I agree with the need for tactical voting. I absolutely disagree with the desirability of ever voting for Reform, even to drive the Tories out.
I agree with the need for tactical voting. I absolutely disagree with the desirability of ever voting for Reform, even to drive the Tories out.
That would be nice, but I’m more pessimistic and think low-information voters (along with the usual racists, xenophobes and other hateful morons) might vote Reform as a protest.
It’ll be interesting to see where he settles and whether his legal troubles are over.
I read somehwere that some of those creeps even support Nigel Farage. Ewwww.
I suspect that Powell would be disgusted by someone like Farage. Powell was wrong-headed and eccentric, but not a con artist. And he was responsible for the deaths of many Nazis and Japanese Imperial soldiers.
Because he actually did say the opposite of what was quoted? It wouldn’t be the first time he was talking out both sides of his mouth.
But the part they like is that he blamed the West for somehow forcing them into a war of aggression against a weaker neighbouring county that they had already invaded in 2014 and whose government they had interfered with, including installing their stooge Yanukovich.
They can ignore the disclaimers, they got the substantial part of their deal.
Now he can enjoy dirty Russian money via back channels, just like Le Pen, Orban and the rest of the jackbooted shits.
Any headline involving the words Farage, Trump and stump evokes horrible mental images.
Mr Toad is a toady. Imagine that.
There’s also a reasonable chance that Farage taking over the Cons will ensure their total destruction, leaving Labour as the party of the centre right, and a slightly more leftish party (LibDems or Greens) as the opposition.
Most people I know who have expressed an opinion regard him as an oleaginous, self-interested git. I see no evidence that they’re mistaken.
Step one might be for Rishi to wipe them out electorally
Falange has done plenty to bring them down even further. He’s a vulture eyeing a tasty carcass, but the idea that he can somehow revive it instead of completely destroying it is speculative at best, especially in the longer term.
‘Net zero immigration’ - dystopian, unworkable, self-destructive
And repurposing the term “net zero” to drain it of meaning.
But not all people with poor language skills are stupid.
Yeah, spelling is just one form of intelligence.
One of the lowest.
“Killing Hitler just makes you worse than Hitler”
Hitler killed Hitler and he wasn’t any worse than Hitler.
All choices are simple to the simpleminded.
And anyone who has been involved in direct action and who is paying attention will know that moral ambiguity doesn’t magically disappear. You’re still going to make mistakes that hurt people, and sometimes you’re going to have to do shitty things for the greater long-term good.
Putin’s denazification
That’s rich, given how much support Putin has given to the fascist parties in western Europe.
More future Reform candidates there.