[Abernathy]

Sometimes, like the proverbial stopped clock, and through the mist of his hatred of Keir Starmer , Another Angry Wank gets something right .

[Youngian]

I take it everybody voting is on Reform's mailing list.
It was a deceptively official looking window envelope to encourage swift opening.
Immigrants, immigrants and I've got a black dog like Barnes Wallis.
'Family, community, country' could be any party's slogan but just sounds more fascist in Farage's hands.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Famille, Travail, Patrie was the slogan of Vichy France.

Don't find Farage a particularly plausible family man. Doubtless this comes under "colourful character" rather than hypocrisy.

[RedSparrows]

Nothing says values and virtues more than being an absolute fucking chancer, ey readers.

[Killer Whale]

Nothing about how voting for someone to be in charge of the bins is going to change immigration or energy policy. It doesn't even mention 'sending a message' to Westminster.
That, and appeals to 'values' and 'common sense' rather than any statement of actual policy, indicate that they're keen to run on 'feels' rather than anything else for as long as possible.
I fully expect more of this right up to the Senedd elections next year.

[satnav]

'Family, community, country' says the man who has been married and divorced twice, who rarely visits the community he was elected to serve, who is more interested in events in America rather than Britain and who shows far too much admiration for Putin.

[Bones McCoy]

[davidjay]

One of the biggest changes over the past forty years has been the destruction of community. The family unit has gone with it. That leaves country, and as we all know, "Britain's fukkin 'ad it."

[Boiler]

Break out the popcorn/Michael Jackson GIF;

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... llegations

[Oboogie]

Immigrants, immigrants and I've got a black dog like Barnes Wallis.
'Family, community, country' could be any party's slogan but just sounds more fascist in Farage's hands.

Guy Gibson, the dog's owner was Guy Gibson.

Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Arschloch

[kreuzberger]

Break out the popcorn/Michael Jackson GIF;

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... llegations

I am not sure that this section of the electorate, which considers it entirely reasonable to administer a clip 'round the ear to 'er indoors and sundry lippy forrins, will be unduly perturbed by bullying accusations. "Firm management, innit."

[Abernathy]

(Dame) Andrea Jenkyns, new Reform UK mayor for Lincolnshire, is perhaps the most typical exemplar, Farage & Anderson aside, of a Reform UK politician. Totally self-interested, venal, racist, and entitled (completely undeserved damehood courtesy of Johnson), and above all, thicker than Thicky McThickface, king of Thickoland. A former Tory, like nearly all Reform UK politicians, noted for ending Ed Balls’s parliamentary career in 2015, she is a hideous, loathsome woman whose sole claim to fame is giving the finger to protestors at the gates of Downing Street.

The people of Lincolnshire deserve better. But fuck them, they voted her in.

[Abernathy]

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[Youngian]

(Dame) Andrea Jenkyns, new Reform UK mayor for Lincolnshire, is perhaps the most typical exemplar, Farage & Anderson aside, of a Reform UK politician. Totally self-interested, venal, racist, and entitled (completely undeserved damehood courtesy of Johnson), and above all, thicker than Thicky McThickface, king of Thickoland. A former Tory, like nearly all Reform UK politicians, noted for ending Ed Balls’s parliamentary career in 2015, she is a hideous, loathsome woman whose sole claim to fame is giving the finger to protestors at the gates of Downing Street.

The people of Lincolnshire deserve better. But fuck them, they voted her in.

She made a couple of African students £50 richer

In her late thirties, Jenkyns studied for a degree in economics from the Open University and in international relations from the University of Lincoln.

[kreuzberger]

Ahead of yesterday's elections, I am sure that there was a fair amount of digging around, to expose the toxic backgrounds of Farage's candidates.

A few were unmasked for what they are, but the archaeology can now begin in earnest. They are fair game for the local press, in particular, and it will be confirmed just how foul and endemic they are.

[Andy McDandy]

Interesting they say she studied for those degrees, and not that she graduated.

[Yug]

On r/hull on reddit there are quite a few people saying voting Reform doesn't make people racist. They're absolutely right. Voting for the Reform Party won't make anyone racist. They're already racist, that's why they voted Reform.

[davidjay]

Ahead of yesterday's elections, I am sure that there was a fair amount of digging around, to expose the toxic backgrounds of Farage's candidates.

A few were unmasked for what they are, but the archaeology can now begin in earnest. They are fair game for the local press, in particular, and it will be confirmed just how foul and endemic they are.

You mean in the same way the national press goes for them?

[soulboy]

Ahead of yesterday's elections, I am sure that there was a fair amount of digging around, to expose the toxic backgrounds of Farage's candidates.

A few were unmasked for what they are, but the archaeology can now begin in earnest. They are fair game for the local press, in particular, and it will be confirmed just how foul and endemic they are.

Local press? If Daniel from The Adver and his ilk stop trying to hit their twelve stories a day target from lurking on local Facebook groups and copy/pasting press releases they might just turn something up.

[Rosvanian]

Durham County Council is next door to my area (Gateshead). It is the largest council in the north east, employs 18,000 people and has a budget of £1.3 billion. Like all councils, its responsibilities are vast, complex and wide ranging and the fate of all of it now rests on the shoulders of 60-odd newly elected Reform councillors, most of whom will be only interested in immigrants, culture wars and net zero and these issues will now be shoe- horned into every thing the council does. They'll go marching in convinced, like everyone on the right, that anyone and everyone working in the public sector is a bone idle, on the fiddle, free- loading waste of space. Their approach to everyday things such as refuse collection and recycling, and applications for food takeaways from immigrants are going to be interesting to say the least and the new councillors are in for quite a shock when their 'common sense' world view crashes into the council's statutory obligations. I predict a mass exodus of senior management.