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There was more. “To suggest that we put forward false names and candidates - one of whom was in hospital at the count with pneumonia, nearly died for heaven’s sake. People need to get a grip”. Tice’s problem was that people were indeed getting a grip - like those asking questions getting a very firm grip of the narrative. Peter Walker of the Guardian had a correction.
“Reform have *not* as yet provided details to prove the identities of some candidates. We emailed them yesterday at 11am with three names (not mentioned in the story) asking for evidence. We are yet to get a reply”. Meanwhile, the candidate who had “almost died” took just 96 hours from that moment to be videoed dancing around his kitchen.
Mark Matlock had used a clearly doctored photo, for which he made a variety of excuses - it had to be edited so his tie could appear to be in the Reform UK colours, or that the photographers had all been booked up. He then appeared with apprentice gobshite Patrick Christys on Gammon Broadcasting™ News (“Bacon’s News Channel”) to show he was a real person. However.
He looked nothing like the photo, and also appeared to have problems with his use of English. “Unfortunately I will not be attending the count tonight as I have pneumonia. The hospital I visited was closed before it’s [sic] closing time. I said to the nurse on a buzzer I am struggling to breath [sic] and she said call a number”. 96 hours later and he’s bopping around his house.
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They seek them here, they seek them there, they seek Reform UK candidates everywhere
Furthermore, Byline Times had discovered more Reform UK candidates who were absent elsewhere when their counts happened. “Now Mark Matlock has been verified (with quite an amazing recovery from the pneumonia that kept him away from the count) we have at least 30 other Reform candidates who have not been identified or have other potential issues with their declaration”.
There was more. “Overnight the number of unverified candidates with no official photo or presence at the count has risen to 50. At best, these may be ‘paper candidates’ - but it is still bizarre that they require no photo ID or verification, unlike voters”. We have also seen one reliable right-wing shill site trying to put journalists off asking all those inconvenient questions.
The perpetually thirsty Paul Staines and his rabble at the Guido Fawkes blog told anyone not yet asleep “Some dark corners of the sanctimonious left’s presence on Twitter have been frantically trying to come to terms with the fact that Reform did so well at the election. Their chosen conspiracy? That Reform’s ‘paper candidates’ in unwinnable seats aren’t real people at all”.
So that’s an admission that Reform UK fielded “paper candidates”. Spend a few thousand notes on online ads, and add the rest of the £55,000 per candidate spending allowance to the pot for pushes in winnable seats. Not illegal. But if any of those candidates aren’t even “paper candidates”, that’s different. And the Fawkes folks don’t want anyone going there.
All of which means investigations will continue. Questions, questions, eh?
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20 comments:
If Reform is lying they've learned to copy every prime minister from and including Thatcher.
The latest, Starmer, is one of the worst. It's a matter of public record.
But what else to expect in a non-democratic country that observes the ridiculous and laughable ritual bullshit at Parliament today ..... and does nothing to fuck it off.
Far-right Farage, Tice and their porcine followers clearly don't read the Comments section of this blog or they'd have realised what a waste of money it was to put up far-right candidates in a new far-right party when there was already in existence a far-right party fronted by a far-right leader who was clearly going to win a huge far-right majority in Parliament and rule this 'far-right racist shithole of a country' [citation needed] for the foreseeable far-right future.
They're all the same innit.
Interestingly,there’s been a lot of commentary lately on the nature of UK populism with those in the know concluding that Farage was not really a pseudo-country gentleman crypto-fascist but more of a flag-shagging pint-bothering Poujadist.
Watch his xenophobic Francophobe fanbase fade away when they discover their leader has a similar philosophy to that of a 1950s small-town Frog rather than just looking like one.
Seems James "entrepreneur creator of wealth" Dyson has joined Starmer's "change".
He's announced upto 1,000 UK redundancies.
17:41.
Gosh.
U OK hun?
What's that got to do with Reform & this ?
Starmer and co are already using the same language as their predecessors. Several miniatures (no mispelling) are outlining plans that are leaving Tory voters scratching their heads. "I mean why', they are asking, "if our lot are so bad, did people vote for no change in policy at: the home office, education, welfare, housing, and the economy"? At the same time, it's not just our pugnacious friend that described our outgoing regime as 'far right'. Genuine experts have done the same. If the Torys were far right (if), and the new govt is going down the same weary road, well, one can see why 'far right' might be bandied about...
Far-right innit
"Reform" and "change"....two cheeks of the same far right arse.
See the Starmer Quisling cross the HoC to console his far right chum Sunak for losing the blue tory V red tory faction "fight". One hypocritical gobshite greeting another.
22:46.
Correct. It IS far right.
So is the Quisling "Labour" Starmer/Reeves/Streeting theft of money from hospitals to GPs - thus making the NHS even easier prey to Yank spiv profiteers. That, plus the appointment of far right scumbag Millburn as head of NHS England.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24442192.experts-undermine-labour-plan-divert-nhs-cash-hospitals-gps/
The comments on this blog are becoming ever more deranged and unconnected with the main topic.
We live in a country, that thanks to exactly the same policies Starmer is pursuing, that is best summed up by the 'Northern Boys' - Party Time. Nothing is deranged enough any more, nd I should know, I made the mistake of clicking on the Telegraphs comments section yesterday, and, well, Jesus wept...
09:51.
Yeah, right on.
That Tim is completely irresponsible posting them. Disgusting.
iMatt
You're right.
I think it's because Anonymous ad Nauseous and chum don't really want to waste their time on far-right Farage and far-right Reform when they could be attacking ultra extreme far-right goose-stepping crypto-fascist brownshirt Quiffed-Quisling Starmer and his stormtroop Falange-frottaging fasces-shagging Nazi-adjacent cabinet members.
Like Ed Milliband.
Priorities innit.
I'm left wondering if all the "anonymous" comments are by the same person, essentially arguing with/vehemently agreeing with themselves.
Considering they regard everyone not called Corbyn as a backsliding far right morally bankrupt spiv/Nazi (if wet, "Micawberesque", proving they've heard of more than one book), it makes sense that the only person they can tolerate is themselves.
See that Reform logo? They want to go even further right. Which takes Britain into overt fascism a la USA.
I think the problem lies with Bertie.
Agree or disagree with anonymous, Bertie never engages with the point.
I'd allow it, if his humour had withstood the test of socialism. Unfortunately, he is more Robin Williams in Jack rather than the original Mork and Mindy.
The sooner the blog gets back to the rigorous debate, the better.
Silly name calling aside, Starmer aimed to become leader as early as the 2019 election, and was quite happy to sabotage Labours election hope's to do it. He then lied his way through the leadership contest, his opponents were smeared at every turn, has since abandoned his empty pledge, and purged the party of anyone even vaguely 'left wing'. Now, if someone can be that ugly, tell that many lies, simply to lead a politician party, why are we trusting them as PM? You don't have to be 'obsessed with Corbyn' not to trust Kier Starmer. Besides which, buried underneath all the hyperbole from our far left friend, is a simple truth - there is no difference any more in the fundamentals of the main UK political party's. It's as self deceiving to claim so, as it is to believe Farage has the best interests of the public at heart.
I don't think 'rigorous debate' (bless!) is particularly helped by your obsession with me and all my works, Mark old fruit.
And it wasn't I whose comment caused you to flounce off before with 'I'm obviously not welcome here' as your stagey 'final' words.
There is a clear point to my comment above agreeing with iMatt; if you can't see what it is, maybe you're overdue another flounce.
PS They don't make US presidential assassins like they used to, eh?
I don't think I've ever said that I'm not welcome here.
I check in daily, I enjoy Tim's work and, whilst I respect the reasoning for his reduced output, yearn for the weeks of 21 articles or more.
So, you're homophobic trope is best saved for someone else my old mucker. Unless you really have mistaken me with someone else.
I'm a playwright, I'm not upset by a differing opinion. It is what we live for.
Mark
1. Your memory fails you.'Not welcome' or 'not wanted' were what you wrote as you melodramatically exited the stage.
2. Check your posts on here. And then tell us what percentage are not simply personal attacks on me.
3. We know you're (sic)a playwright for the same reason we know Starmer's father was a toolmaker. Though we have no idea whether he was as thin-skinned as you clearly are.
Now please leave me alone.
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