This is old news right?
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Oop, sounds like Clacton's having another by-election.
One can only hope they don't vote for the joke candidate this time.
You'd think £1 croissants mandated by law would be a clincher, it's a real world policy that should speak even to bigots.
Croissants too foreign for the Clactonians. You've got to speak French to even say it out loud. £1 steak bakes and you've won for sure.
Socialist here. Don't disparage a good Greggs steak bake. A bit more than a quid, but still decent value.
Sadly, it's harder to find decent cheap croissants in this country. I've had far better for a euro in provincial French railway station cafes.
I'm not sure about the voters of Clacton. They had the chance to know how f-ed up Farage is, and they still voted him in. Which tells me that they have a majority consisting of idiots (who do not understand what Nigel Farage is doing) and assholes (who might understand what he is doing, but still vote for him).
Reform supporters for the most part aren't fans of thinking. They are scared specifically of people who occupy the same physical spaces as them who they see as not in their tribe, something which they learned from their parents most likely and then had reinforced by billions of pounds of propaganda via every possible media source the mega rich can access. Being concerned with anything beyond that requires effort which is not what they're in the business of. This isn't even said with judgement, this is just what's happening.
Reform supporters for the most part aren't fans of thinking.
Like GOP in the US, RN in France, AfD in Germany, etc. Right wingers everywhere love the stupid. Lack of education and understanding is the best fertilizer for fascism.
And they're all taking Russian money and getting help from the Russian troll farms.
Were Ukraine to drone those troll farms, you'd see a rapid drop in support for those jackbooted bulletheads across all of Europe and probably the US as well.
It’s more an Authoritarian thing than a Right thing, it’s just that currently Auth-Right is what the Epstein class are pushing.
The Khmer Rouge were as hard left as it gets, and the Cambodian genocide was almost entirely fuelled by the notion that educated city folk weren’t true Khmer.
Probably a wise angle to take. You don't have to be an open-borders advocating, staunch socialist to be against authoritarianism. Quite a significant straw man, even if there's visible correlation in modern times.
It's no coincidence that Russia is hard right, and so are its stooges in Europe and the US. Maybe theoretically they might support some left authoritarians too, but they don't right now to any significant extent.
If you've seen the average Clactonian you wouldn't be surprised he got in the first place
Is he going to have to run a campaign against himself again?
You forgot about The Bin
Oh wow a right wing populist candidate who thinks the rules don't apply to them.
Did the tower of London Fall down? He's a traitor, hang him
Here's hoping that a special election happens, wherein a credible politician like Count Binface replaces this piece of shit.
But Nigel is part of the in-group whom the law protects but does not bind, so it's fine, actually.
Are there entrapment laws in the UK? Because it sure sounds like the undercover journalists, by offering their support and paying for the polls, were doing just that. Doesn't make the lack of reporting donations any less illegal, but still. Am I reading this wrong?
Entrapment laws apply to law enforcement, not to private parties.
It was a definite sting, but Farage is now on film agreeing to illegal foreign financing. It's unlikely he'll be prosecuted in this instance, but it certainly raises questions about the sources and legality of Reform's other donations.
Source? RT I presume?
Any media who actually do fact check and follow a journalistic ethic is good.
BBC became controversial because it did not call the Gaza genocide what it is, but its etics guidline is not to judge and only report what it can verify (and clearly say when it cannot). So if I strongly disagree with them, at least I can understand why.
RT, on the other hand, doesn't bother with all that ethics. If that's what Russia want you to believe, it represents it to its viewer as facts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm51qp2r_SQ . In terms of sources for British establishment reaction, my bet is that it will be ultra pro election interference, and any agitation over reform is just "a smear campaign by corrupt party in charge" that treats labour as media treated Putin during the punishment for treason.
Yeah, a random youtube channel with 133 subs, that seem very partial and cite as source no other than Russia Secret Services.
Very convincing.
the quotes on tape!!!!! wtf is wrong with you empire slaves.
timestamp?
short f'n video that provides context the whole way through. wtltf (the literal)
all the footage says is that Navalny discussed with another Russian opposition figure how having a lot more money and diversifying strategy would do wonders for the movement
to be fair, it wasn't Navalny who was caught it was one of his campaign heads. Mi6 and Swedish state representatives is who he is talking to. It's in english. The movement of "Mi6's love for Russians"? It's quite frustrating witnessing the depravity of even those not paid to misunderstand evil.
could you answer my question?
I would say 100% expected, but more like 200%
Ah yes, the man of the people who orders six oysters for lunch after being flown in by helicopter.
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