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The tip of the iceberg that is the Truss legacy – politicalbetting.com
The tip of the iceberg that is the Truss legacy – politicalbetting.com
It is interesting that Starmer is following the lead of the Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp who has warned that Farage’s economic policies are ‘Liz Truss on steroids‘ I suspect this is something we will be hearing a lot from the traditional big two parties and I will interesting to see how this polling moves over time.
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I have begun work reports/PB headers with that line.
First you have to get noticed, and he has.
Catch the train to London, stopping at Rejection, Disappointment, Backstabbing Central and Shattered Dreams Parkway.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/29/maha-rfk-jr-ai-garble/
Or - ask him if he has permission to film there...
That's really short for a man. It's barely an inch higher than my wife.
Regardless of how good he is, will the British electorate vote for a short man as PM?
https://www.madametussauds.com/london/information/news/madame-tussauds-london-unveils-a-true-national-treasure-the-greggs-sausage-roll/
Does he not realise there might just be a tiny issue there?
I was far too shocked to say or do anything.
Strikes me that Jenrick could do with a bit of humanising, ie a shred of evidence that there’s anything there other than a quivering mass of empathy-free ambition.
No-one gives the slightest fuck mate. This is all about TfL (and Khan) being pissed off a Tory politician did an expose and embarrassed them.
Nothing more, nothing less.
However, if anything can help her, it's certainly success vacuum Sir Goiter attacking her as the centerpiece of an attempted comeback.
You are not allowed to take them on land that is privately owned even if it is open to the public for non-personal particularly commercial use without prior written permission and probably payment of a fee.
Does Jenrick's behaviour count as 'commercial use?' Very probably. Or to put it another way, as TikTok is riddled with adverts it will have been used commercially at some level. At the very least, as he's admitted breaking the rules and he is after all a lawyer albeit a rather bad one, he clearly thinks so.
So he's done (checks notes) exactly what he was calling out other people for doing.
And there's every chance he will get an FPN for it.
Because he's thick as mince as well as a nasty piece of work, he can't spot the irony, but those of us who see this Mickey Mouse politician for what he is can enjoy it and point and laugh at him.
(At the very least, such entitlement and lack of judgement demonstrates if further demonstration were needed of why he's unfit for political office.)
Did he make these rapscallions pay their train fares?
Does he have a workable plan to reduce fare dodging?
Otherwise, he's one of those grumpy men waving their fists at Dennis the Menace as he runs away.
Anger as Lord Hermer warns that rejection of ECHR resembles 1930s Germany"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/29/quit-echr-like-rise-of-nazism-starmer-lord-hermer/
TfL are also generous when it comes to filming the good stuff, like Crossrail opening and so on. It would be a bit rubbish for them to disallow the opposite.
(The legality of filming in public is widely misunderstood. I've had drivers completely lose their heads when I've photographed their reg plate, for example.)
His workable plan is to inspire a public debate that forces TFL to take steps to stamp out the practice, rather than watching whilst it happens and putting fares up for those who pay, or getting the begging bowl out for more funding.
It is entirely legitimate, and this daft carping is purely because Jenrick is a right wing Tory complaining about a Labour issue. Change the rosette, and you'd be full of praise.
As he didn't have permission no case of any description can be brought.
Is that an optimal outcome?
Is that the sort of thing a man who prides himself (stupidly, but hey) on being a successful lawyer should be achieving?
His understanding of spiritual and political matters is unsurpassed. He is a scientist. He has natural style and debonair charm. And finally,, he is everyone's friend. He is our new Dear Leader, and I myself would wash his feet to show my gratitude, and deep, deep respect.
The really cynical thing to do would be drug drivers after the widely held assumption about the Liverpool driver. He'd have to be careful not to mention that incident though.
Johnson was perhaps the past master with his studied "Boris" comic character, which caught the Zeitgeist at the time, before ageing like fine milk.
Davey ran a very successful campaign with his various stunts, turning a paunchy middle aged balding man into "fun dad".
I am not sure what Jenrick is quite aiming at. There is a risk of becoming Lozza Fox, but next to the torpor of Badenoch it has seized the news agenda.
No way would I vote for him, but the Tories should give him the gig. At least he wants the poisoned chalice. The others are keeping their heads down for either a quiet elevation to the Lords, or some sort of bid for leadership after the 2029 Election flop.
Whereas fare dodging - what chance of a Tory MP riding on public transport?
We really are going to hell in a handcart. Whatever next, posh fare dodgers?
Coming to a Tory leaflet near you as soon as they get desperate enough.
If he'd asked, and he'd been refused, that would have been altogether different and I'd be on his side even allowing for the fact he's such a massive twat. But he didn't even bother because he thought he knew better.
Will be a fascinating court case, if it comes to that.
Your objections are 100% partisan.
Not completely unreasonable either. A lot of veterans have it, causing explosive acts of temper.
Though one denied to asylum seekers it seems. Their traumas are washed clean on arrival.
He is as much of a vote improvement cul de sac for the Tories as Liz Truss.
Which everyone blames the Tories for, because its the Tories fault. The idea that the faredodging element of the rampant crime wave is a Labour issue because of who the mayor is demonstrates almost HYUFD levels of hopium.
There's only one way to have justice, and that's to ransack Greggs or something'
Parody, but only a slight exaggeration of what is being posted on Twitter
And ‘oh it’s not as bad as it was a few years ago’ really doesn’t cut it either.
No winners.
...I will interesting to see..
Though I'm sure you will.
That Romaines to be seen..
It's why motoring offences get off lightly - we can all imagine ourselves not spotting the motorcyclist and killing them by accident - even though we would not tolerate that level of negligence in any other situation.
This is not the Telegraph reporting the same story
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/attorney-general-echr-nazi-germany-nigel-farage-tories-reform-kemi-badenoch-b1230383.html
Very weirdly all reference to the local by election Con gain in Maldon last night seem to have been memory holed on twitter with some suggestion its counting today......the tweet from which i copied the result has disappeared so my sincere apologies if that turns out to have been fake news
Only this week the police have sought video evidence of a car being driven dangerously in Llandudno
On Jenrick he has hit a nerve on the left and I have no doubt at all that a prosecution by TFL would spectacularly backfire
Isn't the Standard still owned by the son of a KGB officer and friend of Boris Johnson, Lord Lebedev?
And although gate jumping is a long way from being the most expensive bit of fare dodging, it's very visible and quite scary when it happens near you- especially when you have opened the gate and someone pushes behind you. Campaigning on it is a smart bit of political theatre.
It's also probably nonsense. The cost of stamping out gate jumping (enforcement at stations, prosecution and punishment) almost certainly exceeds the cash savings that would accrue. It might be worth doing for the sake of it, to make the public safer and happier, but it won't be cheap and at the moment, everything has to be cheap.
But like some other notorious campaign gimmicks of the last decade, none of that matters. Politicians have learned that, if you say things cleverly, you don't have to get the details right. Because if anyone tries to correct the details, they sound boring and it just proves your unsaid point.
And that's true whatever the rosette, and I get why it's smart politics. But it leads to bad government.
Happy to discuss the strong LD hold in Newhaven.
So either: they've seen one person push through and thought "lets film", or they're just hanging around with the camera rolling waiting for people to push through.
@Parody_PM
Who better to lecture people on the immorality of fare dodging than Robert Jenrick, the man who overruled a planning decision to save a billionaire pornographer £45m in exchange for a £12,000 donation.
In fact the only place where fare dodging isn’t common is Copenhagen but that’s because they have an awful lot more revenue checkers
Behind Jenrick's Machiavellian campaign is this notion that Jenrick is outraged that the once steaming pile of excrement he left for someone else to clear up hasn't been cleared up in an appropriately timely manner on a timescale set by him.
Jenrick has boosted his chances of replacing Badenoch so job done. But he is going to be challenged hard on how his government let this happen. And as yet I haven't seen any signs of recognition from the remaining Tory MPs that they understand the utter mess they left and the anger against them for causing it.
https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/national/25201677.attorney-general-compares-calls-leave-international-courts-nazi-germany/
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/03/farage-says-he-is-part-of-similar-phenomenon-to-andrew-tate-among-young-men
I don't agree with Farage on much, but I think he is actually right on this one.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/jimmy-savile-thatcher.html?sortBy=relevant
Newhaven again a strong LD hold yes, i think Lewes looks safe! Reform hoovering up the second place is different to last weeks holds and the Tory vote collapsed to buttons alongside Labours even smaller buttons
Re Farage's views on abortion - I think it is unfair to taint him with the US stance on this. Having listened to him, he clearly thinks it is a matter of conscious and wasn't making it a party line and only seemed to have an issue with the edge cases citing the 22 - 24 week issue.
Having said both of those things it is perception rather than facts that will probably count with the electorate.