Cranks, con artists and racists, it’s not vetting failures for a legitimate party, this is who they are

Too late to turn to Europe? How Keir Starmer’s Brexit reset ran out of road

What is missing from this pretty accurate long assessment of UK-EU ties is the bigger picture vision from either side as to the future of Europe in the age of unreliable superpowers - and that is what will have to change for the relationship to move on fundamentally. www.ft.com/content/2007...

@politico.com

In this instance academics in the US found that white women voted for safety. A man they could relate to, very much like, an older brother, father or an uncle. Of course race played a role in them deciding against voting for Harris, but like Hilary, the US just doesn’t seem ready for a female Pres.

Saying Britain is broken, then employing all the people that broke is quite the play by Farage.

Four things are certain.

1) It'll all end in tears
2) Farage will leave
3) Farage will set up a new party and 20%+ of the electorate will see him as the only politician talking any sense.
4) The BBC will keep inviting him back for Question Time.

It wouldn't be the first time ,never known to let an opportunity go unexploited ,if he thinks there is something in it for him
#PoliticsOfGreed

Reform is becoming the Tory party (circa 2016-2023) in all but name. And no doubt the idiots will fall for it.

They’ve made a good start at Local Government level, so best to get some big names to do the same in Central government.
(Do you think anyone might notice?😉)

Experience of fucking up the country is exactly what Reform need because that's what they will do.

Johnson culled the Tory Party of all but its grimmest dregs & now the grimmest of the grimmest dregs are defecting to Reform. It would be funny if it didn't alllow them, along with Farage, to pretend that they're not responsible for the state of the nation.

great, but the bigger problem is unsupervised phone use by children at home

Yes, and parents being always on their phones in the presence of their children.

Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal. Since July 2024, when he was elect...

“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves”

It’s so obvious, it hurts.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...

I warned about this over ten years ago philmorganblog.wordpress.com/2016/09/30/t...

Reform dragged into tax row by Richard Tice’s unpaid £100,000 The party’s deputy leader says he will ‘pay what is owed if numbers need rechecking’ after more revelations from The Sunday Times

@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social:

‘Exclusive: Richard Tice failed to pay £100k in tax, benefiting his investment firm — which then gave big sums to Reform

Tice gave contradictory reasons for why four shell companies paid zero tax. @DanNeidle says they flouted "basic" rule, face HMRC probe’

Boris Johnson was blocked from accessing state secrets as foreign secretary because Downing Street believed he was a security risk Theresa May allegedly tried to restrict Boris Johnson's access to secret intelligence when he was foreign secretary.

Seems to be a different level of vetting for MPs (no idea why it should be).
'Boris Johnson's Access to State Secrets Was Restricted When He Was Foreign Secretary' - Business Insider share.google/8I1GH8GvMrYn...

Modern high yield crops on which we depend only produce that yield with several rounds of fertiliser application. A big proportion of that fertiliser can’t get out of the Middle East now. Millions of people are going to starve as a result of Bibi & Trump’s war.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Pure poetry

LOL.

For context.

Angela Rayner stamp duty fiasco - 14 BBC articles.

Richard Tice tax fraud fiasco - 2 BBC articles.

This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.

3/3. It’s hard for Trump to end a war when Putin is making so much money from it.

2/3. The biggest example of profiteering is of course the person Trump openly adores — Putin, from oil prices and the lifting of sanctions.

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

1/3. And this is one more reason the war goes on in some form — people close to Trump are making money from it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...