Thread 2 Burnham : Coragem e Esperança.

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Yes, we seem to flim-flam between the two...

I'm already less than impressed with the whole US bombing business. Especially in the absence of a clear statement about where our Prime Minister thinks the UK needs to be in relation to a completely dysfunctional US.

I've already emailed my (Labour) MP. Or rather passively aggressively forwarded the previous email I sent when Starmer was PM. I imagine in a few weeks time I will receive a(nother) posted letter on HoC paper (100gsm, coloured and headed) blathering on about "UKs best interests".

No fanbois here.

Flabbergasted. I love that word.

Well if we want to talk about messiahs. then how long have the press hailed Farage as the new messiah of UK politics ? It's teh work of a moment to flick through the archives and see how the Farage fanbois responded when they were accused of having a messiah, and redirect that "back atcha", as the vernacular goes.

We also need to recall the Python perspective, which hour by hour seems more appropriate to the messiah Farage is turning out to be. And I should know, I've followed a few .....

When I saw them 'protesting', my first thought was imagine living with them? Awful.

He is giving grown up press (such as it is) a wide berth. He is on transmit only at the moment. And will remain so until 14th August.

Whether you can win a by election this way remains to be seen. Much as we are amusing ourselves with Farages folly, don't overlook the optics if he can win an election with fuck all scrutiny. That is a dictators wet dream.

FT is reporting Cottrell was moving money from unknown sources to unknown destinations.

Well, what a surprise, not. Completely typical.

My gast has been well and truly flabbered to bits, recently

You can see why Reform want to lower taxes on crapto. A boon for money launderers everywhere.

A betting account in the name of George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who bankrolled Nigel Farage, received almost $9mn in cryptocurrency from unidentified sources while he was providing gifts to the Reform UK leader

great work from @annasophiegross.bsky.social

www.ft.com/content/b74
https://bsky.app/profile/pickardje.bsky.social/post/3mrckcfsms22o

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/07/former-nigel-farage-aide-us-information-plea-deal-court-files-george-cottrell

Plus Gorgeous George made a deal, i.e he talked.

If they made money laundering completely legal it would solve the issue of money laundering barbers on the high street....

yes, maybe their real aim is to clean up the High Street!

In the same way as declassifying all drugs would make something, something, disappear?

If nothing is illegal, then the need for money laundering goes away

Even tax evasion?

Well clearly it's pointless taxing people because otherwise they will just evade taxes. Thats already been done and dusted.

That's beyond my paygrade. When you eliminate the rule of law, you are left with the rule of the jungle ...

https://www.thepoke.com/2026/07/24/94-year-old-clacton-voter-informed-and-nsfw-takedown-of-a-reform-canvassers-bs

E2A: If I have 1/10th those marbles at age 94 ...

That's brilliant

That was bloody wonderful.

They need to get him on Newsnight 😀

He's fabulous. Razorsharp. Shot every Reform argument down in flames.

Love it! 😀

Get that man on the political talk shows right now. He’d make mincemeat of Laura Kuenssberg, for a start.

Replace LK with him. He’s amazing. I hope I’m half as sharp as him if I reach 94.