If you’re keen for Starmer to remain in post and are being affected by all the negative noise out there, this piece by Thomas is a thought provoking reminder of why Starmer is the only one for now and the next 7-8 years. Excellent piece.
Loudest applause at Retford (which most of media would have down as nailed on Reformland) when I said a few misguided young thugs would be sitting in prison reflecting on how their lives have changed forever while Farage and Musk and the media oligarchs will be busy doing what multi millionaires do on a weekend, not giving a toss about Henry Novak, his family, or the people they whipped into a frenzy.
The real two-tier scandal in the UK is the relentless double standard approach of a media which lets one party leader get away with financial dodgery that would drive them into a frenzy if it involved someone their billionaire owners didn’t want in power because they believed in things like fairness and equality
When I woke up this morning, I started to think: why Suella Braverman?
Why does she keep coming back into the national conversation?
Why does a politician who already sat at the heart of power still present herself as if she is some outsider banging on the door?
And then it struck me.
Suella Braverman is useful to the right because she performs anger very well.
She gives people the theatre of toughness.
The raised voice.
The hard words.
The dramatic warnings.
The sense that everything is collapsing and only people like her are brave enough to say it.
But here is the problem.
She was not watching government from the sidelines.
She was in it.
She was Home Secretary.
She had power.
She had a platform.
She had access to the machinery of the state.
And yet now she talks as though Britain’s problems simply appeared yesterday, delivered by Labour, immigrants, lawyers, judges, civil servants, human rights, or whoever the latest enemy of the week happens to be.
That is the trick.
Turn failure into rage.
Turn responsibility into performance.
Turn government record into opposition theatre.
Suella Braverman is not anti-establishment.
She is what happens when the establishment fails, then grabs a microphone and blames everyone else.
And this is why the Conservative-to-Reform pipeline matters.
Because it is not really a new politics.
It is the old Conservative failure trying to escape the crime scene wearing a different badge.
Same language.
Same fear.
Same division.
Same people who had their chance.
Different stage.
Britain does not need more rage from politicians who already held power.
Britain needs seriousness.
Competence.
Decency.
Delivery.
Suella Braverman is not the answer to Conservative failure.
She is one of its loudest symptoms.
Britain deserves better.
#LessNoiseMoreDelivery
@Emotion78687 I saw 10cc back in March. They performed this song as part of their show, this song and the whole show was outstanding and I’d recommend anyone to go see them perform. Great musicians.
Over the last 36 hours, we have witnessed the very soul of Nigel Farage — his essence.
It has been over a month since he went into hiding, since serious questions began to be raised over his undeclared £5M donation.
A month since he appeared in front of TV cameras or underwent any questioning at all.
At 8am yesterday morning, Farage released a video, from a field somewhere, calling for rage. Calling for an end to the mythical two-tier policing.
Make no mistake, those were very carefully chosen words — he understood what he was unleashing, and his wish was granted last night in Southampton.
On Tuesday, the Home Secretary made a statement to the House regarding the murder of Henry Nowack. There was, as always, an opportunity to question Shabana Mahmood — was Nigel Farage in attendance?
No, of course not.
Today, Farage was granted a question at PMQs — the showpiece spectacle of the political week in which the country's news and politics fanatics tune in to watch — was Nigel Farage in attendance?
Yes, of course he was.
He had somehow found his way into work after missing 77 separate votes in Parliament because … he would, at least for three minutes, be the centre of the country's political attention.
His question was about the murder of Henry Nowack and the violence that erupted [on his command] last night, but he would not condemn it or call for calm.
Instead, he 'suggested' that this rioting might escalate.
This afternoon, he has performatively written to the BBC because someone on Newsnight dared to accuse him of inciting the violence — playing his perpetual victim card. Again.
And there we see the soul of Nigel Farage — a craven, desperate for attention, evil, petty and pointless man.
END RANT.
Nigel Farage showing the world who he really is. A spiteful, hate filled individual who has no place in British politics.
At PMQs today, Nigel Farage asked the Prime Minister about two tier policing and Henry Nowak.
Keir Starmer responded:
"This is a time for serious work, not rage. Henry Nowak's family have shown extraordinary dignity. There are serious questions for the police to answer. But there is no justification for violence on our streets."
He then said directly:
"I am really shocked that he pretends respect for Henry's family and then acts in this way. They are a grieving family. They make a simple plea to us as human beings to please not exploit that. His response has been to appeal for rage. To do it when the family are expressly saying please don't is unforgivable. It shows exactly who he is."
This was said in the House of Commons. It is on the parliamentary record.