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Re: About Liz Truss wanting to return to frontline politics – politicalbetting.com
I wonder what the reaction would have been in the media if Labour invited someone of inciting people to burn a hotel down to their conference.A strange Any Questions today. Zack Polanski is definitely one to watch. A bit too much student politics about him but an infectious enthusiasm. Could he make a difference? He hasn't got the baggage of the Sultanas and his critique on Farage bordered on hatred and every shot landed
The fact that the media are ignoring what Reform did today is quite astonishing.
....So its possible. I'm pretty sure Farage is miles from a certainty. There are just to many haters and ridiculers and under any sort of scrutiny he folds.
Roger
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Re: About Liz Truss wanting to return to frontline politics – politicalbetting.com
If you could just adjust your principles to match mine that would be super ace taCorbyn’s a friend of mine but I just don’t see how his party makes sense right now…we don’t need more vote splitting on the left, we need more unity. We are (collectively) a big majority in our country.We need unity as long as it agrees with my position.
https://x.com/DaleVince/status/1964373167071203543
Re: About Liz Truss wanting to return to frontline politics – politicalbetting.com
Corbyn’s a friend of mine but I just don’t see how his party makes sense right now…we don’t need more vote splitting on the left, we need more unity. We are (collectively) a big majority in our country.We need unity as long as it agrees with my position.
https://x.com/DaleVince/status/1964373167071203543
boulay
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Re: About Liz Truss wanting to return to frontline politics – politicalbetting.com
Populism often hoovers up a certain online contrarianism and we see that with the populist right in the US going antivax with the appointment of RFK Jr. Reform UK are now going down the same path, with noted antivaxxer Dr Aseem Malhotra, who believes mRNA vaccines have killed millions (they haven't), speaking at the Reform UK conference: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/09/05/rfk-adviser-to-claim-vaccines-cause-cancer-at-reform-confer/This shit actually makes Truss look comparatively sane. She would fit right in.
That's after this, https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/george-finch-chickenpox-vaccine-5HjdBdt_2/ , Cllr George Finch, the party's teenage leader of Warwickshire County Council, criticising the new chickenpox vaccine.
This stuff will kill. The US is seeing record numbers of measles cases. Two children and an adult, all unvaccinated, have died already. That's just the start: this could go on to kill hundreds, possibly thousands. It is estimated that the COVID-19 vaccine has saved 14.5 million lives globally.
“It’s highly likely that the Covid vaccines have been a significant factor in the cancers of members of the royal family” says Dr Aseem Malhotra on the main stage at Reform’s party conference
https://x.com/harry_horton/status/1964326246726123713
Either a nutter or another deeply cynical grifter.
Nigelb
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Re: About Liz Truss wanting to return to frontline politics – politicalbetting.com
I wonder what the reaction would have been in the media if Labour invited someone of inciting people to burn a hotel down to their conference.I've always found it a useful maxim that things you think ought to be important, often aren't.
The fact that the media are ignoring what Reform did today is quite astonishing.
Re: About Liz Truss wanting to return to frontline politics – politicalbetting.com
And all the time winning the public overSurely inviting a convicted criminal and then lauding her as the return of Mother Teresa should be a step too far.I wonder what the reaction would have been in the media if Labour invited someone of inciting people to burn a hotel down to their conference.I've always found it a useful maxim that things you think ought to be important, often aren't.
The fact that the media are ignoring what Reform did today is quite astonishing.
Then they topped it off with the anti-vaxxer .
No point in arguing reason when the public have lost faith in both main parties
You will see a lot more that really upsets you [ and me ] and the way to defeat it is with action not words by Starmer and Reeves who after all they are in government
And Ashton seems to have turned against Rayner in a big way
Re: About Liz Truss wanting to return to frontline politics – politicalbetting.com
Surely inviting a convicted criminal and then lauding her as the return of Mother Teresa should be a step too far.I wonder what the reaction would have been in the media if Labour invited someone of inciting people to burn a hotel down to their conference.I've always found it a useful maxim that things you think ought to be important, often aren't.
The fact that the media are ignoring what Reform did today is quite astonishing.
Then they topped it off with the anti-vaxxer .
nico67
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Re: About Liz Truss wanting to return to frontline politics – politicalbetting.com
Lucky he didn’t mispeak and say “I too came from a Moorish family”. Would have been drummed out PDQ.I wonder what the reaction would have been in the media if Labour invited someone of inciting people to burn a hotel down to their conference.It's comedy gold:
The fact that the media are ignoring what Reform did today is quite astonishing.
“I too came from a poorish family,” says the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, eldest son of Major-General Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Marianna Letitia, Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley.
https://bsky.app/profile/roberthutton.co.uk/post/3ly63b6ulxs2h
boulay
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Re: About Liz Truss wanting to return to frontline politics – politicalbetting.com
I wonder what the reaction would have been in the media if Labour invited someone of inciting people to burn a hotel down to their conference.It's comedy gold:
The fact that the media are ignoring what Reform did today is quite astonishing.
“I too came from a poorish family,” says the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, eldest son of Major-General Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Marianna Letitia, Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley.
https://bsky.app/profile/roberthutton.co.uk/post/3ly63b6ulxs2h
Foxy
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Re: Oh, Angie, don’t you weep – politicalbetting.com
I’m absolutely certain I have mocked Labour for it however they justify mockery as they have been the traditional party of identity politics and so for them not to have had a female leader does amuse slightly.A fine and worthy sentiment. But I do hope you don't have in your body of work on here any posts a-mocking and a-taunting Labour for never having had a woman leader. Because if you do they'll be unearthed and that would be deeply regrettable and you might have to take an enforced break from internet punditing.@hzeffmanI think we’ve had plenty of evidence now that what people have between their legs has zero influence on them being capable. Probably time to stop getting excited by identity and focus on ability.
For the first time ever the holders of the three great offices of state beyond PM (chancellor, foreign secretary, home secretary) are all women
At least my admission saves you the tedium of going through old posts of mine if you had been so inclined.
boulay
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