[News] Nigel Farage and Reform

[clapham_gull]

Green Shield Stamps

 

[clapham_gull]

Stars on 45.

 

[dsr-burnley]

Can you show me where any St George flags / county flags are on display on council owned buildings?

It happens. Colne town council flies the St George flag on the Town Hall every day except when the Union Flag is flying. Nelson town council also flies flags from its town hall, but a more varied range - for example, they flew the Palestinian flag during the celebrations of the Queen's platinum jubilee.

Colne's basis is that they have a flagpole, it looks better with a flag on it.

 

[Eeyore]

A TDK D90 cassette that's recorded The Top 40 off Radio One hosted by Bruno Brookes on a Hitachi radio powered by Duracell batteries.

Let's make Britain Great Again.

A TDK D90 cassette that's recorded The Top 40 off Radio One hosted by Tom Browne on a cassette recorder with the budgie chirping in the background.

Let's make Britain Even Greater

 

[dsr-burnley]

Just out of interest, if Jeremy Corbyn had said that he was interested in going back to the time befroe Margaret Thatcher had been PM, would there be strings of people on here mocking him and suggesting that everything in the fifties was bad?

 

[Eeyore]

Just out of interest, if Jeremy Corbyn had said that he was interested in going back to the time befroe Margaret Thatcher had been PM, would there be strings of people on here mocking him and suggesting that everything in the fifties was bad?

Pointless question as it's not the sort of thing he would say. And certainly not from the same heart.

He never had a Empirical and lofty idea of what Britain is/was.

As folk have said 'flag shagging' is a very odd pastime. I mean, I'm perfectly happy and indeed rather fortunate to be English. But any desire to wear identity with an encompassing and evangelical zeal is a bit needy and insecure. As cringe as it sounds, I just like to identify with my own humanity before any flag is raised. I'm just a human being who happens to be English, not the other way round.

Nothing wrong with loving your own country (although I love my adopted county more) but all this rubbish we are getting at the moment is some insecure need to be something (again). I'm quite patriotic, except when I'm not. But, nationalistic, no. Patriotism being a love for my own country, nationalism being a loathing desire to be better, or perceive as being better, than others. I have no time for that.

Putting flags up doesn't pay the bills.

 

[BadFish]

To be honest I'd vote for any party that put the Great British Vol Au Vent back on the Great British Menu.

Hmmmm sounds a bit french to me. Can't see Reform going for it!

Stroganoff, maybe!

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Hmmmm sounds a bit french to me. Can't see Reform going for it!

Stroganoff, maybe!

Prawn cocktail?

 

[Anger]

Someone actually asked Farage which decade he would live in if he had the choice. He immediately replied 'the 1950s'. You can see why from his perspective - far fewer non white faces, women in the kitchen [or bedroom] gay people not visibly existing at all. Keith Richards summed up the 50s best 'I thought we won the war ?'

A decade of which he has no personal experience of its merits and de-merits since he was born in the 60s.

Most people who lived in the 1960s will be quick to tell him that it wasn’t that great because, well you know, there was still rationing in place after a major international conflict.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Just out of interest, if Jeremy Corbyn had said that he was interested in going back to the time befroe Margaret Thatcher had been PM, would there be strings of people on here mocking him and suggesting that everything in the fifties was bad?

Ah, so it’s the 50s that Reform are aiming for. Or, as I like to think of it, 75 years ago.

Thanks for being the only Reform voter to have a stab at that, although why that’s better than the future I’m not sure, especially given there’ll be no Tik Tok to spread the poisonous message of pseudo facist bolleaux in song form (nor will Reform actually exist).

At least there won’t be any VAR.

 

[A mex eyecan]

Ah, so it’s the 50s that Reform are aiming for. Or, as I like to think of it, 75 years ago.

Thanks for being the only Reform voter to have a stab at that, although why that’s better than the future I’m not sure, especially given there’ll be no Tik Tok to spread the poisonous message of pseudo facist bolleaux in song form (nor will Reform actually exist).

At least there won’t be any VAR.

No VAR? well I may vote for that!