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Can Zahawi identify when Farage had a Damascen conversion? As Farage's former fellow pupils can't.

Samanfur wrote: ↑Mon Jan 12, 2026 11:27 am Truly the party to bring a breath of fresh air and new thinking to UK politics.

It's 'change' because people say it is. That's it. That is their entire fucking platform.

But lo: look at the councils. Real radical revolution there, sniffing out their spectres and dreams.

Farage has decided that they don't have too much to worry about on the "Tory Rejects, Tory Rejects!" score. He may be right. It'll help him with the Tory Press, and keep him in the news. But Zahawi was last seen ducking out of contesting Stratford Upon Avon. (The Tories lost anyway, by 7,000). He's not popular, and this might be a test of Farage's theory.

I haven't been to the town for some time, but I remember it being less affluent than you might think. There are loads of huge houses around it though.

At this stage, they should just rename themselves Cunts Reunited.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Jan 12, 2026 1:15 pm Farage has decided that they don't have too much to worry about on the "Tory Rejects, Tory Rejects!" score. He may be right. It'll help him with the Tory Press, and keep him in the news. But Zahawi was last seen ducking out of contesting Stratford Upon Avon. (The Tories lost anyway, by 7,000). He's not popular, and this might be a test of Farage's theory.

I haven't been to the town for some time, but I remember it being less affluent than you might think. There are loads of huge houses around it though.

Yes, Stratford elected a LibDem Anglo-Italian lass called Manuela Perteghella.

As I always say, if the Lib Dems had known they were 7,000 up in Stratford, they could have targeted somewhere else. South Shropshire was a fairly narrow miss, they could have got that and had some campaigners left over. Solihull (a fairly recent ex-Lib Dem seat) has somehow managed to have two Tory MPs across the seats it's been split into. That could have been interesting too.

On the other hand, South Shropshire is a very large constituency. The impact of "Lib Dems winning here" signs may not have been what it was in other places.

Captions, anyone?

I do hope Plaid are taking notes.

Apparently Zahawi flounced because he lobbied for a peerage (!) and was knocked back. Presumably on the grounds of being completely bent...

Kemi needed that peerage for Sharon Davies.

It is interesting that you can make a list of the worst conservatives and the majority are now reform.

mattomac wrote: ↑Mon Jan 12, 2026 3:38 pm It is interesting that you can make a list of the worst conservatives and the majority are now reform.

I tried to think of the worst Tories that haven’t yet climbed aboard Farage’s racist bus. I could only come up with Johnson (whom if memory serves has already been nixed by Nigel), and of course, Truss - whom I think is just too bloody toxic and reputationally damaging, even for Reform.

Fabricant, Gavin Williamson, John Hayes, Braverman (although she's tilting towards Reform), a host of dicks in Essex like Patel and Sergeant Penfold.
Remind me what the Tory policy differences are with Reform apart from Kemi shys away from fag packet economic policies like Tice.

Difference between a hooker and a lady of the night.

Boiler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 12, 2026 2:11 pm Captions, anyone?


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Finally a man with dodgier finances than mine.

Mogg.

Boiler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 12, 2026 2:11 pm Captions, anyone?


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One in the pink...

Boiler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 12, 2026 2:11 pm Captions, anyone?


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Nathan was a bad apple.
Here's his replacement.

On-boarding Zahawi like this with much hullabaloo might just bite Nige on the arse. His judgement is as absent as the fourth estate criticism, so that probably won't happen.

Unless it does, and it takes another nibble out of his southbound polling numbers.