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Hull & E Yorks Mayor showing naked and sexualised pictures of himself

Player-coach options don’t come much better if he wants to keep playing. 50 wickets in Lancs worst ever side in the red ball division Hants will be playing in. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cmy0ek8vnxzko

Anti-Semitic slur used when defending a Kansas GOP Senator around suing patients for unpaid debts when he was a physician. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/president-uses-antisemitic-slur-defending-roger-marshall-kansas-rally-rcna604497 Kansas is redder than a Royal Mail 📮 so astonishing that it’s so tight as GOP wins it by miles under nearly every context. Biden apologised after using it in 2014. Needless to say, Trump did not.

In the queue for the men’s toilets in Phuket.

Better than Prince Andrew. Or just Andrew these days.

The mid-term polls get worse for Trump by the day leading up to next month. Won’t be a panacea but 99% probability of a Democrat Congress with a good majority and 75% likely to flip the Senate. Rumour is that Trump might take it out on Hegseth and his projects with the Mad Bens and his son-in-law get curtailed. Further loosening of sanctions on Russia also less likely with guardrails in place. Both of which will benefit the UK.

Nigel loves a bit of Portsmouth. Even when he’s in Plymouth https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/nigel-farage-booed-stage-reform-11207257

Clearly they think they can fool enough people that they’re a centre right alternative to the Conservatives but they aren’t and never were. They’re MAGA UK, inherited the BNP’s core. Tommy Robinson and Rupert Lowe get a lot of praise when they don’t think they’re being filmed, so a lot of their prospective MP candidates aren’t even honest about their true views.

I think we are for both Dobbin and Fellows tbh. Do SR want to buy the type of players around and change systems as they had at PNE and WBA? If they don’t, sell them in January and bring in players who do work for the system Tonda wants to deploy. Obvious, but we know SFC/SR scouting team are not the sharpest tools in the shed.

So did I, but he hasn’t looked up to anything even there. You wouldn’t expect him to be at Finn’s level, he’s the best #10 in the Champ, but the drop off is enormous, which given he didn’t cost much off what Finn did just over 12 months ago.

Expanded into the membership at scale and their sheer racism, with heaps of examples of far right great replacement theories abound, and more depth on the Chris Parry mess. Farage’s media team wanted him gone, Farage bottled it in a way he wouldn’t have done with Wayne from Millbrook say, because of the Naval rank, and Parry went on to praise Hitler’s Naval commanders during WW2 on X. Then eventually suspended for blatant anti-semitism with the investigation still unresolved. This was a high profile chance for Farage to make good on his promise at their last two party conferences to kick the racists out and sort the vetting out. When push came to shove, he didn’t want to do it because the core of his views are also Parry’s. Their media team were openly mocking the standard of the candidates. Some of the rank and file are leaving because of Yusuf being a Muslim. Ian Cooper, Leader of their Staffs CC, exposed as a clear white supremacist and ‘top fan’ of a white-only dating website full of Neo Nazi tropes yet Farage agonised about sacking him or not. Cllr Gavin Beatles then caught on there. Sarah Pochin spells out at their Christmas party how bad the sexism is as well. It won’t put off any of the 20% hardcore who are energised by the them in the same way Momentum’s anti-semites were by Corbyn, but it’ll put anyone genuinely right of centre, let alone anywhere left of that group miles off engaging with them, and will just intensify the tactical voting alliances already well underway which will grow further in resources eg ‘how do I stop Reform at all costs in my constituency?’. Clear that their ex-Tories such as Alan Feeney, Deputy Leader of Solihull Council, had joined because of Sunak and then Badenoch becoming leader of the Conservatives. Nothing to do with their policies either. It’s a very racist party for very racist people, there’s far too many examples of pure unfiltered racism, and others willing to cover it up in any attempt to win power for it not to be. At a Hampshire level, very clear links with and support exchanged with the Portsmouth Patriots group who have done Nazi salutes on the seafront, organised the boats violence with the police/RNLI, and very extreme FB content. George Madgwick, Hants CC Reform stirring it up on SM. So Reform are also skate bastards.

Back in the UK, looks like non-welfare recipients very much profiting from the housing benefits system https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm62y80yxw9vo

At a push, some pink custard thrown over walls, or semolina smeared.

Tonight’s undercover ITV documentary will create more headlines. Thing is Laila, it’s not just a few people is it? https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/farage-joked-racism-claims-reform-documentary-5Hjdk4x_2/ It’s your leadership, deputy mayors, hundreds of elected councillors since before the 2024 GE saying these fascist things which Nick Griffin wouldn’t have thought twice about, not to mention the everyday members and clear empathy whatever Farage says towards Tommy Robinson and Raise the Colours.

Best way is to tactically vote at scale and spread the word to keep tech-funded autocratic populism out. GOP under Trump, Musk and Vance, Reform UK, Restore and Raise the Colours, National Front, AFD are all part of the same branch of Silicon Fascism. Tech control of populations, their essential services and democracies, asset-stripping blended with extreme and violent racism and rhetoric. Hungarians did it, throwing out Orban, a hero to all of the above, so no excuse for Americans, Brits, Canadians, Australians, NZ (flush your government away Kiwis) 🥝, Germans or French not to follow suit to keep out/throw out. Russia is behind a great deal of it in influence and finance. And it suits China. It’s not a coincidence that former leadership figures for Reform UK are serving prison time for kickbacks from Moscow. The Labour Party had a massive issue on its left in the early 1980s with the Soviets worming their way in but were defeated in the short term by a combination of the right of their party (see Kinnock’s 1985 conference attack on Militant), MI5, and longer-term by Reagan and Thatcher. Burnham doesn’t have that transatlantic ally Maggie had, so what emerges from the Democrats after the mid-terms will be critical in limiting Trump’s active support for Putin and ensuring a Democrat president to box the tech boys in during 2028. What’s encouraging is what a huge issue data centres have become in red states during these mid-term races. As a result, we could see states going blue for the first time since the 1930s added to the impact and tariffs and Trump and Kushner’s war.