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Just ironic that they are apparently so keen to save money but waste it by their council being disorganised.

Cornwall Council https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/reform-uk-accused-parachuting-unelected-10637008 A nice bit of infighting and a pub rant by another Reform member persuaded their leader to quit https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-reform-pub-row-front-10602105 Neat summary here https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/25555703.behind-dramatic-rise-fall-reform-uk-cornwall/

They really are having a nightmare in Kent as their flagship https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2025-11-17/reform-council-repaints-road-markings-outside-school-which-closed-in-2016

Racist too of course https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgkp9x2r92o

All going Pete Tong for old Nige

If Rasmus ever had a string a player recruitment hits like that who went on for mega money he’d be staring at himself in a floor to ceiling mirror with this playing and a huge boner

It’s not the likes of him it’s aimed at though. It’s aimed at socially conservative but more centre/left economic voters. He’s got Lib Dem or Green as alternatives but Davey’s been moving more towards this as well.

Yeah, on the latter point there were a lot of accepted asylum cases from Romania for example in 2023 under female people trafficking. So the at point needs to be watertight to head that off.

Or the one at Ryanair buying Dragan out as he can’t afford Man City https://www.irishpost.com/news/ryanair-ceo-michael-olearys-job-ad-rules-out-fans-of-rival-teams-300820

Decent set of proposals at first glance. Tougher than last 15 years but if you want to work or study to build a life here you can still do that https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3eplk4047do The usual pillocks on the Labour left are spouting off but that’s expected. No need to leave the ECHR and more economic self harm either. Judiciary might be more of an issue but judges do retire/leave.

Drives an Aldi I heard

If any of you live in Hamble Valley (as I used to), you might be interested to see what’s happened to Reform’s website there https://reformhamblevalley.uk The original was pulled down because it was AI generated and featured fake people, including to Sarah Pochin’s no doubt disgust a non-white face https://www.eastleighnews.co.uk/2025/10/get-real-reform-uk-hamble-valley-ai-image/

This person co-wrote Reform’s health policy with party chair Dr David Bull https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62z4rd87nlo Tice says he’s nothing to do with Reform, but David Bull didn’t agree

Whatever Reeves, Starmer, Sunak, Hunt, did or didn’t do since 2020, the culprit for the UK’s rapid economic decline (bar NI which is still in the Single Market) is absolutely clear https://www.export.org.uk/insights/trade-news/the-day-in-trade-wto-says-brexit-hitting-uk-trade-eu-nears-mercosur-deal-and-trump-eases-china-tariffs/ Headlines (Private Eye) include 17% fall in exports below pre-Covid levels when other G8 nations have increased by least as much. Investment has slumped since 2020 bar the odd blip. Boris isn’t excused along with Farage for driving Brexit and Truss…need I say more.

Also hilarious that Boris has been rattling the cage via his pet Daily Telegraph but what did he get sacked from The Times for? Yep, fabricating quotes. Panorama stuck quotes together - poor, but Boris was worse. That’s before we start mentioning red buses and NHS pledges…

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Time for @Pilchards tree and some granular binoculars

And Damion Downs.

If they did that in Devon, Cornwall and Pembrokeshire they’d clean up. No chance that Farage and Tice would ever adopt it at national level however. Another councillor amongst many seeing the light. Their right to remain policy is revolting https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/national/25588459.reform-councillor-switches-tories-becoming-uncomfortable-party/

Cousin went to school with him and top schools athlete, was England Schools striker and scored at Wembley didn’t he? Shearer’s strike partner and was still scoring plenty albeit not as many as Alan.

Looked like a striker playing at left back because that’s what he was earlier on. Became tidier as he got older and always had pace.

Worst Saints players I’ve seen by position: GK: Andrews or Bazunu. Gavin is a L1 keeper bought by brainless morons for large money and then chucked in at the deep end (still is) whereas Ian Andrews had played a lot of games in the top flight, so Andrews gets the jersey of shame. RB: Steve Baker, Pompey 1988. Has to be. Nilsson dishonourable mention. LB: Olivier Bernard or Lee Todd? Bernard’s position and work rate was piss poor, Blackburn away and Villa home were terrible, but Lee Todd was next level wank as @franniesTache says CB: Hoedt is my #1 here, Les Reed must have had early onset to pay £17m for that slow heap of Lazio reserves shit. Mid-table Championship at best. That’s without the fact he was allegedly a total bellend despised at all levels of the club. Partner grim with the appalling and equal bellend of ABK. Dishonourable mentions to Davenport, Jakobsson, Holgate and Powell. DCC pretty poor too. CM: Euell, Downes as a PL player, Safri, J Wright, but the worst was N Quarshie. Equally hated at both ends of the M27. RM: Hard to look past David Lee. Kanchelskis was totally washed up. LM: Trying to think of one - Gibbens maybe? Strikers - the recent list of pure faeces is staggering: Downs is in a league of his own. BBD, AA in the top flight, Archer, then further back Mayuka, Moody, Johansen, Frankie Bennett (once cleared the upper Milton with a shot - true story). Carrillo was another Les special. Onachu wasn’t great either and David Speedie was a cunt. Dixon totally addicted to gambling and goodness knows what else, Chelsea couldn’t believe their luck.

The Conservatives is that? Yeah, they spent tens of billions of our money on extra civil service posts to sort their shambles of a cliff edge hard Brexit https://ukandeu.ac.uk/videos/jill-rutter-and-james-obrien-civil-service-100k-bigger-since-brexit-but-no-clear-vision/ You’re right, they waste taxpayers money right left and centre. Reform wasting it all over the country in local government and DOGE having all the impact of a wet fart. Didn’t vote for the current government but they’ve had to cut Boris’s huge civil service post increases and Streeting is laying off so many posts in the NHS undoing the barking mad Lansley system by merging NHS England and DHSC (Jeremy Hunt badly wanted to do the same as Health Secretary but politically couldn’t) that he’s clashing with Reeves about the sheer cost of redundancy payments, so much so that they’ll probably need to be staggered over three years https://www.healthcare-management.uk/streeting-reeves-reported-loggerheads-redundancy-payments Plenty that I can criticise them for but this isn’t it. At least they are accelerating moving the roles around the UK to boost skilled jobs and prosperity across the UK, one Boris policy I did agree with https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-of-civil-service-roles-moved-out-of-london-in-latest-reform-to-the-state

They wouldn’t need those if politicians of all stripes didn’t have Pinocchio tendencies. They all do it but the key difference is that Trump spouts crap out of his mouth every two seconds/on Truth Social that has no relationship with reality let alone the truth. Our politicians aren’t much cop but at least they won’t deny election defeats, nor overturn democracies in a violent temper tantrum with thousands of their fellow thugs armed to the teeth. Dimbelby is an old fart but even he has an unarguable point rationally about the events of 6 January 2021.

Generational thing. People that are retiring now or retired had the vast majority of their career pre-Skype and especially Zoom/Teams and pre cheaper laptops and mobiles would naturally think that. Personally, I enjoy having a hybrid set up. All WFH I’d find very isolating but one or two days per week of a 7.45 instead of 6am alarm is very welcome. And last week I was on site all 5 days because that was business need and what the team needed. Not having to sit in heavy traffic and/or trains packed like sardines all week is good. And for those who work in the public sector, it cuts costs when they aren’t getting the pay rises or bonuses I’d imagine. Most customers want to meet/deal online since Covid. For the 3/4 days I’m usually in, I like my days very busy and active, loads of interactions. I hate just sitting staring at a screen for 8 hours unless it’s a very focused all day task.