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I just took a look at the list of the guests on Desert Island Disc in the last 5 years. In that time there have only been 3 politicians Kemi Badenoch, Lord Aldred Dubbs and Baroness Hale (former high court judge). So Kemi Badenoch is the only frontline politician to appear on the show since 2020.

[Andy McDandy]

And I'd guess that her life story (stints in McDonald's aside) is a bit more interesting than Fargle's. And the other two are both long and interesting lives well lived.

And that's his problem: he's not very interesting in himself. Aside from him shoehorning his political views into everything, there's not much more to him. Even his dress sense is a construct, as are his mannerisms, the pints, the cigarettes, the lot.

[davidjay]

And I'd guess that her life story (stints in McDonald's aside) is a bit more interesting than Fargle's. And the other two are both long and interesting lives well lived.

And that's his problem: he's not very interesting in himself. Aside from him shoehorning his political views into everything, there's not much more to him. Even his dress sense is a construct, as are his mannerisms, the pints, the cigarettes, the lot.

Life's Great Ironies (one in a never-ending series):

The man whose supporters would claim is the "only honest politician" is the most constructed.

[RedSparrows]

And I'd guess that her life story (stints in McDonald's aside) is a bit more interesting than Fargle's. And the other two are both long and interesting lives well lived.

And that's his problem: he's not very interesting in himself. Aside from him shoehorning his political views into everything, there's not much more to him. Even his dress sense is a construct, as are his mannerisms, the pints, the cigarettes, the lot.

Life's Great Ironies (one in a never-ending series):

The man whose supporters would claim is the "only honest politician" is the most constructed.

All part of the spectacle. The thing you claim is not X is, by definition, the most X thing around. But because you said it wasn't X, the disengaged nod along.

On Desert Island Discs. Where's the cry to keep politics out of it, ey readers?

And given half the interviewees are already 'eh' in terms of wanting to hear their choices, Farage is in with no chance. What cultural hinterland does he even pretend to have?!

[Youngian]

Golf and money are Farage's cultural hinterlands. Sara Pascoe introduced herself to Farage in a green room and told him she was a comedian, "I don't like comedy," Farage replied. What a freak.

[Andy McDandy]

He's developmentally arrested at age 14. Beer, fags, birds, and nobody's gonna tell me what to do.

[Abernathy]

For a laugh,let’s think about what the frog-faced cunt’s choices would have been :

1. The Horst Wessel Song - original recording by the Clacton Hitler Youth branch.

2. Tomorrow Belongs To Me. sung by Morrisey.

3. Send the Buggers Back . A version sung by Bernard Manning.

4. Gas’Em All . Original Dulwich College recording by N.Farage.

5. Deutschland Erwachen, by The Hamburg Vocal Ensemble.

6. Midnight in Moscow, by Vlad Putin and his Leningrad Shakers.

7. Bitcoin Blues - Christopher Harborne and his Bangkok Buglers.

8. I’m An Insomniac - Andrea Jenkyns and Big Momma Widdecombe.

[Boiler]

I found myself listening to DID in the car on my way to Gaydon this morning, and it was Guy Martin. Most interesting.

Farage is, like many whose lives are spent in the pursuit of money, a hollow shell of a man.

[davidjay]

It's all very Thatcherite - if you can't make money from it I'm not interested.

[Bones McCoy]

It's all very Thatcherite - if you can't make money from it I'm not interested.

New Songs:

Money (That's what I want) - Barrett Strong.

I'm gonna be (Five million quid) - The Proclaimers

[Tubby Isaacs]

He's struggling to shrug off the £5m quid thing, isn't he? I know there's a constituency who think, as some Twitter twat did, that "he'll have earned it if he kicks the foreigners out". But lots of other Reform people won't like it at all.

[The Weeping Angel]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62ek7lk553o

This is in relation to the Henry Nowak case and the release of the bodycam footage.

The family of murdered student, Henry Nowak, said they will carry their grief "every single day" for the rest of their lives and have called on the government to treat knife crime as a "national emergency".

It comes after Vickrum Digwa, 23, was sentenced to life in prison, for a minimum of 21 years, for using a 21cm (8in) blade he said he carried as part of his Sikh faith to stab the 18-year-old in Southampton in December.

Digwa had lied to police about being the victim of a racist attack and officers arrested and handcuffed Nowak as he lay dying on the ground.

The student's family called his treatment by police "inhumane and degrading". Hampshire police has apologised.

The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Donna Jones said she had written to the prime minster calling for an "urgent review on the carrying of bladed articles for religious and ceremonial purposes".

Jones added that: "It was a stressful situation, but mistakes were made and that needs to be uncovered. My job is not to be here to defend the police, my job is to ensure the police are doing what they should be doing."

The Home Office has been approached for comment.

Bodycam footage released by the force, with the family's permission, shows officers arriving at the scene and speaking to Digwa and others.

Judge William Mousley KC told Southampton Crown Court he was sure that Nowak had not said anything racist to the Sikh man who killed him.

And before sentencing Digwa, he told him his actions had "stirred up racial tension in Southampton and across the country which has made many Sikhs worried about their safety".

[RedSparrows]

That Farage quote has it all in one neat package.

Career criminal = extra-judicial killing justified
Act of said criminal prior to killing = irrelevant
A US example = a British result
Victimhood, race and no solution other than hate.

[Youngian]

I believe the law is under 6 inches for carrying ceremonial blades such as kirpans and daggers in the sock at Scottish weddings and golf club dinners.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Or in the case of one of my teachers, in the classroom...

[Youngian]

Jumped up little turd.

Who was that guy in the last decade telling us people with names like Nowak were the problem. By taking all the jobs, moving next door and speaking funny foreign languages on trains? Nigel someone..

[RedSparrows]

'Addressing the nation'.

Absolute cynical posing cunt.

[Boiler]

Contemptible cunt.

So, he's come out of hiding, the pompous prick?

[kreuzberger]

'Addressing the nation'.

He's not the Messiah, he's a ...

[Spoonman]

Man's a cunt.