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Kemi Badenoch accurately notes that the common sense consensus that black people can be Englsh was pretty settled by the early 1990s. It was being contested vocally by the NF in 1984 (when Barnes scored in Brazil) with the Daily Mail vocal against the NF but much less by 1993 (when Ince was captain)

Jeffrey Archer, former Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86

A third aircraft carrier and a second Marine division has now been sent toward Iran, the WSJ is reporting. Looks like Trump wants to empty those stockpiles completely.

Only Braverman would have the front to harp on about ‘Threats to national security’ when she was in fact sacked for (you got it) .. being a threat to national security! She’s already plugged her new book (Out today folks!) AND just accused the audience of being very ‘Labour / Tory’ 🫪 #bbcqt

Channel 4 News, just described Reform’s recent bungs, as ‘Lottery winning’ sums of money. I agree. Pure Michael Carroll vibes. #Farage #Channel4News #ItllEndInTears #DemocracyIsNotForSale

Just found myself completely immersed in Timeshift ‘Bridging the gap’ on how the Severn Bridge was constructed. Beautiful stuff, & rather emotional hearing from the (now) ol’boys, who designed & built it. #BBC4

17 times!! … 17 times, Reform have failed to report things properly to the Parliamentary authorities. I wasn’t aware it was THAT many. #InfamyInfamy #Farage #BBCLauraK

If you don’t know about it, it didn’t happen: The Pentagon has now polygraphed around 50 Joint Staff members in a sweeping investigation into leaks about the Iran war and dwindling US stocks of critical munitions, CBS reports.

‘I asked if it was all above board’ #Nylons #Petrol #Cigarettes #Channel4News #C4News

You know when people are really really really trying to exaggerate the fact, they’re having SUCH a good time… ‘Oh you had to be there’ … ‘You’ve gotta be craaaazy to be in this gang’ …. Yeah. Reform Party Conference 😵‍💫🥴

Smells like he’s hired Stuart ‘Knowledge Is Porridge’ from The Thick Of It. Straight out of the gimmick farm. Bob looks very smuggy buggy pleased with this move. Peak cringe! 🥴 #HonestBob #Reform #Griftorama

Thoughts with @henryriley1.bsky.social earlier as Matt ‘Condoms to Pakistan… Briddisshh people first .. & You can Google it’ Goodwin, was an absolute wazzock. Well handled Henry 🙌 #LBC #MattGPT

I’m expecting a full on Trumpian style ‘press conference’ as Nige holds court & states that up is down, black is white & ‘he’s just a man of the people’. Wonder how long it will take, for him (to use Chris Mason’s words) get ‘crabby’ with reporters? #Channel4news #Farage

According to the Torygraph, the ‘Gotcha’ for Reform would always be ‘Procedural scandals’ Not ‘dotting the i’s & crossing the T’s’ WELL.. There are neither in FRAUD.. nor in MAGA.. but plenty in iLLEGAL DONAtiONS AND FOREiGN iNtERFERENCE! Procedural scandals, my arse 🙄 #Newsnight #Channel4News

Mason now delving into Farage’s current psychological state 🙄 Explains that Nige has been ‘crabby in public’ because of the ‘constant scrutiny & attacks on his family’ He sounds more like a PR spokesman for the party. I still feel very cynical that anything will change. #Newsnight #Channel4news

The Torygraph, who slapped Farage’s polls on their front pages have just exclaimed ‘No politicians are whiter than white’ & quoted Dominic Cummings. Need we wonder, why we are where we are, in this mad, mad world. #Newsnight #Farage #Channel4news

We’ve been saying for years that the Turquoise Tory Party, is a house of mirrors. An emperor’s new clothes. Punching above its weight in coverage… Well now we know why. All fur coat & dodgy polling. Doubt Orr will be invited back onto Question Time any time soon 😉 #Channel4new #Farage

It’s actually made the top spot on the Beeb at 10! Chris Mason isn’t quite frothing at the mouth though. Funny, because he’s more than capable when ‘free spectacles’ & Taylor Swift tickets are involved! At least it’s getting headlines.The cynic in me says, nowt will happen. #Channel4news #Farage

I often try to picture the expression on @mrjamesob.bsky.social face as the final callers to Ferrari’s show, air their views before he goes live… today, especially. Wow! 🤯🙄🥴 #LBC

Can’t help it, sorry… Lolzzzzzzz 😂🤣👏 #PrivateEye

Endless radio progs today, asking why Nige swerved the count. Seriously? His tactic was POST by-election & the long game’s not rocket science! He’s armoured himself (predictably) with ‘The electorate, loves me’ ‘Kangaroo courts’ (already circulating) ‘Infamy infamy’ (Yawn) ‘Security threats’

According to Tice, delving into the ACTUAL DETAILS of whether Reform OR Essex police are lying… Is splitting hairs. Also, ‘The climate of political fear is significant’ .. BUT to label a former Defence Minister a ‘Traitor’ is perfectly ok…. because it just means you’re ‘Passionate’ !! #Newsnight

Kwarteng. Currently on Sky News. ‘Appointing a Minister for Climate Change, would be performative nonsense’ Labels the recent alert as ‘Nanny state gone mad’. WHY are these failed figures wheeled out?!?! We could have done with an alert when he was appointed chancellor!! Give me strength. 🚨

Welcome back rain… Norfolk’s missed you! #Norwich ☔️

I’m old enough to remember the day, when Braverman’s words incited a riot at the cenotaph, seconds after the 2 minute silence. I don’t recall an apology. #R4Today

I watched this & instantly thought of Baker Street Herald. He warned of a libertarian project in Honduras, years ago & the various links to financial & political figures here in the UK plus, the impact for local communities. He was also bang on the money, about Truss! #C4News

Nice little clip of @mrjamesob.bsky.social slating Nige slipped in there between Honest Bob’s diatribe! 😂 Bravo Keith & Eleanor #LBC

@henryriley1.bsky.social you’re needed at LBC Towers for today’s Reform Roundup… there’s a live one in the studio !! 🙌 #LBC #HonestBob

He’s said it twice in 10 minutes now. What a predictable narrative from these Temu Trumpian ghouls.

There we go… Honest Bob just said the words I’ve been anticipating (just didn’t know how long it would take for them to be uttered…) ‘Kangeroo court’ re the parliamentary standards authority. MAGA playbook / vilifying authorities - eat your heart out. #Rotten #Trumpian #ByelectionSham

THIS IS WORSE THAN BRAVERMAN!!!! AND HANCOCK! @mrjamesob.bsky.social .. not funny! #LBC #HonestBob

So Nige has boycotted Ferrari this morning …. The hissy fit extends to his tummy ticklers it would appear 😂 What a time to be alive. #LBC

Honest Bob, maybe dreaming big as he eyes up the tacky turquoise throne but we all know that without Farage the grubby populist sunlit uplands, melt away. Meal ticket - gone. The venom & Trumpian tactics to ‘rally around the Nige’ in the last 24hrs has been so desperate! #R4Today

A whiff of scrutiny after all these years, & the great unravelling is finally underway for Farage & his funding network. Feels good to see all parties, uniting against his by-election sham & the media at long last, pulling apart his carbon copy MAGA playbook. Hold the line. #R4today

If Nige falls, his entire little project disintegrates. That’s why each & every official Turquoise Tory figure, has been out fighting for his political survival today. They’ve been rabid at times. Terrified, that their road to grift will terminate, just shy of those sunlit, lucrative uplands!

From the Greens, to Restore, I’m so relieved that all parties, have united against this by-election stunt!

Resign -get re-elected-behave like the second coming-vilify the powers investigating him-‘kangaroo courts’ & at this rate, probably dog whistle an insurrection by Crimbo. Sound familiar? Farage fully turbo charged the MAGA playbook today & believes he’s snookered ‘the establishment’

Nige is attempting to snooker his way out of the long, overdue scrutiny he’s had coming for years. It’s Trumpian. It’s petulant. It stinks. If he wins ‘anti establishment’ & if he’s then found to have breached rules ‘kangaroo court’ & if he loses.. zero daylight on his funding.

What happens regarding the investigation(s) he’s currently under? Do they still stand? If he’d been suspended (should he been found of wrongdoing) & there had been a by-election anyway, would he have been allowed to stand then ? #InfamyInfamyTheyveAllGotIyInForMe

Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in For me! Petulant spiv.

Just get out there & repeat “Mainstream Media Muck Spreading” you turquoise Tory tw*t’ #HonestBob #SundayTimes #BBCLauraK

‘Why are we ahead in 350 opinion polls? Why do all of the polls show that the body of support out there for Reform, are working people?’ Maybe because it’s taken 10 years, for any proper scrutiny to be applied to your Turquoise Tory outfit Honest Bob. #BBCLauraK

‘The Sunday Times, is a Labour supporting newspaper’ 😂🤣😂🤣 Ok Honest Bob. #BBCLauraK

Absolutely extraordinary story from the Sunday Times that is going to be very hard for Farage to deflect. "Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal" www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

That feeling of ahhh nooo… as 10am edges ever closer & you remember that @mrjamesob.bsky.social is actually on holiday this week!!Followed by, oh noooo what could possibly kick off over the coming days… followed by please don’t let Braverman be part of his holiday cover 🫠🥴 #LBC #HaveAGoodBreakJames

Darren Jones would make an excellent PM. He’s a decent, honourable guy. So for those reasons, I wouldn’t wish the position (& all the toxic vitriol) on him at this point in our political cycle. At a future date,most definitely. Goodluck with Musk, Moscow, Maga & all the misinformation Mr Burnham.

It is inescapable now that many politicians & most of our media judge the severity & seriousness of a crime differently according to the ethnicity of the perpetrator and/or victim. An utterly hideous state of affairs ushered in eagerly by Nigel Farage & Elon Musk. It is very easy to do better.