Reform, and the death of the Tory Party

[Pblakeney]

I listened to Zach P's party conference speech in full today.

It was mainly powder puff (including the notion of effectively a "double lock" on rents and the conspicuous silence on precisely how every home in Britain might reach the highest standards of insulation or how many thousands it would cost for these households to save £50 a year on heating) the pitch seems to essentially be to claim that anything they can't disagree with that Labour are doing is a result of the Greens' popularity.

Is this not just an open goal for Labour o flip it around to say thanks for approving of our policies?

Anyhow, I think this afternoon they are going to debate whether or not Stan has a right to have a baby, even though he doesn't have a womb.

I would say that Stan has the right and wish him good luck on his fruitless endeavours.

 

[icowden]

I would say that Stan has the right and wish him good luck on his fruitless endeavours.

Oi. No deadnaming. She's Loretta...!

 

[briantrumpet]

Cold War Steve is normally a man of few or no words.

 

[Pross]

The guy accused of Ann Widecombe’s murder appears to have really played into the hands of Honest Nige’s PR. He’s happy to be back in front of the media all of a sudden with his ‘most attacked politician of the last decade’ BS, justifying the donation for his ‘security’ and going for the all-round sympathy vote.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Farage would be a fool not to take advantage of the opportunity this gives.

He’s doing what politicians do.

 

[Pblakeney]

The guy accused of Ann Widecombe’s murder appears to have really played into the hands of Honest Nige’s PR. He’s happy to be back in front of the media all of a sudden with his ‘most attacked politician of the last decade’ BS, justifying the donation for his ‘security’ and going for the all-round sympathy vote.

He can only use that claim once killed. Oh...

 

[icowden]

Excellent new column from Henry Morris and the Papua New Guinea Courier:

The PNG Courier on words​

Henry Morris
Oct 06, 2026




Back to England, where up has become down, black is white, and Christianity is epitomised by masked mobs who confront boats full of refugees.

The latest iteration of social media’s intuitive disdain for its own audience is Danny Tommo (imagine Facebook and cocaine had a baby) standing in the vanguard of a balaclava-wearing throng, channelling xenophobic anxieties about a misplaced sense of soil.

As one whom claims to be a devout Christian while engaging in precisely the type of behaviour that Christ condemned, he is fast becoming the patron saint of weaponised hypocrisy.

Language used to describe things. Now it creates them. “Christian” becomes “racist hooligan”, while “patriot” equates with someone who believes disagreement with them constitutes treason. “Illegal” is no longer a criminal descriptor, but a self-supplying moral argument that eliminates the tedious necessity of discussing why somebody fled their home in the first place.

It comes from the same subjective world in which a political party can take a word, discuss it at a party conference, and pass a resolution to make it mean something else.

You’ve got to admire the Greens’ ambition, but having watched a number of states put a lot of energy into trying to redefine “genocide” and “terrorist”, you’d have thought their time would be better spent making a case for hauling Netanyahu before the Hague rather than attempting to oversimplify a word like Zionism to no obvious end. Who knows? Would avoiding getting into unwinnable arguments about redefining words make it easier to win battles about what they do mean?

Tommo, meanwhile, is reading a copy of the King James where Matthew 25:35 says:
“For I was hungry and you donned a balaclava. I was thirsty and you nutted an RNLI volunteer. I was a stranger and you popped my dinghy with a Stanley knife…”

Don’t say I’ve misinterpreted the word “reading.” I just passed a motion saying it means “Tommo’s looking at pictures.”
When language turns into personal property, words no longer describe shared experience or observable events but become accessories to the reality we have constructed for ourselves.

Here is the logical endpoint of rampant individualism. We are not just entitled to our own opinions, but to our own meanings. And once everyone decides on definitions in their own dictionary, disagreement will become impossible, because there will no longer be a common language in which to have it.

Straw-manning and outflanking your opponents by imagining words mean whatever you want them to mean are now endemic. Compassion is weakness, hospitality is betrayal and Christianity, once a complicated world religion with roots in Judaism is reduced to a lot of noisy people waving its symbols while behaving in ways that its central figure denounced.

On the shores of Britain now, the gospel of anger supersedes the gospel of grace. In a land where words have been hollowed out like the souls of those in the nonce-bonnets who scream them, truth isn’t just sidelined, it is thrown overboard.
And if you call the RNLI to rescue it, we’ll chin you.

 

[monkers]

Excellent new column from Henry Morris and the Papua New Guinea Courier:

The PNG Courier on words​

Henry Morris
Oct 06, 2026




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Back to England, where up has become down, black is white, and Christianity is epitomised by masked mobs who confront boats full of refugees.

The latest iteration of social media’s intuitive disdain for its own audience is Danny Tommo (imagine Facebook and cocaine had a baby) standing in the vanguard of a balaclava-wearing throng, channelling xenophobic anxieties about a misplaced sense of soil.

As one whom claims to be a devout Christian while engaging in precisely the type of behaviour that Christ condemned, he is fast becoming the patron saint of weaponised hypocrisy.

Language used to describe things. Now it creates them. “Christian” becomes “racist hooligan”, while “patriot” equates with someone who believes disagreement with them constitutes treason. “Illegal” is no longer a criminal descriptor, but a self-supplying moral argument that eliminates the tedious necessity of discussing why somebody fled their home in the first place.

It comes from the same subjective world in which a political party can take a word, discuss it at a party conference, and pass a resolution to make it mean something else.

You’ve got to admire the Greens’ ambition, but having watched a number of states put a lot of energy into trying to redefine “genocide” and “terrorist”, you’d have thought their time would be better spent making a case for hauling Netanyahu before the Hague rather than attempting to oversimplify a word like Zionism to no obvious end. Who knows? Would avoiding getting into unwinnable arguments about redefining words make it easier to win battles about what they do mean?

Tommo, meanwhile, is reading a copy of the King James where Matthew 25:35 says:
“For I was hungry and you donned a balaclava. I was thirsty and you nutted an RNLI volunteer. I was a stranger and you popped my dinghy with a Stanley knife…”

Don’t say I’ve misinterpreted the word “reading.” I just passed a motion saying it means “Tommo’s looking at pictures.”
When language turns into personal property, words no longer describe shared experience or observable events but become accessories to the reality we have constructed for ourselves.

Here is the logical endpoint of rampant individualism. We are not just entitled to our own opinions, but to our own meanings. And once everyone decides on definitions in their own dictionary, disagreement will become impossible, because there will no longer be a common language in which to have it.

Straw-manning and outflanking your opponents by imagining words mean whatever you want them to mean are now endemic. Compassion is weakness, hospitality is betrayal and Christianity, once a complicated world religion with roots in Judaism is reduced to a lot of noisy people waving its symbols while behaving in ways that its central figure denounced.

On the shores of Britain now, the gospel of anger supersedes the gospel of grace. In a land where words have been hollowed out like the souls of those in the nonce-bonnets who scream them, truth isn’t just sidelined, it is thrown overboard.
And if you call the RNLI to rescue it, we’ll chin you.

Add the belief that rights are not universal but a zero sum game.

 

[briantrumpet]

Well that's OK then. An internal investigation (up Farage's arse?) declares Reform squeaky clean, as reported by an account run by a Reform councillor.

 

[Pross]

So an internal review is the level of proof needed to sue for libel now?

 

[Pblakeney]

So an internal review is the level of proof needed to sue for libel now?

We've held an internal investigation at our house and found that Nigel Farage is an arse.

 

[UglyWithaSidePart]

So an internal review is the level of proof needed to sue for libel now?

Well it's all a bit like Reform's own 'intel', as if they have a hotline into Mi5, when in fact it's just a bunch of doormen cosplaying as 'intel' experts.

 

[briantrumpet]

This is a better headline.

 

[briantrumpet]

I've no idea how Bitcoin works, but the £36mn Reform donor Ben Delo seems to have found a possibly illegal way of shafting clients of his company. This is separate from the fraud case he was convicted of.

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-mega-donor-ben-delo-named

 

[Dorset Boy]

Bitcoin and Crypto shite, for the benefit of terrorists and criminals............