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People have no idea how their lives would be destroyed by Reform. Imagine paying for health care at the point of use. Electives would be cancelled. No new hips or knees, heart or lung transplants. Only for the rich. The rest of us can die in a ditch. No more free prescriptions. Farage doesn't care!

Yeah, some people call them "populists" (l used to). They're not, they're authoritarians who use populist rhetoric for votes.

AKA liars

Nigel Farage breaks with his Welsh leader over insurance system for the NHS Reform UK’s Welsh leader Dan Thomas told POLITICO he would rule out moving to an insurance-based system after Nigel Farage said it would be a “national decision ahead of a general elect…

What a spectacle of incoherence.

Reform’s Welsh leader promises not to go down the NHS/insurance route…while Farage keeps that option open for the rest of us. Probably because he’s already committed to selling us out.

Corruption and betrayal nailed on with this lot.
www.politico.eu/article/uk-n...

a woman in a red sweater is sitting in front of a sign that says blue moon ALT: a woman in a red sweater is sitting in front of a sign that says blue moon

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It makes you wonder what the hell they've got on Pam Bondi and Kash Patel.
It has to be at least as bad as them facing jail for the rest of their lives, surely?

The absolute dross that falls out of Trump’s mouth…

"Oil will be coming down. That's just a matter of war that happens. You can almost predict it. I would say it went up a little bit less than we thought. It's going to come down more than we, than anybody understands."

So to summarise: You failed to take out the regime. You failed to destroy nuclear material. You failed to eradicate Iran's retaliatory capacity. You brought chaos to the Middle East. You killed god knows how many people. You destabilised your own economy. All for nothing, but the ego of madman.

The Guardian view on Kemi Badenoch and the Iran war: confusion reveals a lack of serious thinking | Editorial Editorial: The Tories and Reform UK have abandoned British interests to become ideological satellites of radical US conservatism

“Reform and the Tories are now ideological satellites of extreme US conservatism, adopting Maga-coded positions on culture war issues and foreign policy by default”

Badenoch was clumsier on Iran than Farage. But both paraded just how dangerously useless they are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Knee jerk reactionaries and contrarians. I don't know why they think it's a good look. It just makes them look even more stupid than they already are.

Sunderland 'deserves better' says Nigel Farage
the MP for Clacton who has
- never held a constituency surgery in Clacton
- fails to speaks up for Clacton in Parliament
- didn't attend crucial Clacton development meetings
- spends his time on 13 other £££ $$$ jobs
#ClactonDeservesBetter
#AntiReform

Can’t quite believe that journalists are having to report this latest visceral spasm of rightwing idiocy. How feeble-minded our politics have become for the leader of the opposition - and Farage of course - to feel they have to turn this utter non-event into a culture war moment. Dear god.

Spain could be the only EU country to beat energy price hikes Spain spent the last six years investing heavily in wind and solar energy, leading to some of the cheapest power prices in Europe.

Nigel Farage keeps ranting against Net Zero, saying renewables are more expensive,
This articles nails that lie.

'Spain spent the last six years investing heavily in wind and solar energy, leading to some of the cheapest power prices in Europe.'

www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/s...

I'd be willing to bet if governments and the gutter press eased off on chasing after and attacking benefit claimants and were harsher on white collar crimes, theft and sundry other crimes would plummet and tax revenues would rise.

Why do so many people want to believe that they/we live in countries of welfare frauds? Every statistic disproves that. The welfare system records tiny rates of abuse & offers only basic benefits, long waits, strict rules, & harsh sanctions. So much so, many don't even apply.

Many have asked what 'Woke' really means, suggesting it's meaningless or just means 'things I don't like'. Now, we have a definition and, yes, it turns out it's meaningless or just means 'things I don't like'

Putting pictures of animals on our currency would be "deeply depressing," say the Conservatives.

The constant petulant straw-manning by the (far) right does my frikkin' head in.

"Do you want toast or pancakes for breakfast?"

"Toast please."

"Why do you hate pancakes?" 😐

'Cos they're always talking cobblers! 😐

The answer's in the question! 😐

#BeggingTheQuestion

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So the smartest man in the world (not many people know that) and the best president America has ever had, is taking advice from a drunken lout, an idiot and the son of a felon. Makes sense. It's America after all. 😐

Where was Farage’s closest aide and Reform UK Welsh leader Nathan Gill heading when he was arrested for taking bribes from Putin’s pal Medvedchuk?

To a Kremlin sponsored conference in Moscow, to talk about the role of crypto currencies in politics

The warnings are there for us all to see

International recruitment and the NHS post-Brexit - UK in a changing Europe Vilija Vėlyvytė looks at the use of overseas recruitment in the NHS since Brexit and argues that it should be a key...

❌ Leaving the EU has proved incredibly damaging for our NHS.

The University of Surrey has found that Brexit has caused 1,485 additional deaths per year due to EU nurses leaving the UK.

Farage standing in front of petrol forecourt sign 25P OFF WITH FARAGE REFORM UK All this fawning over Donald Trump - where has it got Nigel Farage?

Today, he is back in the rainy old UK, standing on a petrol forecourt in his faux-toff outfit, whingeing about Rachel Reeves putting fuel duty up by a few pennies - a tax that has been frozen since 2011. Besides, his mate Donald has done more in the past week to put up the price of petrol, with his continued bombing of Iran, than the chancellor. Tell that to White Van Man, Nigel.

“Farage… helped fool everyone about Brexit - which he wants to renegotiate, naturally. Surely the British people can't take this absurd man seriously again? After all, even Trump doesn't.”

Beyond time to boot Farage and his stale band of Tories off the stage.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel...

I knew there was something 'iffy' about the sour dough bread craze! 😐

UK junk food ad ban so diluted it may be largely ineffective, experts say Exclusive: Report suggests only 1% of annual spend on food and drink adverts will be affected after industry lobbying

UK junk food ad ban so diluted it may be largely ineffective.

It is because govts succumb to pressure from corporations and hobbyists. How many legislators on industry payroll?

Game of impression management. Exceptions manufactured to create ineffective laws.

He’s the antithesis of a decent Englishman.
He’s sly, he’s divisive, he has, at best, a tenuous relationship with the truth.
His avarice for wealth and power knows no bounds.
Many of his acquaintances have friends who wish this country ill.
Yet, the ignorant fawn over him.

I’m sure California passed some right to read bill. Book burning is for fascists