Mailwatch(ed) Forum

Seen on Facebook (because I wrote it) regarding Zia:

He's not even Shabna Mahmood's Chris Philp; he's Chris Philp's Chris Philp.

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Tue Feb 24, 2026 12:08 pm It's being blamed for an increase in youth unemployment.

Yeah, this is the stronger argument against it, at the lower age anyway. I thought that seemed a rather rash promise like the "day one" rights. I'd be OK with the rise in the lower ages being phased in.

I seem to remember quite a lot of youth unemployment prior to 1997.

Some zingers here from Danny Kruger. He's against no fault divorces, which I recall being a talking point for people who thought John Major was a liberal socialist. Is there any evidence this stuff appeals to Reform voters?

Farage isn't exactly Mr Family Man, then again nor is Trump and his party get away with pushing this stuff.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... al-economy

Kruger denied that Reform UK was a divisive party, and he suggested there could be widespread anger if the party did not win the next election.

“The total opposite is the case. The only chance of unity for our country is Reform. If we don’t win, or if we win and then make a mess of it, I do fear for our country,” he said.

Vote for us or the country gets it.

Got it, alright.

How many Reform voters believe there's not enough people?
So Kruger wants to throw taxpayer money at policies that have failed in every country to reverse declining birthrates.

Kruger said Reform UK had a “pronatalist ambition” and would seek policies to encourage people to have more children, including exploring changes to the tax system to make payments based on households rather than individuals.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 24, 2026 3:49 pm

Kruger denied that Reform UK was a divisive party, and he suggested there could be widespread anger if the party did not win the next election.

“The total opposite is the case. The only chance of unity for our country is Reform. If we don’t win, or if we win and then make a mess of it, I do fear for our country,” he said.

Vote for us or the country gets it.

Got it, alright.

Wasn’t that also the message from a certain Austrian painter?

If he said if we win and make a mess of it fair enough we need to be held accountable but his view seems be solidly it’s them and them regardless.

The fact is the country is ok, its trading position is improving. There is faults but nothing any single policy from this lot will solve.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 24, 2026 3:49 pm

Kruger denied that Reform UK was a divisive party, and he suggested there could be widespread anger if the party did not win the next election.

“The total opposite is the case. The only chance of unity for our country is Reform. If we don’t win, or if we win and then make a mess of it, I do fear for our country,” he said.

Vote for us or the country gets it.

Got it, alright.

Time for somebody to remind him he's not back on the high Veldt.

I'm more interested in why the police are taking no action.

Because the cops are racist, misogynistic cunts too?

tl;dr – "We think noisy people on pubic transport must be foreign, and we’re going to deport them all."

Doesn't Rupert remember the scourge of the transistor radio?

'sfunny, but even in the 1930s Christopher Stone was urging the owners of the new Bush "transportable" radio* that whilst they could take it out into the garden to listen to, to not annoy the neighbours by playing it loudly...

"By "transportable", Bush meant "normal size polished wooden radio with a stout leather strap and internal aerial" - model BP5.

Samanfur wrote: ↑Wed Feb 25, 2026 9:26 am tl;dr – "We think noisy people on pubic transport must be foreign, and we’re going to deport them all."

Truly demented.

From the back of my copy of "Vile Bodies" by Evelyn Waugh:

....never off the phone, and obsessed with their music players, drugs, and endless partying....

Nothing new under the sun etc.

I've noticed that though the young are probably more likely to be the ones who blast noise from their phones that this is often done in groups (And as far as I am aware they are all British, but then I am not the Stasi so I don't go and demand their papers), those who usually blast music or more likely youtube/news clips are those who are older. In fact the most annoying one just this morning was a white bald man listening to GB News or something similarly unhinged far right tripe.

In that case he probably should be locked up.

I nearly asked a youngster to turn his music down on a train. But didn't want to sound like Richard Vernon in a bowler hat from a Hard a Days Night.

Surbiton MP Ed Davey proposed a quiet carriage policy a few months back.

Youngian wrote: ↑Wed Feb 25, 2026 11:36 am Surbiton MP Ed Davey proposed a quiet carriage policy a few months back.

In my commuting days this was widely interpreted as "somewhere quiet to make a phone call". Unless you smash some people in the face with a cricket bat when they get their phone out, this rule will be ignored. I used to avoid quiet carriages because it wound me up so much.

He'll strike a chord with people who think that being mildly inconvenienced is equal to getting attacked, and it's always the foreigns. He just stops short of outright racism but the Overton window moves another fraction.