[Boiler]

I understand that arrogant Huguenot immigrant is getting upset at being 'snubbed' by Macron.

Fuck off back to your grifts, you twat.

[Tubby Isaacs]

James McMurdock will not seek Reform UK return after Covid loan questions
MP for South Basildon and East Thurrock says he will remain an independent after surrendering whip last week

The allegations are true then. He got £70k for two dormant companies with no employees. Assume he's paid it back. He's more self-aware than most of them, he realizes the game is up. But I want to see Farage put under pressure till he's resigned his seat. Only fair, right?

[satnav]

I think Reform will probably be glad to see the back of him because he doesn't really bring much to the table. He doesn't appear to be very clever or a great speaker so if he stayed in the party they would have to deal with all the baggage of his past violent behaviour towards a woman coupled with his dodgy business record.

[Yug]

The Party of racist wife-beating child molesters is set to become even worse

Reform UK has told its members it is introducing a less stringent “common sense” vetting system for would-be candidates after complaints the previous checks were too strict, despite a recent series of controversies linked to the party.

In a message sent to members and also posted by a regional party branch, Nigel Farage’s party said the updated vetting was “more proportionate than before and designed to strike the right balance between party reputation, individual freedom of expression and public confidence”.

This new system would be seen as “a blank slate”, said the message to members, seen by the Guardian, adding: “If you have previously failed vetting, you are strongly encouraged to reapply under the new standards.”...

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

(my bold)

I predict this thread is going to be the busiest one in Mail Watch soon.

[Youngian]

So Farage is short of candidates who are barely sentient. At least previous candidates caught thieving can count, let's get them back.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Like ninepins.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2llkjy732o

Reform UK councillor Amanda Clare has been charged with assault and criminal damage after an incident at a Pride event.
The councillor who represents the Winsford Dene ward on Cheshire West and Chester Council, is to appear before magistrates in Crewe on Friday 8 August.
Cheshire Police said they were called to reports of a disturbance at Winsford Pride at around 16:30 BST on Saturday, where they arrested Ms Clare, who is known as Mandy Clare.

As I recall she literally attacked some drag artists 'because there were children present.'

[Oboogie]

This is great news, the lower the bar the better as far as I'm concerned. Give the people what they voted for.

[Abernathy]

Looks like Farage is continuing to model his grift closely on the Donald Trump precedent.

Never mind if you’re a cunt. The dimwits will still vote for us.

Coming soon : The Farage bitcoin ?

[Tubby Isaacs]

If she gets any sort of punishment at all, we'll get all the "two tier Keir" stuff again. Because the Prime Minister literally decides jail sentences.

[kreuzberger]

Coming soon : The Farage bitcoin ?

The fragrance. L' Égoiste?

[Boiler]

Coming soon : The Farage bitcoin ?

The fragrance. L' Égoiste?

The advert for that was barking.

[Samanfur]

My former MP's probably angling for his old seat back, since trading on being Boris Johnson's best mate rapidly stopped being the reliable grift he thought it was:

Ex-Tory chairman Sir Jake Berry DEFECTS to Reform as he says party is ‘last chance to pull Britain back from decline’

[Tubby Isaacs]

My commiserations that he keeps popping up in the news. Sir Bill Wiggin seems to have had the good grace to go quietly.

[Samanfur]

It's not as though he needs the money. It genuinely feels somewhere between ego, entitlement and a messiah complex.

[Abernathy]

Fairly high-ish profile Tory has-been jumps ship to lick Farage’s sphincter .


https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... Ud8m4EiL0Q

Former Conservative party chair Jake Berry defects to Reform UK

[Tubby Isaacs]

Brexit headbanger, David Jones, defected the other day too.

Does there become a point when Farage is hurt by having too many Tory defectors?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Brexit headbanger, David Jones, defected the other day too.

Does there become a point when Farage is hurt by having too many Tory defectors?

[satnav]

I'm not really sure how a string of Tories switching to Reform will help the party too much. They really need to attract politicians from some of the other parties if they want to show that the party has got broad appeal.

[Tubby Isaacs]

They'll struggle to get Ian Austin to defect to them.

More from Jake.

The former MP for Rossendale and Darwen said that people who had believed in Johnson’s levelling up agenda in northern English seats had been particularly let down.

“The truth is, the Conservatives have lost their way. They’ve abandoned their principles. They’ve abandoned the British people. And they’ve abandoned me,” he wrote.

Didn't you think to ask your Home Counties colleagues why they were so relaxed about this imminent redistribution of wealth?

[Samanfur]

He was Minister for the Northern Powerhouse under May, and did nothing but turn up to the opening of an envelope if he thought that there'd be cameras, and give money to people who already had it.

Selective amnesia is normal. You should've seen what he came out with during the last GE campaign, before we finally got rid of him.

He didn't even own a house in the constituency. He rented one from the local party chair, whilst commuting from his seven figure house in London to his property portfolio on Ynys Mon.