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It’s time for those who haven’t to wake up to the fact that the USA can no longer be considered a reliable ally, if it can even be considered one at all. If Putin could control everything Trump did, what would he doing differently? Not much.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw3dj458re1vo
What is it about the supposedly non-racist Reform that keeps attracting racists? Some pretty disgusting comments about a woman from people in the party that allegedly wants to protect them.
To anyone who would still vote for this vile lot, they keep showing you who they are and this is the sort of thing you endorse.
Not sure if it’s been said but anyone who uses their phone’s loudspeaker in public should be fired into the sun.
Obviously ‘yes’ is the ideal position as anyone with a modicum of common sense knows but rightly or wrongly it’s more complicated than that now.
(surprisingly to some) voting Yes to Remain, back in 2016
Doesn’t surprise me at all. Anyone who even vaguely understands the economy would have voted Remain. There was a solid pro-EU base on the moderate right such as the ‘One Nation’ Tory types. It was never a purely left/right thing.
People can dispute the £100bn figure all they want, they are free to produce the evidence of the economic benefits if they have any but of course they don’t. Or they could tell us what level of economic damage is acceptable as a trade off for all the other benefits, if anyone can describe any that is.
The right wing press froth at the mouth every time anyone suggests anything vaguely bringing us closer to the EU as a ‘Brexit betrayal’. Brexit itself in fact was and is the betrayal. Russia and other foreign chums are very pleased with all the useful idiots who voted for it.
I think the referendum would be a distant memory by now had it gone the other way, especially given what’s gone on since. Of course there would always be a Eurosceptic crowd but they wouldn’t be nearly big enough to force further serious debate on it. The fact that we are still having it says it all.
For the financially challenged left wing here
Bang goes another one of my irony meters.
petrol/diesel at record highs, soon to feed thru to everyday purchases
Caused by the war that most of the UK right would have happily followed the USA into. Yet net zero is ‘madness’ and is falsely equated with higher costs.
History will, eventually if we haven’t cooked ourselves to oblivion, look back with utter contempt for those who pushed continued reliance on fossil fuels. Baffles me that the self proclaimed economic geniuses on the right can’t see beyond the end of their noses and see that the long term future is renewable energy. How’s the economy going to be when food crops start failing on a large scale as a result of the climate change that’s literally happening in front of our eyes?
Remember when the right was demanding that we release the nationality of suspects? Predictably, the answer in a lot of cases is British. But that doesn’t fit the narrative so now apparently we need to know if they are on benefits or live in social housing. What possible relevance does that have?
Later on Monday, Tice shared an X post by his partner Isabel Oakeshott, who said UK law recognised six types of British nationality and that asking for the suspects’ “countries of origin” was among “perfectly reasonable questions”.
The Reform deputy leader added: “Ethnicity? Dual nationals? Asylum seekers? Previous convictions? Known to Prevent / Authorities? Benefits claimants? Living in social housing?”
Is there anything that these charlatans won’t desperately try to pin on foreigners and/or benefit claimants? They literally have nothing else.
Whether there is appetite for a war on the other side of that equation is of course another matter. How long has that ‘Special Military Operation’ been going on now?
There is a war of sorts already taking place online and they’re gradually winning that one.
The right doesn’t understand immigration, HDLG: if they did, they’d know that immigrants contribute more to the economy than they take out; they’d also be aware that the number of immigrants is plummeting at the moment.
Right on cue, The very much not left wing Times reports that falling immigration could cost as much as £7bn in headroom in the upcoming budget. I’m not generally a fan of words like ‘could’ and ‘as much as’ but the point remains.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c920vy2jxle8o
More desperate unworkable rubbish from ‘Kemi’. How would this prepaid card block a supermarket transaction that contained alcohol but not one that didn’t? Not that it would make a difference even if it could.
And then the Tories’ record is criticised by Jenrick, beyond parody.
Posting in this thread as it’s Reform-adjacent.
It goes without saying that the actions of Thomas are abhorrent but this quote struck me:
Gosport local Dave Palmer, 43, was among the protesters. “We don’t want them in the country at all. They get given everything. I work 70 to 80-hour weeks as an air-conditioning engineer. What does the government give me? Nothing,” he said.
Now, a ’70-80 hour week’ is a lot. 10+ hours literally every day or 12+ hours six days a week. I have my doubts (how has he got time to protest midweek?) but let’s take him at his word. Even at minimum wage he’s pushing £50k per year, likely a fair bit more. Yet apparently he still deserves things from the government? He doesn’t get ‘nothing’ course, any more than those arriving on boats get ‘everything’.
Perhaps the people who believe this sort of crap could head to France, throw all their papers away and hitch a lift on a boat to the life of luxury they claim undocumented arrivals enjoy.
Farage keeps telling everybody exactly who he is but sadly plenty of people still aren’t listening.
That appeals to the racists who form the core of his support
Which is why we never get an answer as to why people vote for these charlatans. The real reason is because the politics of Farage and his ilk gives them validation for their racist and xenophobic beliefs, they just don’t feel they can say that out loud. Many a slip up where they do accidentally say the quiet part has been recorded when Reform/Restore talking heads are doing the media rounds of course.
Ultimately they either don’t know or don’t care that should Reform, Restore (or even the Tories where they are currently) enter power their lives will in fact be made (even) worse, as long as forrins and brown people get it worse than they do.
Nigel Farage, staunch defender of women and children, ‘can’t stop laughing’ after playing a clip showing a woman on the verge of tears talking about the racism she and her family have faced. Utterly contemptible individual.
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum.Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
— Eddie Burfi (@eddieburfi.bsky.social) 2026-09-16T21:01:03.970Z
If these people don’t like our laws, why don’t they go and live somewhere else?
I see the article links to news that a Reform MS has defected to Plaid (!) stating amongst other things that They are far more interested in division, opposition and headlines than in finding solutions and that they have no interest in Wales.
Whilst obviously true, this is not news. Happy to stand on that platform to get elected though.
The point I was making, which was handily included in the rest of the selectively quoted sentence, is that when it suits some commentators they include pensions in the overall benefits bill to make the numbers sound worse but when it comes to cuts for example suddenly they are separate again.
As for these public sector pensions that you seem so envious of, there is of course one very simple way of getting one. Out of interest how much money has been spent bailing them out?
The council tax calculation is indeed ludicrous, how many million homes didn’t even exist in 1991?
Farage:
The Unite union alone has given the Labour party over £50m over the course of the last few years. They’ve got the Employment Rights Act, not to mention big pay rises for bus drivers. If anybody is giving money to do political bidding, it’s the trade unions.
He seems to be critical of the Employment Rights Act and pay rises for bus drivers who, last time I checked, aren’t exactly paid a king’s ransom. Keep believing he’s on the side of working people if you want but the evidence against it is staring you in the face.
He also draws a false equivalence between a union, which is by definition a collective of people, and two very wealthy individuals.
