[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.

[kreuzberger]

In his now regular Monday audience with his press, he is pushing the agenda that being racist isn't at all racist. "It's just calling it like it is".

I wonder if he is trying his hardest to move into the snake-pit that is the "deplorables" shit show. (None of these discussions should overlook the fact that hoachin' Pochin slithered home by a margin of six squalid votes.)

[AOB]

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Sounds highly unlikely that Tom Harris has friends.

FTFY

[Andy McDandy]

Is it just me, or does Pochin always appear to be half cut?

[Tubby Isaacs]

In his now regular Monday audience with his press, he is pushing the agenda that being racist isn't at all racist. "It's just calling it like it is".

I wonder if he is trying his hardest to move into the snake-pit that is the "deplorables" shit show. (None of these discussions should overlook the fact that hoachin' Pochin slithered home by a margin of six squalid votes.)

Shame that Pochin overshadowed his doubtless totally constructive on the grooming gang inquiry.

Talking of which, the two Reform-linked survivors... I thought that nobody could have any sort of role in anything if they'd ever said anything "political" because that made them "activists". What's the difference?

[kreuzberger]

I'll cut these women all due slack, but the "He's my new boyfriend, and he truly cares about me" vibe is riding in to town with flashing lights, blaring whistles, and a 99 flake.

The Vichy-Squeeze must be twitching and texting her mates for updates.