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By Abernathy
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Yeah, I think they realised as much. Which is why they withdrew it. But they did say it.
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By Bones McCoy
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Abernathy wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 5:01 pm Yeah, I think they realised as much. Which is why they withdrew it. But they did say it.
So imagine what they say about ordinary folk who are wrestling with workplace or battlefield induced stress.
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By Samanfur
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Abernathy wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 5:01 pm Yeah, I think they realised as much. Which is why they withdrew it. But they did say it.
Apparently, they released that statement "in error".

Schrodinger's Dickhead in action again.
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By Malcolm Armsteen
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Youngian wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 5:00 pm
Conservatives did all we could to look after Suella’s mental health

That's very low rent and unnecessary.
Oh, I dunno...
By mattomac
#104718
Youngian wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 3:18 pm
Malcolm Armsteen wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 12:28 pm Oh dear, how sad etc. etc.

If they keep this up and get a grownup in for Badenoch the Tories will be flirting with electability.
Suella effing off is a good first day for their new project.
Conservative politicians Sir Andy Street and Baroness Ruth Davidson are launching a new movement that will attempt to attract millions of "politically homeless" voters to the Tory party.
their research suggested that seven million people who describe themselves as centrist, or centre-right, felt no party currently represented them.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93v7nnk3vlo
Aren't they politically homeless because of the Tory party?
By mattomac
#104722
Boiler wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 2:23 pm
mattomac wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 1:22 pm then again I am not going vote for fascism or fascism light.
Come the next GE, do I simply not vote or do I vote for Hayes to keep Reform out?
I dunno, hopefully my next move still gives me the offer of the lesser evil in Lib Dems which it does here.
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By Abernathy
#104730
Malcolm Armsteen wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 7:20 pm
Youngian wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 5:00 pm
Conservatives did all we could to look after Suella’s mental health

That's very low rent and unnecessary.
Oh, I dunno...
A Facebook friend was musing on how attitudes to mental health and related slurs/insults have changed down the years. He cited John Major in 1995 saying that when he heard a particular “bastard” backbencher’s name ( I think it was Richard Body) he mentally thought of “the flapping of white coats”. Nobody was particularly offended by or angry about Major’s quip. If he said it today, he would be excoriated for it.

Furthermore, political hacks and geeks/footsoldiers like me were fond and still are, of referring in everyday banter to certain politicians as “bonkers”. We don’t really mean it, but we know what we mean, if you get me.
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By kreuzberger
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There is a subtle difference here: Braverman is a full-diesel psycho with fewer redeeming attributes than a rabid pigeon.

She and Farage will get on like an orphanage on fire.
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By Samanfur
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Reform mayoral candidate replicates Donald Trump’s controversial Greenland penguin image

Reform UK’s candidate for the London mayoral election has been criticised for her “baffling” recreation of Donald Trump’s AI-generated image of him walking with a penguin in Greenland.
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By Youngian
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Bonkers is what I may of described someone in 2014 who predicted Suella (then) Fernandes would become a senior cabinet minister. But that’s Brexit for you.
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By Samanfur
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By satnav
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Farage is still maintaining that he has turned down a number of potential Tory defectors because they are not the right fit for Reform, I really wish he would name names because I'm struggling to think of any Tories who are worse than Braverman and Rossendale.
By soulboy
#104749
Samanfur wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 10:35 pm
Reform mayoral candidate replicates Donald Trump’s controversial Greenland penguin image

Reform UK’s candidate for the London mayoral election has been criticised for her “baffling” recreation of Donald Trump’s AI-generated image of him walking with a penguin in Greenland.
I'm getting strong Lovecraft vibes from that image. Seemed like the kind of chap that Reform could work with.
By RedSparrows
#104751
Samanfur wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 10:35 pm
Reform mayoral candidate replicates Donald Trump’s controversial Greenland penguin image

Reform UK’s candidate for the London mayoral election has been criticised for her “baffling” recreation of Donald Trump’s AI-generated image of him walking with a penguin in Greenland.
How does the latter image make any kind of sense?

Pure moronic spectacle, though spectacle is too evocative of something special.
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By kreuzberger
#104753
They think that they are so clever and edgy, but the source image is above the fold on OpenAI's homepage. Idle fuckers.
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By Andy McDandy
#104754
satnav wrote: Tue Jan 27, 2026 7:32 am Farage is still maintaining that he has turned down a number of potential Tory defectors because they are not the right fit for Reform, I really wish he would name names because I'm struggling to think of any Tories who are worse than Braverman and Rossendale.
You're assuming they'd be too right wing for him? Perhaps some more centrist ones fear losing their seats, so are trying to look further right than they really are?
By mattomac
#104758
Andy McDandy wrote: Tue Jan 27, 2026 9:46 am
satnav wrote: Tue Jan 27, 2026 7:32 am Farage is still maintaining that he has turned down a number of potential Tory defectors because they are not the right fit for Reform, I really wish he would name names because I'm struggling to think of any Tories who are worse than Braverman and Rossendale.
You're assuming they'd be too right wing for him? Perhaps some more centrist ones fear losing their seats, so are trying to look further right than they really are?
Truss would spring to mind, Andrew Brigden perhaps? But yeah I would assume they will be more on the centre right than the right and far right.
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