[Abernathy]

I note this morning that Tim Montgomerie has finally had enough and decided to quit Reform UK.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... 1788940653

Top Reform supporter quits party with explosive civil war claim and jab at Nigel Farage

[Youngian]

This is the third incarnation of the Farage party to implode into a shit show. The Kipper MEPs ended up lamping each other in the EP while the Brexit Party's main function was an electoral pact to place the worst PM in history into power.

[davidjay]

I note this morning that Tim Montgomerie has finally had enough and decided to quit Reform UK.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... 1788940653

Top Reform supporter quits party with explosive civil war claim and jab at Nigel Farage

Is it because they're too bigoted, or not bigoted enough?

[Youngian]

Farage's electoral strategy this week is wooing waverers by condemning the grunting apes in masks descending on Dover. That's going to rile the faithful who love Tommeh.

Don't know why Tim Montgomerie is such a ubiquitous talking head for hire, he's a fucking idiot.

[Boiler]

Don't know why Tim Montgomerie is such a ubiquitous talking head for hire, he's a fucking idiot.

Former journo/columnist.

[Oboogie]

Farage's electoral strategy this week is wooing waverers by condemning the grunting apes in masks descending on Dover. That's going to rile the faithful who love Tommeh.

Don't know why Tim Montgomerie is such a ubiquitous talking head for hire, he's a fucking idiot.

The Robinson/Farage split happened a while back - I think it was over Farage condemning the riots in Northern Ireland. Farage was dismissed as "woke" and a "traitor", possibly by Robinson himself.

Tim Montgomerie's status as someone worth listening to seems to have been built entirely on the fact he founded and ran Conservative Home. This was taken to mean he had intel on the mood of the Tory grassroots, bollocks of course because the self-selecting commentators on there represented nobody but themselves.

[Boiler]

Is this a Farage speech?

“We will declare a national emergency. All parliamentary recesses will be cancelled. Parliament will sit, if necessary, for 24 hours a day, six days a week, until we pass the necessary legislation.”

“We’ll appoint hundreds of new peers so that we have a majority in the House of Lords.”

“And if that proves difficult, we’ll hold a referendum on the current composition of the House of Lords, and it would be swept away by a British public appalled by it.”

“And we’ll remove the ability of judges to lean on outdated conventions such as the European Convention on Human Rights, which will be gone, gone, gone.”

“We don’t want the courts striking down the will of the people, do we?”

“Parliament makes the law; judges interpret the law.”

“We will do whatever it takes and perhaps have to consider how judicial appointments work in the future.”

“And if civil servants try to obstruct us, they will be removed from their posts and replaced by people from outside - from the world of business.”

“This plan is bold. It is ambitious. But it’s much needed. Britain is broken, and only Reform has the courage, the conviction and the foresight to fix it.”

“I’m only here because of the failure of our political class.”

“Believe me when I say I mean this. I have never been in politics for rank, title or career. There are many other things on this planet that I can go and do. But I’m doing it, and I’ve been doing it on and off for 35 years, because I’ve always fought for a sovereign, proud, independent country that understands what it is, respects its history and is ambitious, energetic and entrepreneurial.”

“…you’re all part of this incredible People’s Army that we’ve built up.”

“I hope you’re proud of the role you’re playing in changing political history - in changing the future of this country.”


Reform UK — “We’ll declare a national emergency to fix Broken Britain in 100 days”⁠

[Killer Whale]

One People
One Country
One Leader!

[RedSparrows]

I'm still astonished anyone has the temerity to assume what anyone needs is to treat everything like a business, especially at a time of high public anger about water companies.

Business have become the ur-organisational concept of all human activity. It's utterly, utterly bizarre. It's a really dangerous and strange feedback loop, too: 'I spend all my time in this business world, therefore it's the real world, therefore the entire world should be like the real world, no sir this isn't ideology, this is common sense'.

Have any of these fuckers ever met a business?

[Bones McCoy]

1. Expand the activities of a chamber that I rerely / never attend.
2. Vast increase in numbers of unelected lawmakers.

Hmm.

[davidjay]

He's right when he says he's never been in politics for rank, title or career.