Mailwatch(ed) Forum

Another Angry Wank has had another of his periodic spurts (pun intended) of activity on the Facebook. This time, he is taking aim principally at Farage, Jenprick, and Reform, and actually turns in quite a good appraisal, but he slides back into Keir-bashing in his final two paragraphs, because he just can't help himself :

Nigel Farage has an interesting strategy of rapidly filling the Reform UK ranks with many of the most despicable Tories from the previous government. The very people who were responsible for creating the mess Britain is in today.
It seems extremely odd for a political movement that styles itself as some kind of brave anti-establishment insurgency to welcome a bunch of deeply unpopular Tory establishment stooges on board like this, but it's clearly what's actually going on.
It seems an awful lot like it's intended as a signal to the the establishment order that Reform are just a rebranded version of the Tory Party, with the same politics of class warfare against the poor and ordinary; austerity ruination; vandalism of the social safety net; privatisation mania; and handouts for corporations and the mega-rich.
It's like a bat signal to greedy CEOs, city slickers, media moguls, tax-dodgers, exploitative slumlords and the like, that Reform are hiding an agenda of "more of the same" behind their anti-establishment posturing.
The Tories that Reform are absorbing into their ranks are the very same people that the British public were so sick of that they allowed Keir Starmer to win a historic landslide election by default in 2024, but Reform seem confident that the bulk of their voters won't care that they're handing such despicable and unpopular people a route back into power.
They don't care because they seem to be assuming that the majority of their supporters are low-information "vibe" voters.
They're counting on the ignorance and gullibility of their own voters. Not just that they're unaware of who the likes of Nadhim Zahawi and Robert Jenrick actually are, but that Reform’s entire anti-establishment schtick is a brazen fraud, designed to appeal to the hopelessly naive.
It's hardly surprising to see. After all, the Tories spent their 14 years in power treating their voters like gullible idiots, and Keir Starmer's spent the last year and a half in power gleefully watering down and outright abandoning all the pledges and promises he made to con his own way into Downing Street.
Apparently, treating your own voters like gullible piss-witted scum whilst lying straight in their faces is the established way of winning power in modern British politics.

What watered down pledges? From 2024, or 2020? Because it makes a massive difference.

Anything happen after 2020 that might have hit the public finances at all? How would that stuff be funded without raising taxes by a lot more than they've had to do anyway? Just add that to "the rich and corporations are paying" or "abolish austerity' (there isn't any, there's a decent sized fiscal stimulus.

If you never win power, you can just pretend everything you put in a manifesto would have definitely happened. The cost of Covid was something like £360bn.

It’s Dennis Skinner’s birthday today. Incredibly, he is now 94.

Fucks sake. Where do you even start with this ?

I have known Peter Mandelson since his emergence- from the TUC - as another shitlord, Neil Kinnock’s, indispensable handmaiden as Labour’s Director of Communications. So, that is more than 40 years ago.
I watched his rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall from a ringside seat as a Labour official, a Labour MP, an expelled MP and finally a broadcaster in exile in China.
I’d be a liar if I pretended to any feelings but elation as I watched his arrest on charges of misconduct in public office this afternoon. For me he has been guilty of the most consistently malignant conduct in public life that I have ever witnessed and I have been up close and personal with the chamber of horrors that is the British Parliament across five different decades.
It is with contempt however that I turn from him to those now more deserving of my ire. Mandelson is finished, good riddance to a very bad smell. I hope he gets what’s coming to him.
His enablers sycophants promoters apologists are still with us however. Still calling shots in British politics still promoting wars still condemning our people to poverty under-achievement and hopelessness. It is they too now who should pay the price.
Lord Kinnock is now a putrefaction, a half-dead windbag carried into TV studios infrequently to fulminate against all the things he once claimed to support, support everything he once claimed to oppose. He is a figure much reviled indeed ridiculed. But he invented Peter Mandelson. Indeed Mandelson was co-author of the “Project” often attributed to Kinnock, namely the liquidation of the Labour Party as a working-class vehicle, and the destruction of Tony Benn as the last hope of socialist politics in Britain.
But it was Tony Blair who brought Mandelson from the shadow to the front of the stage.
On the very morning of John Smith’s untimely demise as parliament and people reeled in shock at our loss Mandelson was hard at work promoting Blair as his successor and smearing Blair’s supposed friend Gordon Brown. This I personally witnessed. I watched as Mandelson sought to turn my colleague the somewhat traditional Jimmy Wray MP against Brown on the basis that Gordon “hadn’t the full package”.
What do you mean asked Jimmy, he’s got one ball in the Albert Hall?
“No”, said Mandelson himself as camp as Christmas “he doesn’t have a wife Jimmy, and he will NEVER have a wife and if he ever does she will be a beard”.
That’s the man who helped Tony Blair knife his best friend and mentor.
And Blair would go on to spill a river of blood, still running fast,with Mandelson holding his hand every step of the way.
Mandelson was as close to Blair as any conjoined twin could be and is jointly and severally responsible for all the crimes the two committed against our country and the world.
But the journalists who fawned at his feet, beguiled bedazzled imbedded are deserving of the deepest contempt. Those who cheered every “comeback” advocated every promotion attacked every enemy of his he identified. Where are they this evening. Where is Emily Maitlis where is Jon Sopel? Where is Andrew Marr where is Robert Peston?
Perhaps as Petey himself would do, has done in my company, they would answer my questions with the words:
“Peter Who?”

George Galloway
Leader of the Workers Party
Shanghai
China

Galloway and Trump, two cheeks of the same delusional arse.

"In exile"? Again he insults everyone who really does put their life on the line for their beliefs.

Galloway, I remember that name.

Another big celebration party - come the day.

LNER D49 number 222 applies⁰

Are those bullet holes?

He's back:

Corbyn set to become Your Party parliamentary leader

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rxddwykno

For a given value of 'back'.

This is astonishing, it's simultaneously funny and depressing. And such a time warp. Personally it takes me back to around 1987, those endless meetings full of Left-wingers squabbling amongst themselves without a thought of how to implement change whilst, meanwhile, Thatcher got on with winning elections and smashing up the country.