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What i do predict is this:

We will see a lot of the "tolerant left" revealing their stony hearts.

Side accumulator of a Torygraph sadface headline.

"Politician can't make ends meet in 3 million mansion on a backbench income".

Abernathy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 15, 2026 11:46 am Hasn't it dawned on Farage yet that turning Reform UK into a rehabilitation home for hideous Tory wankers isn't really doing him much good?

Don't forget this rabble are a result of Kippers joining the Tory party to place Johnson and Truss in power. While Farage fucked off after Johnson's victory leaving his government to carry the Brexit shit can. Karma can be a bugger.

A bit of turmoil on our sister site:

https://conservativehome.com/2026/01/15 ... to-defect/


I'm going to go all Kevin Keegan (PBUH) here:
I'd love it if Farage were to reject his membership.
Just leave him to fester in his one-man ratbastard party.
Condemned to forever walk the echoing tunnels of the London Underground filming fare dodgers and litter droppers.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 15, 2026 11:46 am

Hasn't it dawned on Farage yet that turning Reform UK into a rehabilitation home for hideous Tory wankers isn't really doing him much good?

I've said it before, Fargle doesn't want to be Prime Minister. This may be part of the grift. A secret deal with Tufton Street to take the Tory Party's utterly dogshit people in exchange for backhanders from shell companies in the Bahamas to his private offshore account, the Tories get the opportunity to reinvent themselves* as relatively sane proper Conservatives (look, the headbanger arseholes have all fucked off), Fargle gets to avoid the triple dangers of hard work, scrutiny and accountability that being PM would bring, while still being in the limelight and keeping his other income streams, and Labour faces serious trouble at the next GE.

This might be just pie-in-the-sky conspiracy tosh, but I wouldn't put it past either Tufton Street or Fargle to cook up a deal like this.


*Yes, we all know that the leopard doesn't change his shorts, but we also know that the Tories are experts at changing their outward appearance while still being the same old face-eating sleazebags they've always been. With our ridiculous multi-party FPTP electoral system they'll have to fool fewer than 30% of the electorate to get back in - and that is worrying.

Well, I went there so you didn't have to...

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 15, 2026 12:38 pm
Just leave him to fester in his one-man ratbastard party.
Condemned to forever walk the echoing tunnels of the London Underground filming fare dodgers and litter droppers.

I'm liking the sound of this Neverwhere remake.

Starmer says that Badenoch only taking action to sack Jenprick when it was confirmed he was about to jump ship into Farage’s racist griftathon - and not when she should have done, in response to his many and public instances of racism in recent years - reveals her weakness as a political leader.

O’Brien observed this morning that Badenough hasn’t actually acted swiftly and effectively as a decisive leader. The fact is she had absolutely no choice but to sack Jenprick under the circumstances. If she could plausibly have kept him inside the tent pissing out, she would have.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 15, 2026 11:46 am Hasn't it dawned on Farage yet that turning Reform UK into a rehabilitation home for hideous Tory wankers isn't really doing him much good?

There's a clip from a few years ago of Farage saying "Never trust a Tory" I think in the context that they "betrayed Brexit".
By my count Jenrick would bring the total of former Tory MP defectors to 24.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 15, 2026 1:45 pm Starmer says that Badenoch only taking action to sack Jenprick when it was confirmed he was about to jump ship into Farage’s racist griftathon - and not when she should have done, in response to his many and public instances of racism in recent years - reveals her weakness as a political leader.

O’Brien observed this morning that Badenough hasn’t actually acted swiftly and effectively as a decisive leader. The fact is she had absolutely no choice but to sack Jenprick under the circumstances. If she could plausibly have kept him inside the tent pissing out, she would have.

Starmer would be better off riffing on Reform's notoriously lax candidate screening.

You'd get the impression they'll take anybody, no matter how venal or corrupt.

Leave it open for either:
* But even Reform draw the line with honest Bob.
or
* They'll even take warmhorse Zahawi and honest Bob.

Jenrick needs to watch out for Badenoch loyalists bearing ice-axes.

Every Tory jumper shifts the dial towards Ed Davey becoming LOTO. Interesting thought.

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 15, 2026 3:30 pm Jenrick needs to watch out for Badenoch loyalists bearing ice-axes.

That'll make his ears burn.

Well he never was a hero

No doubt somebody will have scanned Jenprick’s resignation speech and will be uploading it to t’internet. Expect to be reading it very soon.