What do you think of Farage's "shadow" cabinet?

That "shadow cabinet" looks like the cast of a dark Dickens novel.

If Farage wants to surround himself with the people responsible for the collapse in votes for the tories at the last election, I for one am all for it.

Well, it's yet another reason on a phenomenally long list for this white, working class woman to NOT vote for them.

It did give me a chuckle that Anderson and Pochin were overlooked - can see them now defecting, losing him more MPs. If they stay they'll start in-fighting. And the ex Tories will start jostling for more power. It'll be a shit show of Farage's own making. 🍿

Word is that Pochin is pissed off not to have a "shadow cabinet" 🤣 job and may defect to Lowe's nazi party.

And funnily enough without the
Equality Act we can freely treat white men less favourably.

Well, it’s not a shadow cabinet because there are only four of them 😂 They should be really embarrassed that out of the whole of the reform party that’s what they can muster up as there absolutely top team. It’s not a shadow cabinet because they’re not the opposition so they could well choose to position other people who are counsellors at the minute as MP‘s in waiting. But no, they’re all so shit that this, mainly Tories, is the best they can do.

Suella Braverman on equality, who thinks the Equality Act is about victimhood. I mean, no.

I know you so I’m very glad to hear it.

She’s happy where she is.

I don't have much confidence in approval polls. Being popular doesn't mean you're doing a good job or that you haven't been part of a government that screwed the country over. But I know you so I'm not going to waste too much time here.

National Min Wage went up almost 28% in 3 years under the Tories from 2022 to 2024, its gone up 6.7% under Labour....

Tell me again who thinks Business can absorb wage rises.....

Again, it doesn't matter, making profit in property is easy compared to developing a product, bring to market, supporting that product, on going R&D.

Tice walked into a ready made business.

Yeh it’s nonsense. Labour will get jumpy about Reform as per. She will continue to make Starmer react in a way that doesn’t help him.

To be precise 'a handful of middle-class women of a certain age'.

They are all licking Trump's boots

Badenoch is 'ultra right wing'?

She looked rather pleased when Jenrick defected, he's Reform's problem now, not hers. I also doubt she will miss Braverman.

Reference to Greggg Wallace, who claimed it was middle-aged women complaining about him. The comment that I quoted reminded me of this.

Who is Greg, have you posted on the wrong thread or SM site even.

I doubt it. She has a rating that goes up where Starmer and others go down.

But with Labour, profit is a dirty word, they think costs like the minimum wage increases can simply be absorbed by owners/shareholders taking a bit less profit.

Interesting. I think they actually call minimum wage increases treating people fairly for the work they do.

She must have FOMO when her like minded former colleagues have jumped ship and she can't.

It's a band of ex Tories who broke the country. Jenrick just rehashed the previous Tory budgets.

I just figure that the people that vote for them deserve every bit of misery that Reform will inflict. We personally will be OK regardless. I feel sorry for those who are opposed to Reform. But the voters deserve the mess they are going to impose on the rest of us.

It does matter.

The Business secretary needs to understand how to create a profit, what the stresses on business managers and owners of needing to create a profit are, and what the government needs to do and not do to create an environment where businesses can create a profit.

Working in the charity sector is not a good foundation for that.

But with Labour, profit is a dirty word, they think costs like the minimum wage increases can simply be absorbed by owners/shareholders taking a bit less profit, and they call increasing public spending "growth" because it increases GDP.

chortle they did a crap job while in government, why do you think they'd do a good one in opposition. If they get the votes that is....

Admittedly they were good at putting the boot into everyone else while being useless previously so 🤷‍♀️

I did think this must be maddening for Badenoch as she’s one of those types ie ultra right wing and self serving. She can hardly defect from the party she leads, but I bet she would have otherwise.

I try not to think about Farage in any capacity as am not great at handling feelings of nausea.

It doesn't matter because Tice running a business in property is not going to have any understanding of running a business e.g involved in high tech security equipment, exporting to USA and the EU.

What matters is policy, the quality of the advisers appointed and leadership of the party.