Starmer's terror of Reform betrays him. He is a weathervane, he believes in nothing whatsoever. Starmer has no principles, no moral compass, no guiding philosophy beyond 'big state' and he doesn't even understand that.
The continual outright lies of 'we want to grow the economy/we're making you better off' is now boring and even the dumbest know it is trite.
However, don't underestimate the stupidity of the average person. The state will lie to them - Miliband does this continually - and they'll still call for the same person holding the whip to be given the club as well and that idiot voter won't understand why not only are they bleeding but their bones have been broken (mostly because they're the sort of voter insulated from the consequences of the decisions they inflict on others).
Bluntly, this government must be removed. They serve at our whim. They cannot be permitted to continue.
I’d agree Wibbling. But I don’t believe the average voter is stupid. Just disengaged. For years we’ve been marginalised and ignored, while at the same time all the major media outlets are pumping out the same ‘normie’ message, it takes real effort to go against all this I think. And most people simply haven’t got the time, plus the consequences for dissent are growing every day.
But in terms of potential, just look at what the electorate achieved with the EU referendum. Not withstanding the way our elites are conspiring to overturn it now, and have been doing so since day one.
When the public feel strongly abut something they can make it happen. The fact that even Labour are now pretending to get ‘tough on illegal immigration’ proves we have the power to shift the Overton window and change policy if we make enough noise.
I also think that no one except the real Labour die hards still believe in ‘Net Zero’ nonsense, with the Europeans backtracking and the US abandoning even the pretence of caring, it’s only a matter of time before we follow suit. The question is, how much damage will be done, before the inevitable abandonment of this suicidal policy?
I agree wholeheartedly with your final line of course!
When I read comments such as people demanding nationalisation of the energy market it's clear people just don't understand that this is defacto what Miliband is trying to do and why everything is so expensive.
Maybe I am skewed. The topic (of energy) is both disguised, complicated (deliberately so) and the bill composition often hard to find, leading people to leap the wrong way?
It is disgusting to realise how hard the vermin in Westminster fought not only Brexit, but their own side solely for their own advantage. It's a snake pit of vile chancers, grifters and wasters slithering over one another for their own gain.
Brexit exposed this horrifically. I have no stake in it, but I do recommend Tim Shipman's 'Out' book series. While they cover Brexit, they expose the disgusting nature of the political class.
The series rather makes me think all politicians should be fitted with an electric shock collar. Fundamentally that's the problem. Once elected, we, their masters have no control over our staff who set about 5 years of destructive, stupid ideologically driven policies. That has to change. .
Agreed. 👍 It’s meant to confuse and obfuscate. And then boil the world down to a simple fight between goodies and baddies.
Our elites have contempt for the average British voter. I don’t share their disdain, we’re an amazing people, who have achieved perhaps more than any other populace over the last 1000 years.
I’ve read all the Out books. Even the boring bits about the interminable Brexit ‘negotiations’ are incredibly instructive, and for the most part Tim Shipman makes the whole sorry enterprise quite entertaining.
I’m currently working through a sort of Out companion piece. Get In. Which describes Starmer’s party to power. The big take away so far is that he is just as blank inside as we all assume.
"A snake pit of vile chancers, grifters and wasters slithering over one another for their own gain." Excellent description, could have been penned by Dominic himself.
Agreed Susie. All the clever people seem to think it’s a feather in the cap for Reform. I’m not so sure that how it will play with the public, for whom everything Truss related remains more toxic than a thirteen year old white schoolboy’s masculinity…
Zia Yusuf said on gbnews last night he shares the concerns about this one. I think we just have to wait and see. As you know I'm in the CS and folk are sometimes put in positions when they are ministers, and I do know a lot of stuff that went on then was changing from hour to hour never mind day to day. He was given a job to do.
I also follow @trusttheevidence on here - even the govt didn't know what was in that crap we were told to have (I declined it). The jab companies with the exception of Astra Zeneca kept crucial information back. Blame the MHRA. They need root and branch reform.
🤣🤣 Sure Bettina. But they’ll name a station after anything these days. There’s even one near me named after how annoyed Charles III is that we all haven’t converted to Islam yet-Kings Cross.
I think you are a little unfair about Starmer's desire to help defend Greenland. After all by sending just one dog sled team (subject of course to RSPCA approval) Britain is capable of increasing Greenland's defence force by 50%!! I don't know if our army keeps huskies - maybe we only have great danes.
Before I read one of your posts I always think, this is gonna be good....and you never disappoint. Unlike Starmer.
Didn't Marie Antoinette get the prize for baking? 🤭 Can you really call someone of 4'2" a pompadour? I watched a Katie Hopkins reel on Facebook the other day, she commented how Trump crushed Macron's hand so hard "he could no longer w@nk off his wife" 😂😂😂😂
Most women don't need Polanskis help to get bigger boobs. You just need to wait for Mother Menopause to arrive and do the job naturally. True, everything else goes to shit at the same time but your cups will certainly runneth over. 🤣 You just don't give a flying f*ck about that or anything else.....
I was shocked by the truth and entertained by the brilliant use of our English language..."invertebrate" is the choice word to describe our "ruling elite"
Splendid stuff, LSO. I am afraid that I am not convinced so far by Reform, and I am not entirely sure why, to be honest. This far out (sadly, probably) from an election, my guess is still a Reform/Tory alliance of some sort in order to ensure that we don't get something far, far worse than even this government. And that chilling spectre has been covered here in previous comments and your essays.
To cheer myself up, I had to watch the Mastermind again :) Thanks for the reminder of that one.
I have a strong feeling that over the next year or so, something will happen to energise the Conservatives. Whether that involves Kemi being bounced or not, I am not sure. I certainly don't see anyone in their current ranks who could inspire former voters to forget over a decade of socialist policy by successive governments, though. Which I suppose is why I am leaning towards a devil-you-sort of-know alliance of necessity.
Yes. Labours biggest weapon is the Tory record. Also, reading Substack today, Labour is being ably assisted by the internecine conflict on the right, about Reform’s ‘purity’.
I’m coming to the conclusion we’ll have to wait until 2031 to get any meaningful change.
At the moment I can see Reform being the biggest party in 2029.
But it fails to get a working majority even with the rump of the Tories.
A minority Reform government collapses, or Farage rejects it as unworkable.
A far left coalition, sold as a ‘National Government’ steps in to ‘stop the chaos’.
It lasts about two years before collapsing.
Then there is another election. Which could lead to a right wing majority.
Maybe with a resurgent Tory party taking a bigger role. Something like that anyway….
This is a worry. Not a prediction. But if the right wants to win in 2029 it really needs to get its act together. These poll leads are a false prophet IMHO.
A staggering take-down of all that is Labour! Brilliant work!
I can't determine if Labour are so deluded they think they are doing a good job or so ideologically blinkered they just don't care.
I think it's the latter because one of their other favourite maxims, alongside fleecing those with 'the broadest shoulders' and endangering our young working class men by putting 'boots on the ground' in Ukraine, when it comes to destroying everything that is good about this country.....it's clearly always 'the right thing to do'.
Fantastic writing....I really hope this blog is going from strength to strength.....it certainly deserves to! Its success is inversely proportional to that of the cretins in charge of our country!
Hi David! I guess it’s an unholy combo of the two. They are so convinced of their own righteousness they brook no other perspective. On literally anything. And yes, I do think they are so nuts that they really believe that if they keep doing all the stuff which isn’t working, but just do more of it and harder, it will all come good in the end. Like many others, I’m terrified of the wilful damage they will cause, with stuff like the ‘Farage Clause’ in their ongoing EU betrayal, before we are finally shot of them.
As ever, thanks for your support and kind words. All the very best.
Just read it Valda. Fascinating. Not sure I’m 100% onboard, but I definitely think that they are onto something. It makes a lot of sense.
I find that if you ask people for concrete examples/justifications of the most popular mantras, Reform are racist, Trump has not strategy/is racist, the rich don’t pay enough taxes, etc, they simply can’t answer, if you press them they revert to another layer of mantra, or just get annoyed with you.
It is very much like how a ‘computer’ would collapse when faced with a ‘logic loop’ or something in an old Star Trek episode.
The observation about Starmer's attacks revealing more anxity than strategy is spot on. When establishment figures resort to smearing challengers as populist rather than engaging with actual policy critiques, it usually signals they've got no substantive counter-argument. I dunno if Reform is the answer either, but the fact that legacy parties are scrambling to prevent even local elections where they might lose tells you everything about who's actually threatened by democratic accountability.
Excellent LSO. Though I wouldn’t be looking to Reform for some alternative to globalism, they’re unreconstituted Thatcherites with the odd sop to steel and Rolls Royce to appeal to the red wall. They have absolutely no commitment to British business beyond ripping it off for all they can get from a PO Box in the Seychelles.
They seemed to be talking about nationalising some stuff the last time I looked.
I’m not sure they know exactly where they are on economics. Maybe started by Thatcherites. But they know a more free market approach, which I would personally favour btw, will not win them many votes in the North, or Wales either. So I think they are looking to triangulate. Cynical? Maybe. But you’ve got to go to where the voters are.
Thanks LSO. I caught a bit of Politics Live at lunchtime (one up from Bargain Hunt), and saw David Bull handling the usual left wing mob. I have some time for him.
I get a bit tired of all the negativity around Reform. We have the "Russia" nonsense, created by the loathsome Sir Chris Bryant with his parliamentary privileged lies, which he had to retract (albeit to an almost empty House of Commons), and continued by the left wing cancel mob because he dared to say Putin did get some things right. I guess Putin eats, too, so perhaps tell all the Guardianistas that, and maybe they will all starve themselves.
Then there is the "no experience of government" mantra, under which lefties criticise Reform for having nobody who has been in government before. When Tory ex ministers defect to Reform, the lefties then claim Reform is being taken over by failed Tory politicians. Where else would Reform find people with experience of government? It's been all Tory and Labour (apart from a handful of LibDems) for decades. The current government, apart from Yvette Cooper, had no experience of government either (and it certainly shows). Nobody took them to task about it.
Already Nadhim Zahawi has had his past crawled all over, from his complex tax affairs to his enthusiasm for vaccine passports. He is a bit like Trump, throwing out ideas all over the place, most of which are daft, but at least he does have some imagination, unlike the current crop of brainless, spiteful socialists who haven't had a new thought since Karl Marx.
The pubs fiasco is a case in point. While Reeeves is busy jiggling around with the business rates multipliers (the same business rates Starmer promised he would abolish just 4 years ago), the "independent" Valuations Office Agency was busy coming up with a new way to value pubs, that ignores facts like nobody can make a profit from them, nobody will buy them, nobody will rent them, and the councils won't allow a change of use on them. Facts that, to any ordinary person, would scream "this property is worth nothing at all. It is a millstone."
So Reeves doesn't need to fiddle around. All she needs to do is tell the VOA that her policies have rendered pubs worthless, and they can forget about valuing them altogether.
Hi Jeremy. Labour and the left are taking a tactic straight out of the Democratic playbook.
Rather than actually address any of the issues Trump was rightfully highlighting, they chose instead to attack the man with every means at their disposal. In the most corrupt and undemocratic way possible.
It didn’t work for them, though I feel it could potentially work against Farage. Just because our constituencies and demographics are different. Plus the prevalence of the ‘norm ie’ media, like, obviously, the BBC.
It’s a stupid approach, even on its own terms. The Democrats could have blunted Trumps appeal if they had closed the border themselves. And the same is true here. If Labour actually stopped the boats, rather than making sympathetic noises, but doing literally nothing except hand the French more taxpayers money to wave them off. They could perhaps dent Reform’s appeal.
But obvs. They would rather call someone else Hitler, and the rest of us ‘racist’, rather than deal with the genuine problem.
Your points about pubs are very insightful. Thanks.
Ha ha. Nope. It’s obviously a huge problem for them to find credible candidates. You should run Ragged. Proud military history, tech wizard, world traveller, businessman, and charity boss. I bet they would snap you up……👍 Not even joking. As the kids say.
Starmer's terror of Reform betrays him. He is a weathervane, he believes in nothing whatsoever. Starmer has no principles, no moral compass, no guiding philosophy beyond 'big state' and he doesn't even understand that.
The continual outright lies of 'we want to grow the economy/we're making you better off' is now boring and even the dumbest know it is trite.
However, don't underestimate the stupidity of the average person. The state will lie to them - Miliband does this continually - and they'll still call for the same person holding the whip to be given the club as well and that idiot voter won't understand why not only are they bleeding but their bones have been broken (mostly because they're the sort of voter insulated from the consequences of the decisions they inflict on others).
Bluntly, this government must be removed. They serve at our whim. They cannot be permitted to continue.
I’d agree Wibbling. But I don’t believe the average voter is stupid. Just disengaged. For years we’ve been marginalised and ignored, while at the same time all the major media outlets are pumping out the same ‘normie’ message, it takes real effort to go against all this I think. And most people simply haven’t got the time, plus the consequences for dissent are growing every day.
But in terms of potential, just look at what the electorate achieved with the EU referendum. Not withstanding the way our elites are conspiring to overturn it now, and have been doing so since day one.
When the public feel strongly abut something they can make it happen. The fact that even Labour are now pretending to get ‘tough on illegal immigration’ proves we have the power to shift the Overton window and change policy if we make enough noise.
I also think that no one except the real Labour die hards still believe in ‘Net Zero’ nonsense, with the Europeans backtracking and the US abandoning even the pretence of caring, it’s only a matter of time before we follow suit. The question is, how much damage will be done, before the inevitable abandonment of this suicidal policy?
I agree wholeheartedly with your final line of course!
When I read comments such as people demanding nationalisation of the energy market it's clear people just don't understand that this is defacto what Miliband is trying to do and why everything is so expensive.
Maybe I am skewed. The topic (of energy) is both disguised, complicated (deliberately so) and the bill composition often hard to find, leading people to leap the wrong way?
It is disgusting to realise how hard the vermin in Westminster fought not only Brexit, but their own side solely for their own advantage. It's a snake pit of vile chancers, grifters and wasters slithering over one another for their own gain.
Brexit exposed this horrifically. I have no stake in it, but I do recommend Tim Shipman's 'Out' book series. While they cover Brexit, they expose the disgusting nature of the political class.
The series rather makes me think all politicians should be fitted with an electric shock collar. Fundamentally that's the problem. Once elected, we, their masters have no control over our staff who set about 5 years of destructive, stupid ideologically driven policies. That has to change. .
Agreed. 👍 It’s meant to confuse and obfuscate. And then boil the world down to a simple fight between goodies and baddies.
Our elites have contempt for the average British voter. I don’t share their disdain, we’re an amazing people, who have achieved perhaps more than any other populace over the last 1000 years.
I’ve read all the Out books. Even the boring bits about the interminable Brexit ‘negotiations’ are incredibly instructive, and for the most part Tim Shipman makes the whole sorry enterprise quite entertaining.
I’m currently working through a sort of Out companion piece. Get In. Which describes Starmer’s party to power. The big take away so far is that he is just as blank inside as we all assume.
Thoroughly recommended.
"A snake pit of vile chancers, grifters and wasters slithering over one another for their own gain." Excellent description, could have been penned by Dominic himself.
Not sure about believing nothing. More a convinced international socialist that believes firmly that the North London view is always correct.
Interesting. Shame about the vaccine tsar.
Agreed Susie. All the clever people seem to think it’s a feather in the cap for Reform. I’m not so sure that how it will play with the public, for whom everything Truss related remains more toxic than a thirteen year old white schoolboy’s masculinity…
Zia Yusuf said on gbnews last night he shares the concerns about this one. I think we just have to wait and see. As you know I'm in the CS and folk are sometimes put in positions when they are ministers, and I do know a lot of stuff that went on then was changing from hour to hour never mind day to day. He was given a job to do.
I also follow @trusttheevidence on here - even the govt didn't know what was in that crap we were told to have (I declined it). The jab companies with the exception of Astra Zeneca kept crucial information back. Blame the MHRA. They need root and branch reform.
Of course Paddington Bear built Britain - they named a station after him!
🤣🤣 Sure Bettina. But they’ll name a station after anything these days. There’s even one near me named after how annoyed Charles III is that we all haven’t converted to Islam yet-Kings Cross.
Very entertaining - shared with my Politics in Pubs group who love a humorous take on the nonsense we face from our so called leaders.
That’s very good of you Steve. Thanks! And hello to all you friends from the boozer.
And we are always looking for speakers!
No problem - it’s several boozers! Https://politicsinpubs.org.uk
This looks brilliant Steve. I get to Comedy Unleashed occasionally. The assault on pubs and British pub culture is an absolute crime.
I think you are a little unfair about Starmer's desire to help defend Greenland. After all by sending just one dog sled team (subject of course to RSPCA approval) Britain is capable of increasing Greenland's defence force by 50%!! I don't know if our army keeps huskies - maybe we only have great danes.
🤣🤣
Before I read one of your posts I always think, this is gonna be good....and you never disappoint. Unlike Starmer.
Didn't Marie Antoinette get the prize for baking? 🤭 Can you really call someone of 4'2" a pompadour? I watched a Katie Hopkins reel on Facebook the other day, she commented how Trump crushed Macron's hand so hard "he could no longer w@nk off his wife" 😂😂😂😂
Most women don't need Polanskis help to get bigger boobs. You just need to wait for Mother Menopause to arrive and do the job naturally. True, everything else goes to shit at the same time but your cups will certainly runneth over. 🤣 You just don't give a flying f*ck about that or anything else.....
🤣 sorry to hear that.
🤣🤣 you’re not holding back today Toffeepud….👏👏
🤣🤣🤣 I've just had to sit through the dullest hour and a half of my life. No, it wasn't Keir Starmer's greatest hits 😂
I was shocked by the truth and entertained by the brilliant use of our English language..."invertebrate" is the choice word to describe our "ruling elite"
Thanks Ian. Yes. They are all wets these days.
Splendid stuff, LSO. I am afraid that I am not convinced so far by Reform, and I am not entirely sure why, to be honest. This far out (sadly, probably) from an election, my guess is still a Reform/Tory alliance of some sort in order to ensure that we don't get something far, far worse than even this government. And that chilling spectre has been covered here in previous comments and your essays.
To cheer myself up, I had to watch the Mastermind again :) Thanks for the reminder of that one.
Yes Leaf. I like what Reform are saying. And who they are not. But I’d like to have a bit more faith in them.
I know a heresy, but would a dry Tory/Reform pact be such a bad thing? I really don’t know.
I have a strong feeling that over the next year or so, something will happen to energise the Conservatives. Whether that involves Kemi being bounced or not, I am not sure. I certainly don't see anyone in their current ranks who could inspire former voters to forget over a decade of socialist policy by successive governments, though. Which I suppose is why I am leaning towards a devil-you-sort of-know alliance of necessity.
Yes. Labours biggest weapon is the Tory record. Also, reading Substack today, Labour is being ably assisted by the internecine conflict on the right, about Reform’s ‘purity’.
I’m coming to the conclusion we’ll have to wait until 2031 to get any meaningful change.
At the moment I can see Reform being the biggest party in 2029.
But it fails to get a working majority even with the rump of the Tories.
A minority Reform government collapses, or Farage rejects it as unworkable.
A far left coalition, sold as a ‘National Government’ steps in to ‘stop the chaos’.
It lasts about two years before collapsing.
Then there is another election. Which could lead to a right wing majority.
Maybe with a resurgent Tory party taking a bigger role. Something like that anyway….
This is a worry. Not a prediction. But if the right wants to win in 2029 it really needs to get its act together. These poll leads are a false prophet IMHO.
All very sound reasoning , LSO. Let’s hope that “something turns up” for the right, maybe in global geopolitical terms.
I think we need to ‘decide’ what we want and go for it. And stop making the perfect, the enemy of the good. 🤔
A staggering take-down of all that is Labour! Brilliant work!
I can't determine if Labour are so deluded they think they are doing a good job or so ideologically blinkered they just don't care.
I think it's the latter because one of their other favourite maxims, alongside fleecing those with 'the broadest shoulders' and endangering our young working class men by putting 'boots on the ground' in Ukraine, when it comes to destroying everything that is good about this country.....it's clearly always 'the right thing to do'.
Fantastic writing....I really hope this blog is going from strength to strength.....it certainly deserves to! Its success is inversely proportional to that of the cretins in charge of our country!
Hi David! I guess it’s an unholy combo of the two. They are so convinced of their own righteousness they brook no other perspective. On literally anything. And yes, I do think they are so nuts that they really believe that if they keep doing all the stuff which isn’t working, but just do more of it and harder, it will all come good in the end. Like many others, I’m terrified of the wilful damage they will cause, with stuff like the ‘Farage Clause’ in their ongoing EU betrayal, before we are finally shot of them.
As ever, thanks for your support and kind words. All the very best.
I found this to be an interesting take on why the likes of Starmer are impervious to decency, reason and reality: https://x.com/devon_eriksen_/status/2009393479886004403?s=61&t=2Wr6tCUnj5mvjIuzybbavQ
Just read it Valda. Fascinating. Not sure I’m 100% onboard, but I definitely think that they are onto something. It makes a lot of sense.
I find that if you ask people for concrete examples/justifications of the most popular mantras, Reform are racist, Trump has not strategy/is racist, the rich don’t pay enough taxes, etc, they simply can’t answer, if you press them they revert to another layer of mantra, or just get annoyed with you.
It is very much like how a ‘computer’ would collapse when faced with a ‘logic loop’ or something in an old Star Trek episode.
Thanks for posting it. 👍
The observation about Starmer's attacks revealing more anxity than strategy is spot on. When establishment figures resort to smearing challengers as populist rather than engaging with actual policy critiques, it usually signals they've got no substantive counter-argument. I dunno if Reform is the answer either, but the fact that legacy parties are scrambling to prevent even local elections where they might lose tells you everything about who's actually threatened by democratic accountability.
Absolutely 👍
Vote / join / support Reform as if the future of the our country depends on it. Honestly, it really does 🗳️ 🇬🇧
Excellent LSO. Though I wouldn’t be looking to Reform for some alternative to globalism, they’re unreconstituted Thatcherites with the odd sop to steel and Rolls Royce to appeal to the red wall. They have absolutely no commitment to British business beyond ripping it off for all they can get from a PO Box in the Seychelles.
They seemed to be talking about nationalising some stuff the last time I looked.
I’m not sure they know exactly where they are on economics. Maybe started by Thatcherites. But they know a more free market approach, which I would personally favour btw, will not win them many votes in the North, or Wales either. So I think they are looking to triangulate. Cynical? Maybe. But you’ve got to go to where the voters are.
“ throw himself off the end of Brighton pier” Don’t you mean toss himself off, LSO? 😉
🤣🤣
Superb. Your articles just keep getting better. Sydney Sweeney!!
Very kind. Thanks Sarshad. Still working on that plan….
Thanks LSO. I caught a bit of Politics Live at lunchtime (one up from Bargain Hunt), and saw David Bull handling the usual left wing mob. I have some time for him.
I get a bit tired of all the negativity around Reform. We have the "Russia" nonsense, created by the loathsome Sir Chris Bryant with his parliamentary privileged lies, which he had to retract (albeit to an almost empty House of Commons), and continued by the left wing cancel mob because he dared to say Putin did get some things right. I guess Putin eats, too, so perhaps tell all the Guardianistas that, and maybe they will all starve themselves.
Then there is the "no experience of government" mantra, under which lefties criticise Reform for having nobody who has been in government before. When Tory ex ministers defect to Reform, the lefties then claim Reform is being taken over by failed Tory politicians. Where else would Reform find people with experience of government? It's been all Tory and Labour (apart from a handful of LibDems) for decades. The current government, apart from Yvette Cooper, had no experience of government either (and it certainly shows). Nobody took them to task about it.
Already Nadhim Zahawi has had his past crawled all over, from his complex tax affairs to his enthusiasm for vaccine passports. He is a bit like Trump, throwing out ideas all over the place, most of which are daft, but at least he does have some imagination, unlike the current crop of brainless, spiteful socialists who haven't had a new thought since Karl Marx.
The pubs fiasco is a case in point. While Reeeves is busy jiggling around with the business rates multipliers (the same business rates Starmer promised he would abolish just 4 years ago), the "independent" Valuations Office Agency was busy coming up with a new way to value pubs, that ignores facts like nobody can make a profit from them, nobody will buy them, nobody will rent them, and the councils won't allow a change of use on them. Facts that, to any ordinary person, would scream "this property is worth nothing at all. It is a millstone."
So Reeves doesn't need to fiddle around. All she needs to do is tell the VOA that her policies have rendered pubs worthless, and they can forget about valuing them altogether.
Hi Jeremy. Labour and the left are taking a tactic straight out of the Democratic playbook.
Rather than actually address any of the issues Trump was rightfully highlighting, they chose instead to attack the man with every means at their disposal. In the most corrupt and undemocratic way possible.
It didn’t work for them, though I feel it could potentially work against Farage. Just because our constituencies and demographics are different. Plus the prevalence of the ‘norm ie’ media, like, obviously, the BBC.
It’s a stupid approach, even on its own terms. The Democrats could have blunted Trumps appeal if they had closed the border themselves. And the same is true here. If Labour actually stopped the boats, rather than making sympathetic noises, but doing literally nothing except hand the French more taxpayers money to wave them off. They could perhaps dent Reform’s appeal.
But obvs. They would rather call someone else Hitler, and the rest of us ‘racist’, rather than deal with the genuine problem.
Your points about pubs are very insightful. Thanks.
Other than Nigel Farage and Andrea (vocals) Jenkyns, do you think they have enough competent MPs to fill all those Reform seats in parliament?
Ha ha. Nope. It’s obviously a huge problem for them to find credible candidates. You should run Ragged. Proud military history, tech wizard, world traveller, businessman, and charity boss. I bet they would snap you up……👍 Not even joking. As the kids say.
I'll give them a call!