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Grant Shapps, of all people! Who could possibly have foreseen this?

Robert Kenyon, Reform UK’s candidate for #Makerfield. His Twitter account is suspended. We do know that he RT’d an awful lot of far-right commentators, including Carl Benjamin, Peter Sweden and Wayne O’Rouke who was jailed after the Southport riots.

what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him

Never forget, Cameron's Tories brought Brexit because Farage's UKIP was taking a bite out of Tory polling. Without a care, Cameron & Cabinet bet the nation for Tory Party benefit; to the absolute disastrous detriment of the nation.

The new Chair of Reform! Lee Anderson fought in The Battle of The Somme but got upset when ‘sniggled’ at. He felt food banks weren’t needed because nutritious meals could be cooked for 30p. A man who said nuisance tenants should live in tents & pick potatoes. Truly the intellectual face of Reform! 😬

The so-called news anchors in Downing Street are yelling like drunks in Glasgow on a Friday night. There's a feeding frenzy as if someone threw chum into the water and left them to fight for it. Every person approaching the black door is yelled at by playground bullies. It must take courage ...

And so the it seems that the flotsam/jetsam of this pathetic little country have won yet again. The ONLY reason to think about changing PM again would be for re-entry to the EU to regain our economic growth and for proportional representation or similar. Burnham has thrown the first to the dogs.

everything in american politics boils down to this

Tooze: "British politics seems to me framed by three silences that render the whole thing unhinged: 1. the electoral system that is totally out of whack with modern British society 2. the unspeakable question of returning to the EU 3. and the unmentionable fetish of BofE independence"

Easily, the most corrupt president in history:

Back in the days when people actually used to get done for shoplifting.

Heffer has been trying to rehabilitate him for years.

Pathetic.

Being a councillor is hard work. Some of it might be considered boring. This Reform clown thought all he had to do was get elected. The Reform Party attracts bad faith agents who cause chaos.

It's not that surprising, since Tice and Farage are Thatcherites, and are mostly speaking to a generation who came of age in the 1970s and 80s.

No, Reform is absolutely pro oil and gas, there is very little messaging from Reform about reopening Coal Mines, plenty about restarting extraction in the North Sea.

He’s sent Tice out to defend him this morning I see. Still refusing to answer any real questions. For a man with nothing to hide…..

Mind boggling isn’t it.. how the terminally hard of thinking can support such a bare faced liar❗️ 👇🏼Farage says £5 million was to pay for security for rest of his life Annnd within days it was for Brexit👇🏼🤥🤥 Mind boggling 🤷🏼‍♂️

I believe him. He’s not got enough about him to be a crook. He’s just a billionaires’ handmaiden.

Well done to the Birmingham councillors who refused to join a coalition with Reform. The party say they aren't prepared to do deals with others. So it is absolutely fine to reciprocate. There is no requirement to co-operate with the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

America didn’t turn ugly because he became President. No. He became President because America was already this ugly. That’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit.

I don't know how many different ways I can say this but I'm not stepping aside for Andy Burnham, and it's both very tedious for me and very demoralising for my staff to keep seeing it reported that I might be about to go when there's never even been so much as a conversation with Andy about doing so

Farage received a £5Million bribe to stand for parliament in Clacton so that a crypto billionaire would personally benefit from him being in power. And Farage didn’t declare it. Then he lied about it. Corrupt AF. Just go straight to a criminal investigation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Colin Jordan was the real life equivalent of Wodehouse's Roderick Spode. "Throughout his career, his reputation was significantly damaged by a 1975 incident in which he was convicted of stealing three pairs of red knickers from a branch of Tesco in Devon"

Aaaand another one bites the dust

Major Denis Healey being the Beachmaster for the British Assault Brigade at the Battle of Anzio. www.forcesnews.com/news/intelle... Hard as nails. @flipchartrick.bsky.social

DEAR RESTAURANTS: Your servers are not volunteers. If you can't afford to pay them more than 2.13% of what you charge, you can't afford to run a business. Thank you!

How Labour took on the far-right in the 1960s.

David Attenborough to form emergency government of national unity. (He’s probably the only person who could do it.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wish we’d just stop the hugging thing. I hoped it would die with Covid but it’s come back again, like a persistent rash.

I wouldn't try to hug someone I'd never met before, but do the young people still shake hands? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Alex Sibley is Reform UK’s former Big Brother contestant, new Councillor. Here’s his cringeworthy best man speech, posted on his own Instagram, where he calls gay men “poofs” and says the bride is “witty, which most women aren’t”.

1,444 Russian assets. www.bbc.co.uk/news/electio...

The only consolation is that Reform councillors are in for a terrible ride: little control, dwindling resources, huge workloads. Local elections are all fun and games until you’ve got to actually do the job.

"UKIP's here... sorry, Reform is here" This blithering idiot doesn't know which party he belongs to. This is the sort of attention to detail you can expect from your Reform councillors.

The Iranian ‘mosquito fleet’ taking on the mighty US Navy ft.trib.al/3EhgWev

I’ve voted, though without much enthusiasm.

See he's still doing performative pint propaganda. Reform Party UKIP leader Nigel Farage just drinks beer to be seen with it, according to former colleagues & party members. "He always drinks red wine when he’s behind closed doors" May 2019 @dailystar.co.uk www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-...

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It would be great if they got the bastard.

Crude attempt at a protection racket.

Many sadly concluded we had to go through Brexit before people saw what a horrendous act of self-harm they had committed. I'm terrified the same thing will happen with #Reform - that people will vote for them without realising they've just screwed over their country, loved ones and themselves.

One in three HR leaders face opposition to inclusion schemes, study finds

The Green Party suffer from the same problem as Reform in that once you get beyond the headline leader, there's quite a lot of folk that are wildly unsuitable to be councillors/MPs. It shows the state of Labour, Tories, and Lib Dems that they just can't exploit that for votes.

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We’ve always had cross-dressers in the military.