So much so that their January press conference did not even merit a mention on the BBC website, even though it was recycled by the perpetually thirsty Paul Staines and his rabble at the Guido Fawkes blog, who tell “Richard Tice has ruled out an electoral deal with the Tories and promised to stand in every seat in Great Britain today at Reform’s January press conference”.
Big expletive deleteding deal. That’ll be another 650 plus lost deposits, then. Do go on. “Tice says he’s had ‘special pleading’ from self-proclaimed ‘nice guy’ Tory MPs not to stand in their seats. In response he says ‘you’ve all broken Britain, you’re all responsible. So there’s no special deals. we stand in every single seat in England, Scotland, and Wales’”. Thus the problem.
Tice, Farage and the rest all backed the exit of the UK from the European Union. But, characteristically, anything that fouls up as a result is not their fault. Not for them these silly ideas of taking responsibility. One swift bodyswerve, and the claim that, if only their Brexit criteria had been followed, all would be well, frees those out there on the right from taking the hit.
Worse are policy ideas such as “Remove EU regulations”. Er, hello, this is stupid, isn’t it? How the merry fuck do businesses trade with the EU Single Market if the rules governing trade within that market get summarily removed? Oh look, there’s also a “One in, one out policy on immigration”. Which hobbles the UK economy’s growth potential. Harry says marvellous.
Unless this group can persuade Mr Thirsty to devote a little less time to activities that generate rather more money for the benefit of Himself Personally Now - like shooting his North And South off on Gammon Broadcasting™ News (“Bacon’s News Channel”) - it will do nothing more than rack up yet more lost deposits. It’ll not do much better with him on board.
Elections to the European Parliament, yes, he’s done well there, but there are no more of those. Farage in charge has never significantly moved the dial in a UK General Election. No new MP ever returned for either UKIP or the Brexit Party. GB News circle jerks might convince them of new relevance. But it ain’t going to happen. They might take a few votes from the Tory right.
The most original looking sales pitch for Reform UK is “Let’s save Britain”. Which is a straight lift of the “Save America” strapline so beloved of combover crybaby Donald Trump and those of like mind out there on the far-right fringe of the GOP. Who are also out of touch with the real world. Tice and Farage fighting over electoral leftovers with a doomed Rishi Sunak. What a prospect.
If only the money being thrown at Reform UK had been donated to food banks, helping rough sleepers find a roof over their heads and a little warmth this winter, helping to repair all those crumbling school buildings, and maybe fund volunteers at NHS hospitals, we would have given some of the least well off a little step up. Instead, it’s being used for self-promotion.
With no realistic chance of electoral success. Sad, really.
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6 comments:
And Tice has described Sunak as a socialist. So he’s not honest or he’s not playing with a full deck.
Farage, Tice and other mad hatter conned far too many into thinking that they could leave the EU on the one hand and yet rues and regulations regarding all the benefits of EU membership would somehow remain the same. The PushmiPulyu of British politics.
Where’s twice as nice tyce and his flunkee Isobel shittpot being true patriots keep their money offshore and in dollars rubles euros and yen.
Habib is a 110% copper-bottomed ocean-going industrial-strength fruitloop, as his recent comments on the UK rejoining the Horizon science programme amply demonstrated. “It's going to lead to the creation of an EU army”, apparently.
Whether he had his underpants on his head and a pencil up each nostril when he said this is, alas, not recorded.
Lighten up, Tim dude.
The Starmer Quisling and his fellow-travellers.will "win" the next election (later this year according to Sewernak).
After which everything will be alright at some time or other, somehow or other, assisted genocide and inflicted poverty notwithstanding, Micawber-style.
Or something.
Both, a very dicey individual. All of these free market zealots are renowned for their cosiness with various Russians
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