[Andy McDandy]

And who was it that told them regulations would be done away with?

[satnav]

I think it is very fitting that the Reform Party is now calling itself the party of small business because if they ever did get into power most of our big businesses would soon become small businesses.

[mattomac]

Farage has appointed himself spokesman for small business.

The other great betrayal is that is every one of these millions of businesses, every one of these 5.6 million businesses, believed that, with Brexit, the regulatory burden on their shoulders would become less.
I can tell you, a decade on, almost from the referendum, in every single industry, from financial services to fisheries, the burden of regulation and the threat of the regulator is worse now than it was then

Did they all believe that? How about all the ones who exported to the EU, were they looking forward to carrying on, except with less regulation? I reckon at least some of them could see the problem coming.

The guys a clogged up sewer pipe.

[RedSparrows]

Herpaderpa the rest of the world didn't vanish unnghhh so unfair we can't trade with them without adhering to their regulations herpaderpaaaaaa

[Killer Whale]

Meanwhile in Wales:

Reform UK has called for a "review into the relationship" between the BBC and Plaid Cymru.

Cai Parry-Jones, a Reform spokesman, highlighted Plaid's leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth, and director of political strategy, Aled ap Dafydd, both who previously worked for the BBC.

His comments came after Nigel Farage accused the broadcaster of left-wing bias because its interim director of nations, Rhuanedd Richards, is a former chief executive of Plaid.

Responding to Parry-Jones' comments, a BBC Wales spokesperson said: "Our news teams in BBC Wales and across the BBC are completely committed to providing our audiences with fair and impartial coverage of all relevant political parties."

The thinnest of thin gruel. I wonder why they might be shouting loud about this. Are they trying to distract from something, perhaps?

Reform's only Senedd member faces a two-week suspension over offensive comments made in a WhatsApp chat.

In August 2023 Laura Anne Jones used a racial slur to describe Chinese people.

Recommending the sanction, the Senedd's standards committee said "inappropriate and offensive comments have no place in our Senedd or society more widely". Jones was cleared of complaints relating to making false expenses claims and unfair dismissal.

[Boiler]

I see that in the light of the ongoing Trump debacle, the FFC* and his party have pulled out of a film about them:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... h-edit-row

Reform UK has pulled out of a BBC documentary about the party amid a row over the broadcaster’s editing of a Donald Trump speech.

The film, which was due to be called the Rise of Reform and would have been presented by Laura Kuenssberg, was being made by the independent production company October Films.

The company was involved in a Panorama documentary that led to the resignation of two of the most senior executives at the BBC, the director general, Tim Davie, and Deborah Turness, the chief executive of news.

*Frog Faced Cunt.