Thread 48 Starmer : Der Teufel ist ein Eichhörnchen

[DuncinToffee]

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It's hardly an underground hate rag.

And I repeat, I don't care about the individual here. It's the underlying fact it could happen.

Probably time for me to step back today, things don't clean themselves.

Oh dear.

Commonwealth citizens can vote in all elections. They voted in Brexit vote too.

Any thread on this or any newspaper article has hugely obvious tones of xenophobia , racism, homo and transphobia.

As a side note , JKR now has a trans councillor in her own ward.

Your first sentence is completely wrong though.

I can't tell if you are trolling us Jane! The Scottish Sun may not be underground but a hate rag it most certainly is.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/10/downing-street-rally-asks-silent-majority-to-fight-antisemitism

Farage invited, Polanski is not

More on this
https://bsky.app/profile/sundersays.bsky.social/post/3mlic6zifv226

Organised by Stephen Pollard so to be expected to be honest.

Jenrick defence of Farage's £5m on LK

“The State wouldn’t provide funding for the security of Nigel”

Farage was a private citizen and not even considering running for MP

Farage himself is claiming he was 'hacked'

So that we don't have to watch

https://bsky.app/profile/sturdyalex.bsky.social/post/3mliltf6hkk2d
If you like data, here is something interesting for you:

Bridget Phillipson interview on LK: 9m 40"
LK number of interruptions/talking over: 31
Richard Tice interview on LK: 8m 23"
LK number of interruptions/talking over: 9

Maybe Badenoch hacked him!

Pretty much Yusuf’s defence on a radio show. He was called out for it not making sense but just repeated the nonsense. He was asked whether Nige may have had other ‘gifts’ but just said he shouldn’t have knowledge of other people’s private finances so the question premis was wrong - he avoided a direct answer by stating just this three times.

It's the party line, anything against Farage is a 'smear'

Tice was a joke on LK. He implied that Reform voters don’t care about Farage’s ill gotten gains. He brushed off that awful Nigerian as pothole fillers quote as a smear.

Yes, he couldn't bring himself to condemn that racist bile

He obviously finds it funny.

@DuncinToffee
Re the interruptions by LK today , she was shockingly poor in my opinion , and even my DH ( who is very tolerant of my political musings) picked up on it and commented .

I actually find Tice and Yusaf even more offensive than Farage.

I wouldn’t go that far. Offensive in a different way maybe.

He’s probably right Farage’s cult don’t care - he should have been more honest and mentioned Farage’s cult actively like racist, abhorrent statements.

She’s always been pretty shocking - I don’t know why she’s the political go to girl for the BBC. If she’s getting worse his help them - always felt she was a boris fan girl and hoped she may be more neutral when he’d gone - but no.

They have suspended him now

Good

I should think so.

He won't be the only one.

So we can add him to the list of Reform councillors who have gone/changed parties…
Clearly they wouldn’t have suspended him left to themselves.

How long do we think Starmer can last now? It seems more MPs are speaking out now.

What a mess this all is.