Reform

I see Reform did well last night in the farce that was the Rochdale bye election.

Reform came last with 6.3% of the vote. What happened to "ordinary working people" fed up with the status quo? Well it appears they went to the Independent candidate who secured 21.3% of the vote, having campaigned on local issues. Good on him.
Sadly we now have the idiotic chancer George Galloway back in Parliament, hopefully for only a few months. What a farce. The terrible situation in Gaza allegedly being the driving force in support for him. If, as I suspect, the Muslim community up there voted for him in droves, I am tempted to think that if you are silly enough to pray to a fictitious character like a "God" you will believe anything.

But for Mr Tice and his band of equally ludicrous party members to come last and behind in the votes to a candidate who was not even standing is laughable.
Of course Mr Tice couldn't accept that (loonies never do) he comes out with this absolute gem.

"Recriminations continued after polls closed, with Mr Tice alleging to the PA news agency that “menacing behaviour” had featured throughout the campaign and questioning the validity of the postal ballots returned during the contest."

A cut and paste from the Trump playbook he manages to make himself look even more silly.

What a farce.
Where is Guy Fawkes when we need him.

Wow, why the tirade against Reform for last night. Both the Tories and Labour also came nowhere and this was a seat Reform knew they had no chance. The very high level of postal votes (percentage wise) must raise a few questions, especially with regard with how things went in Tower Hamlets a few years ago. Certain 'communities' have history with this.
Surely the main concern is the issue with Muslims banding together to vote in a Muslim supporter? This has already started in Germany.

Talk Radio sacked George Galloway for his anti-semitic comments. Rochdale have elected this extremist. Incredibly worrying that this extremist (propped up by the far left wing and Muslim vote) will sit in Parliament.
But the big news is that a new party contesting a seat that's about 635/650 on their list of targets under performed their national polling.
"Don't look over there - look over here" the frothy mouthed shout.
As out democracy crumbles.

Totally the opposite.
Democracy spoke.
It elected an idiot, and it consigned a bunch of idiots to last place.
The irony is delicious.

And the frothy mouthed right wing shout "but we never intended to try and win"

Laugh, most of the country is

Trope. Classic right wing isolationism. Appeals to the nationalists.

Long supported this. Its the best way to lift lower income earners away from the tyranny of overly managed in work benefits. Sadly after 14 years of Tory misrule I am not sure we can afford it.
Yes on energy bills. Its an absolute farce. No on fuel duty unless we include that in a review of road tax and have a coherent policy on the cost of using our roads. Currently those on the lowest incomes pay the highest rate of marginal tax on this line item.

Dog whistle. Most people on average incomes will not fall into this. Children inheriting their parents home have a threshold of £500k. I believe the value of the property can be split between the parents and if one dies then they can transfer their threshold, I believe that makes a combined threshold of £1M. ( I think I am right). This is a dog whistle to the Shires.

Not read that many leaders who place this above consistency and effective governance. Which we dont have.

Silly. Most doctors and nurses want the governance of our Health Service to be sorted. Currently we have a service that has descended into chaos, they do not want a "dog collar"

We have a climate crisis. How does this help that? Its a dog whistle.

Really...paid for how and where will they be recruiting from? Pure dog whistle

Dog whistle. Could you point me to one curriculum, approved and on the QCF (qualification credit framework) that has a line item called "Transgender Ideology" Jesus Christ

Dog Whistle. It would be useful to let voters know who screwed this up? When the financing of Higher Education became predicated upon loans to the student a Student Loan Company was set up and the rate was fixed at 2%. Who sold that company to to private investors? Oh yeah, your mates on the right of the Tory Party. Whats the interest rate now? 6%...No, I just checked 7.3%. Wow. Well done the right, and now they have the audacity to ask us to vote for them as they constitute themselves as the Reform Party. No thanks, thats akin to piling incompetence upon incompetence. 

Easy words, meaningless. A dog whistle to nobody. Why not say it, abolish the House of Lords. Abolish the monarchy, strangle the gravy train that leads from Oxbridge to the Civil Service. Will Reform consider this? No of course not, to many supporters from those ranks.

In summary Nobby, its bullsh*t and does not add up to to a row of beans.

You do.
And nothing has changed.
This debate started by me calling out the voodoo economics of Cameron & Osborne (and look what has happened) to now having to call out the utter boll*x out out by Reform.

Plus Ca Change

It's ok, Nobby will be along in a minute to tell us polls are rubbish.😉

In the meantime
BBC News - Fergal Keane: Aid convoy tragedy shows fear of starvation haunts Gaza
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68456718

What is the Reform Party's policy on our relationship with overseas issues?

Oh yeah, stop foreign aid. Fabulous...

Incorrect. It's to reduce foreign aid by 50%. Why are we giving money to countries like China and India?
Nobody is talking about stopping foreign aid, so why spread this lie? Also, the foreign aid budget would have nothing to do with the Gaza situation, so once again, why try to spread the lie?