Reform supporters took issue with Tories saying "Vote Reform, get Labour", because Tories knew that Reform would split the vote. Now, Reform themselves are saying "Vote Restore, get Labour", because they believe that Restore will split the vote in what could be a close result.
The difference between the Conservative and the Reform UK approach on this is stark. Badenoch sounds like a leader. Farage appears primarily interested in furthering his own agenda. The right of British politics is becoming increasingly differentiated.
It's a nice enough suit, but the faux-pas are eye-watering:
• Buttoned up both buttons on his jacket
• Buttoned up jacket while wearing a waistcoat
• Tie clip while wearing a waistcoat- the waistcoat does the job
• Do that bloody tie up.
I don’t know who this bloke is, but he looks like he’s stepped straight out of a different era.
The suit. The tie. The moustache. The confidence.
A proper throwback to an England that valued character, individuality and a bit of class. 👏👍✊🇬🇧👌❤️🙏
Indeed. Indeed. Indeed. I warned the London media many, many times not to over-rate her, that she was in fact mediocre (as her record governing Scotland and running her party now shows beyond peradventure). But they know nothing of Scotland and fell for her flannel.
BLM’s biggest achievement was empowering the backlash against it.
“White Lives Matter”, now pushed by Farage/Reform, will do the same in reverse: entrench identity politics, gift the left an attack line, and bury the real issue, one law for all.
Kemi is absolutely correct.
Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan.
George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British.
Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events.
And we all know why.
During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way.
They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin.
And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his.
This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin.
This needs to stop.
The only logic I can see in this is that she's suitably placed on the right of the party in the hopes that a Burnham premiership won't send the Bond Markets do-lally.
This won't help if she doesn't have the skillset to manage the nation's finances, however.
Channel 4 is airing a programme called Virgin Island, which involves virgins (many with autism) working with a ‘surrogate partner therapist’.
The ‘therapy’ culminates with the ‘therapist’ taking their virginity.
This is the antithesis of therapy and a safeguarding nightmare.
I’ve taken some time away from politics to focus on the best and most important thing to ever happen to me.
It’s now even more important to make the country better for my son.
British politics will reach a new reductio ad absurdum in the Makerfield by election:
Vote Labour to destroy the sitting Labour Prime Minister.
Support Labour PM Starmer but NOT voting Labour.
We are having a by-election not because there’s any demand or need in the national interest but entirely to suit the convenience of the byzantine politics of the ruling party and the political pygmies in whose interest it is run.
We are no longer a serious nation. No wonder the bond markets are squiffy.