legal way it has addressed the Prince Andrew issue compared the American government cowardly protection of Trump

If Epstein's sex trafficking can bring down a prince it can bring down anyone, what say you Donald?

If anyone can suggest a motive, financial or otherwise, why Rachel Reeves acted in bad faith over a forgotten licence application they should. Otherwise just accept it was an innocent mistake stop with this absolute nonsense

Starting a new party takes a little more than an old clapped out activist's vanity and a nutjob lefty

When has the Daily Mail ever been right about anything!

Seems the nastier Trump's policies become the more the cult love him!

So now the protests will move to the camps identified by the government for housing asylum seekers. Nimbyism is alive and well

Starmer should get out now, gracefully, before an unseemly clamour begins. He got Labour back in power, though ably assisted by the Tories, and can credibly claim some successes. A return to more socialist policies plus a new leader would work wonders for the party

Once he's mopped up all the subs there's nothing in it for him

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

A man is judged by the company he keeps.

I bet you can't.

People's first instinct when a new planning application is announced for their town or village is to say no thanks. Nimbyism lives. No wonder nothing gets built!

This should be used as a party political broadcast at election time by Labour, Libs, Greens, SNP, Plaid

Farage: epic grifter

Fireworks shouldn't be permitted with anyone other than authorised display companies or local authorities

BBC are still running the same footage of the guy accidentally released from prison on their morning news

How he can be PM is beyond me

History will record how the pernicious effect of Nigel Farage changed our tolerant patient society so much

Remember when Simon Cowell waved Tom Jones away as a pub singer!

The Tories still pine for Margaret Thatcher because she beat up the unions and won back a useless piece of rock in the South Atlantic. I prefer to remember her flogging off our council housing stock and public utilities. Look at the mess left now

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

For all the criticism the UK is still a great place to live, especially for the well heeled. For those settled in the leafy suburbs and villages, the countryside, the pace of life, the tolerance and politeness, the natural decency, the pubs and golf courses are blissful and not easily abandoned

The beauty in helping