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Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

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Not according to some of your colleagues in the Conservative Party

Sam Coates loves drama. Just wish he had a passing interest in politics.
A gossip columnist and purveyor of tittle tattle.

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Far-right grifter Tom Skinner out first in #Strictly. What a pity

That nerk off the apprentice being voted off strictly

rubbish news abounds but this was a bright spot

As the Tories advocate mass deportations, the end of human rights and giving up on net zero, the silence of David Cameron, George Osborne, Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid, James Cleverley, Tom Tugendhat and other supposed champions of the centre-right has been deafening and entirely revealing.

I think I'd describe this as "unsparing".

Badenoch's argument that Reform's ECHR denouncement policy is rushed and not thought through, whereas her ECHR denouncement policy is based on 200 pages of legal advice ("so forensic, so thorough") may fall down on the fact that the end-point of those policies is identical.

Put another way, populist right wing champions of the common law have absolutely no idea it is quite literally judge made law

Current at the time of typing Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, the dictionary definition of hopeless, telling the BBC: My approach will pay off eventually, says Tory leader Kemi Badenoch

like someone in a shared house who does the washing up so badly they’re never asked to do it again

His voters are definitely that easily fooled.

It’s the only thing they believe in.

Tbilisi, 4 October

🧵 Badenoch. The downfall of an ‘engineer’.

Well, at least that's over now. (The speech. Her leadership has between one to seven months left to run.)

The Tory strategy seems to be “let’s pretend we are even more unpleasant than Reform”.

Apart from that fact it won’t work, it’s pathetic to watch this insincere, hollow posturing.

Imagine living in that sort of head.

Reform will be beaten from the centre, or not at all.

Narky and smartass answers are a no no.
If only the voting public had even a tenth of the high opinion of Badenoch as Badenoch has of Badenoch she'd win a landslide.

Holding the US up as a protector of human rights is entirely laughable.

We used to have shy Tories. I think we may well now have shy backers of mass deportation and ending human rights. People always think it won’t be them or theirs affected. They find the truth out eventually but by then it’s too late.

Dale is a party hack whose views will ‘evolve’.

Don’t hold your breath.

I’m told the Tory conference is VERY quiet.

Morning.

I think the incredibly complacent view in the UK for many decades was that the lessons of WW2 did not need to be taught because they were so obvious. That combined with deep discomfort over how many in the UK establishment abetted and even applauded European fascism’s rise.

These people are genuinely not well

Might do a separate sketch on Matthew Syed's speech, which is the most batshit crazy thing I have heard from a conference stage in years. And believe me, I've seen some things.

Rosindell alleged to be defecting to Reform.

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Arson attack at East Sussex mosque. Nobody injured, after two men failed to gain entry, then set fire to car outside & building
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