Reform, and the death of the Tory Party

[Bazzer]

Some of these ’Christians’ could do with reading gospels. They seem to happily quote selective pieces of old testament which are not very christian to say the least. Jesus was woke.

BTW, I like the alt names for the leader of refuk.

I dunno, there seems to be quite a few parallels between the Trump administration and the old testament. Indiscriminate murder by proxy, rape, subjugation of women, a man demanding others bend the knee to him, forced removal of people.

 

[secretsqirrel]

I dunno, there seems to be quite a few parallels between the Trump administration and the old testament. Indiscriminate murder by proxy, rape, subjugation of women, a man demanding others bend the knee to him, forced removal of people.

We agree.

 

[Pross]

Trumps Greenland plan is a coat tail that Forage does not want to be seen to be clutching.
The problem with our insular, island press is that they do not seem to acknowledge his US links as much as they could - he has gone on an anti-abortion tour in the US, he has attended the obscene millionaire/billionaire Trump parties at Mar a Lago, he has his fingers in 12 honey pots. How he does his job as MP for Clacton on sea, I have no idea. Well, the fact is, he doesn't. Constituents say they never see him. His ties to Russia have not really been exposed directly - only indirectly from Gill's prosecution. A man who had his office directly across from him in Brussels.
Fagash recently converted to being 'Christian. Funny dat. The Christian Nationalists (of which Hegseth and innumerable other Trump appointees are) are less likely to fund an atheist. Fagtrash's conversion to Christianity is no coincidence.
Anyone who actually thinks that Reform and Fagbottom could form a govt. better than Labour, the Lib Dems or even, the hapless Tories is a f*ckwit. What Fagtush would do if he became PM would open the door to the corporate hegemony that is going rampant across the pond. under Donnie, the convicted felon, rapist, fraudster bloke. Anyone who has an ounce of morality and can see a bit of the bigger picture, cannot possibly entertain c*nt chops Nigel as a future PM.

There is no 'yeah but' about it.

I don’t think it anything to do with our press being insular so much as Farage is their man these days so why would they highlight things that are likely to make his less popular?

 

[Xipe Totec]

Is what you describe not the. inevitable outcome of voting against a particular party, rather than for a particular party?

IMHO, that is what happened in last UK General Election (quite understandably, perhaps), but, the next development. is that the "winner" Governs by clickbait, not by a declared Policy.

It is - but that's broadly the only strategy the England-based parties (ie not SNP or Scottish Greens) really use in elections here: "Vote for us - we're not them!"

Reform have no Scottish policies whatsoever and have even gone as far as saying they'll be announcing some 'closer to the date' - by which time they may have realised that, like their London-based competitors, they don't really need any.

 

[Pblakeney]

Reform policies - We will promise anything and everything that you want. But won't deliver.

 

[briantrumpet]

Reform policies - We will promise anything and everything that you want. But won't deliver.

= populism

 

[Xipe Totec]

Reform policies - We will promise anything and everything that you want. But won't deliver.

"We promise we're not the SNP!" will work well enough, among some voters. "We'll sell off the SNHS!", "Tax breaks for millionaires!", "Stop The Boats", "We'll deport your neighbours" maybe not quite as well.

And of course, now there's this:

 

[Pross]

What’s happened with that photo of Truss?

Edit Just re-read it as being one of her team. Thought it was an AI fail!

 

[briantrumpet]

What’s happened with that photo of Truss?

Edit Just re-read it as being one of her team. Thought it was an AI fail!

Would have been clearer if it had been written "Truss's", and would have (arguably) been more correct, certainly in modern convention, as "Truss" doesn't even look like a plural (and the older convention of not adding 's to a names that looks like a plural – e.g. 'Moses' – is dying out anyway).

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Then the whole thing is complete BS.
Reform weren't founded until 2018.

Fair comment

Sorry - but that should have been 2024
some other typos - the 09% should have been 89%
and when I said Farage will be MP - I meant PM

Sorry again - when I type it wrong I do not seem to be able to read what I typed - just what I thought I typed

 

[Pblakeney]

🎶Another one bites the dust🎶 121 MPs down to 114.
"Conservative shadow minister Andrew Rosindell has defected to Reform UK, becoming the seventh Tory MP to do so."

 

[briantrumpet]

🎶Another one bites the dust🎶
"Conservative shadow minister Andrew Rosindell has defected to Reform UK, becoming the seventh Tory MP to do so."

 

[Pblakeney]

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By my count there are more tory MPs in Reform than Reform MPs.
Add on another 11 and at what point do they become the New Conservatives?

 

[TailWindHome]

The Wikipedia Reform MP article template

 

[briantrumpet]

'Schadenfreude' is such a splendid word. It would be nice to use it more...