The thing about Farage is that he's always had the whiff of a second hand car salesman/wide boy about him. The only way he survived the taint is that he had principles (explicitly one - Brexit) which he stuck by through thick and thin even when it was a totally fringe belief. But this, 'Yeah a Crypto King in Thailand gave me £5 million but I deserved it' schtick, is not gonna wash.
@Dmg_Cntrl Prediction markets can either be an efficient gambling market or a way for insiders to monetise privileged information making it a truth machine.
It can't be both
@BethRigby We dont want pointless controversies that create instability in government at a time stability is very important.
The people will get a say in changing government at the GE. I am no fan of Starmer but no PM can be popular when the economy is doing badly
@AliR_Ahmadi I think Aragchi should have mentioned that it was subject to the US blockade being lifted too but both sides needed to put out confidence building measures to reach closer to a deal
Trump should declare victory after a deal is reached and should have lifted the blockade
@realBenBloch This is why banning people is counterproductive. Each side brings its own lists of people they want to target.
Speech should only be regulated when there is credible and imminent violent threat
@joanwortham1@vali_nasr They will never surrender, and they'll destroy the gcc to rubble before they are destroyed.
Iran's pain threshold is higher than both America and Israel