Election Year or Fear!

[ramAnag]

And yet still labour/Starmer has one of the lowest approval ratings of any standing government ever. What a **** storm UK politics is at present.

Can’t really argue with that, although it shouldn’t be forgotten that - in football season terms - this government has only reached something like late September. There’s a long way to go and they have a huge majority.
Of the 4/5 main party leaders - and I reluctantly include Farage amongst them - I still regard Starmer as being the most statesmanlike with the greatest level of competence and integrity however I have to accept that it’s a low bar.

[SithHappens]

What i do think is Farage had scored an own goal with Jenrick.

The chances of Farage being leader at the next election have just reduced IMO. No doubt Jenrick will have the leadership in his sights.

[swaledale]

Jenrick couldn't lead a piss up in a Brewery! Don’t try to make it serious. It isn’t. Before it happened, Reform were leading in the polls, the Tories were screwed and the country was going to the dogs. Nothings changed. Nothing of any consequence has taken place, except that we all got to laugh as some of the most ludicrous and useless politicians desperately grasp for some semblance of power and media attention.

Plus there is very little in history which suggets that those that defect or split and form a new party actually do progress their political careers.

Watching Jenrick engage in Westminster scheming is like observing Tom hatch some kind of fiendish plan against Jerry. He is so obvious, so utterly transparent, that you can interpret every move before he even makes it. This seems to have reached a climax with his barely concealed plan to ditch the Tories and join Reform.


Then there’s this, from BBC political correspondent Henry Zeffman: “One MP I’ve just spoken to, who was generally aligned with Robert Jenrick, was adamant that Jenrick had merely been keeping his options open when it came to Reform. They said his preferred option was to wait for the elections in May, and then see if there was a possibility of him becoming Conservative leader first.” This piece of gold-plated rhetoric is apparently the Jenrick defence. Amazingly, it is more damning than the attack from Tory HQ, because it suggests he wanted to hang around and see if he could become leader before defecting, but then decided he could not. It really takes some skill to construct an excuse so feeble it makes your murderers look like character witnesses.

The only threat Jenrick is to Farage, is that of pissing off a number of potential reform voters, i.e. those with enough brain cells to be able to think, hang on a minute thats how many ex Tory MP's from the last government that were so ****? How does that represent radical change in politics?

One has to admire Bad Enoch, though she has had at least 6 opportunities to sack the tw@t before now, given he has been on manouvres since he lost to her in the Tory leadership election.

[SithHappens]

Farage's gushing tribute to Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins is not the best look ha

[Ram Pant]

Farage disses the Blue Tories yet all his MPs and, it seems all the other defectors are of that ilk...

[ramAnag]

Farage's gushing tribute to Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins is not the best look ha

Hysterical…but what a gullible and greedy git he has shown himself to be. They deserve each other.

[swaledale]

Farage disses the Blue Tories yet all his MPs and, it seems all the other defectors are of that ilk...

They are basically the lightweight, opportunistic, self obsessed useless tw@ts looking for relevance. Mixed responses it seems, but it does expose Reform as a bunch of incompetents, stil they wil all fall out with Farage in time. I'm becoming more optimistic that reform will disintegrate before the next election.

[SithHappens]

Hysterical…but what a gullible and greedy git he has shown himself to be. They deserve each other.

78 quid a pop. Surely he's not that desperate he needs to do that.

Sorry if someone wants to do a celeb message for me I don't want him, or any political figure tbh.

If you lot want to whip round for my birthday can you see if Kylie is free please.

If he's capable of being caught out he's just not fit to lead.

[SithHappens]

I just don't get why the public don't see through them. I know they were told by the media to be disgusted over Rayners tax errors but now in the space of a week we have two defectors responsible for much worse times over than Rayner.

Both of whom were in government at the time. Add it what we know is very dubious property purchase on farages part.

[ramAnag]

I just don't get why the public don't see through them. I know they were told by the media to be disgusted over Rayners tax errors but now in the space of a week we have two defectors responsible for much worse times over than Rayner.

Both of whom were in government at the time. Add it what we know is very dubious property purchase on farages part.

100% agree. It’s both alarming and puzzling that he continues to attract support given all the evidence of his deceitfulness, not to mention that he remains the ‘face’/major architect of Brexit which even many of those who supported it, approaching ten years ago, now recognise as a failed and damaging project.