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I also trust their membership to get a leadership selection right as much as I trusted the Conservatives recent membership base e.g. Truss. So that means Miliband or bloody Rayner. Best the country can hope for probably is the timetable option and wait for Burnham to win a seat. Ought to be Streeting or Mahmood but not sure the headbangers in their membership would support either.

They’ll want to win but a point would be alright. Can’t see West Ham winning at Newcastle.

That, after the Red Cross spokesman whopper as well. On top of Reform’s holocaust-denying, Nigerian pot-hole melting candidates, and Tice’s refusal to condemn them, the people who voted populist in either direction must be feeling so proud….

Just as in 2010 and 2015, when they’re actually needed they cock it up, or rather the far left does.

Round here (I’m technically in Tewkesbury Borough which covers quite a few areas) they quite possibly could be that stupid at the local council.

Few years ago mind but you’re not that far off https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-cheapest-house-is-750-in-port-1355162

Still hanging out with violent white supremacists as well. https://bylinetimes.com/2026/05/06/reform-uk-refuses-to-explain-why-nigel-farage-met-and-posed-with-man-criminally-convicted-for-violent-attack-on-anti-racism-meeting-at-a-church/

What a treat the likes of Havering can look forward to https://www.opendemocracy.net/reform-uk-nigel-farage-voters-wary-broken-promises-racism/

Don’t think his body is up to anything else at this stage.

Let’s keep it accurate.

It’s called Levelling Up. Gets addictive for left behind areas after a couple of rounds.

The Bell End

In the sense that he hasn’t been imprisoned for kicking someone in the head, that’s certainly true.

The fact that Tice gave the whataboutery response showed how emboldened Reform are and the very racist origins underneath are showing through. The only positive is that along with a total absence of policies nearer the GE is that this increased boldness will be their undoing + tactical voting. The Greens have been widely anti-Semitic too, but that’s irrelevant to the Neo-Nazi comments of his own candidate. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2pyy6ngz0o Exact quotes here plus a wider selection of racism, sexism and homophobia https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/melt-them-down-and-fill-in-the-potholes-reform-uk-candidate-who-made-remarks-against-nigerians-wins-key-seat-in-england/articleshow/130980205.cms

This is the crux of why the public aren’t keen. In the newspapers’ case, it’s because he enable the successful prosecution of organised crime by the Murdoch’s and Beaverbrooks. He could change his way of oration (as Thatcher did between opposition and power) but it’s too late IMO.