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adopted mancunian, can also be found hacking my way around a golf course & watching the mighty west & villa!!

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@TheVillaHome @walshcat1 Best of luck Elsie, come on #avfc family let’s support one of our own!!

@AVFCOfficial @PreeceObserver @MatKendrick @J_Tanswell @johntownley11 can we do something to spread the word?

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@Rupertbell @TheOpen @talkSPORT Hesketh is a great track, the oldest Links in Southport.

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@EllisPalmer94 we have a developing situation with Motability that could make a good story, would you be interested in talking?

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The BBC may have forgotten Farage's £5m grift, but if you remember it, please repost! Thanks.

[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

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@AVFConcamera Mine arrived yesterday, a great set of photos that capture it all perfectly!! UTV

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@AdamDeuce What a team, what an achievement against all odds!! We are the disrupters!!

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@jonlindendavies @AVFCOfficial @WarwickshireCCC Fresh Air Not Arm Chair

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@MattyPhillips13 @WD_CFC All the best Matty, will miss seeing you down at Brookburn!

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@DV1874 Yes @DV1874 we are one!! What this team and management is achieving is unreal!! Let everyone believe the hype of others! We no our own hype, in Unai we trust the Villa go marching on and on!!

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@EllisPalmer94 @GreenbankSports @robbopalmer @The_WFA You scored some cracking goals on Sunday! Great to see you and @robbopalmer

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"BEDLAM, absolute BEDLAM" 😱

Tammy Abraham to the RESCUE for Aston Villa!

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@JGGolfFitness MOBILITY

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@JGGolfFitness Warmup

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@MMcadidas No bother mate

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@MMcadidas Is this still available?

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@LiamGomery2 @espenstrand Some idiot was vaping in the toilet!!

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@AVFCMarkM We won the game!! FFS…

I think Ben needs to just sit back relax and enjoy the 3 points!!

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@CustomsRe5 Is the spezial cap still available?

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@Rupertbell This team can make us dream Rupert!!

Do you want to bet against us???