Well it felt good to see the arrogant, greedy and sleazy brought down to earth. I sure like the idea of Cruella, Morbid Mordant, Pretty Dire and Semi Bad being shunted on to the dole queue, reduced to hunting through the situation vacant.
Love the little captions (I don’t know if you can read them easily):
Lost Hope
Mad dog walking
AntiWoke Yoga
Rwanda Lessons Strict Discipline
There’s just John Swinney licking his lips at the prospect of becoming SNP leader!!
But the sad thing is that the Tories are running scared and that much needed election is going to be put off to the last minute. We’re going to have another six months or more of greed, sleaze, incompetence and corruption.
I hope you’re right, Opher. For my sins, I’ve become leafleting manager for my local Reform UK candidate. 40,000 or so leaflets to be stuffed through front doors! We’re starting pretty much from scratch, and we need time. If the Tories allow us that time, they could end up with more problems than just Labour. Even you would approve of that 🙂
I’m all for the Tories being torn apart. Reform could take a chunk out of them. I just can’t see why you find people like Tice and Farage in the least appealing.
As I said in my big rant, I am supporting Reform mainly for their disruptive potential. I want to do everything I can to get rid of Jeremy Hunt. (Our relationship is one of mutual contempt.) If the result is a Lib Dem MP, that’s how the cookie crumbles. It’s still a big blow against the Tories.
Actually, I do agree with many of Reform’s policies. But there are some I don’t like (notably, ditching the European Convention on Human Rights, and making a song and a dance about the boats when the real problem with immigration is the “legal” immigration that has been planned for the benefit of the state rather than the people).
As to the personalities, I actually expect that if I met him one on one, I would get on pretty well with Farage. Tice I’m not so sure of; his manners are a bit too smooth for my taste. But compare him with Sunak (or whoever else is the Tory leader) or Starmer, and Tice comes out way less bad.
Tice comes across to me as arrogant and Farage is a showboater appealing to a rather nasty working-class xenophobic audience.
But Opher, I thought you were a socialist? And socialists are for the working classes, right? (In my terms, the working classes are the economic species, and the bad guys and girls the political species.) But you think of the working classes as “rather nasty” and “xenophobic.” Che?
No Neil. I do not equate socialism with the working class. Socialism is about creating a society that is fair and just with a much more equal division of wealth. That would, of course, mean that working people should receive better remuneration for their efforts, which I agree with, but does not mean I am ‘for’ the working class. I am ‘for’ all people apart from the parasitic wealthy exploiters who are running the system. That elite are the ones responsible for social division and poverty. From my perspective a great number of the working class have been brainwashed by the tabloid press to become xenophobic/racist right-wingers who I despise. Of course, socialism would greatly benefit the working class but they do not seem capable of understanding that. They’d rather believe the propaganda.
PS – I haven’t forgotten about your rant. Just dealing with major family issues. Will get to it in a few days when I have time.