Clarkson’s talk about becoming an MP, will it lead to diddly squat? – politicalbetting.com
Clarkson’s talk about becoming an MP, will it lead to diddly squat? – politicalbetting.com
Jeremy Clarkson appears to have threatened to stand against Ed Miliband as an MPBy 45% to 35%, the British public think Clarkson would make a bad MPyougov.co.uk/topics/enter…
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Not sure all the public necessarily realise tv Clarkson is a character.
The sad thing is our licence fee facilitated this f*****.
But they aren't really a Green Party in the accepted sense of the word, and their net is cast much wider than the Green policy offering
If only a former leader of Reform in Wales had pleaded guilty to some pro Russian corruption and the media had decided to run with it. Can't win 'em all.
It's a tough case: it's entirely possible that Ms James did lie on the form to get favorable mortgage terms. But I'm struggling to see how it gets past reasonable doubt.
BROOKE ROLLINS: Yes, the president has said he's in discussions with Argentina. It will not be very much. Argentina is also facing a foot and mouth disease issue.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m3pmqewiuc2q
Which is a fun way to make people go WTAF, when you tell them.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m3pn6hfajq2s
However, if Clarkson can force Ed Miliband to spend a fair amount of the next three years in Darlington rather than in Westminster, then it probably helps the country in the long run.
It is worth noting through all of this that the mortgage itself is absolutely tiny: just $109,000 in total.
He’d be there in Darlington every other Thursday for a whole day of surgery, and would hire enough constituency staff out of his own pocket to annoy the hell out of the government of the day with all of their problems.
He’d turn up in London for key votes, probably in a tractor or a Lamborghini, and advocate for motorists by failing to pay congestion charges and ULEZ charges.
The bar person says to them what can I get you Mr Jenrick and Mr Starmer.
As a mortgage fraud case, it's pretty laughable.
As a piece of political revenge, misusing the power of the DoJ, it's anything but amusing.
It might be that they get done over by the defence set-up there (I have an acquaintance who was senior in the army and he had been sent down there to analyse and refresh the military’s defence plan and kit about 20 years ago and he was very certain they could bat away any invasion attempt so hope it’s still so) but if they managed to land and the British went to force them out would we have Trump now demanding that we accept it and “stop the fighting”, would he take Argentina’s side as he has financial considerations at stake or would he side with the UK?
Now I know both towns are on the ECML but that's one of the few things in common..
He wants to be MP for Doncaster, his home town, not Darlington.
Worst case, he'd give them military assistance.
He became President of Argentina with - I believe - genuinely good intentions, and a plan to reverse much of the endemic mismanagement. Unlike his predecessors, he wanted good relations with the UK, and had no interest in the Malvinas.
Unfortunately the world economy stuttered, Argentina caught a cold, and he found himself rapidly heading down a rabbit hole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sNPzQ8aK7s
He is another person who you have to realise his crazy personna is just PR (unlike Trump). He actually have a serious academic background and when he has done long form interviews about econmics he demonstrates he is no Rachel from accounts.
In 2024, for example, their Navy only managed 139 days at sea.
Though Wikipedia says that they are buying F-16s from Denmark (but I thought they were going to Ukraine).
TRiEntertainment predicts Susie Wolff's will be the top autobiography this yule.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4xA3kQDpHQ&t=2470s
I knew a couple whose daughter was in his circle circa mid 1990s and they said he was as awful off screen as on screen.
He is genuinely good on "Millionaire". I can't bear the Grand Tour stuff and I have never watched Clarkson's Farm.
No funding and not been able to buy anything abroad for a long, long time.
They are trying to buy some old F16 at the moment, IIRC.
Which says a lot and not in a good way about the rest.
I don't know whether she's guilty or not
But given the loan was only $109k and any interest rate differential will be no more than -what- 1% per year, abssolute maximum, and given that Ms James didn't fill in the form herself, I simply can't see how it gets past reasonable doubt.
I'm not sure child porn will find a publisher in this country.
The one thinkable route is as a celeb addition to the Reform circus, with a promise that he will be a minister with a Reform manifesto for transport crafted around Clarkson populism. But I think this is a QTWTAIN.
Or did you mean Harry?
There's a small chance something crazy would work, like getting every available civilian ship, packing them with troops, and hoping the RAF run out of missiles before sinking them all. That might get them on the island, albeit with Putin-level casualty rates, but a few weeks later an RN carrier and some troopships would turn up and kick them out.
Nothing to do with Susie Wolff.
"What are you doing? You just killed a friendly!"
Last Thursday Trump said he and the Russian president would hold talks in Budapest within two weeks to discuss the war in Ukraine.
A preparatory meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov was due to be held this week - but the White House said the two had had a "productive" call and that a meeting was no longer "necessary".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gjp73gp41o
Putin clearly ghosting him on Signal. No sign that Trump will be able to end a 28th war this year.
https://x.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1980671813412659690
Ed is Doncaster North, not that I have seen him once in the constituency in all the years he has been the MP.
I don't think Clarkson will win unless everyone else stands down, which they won't.
I was surprised there was no Reform candidate in the GE. I think the block Labour vote from the ex-mining villages is slowly disappearing and is becoming Reform adjacent - this was apparent in the council elections.
[Clarkson lived in a big grade II listed house in Tickhill as a child. This is not exactly a deprived area, and is in a different constituency]
The major parties are leaving a vacuum and on current polling, Reform looking like getting a strong majority but without a long established party of careerists ready to climb the greasy pole.
Reform are seeking out what they see as top tier talent for background policy advisory roles but more if the person wants it. Clarkson well might be like everyone else that isn’t an #FBPE weirdo and have come to terms with the existential grief of leaving a continental customs union and single market.
She talks about "cultural coherence". She should be pressed on what or who she means. I presume it's a dog-whistle for Muslims.
Putin has not moved an inch in all the time this has being going on and why Trump thinks it's different indicates he's incapable of understanding the dynamics of the Russian position wrt Ukraine and their aspirations for further SMO's in the Baltics.
I think ILR should be revoked only under the most severe conditions such as a criminal conviction with a custodial sentence.
Expelling migrants with ILR who aren't "culturally coherent" does sound the very definition of ethnic cleansing.
I am encouraging my friends with ILR to get citizenship before the next GE, though it may well be that even a UK passport isnt enough.
I'm looking forward to her defence subpoena-ing Trump, who has made it clear he regards himself as chief law officer, and has every right to instruct prosecutions to be brought.
I think we need to hear him deposed in the defence case for selective prosecution.
...A large number of Hellfire drones are flying, and at least 10 British Storm Shadow missiles have been launched. Ukraine is striking with practically everything it has, according to Russian military correspondents.
There is an alert in 15 regions of the Russian Federation, including Moscow and Crimea. There have already been arrivals, according to monitors...
https://x.com/Heroiam_Slava/status/1980645209579966749
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/jeremy-clarkson-brexit-pub-farm-b2694884.html
Clarkson said that, generally, he can spend time with people who have differing views to his own – but “the one exception” is “people who voted for Brexit”. He said: “It’s not so bad if they put their hands up and admit they made a mistake. But if I encounter someone who still thinks it was all a brilliant idea, I get so cross my hair catches fire and my teeth start to itch.”
I can see that being a problem for Nigel.
.....'Anti semitic smears' says Starmer Badenoch and Davey.....'Jew haters!' says Dan Hodges...
A sober kook (and quite funny............)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM8Fwfzc508
What rabbit hole? And more importantly, what would the sage commentors stroking their beards have done differently? Continued with corrupt Peronist Government and hyperinflation?
Not trying to pick on RCS, I see a lot of similar comments.
Cheap and nasty politics.
EXCLUSIVE:
Rachel Reeves will launch a £2 billion tax raid on lawyers, family doctors and accountants as she seeks to balance the books by targeting the wealthy
The chancellor is expected to use the budget to impose a new charge on people who use limited liability partnerships as she tries to fill a £30 billion hole in the public finances
More than 190,000 workers use partnerships, particularly in the legal world, and they offer a significant tax benefit over ordinary employment. They are not subject to employers' national insurance as partners are treated as self-employed
Reeves is said to consider this unfair and is expected to announce changes to the system in her budget. She has repeatedly said that 'those with the broadest shoulders' should pay their 'fair share of tax', and many of those who use partnerships are high earners
Details of the planned tax raid on partnerships were obtained by The State of It, the new political podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times
More than 13,000 partners earn an average of £1.25 million each a year. Solicitors who draw profits from partnerships make an average of £316,000 a year. The family doctors make £118,000 and accountants an average of £246,000
Reeves is also expected to push ahead with a mansion tax, imposing capital gains on the sale of main residences for the most expensive properties
(I really am starting to dislike EdM.)
Needless to say, I have very little time for his politics. He would of course be an upgrade on Ed Milliband, but so would a jam jar full of smallpox.
Three MPs have criticised plans for a 3,500-acre solar farm between Doncaster and Rotherham.
The project, named Whitestone Solar Farm, would stretch across a number of separate parcels of land and could power 250,000 homes.
However, local MPs John Healey, Sarah Champion and Jake Richards have all raised concerns about the size and location of the scheme.
...
Healey, Labour MP for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough, told project developer Green Nation in a letter that the scheme did not meet his expectations, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
"In my view, every project must still meet three tests: it must be proportionate, it must be safe, and it must be fair - Whitestone fails all three," he said.
He said it was "the wrong scale of scheme in the wrong place".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5e246pdgzo
The Tories set a tax trap and Rachel Reeves walked straight into it. It may be her defining mistake
By taking Jeremy Hunt’s NI cuts and ruling out other rises, Labour tried to out-Tory the Tories. And made a bad situation worse
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have only themselves to blame for the mess they are in over tax. The key moment was not the defenestration of their welfare bill or the uprising over pensioners’ winter fuel payments. The die was cast more than a year earlier.
In January 2024, the then chancellor Jeremy Hunt implemented a cut in employee national insurance contributions. Four months later he announced a further reduction from 10% to 8% and even hinted that he was considering abolishing employee contributions altogether. It was the mother of all election bribes, costing the exchequer about £10bn a year. It was also entirely cynical, offered in the absolute confidence that the Tories would not be in office long enough to grapple with the consequences. Had they by any chance won the election, he would have had to recoup the tax revenue forgone by either tax increases or by further swingeing cuts to the public sector.
For Labour, this was an obvious trap. Faced with these utterly irresponsible tax cuts at a time when pressure on the public sector was approaching breaking point, Reeves was challenged by Hunt to say whether, if she became chancellor, she would reinstate them. The sensible reply would have been to say: “We will decide if and when we are elected, and discover how much of a mess you have left us.” She might also have added, “And, by the way, the next election will not be about tax cuts. It will be about the dreadful state of the public sector.”
Instead, however, Reeves fell headlong into the trap Hunt had set, promising not only that she would not reinstate his cuts, but incredibly going further and promising not to raise any of the main sources of revenue: income tax, VAT or national insurance. From that moment on the party was doomed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/21/tories-tax-trap-rachel-reeves-defining-mistake?CMP=share_btn_url
Personally, I think Clarkson wins as an Independent yet alone Reform.