[Tubby Isaacs]

I won't hold my breath for the 'Screeching U-Turn as Reform decide to try and be credible and in so doing show how little is actually expected of them even as everyone says they're the next government us included p.s. take them seriously because reasons' headlines.

Yep.

If they lead the polls for much longer, it'll just be treated as inevitable they're going to win, so no point in asking questions.

[The Weeping Angel]

I won't hold my breath for the 'Screeching U-Turn as Reform decide to try and be credible and in so doing show how little is actually expected of them even as everyone says they're the next government us included p.s. take them seriously because reasons' headlines.

Yep.

If they lead the polls for much longer, it'll just be treated as inevitable they're going to win, so no point in asking questions.

That is depressing.

[davidjay]

They don't need policies. They don't need to say anything about tax. Their voters think they'll get rid of every dark face in England and that's all that counts.

[Oboogie]

Phil Moorhouse's summary of the Nathan Gill saga.

However, the main reason I'm sharing it is for the song about Farage which Phil has created using AI - I expect many of you will shudder at the thought, as I would - but give a listen. I'd like it to be released, preferably re-recorded by an actual band.

The song begins at 4:53.

[Oboogie]

The Farage pisstake song has now been clipped for ease of listening.

[The Weeping Angel]

[Youngian]

The owners of the means of production must be quivering with fear at Farage's ultra Thatcherite economic agenda.

[Yug]

Maybe calling it "Project Fear 2" isn't such a clever idea, seeing how the original Project Fear turned out to be just people who knew what they were talking about pointing out the massive downsides to Fargle's Brexshit which, on reflection, turned out to be pretty much on the money.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The owners of the means of production must be quivering with fear at Farage's ultra Thatcherite economic agenda.

What does "they will go after everyone who back Reform" mean?

[Oboogie]

The owners of the means of production must be quivering with fear at Farage's ultra Thatcherite economic agenda.

What does "they will go after everyone who back Reform" mean?

That it's political, nothing whatsoever to do with the Fuhrer's past words and deeds, we're all in this together, rally round the painted roundabout, boys.

[mattomac]

Another use of the word "they"

[Bones McCoy]

Has Goodwin been silenced (for the umpteenth time this week).

[Yug]

The frog-faced fascist cunt is trying to distance himself from both Trump and Putin
(apologies for the source)

In a rare public rebuke of Mr Trump, the Reform UK leader told The Telegraph that the terms on offer to Kyiv were not “acceptable”.

Mr Farage’s remarks represent a significant strengthening of his support for Ukraine following attempts by Labour to cast him as sympathetic to Vladimir Putin.

They come after the Trump administration tabled a 28-point peace plan designed to end the fighting between Ukraine and Russia...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/20 ... cceptable/

I wonder what's brought this on?*



*rhetorical

[Boiler]

Given our media won't, he really needs to be pushed and pushed hard on Russia (and other matters) by Starmer and others. He'll soon crack.

[AOB]

.Nigel Farage’s shifting answers on school-days racism claims – a timeline

Challenged again about whether he had racially abused anyone, Farage responded: “No, not with intent.”

When the interviewer told Farage that he did not understand what he meant by “not with intent”, the Reform leader responded: “You wouldn’t.”

He must've been a bit of a cunt for fellow pupils to remember it years later. They're the ones you remember from donkeys years ago unfortunately, the cunts. I saw that interview. It was great seeing him squirm for a change.

[Youngian]

He was just kid, Nigel has since repudiated Hitler's interventionist mixed economy experiments.

[Abernathy]

𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗹 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻'𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗹.
Nigel Farage presents himself as a political outsider, a man of the people, pint in hand, rallying the nation to "take back control." But peel back the layers of manufactured charisma and populist bluster, and you’ll find something far more calculated, elitist, and damaging. Farage wasn’t just a player in Britain’s political drama — he was a frontman for one of the most significant bait-and-switch operations in modern UK history.
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙃𝙞𝙨 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨:
Farage’s success wasn’t born from grassroots rage. It was bankrolled by millionaires and hedge fund managers with one primary concern: the growing threat of EU regulations on financial transparency. The EU was moving toward mandatory disclosure of beneficial ownership, tighter corporate tax laws, and cross-border cooperation that would have exposed Britain’s offshore tax havens. The very wealthy were running scared — and Farage offered them a lifeline.
Enter Arron Banks, the multimillionaire insurance tycoon with opaque finances and offshore dealings. Add to the mix a network of hedge funders; libertarian think tanks and tax haven defenders. Farage became their man — a “rebel” with a tailored script.
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙖 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚:
Farage’s rise would not have been possible without the mainstream media. The BBC, desperate for "balance," handed him dozens of appearances on Question Time. The right-wing press — Telegraph, Mail, Express — turned him into a household name. LBC gave him his own radio show. GB News now serves as his echo chamber.
Why? Because outrage sells. Farage was clickbait personified. He delivered ratings, controversy, and headlines while reinforcing the interests of media barons who shared his disdain for Brussels’ oversight.
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙎𝙮𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙨:
Farage’s relationship with the Conservative Party was never straightforward. Publicly, he was their enemy. Privately, he was their pressure valve. His threat to Tory votes — especially in marginal, working-class areas — forced Cameron to offer the Brexit referendum. Later, in 2019, he stood down Brexit Party candidates in Tory seats, helping Boris Johnson win a landslide.
In return, the Tories absorbed Farage’s playbook wholesale: anti-immigration, anti-Europe, pro-privatisation, and pro-deregulation. Farage didn’t just influence policy — he reshaped the party from outside.
𝙍𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙐𝙆: 𝙍𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙤𝙩:
Post-Brexit, Farage didn’t retire. He rebranded. Reform UK emerged as the next vehicle for his populist project. Now he rails against Net Zero, attacks trans rights, and blames every national failure on "woke elites" and illegal migrants. The messaging hasn’t changed — just the targets.
Reform UK isn’t about reform. It’s about keeping the anger alive while ensuring the same elite class stays untouchable. It’s The Brexit Party 2.0 — the cultural sequel.
𝘼 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙙𝙮:
Farage’s ambitions didn’t stop at Dover. He aligned himself with Donald Trump, spoke at MAGA rallies, and worked with Steve Bannon to build a transatlantic alliance of right-wing populists. His influence stretched into the American culture war, feeding the same lies about immigration, globalism, and democracy.
He positioned himself as a British Trump, a warrior against "the deep state." But the reality was that he was always defending entrenched power, never fighting it.
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜-𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝘽𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙮𝙖𝙡:
Farage’s greatest deception wasn’t what he said — it was who he claimed to represent. Working-class voters, especially in post-industrial towns, were sold a revolution. They got deregulation, rising costs, weakened rights, and a divided society. The rich got richer. The people got slogans.
Farage played the role of rebel, but his loyalties were always to the elite — the same ones hiding money offshore, lobbying against transparency, and laughing behind the curtain. At the same time, the public turned on each other.
𝙇𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙘𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙍𝙪𝙞𝙣:
Today, Britain is more divided, isolated, and less secure than ever in recent history. Farage didn’t do it alone, but his fingerprints are on every broken promise, every shuttered factory, and every food bank queue.
He weaponised nostalgia. He distorted democracy. He convinced the nation to burn down the house, then walked away with the matches in his pocket.
Farage is not an outsider. He is the inside man of a very elite con — and the bill is now due.”