General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

[Andy_Ross]

Must be the popularity boost Reform get from the semi-on they have for Trump.

I prefer a Merlot.

 

[Andy_Ross]

The last raffle I was at was very interesting because the people who ran the raffle actually won it.
So it's not unusual for that to happen now and again.

 

[welshdean]

We have possums jump out of our trees onto our Chinese-made solar panels on the roof. The little bastards weigh a kg or two each and come from about 2 meters up, so they land with a resounding thump. So far, no broken panels.

Cover the panels with sheets of ply, that'll protect your panels.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Richard Tice MP
@TiceRichard
Vote Tory Get Green

Cliftonville (Kent) Council By-Election Result:

GRN: 38.8% (+26.7)
RFM: 33.1% (-7.0)
CON: 15.2% (-4.5)
LAB: 10.4% (-11.6)
Ind: 1.3% (New)
LDM: 1.2% (-1.9)

No Ind (-3.0) as previous.

Green GAIN from Reform UK.
Changes w/ 2025.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Inevitable Gassy
@OldGassy1984
"This was your stupid idea, Lee. 'No-one will know,' you said. 'I've done it myself before,' you said. You've made me look like a ruddy idiot."

 

[Carrot Flower King]

Inevitable Gassy
@OldGassy1984
"This was your stupid idea, Lee. 'No-one will know,' you said. 'I've done it myself before,' you said. You've made me look like a ruddy idiot."
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The member for Innsmouth looks alarmingly like Phil Cool's "virus face" (as ever, my pop cultural references are nearly as old as me).

Anderson just looks like a twat, as usual.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Do they know it's just a council election?

Reform UK
@reformparty_uk
We have just launched our election slogan.

Vote Reform. Get Starmer Out.

 

[Garrison]

Nigel Farage MP
@Nigel_Farage
Starmer and his cabinet care more about international law than defending British interests.

Is he swinging back to saying we should have jumped into an illegal war then?

 

[Garrison]

Do they know it's just a council election?

Reform UK
@reformparty_uk
We have just launched our election slogan.

Vote Reform. Get Starmer Out.
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More from the Trump playbook, play on the unpopularity of the incumbent and count on a compliant media not pointing your plans will make ordinary people's live worse.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Is he swinging back to saying we should have jumped into an illegal war then?

I think this was to do with the Russian tanker not being boarded by the Royal Navy while it was outside UK territorial waters earlier in the week.
It was blown up by the Gammons as some kind of humiliation for Starmer.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

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Seems they're even deeper into Reform Ltd (An N. Farage Grifting Organisation) than this photo suggested.

https://bsky.app/profile/dailyherald.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3mj5tmmipok2e

 

[wobs]

Why is this tedious ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ allowed unsupervised access to crayons?

If the old iron works had still been going, he'd be the one sent to stores for tartan paint or a long wait and wouldn't understand why the others were laughing at him. Then he'd probably have been invalided out for burning himself on something hot...

Long stand.

 

[wobs]

The last raffle I was at was very interesting because the people who ran the raffle actually won it.
So it's not unusual for that to happen now and again.

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Happened to my dad once, he pulled out his own ticket. And promptly put it back in.

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Long stand.

Thank you, was going to post that correction. Got to keep the traditions correct!

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Thank you, was going to post that correction. Got to keep the traditions correct!

My part of the country it was a long weight you thought you were asking for.

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

My part of the country it was a long weight you thought you were asking for.

Maybe it was different down south, but wait and weight are not homonyms where I grew up.

 

[Darat]

I did as a naive 17 year old fall for the “long stand”, to try and sound not quite so thick I was sent to the laboratory prep-room and we did have long and short stands!

 

[Andy_Ross]

Nigel Farage MP
@Nigel_Farage
99.9% of voters on May 7th will have the chance to vote for Reform.

This is another phenomenal achievement for our party.

Vote Reform. Get Starmer Out.

 

[Andy_Ross]

James Wilson
@per_incuriam2
Wow. I’ve just received a threatening letter from Ben Delo’s solicitors Addleshaw Goddard.

They are claiming, among other things, that it is unlawful to publish information about Delo’s conviction for an anti-money laundering offence in the US.

They also say I cannot publish their letter. An extract is below.

Is Delo going to get his solicitors to threaten everyone who mentions his conviction? How is this not
a SLAPP?

 

[wobs]

Seems they're even deeper into Reform Ltd (An N. Farage Grifting Organisation) than this photo suggested.

https://bsky.app/profile/dailyherald.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3mj5tmmipok2e

I'm just as surprised as you are.