[News] Nigel Farage and Reform

[Gwylan]

Although they'll be no shops open on Wednesday afternoons and Sundays, Woolworths will dominated high-streets, they'll be no all-day drinking in pubs, only two TV channels (for those who can afford a TV), and the only televised footie will be Match of the Day on Saturday night.

No, MotD didn't start until 1964. But there will be the Black and White Minstrel Show to watch.

 

[clapham_gull]

The tories in Wadsworth got away with low poll tax and community charge via a combination of a significant number of comfortably off, and a large rump of incoherent poor. Yes the services for the poor were cut but without much protest, and the comfortably off saved a fortune (compared with the situation when we paid 'rates').

Well to be fair, until they got kicked out (which was effectively a protest vote at the national Government) the services were ok.

Not particular;y different from anywhere else I lived.

However there is some truth to what you say, but I think its the demographics. Even though the council tax is very low, they are getting it from very valuable (Victorian) and high density housing. I understand they own a lot of commercial premises, much more than other councils.

Wandsworth are well run, but they are also very lucky.

 

[Screaming J]

They sound more like Viz Magazine's Bottom Inspectors to me.

 

[Chicken Run]

Whereas describing them as 'Irregular' or 'Unauthorised' will hurt the feelings of 'indigenous types' who thrive on manufactured grievances, wallow in their sense of victimhood, and are convinced that a public-school-educated, ex-City stockbroker and millionaire, is on the side of the working-class against the Establishment

I totally agree

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Well to be fair, until they got kicked out (which was effectively a protest vote at the national Government) the services were ok.

Not particular;y different from anywhere else I lived.

However there is some truth to what you say, but I think its the demographics. Even though the council tax is very low, they are getting it from very valuable (Victorian) and high density housing. I understand they own a lot of commercial premises, much more than other councils.

Wandsworth are well run, but they are also very lucky.

Indeed. Very fortunate.
I had an eyebrow permanently raised during the Thatcher era,
when she used Wandsworth as a role model for poor working class inner city councils.
"See, you could be like them too".
I knew and know people who lived/live in Wandsworth.....way out of my budget....

Councils providing services ought to be an uncomplicated business.
Sadly it became a political football in the 70s.....
And there was indeed a great deal of tomfoolery in solid labour areas.
I can remember when I did my post doc at Tommies in the late 80s there being a Livingstone-
inspired banner as you headed south into Lambeth:
"You are now entering a nuclear-free zone". The twats.

Sometimes its easy to forget that a hallmark of the late 70s and early 80s was one party who wanted to destroy capitalism at war with another party that wanted to destroy socialism. What a load of soppy old bollocks this looks like, now.

With that in mind it seems hard to know quite where Farage fits in.
There is nothing left to privatize, and no ideology to fight over.
It seems Farage appeals to people too comfortably off to feel any real jeopardy,
just the imagined threat of foringers, and
people too thick and lazy to see beyond 'muzzies' and 'woke' as the basis of their poverty.

 

[TomandJerry]

Reform would instruct the Navy to turn the boats round

Replace the ECHR with a British bill of Rights

28 year old tech guy leading the DOGE team into the Kent council

 

[clapham_gull]

It's now worth pointing out that Wandsworth are now successfully run by Labour.

Although there was a HUGE campaign by the local Tories recently when the spent Christmas trees weren't COLLECTED ON TIME by the council.

Seriously how difficult can it be ?

Hopefully Reform get a few candidates in by next Christmas and find out what the hell went on in January.

Another huge crises was the replacement of two dangerous mini roundabouts WITHOUT FULL CONSULATION.

I even got a knock on the door. I wrote back to the local Conservatives and asked to thank the Labour leaders next time they saw them.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

It's now worth pointing out that Wandsworth are now successfully run by Labour.

Although there was a HUGE campaign by the local Tories recently when the spent Christmas trees weren't COLLECTED ON TIME by the council.

Seriously how difficult can it be ?

Hopefully Reform get a few candidates in by next Christmas and find out what the hell went on in January.

Another huge crises was the replacement of two dangerous mini roundabouts WITHOUT FULL CONSULATION.

I even got a knock on the door. I wrote back to the local Conservatives and asked to thank the Labour leaders next time they saw them.

Will politicians ever learn that constant relentless shit-housing may not win hearts and minds?

 

[worthingweird]

They sound more like Viz Magazine's Bottom Inspectors to me.

Expected abuse from you lot...

 

[BadFish]

This guy is shifty as f***.

Nigel's grifter mate.



No wonder their supports on here won't admit to it.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Reform would instruct the Navy to turn the boats round

Replace the ECHR with a British bill of Rights

28 year old tech guy leading the DOGE team into the Kent council

The Royal Navy will do no such thing. We haven't enough vessels for one thing, and Pritt Patel was turned down previously when she tried it.

 

[TomandJerry]

The Royal Navy will do no such thing. We haven't enough vessels for one thing, and Pritt Patel was turned down previously when she tried it.

Was she turned down directly by the Royal Navy?

 

[n1 gull]

This guy is shifty as f***.

Nigel's grifter mate.



No wonder their supports on here won't admit to it.

No wonder no one admits to being a member on here, it's hardly a friendly environment

You and your gang would be on them in a blink of an eye

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Was she turned down directly by the Royal Navy?

The Ministry of Defence. The Royal Navy have to abide by International Maritime Law.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Mine too, sad isn’t it.

I predict they will find no real “waste” to cut, instead they will cut services they see as “waste”, that others rely on.

The garden of England is going to turn to shit, isn’t it,,,!

'No meetings, no direction': Reform accused of 'paralysing' Kent Council

Although Reform are riding high in the polls, their first month in local government is causing concern within Kent County Council.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

“After the first Full County Council meeting of 22nd May saw Kent County Council elect its new Leader, and she then appointed her Cabinet, a slew of timetabled Council meetings have been cancelled or postponed. They are also yet confirm which Cabinet Committees will be formed, if at all.

“For the first three weeks of June, there were FIVE committee meetings timetabled. FOUR have been cancelled – on topics including health, planning, and governance – and watch this space for [the cancellation of] the Personnel Committee.” | Folkestone & Hythe Liberal Democrats

 

[Bodian]

From the Guardian

and

 

[cheshunt seagull]

I think the idea is to rewind us to actual 1957. You’ll lose all your loyalty points but at least the train travel will be cheap.

I'm looking forward to getting back to 2 TV channels with Vera Lynn and Arthur Askey every saturday night.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

From the Guardian

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and

To use his own vernacular, he's Running Scared

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

'No meetings, no direction': Reform accused of 'paralysing' Kent Council

Although Reform are riding high in the polls, their first month in local government is causing concern within Kent County Council.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

“After the first Full County Council meeting of 22nd May saw Kent County Council elect its new Leader, and she then appointed her Cabinet, a slew of timetabled Council meetings have been cancelled or postponed. They are also yet confirm which Cabinet Committees will be formed, if at all.

“For the first three weeks of June, there were FIVE committee meetings timetabled. FOUR have been cancelled – on topics including health, planning, and governance – and watch this space for [the cancellation of] the Personnel Committee.” | Folkestone & Hythe Liberal Democrats

Being comfortably off and middle class none of the chaos will affect me.
Typical Labour voter who couldn't care less about the damage Reform will cause to its supporters.
My bad.

(I jest. The job of running a council is underpinned by statutory requirements, with limited funds to use to fulfill certain inescapable requirements. If this shower do what I expected, which is f*** all, they may find themselves in serious hot water. Kent council can't simply declare UDI make Kent a republic. As a working model of how a national Reform government would cope, this could all be highly instructive. And amusing.)

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Being comfortably off and middle class none of the chaos will affect me.
Typical Labour voter who couldn't care less about the damage Reform will cause to its supporters.
My bad.

(I jest. The job of running a council is underpinned by statutory requirements, with limited funds to use to fulfill certain inescapable requirements. If this shower do what I expected, which is f*** all, they may find themselves in serious hot water. Kent council can't simply declare UDI make Kent a republic. As a working model of how a national Reform government would cope, this could all be highly instructive. And amusing.)

I've just read a post from Anna Soubry, on X, saying Reform have done exactly the same thing in Nottingham County council. All June meetings are cancelled.