The murder of any politician is an attack on our democracy and two serving MPs and a former MP have been murdered in recent years. One Labour, one Conservative and now a Reform member. Labour and the Tories approached their loss with dignity. Reform, in contrast, is exploiting the death of Ann Widdecombe to obscene levels.
@antmiddleton "trust me"
You're a convicted woman-beater, tax-dodger, and disqualified businessman, who makes a living by stirring up division in their home country, from their adopted home in an Islamic tax haven.
I won't, thanks.
Quite funny Nigel Farage calling for a general election and claiming Andy Burnham has no mandate when he isn’t even an MP and is locked in an electoral struggle with a bin.
One of my best friends at school was murdered after being struck repeatedly on the back of the head with a hammer.
I sat in court and listened to the details of his death. I will never forget hearing his mum sob as she learned what her son’s final words had been.
His murderer was sentenced to life in prison for the life he took.
I cannot begin to imagine what it would have felt like if that trial had collapsed because someone prejudiced the case and destroyed any chance of a conviction, simply for the sake of meagre political point-scoring.
I'll never agree with the politics of Ann Widdecombe, but she deserves justice. And that's something you and your party seem hell bent on preventing at all costs.
A Clacton resident has unveiled a tattoo celebrating everything Nigel Farage has done for Clacton since becoming their MP.
Tattoo artist said it was the easiest job of his career
@AllisonPearson You are deliberately trying to incite something dark. A self-styled journalist would know how the legal system works. Shameful but sadly par for the course from you
Asked about Posh George, the imprisoned fraudster, Farage points at Louise Haigh and claims that “Burnham is about to put a convicted fraudster into the cabinet.” Moments later, he says that George’s conviction is spent, invoking Christian forgiveness, second chances, loyalty to friends, and even gesturing vaguely at the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.
His hypocrisy is off the scale. Haigh received a conditional discharge for an offence before she was a politician, no prison sentence, and her minor conviction is long spent. Farage’s attempt to equate the two isn’t just misleading it’s wilfully absurd.