I think this take from centrist Dad Danny Finkelstein, about Farage, is correct and it’s a point I’ve made here. Good thread here when people say Reform will be awful or a Reform council will be awful.
‘ Haven’t read a single sentence that better explains why campaigners are struggling to land blows on Farage than this from @Dannythefink and it chimes exactly with what hear day in/out - whatever Farage/Reform’s flaws many people don’t think it can be worse than what we have now.’
Yes, and I heard the same argument about Starmer and Labour replacing Sunak and the Tories before GE2024 as well.
Well Labour have been shit but not as shit as the Tories and many of the problems they have are legacy Tory issues. Anyway, from the Twitter thread.
‘ As the piece says the only way the mainstream could hope to challenge Reform is to show that it *can* deliver, that it respects ordinary people and crucially showing there is something worth losing from taking a risk on chucking it all out for something new.’
In Durham we got rid of a Labour council as it was not very good and replaced it with a lib Dem led coalition. This was really no big improvement. Hence the transition to Reform and no matter how many nary, ranty. they/them pronouns, pink hair, nose ring, keyboard warriors ranted about them in Facebook groups and told people they were racist or stupid or voting against their own interests (always a sure fire way of getting people to reconsider their votes, abuse) prior to the election people gave them a chance. If they deliver, great, if they don’t well where do we go then ?
I disagree.
I think the country would be in a much better place had Sunak/Hunt retained office.
We'd have lower migration, lower deficit, lower taxes and lower surrenders of British interests.
The problem with the 2012 opening ceremony (and I suppose it's not one that Truss can point out given her present political views) is that it 'celebrated' the NHS even though the vast amounts of money the ceremony cost could have been better spent, particularly at that time, on the NHS.
Disagree.
The money spent on the opening ceremony and the games themselves go lots of people into sport. Thats far better than spaffing it on the ever growing behemoth of the NHS.
I seriously believe the country might be better off if we disbanded the NHS, stopped funding it, and spent the money on giving every fat person Mounjaro and everyone else a monetary reward for exercise. £5 per stiff hike, £10 for a game of padel, etc. £350 for quitting smoking for a year, or lowering booze intake by half
The NHS encourages malingering fatties who are of no benefit. We should incentivise slender fitness with hard cash
"Public must stand up to shoplifters, says policing chief Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner claims people who fail to intervene are ‘part of problem’" (£)
"Public must stand up to shoplifters, says policing chief Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner claims people who fail to intervene are ‘part of problem’" (£)
FINAL WARNING DONALD TRUMP — MAYBE THE MOST IMPORTANT WARNING IN HISTORY! STOP CHEATING OR CALIFORNIA WILL REDRAW THE MAPS. AND GUESS WHO WILL ANNOUNCE IT THIS WEEK? GAVIN NEWSOM (MANY SAY THE MOST LOVED & HANDSOME GOVERNOR) AND A VERY POWERFUL TEAM. DON’T MAKE US DO IT!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
He’s either deranged or it’s a very good piece of satire/performance art.
He’s running in ‘28 and trying to draw attention to himself.
I’m not sure that trying to out-Trump, Trump, is going to work though, it’s like the probervial wrestling with a pig. I’m not sure that “Make America California Again” even goes down well with half the population of California, let alone the wider country.
California is also pretty well Gerrymandered by the Democrats already, any redrawing of maps there would look hideous.
FINAL WARNING DONALD TRUMP — MAYBE THE MOST IMPORTANT WARNING IN HISTORY! STOP CHEATING OR CALIFORNIA WILL REDRAW THE MAPS. AND GUESS WHO WILL ANNOUNCE IT THIS WEEK? GAVIN NEWSOM (MANY SAY THE MOST LOVED & HANDSOME GOVERNOR) AND A VERY POWERFUL TEAM. DON’T MAKE US DO IT!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
He’s either deranged or it’s a very good piece of satire/performance art.
He’s running in ‘28 and trying to draw attention to himself.
I’m not sure that trying to out-Trump, Trump, is going to work though, it’s like the probervial wrestling with a pig. I’m not sure that “Make America California Again” even goes down well with half the population of California, let alone the wider country.
California is also pretty well Gerrymandered by the Democrats already, any redrawing of maps there would look hideous.
Ah, it as we know from PB, when the democrats do it they are just responding to the nasty Republicans who do it worse
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I think the country would be in a much better place had Sunak/Hunt retained office.
We'd have lower migration, lower deficit, lower taxes and lower surrenders of British interests.
Write a 2027 version of Thomas More's Erewhon.
(Has anybody here read it? I just know snippets. One of which was Drs being paid according to how well their patients are.)
I’m not sure that trying to out-Trump, Trump, is going to work though, it’s like the probervial wrestling with a pig. I’m not sure that “Make America California Again” even goes down well with half the population of California, let alone the wider country.
California is also pretty well Gerrymandered by the Democrats already, any redrawing of maps there would look hideous.