Tony Harley

Jazz Sax Player. Holiday accommodation in Devon, UK. Dartington Hall School 1960 to 1974.

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@tonydevon.bsky.social

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

Welcome the new day,
as indeed, she welcomes you,
and together we shall rise.

Happy New Year everyone x

#dartmoornationalpark
#happynewyear2023

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

Vote Binface!

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Why is this Count Binface video better than mine when I've got £5 million?

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

Come on Clacton. Vote against the establishment!
@CountBinface

[Adam Pearson @Adam_Pearson]

Currently the Clacton By-election appears to be a choice between

A) a novelty act with no real policies
B) Count Binface.

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

@ElizabethBangs And this seriously p!$$es me off!

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

@implausibleblog Revolting ignorant opportunist.
Perfect for Reform.

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

Forage must be overcome.

[Just me - Thomas @TomSoede]

This morning I asked myself, not for the first time, who is Nigel and I made some notes.

And it does add up.

Here is a man who sells himself as the ordinary bloke with a pint, the man of the people, the great outsider standing up against the establishment.

And yet somehow this ordinary bloke always seems to arrive with a camera crew, a donor network, a friendly broadcaster, and now a parliamentary investigation into a £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire.

Very normal.

Very grassroots.

Very “just one of the lads”.

The peoples revolt, apparently, now comes with lighting, branding, fundraising dinners, professional outrage, and a small question about whether millions should have been declared properly.

Everything is a betrayal when Labour does it.

Everything is “nothing to see here” when Nigel does it.

Housing? Blame Labour.
The NHS? Blame Labour.
The economy? Blame Labour.
Boats? Blame Labour.
A £5 million gift? Suddenly everybody must calm down and respect the process.

And then came Tuesday.

A young man died. A family was grieving. A country was trying to understand something horrific.

And Farage stepped forward.

Not with calm.
Not with care.
Not with responsibilty.

But with his announcement of “pure cold rage”.

That phrase matters.

Because anger is human.
Anger can be moral.
Anger can demand answers, justice, accountability and truth.

I understand anger.
A lot of people are angry.
They have every right to ask serious questions.

But rage is different.

Rage does not ask careful questions.
Rage does not wait for investigations.
Rage does not protect grieving families from becoming political props.

Rage looks for a target.

And that is where Farage always seems most comfertable.

Not solving the pain.
Not calming the country.
Not asking how institutions failed and how they can be fixed.

But standing beside the pain with a microphone, turning the temprature up, and calling it leadership.

Warm enough to repost.
Warm enough to donate.
Warm enough to vote.
But never calm enough to ask:

“Hang on, who benefits from keeping us this angry?”

That is the trick.

He does not need Britain to feel hopeful.
He does not even need Britain to feel informed.

He needs Britain permanently one headline away from rage.

Because rage is usefull.

It fills rallies.
It drives clicks.
It turns grief into theatre.
It makes slogans feel like solutions.

And while everyone is shouting, nobody asks the boring questions.

Where is the plan?
Where is the funding?
Where are the costings?
Where is the responsibilty?

Maybe that is who Nigel Farage is.

Not the man of the people.

But the man who knows exactly how to turn peoples pain into his own political stage.

The Reform & Tory Sitcom continues.

Same chaos. Different rosette.

Anger can demand answers.
Rage just sells tickets.

If this speaks to you, please add your comments, repost it, and maybe follow me — not for me, but because politics needs fewer slogans and more people asking proper questions.

#Farage #ReformUK

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

@donmcgowan Oh great. Just bloomin great.

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@GordonFielden @Peston Absolutely.

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

Not often I agree with Tom, but there you go...

[Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn]

There is an escape route for Labour from certain disaster at the general election: use their Commons majority to ram through PR. It’s cynical, + they’d never govern alone again, but it locks Reform out of No10. The left (Lab, Gr, LD) still have a majority over the right in the UK

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

@implausibleblog I think Polanski is refreshingly direct, and correct.

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

@patrickwintour There is no reason to believe any of the drivel dribbling from this orange carbuncle on the face of humanity.

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

Exactly.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

No
one
believes
this
stuff
anymore

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

Israel attacking Jews...

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

Make this go Viral.

Media won't show you this.

🇮🇷 Rabbi Younes Hammami Lalezar, leader of Iran's Jewish community, stands before the ruins of a synagogue in central Tehran destroyed by Israeli bombing.

Jews practice Judaism, run schools and synagogues, and even have a seat in parliament.

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

@Tom___Scott Bastardos!

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

Oh

[Alan Lester @aljhlester]

This will be all over the Telegraph, Mail and GB News. Brace yourself for Musk’s algorithms to amplify too.

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

@BlokeOnWheels Right here with you, brother.

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

@SJP74 @Nigel_Farage Yep. Is he going to get better and better now he's without McSweeney?

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

@lunaperla @Ald19Dr @soniasodha I really hope Kier Starmer does not resign. I do hope he changes a few things.

I think the media are trying to create a big story.

The big Epstein scandal is that Donald Trump was definitely in the middle of it.

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

@Bbmorg I really hope Kier Starmer does not resign. I do hope he changes a few things.

I think the media are trying to create a big story.

The big Epstein scandal is that Donald Trump was definitely in the middle of it.

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

@AndyGJBurge @bbclaurak @Nigel_Farage I thought that might happen so I haven't bothered to watch it.

Thank you for watching it so I don't have to.

[Tony Harley @GarfieldTony]

This is the bigger issue!

[Adam Boulton @adamboultonTABB]

Not excusing Mandelson at all. Worth noting that POTUS DJT also has record of Friendship with Epstein ✔️ Breaching confidentiality ✔️ Profiting from office ✔️ + Sex offence and girl stuff ✔️ ✔️ but is not being destroyed.