Thread 53 Starmer: Insania Aestiva

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"Compte Tête-de-Poubelle"

Wonder if other countries have translated his name as well

He is still listed as being on the schdeule

he plays a good victim of ‘the establishment’. What with his 10 years in government and all.

It’s in his interests to denigrate the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards given he was referred to it (by the Tories).

He is on.

Well he's on. Hes already wittering on about two tier policing and how all parties are cowards for not standing at Clacton. Levy on migrant labour. Blah blah blah

"Is the establishment too cowardly to take on Farage"

Oh fuck off. This is going to be a Farage suck up session.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/08/andy-burnham-labour-mps-party-discipline-stifle-debate

Good to see a slackening of the whips discipline, it's much needed within the PLP.

The Guardian is reporting that Reform UK activists have been urged to divert from the Greater Manchester mayoral byelection to support Nigel Farage’s “fake” contest 250 miles away in Clacton.

Jenrick’s thinking post Farage. Fealty in exchange for an endorsement.

My mistake, Jenrick was referred to electoral commission.

Met investigates donation to Jenrick's Tory leadership campaign https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgev4jq4jngo

I think we had a swivel eyed loon on first and then sensible after.

The Times reported in May that Jenrick's wife, a solicitor for Ullman, was warned about Klopfenstein's shady background.

Sorry I cant bear to listen to him anymore. I will wit for the highlights. (!)

https://www.pollcheck.co.uk/by-elections/clacton

Possible candidates for the by-election.

His smugness practically pours out over the airwaves 🤢

Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone
German: Graf Mülltonnengesicht

Standards Commission is a 'kangaroo court'
Cottrell is 'Christian forgiveness'

Oh

Nigel Farage’s secret donor George Cottrell met Tommy Robinson at a private event after a far-right protest in London.

He later attended a large demonstration in support of Robinson, previously unpublished photos show.

^https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/farages-secret-donor-pictured-with-tommy-robinson-at-rally-2cmxh20x8^

Gift link to that article
https://www.thetimes.com/article/7b1c7397-ea3f-4e1b-bebf-254c44c51785?shareToken=a22f13b1a3b7587cbd00e39b6553312f

It’s all unraveling fast, isn’t it? Reform definitely peaked too soon.

There’ll be so much more to come too now the MSM are finding folk interested in the bad side of Frogface! They must have loads on file waiting!

Idk though who or what finally triggered this change - he’s been Teflon for so long - the £50 cameo grifts that praised Ian Watkins and were offensive to the Irish didn’t phase anyone - the houses, the donations, Reform being a company didn’t bother anyone - links with the NF and anti semetic stuff at school didn’t - so much hasn’t bothered folk but this £5m bung has - is it the crap billionaires fighting up above for the best deals for themselves? I agree it needs investigation and is very wrong but I think much other stuff was equally bad tbh.

Fully agree @MsJinks

And none of the information is new, so what has triggered the interest of the mainstream media?

It’s an interesting question, isn’t it? It may be some time before we know the answer.

All those Reform councillors in local government, all 2,339 of them, some in control of councils, need to seriously rethink their party and do the decent thing.

The demise of the Conservative Party?

Because Reform voters don#t give a shit about the North.