[davidjay]

Perhaps the presenter should have pushed him on the apparent contradiction between "Up to the job" and "overwhelmed".

[The Weeping Angel]

[Tubby Isaacs]

This looks like a very online decision. You see tons of "journalists are really activists" stuff online, but local media still has a following (even if it's very hard to monetize). This probably won't go down well.

[Rosvanian]

This looks like a very online decision. You see tons of "journalists are really activists" stuff online, but local media still has a following (even if it's very hard to monetize). This probably won't go down well.

Refirm supporters, like MAGA, are all in. I suspect they couldn't give a damn about this.

[Tubby Isaacs]

MAGA got out of jail by borrowing a load more money that they never let the Democrats borrow. Without that you don't get the booming Trump economy (as it was), and you don't get the second Trump victory. I think MAGA parallels only get you so far with Reform.

[Bones McCoy]

Reform councils are coming apart at the seams with a flood of resignations.
Financial crises will soon follow.

The recent flagshagging, and Farage's predictable switch to full "wogs out" is a convenient smokescreen for their lack of ability.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Pinched from 'The New World' today. Author: Nigel Warburton.

A Cross of St George flag flown during the European Women’s Championship signalled support for a great national team. For a few weeks, it even looked as if the flag might be reclaimed from fascists. This August, though, days after aggressive anti-migrant protests outside hotels where asylum seekers are housed, fly that flag from a lamppost and the gesture has a very different, far nastier meaning.

There’s a viral movement co-ordinating just this kind of pseudo-patriotic display, and there’s a reason they are doing it now. Anti-migrant protesters love their flags. Displaying them signals to one another what they stand for and what they are against. Claims that this is just inclusive patriotism are about as convincing as Bill Clinton’s declaration, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”.

The concept of implicature, introduced by the philosopher HP Grice, is useful here. Implicature is the act of implying a meaning beyond the literal meaning of the words or other symbols we use. For anti-immigrants, festooning lampposts with national flags this August is mostly implicature signalling a “no foreigners in my town” stance – let’s not pretend otherwise.

Flag-flyers are calling out to fellow xenophobes. The literal meaning of the flags, something like “I’m proud to be English, and am proud to be proud” is a cover. For those already targeted by near-violent protests, the vile message is obvious: a cross of St George or a union jack flown today means “You’re not welcome here”

[Killer Whale]

It's a clear territory marker. As pungent as cat's piss.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Like dogs pissing on lamp-posts it's a territorial marker, a warning.

[Samanfur]

Spotted on Facebook:

[Boiler]

Spotted on Facebook:

Fleecebook, surely?

I suspect it's fake.

[Samanfur]

Poe's Law applies.