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Can 7 times elections failure Farage really be CON leader? – politicalbetting.com
Can 7 times elections failure Farage really be CON leader? – politicalbetting.com
There’s a fair bit of speculation at the moment about Farage becoming Tory leader. The only problem with this is that he would first have to become an MP and that means winning a seat at a general election or by-election.
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If Rees-Mogg thinks they have similar views, perhaps RM should do the right thing and leave the Tories in favour of UKIP.
Not. Happening.
https://news.sky.com/story/fighting-reported-as-people-shouting-england-til-i-die-try-to-reach-cenotaph-13005216
What a surprise: it’s the fascist shitheads stirred up by Braverman et al turning up for a ruck & when they don’t get to make one, turning on the police instead.
Plus the Tory MPs left after the next election will probably be a more right wing bunch.
Secondly. Even if there were, one who isn't a member of the Tory Party probably wouldn't be allowed.
But bear in mind Malmesbury's dictum about the polis saving arrests for later.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/11/11/gazans-turn-on-hamas-as-food-shortage-fuel-fears-starvation/
Yes he could, because a large lump of the "Conservative" Party is really just UKIP in disguise.
I think he would be perfect for them. He is exactly the sort of bigmouth that spouts the crap they like to hear.
It must be a truly huge piece of dirt....
Bit of an odd choice naming a daughter for an alcoholic character.
“You arrested 187 people at the World Parody Festival, including the Professor of Parody at LSE. On the basis that their presentation on Parodying Parody in the style of Parody was Fake News?”
“Ur… well… Under the 2023 H’Act….”
But if yes, the route is there.
Farage joins party and is gifted an Essex/Kent/Lincolnshire seat that a rightish Tory can't lose.
The Tories really do get nearly wiped out as in the worst of the current polling, but Farage is one of the less than 100 Tory MPs.
Of the rump of Tory MPs one third + 1 are prepared to back Farage in the run offs because about a third of the MPs are insane. Maths tells you that's enough to be in the last two. (If there are 100 MPs you need 34 stalwart loyalist backers at most. That's all)
Members vote Farage. Nicholas Soames, Ken Clarke, Heseltine, etc join Labour.
PONFWAS
1) Fuckwits do something criminal at a demo.
2) People outraged at no arrests on the spot.
3) Fuckwits arrested later.
They seem to have done this with Fascists, Islamofascists and others.
IIRC they found that arrests in the middle of a demo were more likely to lead to release without charge because of issues with evidence. Whereas video evidence and statements plus a “clean” arrest got them slam dunks in court.
In the case of Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets lifted for breaking one of any number of orders that had been made against him. Remember the court picketing thing?
It would be reasonable to make it criminal to fake a person with the intention to deceive.
The march is enormous and profoundly menacing
(* I'd put the onus on the platform / publisher, but that's a different matter.)
Nearly a third of a million people on the police estimate (which generally tends to be conservative). Can even the PB Tories produce sufficient bile for those numbers?
Cars driving randomly fast
Then they stop. Random shouts and scuffles
Callum May Reporting from the Met Police control room
About 80 counter-demonstrators have now been arrested at Tachbrook Street, I have been told.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-67390343 @ 14:33
What on earth attracted him?
Seriously, without a legally watertight definition all the wrong people will be of to prison.
Totally different.
True story
Lewis Goodall
@lewis_goodall
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Piers Corbyn addressing the crowd outside
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1723355388261654846
Surely not?
(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
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In any other context the Left say “if a minority community say they find something offensive or oppressive we must respect that and listen to their lived experience”. Then we have “From the River to the Sea”. At which point it becomes “shut up, we’ll decide what it means”.
Because obviously, an organisation open in its key areas only to men is an organisation that's dedicated to improving the lot of women and stopping them from understanding they are (in Hamas' words) 'the makers of men.'
As you say, it is all getting hopelessly confused.
Orwell would have had a bloody field day with this day of protest.
@DPJHodges
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I said a few days ago that it was clear that the longer the pro-Palestine marches were allowed to continue unchecked, the more overt the racism was becoming. I’ve got to be honest though, I didn’t think it would be this bad.
For me the key indicator it is an offensive slogan is the attempts made to modulate it, the 'between the river and the sea' variant seen a bit recently. It's a tacit admission the original being seen as problematic has some acceptance behind it, so best to adjust.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ej796
Owen Jones
@OwenJones84
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It took well over an hour to march to the starting point of the demo.
There’s so many people here that it’s almost impossible to post anything because the mobile networks are overloaded
https://twitter.com/OwenJones84
Nick Lowles
@lowles_nick
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About 200 far right protesters are heading for Vauxhall Bridge Road in an attempt to confront pro-Palestinian supporters. This is getting highly dangerous