To think Nigel Farage should be locked up?

I did and wondered how he was getting so much sun…!

It’ll be interesting to see if this has any effect on the polls.

A vote of no confidence is vanishingly unlikely for a government with a very large majority. Turkeys don’t often vote for Christmas.

Yes, I thought we are commenting on Farage and incitement to violence on this thread.

There are several constitutional triggers that can force a general election, none of which require the sitting PM's approval.

Even more whataboutery.

Probably not as low as Keir Starmer;

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has doubled down on a controversial attack ad on Rishi Sunak's record on crime, saying "I stand by every word."

A Labour advert claimed Mr Sunak did not think adults convicted of child sex assaults should go to prison.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65228859

Quite, let's lock people up for exercising their right to free speech. Or rather, just lock up those for whom their views aren't exactly in line with our own.
It'll be a utopic society; we'll all be in jail.

Calling for political opponents to be locked up is a dangerous path to go down. “Locking up” Farage would lead to martyrdom, it would be called a political action and would simply bolster his fake argument of two tier policing “one rule for us, eh, look at them proving our point etc”.

What should happen is, he should first be censured by the leader of the house for conduct unbecoming of an MP. He should also be investigated and if appropriate cautioned by the police for incitement. He treads that very fine line where he can have plausible deniability. He engages in dog whistle politics and that should be called out. Unfortunately people with their own biases and hatred consider him to be their dear leader, because he makes them feel ok about their —-isms. I have a feeling we should just give in, let it happen to the extremes it always does, which will let the nation swing back to where it has largely always been, with a dollop of “never again”. Easy for me to say that though as other than being a woman, I’m not really a target of their —isms. This kind of division rarely just resolves itself.

Many a great performer is inspired by a stooge.

I know. Absolutely astonishing that Lowe has more decency than Farage.

Amazing to see that Rupert Lowe called out Reform as "ugly and offensive" for misquoting Kemi. So they are lower than him ....?

The only person who can call a general election is the PM. The last thing this country needs is an early one. The electorate (ie Reform voters) will just have to be patient.

I wouldn't put the kiss of death on it because the way Labour are going, I'm giving them a year, if that. Infighting and a weak flip flop PM. You might not give a shit but many of the electorate do or are you dismissing them as per usual?

Who gives a shit about the polls now? The only one that matters is three years away.

Yet neither of those two are leading the polls.

Committed to making it happen? Farcical quote when he's full of hot air and zero substance.

Starmer’s actually nailed this one. And so has Badenoch, actually.

😆 🤣 😂

Yes, Farage was obviously very marginalised in the House of Commons. Kemi has asked for calm and Keir has said "Henry deserves a legacy that goes beyond this awful tragedy, and I am committed to making that happen,"

And did you notice his bright red face today!!😂did someone forget their sunscreen mr starmer?!! Lol

Nah he’s handled this one very well, including his eloquent dismembering of Farage.

It was pretty awful. Worth noting that the officer was not convicted of intentional murder (US terminology is odd), ie not an execution.

But I’m not here to defend either man. A pretty brutal police offer and a pretty brutal career criminal.

What I thought was tragic and absurd was the wanton destruction that followed with the nodding along of our political class. Somewhere between 19-25 people died in the protests in the week following, many neighbourhood (mostly poor ones) trashed and businesses destroyed, economic harm of $1bn-2bn. In Minneapolis alone in the year that followed the de-policing, murders doubled.

Now maybe this kind of mayhem happens sometimes.

But we had UK leaders kneeling in honour of this movement. wtf.

When there is any kind of race-related crime or outrage we get a preemptive lecture from our leaders about how bad elements are stirring up division and we should behave ourselves. Yet there they all were joining in when it was fashionable. It was shameful.

I’d be disgusted if our leaders cheerled and encouraged a white racial criminal backlash in this country. But this was a black one and American, so all fun and games.

Starmer looks ever more pointless and irrelevant every time he appears on my screen.

The BBC jump from crisis to crisis. School boy errors abound and still never learn from it, much like Starmer.