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Oh look, the ‘left wing’ BBC has finally remembered how to apply scrutiny to politicians. If it put half as much effort into Reform as does with the Greens maybe we wouldn’t be in quite such a mess. Well done Polanski on calling out their bollocks.
I’ve posted this before with no response so I guess no-one’s interested.
Just to say I’ve just finished watching Years and Years, a short tv series about the fortunes of a family in a near future dystopian UK.Maybe everyone’s seen it and thought it was rubbish, I don’t know.
But I thought it was timely and chilling and relevant today.
It was made in 2019 I think, is excellent and is on Netflix if anyone hasn’t seen it and fancies it.
“We are like Canada were, totally controlled by the USA, until Mark Carney came along. I wish he were our Prime Minister.”
That would be the Mark Carney who said yesterday:
“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security”.
He might not be committing his own armed forces but he openly supports the American military action.
I finished reading the current issue of “History Today” yesterday. It is good to see the old magazine back in sparkling form in its 75th year, after a rather indifferent period recently.
The last page is in the form of a standard questionnaire, to which an eminent historian supplies the answer. This month it was the turn of Dr Alexander Lee, a specialist in the history of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick (and a regular contributor to the magazine).
To the question “What historical topic have you changed your mind on?”, Dr Lee replied:
“Most things. History is a discipline of doubt: if you aren’t willing to change your mind about everything, I’m not sure you can progress with anything.”
I believe that is a very wise statement. I only wish it could be shared with a wider audience.
A large cause of our increasingly polarised society and fractured political culture is due to barely qualified politicians and internet keyboard warriors asserting half baked opinions as if they are facts, while denouncing their opponents as not merely wrong but as stupid and nasty as well.
There is no point in having a mind unless you are prepared to think with it and change it sometimes. And a little humbleness, humility and the rediscovery of the power of doubt would go a long way.
The irony of one of the most patronising. smug and condescending people on this forum having a dig at others. 😂😂😂😂
Farage falling apart under simple questioning. Apparently, not raising the council tax by the maximum is the same as reducing it.
Moron.
He’s also in reverse regarding Iran , absolute bellend
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
The latest crackpot idea from Reform:
Put people in senior positions with little or no experience but willing to follow Farage’s orders… what could possibly go wrong? 🤷♂️
Whether or not he believes any of these things he’s paid to say it doesn’t really matter. This is someone who is an elected MP and apparently has eyes on Number 10. If he can be bought for £75-£150, pocket change to him, what would he be prepared to divulge to hostile powers with far more money than that? Serious questions about his fitness for office.
Defence is he makes so many the odd had one slips through … Reform don’t have talk bollocks
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
Nigel Farage described a Guardian reporter as “a loser” after being asked whether his activities on the video platform Cameo, selling reels to a convicted murderer, raised questions of trust.
Farage had refused to take questions from the Guardian, the Record, the Daily Mail and the National newspapers during his press conference at the end of a three and a half hour-long rally and manifesto launch near Glasgow.
The Guardian approached the Reform UK leader after he left the stage, to ask him about his aspirations to be prime minister of the country, suggesting the “agencies and institutions charged with protecting our safety” would not be able to trust him if he was on Cameo selling messages on behalf of people like convicted criminals.
Farage stepped closer, and to cut the question off replied: “You are a loser.”
Asked why, he replied:
You’re a loser. If I sell you a pair of shoes, do I check whether you were a murderer?
He then walked off, flanked by Reform UK security.
He crumbles under the slightest scrutiny. Childish Trump like insults before storming off hiding behind some bigger boys. Reporters banned from asking questions, the party of free speech eh?Compare and contrast: one of these people sounds like an intelligent, rational, sane person.
The other one is Nigel Farage.
Farage refuses to be interviewed on TRIP’s Leading. He’s frit.And now people have finally realised that GB News is a platform for Reform It’s like ‘hello, I could have told you that years ago’…[re Years and Years..I watched it several times when it first came out, partly because I sometimes find tv series quite confusing and it was set in a dystopian near future. So many things in it mirrored what was happening. The migrant boat scene was heartbreaking and chilling. I didn’t realise that you didn’t have to fall into water to drown [dogs that swim a lot can drown by taking in water while they’re doing it].
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