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Apologies if covered above. Saw this earlier re a new Reform Councillor. 'Glenn Gibbins said that Nigerians should be “melted down and used to fill potholes”. Newly elected Reform UK councillor has been suspended after he complained on social media in 2024 about the “amount of Nigerians in town”, according to campaign group, Hope Not Hate. The comments have since been deleted. On Sunday, Reform deputy leader Richard Tice refused to directly criticise the Sunderland councillor and accused the media of “smearing” the party. ' What a lovely bloke.

Ditto. I think it's a storm in a tea cup, but it's impossible to justify by any team.

Nonsense. The whole story revolves around doing something wrong, not the facility where the alleged wrong took place. I'm not sure you're doing yourself any favours here.

That'd be a poor way of seeking to justify the unjustifiable. Whilst a mountain is being made out of a molehill, the "it's their fault that they gave us the opportunity" approach is daft, and won't help us.

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So selfish people. One of biggest annoyances. And it's increasing, rapidly.

I agree with that, although I think the markets are now starting to align with the economic reality rather than reacting to uncertainty as such, although uncertainty won't help. There's no chance of a GE anyways, that'd be turkeys/Xmas. Streeting is the most credible imo, but I'm not sure how well received he'd be by the right leaning masses, and whether we'd be going from someone who's become unpopular to someone who will never be popular.

Right, I doubt it, but I'd imagine that the investigative people could direct it, and draw adverse inferences if we don't comply.

Absolutely this, and in the home leg, I want us coming out to the James Bond theme, then finishing the job. 00-7 to us on aggregate.

Starmer for not getting it fixed in under 2 years, thankless task for new blood, etc. It's not a shiny outlook. Our markets are slowly catching up with the economic reality.

Have a day off being a prick mate. Lowe is an elected Reform MP, and made that comment whilst serving as a Reform MP. I know what their contract says, I referred to it, and their subsequent comment that it's a working draft, ie bollocks that they're rowing back from. I haven't said anything critical about the French system. It's your mate Farage who mooted adopting it. That is not a free at the point of entry system. Re the last bit. The difference between us is that you don't seem to give a fuck anyone else. A French style system, or an insurance based system, wouldn't work for huge swathes of the population. And you calling someone else a dinosaur. The irony.

Indeed. Lowe said the NHS should be "dismantled and reassembled", Farage has talked about a French style system, their "contract" with the public says nothing in particular, later saying it was a "working draft" which means they haven't got a clue what their position is.

Total bollocks. An insurance system, or French style (pay up front and get some of it back), as per Farage, isn't free at the point of entry.

🤞🙏🤞🙏 I sincerely hope I'm wrong.

Again, I get that, especially wanting something different. The Tories were crap, and labour have had a nightmare. But, not considering what something different actually looks like, and whether it can be achieved, is madness. I've said for ages that we'll get a reform government next, and I'm in little doubt now. It's obvious that they won't be able to give much of what they promise, but I'm in little doubt they'll deliver the bits that will impact in the people voting them in - austerity, no free at point of entry NHS, social division, etc. Let's see how they do at county level.