[Boiler]

Oh god we're screwed.

Just remember - as if you needed to - that a very large economy on the other side of the Atlantic voted for a 'reality' TV host to become its President.

As we drown ever more in 'influencers' and sleb worship, it'll come here...

I'm just waiting for the US to make Mr. Beast their president. Or a Kardashian.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Neil Kinnock's stuck it to Farage about reopening coal mines in South Wales.

Hopefully this absolute rubbish will hurt Reform. Welsh people, they need to work in coal mines. Did Farage tell his neighbors in Kent they should be working in hop fields? I hope he never shows up in Herefordshire. We're quite an affliuent county now, but he'll tell us to stop getting above ourselves and go to work in the derelict orchards.

[Oboogie]

I really don't understand where this Farage-man-of-the-people thing has come from, as far as I'm concerned he dresses like a toff and talks like a toff. What are people seeing that I'm not?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I really don't understand where this Farage-man-of-the-people thing has come from, as far as I'm concerned he dresses like a toff and talks like a toff. What are people seeing that I'm not?

The emperor's new clothes?

[satnav]

Farage is still trying to spin the line that he isn't really a politicians. Allowing to appear on I'm celebrity and presenting shows on GB News help him to create the pretence that he's not part of the establishment.

When I saw the Kinnock interview earlier it did get me thinking that Labour really needs a new Dennis Skinner in the Commons. I can remember when David Owen was leader of the SDP, every time he stood up in the Commons, Skinner would shout something like 'Here comes doctor Death' in reference to the fact that the SDP did very well in by-elections after an MP died. Skinner really got under Owen's skin and undermined whatever Owen said. Somebody like John McDonald could probably pull it off.

[Tubby Isaacs]

James McMurdock could be in a lot more trouble than I thought. The Sunday Times alleges he wrongly claimed tens of thousands in bounce back loans.

Where’s the by-election?

[Oboogie]

I really don't understand where this Farage-man-of-the-people thing has come from, as far as I'm concerned he dresses like a toff and talks like a toff. What are people seeing that I'm not?

The emperor's new clothes?

Funny you should say that but, when I see him in his tweed cap, Barbour and brogues, what he most reminds me of is the Royal family at Balmoral off to waste some wildlife. The Royal Family - literally top of the posh!

*Ok the King is no longer an emperor, but his Great Grandaddy was so that's close.

[Boiler]

I really don't understand where this Farage-man-of-the-people thing has come from, as far as I'm concerned he dresses like a toff and talks like a toff. What are people seeing that I'm not?

Because he gives the impression of talking to people, rather than at them? Otherwise, I dunno.

[Yug]

Did Farage tell his neighbors in Kent they should be working in hop fields?

And the coal mines. The Kent and East Sussex Light Railway was built to tap into the coal traffic from the Kent coalfield. The last Kentish pit closed in the 1980's. I'm sure Pop Larkin would love a job down the mine.

[Boiler]

Also, ISTR that hop pickers were drawn from East London as well as the travelling communities.