#Nigel Farage news

[tamilethnicity]

Nigel Farage set to make major announcement at 5pm

Nigel Farage is set to make a major announcement hours after he welcomed two former Conservative councillors to Reform UK. The leader of Reform UK has appeared at rallies in Essex and County Durham this weekend as the organisation seeks support ahead of local and regional elections. On Sunday (February 2), Mr Farage teased what he suggested would be a major announcement. Posting on X, he said:…

[wilmotfornow]

THE COUNTER WORKS. THIS A NUMBERS GAME.

We know where they are, who they are and where they will be. They cant keep secrets for shit. Everywhere they are, they burn shit, they break shit, they chase people down the street, they pull people out of cars and start beating on them. Don’t give these people the credit of saying they are angry or frustrated. There are real material conditions that led to this violence but these people are drinking and laughing while they chase their victims, trapped them in buildings to be burnt alive. This isn’t an expression of desperation, its a power trip emboldened by our wanker politicians and media. These people do not represent the working class. They represent the worst impulses of losers who have been told their greatness can be stolen by outsiders.

Where the counter is, they don’t get to act out those impulses on their preferred victims. Hundreds of souls stopped the fash making it to the Mercure Hotel when the cops didn’t. Counter protestors took hits but the fash never even made it to the steps. The anti-fascists are out with water and first aid kits and burner phones. They pull people to their feet when they fall down. They help victims get to cars and hospitals and homes.

If you can run away, you can counter. If you can link arms, you can counter. If you can hold someone while they cry, you can counter. If you can say no to someone whose trying to get you to do something stupid, you can counter. You might save lives. Find out where they are, outnumber them everywhere they are. Stay safe as you can.

[mysharona1987]

[libdeminomenon]

2025 Predictions:

- Rachel Reeves gone by the end of the year.

- The Rest Is Politics interview Kamala Harris and / or Michelle Obama.

- Peter Mandelson / other important Labour Party figure is exposed in a leak slagging off Trump. Outrage.

- Keir Starmer hugs Ed Davey and they play FIFA for charity.

- Lee Anderson pornography scandal.

- George Osborne randomly admits he did a fuck load of cocaine at one point in his political career and no one is surprised.

- Right-wing media starts panicking that Keir Starmer is going to make us join the Euro currency, based on absolutely zero evidence.

- Ian Hislop / other big pundit goes viral slagging off Brigit Phillipson’s education policies and she is forced to fight for her job.

- It is revealed that the Tory sleaze was even worse than originally thought. Boris Johnson makes a Nick Clegg-style apology video and it is immediately remixed into a chart-topping banger.

- Wes Streeting cries publicly. He is also accused of bullying within the Labour Party but that is unrelated.

- Kemi Badenoch has an Ed Miliband bacon sandwich moment.

- Israel win the judge’s vote in Eurovision.

- House of Lords reform becomes The Big Thing. Keir Starmer faces rebellion from his own party as some of them quite like being lords. Lib Dems win more public support through this.

- Sir Sadiq Khan scandal. Labour Party refuse to acknowledge it and bring up Tory COVID parties whenever it’s mentioned.

- Someone makes a Rory Stewart documentary and suggests that he *was* a spy.

- Nigel Farage is videoed saying he doesn’t care about how much the British people are suffering so long as they continue to vote for him. His supporters either defend him and accuse the Left of not being about to take a joke or defect to another far-right party.

- Daisy Cooper dabs / flosses / does a TikTok dance.

- A petition to ban Donald Trump from the UK reaches five million signatures. It fails to change anything, but the Liberal Democrats and the Greens lead a protest of over a million people through the streets of London.

- Trump says he loves the English people but he’s not so keen on the Pakistanis and the Welsh.

- Ed Balls has a massive argument with Rachel Reeves on Good Morning Britain. He is accused by Centrists in the Labour Party of being “a traitor” and “a bad husband”.

- Someone shits themselves in the House of Commons.

- Tony Blair says something about trans people again / is photographed with JK Rowling. In response, Gordon Brown comes out with his unequivocal support for trans people everywhere.

- Ed Miliband paints his nails.

Feel free to add your own predictions !! I’d love to hear what everyone thinks :)

[vermillionbedfellow]

they're calling it gaza-lago

they're planning holiday villas and heated pools and sun loungers for fat americans and venture capitalists in a mausoleum to 47,000. when they dig their claws into the ground for their foundation they'll find bone , but no spine. farage is excited for casinos. netenyahu gave trump a gold pager mounted on a felled olive tree. the horror knows no depth. the depravity is boundless but no longer shocking. 18,000 children dead, for the sake of prime real estate. they'll bathe in the ocean, but they'll never be clean of the blood. the fucking shame of it all. the pitiful, rage inducing shame.

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

i spent far too long making these so please enjoy them, please

[itsallpoliticsstupid]

I have very little respect for Farage’s views but one thing I give him credit for is his shrewdness when it comes to navigating the British Political landscape.

He knew that Elon Musk praising a certain Tommy Robinson would look bad for his party and distanced himself instantly. Which made Musk look a bit of an idiot.

And how did Musk respond?

By throwing his toys out of the pram.

Hopefully that has bought an end to the brief ‘Reform/Musk’ love in. But I’m sure he will find a way to get his claws into somebody new so he can continue his route towards world domination.

[thestrandatloughbeg]

I wonder what the “my mummy says you hate foreigners” girl is up to now

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Luke Hallam at The UnPopulist:

For the past seven days, the U.K. has witnessed its worst riots in over a decade. What started off last week as a wave of protests over the horrific murder of three young girls, fueled by false claims about the identity of the attacker on social media, has metastasized into something far more profound: a deep fracturing of relations between communities that threatens to do lasting damage to Britain’s social fabric.

Origin of a Race Riot

Last Monday, a knife-wielding teenager entered through an open fire door at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the seaside town of Southport and killed three participants, all girls under the age of 10. He also injured eight more young children and two adults. It was an evil crime, the horror made all the more acute by the youth of the victims and by the fact that someone would target for such an atrocity, of all things, a joyful summer dance party. What came next should be considered a textbook example of how harmful lies can spread on social media. There are generally good reasons to be wary of finger-pointing when it comes to “fake news” and social media’s role in spreading it. But in this instance, it’s hard to overstate the extent of the hysteria that was unleashed. Mere hours after the attack, the killer was seemingly identified as Ali al-Shakati, a Muslim asylum seeker who had arrived in the United Kingdom by boat, and was known to the British security services as a potential threat. Within minutes of the first social media post identifying al-Shakati, the story was picked up by a dubious news organization calling itself “Channel 3 Now.” The al-Shakati story was then parroted by Russia Today, and began appearing in a raft of viral posts on social media, including X, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Right-wing influencers with huge followings, like Andrew Tate, amplified the story, and various posts amassed thousands, often millions, of impressions.

Unrest broke out initially in Southport, Hartlepool, and London. Rioters released smoke flares and set fire to a riot van; they threw trash cans and bottles at police officers. As the unrest spread, it was the far right—an ad hoc coalition of former members of the English Defense League, supporters of notorious far-right agitator Tommy Robinson, and ordinary people swept along on social media—fueling the violence. It was common to see English flags and chants of “English till I die.” Mosques and Islamic centers were targeted in a horrific wave of xenophobic thuggery. It was, in large part, a genuine race riot—not a phrase to use lightly. In the first three days, it was well known that the suspect was only 17 years old, which means that by law they couldn’t be identified in the media. Still, in an attempt to head off the violence, the police released some limited information confirming that the alleged perpetrator of the atrocity was in fact born in the U.K. Nigel Farage, the leader of the populist-right Reform UK party and a newly-minted member of parliament, echoed a widespread fear that the establishment was conspiring with the police forces to protect an illegal migrant for fear of fueling an anti-immigrant narrative, irresponsibly declaring: “I just wonder whether the truth is being withheld from us.”

Finally, on Thursday afternoon, a judge took the unusual step of allowing the media to release the full identity of the alleged perpetrator despite his being a minor, noting that the suspect was only a few days away from turning 18. It turns out that Ali al-Shakati doesn’t exist. The real suspect, Axel Rudakubana, a 17-year-old born in Wales to Rwandan parents, was not a refugee. We don’t know that he’s not Muslim, nor that his motives were unrelated to some sort of Islamist ideology—though, given that only 2% of Rwanda’s population is Muslim, it seems unlikely. Of course, it hardly matters. There’s no earthly justification for violently attacking mosques, harassing the public, and setting fire to police vans.

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Far-Right Xenophobia Capitalizes On Britain’s Integration Issues

There are two things to say in response to all of this: two things that may at first glance appear to be mutually exclusive, but are nevertheless both true. The first is that the right-wing polemicists have long been packaging these problems together into one overarching, catastrophist narrative of British decline. The problem is, there is no evidence that the knife crime wave has been directly fueled by asylum seekers. As bad as knife crime and other problems may be, it is also simply incorrect to assert that the country has in recent years become, in the words of one representative commentator, “a lawless country where there is no justice at all.” What’s more, right-wing catastrophism is hypocritical insofar as it has often been fueled by the very same politicians who were in government until last month, and spectacularly failed to tackle most of these problems. Indeed, it was the Conservative government that slashed the number of police officers and presided over the arrival of a record number of refugees, while failing to find a humane, durable solution for processing them. (In addition, it’s notable that even as one part of the country, Scotland, managed to successfully bring its knife crime problem under control by adopting a community-led agenda, Conservative politicians in Westminster made vacuous pronouncements about law and order that amounted to nothing for most of the country.)

The second thing to say is that there are real problems with Britain’s model of dealing with ethnic and religious diversity. Whenever there is social unrest or communal strife in France, for example, Brits and Americans like to put the blame squarely on the French model of laïcité—an imperfect approach to the separation of church and state that is often caricatured as consisting in naked animus against religious minorities. But Britain’s own highly communitarian approach—which often gives a free pass to the most radical elements within a religious community—does not seem to be faring much better, with the result that elements within some immigrant communities in Britain’s major cities have failed to properly integrate, and, as the present riots show, longstanding resentments have been left to fester.

Over the past week in the United Kingdom, far-right race riots over the UK’s immigration policies and the Southport stabbing have sprung up all over the Home Nations, especially in England.

These riots are fueled by paranoid Islamophobia, anti-immigrant xenophobia, and fake news.

[hjohn3]

This News Agents podcast is well worth a listen. The take of Lewis Goodall and Emily Maitliss is that, contrary to my assertion in my latest blog that the British Conservative Party are now a directionless and ideology-free zone, they have in fact adopted an ideology - as faithful followers of the far right.

[badpoliticaltakes]

What is your opinions on mental health medications?

this, obviously, varies by medication, but by and large i think the idea that medication is the only solution to mental health issues (especially when that medication COSTS money) is immoral and impractical.

people are different and what heals people varies, but i think alternative medicines hold as much value as pills, and can be just as effective.

yes, this goes for all mental health conditions, including autism and diets.

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Not the news earlier in the UK just straight up showing Trump's supporters as they celebrate the fuckers from January 6th getting pardoned, not being critical once of what's going on and literally ending the segment on how Trump kept his promise to pardon them before moving on to discuss something else related to Trump, aka mom changed the channel by that point.

[tweetingukpolitics]

[vermillionbedfellow]

if the goal of reform uk in 2025 is to professionalise and become a "proper party" instead of a pressure group of divorced dads blowing hot air and shaking their fists at the wokes, this fall out with musk is a massive blow, since he was seemingly interested in bankrolling these efforts

honestly reform are no less of a threat and we can't afford to take our eyes off of the ball as they grow and evolve into their role as the opposition, which i feel they may still do since the Conservative party seem to be mainly mumbling about lunch at the moment, but this is incredibly, incredibly funny.

also, here's to elon musk, the foreign interference who won't stop complaining about foreign interference, a man willing to fall out with pretty much the entirety of the uk over defending stephen yaxley-lennon, or, to use his preferred name (and pronouns) tommy robinson, a man so fucking ignorant even our nige won't have him round for tea.

the ✨girls are fighting!!✨

[forgot-how-catflap-works]

Breaking News: Half-baked compromise proves shitty and divisive

Businesses trialling the four day work week have found it ineffective and unpopular, a new report has revealed.

Companies across our great nation participated in a trial of the four day work week, but employees report being just as tired and sick of their grinding existence as usual. 

It’s not the reduced hour work week campaigners have been advocating for, but rather a watered down version that sees people just working longer hours over fewer days. Literally something no one asked for but it’s the best you’re going to get so maybe smile and say thank you. 

“The longer days mean I’ll have two existential crises by lunch instead of just one,” reported Michael Hingecroft, a corporate compliance officer at Hostile Takeover Inc. “I start my day at 8am and don’t finish until 6pm. I’m so tired by the end of Thursday that I just sleep the whole weekend away. Before I know it, I’m back at the office and the robed figures from HR are chaining me to my desk again.” 

Totally Unbiased News heard from several other desiccated husks like Michael after Labour revealed it plans to strengthen workers rights by offering more flexible hours. 

“I was looking forward to spending the extra day at home with my kids,” said some crybaby who’s name we didn’t get. “But my entire life passed me by. It turns out they’re in their 30s now and have all flown the nest. I’m also divorced. I had no idea. When did that even happen?” 

The arrangement has been well received by employers however, with big businesses heralding it as masterclass in pretending to make susbtantial changes but actually doing fuck all.

“It’s great,” said Carol Lunchmeat, a spokesbabe for sustainable energy firm Frack Me Harder. “By offering this lukewarm compromise, we can easily prove that no one wants to work a four day week and so we can finally put the issue to bed. People should be working more hours for less money, not fewer hours for the same amount. That doesn't make a lick of sense. How are we supposed to hoard enough resources to survive total climate collapse if our drones are slacking off?” 

During a press conference held within a hermetically sealed dome so none of the plebs can get their filth inside the halls of power, prime minister and self-described socialist Sir Keir Starmer called his own party’s proposals a “communist delusion that will destroy the nation with its blind idealism”. 

When deputy PM Angela Rayner clarified that under the proposed changes employees would “still be doing the same amount of work”, Sir Starmer offered his wholehearted support to the proposal. 

“This is the kind of limp wristed policy that will be our legacy,” said the prime minister. “Ineffective, uninspiring and unambiguously aligned with the interests of capital. There’s plenty more where this came from, mark my words.”

In response to the announcement, Reform leader Nigel Farage MP said, “*****, those ********. I’ve never seen so many ******* in one place. Who lets these filthy ****** in here? Someone get my rifle.”

A representative from the Green Party also said something, but we weren’t listening and nobody wrote any of it down. 

Campaigners for the four day work week argue that committing to a wholesale reduction in hours will increase revenue, reduce employee churn rate, and is better for the mental and physical well being of workers 

“The data is there to support not just compressed hours, but an overall reduction in the hours worked,” said four day work week advocate Lesley Cimble. “On average, companies that trialed the full proposal saw a 35% increase in revenue and 57% decrease in staff leaving. Not to mention 71% reduction in burnout and 39% reduction in stress.

"We do not advocate for the half-baked compromise of compressed hours. It does almost nothing to change material working conditions, and seems more concerned with appeasing big businesses than supporting workers’ rights or fostering sustainability.”

However, the black clad anarchists that hang around outside our offices said that even this position doesn’t go far enough. 

“In his book Bullshit Jobs, anthropologist David Graber found that 37% Americans felt their jobs were completely meaningless,” yelled one of the hoodlums through an open window. “Obviously we’re talking about the UK here, but we share the same economic system that pedestals a protestant work ethic and values profit above all else so it's a fair comparison. 

“We should acknowledge that roughly a third of all labour is expended on pointless bullshit. What a catastrophic waste of human life. That in itself should be justification enough to completely change our ways of working. We shouldn’t need to appeal to the motives of big business by saying this will make them more money. That’s an ass-backwards approach that only further entrenches the profit motive as the primary driving force in poli–”   

Fortunately Nigel Farage was visiting our office at the time to reveal his upcoming collab with Elon Musk to deport all foreigners to Mars and was able to shoot the anarchist dead in self-defence. 

"It's ****** season," he said as he produced his flensing knife and descended out to the street.

(Inspiration: Does working a four day work week make you happier?)

[sanctiphera]

“The Forest was shrinking, yet the trees talked of voting for The Axe because The Axe was clever; he had convinced the trees, since his handle was made from wood, he was one of them.”