Unreformed defectors – politicalbetting.com
Unreformed defectors – politicalbetting.com
Spare a thought for Robert Jenrick. Or Suella Braverman. Or maybe Tim Montgomerie. Or, perhaps most of all, the cerebral Danny Kruger. Thatcher had the “Mad Monk”; Farage has Kruger tapping away at preparing for government into the wee hours.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/07/09/dale-vince-offers-fund-count-binface-fight-against-farage/
https://x.com/DanNeidle/status/2075206427476459826
Of far more interest are the legions of former Tory voters.
"What have we done?" Well, nothing that can't be remedied with an X in a box....
There's not enough 'fuck offs' in the world when it comes to Bobby J.
He was at the Battle of the Beanfield....
Oddball: Ah, Bellamy, for cryin' out loud. That's the the stinking, most awful, stupid joke and you're always pullin' that stinking awful stupid joke. You don't want in this thing, you don't get in this thing. I cut you out of everything. I don't need you. Sixty feet of bridge 5 million in crypto I can get almost anywhere. Schmuck!
Innocent? Hmmmm....
The world is round, after all. So after a while, the person fucking off is actually sneaking up behind you.
Belgian PM Bart De Wever unknowingly brought home a loaded, personalized revolver gifted by Turkish President Erdogan at the NATO summit.
The gift wasn't opened until the delegation landed in Belgium, where they discovered the gun and ammunition.
The weapon was immediately handed over to airport police, and its fate is still undecided.
https://x.com/clashreport/status/2075152147365200089
Exclusive: Questions grow over close ally’s role in 2024 election in which he held no official position
George Cottrell was routinely introduced as Nigel Farage’s chief of staff before the 2024 election despite denials that he had any official role, according to a Reform UK candidate who stood aside for the party leader.
Others who have been closely involved in the party have also claimed Cottrell arranged the Land Rovers that ferried Reform’s newly elected MPs to parliament, and that he covered the cost of a fundraising lunch with potential donors before the national vote.
Questions about the role of Cottrell – who is a convicted fraudster – and the extent to which he has provided undeclared support for Farage have been building over the past week as the Reform leader comes under unprecedented pressure....
...Tony Mack, who was initially Reform’s candidate for the Essex constituency of Clacton in 2024, told the Guardian that Cottrell was introduced as Farage’s chief of staff during meetings.
“I remember thinking that it was an odd term to use for someone who was unelected at that point,” said Mack, a psychotherapist and charity worker.
Mack has previously alleged that Farage went back on a deal that would have given him a role in the party in return for stepping aside to allow the leader to run in Clacton.
Mack recalled Cottrell as being “polite and cordial” and echoed long-repeated claims that the younger man sometimes referred to Farage, who is no relation, as “daddy”.
A Reform spokesperson said: “George Cottrell has no official role in Reform UK, nor has he previously held any official role. He has never been a party employee, he is an unpaid volunteer like many thousands of party members.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/09/fraudster-cottrell-was-introduced-as-farage-chief-of-staff-says-ex-reform-candidate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
I'm far from sure about this.
Three weeks of electorate looking at Burnham coming, this is their answer.
Only a **** would rue the loss of a target practice pistol in the light of dead children. But all these mad right wing ****s value their liberty to do what they want over the lives of children. These right wing grifters really are ****s.
These guys are entitled exploitative ghouls.
See here in 2007.
Labour didn't get consistent leads until Gordon Brown became leader/PM.
I would cite more examples but I am going out.
Only partisan hacks are over analysing the polls now.
The Democrats have to get a new name on the ballot by next week; Platner might still blow up the whole process.
Platner is holding the seat hostage. He hasn't withdrawn yet. People reporting that he has are incredibly sloppy.
https://x.com/davetroy/status/2075212575629848694
If they don't, Collins will almost certainly be reelected.
He exaggerated his argument by minimising Dunblane for the benefit of the American audience, forgetting that British people would be listening too.
I forget which 19th century American President it was who was notorious for giving contradictory stump speeches to different audiences, but it was easier to get away with back then, when media was often local rather than national, let alone international.
In this case hard right Americans - this is the classic minimisation rhetoric you see after American school shootings from such people.
See anti-semitism picked up from hanging around with groups that are anti-semitic etc.
I would expect another bump/bounce when he actually gets to be PM and is in the news non-stop. The question is what after that. The first few policy changes/announcements will be critical.
Most importantly, the factors driving the rise of Reform -living standards no longer rising like they used to- are true across the Western world. And across the Western world, parties like Reform have sprung up. Or, in the case of the US, the insurgents grabbed control of one of the existing parties of government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election#National_poll_results
https://www.euractiv.com/news/support-for-farages-reform-uk-party-drops-after-ukraine-comments/
Farage usually knows where the line of acceptable public behaviour is. He mocks it and leans over it, but he knows it's there.
His lieutenants generally aren't as smart.
Tice? He is a rather less, er, enticing prospect....
"You are, Nigel...."
Sick bag supplies hit critical shortages....
Norfolk police and crime commissioner by-election: 16th July
Manchester mayoralty by-election: 30th July
Clacton by-election: probably 13th August
Nice one!
Although we don't hear very much from Priti Patel these days do we?
I would also disagree with a suggestion that Manchester Mafia coup and ousting of Starmer’s government and his ministers and their policy hasn’t sunk in with voters yet. It’s had an awful lot of media coverage for a month. Voters appreciate it as a major change.
Why not, for a great many voters, the Reeves Starmer, Phillipson Mrs Balls Government of Slow but Consistent Managerialism of Statist Starmer’s Utterly Boring Government is preferable to the AOR Key Shifts from Fifth Beatles Chamber Pop of the Granada Mafia band.
And why wouldn’t that be a thing for a great many voters, who trusted a man with majority of 172 just two years ago? We are in mid term and a government is getting bashed 24/7 from all directions and bad election results and polling, but that’s merely normal isn’t it? Perhaps we all swallowed our own spin just how abysmal the Starmer government was, for not making quicker progress in the last two years? A lot of vox pop has picked up “they only had two years, is this fair?”
The key ingredient here is Burnham himself. How does anyone know he’s going to be better? They don’t. No one can possibly know that. And helpful reminders of the Brown Government only supports my argument.
Describing Dunblane as "just a murder" may well make one a **** but I don't see think it's a surprise to anyone that Mr Lowe is a ****.
My question is: is it inevitable that living standards continue to rise more slowly in the developed world (because... ultimately, growth cannot continue indefinitely) or is this some sort of seismic adjustment as we move from the industrial age to the AI age?
Also, is neoliberalism dead given it's failed to deliver anything but low growth for the past 20 years or so?
But there's the ego of course.
He even lost The Guardian.
It's terminal America brain I think (he was talking to Joe Rogan), like left activists who use terms like BIPOC without thinking if it makes sense here - spend enough time online and everyone becomes more american.
I don’t see why they shouldn’t carry on. But I think there are examples where because of this, some resignations were blocked so the investigating could continue. Maybe that suggestion from the Lib Dem’s to block and carry on investigating wasn’t so crazy? It was certainly the last thing Farage would like to happen - fight the seat after the investigation results.
Farage has made his bed and he now has to lie in it.
Just because something is offensive doesn't mean it was not intentionally so. Restore's gimmick is that Reform are too mainstream - so why wouldn't they advance radical opinions on all sorts of things?
Nice header btw.
But I was talking of the cultural absorption of ideas and mentalities from those they associate with, not so much being paid to adopt.
See previously, has been "what, that's racist?" from white progressives hanging around with certain funky groups, who then repeat the statements commonly made by the members of those groups.
An amusing, personal example, was my younger daughter, a couple of years back, ranting about the evil profits of the medical healthcare insurance industry - because she was absorbing a lot of American content from the left.
In this case, I think, Lowe has absorbed the line from the pro-gun US lobby to a point that he didn't realise that what he was saying was unusual or offensive.
The audience probably loved it.
Will FIFA let them - debatable
People move to areas for work and set down new roots all the time, no reason an MP could not.
House prices have risen faster than earnings for a long time now and housing is not properly factored into inflation which is based on home owners and not people who need to pay for where they live.
If you need to pay for the roof over your head, then living standards are for many lower than they would have been for someone comparable in the past.
There's a lot of waste in the UK energy system but even so they aren't going to be quite so stupid as to exclude places that provide the energy from the Grid upgrade.
There's a reason why so much wind energy is produced in Scotland. It has the best wind conditions on earth
In any case wind generators in northern Scotland pay for being further away from their customers in the form of higher transmission charges, as consumers in South East England also pay higher charges for being further away from energy sources. This is done through the TNUoS balancing mechanism.
Indeed. I mentioned earlier the silence of Kruger, who continues not to bark on X.
Kruger has however apparently said this:
Kruger claimed “the government and its allies in the media and the other political parties” were working to stack the system against Farage’s party by cancelling elections and changing the rules to stop it from winning power.
“Nigel has decided, I think rightly, that that’s not acceptable, and what needs to happen now is that his voters — the people who should ultimately decide whether he has a place in politics — should have the chance to send a clear signal that they still believe in him,” added Kruger.
https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-nigel-farage-populist-backlash/
Morocco to beat France 5/1
Count Binhead to win Clacton 4/1.
How are satirists to make a living when reality keeps beating them to it?
They can look at the careers of Reckless and Carswell as a blueprint for their future.
Does beg the question about the hundreds of councillors, perhaps more conciliatory with them, if needed.
It still makes no sense to suggest backing from the public before its comfirmed you did something wrong absolves you somehow, people support others from attack but can change their mind as facts emerge.
I think he'd win a recall, and that actually would mean something.
Though they are big - i know jack all about Warminster.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/08/how-to-get-filthy-rich-with-gary-stevenson-review-channel-4
Would strengthen Kemi's position to have at least some of them back.