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Re: Breaking: Reform – politicalbetting.com
Andrew Pierce
@toryboypierce
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4h
Suspending @RupertLowe10 from @reformparty_uk
will create a potentially fatal civil war in the party from which they might not recover
https://x.com/toryboypierce/status/1898080165583782087
Larry the Cat
@Number10cat
It's a risk we'll just have to take
Re: Breaking: Reform – politicalbetting.com
Can’t argue with any of this.
Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-six-weeks-in-this-white-house-is-on-its-way-to-being-the-most-corrupt-in-us-history
… I’m a big Boston Red Sox fan. One of the most famous players in Red Sox recent history is Manny Ramirez. Manny Ramirez was a good baseball player, but he had a habit of doing some pretty ridiculous things on the field and off the field that were really detrimental to the team, some really bizarre on-field behavior – cutting off throws from other outfielders before they got to the infield – bizarre off-the-field behavior that disrupted the team. It became so regular that a phrase was adopted among the Red Sox fans: ‘That's just Manny being Manny.’ Over the years it just was accepted that every year Manny Ramirez was going to do a whole bunch of stuff that was really detrimental to the team. And over time, it just kind of became accepted, that that was a fact of life, a way of life with Manny Ramirez. And as time went on, people reacted less hostilely. It barely got noticed in some cases when he was engaged in these detrimental forms of conduct.
“And I tell that story because it stands for kind of a universal concept: when bad behavior gets normalized, it no longer feels like bad behavior. Even if that behavior is hurting people. Today, the world is littered with corrupt governments, governments where the leaders and the really rich men who surround the leaders – the oligarchs – steal from people…
“Vladimir Putin, for instance, has never had a job outside of government, but he's reportedly worth $200 billion. … They've been doing this so openly and brazenly, they're so public in their corruption in Russia, that it's just accepted. It's just mainstream, the fact that Putin and his cronies steal from the Russian people.
“That's what's happening in America today. And it's heartbreaking for me to say this, but in the first six weeks of the Trump presidency, Trump and Elon Musk and their billionaire friends have engaged in a stunning rampage of open public corruption. It's not fundamentally different than what happened in Russia. These are efforts to steal from the American people to enrich themselves. And their strategy is to do it all out in the open, to do it at such a dizzying pace that the country just gets overwhelmed or anesthetized or dulled into a sense that we just all have to accept the corruption – or, maybe more charitably, that this is just how government works, that government is just corrupt, and so the fact that it's happening out in the open instead of happening secretly, well, it's really nothing new.
“But this is not how government works…
Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-six-weeks-in-this-white-house-is-on-its-way-to-being-the-most-corrupt-in-us-history
… I’m a big Boston Red Sox fan. One of the most famous players in Red Sox recent history is Manny Ramirez. Manny Ramirez was a good baseball player, but he had a habit of doing some pretty ridiculous things on the field and off the field that were really detrimental to the team, some really bizarre on-field behavior – cutting off throws from other outfielders before they got to the infield – bizarre off-the-field behavior that disrupted the team. It became so regular that a phrase was adopted among the Red Sox fans: ‘That's just Manny being Manny.’ Over the years it just was accepted that every year Manny Ramirez was going to do a whole bunch of stuff that was really detrimental to the team. And over time, it just kind of became accepted, that that was a fact of life, a way of life with Manny Ramirez. And as time went on, people reacted less hostilely. It barely got noticed in some cases when he was engaged in these detrimental forms of conduct.
“And I tell that story because it stands for kind of a universal concept: when bad behavior gets normalized, it no longer feels like bad behavior. Even if that behavior is hurting people. Today, the world is littered with corrupt governments, governments where the leaders and the really rich men who surround the leaders – the oligarchs – steal from people…
“Vladimir Putin, for instance, has never had a job outside of government, but he's reportedly worth $200 billion. … They've been doing this so openly and brazenly, they're so public in their corruption in Russia, that it's just accepted. It's just mainstream, the fact that Putin and his cronies steal from the Russian people.
“That's what's happening in America today. And it's heartbreaking for me to say this, but in the first six weeks of the Trump presidency, Trump and Elon Musk and their billionaire friends have engaged in a stunning rampage of open public corruption. It's not fundamentally different than what happened in Russia. These are efforts to steal from the American people to enrich themselves. And their strategy is to do it all out in the open, to do it at such a dizzying pace that the country just gets overwhelmed or anesthetized or dulled into a sense that we just all have to accept the corruption – or, maybe more charitably, that this is just how government works, that government is just corrupt, and so the fact that it's happening out in the open instead of happening secretly, well, it's really nothing new.
“But this is not how government works…
Nigelb
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Re: Breaking: Reform – politicalbetting.com
Sometimes people don’t appreciate what they’ve got .
No country is immune to problems . We are very lucky to live in a relatively peaceful country and a functioning democracy .
Indeed recent events have made me a lot more appreciative of the UK especially looking across the Atlantic .
And looking to Ukraine who are fighting and dieing for something we simply take for granted every day.
No country is immune to problems . We are very lucky to live in a relatively peaceful country and a functioning democracy .
Indeed recent events have made me a lot more appreciative of the UK especially looking across the Atlantic .
And looking to Ukraine who are fighting and dieing for something we simply take for granted every day.
nico67
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Re: Breaking: Reform – politicalbetting.com
You’re a paranoid rich man, who’s persuaded himself he lives in the worst of times.Because your diagnosis of the uk is fucking bullshitThat’s the problem.William Atkinson's resignation article in ConHome. He's a bit...anguished.The social contract is broken. Before me lies a future of personal immiseration, demographic revolution, and global war. I just want the same lives my parents had. I want a Britain that is vaguely civilised, not a bankrupt, self-loathing, and crime-ridden Yookay
https://conservativehome.com/2025/03/04/living-on-a-thin-line/
He may be disappointed in that case. But is definitely sounding the alarm.
Too many in our party don’t quite realise just how much we’re hated. MPs are blinded by survivorship bias. Labour’s travails lull them into a false sense of smug security, rather than waking them up to how volatile politics has become. They write Reform off as a passing fad, and assume that since we’ve made it through 300-odd years, that we have a divine right to exist.
We do not. We are dying on our feet.
So many people on the right have persuaded themselves that living in a flawed, but free and prosperous democracy, is the worst fate that can befall a nation.
It used to be the far left which was this fucking stupid.
My grandparents faced much worse, with a lot more fortitude.
Sean_F
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Re: Breaking: Reform – politicalbetting.com
That’s the problem.William Atkinson's resignation article in ConHome. He's a bit...anguished.The social contract is broken. Before me lies a future of personal immiseration, demographic revolution, and global war. I just want the same lives my parents had. I want a Britain that is vaguely civilised, not a bankrupt, self-loathing, and crime-ridden Yookay
https://conservativehome.com/2025/03/04/living-on-a-thin-line/
He may be disappointed in that case. But is definitely sounding the alarm.
Too many in our party don’t quite realise just how much we’re hated. MPs are blinded by survivorship bias. Labour’s travails lull them into a false sense of smug security, rather than waking them up to how volatile politics has become. They write Reform off as a passing fad, and assume that since we’ve made it through 300-odd years, that we have a divine right to exist.
We do not. We are dying on our feet.
So many people on the right have persuaded themselves that living in a flawed, but free and prosperous democracy, is the worst fate that can befall a nation.
It used to be the far left which was this fucking stupid.
Sean_F
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Re: Breaking: Reform – politicalbetting.com
The YouTuber Damien Walter is popularising the word 'cockwomble' for JD Vance. See this link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTLDbr7fXm6Rh17OFIAEeDg/community?lb=UgkxkiO56ve6SARrXYsETvr5OmV2hJ-jkvYo
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Re: The Seventy-Five Years’ war – how to fix Israel and Palestine – politicalbetting.com
Called it.
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social
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16m
Crikey. This is moving quicker than I expected. 'Poland must pursue the most advanced capabilities, including nuclear and modern unconventional weapons.'
https://bsky.app/profile/shashj.bsky.social/post/3ljscagogzs2y
Re: At least 20% of Reform MPs are revolting – politicalbetting.com
"Hello. Welcome to your new home. I'm your next-door neighbour. My name is Sean Thomas..."What is the scariest thing you could learn about a place? Anywhere on earth, if you moved there?No, but I will give you a cool picture quizCan you please stop finishing posts with "Enough". Makes you sound like Richard Littlejohn.Quite. There comes a point when ANOTHER Holocaust Memorial is a kind of expensive, pointless virtue signalling in black marble. A waste of money and time and a symptom of our footling, declining age. Not least because we ALREADY HAVE a memorialI agree.I was only teasing. It was clear from your mad blockquoting that you didn't mean to say, of your own volition, that mad thing about JewsSure. I'll complete my other comment.Jews should pay for their own Holocaust memorial because they have "an awful lot of money"Really unfortunate first line there, which I am deliberately immortalising with this quick replySky News.On the one hand Trump doesn't think the Ukrainians have any agency; on the other it's all their fault.
Trump 'finding it more difficult to deal with Ukraine' - and says he believes Putin
Ukraine has to "get on the ball and get the job done", Donald Trump says now as he answers questions on the war.
"They're bombing the hell out of Ukraine... I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine," he adds.
Russia has "all the cards", he says, and says it "may be easier" to deal with Moscow, despite their position.
Asked if he believes Vladimir Putin when he says he wants peace, Trump says "yeah... I believe him".
I know we'll never get any consistency or logic out of the man but he sure hits you in the stomach.
Conservative peer, Lord Hamilton: Jews should pay for their own Holocaust memorial because they have "an awful lot of money"
Conservative Party spokesman: "Completely unacceptable and flagrantly antisemitic"
Kemi Badenoch: "Lord Hamilton misspoke and he's apologised and I think that should be the end of the matter."
I don't think so.
It is a bizarrely clumsy remark from this Tory. That said, I honestly don't see why London needs a Holocaust memorial that takes up precious parkland in the centre of town
Did the UK actually commit the Holocaust, or even allow its Jews to be rounded up?
No.
Why can’t we have a memorial to Chartists.
Or, better, just nothing.
The Palace of Westminster is a powerful memorial unto itself, which actually needs several billions of investment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park_Holocaust_Memorial
Enough
Where is this? And why is it so remarkable?
Nicht der googlissimi
I promise this is a good one
Re: At least 20% of Reform MPs are revolting – politicalbetting.com
Congratulations for reaching that far down the post.Can you please stop finishing posts with "Enough". Makes you sound like Richard Littlejohn.Quite. There comes a point when ANOTHER Holocaust Memorial is a kind of expensive, pointless virtue signalling in black marble. A waste of money and time and a symptom of our footling, declining age. Not least because we ALREADY HAVE a memorialI agree.I was only teasing. It was clear from your mad blockquoting that you didn't mean to say, of your own volition, that mad thing about JewsSure. I'll complete my other comment.Jews should pay for their own Holocaust memorial because they have "an awful lot of money"Really unfortunate first line there, which I am deliberately immortalising with this quick replySky News.On the one hand Trump doesn't think the Ukrainians have any agency; on the other it's all their fault.
Trump 'finding it more difficult to deal with Ukraine' - and says he believes Putin
Ukraine has to "get on the ball and get the job done", Donald Trump says now as he answers questions on the war.
"They're bombing the hell out of Ukraine... I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine," he adds.
Russia has "all the cards", he says, and says it "may be easier" to deal with Moscow, despite their position.
Asked if he believes Vladimir Putin when he says he wants peace, Trump says "yeah... I believe him".
I know we'll never get any consistency or logic out of the man but he sure hits you in the stomach.
Conservative peer, Lord Hamilton: Jews should pay for their own Holocaust memorial because they have "an awful lot of money"
Conservative Party spokesman: "Completely unacceptable and flagrantly antisemitic"
Kemi Badenoch: "Lord Hamilton misspoke and he's apologised and I think that should be the end of the matter."
I don't think so.
It is a bizarrely clumsy remark from this Tory. That said, I honestly don't see why London needs a Holocaust memorial that takes up precious parkland in the centre of town
Did the UK actually commit the Holocaust, or even allow its Jews to be rounded up?
No.
Why can’t we have a memorial to Chartists.
Or, better, just nothing.
The Palace of Westminster is a powerful memorial unto itself, which actually needs several billions of investment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park_Holocaust_Memorial
Enough
Re: At least 20% of Reform MPs are revolting – politicalbetting.com
Jenrick has no chance of getting the home counties liberal seats back.I don’t think Jenrick would do well at all.Jenrick got Labour to crap themselves just yesterday, and reinforced the Two Tier Keir narrative, with one deft bit of politicking (and observant aides, I am guessing). He made Sabana Mahmood scramble, awkwardly
For every “very online” loon like Leon he’d attract, he’d turn away many more.
He is simply better at politics than Kemi B (and I like Kemi, she just hasn't got the chops). Indeed he seems to be the only Tory who is capable of taking it to Labour - can you name any one thing that any of the others have done? They are pitiful
Someone like Jenrick is what the Tories need now, urgently. A fighter. With a cruel and ruthless streak. They need someone determined, ambitious, and with a striking resemblance to the leader singer of the Killers. That seems to be Jenrick
If you can name an obviously superior candidate that is right now a Tory MP without making everyone roll on the floor with derisory laughter then go ahead. We can rule out Cleverly for a start, because lol
Everyone talks all the time about the threat for Tories of Reform but they also lost swathes to Liberals.