Agreed. As long as this poison keeps being pumped out by national "newspapers" it will be more and more normalised.
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Agreed. As long as this poison keeps being pumped out by national "newspapers" it will be more and more normalised.
Yep! If masked gunmen can run around the streets without identifying themselves, rounding people up into vans, it is only a matter of time before this explodes.
If the ex-PM of the country is advocating drowning asylum seekers at sea (does he think we can't see through his flowery language?), it's not that big a jump to shooting people on the beaches...
And for many people it seems that notion is correct!
Agreed. I was really hoping this government would hit the ground running with Leveson 2 (I mean what do they have to lose given how much the press hate them?), and we might finally see the end of this cesspit. But no.
And presumably someone who fully intends to claim his Β£115,000 a year Public Duty Costs Allowance as an ex PM?
You do wonder how a party can go from "worst prime minister ever" to "wow, this one's even worse". And yet they did!
Yep! This poison day in day out.
Yep - disaster was definitely his high water mark. Does he think we're all bamboozled by the flowery language? Does he think we don't know exactly what he's implying?
As long as he raises his profile, damage is irrelevant
It sounds even better in french!
It is vile the way it is all a game to him.
When you put it like that it's quite impressive π Seriously tho, any normal human being would at least have learned*something* from being an abject failure as PM. But not him. See also Truss.
Yet he doesn't want to own any of the mess it has created.
Yep! Anything to stay "relevant" no matter how untrue, damaging, rubbish it is
Meanwhile a daily diet of these lies and inflammatory nonsense is fed into homes across the country...
He just doesn't care. And he thinks we can't see it because he wraps it up in ridiculous language.
Just when you think the bar can't be set any lower...
It still baffles me how that happened.
At least they occasionally add some wit and charm. Unlike Johnson.
I know it's the Mail, but how can anyone think this idiotic drivel is worth publishing? His ability to be wrong and offensive on everything is unparalleled.
Well that's just what you want to see on a Saturday morning!
You can dress it up any way you wish. You can claim it as a human right, even though you donβt recognise the authority of a body that exists to maintain your human rights but if you choose to smoke, and impose your smoke on the rest of us, you are a selfish dangerous idiot. Talking to you Farage.
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Ditching the Conservatives and joining Reform is rather like trading in your Michael Jackson CD collection for 'The Best of Gary Glitter'.
~ Lib Dems complain to Ofcom over BBC's coverage of Reform ~
https://www.markpack.org.uk/175359/lib-dems-complain-to-ofcom-over-under-prominence-bbc-gave-to-reform/
Yep!
These posts are really important reading (especially the need for solutions). We need to start this process in the UK before it's too late.
I know! Especially when so many people in the UK claim to dislike Trump and ask her stands for. Yet they're fooled by a cheap imitation.
The "silent majority" he claims to represent do seem remarkably noisy