This is perhaps a harbinger of whatâs to come if Deform get voted in or the the Tories go even further right-wing bat-shit mental?
There is a pragmatism (some would call it opportunism) about Farage - he knows that unfounded climate denials wonât land - Reform have dropped a lot of that guff from its literature last year according to LSE. What they retain is an objection to Net Zero - ie can if ever be achieved, at what cost and ultimately for what point if our contribution to greenhouse gases is so infinitesimally small that even if we stopped tomorrow, nothing would change
He will no doubt use these people, (extremists make you look reasonable, right??) however if they did slow up the introduction of some of the policies in the Uk, would that be a bad thing?, like banning the sale of ICE cars by 2030 when the infrastructure to support the alternative will not be anywhere close to being ready or scrapping new drilling when we havenât got energy security through alternative methods.?
So Louise Haigh was officially binned for not reporting a stolen phone had come back. On paper, she resigned but in the background, she was being told to resign. As stated at the time, probably got a lot more to do with her comments on P&Oâs owners.
Tulip Siddiq, the erstwhile anti-corruption minister has been gifted a load of properties in the leafier parts of London, paid for by corrupt relatives in Bangladesh. She threatened the Daily Mail with legal action when they tried to investigate her.
Youâve got to wonder WTF, if anything, the Labour Party hivemind was thinking. While she has technically done nothing wrong, it does stink to high heaven in the particular context of being anti-corruption minister.
Why didnât they give her any other job?
Set a thief to catch a thief!
Mike Amesbury MP is kicked out by Labour after pleading guilty to sucker-punching man on street
So unfairâŚhe obviously ran onto his outstretched arm. It could happen to anyone.
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Will he do the decent thing and resign now or will he cling on and hope that the recall petition isnât successful
Seriously, anything other than a fixed penalty notice should trigger an automatic byelection.
Given what heâs been sacked for, he probably doesnât know what the decent thing is.
I expect this sort of thing happens a lot more than people think; this one happened to get caught on camera.
I wonder if heâll go around Runcorn and Helsby reminding people that heâs their local MP 
Across all parties obvs.
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I see Farage and his Ltd Company Reform are out of the blocks early demanding that Amesbury should now resign as an MP, as with a conviction for violence he is not a fit and proper person to be a law maker. Hmm. The newly elected Reform MP for South Basildon and East Thurrock, Jame NcMurdock, was convicted of assault for beating up a former girlfriend, punching, kicking and stamping on her, receiving a custodial sentence. Of course none of this was mentioned when he was selected to fight the election and during the campaign. Since it has come to light Farage says this is all in the past and Mr McMurdock is a âfine young manâ. What hypocrisy, but sadly no surprise there from Mr Toad.
Farage really said
He is a fine young man and brought significant funding sponsorship with him
Oh yesâŚ
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Thatâs absolutely shocking - Kier should, with immediate effect, demand a refund.
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Good old Rupes. Heâs a twat of the highest order regardlessâŚof anything
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He appears to be grasping at straws - Lowe that is.
Labour have just cancelled local elections for a number of councils including those in Hampshire - in advance of this enlargement drive (and no doubt mayoral nonsense).
Most are tory councils and most are in areas where reform where expected to do well
Reform are claiming a stitch up between Lab and Con and tbf they are probably right in this case as both parties could do without Reform building anymore momentum
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Crikey. Starmer received voice coaching for FIVE years before entering Downing Street. And he still ends up sounding like a robot with a strangulated hernia. Goodness knows what he sounded like before the coaching started.
Probably sounded like Colin Firth in the Kingâs Speech.