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That radio 4 Binface interview is pretty epic.
Cunning Stunt at 8:45 in the morning indeed 😂
Might have to get me a Binface t-shirt - just not sure whether to go "ceefax", "Binday is coming" or "I Fight Fascists"
However amusing Count Binface is , and however corrupt Farage is, the underlying reasons he was able to get so much support still exist, waiting to be tapped by someone else.
Might have to get me a Binface t-shirt - just not sure whether to go "ceefax", "Binday is coming" or "I Fight Fascists"
He's missing a trick not having a 'binfluencer' t-shirt too.
However amusing Count Binface is , and however corrupt Farage is, the underlying reasons he was able to get so much support still exist, waiting to be tapped by someone else.
Undeniably correct
However
In a world full of shit, I'm going to take 5 minutes to laugh at Farage.
That radio 4 Binface interview is pretty epic.
Think he would be much better served by remaining silent and not doing interviews. Firstly he sounds like a dork, secondly it's coming across a bit too much like he's enjoying the publicity/fame.
I think probably he doesn't actually want to win, because then he'd have to actually be an MP.
I don't care whether Binface wants to become an MP or what would happen if he even won (couldn't actually be worse than Farage anyway whatever he did) it is all about making Farage look like the **** that he is.
Think he would be much better served by remaining silent and not doing interviews
I disagree, the more he's in the media spotlight the more votes he gets and the more pyrrhic old Nige's cling to power will be. Go Binface. Unless it turns out he's taken a bung from a dodgy crypto Bro all publicity is good publicity.
Anne Widdacome was murdered!
how long before farage spins this into wht he needed 5m for security...
This sounds horrific. Poor lady. Rip.
Anne Widdacome was murdered!
how long before farage spins this into wht he needed 5m for security...
Pisses over his 'Most Attacked Politician' schtick though.
Anne Widdacome was murdered!
Shit. I have no time for her politics, but that is an awful thing to happen, for her, her family, and politics in the UK.
Times running a story about Nige paying himself £10k per year for five years, to rent a studio space in one of his own properties.
If it was 1p more per year, it would have to be declared to the register of members’ interests.
How is that even allowed at all? 🤨
How is that even allowed at all?
The expenses scandal resulted in a tightening of the rules a bit but that just meant that MP's got slightly more creative around flipping second homes, using allowances more carefully and less of the obvious piss taking like duckponds and moat cleaning.
Farage is just a grifting spiv, plain and simple. He'll know every expenses pot under the sun, every last little bit of "turning up, clocking in, taking the money" available to him.
If it was 1p more per year, it would have to be declared to the register of members’ interests.
Boils my piss, especially when as an employee of HMG I'd get audited for a sandwich. No joke.
Boils my piss, especially when as an employee of HMG I'd get audited for a sandwich. No joke.
Coincidentally I had to do my yearly training about gifts/bribes recently. Its pretty pointless since I am not vendor (at least not decision making as opposed to dealing with the results of those boozy lunches) or client facing but there is a rather stark line basically "coffee/tea plus a biscuit during a long meeting okay otherwise check".
For the just under limit Private Eye had a piece a whilst back about how various "factfinding" days for MPs happened to come in just under the declarable limit. Think they could be spotted by looking at social media and stuff.
Oh it gets better. I have to keep the receipt for 4 years. In case I get audited.
its quite impressive how badly Reform have misplayed this
I think they knew that their finances were dodgy and that more bad stuff was coming out- but tices wife oakshit, seemed genuinely shocked when she found out about the police investigation live on air.
Farage actually thought he'd played a blinder by calling a by-election before the recall came in, but the other parties refusing to play his game has literally left him arguing with a bin.and reform and their outriders cant help but take Binface seriously, trying to convince everyone that hes part of 'the establishment '
One of Farage's FB goons did a great piece last night along the lines of "Pearl clutching about £5m but look what I found out about the Uni Party in the donation disclosure records..."
Exactly, you brain dead arsehole - it was properly disclosed and declared.
Posh George has lead a short life full of jolly japes could well be a Netflix mini series of
‘When George met Nigel’, a gripping tale of love between unlikely star crossed lovers thrust into the world off of politics.
Could be a brideshead revisited revival or mix of downtown abbey and Miami vice.
I did like his idea of just stealing the criminals money, the rich do seem to live in a fantasy world,where there’s no come back.
You didn't mention his mum who dated Prince Charles and then got her kit off for Penthouse.
All part of the political mastery of Farridge, who complains about the Times printed a picture of the 'house where his daughter lives', handily forgetting he's posted himself outside the same house at least 4 times.
It's an utter balls up from a complete moron, who, luckily finds himself still smarter than a lot of the racists ill-informed who vote for him
he's unlikely to be replaced by a better communicator so I'd be happy to see him resign yet again. Marina Hyde from today's guardian:
cutting to the serious bit at the end ...
maybe we should always think back to the great character note that was Nigel’s Brexit referendum night, when he withdrew into a roped-off area at his own party, then conceded the vote, then unconceded it, then conceded it again, then unconceded it. There’s an off-putting weakness there, right?
...He’s in the big leagues now. And the more you see it up close, the more you feel there’s a fragility there that would really struggle to handle the demands of the highest office. Honestly, I think he’d go to pieces. And if the public keep seeing him losing his rag, so will more and more of them.
I have thought for a while that Farage is [insert name of his current gig]'s weak point. If he had the personality and political nous of other populist leaders he could ride it out, but he is lacking. Difficult to put a finger on what exactly it is, but he doesn't have it. Johnson, Berlusconi etc had it, he doesn't.
I can't understand where it is that Farage fans think their interests align with those of Aaron Banks, Christopher Harborne and George Whatismame.
I can't understand where it is that Farage fans think their interests align with those of Aaron Banks, Christopher Harborne and George Whatismame.
that's easy,
the secret ingredient is racism
Just seen on reddit the best name of farage ever. the c### of murky crypto
...He’s in the big leagues now. And the more you see it up close, the more you feel there’s a fragility there that would really struggle to handle the demands of the highest office. Honestly, I think he’d go to pieces. And if the public keep seeing him losing his rag, so will more and more of them.
Not just fragile, but very thin-skinned - any attempts to prick his pomposity, and he’ll go off like an over-inflated car tyre…
…one lives in hope.
reform and their online fluffers are absolutely desperate to turn widdecoms death into a persecution story, Farage turned up at her house for a photo op (against her families wishes)
theyre actively ignoring police requests not to speculate and interfere with the investigation
and over on twitter its descended into some wild antimuslim conspiracy insanity
what they really don't want to be talking about is the spiraling investigation into reforms finances
https://writesbright.substack.com/p/farages-foreign-web-full-dossier
and posh George's Montenegro stuff is nuts https://www.opendemocracy.net/inside-reform-and-george-cottrells-world-in-montenegro/
I don't think anything is going to make this go away
theres 0 chance he didn't break the rules
and the Times (presumably with Murdoch's blessing) are not backing down!
and the Times (presumably with Murdoch's blessing) are not backing down!
I would love to know the reason for the sudden switch in approach towards him. Times in particular but even the mail are starting to ask questions and more importantly keep asking the questions vs letting it slip off the front page after a day.
and the Times (presumably with Murdoch's blessing) are not backing down!
I would love to know the reason for the sudden switch in approach towards him. Times in particular but even the mail are starting to ask questions and more importantly keep asking the questions vs letting it slip off the front page after a day.
Still my suspicion that the right wing press barons know he's in the pocket of the crypto bros and not the right wing press barons, so they are pulling the plug on him
The way he has turned on so many in the press/media when asked reasonable questions, Trump style, can’t be doing him any favours with journalists. He doesn’t have Trump’s power, many must be thinking “who does he think he is!?”
Listening to James O'Brien last night and he was wondering if the reason for the press changing tack is because Farage is starting to look weak and vulnerable whilst Kemis stock is on the rise and you also have Rupert Lowe out Faraging Farage. With the evidence mounting up the press run the risk of looking pretty stupid if they kept backing him, they can see how ridiculous the people like Jenrick and Cunningham look trying to defend him.
and the Times (presumably with Murdoch's blessing) are not backing down!
I would love to know the reason for the sudden switch in approach towards him. Times in particular but even the mail are starting to ask questions and more importantly keep asking the questions vs letting it slip off the front page after a day.
Still my suspicion that the right wing press barons know he's in the pocket of the crypto bros and not the right wing press barons, so they are pulling the plug on him
It may also be that they can now get more clicks/views for stuff against him than for him (or both) 🙂
They've started a campaign to stop Burnham being PM, giving out some false info that a PM has to be a Member of the Lords, or a MP elected in a General Election. 10k+ posts on FB agreeing/some disagreeing with it. It's total rubbish, but the deluded supporters believe it's the way they can get an immediate General Election.
What I can't see is how they think they'll do any better than last time in a General Election. They may gain a very small number of seats, but there is no way they'll get near to coming 4th in total seats, being a long way behind the SNP. Their council results and by-elections results do not mean they'll do the same in a GE, as has been proved many times in the past.
But, maybe, all they want is discourse, and are happy with being in the news, and causing trouble. Time to just ignore them?
Should have always just ignored them. They have a handful of MPs so why so much focus.
Same with Trump, if the media had ignored him from the start it would have turned out a lot better (media in UK and US)
10k+ posts on FB agreeing/some disagreeing with it…
Are we supposed to think this is in some way significant? 10k (UK pop ~69m) and Facebook (50% bots?) apparently questioning reality… gets the engagement I suppose.
Honestly get off of FB it’s mostly just rage baiting boomers. Stick to STW where… Oh…
Time to just ignore them?
Who (or what) even are “They”? My pet theory now is that most “political debate” is just middle-aged men shouting at the algorithms, arguing with bots…
Think it's the i paper today running a story that Farage declined official protection on a par with Badenoch who, for all her faults, as a prominent female politician of colour must get her fair share of hate and threats.
Another one of the lies they are pedalling falling apart.
Still, while he's now actively engaing with the parliamentary security folk, maybe he could pop next door to the scrutiny committee?
He doesn’t have Trump’s power, many must be thinking “who does he think he is!?”
Like Trump, he's spent years surrounding himself with fawning sycophants who spend their time blowing smoke up his arse and telling him nonsense like he's definitely going to be the next PM. Inevitably, when spending so much time completely detached from reality, he's now living in a fantasy world of his own making and is acting like he's already PM and demanding he's treated accordingly. He's now quite surprised that the media aren't obliging.
Combine this monstrous ego and sense of self-importance and entitlement with - like Trump - an incredibly thin skin and we are where we are. Unfortunately for Nige, he isn't Trump. He's a Pound Shop version. He doesn't have anywhere near that kind of power base behind him or a fawning press owned exclusively by Billionaire mates. Even Elon has moved on to Rupert Lowe.
Whether Farages day of reckoning, where reality intrudes big-time, arrives at the Clacton by-election he so arrogantly and foolishly triggered, or a bit further down the line, its in the post. Picking a fight with the likes of Rupert Murdoch is hardly going to help his cause, but he's deluded enough to think he can do that and win
what are the odds of farage pulling out of the Binface by-election before the weekend citing 'security reasons '
what are the odds of farage pulling out of the Binface by-election before the weekend citing 'security reasons '
Does feel like he's heading that way
10k+ posts on FB agreeing/some disagreeing with it…
Are we supposed to think this is in some way significant? 10k (UK pop ~69m) and Facebook (50% bots?) apparently questioning reality… gets the engagement I suppose.
Honestly get off of FB it’s mostly just rage baiting boomers. Stick to STW where… Oh…
Time to just ignore them?
Who (or what) even are “They”? My pet theory now is that most “political debate” is just middle-aged men shouting at the algorithms, arguing with bots…
I’d be amazed that the Nige actually bothers to read any of it,or if anyone in reform does.
That in-fighting of the believers/non-believers non-engagement required of reform is actually pushing it out on more feeds.
TBH if there’s hundreds of post on anything it’s probably pointless to post, although most people have found five million more on the Farage FB.
The Farage Facebook posts are literally a one sided view of the Farage Universe where everyone else is out to get him and only he can solve the problems of the decline of Britannia PLC (with his merry band of er conservatives).
Any news if he's actually registered for the bye-election yet?
Isn't the deadline 4/4.30pm today?
The Farage Facebook posts are literally a one sided view of the Farage Universe where everyone else is out to get him and only he can solve the problems of the decline of Britannia PLC (with his merry band of er conservatives).
The sheer quantity of blatantly false bullshit being pumped out on the socials of Farage, Yusuf, Braverman and Jenrick in the last week has been incredible. Just stuff that fails the most basic sense test. They really are flooding the zone with shit as a distraction to, well, everything!
