[zuriblue]

Basically the same as MAGA. A combination of spite and victimhood.

[Youngian]

So Farage voters are now more nuanced and sophisticated than our prejudices suggest. I say prejudice but I meant experience of every one you've met. If you've been commissioned for an extensive survey it's hard to tell your client that your research has found they're all dickheads.

[The Weeping Angel]

Nice to see the Reform Youth embracing patriotism,

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

An adviser used by Nigel Farage and others in Reform UK to boost their social media popularity has suggested that Britain would be better off had it stayed neutral in the second world war instead of fighting Nazi Germany.

Jack Anderton, who ran Farage’s hugely successful TikTok account before helping Luke Campbell become the Reform mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, also said the UK should not support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression.

In a post on his personal blog about Britain’s international standing, Anderton said that in a future world of “meritocracy”, the UK could “regain” former colonies such as Australia, Canada and South Africa.

He added that the UK should copy the policy of mass incarceration carried out by El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, widely condemned as an abuse of human rights.

[davidjay]

I do wonder what they'd say now if the 1939 situation was repeated.

[Youngian]

Nice to see the Reform Youth embracing patriotism,

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

An adviser used by Nigel Farage and others in Reform UK to boost their social media popularity has suggested that Britain would be better off had it stayed neutral in the second world war instead of fighting Nazi Germany.

Jack Anderton, who ran Farage’s hugely successful TikTok account before helping Luke Campbell become the Reform mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, also said the UK should not support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression.

In a post on his personal blog about Britain’s international standing, Anderton said that in a future world of “meritocracy”, the UK could “regain” former colonies such as Australia, Canada and South Africa.

He added that the UK should copy the policy of mass incarceration carried out by El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, widely condemned as an abuse of human rights.

This Blimpish imperial view wasn't unusual until post WWII and it's the way Trump and Putin look at the world. Which is great powers agreeing to demarcation after carving up the world. Then they are free to crush any inferior and troublesome races and nations within their empires.
I suspect Dan Hannan shares this view League of Empire Loyalists narrative and not keen on national sovereignty for lesser peoples. This was something of a non starter even in the 20s and 30s, the empire was broke and even the Tories were looking at the best way of getting shot.
And even at the height of the imperial trading system in the Mid 19th century, the UK's main trading partners were Germany and France.

[Bones McCoy]

Bad boys of Brexit doing bad things.

https://bsky.app/profile/bestforbritain ... nxwi5tlc2o

[Bones McCoy]

Bad boys of Brexit doing bad things.

https://bsky.app/profile/bestforbritain ... nxwi5tlc2o

Summary:
Fill out a council survey "Local people deciding where the budget goes".
a) There's no budget.
b) Reform party gets your data.

[Boiler]

Yup - data mining plain and simple.

[Watchman]

Your Leicestershire correspondent writes….

Reform UK deputy county council leader removed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjywq5304wo

[davidjay]

Your Leicestershire correspondent writes….

Reform UK deputy county council leader removed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjywq5304wo

For a party who care so much about democracy they seem to have a lot of unelected national officers sticking their oars into council business.

[Watchman]

Your Leicestershire correspondent writes….

Reform UK deputy county council leader removed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjywq5304wo

An update

Apparently he was using ChatGPT for his statements in the Council Chamber, also mummy has gone on FB to say he’s “not a naughty boy”

[Yug]

Well, if he's not the messiah...

[RedSparrows]

Nice to see the Reform Youth embracing patriotism,

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

An adviser used by Nigel Farage and others in Reform UK to boost their social media popularity has suggested that Britain would be better off had it stayed neutral in the second world war instead of fighting Nazi Germany.

Jack Anderton, who ran Farage’s hugely successful TikTok account before helping Luke Campbell become the Reform mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, also said the UK should not support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression.

In a post on his personal blog about Britain’s international standing, Anderton said that in a future world of “meritocracy”, the UK could “regain” former colonies such as Australia, Canada and South Africa.

He added that the UK should copy the policy of mass incarceration carried out by El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, widely condemned as an abuse of human rights.

What virtue is the meritocracy supposed to celebrate and reward?

Intellectual coherence? Nil points.
Moral integrity? Nil points.
Justice? Nil points.
Liberty? Nil points.

And so on. What's left, I wonder? A sense of naughty provocation and 'daring' for the over-promoted intern, a little frisson of naughtiness, and the same fundamental atavism, fear and ego driving it, as ever.