Rod Spurrier

I’m using DuckDuckGo as a browser, search engine or whatever its called. It doesn’t always display the website logo. For Bluesky I don’t see a little blue butterfly, I have an orange square with the letters Bs. It’s a reminder that even on here there is a certain amount of Bullshit.

Possibly named in honour of the Queen at the time, Catherine of Aragon, whose symbol was a pomegranate.

He's right though. Go back to late Victorian times, many a lady and gent were relieved of their fob watch and jewellery as theatre and music hall audiences spilled out into the night.
Yes, he's a thoroughly nasty piece of work, but he knows how to trigger his adoring masses.

It's the remnants of the old JC cult, (who lost an election to the Boris cult), claiming support of Starmer, (surely the clunkiest PM imaginable), will enable the Farage cult to rule us all.
There are a large number of individuals who have allowed themselves to be enthralled by a load of cults.

Certain factions are calling those they perceived to be centrist Labour supporters 'Farage enablers'.
The logic being that it is Starmer's Labour that is driving those who should be natural Labour supporters into the arms of Reform. Never mind, Corbyn is coming to the rescue.

The government has done some unnecessarily cruel things for no good reason. It's baffling why. It's not going to win over Reform voters and alienates their own supporters. Who is coming up with this stuff and why are ministers, who should know better, going along with it.

His problem is, he’s a self confessed pragmatist. That’s all very well, Wilson & Callaghan were pragmatists, but it doesn’t work if you have no core sense of direction. Starmer’s failing is, he has not spelt out a plan, he’s not said where he’s heading. The result is drift and disappointment.

I'm not convinced Starmer will lead Labour into the next election.

It's not Twitter, where discussion always ends in a one word insult.

Rather like a cross on the ballot paper.

Oh dear, this isn't the other place.

Then you have a problem and you don't see my point. It's not what you do it's the way how you do it, to quote Little Richard, Fun Boy 3, and others.

Maybe you'd like to give your opinion on what forms the core of the Farage fanbase.

Nice to meet you Dennis.

It's not good enough to say you're doing all you can. You have to do more, do better, don't denigrate the opposition, respect and learn from them.
That doesn't mean you go to their agenda, but you look at how they present their agenda. Consider using similar techniques to present your own case.

That's good, nameless lichen covered knotty wood. 👍

Of course you think that, good luck to you. How are you going to address the strange allure of Farage and his ilk.

You're putting people in slots. There's no natural home of the working class. There may have been a century ago, in the age of mass employment in large manufacturing industries. Life has moved on since those days.

Yes, there's far too much putting people in slots. I'm an oldie and supposed to be a Tory brexiteer.

He's not a natural politician, I'll give you that. Whoever's minding him isn't doing a very good job.
And, as I've said in another post, Jezza's right on Palestinian State. It shouldn't be a bargaining chip.

Oh God, the last resort when you've nothing sensible to say.
It's a pretty poor effort.

The left seems to think they are entitled to the 'working class' vote as of right. The rude awakening of the referendum and subsequent elections is that those who the left consider to be their own voter base don't actually like them. Rightly or wrongly, they prefer Farage.
Not my fault.

Thanks, I'm aware of that. He didn't win.

Sadly, Jezza is a proven loser, he's done it twice. Though he may be a man of great integrity, he's not a leader of men or women. Don't tell me about all the votes he got - he didn't win.

Corbyn is right on this. You should not use the offer of nationhood to an oppressed people as a bargaining chip in negotiation with their oppressors. It is their right.

Nigel Farage urges minister to apologise for Jimmy Savile online safety claim Minister Peter Kyle claims that by opposing online safety laws the Reform UK leader is siding with sex offenders.

Touchy Nigel.
BBC News - Minister must apologise over Savile claim, says Farage
www.bbc.com/news/article...

What's this all about
fr24.com/3b767e65

London has always been an immigrant city as most capital cities are. Diversity drives progress.
Most major cities have also been centres of deprivation, squalor and crime. People will always gravitate to the ’streets paved with gold’, some fall on hard times, a few succeed. It’s an old story.

‘We’re struggling’: unease as crowded Cotswolds braces for JD Vance’s summer holiday In Stow-on-the-Wold resistance seems yet to mobilise but US vice-president and influx of tourists divides opinion

Uncomfortably close to Midsomer Murderers territory.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

That was Heseltine's line. Tory party conference 1976.