[Andy McDandy]

I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Noah Cross, Chinatown.

[Oboogie]

He is probably the most punchable Tory now Jenrick left... though Hunt is still an MP.

Damn you, now I am weighing up the merits of Nick Timothy, Mark Francois, Iain Duncan-Smith...

So many faces, so few fists...

[The Weeping Angel]

Jesus Christ.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... MP=bsky_gu

A former neo-Nazi activist with convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP has been selected as a Conservative candidate for a local election in Somerset.

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, the creator of the viral Crewkerne Gazette series of AI clips, is due to stand for election to Somerset council next year in a new Crewkerne South district. He told the Guardian he was an executive member of the Tories’ Yeovil branch, working as an events organiser.

“The branch and indeed party are fully aware of my past. Our chairman has been a vocal advocate and has supported me since I became a member of the party. I am very grateful for the support,” he said.

Bonehill-Paine, who previously described himself as a “nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights”, re-emerged in recent years as the creator of the Crewkerne Gazette, a satirical online account that has gained a cult following.

[davidjay]

Jesus H. Christ. Please tell me it's April 1st.

[Boiler]

Jesus H. Christ. Please tell me it's April 1st.

Not for another 241 days, I'm afraid.

[davidjay]

Still, I'm sure that if a Muslim went to jail for terror-related offences, came out claiming to be reformed and was nominated as a Labour candidate, the Mail/Express/GBeebies would congratulate him on turning his life around.

[kreuzberger]

Let's wait and see what the Board of Deputies has to say about this...

[Watchman]

And as soon as he gets voted in as a Tory, he'll move to Restore

[Oboogie]

James O'Brien's having fun with this.
You can't stand for the Conservatives if you support Net Zero
You can't stand for the Conservatives if you support Human Rights
You can stand for the Conservatives if you are a Neo-Nazi who has served time for threatening Jewish MPs and inciting racial hatred.

For a fleeting moment I felt a flicker of sympathy for Grant Shapps, but it quickly passed.

[Watchman]

And Kemi is play ing the "he's repented, everyone deserves a second chance" card

[kreuzberger]

He's not been on that much of a journey of redemption if he has only got as far as the tories.

[Andy McDandy]

Some of you may remember his party manifesto, including his philosophy of "Bonehillism", and the "touch of Aryus" that he could bestow upon you to awaken your inner Nazi. A deeply odd guy, seemingly walking the line between true believer and blatant con artist.

[Tubby Isaacs]

And Kemi is play ing the "he's repented, everyone deserves a second chance" card

Kemi doesn't seem the sort to give anyone a first chance. Who's going to swallow this nonsense?

[Oboogie]

And Kemi is play ing the "he's repented, everyone deserves a second chance" card

Only if they're Neo-Nazis.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ha ha ha ha.

[The Weeping Angel]

[davidjay]

It's more like his fifth or sixth chance. Apart from the other stuff he used to trawl the internet looking for photos of murder victims and say they'd been killed by anti-racism activists. He was an absolute menace then and it beggars belief that he's changed.