No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Nope. Tried but clearly not connecting with Rolex owners like me.
You’re not his target audience.
I don’t own a Rolex. Just an Apple Watch. I doubt many people own a Rolex
Agree. The audience is people who would like to own a Rolex and probably never will.
PS I'm not his audience and don't own a watch ( just to complicate the overlapping and not overlapping sets)
The audience is people stuck in the 1970s who still imagine a Rolex is desirable.
Rolex is a cultural short hand for aspiration and success. The average punter doesn’t have a Rolex. But they sure as hell know how little of an f the police gave when their van was broken into and the tools of their livelihood were stolen. The meme works also for the latter middle aged parent that gets a bit of a shiver by the characters they encounter when they visit their 20-something kids in the edgy bits of town.
The thing that worries me most personally is what happens if / when Farage proves he doesn’t have the will or wit to deliver the things his backers want. Musk: “This guy doesn’t have what it takes”. Musk is one of the greatest hirers of talent on earth and took a pass at Nige after the interview. Unless Farage can get the right people to join, I suspect his govt will last three months before floundering. To be replaced by what…
At the risk of offending all the PB Rolex-wearers, I'd tend to regard people who need "bling" (and I include Rolexes) as a sign of their own importance to be the kind who would feel a need to put a shuttlecock down their trousers, or say misbehave in a motor vehicle (loud exhaust, traffic light race, shiny sports car etc), to convince themselves, their friends and perhaps 'the ladies' how important they are. It's a stance devoid of any class.
As with Farage, imo it's valuable to flip the script, and attach value to things that are more important.
With Farage, Anderson, and now some on the right of the Conservative Party, their politics has become a politics of fear and loathing, which are being adopted from the further (choose your word) Right.
One interesting insight is that the people who appeared on the streets of Ashfield the other particularly day to promote hatred of Muslims, and try and stir up locals in the same beliefs, are unlikely to have ever met any normal, everyday Muslims - so are easier to gull.
That's the type of cultural script that needs to be flipped. I don't see whether that will happen; it's another reason Mr Starmer needs to fix his comms.
The British are generally a tolerant, easy going bunch. There aren’t that many here who have any problem at all with our Muslim shop keepers, taxi driverss, doctors or even (gasp) lawyers. What an increasing percentage are uncomfortable with is the admittance of uneducated rural peasants from some of the roughest parts on earth. Many of whom have entered illegally and not carrying ID.
Thanks to countless centuries of fairly isolated cultural development, a worrying proportion of such arrivals seem to have attitudes that are quite incompatible with the existing residents of Britain, be they Christian, atheist, Muslim or otherwise. No one wants their daughters raped.
So I find it sad how the British left seems so unwilling to recognise that most people in this country are fully aware of this nuance. “You’re an ignorant knuckle dragger that knows no Muslims and can be gulled into hating Muslims” is as effective in driving intolerance as anything that comes out the far right. Eventually the greater weight of opinion gives up the onerous task of maintaining a balanced, nuanced belief set and defaults to the easy choice of taking a black and white position.
"There aren’t that many here who have any problem at all with our Muslim shop keepers, taxi driverss, doctors or even (gasp) lawyers. "
The problem is they don't differentiate between those people and the so-called wrong-un's, or even just people who were born here. Hence the hysteria over the wrong "white British" figures.
It's very hard to believe that people who screech about 'white British' or Muslims don't have a problem with your list. Because they evidently do, because they are referring to all Muslims.
You overuse the verb “screech”. It’s a verbal tic and it’s decidedly irritating
If you didn't SCREECH so much, I wouldn't need to use it.
Just stop using it. Brush up your vocab. English is an enormously wealthy language: exploit it
If you lived in a tribe, they would have ten different words for twat, for sure...
Er, there are ten different words for twat. At least.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Nope. Tried but clearly not connecting with Rolex owners like me.
You’re not his target audience.
I don’t own a Rolex. Just an Apple Watch. I doubt many people own a Rolex
Agree. The audience is people who would like to own a Rolex and probably never will.
PS I'm not his audience and don't own a watch ( just to complicate the overlapping and not overlapping sets)
Rolex now make over a million watches a year. They really aren't that exclusive now. Hence why TSE says people who go on Concorde if it was still running wouldn't be wearing one.
There are of course Rolex's and there are Rolex's (and I don't mean the Chinese fakes).
I am clearly not their market, but I really cannot fathom this fashion for ridiculously expensive watches. I do have a Garmin smartwatch, but otherwise just check the time on my phone.
I suppose that it is as simple as my mother puts it "There's always been folk with more money than sense"
Another London report. Nothing happening on the Kings Road. If you’re going to nick food this is the place to do it. Not Greggs. You should see some of the prices they are charging for their orgasmic cheese.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
Another London report. Nothing happening on the Kings Road. If you’re going to nick food this is the place to do it. Not Greggs. You should see some of the prices they are charging for their orgasmic cheese.
Another London report. Nothing happening on the Kings Road. If you’re going to nick food this is the place to do it. Not Greggs. You should see some of the prices they are charging for their orgasmic cheese.
That deserves a like for "orgasmic" cheese. Best consumed some time after a very small blue cheese?
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Nope. Tried but clearly not connecting with Rolex owners like me.
You’re not his target audience.
I don’t own a Rolex. Just an Apple Watch. I doubt many people own a Rolex
Agree. The audience is people who would like to own a Rolex and probably never will.
PS I'm not his audience and don't own a watch ( just to complicate the overlapping and not overlapping sets)
Rolex now make over a million watches a year. They really aren't that exclusive now. Hence why TSE says people who go on Concorde if it was still running wouldn't be wearing one.
There are of course Rolex's and there are Rolex's (and I don't mean the Chinese fakes).
I am clearly not their market, but I really cannot fathom this fashion for ridiculously expensive watches. I do have a Garmin smartwatch, but otherwise just check the time on my phone.
I suppose that it is as simple as my mother puts it "There's always been folk with more money than sense"
It’s acceptable jewellery for men.
I don't know if they coined it, but I seem to remember Terence Donovan and/or David Bailey using the term "jewellery for men". Not contemporaneously but in later reports.
Another London report. Nothing happening on the Kings Road. If you’re going to nick food this is the place to do it. Not Greggs. You should see some of the prices they are charging for their orgasmic cheese.
Abolishing the triple lock would be an interesting test for the other parties, especially Reform. I suspect Nigel would oppose, but were he then to get in to power, would he really reinstate it? Very easy to oppose everything when you're on 15% of the vote - far more difficult when you have to make good on your promises. Difficult one for the Tories too.
But I don't think it will happen anyway, because the bottom line is that Labour won't get it through their backbenchers.
I think that merging NI and income tax is a gentler solution, and likely to have cross-party assent - while obviously it won't recover as much money as abolishing the triple lock.
That’s one of the best rugby games I’ve seen in years
Certainly better than the dross that is so often England.
To be fair to England they have just beaten Argentina twice in a row in Argentina minus the England players on duty with the Lions, and in the last ten matches have only lost to the teams ranked 1st and 3rd in the world whilst beating the team ranked 2nd.
Another London report. Nothing happening on the Kings Road. If you’re going to nick food this is the place to do it. Not Greggs. You should see some of the prices they are charging for their orgasmic cheese.
We're currently having a spot of lunch in the Booking Office. Lots of memories of having caught trains from here. Off to see the Hardy Tree soon. Will report if mugged.
Abolishing the triple lock would be an interesting test for the other parties, especially Reform. I suspect Nigel would oppose, but were he then to get in to power, would he really reinstate it? Very easy to oppose everything when you're on 15% of the vote - far more difficult when you have to make good on your promises. Difficult one for the Tories too.
But I don't think it will happen anyway, because the bottom line is that Labour won't get it through their backbenchers.
I think that merging NI and income tax is a gentler solution, and likely to have cross-party assent - while obviously it won't recover as much money as abolishing the triple lock.
Other way round? Abolishing the triple lock will save no money in the short term. Merging NI and income tax would raise money immediately.
Another London report. Nothing happening on the Kings Road. If you’re going to nick food this is the place to do it. Not Greggs. You should see some of the prices they are charging for their orgasmic cheese.
We're currently having a spot of lunch in the Booking Office. Lots of memories of having caught trains from here. Off to see the Hardy Tree soon. Will report if mugged.
I was out and about this morning. I was not mugged, unless you count the cost of these organic tomatoes.
Friends and family can pull me into it but, apart from the Six Nations when there's little else to do, and some Ashes matches, I've concluded I'm not that bothered by sport.
I sometimes enjoy it a bit when I do watch it but I virtually never watch tennis, cricket, rugby or football by choice.
Always refreshing to start the day with some bracing Franco-Polish alt.right philosophy:
“Western Europeans don't understand that the harm they have done to their countries is IRREVERSIBLE, and their children will not forgive them for it.
“They thought they were building an open society. What they created was an unmanageable fracture. They replaced continuity with experimentation, identity with guilt, and cohesion with slogans. Entire generations were told that borders were immoral, that culture was oppressive, and that integration was optional. Now they are reaping the results — and pretending not to see them.
“The cities are divided. The schools are segregated by language and loyalty. The police avoid entire zones. Judges are intimidated. Teachers lie to survive. Religion is ridiculed unless it's imported. The native population is shrinking — and afraid. Those who speak the truth are attacked by their own institutions, while those who undermine the country are subsidized.
“Immigration was not the problem — it was the refusal to set conditions. It was the cowardice of leaders who wanted applause instead of responsibility. It was the moral blackmail of elites who despised their own people, and these people's submissiveness to their elites. What arrived was not just labor or refuge — it was a different civilization, with its own expectations, values, and plans. And no one asked it to adapt.
“The damage is not temporary. It's demographic. It's territorial. It's cultural. It's encoded now into the next hundred years. Their children will grow up in a land their parents no longer recognize — and they will ask, not with anger but disbelief: why did you allow this?”
There's an interesting paradox here, which people with a bit of self-awareness might recognise.
The people most exercised by demographic change are, on average, older. The youth are mostly chill with it. Maybe they shouldn't be, but they are.
In other words, it's the generation who voted for this and enacted it who are most cross about it. If I thought I had stuffed up that badly, I think I would retire to a remote hermitage to live out my life in quiet reflection of what I had got so wrong.
(See also, economics and sexual ethics.)
1. You stuffed up that badly
2. Multiple polls show that the western young (under 25) are more rightwing than their elders, and this is intensifying
At the same time some are also veering hard left, but as this is traditional in Da Yoot it is less noteworthy
I would partly disagree.
Polling certainly shows that young people are a lot more likely to vote for Reform than for the Conservatives, and also, Reform are generally getting quite good scores in the 18-39 range (typically, 22-27%). But, Reform do best among middle-aged voters. The age profile for Reform's support resembles what you would once have expected from the Conservatives (lower, but still quite numerous among younger voters, higher among older voters). Also, Reform has a much younger membership profile than the Conservatives. The Conservatives, on the other hand, get very little support among younger age cohorts, and depend upon pensioners.
Yougov's polls tend to show their 18-24 age cohort being ultra left wing, on almost every issue, as well as in terms of voting intention, but they conflict with the rest, and that must be a sampling issue.
Reform have taken the base the Conservatives should have got.
Good news for everyone calling for greater police efficiency. 40% of those arrested for rioting last summer have also been reported for domestic abuse. So the police can just collect them when they're protesting outside asylum seekers accommodation. For even greater efficiency you could house asylum seekers next to police stations
Friends and family can pull me into it but, apart from the Six Nations when there's little else to do, and some Ashes matches, I've concluded I'm not that bothered by sport.
I sometimes enjoy it a bit when I do watch it but I virtually never watch tennis, cricket, rugby or football by choice.
That’s a shame. It’s one of life’s great consolations. Up there with art
Friends and family can pull me into it but, apart from the Six Nations when there's little else to do, and some Ashes matches, I've concluded I'm not that bothered by sport.
I sometimes enjoy it a bit when I do watch it but I virtually never watch tennis, cricket, rugby or football by choice.
There's always some proper sport such as at Ascot this afternoon. Will CALANDAGAN win the King George?
Plenty of patriotic interest - well, the favourite is trained by a Frenchman and ridden by a Frenchman. The second favourite is trained by an Irishman and ridden by an Irishman. Englishmen train two horses and ride one and that's about it.
Never mind, sport is global and unites us all so I'm told and if I back a 5/1 winner I don't care about the nationality of the owner, trainer or jockey.
Friends and family can pull me into it but, apart from the Six Nations when there's little else to do, and some Ashes matches, I've concluded I'm not that bothered by sport.
I sometimes enjoy it a bit when I do watch it but I virtually never watch tennis, cricket, rugby or football by choice.
There's always some proper sport such as at Ascot this afternoon. Will CALANDAGAN win the King George?
Plenty of patriotic interest - well, the favourite is trained by a Frenchman and ridden by a Frenchman. The second favourite is trained by an Irishman and ridden by an Irishman. Englishmen train two horses and ride one and that's about it.
Never mind, sport is global and unites us all so I'm told and if I back a 5/1 winner I don't care about the nationality of the owner, trainer or jockey.
Sport is global and unites the BBC and ITV who are both showing tomorrow's Women's Euro final between the Lionesses and Spain. (England need to hire Gareth Southgate to fix their penalty shootouts, like he did for the men's team.)
Friends and family can pull me into it but, apart from the Six Nations when there's little else to do, and some Ashes matches, I've concluded I'm not that bothered by sport.
I sometimes enjoy it a bit when I do watch it but I virtually never watch tennis, cricket, rugby or football by choice.
There's always some proper sport such as at Ascot this afternoon. Will CALANDAGAN win the King George?
Plenty of patriotic interest - well, the favourite is trained by a Frenchman and ridden by a Frenchman. The second favourite is trained by an Irishman and ridden by an Irishman. Englishmen train two horses and ride one and that's about it.
Never mind, sport is global and unites us all so I'm told and if I back a 5/1 winner I don't care about the nationality of the owner, trainer or jockey.
Sport is global and unites the BBC and ITV who are both showing tomorrow's Women's Euro final between the Lionesses and Spain. (England need to hire Gareth Southgate to fix their penalty shootouts, like he did for the men's team.)
It also unites those of us who don’t want to watch football on either channel. We are united in our anger.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
I just did a Google Images search and got "Unable to process this search This search can't be processed due to content guidelines. Please try a different image or keywords". Care to enlighten us?
That’s one of the best rugby games I’ve seen in years
I don't even know whether it's rugby league or union. Shows how little I know about rugby matches.
Rugby Union - poshos and celts Rugby League - working class northerners
Before anyone gets pedantic I know that is a very rough approximation.
Not disagreeing with the rough approximation but as a Celt with an 'educated' accent I much prefer League. Suppose I caught it as a result of living in Lancashire for two or three years, but I think it's a faster game with far fewer stoppages. The 'scrums' are rubbish, though.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
I just did a Google Images search and got "Unable to process this search This search can't be processed due to content guidelines. Please try a different image or keywords". Care to enlighten us?
1) Dancing offends the Wee Free 2) Dancing therefore offends a religious minority. 3) Therefore all images depicting or advocating dancing are banned world wide.
I have seen the future. It’s is standing on a hillside, in November, with horizontal rain, worshiping God in a miserable manner. Forever.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
It might be interesting to know the relative numbers of London within the circle line ie the touristy bits, the rest of inner London and outer London.
I just did a Google Images search and got "Unable to process this search This search can't be processed due to content guidelines. Please try a different image or keywords". Care to enlighten us?
I just did a Google Images search and got "Unable to process this search This search can't be processed due to content guidelines. Please try a different image or keywords". Care to enlighten us?
Lots of people enjoying themselves in Trafalgar Square. No one cosplaying Les Mis by manning barricades as some would have you believe.
It seems that they under-diagnosed my injuries. I have seven, rather than three, broken ribs. Gladly still just one broken ankle
My journey around the hospital has been a bit of a rollercoaster
My first night I was in the Surgical Assessment Unit. This used to be the private wing of the hospital, so I had my own, very nice, room
I knew this would only be temporary, but really wasn't expecting to be woken after eleven on the second night and told I was being moved to the Trauma Ward immediately
I complained quite strongly that this would be a genuine nightmare, I didn't want to be moved in the middle of the night to a room with three strangers. Surprisingly they relented, and I was allowed to stay in my private room for the night
The next day, yesterday, my Dad came to visit me. He worked at this hospital for over twenty years. They moved me to my ward while he was here
The ward was more like a dementia ward; three oldies shitting and pissing in the wrong places, trying to escape, and fighting with and abusing staff. Dad was quite appalled and promised to use his contacts to try to get me moved
I had a rather afternoon, my blood pressure and pulse were both well up on the morning readings. Mid afternoon one of the orthopaedic consultants came to see me, said my Dad had been in touch, and promised to get me moved before bedtime
I was getting a bit panicky, but they finally got me into another ward just after eight. This one could be a geriatric ward, but far less demented
I've got at least another night here,. I'm rather hoping I'll get home tomorrow
It seems that they under-diagnosed my injuries. I have seven, rather than three, broken ribs. Gladly still just one broken ankle
My journey around the hospital has been a bit of a rollercoaster
My first night I was in the Surgical Assessment Unit. This used to be the private wing of the hospital, so I had my own, very nice, room
I knew this would only be temporary, but really wasn't expecting to be woken after eleven on the second night and told I was being moved to the Trauma Ward immediately
I complained quite strongly that this would be a genuine nightmare, I didn't want to be moved in the middle of the night to a room with three strangers. Surprisingly they relented, and I was allowed to stay in my private room for the night
The next day, yesterday, my Dad came to visit me. He worked at this hospital for over twenty years. They moved me to my ward while he was here
The ward was more like a dementia ward; three oldies shitting and pissing in the wrong places, trying to escape, and fighting with and abusing staff. Dad was quite appalled and promised to use his contacts to try to get me moved
I had a rather afternoon, my blood pressure and pulse were both well up on the morning readings. Mid afternoon one of the orthopaedic consultants came to see me, said my Dad had been in touch, and promised to get me moved before bedtime
I was getting a bit panicky, but they finally got me into another ward just after eight. This one could be a geriatric ward, but far less demented
I've got at least another night here,. I'm rather hoping I'll get home tomorrow
My profound sympathies.
Your experience is pretty much exactly that of my father and my aunt, in separate hospitals, in the past year.
It seems that they under-diagnosed my injuries. I have seven, rather than three, broken ribs. Gladly still just one broken ankle
My journey around the hospital has been a bit of a rollercoaster
My first night I was in the Surgical Assessment Unit. This used to be the private wing of the hospital, so I had my own, very nice, room
I knew this would only be temporary, but really wasn't expecting to be woken after eleven on the second night and told I was being moved to the Trauma Ward immediately
I complained quite strongly that this would be a genuine nightmare, I didn't want to be moved in the middle of the night to a room with three strangers. Surprisingly they relented, and I was allowed to stay in my private room for the night
The next day, yesterday, my Dad came to visit me. He worked at this hospital for over twenty years. They moved me to my ward while he was here
The ward was more like a dementia ward; three oldies shitting and pissing in the wrong places, trying to escape, and fighting with and abusing staff. Dad was quite appalled and promised to use his contacts to try to get me moved
I had a rather afternoon, my blood pressure and pulse were both well up on the morning readings. Mid afternoon one of the orthopaedic consultants came to see me, said my Dad had been in touch, and promised to get me moved before bedtime
I was getting a bit panicky, but they finally got me into another ward just after eight. This one could be a geriatric ward, but far less demented
I've got at least another night here,. I'm rather hoping I'll get home tomorrow
It seems that they under-diagnosed my injuries. I have seven, rather than three, broken ribs. Gladly still just one broken ankle
My journey around the hospital has been a bit of a rollercoaster
My first night I was in the Surgical Assessment Unit. This used to be the private wing of the hospital, so I had my own, very nice, room
I knew this would only be temporary, but really wasn't expecting to be woken after eleven on the second night and told I was being moved to the Trauma Ward immediately
I complained quite strongly that this would be a genuine nightmare, I didn't want to be moved in the middle of the night to a room with three strangers. Surprisingly they relented, and I was allowed to stay in my private room for the night
The next day, yesterday, my Dad came to visit me. He worked at this hospital for over twenty years. They moved me to my ward while he was here
The ward was more like a dementia ward; three oldies shitting and pissing in the wrong places, trying to escape, and fighting with and abusing staff. Dad was quite appalled and promised to use his contacts to try to get me moved
I had a rather afternoon, my blood pressure and pulse were both well up on the morning readings. Mid afternoon one of the orthopaedic consultants came to see me, said my Dad had been in touch, and promised to get me moved before bedtime
I was getting a bit panicky, but they finally got me into another ward just after eight. This one could be a geriatric ward, but far less demented
I've got at least another night here,. I'm rather hoping I'll get home tomorrow
It's nice to hear from you, even if the update isn't all good! Wishing you the best.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Nope. Tried but clearly not connecting with Rolex owners like me.
You’re not his target audience.
I don’t own a Rolex. Just an Apple Watch. I doubt many people own a Rolex
Agree. The audience is people who would like to own a Rolex and probably never will.
PS I'm not his audience and don't own a watch ( just to complicate the overlapping and not overlapping sets)
The audience is people stuck in the 1970s who still imagine a Rolex is desirable.
Rolex is a cultural short hand for aspiration and success. The average punter doesn’t have a Rolex. But they sure as hell know how little of an f the police gave when their van was broken into and the tools of their livelihood were stolen. The meme works also for the latter middle aged parent that gets a bit of a shiver by the characters they encounter when they visit their 20-something kids in the edgy bits of town.
The thing that worries me most personally is what happens if / when Farage proves he doesn’t have the will or wit to deliver the things his backers want. Musk: “This guy doesn’t have what it takes”. Musk is one of the greatest hirers of talent on earth and took a pass at Nige after the interview. Unless Farage can get the right people to join, I suspect his govt will last three months before floundering. To be replaced by what…
At the risk of offending all the PB Rolex-wearers, I'd tend to regard people who need "bling" (and I include Rolexes) as a sign of their own importance to be the kind who would feel a need to put a shuttlecock down their trousers, or say misbehave in a motor vehicle (loud exhaust, traffic light race, shiny sports car etc), to convince themselves, their friends and perhaps 'the ladies' how important they are. It's a stance devoid of any class.
As with Farage, imo it's valuable to flip the script, and attach value to things that are more important.
With Farage, Anderson, and now some on the right of the Conservative Party, their politics has become a politics of fear and loathing, which are being adopted from the further (choose your word) Right.
One interesting insight is that the people who appeared on the streets of Ashfield the other particularly day to promote hatred of Muslims, and try and stir up locals in the same beliefs, are unlikely to have ever met any normal, everyday Muslims - so are easier to gull.
That's the type of cultural script that needs to be flipped. I don't see whether that will happen; it's another reason Mr Starmer needs to fix his comms.
The British are generally a tolerant, easy going bunch. There aren’t that many here who have any problem at all with our Muslim shop keepers, taxi driverss, doctors or even (gasp) lawyers. What an increasing percentage are uncomfortable with is the admittance of uneducated rural peasants from some of the roughest parts on earth. Many of whom have entered illegally and not carrying ID.
Thanks to countless centuries of fairly isolated cultural development, a worrying proportion of such arrivals seem to have attitudes that are quite incompatible with the existing residents of Britain, be they Christian, atheist, Muslim or otherwise. No one wants their daughters raped.
So I find it sad how the British left seems so unwilling to recognise that most people in this country are fully aware of this nuance. “You’re an ignorant knuckle dragger that knows no Muslims and can be gulled into hating Muslims” is as effective in driving intolerance as anything that comes out the far right. Eventually the greater weight of opinion gives up the onerous task of maintaining a balanced, nuanced belief set and defaults to the easy choice of taking a black and white position.
"There aren’t that many here who have any problem at all with our Muslim shop keepers, taxi driverss, doctors or even (gasp) lawyers. "
The problem is they don't differentiate between those people and the so-called wrong-un's, or even just people who were born here. Hence the hysteria over the wrong "white British" figures.
It's very hard to believe that people who screech about 'white British' or Muslims don't have a problem with your list. Because they evidently do, because they are referring to all Muslims.
You overuse the verb “screech”. It’s a verbal tic and it’s decidedly irritating
If you didn't SCREECH so much, I wouldn't need to use it.
Just stop using it. Brush up your vocab. English is an enormously wealthy language: exploit it
If you lived in a tribe, they would have ten different words for twat, for sure...
Er, there are ten different words for twat. At least.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
A load of MPs have had this happen to them....e.g.
Number of snatch thefts rises from 58,000 in 2023 to 99,000 last year – the highest level since 2003, according to crime survey...A total of 516,971 shoplifting offences were logged by forces last year, up 20 per cent from 429,873 in 2023, and equivalent to more than two a minute based on average store opening hours of 10 a day.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
Another London report. Nothing happening on the Kings Road. If you’re going to nick food this is the place to do it. Not Greggs. You should see some of the prices they are charging for their orgasmic cheese.
We're currently having a spot of lunch in the Booking Office. Lots of memories of having caught trains from here. Off to see the Hardy Tree soon. Will report if mugged.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
Been in London thirty years or so, a friend had her phone snatched in early 2000s, only time it happened to someone I know. Think it was a big thing around that time, then the phone companies got better at bricking stolen phones so became rarer but anecdotally seems to be making a comeback.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
Been in London thirty years or so, a friend had her phone snatched in early 2000s, only time it happened to someone I know. Think it was a big thing around that time, then the phone companies got better at bricking stolen phones so became rarer but anecdotally seems to be making a comeback.
They are now being nicked to be stripped for parts
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
Been in London thirty years or so, a friend had her phone snatched in early 2000s, only time it happened to someone I know. Think it was a big thing around that time, then the phone companies got better at bricking stolen phones so became rarer but anecdotally seems to be making a comeback.
Now is at highest level for 20 years....the "bricking" stolen phones doesn't do anything when sent abroad plus some technical wizardary is now freely available to give phones new ids, they get sent to North Africa and China. Also, big trade is sending them to China to strip for parts.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
It’s a massive problem and you’re delusional, with all respect
Just look at the data
I’ve had two attempts on my phone - one failed one successful
I just did a Google Images search and got "Unable to process this search This search can't be processed due to content guidelines. Please try a different image or keywords". Care to enlighten us?
1) Dancing offends the Wee Free 2) Dancing therefore offends a religious minority. 3) Therefore all images depicting or advocating dancing are banned world wide.
One of the reasons for snatch thefts is everybody is walking around with £1000 brick in their pockets and loads of people with £250+ headphones. Also, too many people have their banking apps on their phones with the same pin as the main phone access, so that is absolutely lottery win for criminals.
Breaking into people's houses for a tv like the 80/90s, they aren't worth shit these days unless they are absolutely maaasssuhhhhhive and you aren't going to carry that out...and no VCRs, few people have Hi-Fis, etc. Remember having to have the detachable face-plate for your car stereo as they were worth a load of money, now everybody has Apply Car Play and Spotify.
Airdrops of aid to Gaza 'inefficient' and a 'distraction', UN says The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has strongly criticised the use of airdrops to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, calling them “inefficient” and a “distraction” from addressing the root causes of the crisis.
One of the reasons for snatch thefts is everybody is walking around with £1000 brick in their pockets and loads of people with £250+ headphones. Also, too many people have their banking apps on their phones with the same pin as the main phone access, so that is absolutely lottery win for criminals.
Breaking into people's houses for a tv like the 80/90s, they aren't worth shit these days unless they are absolutely maaasssuhhhhhive and you aren't going to carry that out...and no VCRs, few people have Hi-Fis, etc. Remember having to have the detachable face-plate for your car stereo as they were worth a load of money, now everybody has Apply Car Play and Spotify.
I have a cheap phone, cheap watch, no headphones, no jewelry - nothing worth nicking. Even the chuggers take one look at me and turn their backs.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
It’s a massive problem and you’re delusional, with all respect
Just look at the data
I’ve had two attempts on my phone - one failed one successful
Phone up the sun, you could be a whistleblower too!
One of the reasons for snatch thefts is everybody is walking around with £1000 brick in their pockets and loads of people with £250+ headphones. Also, too many people have their banking apps on their phones with the same pin as the main phone access, so that is absolutely lottery win for criminals.
Breaking into people's houses for a tv like the 80/90s, they aren't worth shit these days unless they are absolutely maaasssuhhhhhive and you aren't going to carry that out...and no VCRs, few people have Hi-Fis, etc. Remember having to have the detachable face-plate for your car stereo as they were worth a load of money, now everybody has Apply Car Play and Spotify.
I have a cheap phone, cheap watch, no headphones, no jewelry - nothing worth nicking. Even the chuggers take one look at me and turn their backs.
Cheap watch you say, so you got one of them Rolex's ;-)
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
It’s a massive problem and you’re delusional, with all respect
Just look at the data
I’ve had two attempts on my phone - one failed one successful
Well if you are going to walk around drunk or stoned all the time you are bound to get targeted. Normal people on the other hand experience different things.
I have only had my pocket picked once, in Nice, in the early 90s and caught the thief so lost nothing. I did, and do to a lesser extent now, spend lots of time in London, and at night. Never had an issue.
Shout out to golfer Lottie Woad - Tigeresque start to her pro career.
Last two tournaments as an amateur were a win on the pro European tour, and third in a pro major. This week back on the European Tour on her pro debut and is leading the Scottish Open from a top field including the World No 1.
They are now being nicked to be stripped for parts
A big part of that is the cost of OLED screens. The LCD screen on an old phone might have cost £50 brand new, OLEDs are often £200+ on higher end phones. There's always a market for cheap replacement screens.
Very much on brand GOP. Same guy that insists on bible teaching in schools.
Today’s episode of Oklahoma politics never being boring: State Superintendent Ryan Walters caught with porn on the TV in his office during a state board of education meeting https://x.com/Blake_Allen13/status/1948896268413272404
I'm curious as to the usage of the term "asylum seeker". I thought if anyone who entered the country illegally and was detained, they were kept in four and five star luxury hotels and well fed and watered so wouldn't really need to go round nicking a baguette from Greggs.
Are we talking about individuals who have entered the country illegally and have not been detained and are therefore living beyond the knowledge of the authorities? If so, they are illegal migrants who need to be caught and deported. I suspect the actual numbers of these individuals and their location are unknown to the Government and rather makes nonsense of pledges of "mass deportations".
Are we talking about those who have arrived illegally, sought asylum and been approved - I read somewhere 80% of asylum cases were approved so of your 50,000 illegal arrivals, 40,000 will in time be given leave to remain? If so, they are no longer "asylum seekers" but have a right to stay. That doesn't mean they can't be shoplifters or indulge in other acts of petty criminality but they will be identifiable by the Police and should be prosecuted.
As to whether "70%" of shoplifters in London are "asylum seekers", I don't know - might be true in some areas but I wouldn't generalise it. I'd say 80% of fare evaders on the London Underground were men between 18 and 25 but that's only my anecdotal evidence from one station on the network.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
It’s a massive problem and you’re delusional, with all respect
Just look at the data
I’ve had two attempts on my phone - one failed one successful
Well if you are going to walk around drunk or stoned all the time you are bound to get targeted. Normal people on the other hand experience different things.
I have only had my pocket picked once, in Nice, in the early 90s and caught the thief so lost nothing. I did, and do to a lesser extent now, spend lots of time in London, and at night. Never had an issue.
Isn’t this just anecdote vs data? The stats show a rise in phone thefts.
I'm curious as to the usage of the term "asylum seeker". I thought if anyone who entered the country illegally and was detained, they were kept in four and five star luxury hotels and well fed and watered so wouldn't really need to go round nicking a baguette from Greggs.
Are asylum seekers really kept under lock and key in those hotels? I has assumed that they were free to come and go as they please.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
It’s a massive problem and you’re delusional, with all respect
Just look at the data
I’ve had two attempts on my phone - one failed one successful
You're not wrong in that phone snatching is a serious problem. Neither Mrs Stodge nor I will get our phones out in public - just not worth it - yet you see so many people holding them and using them and asking for trouble despite repeated Police warnings around tube stations in particular.
If, 20 years ago, you had walked around waving £10 and £20 notes in the air, you might have expected to be robbed. In essence, it's no different. Yes, you can protect yourself from some of the consequences with proper security and encryption on the phone itself but not from the inconvenience, the shock and the sense of well, helplessness for want of a better word.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
It’s a massive problem and you’re delusional, with all respect
Just look at the data
I’ve had two attempts on my phone - one failed one successful
You're not wrong in that phone snatching is a serious problem. Neither Mrs Stodge nor I will get our phones out in public - just not worth it - yet you see so many people holding them and using them and asking for trouble despite repeated Police warnings around tube stations in particular.
If, 20 years ago, you had walked around waving £10 and £20 notes in the air, you might have expected to be robbed. In essence, it's no different. Yes, you can protect yourself from some of the consequences with proper security and encryption on the phone itself but not from the inconvenience, the shock and the sense of well, helplessness for want of a better word.
I wouldn't have said stations were the problem - thieves need to escape so it's far more likely on a street where they can quickly cycle away..
Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly been granted proffer immunity.
Husk off: material that she supplies ("proffers") at this time cannot be used against her:
The immunity allowed Maxwell to freely answer Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's questions without fear that her responses could later be used against her, the sources said.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
It’s a massive problem and you’re delusional, with all respect
Just look at the data
I’ve had two attempts on my phone - one failed one successful
You're not wrong in that phone snatching is a serious problem. Neither Mrs Stodge nor I will get our phones out in public - just not worth it - yet you see so many people holding them and using them and asking for trouble despite repeated Police warnings around tube stations in particular.
If, 20 years ago, you had walked around waving £10 and £20 notes in the air, you might have expected to be robbed. In essence, it's no different. Yes, you can protect yourself from some of the consequences with proper security and encryption on the phone itself but not from the inconvenience, the shock and the sense of well, helplessness for want of a better word.
Erm, I think this is called victim blaming?
Perhaps if the consequences of phone snatching were 2 years in Belmarsh, the scallywags who thieve might think twice.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
It’s a massive problem and you’re delusional, with all respect
Just look at the data
I’ve had two attempts on my phone - one failed one successful
You're not wrong in that phone snatching is a serious problem. Neither Mrs Stodge nor I will get our phones out in public - just not worth it - yet you see so many people holding them and using them and asking for trouble despite repeated Police warnings around tube stations in particular.
If, 20 years ago, you had walked around waving £10 and £20 notes in the air, you might have expected to be robbed. In essence, it's no different. Yes, you can protect yourself from some of the consequences with proper security and encryption on the phone itself but not from the inconvenience, the shock and the sense of well, helplessness for want of a better word.
I wouldn't have said stations were the problem - thieves need to escape so it's far more likely on a street where they can quickly cycle away..
It’s not in the stations you effing dimwit. It’s as people emerge from stations into daylight (ditto bars, restaurants, cinemas). They instantly look at their phones and that’s when the thieves attack - a moment of maximum distraction
PB is just so ludicrously stupid on issues like this. ‘Oh it’s never happened to me it’s not a problem’. Grow up
Scottish Socialist Party are out in Edinburgh with lots of signs along the lines of "don't vote for Reform UK, vote for real reform with us," which is a clumsy slogan. Aside from that, it seems to me Labour, Conservative, SNP and even tiny little parties like the SSP are targeting reform. It's all I see them talking about. This must give them legitimacy..
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
A load of MPs have had this happen to them....e.g.
Number of snatch thefts rises from 58,000 in 2023 to 99,000 last year – the highest level since 2003, according to crime survey...A total of 516,971 shoplifting offences were logged by forces last year, up 20 per cent from 429,873 in 2023, and equivalent to more than two a minute based on average store opening hours of 10 a day.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
It’s a massive problem and you’re delusional, with all respect
Just look at the data
I’ve had two attempts on my phone - one failed one successful
Well if you are going to walk around drunk or stoned all the time you are bound to get targeted. Normal people on the other hand experience different things.
I have only had my pocket picked once, in Nice, in the early 90s and caught the thief so lost nothing. I did, and do to a lesser extent now, spend lots of time in London, and at night. Never had an issue.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
It’s a massive problem and you’re delusional, with all respect
Just look at the data
I’ve had two attempts on my phone - one failed one successful
Well if you are going to walk around drunk or stoned all the time you are bound to get targeted. Normal people on the other hand experience different things.
I have only had my pocket picked once, in Nice, in the early 90s and caught the thief so lost nothing. I did, and do to a lesser extent now, spend lots of time in London, and at night. Never had an issue.
I think there is some genuine criticisms you could lay about Konstantin Kisin / Triggernometry, they definitely leaning much more right, they did start of with an obsession with culture war stuff and the interviews can give some people too much of an easy time....but this plonker Jimmy the Giant Moron got absolutely schooled.
For those that don't know he is part of the new UK left leaning YouTubers that have grown in popularity with the likes of Gary Economics, Tom Nicholls, etc.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
It’s a massive problem and you’re delusional, with all respect
Just look at the data
I’ve had two attempts on my phone - one failed one successful
You're not wrong in that phone snatching is a serious problem. Neither Mrs Stodge nor I will get our phones out in public - just not worth it - yet you see so many people holding them and using them and asking for trouble despite repeated Police warnings around tube stations in particular.
If, 20 years ago, you had walked around waving £10 and £20 notes in the air, you might have expected to be robbed. In essence, it's no different. Yes, you can protect yourself from some of the consequences with proper security and encryption on the phone itself but not from the inconvenience, the shock and the sense of well, helplessness for want of a better word.
I wouldn't have said stations were the problem - thieves need to escape so it's far more likely on a street where they can quickly cycle away..
It’s not in the stations you effing dimwit. It’s as people emerge from stations into daylight (ditto bars, restaurants, cinemas). They instantly look at their phones and that’s when the thieves attack - a moment of maximum distraction
PB is just so ludicrously stupid on issues like this. ‘Oh it’s never happened to me it’s not a problem’. Grow up
Very much on brand GOP. Same guy that insists on bible teaching in schools.
Today’s episode of Oklahoma politics never being boring: State Superintendent Ryan Walters caught with porn on the TV in his office during a state board of education meeting https://x.com/Blake_Allen13/status/1948896268413272404
That is bible study, you heathen berk. Genesis: Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
No, he's just displaying his mastery of vibe campaigning.
it.
Exactly this
How can people not see this.
Sure, whipping up lies has always been fertile soil for Right Wing Populists.
I just expect PB to be more intelligent than that.
I wouldn’t openly wear a Rolex walking down the streets of London. There have been enough stories about extremely violent mugging that people take care.
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
I don't know London well enough to comment. But having now looked at Farage's post the criticisms seem feeble. Is it safe to wear expensive jewellery in London or not? Have things got worse?
There are lots of emotive articles about rich women being robbed and phones being snatched so that’s what people believe. Don’t know whether it is actually true or not
Are you seriously denying there is a major problem with phone snatching in London?!
FWIW I live near London and have lived in it for many years, without ever encountering the issue or meeting anyone who had.
It’s a massive problem and you’re delusional, with all respect
Just look at the data
I’ve had two attempts on my phone - one failed one successful
You're not wrong in that phone snatching is a serious problem. Neither Mrs Stodge nor I will get our phones out in public - just not worth it - yet you see so many people holding them and using them and asking for trouble despite repeated Police warnings around tube stations in particular.
If, 20 years ago, you had walked around waving £10 and £20 notes in the air, you might have expected to be robbed. In essence, it's no different. Yes, you can protect yourself from some of the consequences with proper security and encryption on the phone itself but not from the inconvenience, the shock and the sense of well, helplessness for want of a better word.
Erm, I think this is called victim blaming?
Perhaps if the consequences of phone snatching were 2 years in Belmarsh, the scallywags who thieve might think twice.
Yes, well, as we all know, the Conservatives during their long period of leading the Government of this country, did precisely the sum total of bugger all in terms of increasing prison capacity and recruiting new prison officers.
As a consequence, our prisons are full and we have to let some prisoners out early which gets all the Conservatives irate which is strange as they did nothing about it from 2010-24 when they were the Government.
So, thanks for that pointless comment - if there was capacity in Belmarsh or elsewhere, I'd agree but you know and I know there isn't.
Comments
It’s not a question of statistics but people’s lived experience
‘Would you like to taste my orgasm cheese?’
But I don't think it will happen anyway, because the bottom line is that Labour won't get it through their backbenchers.
I think that merging NI and income tax is a gentler solution, and likely to have cross-party assent - while obviously it won't recover as much money as abolishing the triple lock.
They really aren’t dross.
I sometimes enjoy it a bit when I do watch it but I virtually never watch tennis, cricket, rugby or football by choice.
For even greater efficiency you could house asylum seekers next to police stations
The way the pitch suddenly seems so different when the batting side changes.
Plenty of patriotic interest - well, the favourite is trained by a Frenchman and ridden by a Frenchman. The second favourite is trained by an Irishman and ridden by an Irishman. Englishmen train two horses and ride one and that's about it.
Never mind, sport is global and unites us all so I'm told and if I back a 5/1 winner I don't care about the nationality of the owner, trainer or jockey.
https://www.thetimes.com/magazines/the-sunday-times-magazine/article/anatomy-of-a-riot-why-was-the-holiday-inn-in-rotherham-attacked-6m3d9dbwg
The good news for the people of Wath is that the asylum seekers have been removed and the Holiday Inn is a hotel again.
The anger rises, day by day
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/36003456/asylum-seekers-shoplifting-designer-gear-hotel-immigration/
Rugby League - working class northerners
Before anyone gets pedantic I know that is a very rough approximation.
The 'scrums' are rubbish, though.
2) Dancing therefore offends a religious minority.
3) Therefore all images depicting or advocating dancing are banned world wide.
I have seen the future. It’s is standing on a hillside, in November, with horizontal rain, worshiping God in a miserable manner. Forever.
It seems that they under-diagnosed my injuries. I have seven, rather than three, broken ribs. Gladly still just one broken ankle
My journey around the hospital has been a bit of a rollercoaster
My first night I was in the Surgical Assessment Unit. This used to be the private wing of the hospital, so I had my own, very nice, room
I knew this would only be temporary, but really wasn't expecting to be woken after eleven on the second night and told I was being moved to the Trauma Ward immediately
I complained quite strongly that this would be a genuine nightmare, I didn't want to be moved in the middle of the night to a room with three strangers. Surprisingly they relented, and I was allowed to stay in my private room for the night
The next day, yesterday, my Dad came to visit me. He worked at this hospital for over twenty years. They moved me to my ward while he was here
The ward was more like a dementia ward; three oldies shitting and pissing in the wrong places, trying to escape, and fighting with and abusing staff. Dad was quite appalled and promised to use his contacts to try to get me moved
I had a rather afternoon, my blood pressure and pulse were both well up on the morning readings. Mid afternoon one of the orthopaedic consultants came to see me, said my Dad had been in touch, and promised to get me moved before bedtime
I was getting a bit panicky, but they finally got me into another ward just after eight. This one could be a geriatric ward, but far less demented
I've got at least another night here,. I'm rather hoping I'll get home tomorrow
Your experience is pretty much exactly that of my father and my aunt, in separate hospitals, in the past year.
I'm off for a walk and to puck blackberries.
Moped-riding robbers who targeted George Osborne are jailed
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/11/moped-riding-robbers-jailed-for-crimes-on-victims-including-george-osborne
Number of snatch thefts rises from 58,000 in 2023 to 99,000 last year – the highest level since 2003, according to crime survey...A total of 516,971 shoplifting offences were logged by forces last year, up 20 per cent from 429,873 in 2023, and equivalent to more than two a minute based on average store opening hours of 10 a day.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/24/mobile-phone-and-bag-snatches-up-70pc-in-a-year/
Just look at the data
I’ve had two attempts on my phone - one failed one successful
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9de6jeOevi8
Breaking into people's houses for a tv like the 80/90s, they aren't worth shit these days unless they are absolutely maaasssuhhhhhive and you aren't going to carry that out...and no VCRs, few people have Hi-Fis, etc. Remember having to have the detachable face-plate for your car stereo as they were worth a load of money, now everybody has Apply Car Play and Spotify.
I can now find the "change avatar" link, so I have changed my avatar.
Unfortunately the cat saying "Talk QWERTY to me" does not fit. So you've got Bibendum.
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has strongly criticised the use of airdrops to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, calling them “inefficient” and a “distraction” from addressing the root causes of the crisis.
Even the chuggers take one look at me and turn their backs.
I have only had my pocket picked once, in Nice, in the early 90s and caught the thief so lost nothing. I did, and do to a lesser extent now, spend lots of time in London, and at night. Never had an issue.
Last two tournaments as an amateur were a win on the pro European tour, and third in a pro major. This week back on the European Tour on her pro debut and is leading the Scottish Open from a top field including the World No 1.
Unheard of.
Same guy that insists on bible teaching in schools.
Today’s episode of Oklahoma politics never being boring: State Superintendent Ryan Walters caught with porn on the TV in his office during a state board of education meeting
https://x.com/Blake_Allen13/status/1948896268413272404
I'm curious as to the usage of the term "asylum seeker". I thought if anyone who entered the country illegally and was detained, they were kept in four and five star luxury hotels and well fed and watered so wouldn't really need to go round nicking a baguette from Greggs.
Are we talking about individuals who have entered the country illegally and have not been detained and are therefore living beyond the knowledge of the authorities? If so, they are illegal migrants who need to be caught and deported. I suspect the actual numbers of these individuals and their location are unknown to the Government and rather makes nonsense of pledges of "mass deportations".
Are we talking about those who have arrived illegally, sought asylum and been approved - I read somewhere 80% of asylum cases were approved so of your 50,000 illegal arrivals, 40,000 will in time be given leave to remain? If so, they are no longer "asylum seekers" but have a right to stay. That doesn't mean they can't be shoplifters or indulge in other acts of petty criminality but they will be identifiable by the Police and should be prosecuted.
As to whether "70%" of shoplifters in London are "asylum seekers", I don't know - might be true in some areas but I wouldn't generalise it. I'd say 80% of fare evaders on the London Underground were men between 18 and 25 but that's only my anecdotal evidence from one station on the network.
If, 20 years ago, you had walked around waving £10 and £20 notes in the air, you might have expected to be robbed. In essence, it's no different. Yes, you can protect yourself from some of the consequences with proper security and encryption on the phone itself but not from the inconvenience, the shock and the sense of well, helplessness for want of a better word.
Unless the Trump administration gets its approval rating back up to around 50% neither would win the general election either
Husk off: material that she supplies ("proffers") at this time cannot be used against her:
The immunity allowed Maxwell to freely answer Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's questions without fear that her responses could later be used against her, the sources said.
The so-called proffer immunity is commonly granted to individuals prosecutors are seeking to make cooperators in a criminal case. Maxwell has already been tried, convicted and sentenced for sex trafficking underage girls.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/deputy-ag-blanche-set-meet-2nd-day-ghislaine/story?id=124064062
Perhaps if the consequences of phone snatching were 2 years in Belmarsh, the scallywags who thieve might think twice.
PB is just so ludicrously stupid on issues like this. ‘Oh it’s never happened to me it’s not a problem’. Grow up
There will be much whining and, if it happens in summer, performative mass shopping.
He Called Me A Grifter... It Didn't Go Well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pojJ1R4_ps
I think there is some genuine criticisms you could lay about Konstantin Kisin / Triggernometry, they definitely leaning much more right, they did start of with an obsession with culture war stuff and the interviews can give some people too much of an easy time....but this plonker Jimmy the Giant Moron got absolutely schooled.
For those that don't know he is part of the new UK left leaning YouTubers that have grown in popularity with the likes of Gary Economics, Tom Nicholls, etc.
As a consequence, our prisons are full and we have to let some prisoners out early which gets all the Conservatives irate which is strange as they did nothing about it from 2010-24 when they were the Government.
So, thanks for that pointless comment - if there was capacity in Belmarsh or elsewhere, I'd agree but you know and I know there isn't.