[Tubby Isaacs]

Meanwhile in Kent.

Reform UK expels two Kent councillors accused of ‘undermining’ its interests
Robert Ford, subject of an ‘unofficial complaint’, and Bill Barrett, suspended after leaked meeting, removed via email

[Tubby Isaacs]

Hadn't heard from Tom Harris for a while. Here he bravely takes on the evidence of an actual election last week which suggested Reform might be overstated, with a sample of two friends.

[Youngian]

Sounds highly unlikely that Tom Harris still has friends in the Labour Party.

[Abernathy]

Farage on Pochin :

“ Asked during a press conference on grooming gangs if he accepted Pochin's comments were racist, Farage said: "I am unhappy with what she has done...
"I understand the basic point but the way she put it, the way she worded it, was wrong and was ugly.
"And if I thought that the intention behind it was racist then I would have taken a lot more action than I have to date."

Piss-poor attempt to be jesuitical. So What Pochin said was wrong, and ugly, but she didn’t say it with racist intent. So that’s okay. Right. She said that it “drives her mad” to see black people and brown people appearing in TV commercials. Certainly sounds pretty bloody racist to me, and if it wasn’t intentionally racist, lord knows what would be.

But Farage thinks it was okay. Cunt. What he really means of course is that Pochin should not have said the racist thinking out loud.

O’Brien was very good on this this morning. He was having none of this pussyfooting about, trying to debate whether it was racist or not. It just IS. Obviously, plainly, unambiguously. And Pochin is obviously racist, as is Farage, and the whole Reform shit-show.