Channel 4 undercover re Farage

https://bsky.app/profile/bylinetimes.bsky.social/post/3mur7vde44222

Our undercover reporter @ scatatkins.bsky.social posed as a far right journalist at the Reform Conference, and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal.

And here's a US take on 'Farage's brain'

“A professor who specializes in ethics who’s caught on camera saying, We won’t get caught.

The Fall of James Orr, the Man Called Farage’s Brain - The New York Times

I suspect the Christian Nationalists were the ones who organised today's Dover parade of Taliban wannabes. Well done Cambridge!

Apparently it was. A new Christian group set up by Tommy Ten Names.

The best thing about this expose is that exposes the fact that Reform are fucked. If you need to commission dodgy "polls" and are unable to secure backing from UK donors, you are fucked.🤷‍♀️

I look forward to it coming out, slowly and painfully, until all the traitors are in prison or have run away to a wee foreign bolt hole to evade justice.😬

This is populism for you, it popular to believe that climate change is a hoax, it's not many made...it popular because it means we don't have to anything about it.

It's popular to believe immigrants are the cause of all our problems or that welfare claimants are all spongers. That way we can turn our back and enjoy a tiny tax break.

The hard core supporters are like Trump supporters absolutely crazy and will follow him regardless of what he does.

I would urge anyone who is a peripheral voter thinking of voting for Farage to pay attention to what is happening in America. Rage politics offers us no solution to the complex problems we face.

When is an interview witg Nadine Dorries ever not a car crash.

Absolutely spot on.

I haven't seen the Dorries interview... but Farage seems to have gone "hold my beer..."

He's just given this interview to Laura Kuenssberg!

Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' during foreign donor talks filmed undercover
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qxgn7q1vdo

Farage said he "wasn't even listening" to the guy he'd just helicoptered into Clacton during the by-election to get half a million pounds from...

...But that's not even the worst part of the interview! It just keeps getting more

Christian Nationalists.......ah ha ha ha ha ......can you imagine Jesus at a Reform rally.....I forgot that bit in the bible " And the Lord spaketh unto Noah, and the Lord did say, Noah, thy must go forth and drown all brown people in small boats who swirleth around in the flood". And Noah did say" Yes Lord, thy will shall be done.

This is disingenuous, of course, he clearly and sincerely thanks the donor and even says "you both". I thought that was the most sincere I've ever seen him 🤑

ETA responding to @PerkingFaintly

Not at all surprised - they will be getting funding from US and all tied up with the movement over there and Cambridge.

Yes and he was saying how "very important" it was to get funding...
So important he isn't listening at all of course.

Yes everyone needs to wise up with all these creepy underhand groups linking up across the globe. There's clearly a movement in the making to destabilise countries so that billionaires and their creepy hangers on can put wvwryonw into poverty ans and serfdom ans then rule the world like the robber barrons of old. These people are nutheads ....with all their bullshit sbout christianity, crusades and sll sorts of other twaddle.... and there needs to be a counter movement pretty damn quick.

She is an appalling woman! And she can barely string a sentence together 🙄

🤣🤣🤣

A significant shifting dynamic in the Church is a pan-evangelical conservative coalition called The Alliance. While focused broadly on traditional marriage, many member churches embrace complementarianism (the belief that leadership is reserved for men). They claim to represent or influence up to 42% of the Church of England's active churchgoers, posing a major challenge to further gender reform. 1, 2, 3, 4]

I'm really surprised when James Orr joined Reform he seemed so unlikely

What is going on with this Roger Scrutton Society that somebody mentioned?

They've got to fall apart now? You would think.

I wouldn't have thought so.

Orr's backers are in it for the longhaul. Many of them dream of a non-democratic state in which they are the nobility. They see Christian Nationalism as their route to achieve this.

It's a multinational project by the new billionaires, using the old grifters as their current front guys. Hence Trump and Farage.

The funding for the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation, of which James Orr is a director, comes almost entirely from Hungary, from Viktor Orbán’s think tank Mathias Corvinus Collegium.

The Curious Case of James Orr
https://21percent.org/?p=4327

It's a classic case of accusations are admissions.

The people shrieking loudest that foreigners are taking over their country and that it's all a conspiracy by AN Other political persuasion... are themselves conspiring with foreign politicians and billionaires to help foreigners take over their country.

Yeah, it’s just somebody else said something about shocking activity there so I thought there must be more to it

Goodwin’s connection with Hungary has been known for a long time, hasn’t it - all very dodgy.

they seem a bit incompetent to be honest they haven’t even been able to keep their conference secure I think they’ll fade away

Exactly.

I keep getting reminded of Pizzagate – the US conspiracy theory later turbocharged by QAnon which claimed there were child-sexual-abuse rings among the elite, centred around the Democratic Party.

When Epstein was finally convicted, people started saying, "Look, Pizzagate conspiracy theorists were right all along: there was an elite child-sexual-abuse ring."

What they fail to add is that the elite involved was that around Trump, the president fielded twice by the Republican Party and supported by QAnon. (Edited to add: I know all sorts of people had connections to Epstein, but Trump's were prolific and long-lasting, and he is believed to have appeared very heavily in the Epstein files. Trump's general poltical guru Steve Bannon was making a film with Epstein about Epstein, and from the clips I've seen Epstein's sexual behaviour and his value as political fixer were not secret.)

So I've long thought the point of Pizzagate was to get out of ahead of the story and tie it in people's minds to the Democrats: win-win for the Republicans, who get to deflect from their sex-offender president AND smear the other guys.

The story being pushed on me about foreign influence taking over my country feels very similar.

Lots of noisy shouting about not particularly powerful groups of foreigners or simply people who are not white British-born Christians. Barely a whisper about the extremely powerful and well-funded foreigners backed by billionaires and nation-states who have stated that they intend to roll-out their cultural influence in my country and who are trying to support their pet political party into government.