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Are they ever, ever going to get pulled up?

How fortunate that their entirely legitimate draw was won by a little, old white lady and not a football hooligan with a string of convictions and a 1488 tattoo.

Is that Jenerick or Badloss? Hard to tell them apart.

And why does this remind me of Noel Edmonds and Mike 'Smitty' Smith in their 80s totally bonkers mate heyday?

soulboy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2026 7:50 am How fortunate that their entirely legitimate draw was won by a little, old white lady and not a football hooligan with a string of convictions and a 1488 tattoo.

She's also a Reform member.

Farage picked up dustbin votes up from the Liberals/LDs so its not surprising Polanski is able to eat into Reform votes. Of course Zack's a windbag just like Farage but its amusing seeing the right blow a gasket over losing to someone following Farage's campaigning MO. Reform's also losing a few points in national polls to the grudge party run by that fucking lunatic Rupert Lowe.

davidjay wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2026 12:00 pm

soulboy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2026 7:50 am How fortunate that their entirely legitimate draw was won by a little, old white lady and not a football hooligan with a string of convictions and a 1488 tattoo.

She's also a Reform member.

I'll be darned, whadda the chances?
https://www.threads.com/@politicsintheu ... Ft7&slof=1

Youngian wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2026 4:15 pm

davidjay wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2026 12:00 pm

soulboy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2026 7:50 am How fortunate that their entirely legitimate draw was won by a little, old white lady and not a football hooligan with a string of convictions and a 1488 tattoo.

She's also a Reform member.

I'll be darned, whadda the chances?
https://www.threads.com/@politicsintheu ... Ft7&slof=1

I agree. I was shocked as well.

Youngian wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2026 4:15 pm

davidjay wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2026 12:00 pm

soulboy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2026 7:50 am How fortunate that their entirely legitimate draw was won by a little, old white lady and not a football hooligan with a string of convictions and a 1488 tattoo.

She's also a Reform member.

I'll be darned, whadda the chances?
https://www.threads.com/@politicsintheu ... Ft7&slof=1

Reform/Tories are banging on about crime rates, and especially things like shoplifting (see also Stuart Machin of M&S and his ill-informed comments) and the Guardian has a good piece by Dal Babu, ex-Met Chief Super.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... 1775985027

Shoplifting rife, police overwhelmed, an angry public – the trail leads back to one person: Theresa May

The key:

j’accuse Theresa May, now Baroness May, the longest-serving home secretary of modern times. May, who was in the post from 2010 to 2016, and her governmental band of ill-advised advisers, made five key decisions that have had a profound and deleterious impact on policing today.

First, the reduction of police numbers by almost 22,000 officers and more than 20,000 police staff – which included police community support officers (PCSOs) – was plain wrong. These huge reductions meant that police leaders had to make some difficult decisions on where the cuts were going to be implemented. In the end, most forces decided to gut their neighbourhood police teams in order to maintain capacity to answer 999 calls. This meant that safer neighbourhood teams – such as those I introduced in Tower Hamlets, east London, consisting of one sergeant, two police constables and three PCSOs – were reduced to a model of shared supervisors and teams required to simultaneously fulfil other roles. The opportunities for officers to work with local people and identify problems that would be jointly solved were reduced – and communities’ confidence in policing suffered.

May’s second offence was the hyper-politicisation of policing, with the introduction of police and crime commissioners (PCCs) in 2012. PCCs – whose positions are soon to be abolished – are elected officials whose role is to oversee local policing, set budgets and select chief constables. The first election of PCCs attracted just 15% of voters, and once in position, the incumbents largely sided with their respective home secretary or shadow home secretary, regardless of local issues.

Tice has got Big Dan on his case. This needs to be taken very seriously, I'd have thought.

Fortunately, Mrs Tice knows how to tighten the family belt. He might be doing some

Nice hefty interest charge would be nice.

What a bloody nuisance Rayner's tax fuck up was, and indeed still is. I think she might get her old Cabinet job back, which she was good at. But surely not the the top job.

And yet again, it'll be spun as an Establishment stitch-up.

That won't hold, if Tice has to cough up a big penalty like Zahawi did (30%). Talking of whom, I was forgetting for a second he was now in Reform too.

Tomorrow belongs to me.

That's a posh ward, in fairness.

I’m sure I’ve seen him one of my German history books.

Yeah, got the look of Reinhard Heydrich about him. And no doubt the politics too.

mattomac wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2026 12:46 am I’m sure I’ve seen him one of my German history books.