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It is indeed a shame, could have been the single biggest embarrassment in the history of politics but at least there’s every chance they get another go at it later in the year. This investigation isn’t going away and should that result in a byelection then it will be properly contested including by those more than capable of taking votes from Farage.
Yeah, but the anti-Farage vote will be split. He’ll still win if, as seems likely, there’s another by-election.
That’s the problem, a single anti-Farage candidate could have a shot but there will be a few.
Well, I for one am pleasantly surprised that the plucky 33 managed to gather 37% of the vote. One-third plus not voting for Farage is hardly a ringing endorsement is it. Not a by-election to be analysed in any depth though as it was essentially a ‘let’s have a good laugh’ silly-season farce.
As for Farage not turning up for the count, Sky correspondent Jon Craig reported:
“The last winning by election candidate who did not attend his count was Bobby Sands, and he was an IRA prisoner in the Maze Prison.” (1981)
True, Homer, but the British public is so dumbed down that logical reasoning holds no value.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz977nxww1jo
Why is this nonsense the main story on the BBC News website? There’s not even the hint of a general election being called and it could be nearly three years away. Where are the stories about what a Conservative, Lib Dem or Green government would do?
“Why is this nonsense the main story on the BBC News website?”
Because the BBC is obviously part of the woke, leftwing establishment and has done absolutely nothing to promote Farage and his various political projects over the last twenty years.
It’s all over the Sky News website too:
Despite Reform having just a handful of MPs, the media presumably regard them as the de facto ‘official’ opposition due to them riding high in the plethora of polls; which, of course, we all know to be wholly reliable and must be adhered to without question.
It must be admitted that Reform are pretty adept at using parliamentary recesses to spout their guff: filling vacuums with hot air.
Thatcher as much as i disagreed with her politics the day after the Brighton bombing dusted herself down and went to the conference to do her speech , this ponce can’t even go on a stage incase he’s heckled , he can’t be PM , he’s a joke
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I was never quite sure if Tice is actually thick or if he was putting it on to appeal to the masses. I think I’ve decided now, he really is that dim.
Has he ever seen a desalination plant? Where on the coast does he propose putting them? Perhaps Clacton could be the site of the first one.
Still, good to know that climate change means that the working class can put down their Champagne and finally drink an English alternative.
Note how we’re moving from climate change denial to ‘there’s nothing we can do about it, it’s too late’ now that any idiot can look out of the window and see what’s happening.
Would it have been too late if the rightwing press had picked it up thirty years ago instead of denigrating anyone who spoke up on the matter? 🤔
Tice is thick, unquestionably and his latest mumbo-jumbo has received the response it deserves.
Desalination plants require huge amounts of energy and the concentrated brine waste is an environmental hazard.
Tice might be interested to know that the middle-eastern countries do indeed have desalination plants but many are solar-powered and heavy investment in such plants is continuing.
So, open a plant in Clacton or prefarably in his constituency Boston, and cover the surrounding land in solar panels: howzat oil-boy
Here, there’s one desalination plant by the Thames which has never been run at full capacity, and one in the Isles of Scilly which was opened in 1992 and supplies 40% of their water.
With the wet, mild winters here that now seem to accompany our increasingly hot summers what we should be doing is building new reservoirs and giving grants (not loans) to farmers to build smaller versions on their land.
Dig-baby-dig rather than drill-baby-drill
Couldn’t agree more Drone except these should have been dug over the last 40+ years when I believe the last reservoir in Yorkshire was actually built.
Reform now say they will cut 50 billion from the welfare bill…. Of course it doesn’t add up … There getting desperate , can’t wait to see what lunacy comes next
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Reform’s hypothesis appears to be that drastically cutting benefits will make immigrants go back home and also force slackers, who sit around in Spoons all day at the expense of hardworking white British people (hardworking non-white British people obviously don’t exist), into employment.
You know, into all the jobs that won’t exist because AI will be doing them in order to save Reform’s donors fortunes.
The mind boggles. 🤷♂️
Still, I am sure that Farage, Tice, Jenrick and 30p Lee will all lead by example and show how those people who are genuinely unable to work can live healthy, fulfilling lives on the proposed “health security allowance” of £429.80 a month.
these should have been dug over the last 40+ years when I believe the last reservoir in Yorkshire was actually built.
Grimwith Reservoir completed in 1983, not far from the larger and much older Upper Nidderdale and Washburn Valley reservoirs. The last built in the UK overall was in 1992: Carsington Water in Derbyshire, and there’s one under construction in Hampshire due to be finished around 2030: Havant Thicket reservoir, which is intended to reduce demand on the famous chalk streams in the area.
Grimwith was one of several commissioned and built in response to the notorious 1976 drought.
Such ‘get on with it and build’ thinking is what’s needed now. The UK economy was hardly flourishing during the late ’70s but the money was found.
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