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Farage: epic grifter

Another tough interview for Nigel Farage: the Stephen Collins cartoon There are lots of parties that aren’t Reform UK operating ‘under the radar’

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If a random can help, I'll help.

I'm sincerely hoping that a journalist somewhere is searching for retired stalwarts of local conservative associations, Tory donors and other pillars of the community who are going to end up getting deported under this hideous policy.

Three images showing photographers in a studio, standing around a black curtained area with a projector and a 'Windows' logo etched onto a glass pane. The lower image shows a version of the iconic blue windows background, with blue lasers outlining and passing through an angled Windows logos against a dark background.

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

It's so weird - and it's so much sci fi. The people on the right who think they're the ones fighting Vader and the empire. Or the ones who think that Doctor Who is woke - what did they think, that the Doctor of the past was someone who stood up for conformity and obedience?

Well - I don't know what his motivations are. He's either simply at the rightmost end of the mainstream right or he knows that expressing full-on fascist views and/or letting in overtime fascists would be an electoral liability.

It's true - Farage does seem to be holding that end of things pretty well so far - look at Rupert whatsisname. Fallen so far into obscurity that I can't even be arsed to look up his surname.

Possibly his stupidity and hubris (and uneasy relationship with the truth) weren't sufficiently priced in. It's possible that Reform's lunacy-adjacency is similar.

The tiny number of people who would make Reform their second choice is really interesting. Would be especially interesting to see where each parties second choices come from - e.g. I suspect reform mostly Tory first-choicers.

We might care less?

No young conservatives are on the far left. "The least extreme right", surely? /s

But integration can't be seen solely through a religious lens. The UK has been a religiously plural society for years - people can integrate whatever their religion and it's easier, not harder, to do so against a largely secular backdrop.

Anyone choosing not to watch The Gold is making a mistake.

If the UK is those things then why do so many people want to vote Reform or Conservative? Well... Reform, anyway...

I know what you're saying but as you say very hard to make work in practice if it applies to *aspiring* senior politicians not actual ones. No self-employed plumber could enter the cabinet without giving up her livelihood first.

"relatives and friends were allowed to chip in". The bank of mum and dad is diversifying, it seems...

How does stuff like tax and NI work?

Taking it at face value, given the massive upheaval and the various disasters that have befallen us as a result, I'd hope for rather more than 75.

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They'd never have her. Even more toxic than Truss.

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking] 1 SOCRATES: Plato.. PLATO: Yes Socrates? 2 SOCRATES: Can you tell me, are you human? PLATO: Why… yes, Socrates 3 SOCRATES: And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is? PLATO: Um, yep 4 SOCRATES: So you can tell me, then 5 [Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel] SOCRATES: *Is that a chariot*? 6 PLATO: Well that’s more just a bit of wheel 7 SOCRATES: So not a *chariot*. PLATO: No. 8 SOCRATES: [Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes] So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*? 9 PLATO: Well you can’t tap any of them really 10 SOCRATES: So are we not human? PLATO: ‘Spose not. 11 [Bleak pause] 12 PLATO: I’ll get the hemlock SOCRATES: Yeah [ends]

Brand name cereal.

Next time Farage or one of his mates is on Question Time getting applause for stopping/reversing immigration, may I suggest the following riposte:

'Everyone who just applauded needs to think hard what they were applauding. Without significant immigration, this country will become a catastrophe.' /1

And what a good idea that would be anyway.

I really hope that isn't a real X user...

Although when (some) newspapers fill articles with "here's what sillybob847834 on twitter thinks" you can sort of understand why people think that the reach of randoms online is greater than it should be.

Absolutely agree! I've got a passport and wouldn't want to fiddle around looking for two documents when one would do!

Yes, exactly, it will make it easier for legit employers to comply but won't prevent legal work.

Employers can't require a passport, the employee can present any allowed documents. Passports are hard to forge but there are passports that look legitimate that aren't (e.g. British National Overseas)

Yes - it was a supreme irony that it was easier for people on a visa to prove their right to work than a British citizen.