Reform UK - A symptom of all that is wrong?

[cirian75]

LimmerickLad said:

don'tbesilly said:

LimmerickLad said:

I wonder if Farage will declare he's standing now?

You may well find out tomorrow:

I hope he does if only to see some PHers heads explode.

Its going to 100% happen, just he did back in 2019.

[LimmerickLad]

bhstewie said:

Is 8th time lucky a thing?

Only if he doesn't have any sea creatures standing against him

[swisstoni]

I personally don’t think he will. He’ll want to see what kind of support Reform get in this GE first, to see whether its worth his while.

[S600BSB]

Get in there Nige!

[LimmerickLad]

swisstoni said:

I personally don’t think he will. He’ll want to see what kind of support Reform get in this GE first, to see whether its worth his while.

Wonder if he would have to give up his dayjob as a presenter? Impartiality and all that especially during an election campaign.

[valiant]

Let’s see if there’s some back room deal with St Nige for them not to stand in key marginals.

Can’t see Tice of Farage standing, they have too much to lose should they fail to win their respective seats. Polling has them winning feck all so the embarrassment of losing to a dolphin again would be too much to bear.

[LimmerickLad]

Well I'm watching GB news now and he's not presenting his own programme.he saying Rishi is running scared of him and the Reform Party and the reform Party are not ready for an election so soon...which is why Rishe has called it so early.


eta he's going to think about it overnight but I did note the earlier post of an announcement by Tice tomorrow

Edited by LimmerickLad on Wednesday 22 May 19:14

[CraigyMc]

LimmerickLad said:

Well I'm watching GB news now and he's not presenting his own programme.he saying Rishi is running scared of him and the Reform Party and the reform Party are not ready for an election so soon...which is why Rishe has called it so early.


eta he's going to think about it overnight but I did note the earlier post of an announcement by Tice tomorrow

They are upping 30p Lee's food-on-a-budget plan to 50p.

[President Merkin]

Farrige not running. I'm going to claim my lazy bd theory has won the day.

[President Merkin]

Well, Britain apparently not important enough for the uber patriot routinely draped in Union flags. Definitely nothing to do with the racing cert he'd chalk up his eighth straight defeat. What a cheap grifter.

[Tom8]

How many seats will Reform return? My guess is 0. I reckon Bucket Head will do better.

[LimmerickLad]

President Merkin said:

Well, Britain apparently not important enough for the uber patriot routinely draped in Union flags. Definitely nothing to do with the racing cert he'd chalk up his eighth straight defeat. What a cheap grifter.

Probably more to do with earning $s & £s I reckon.

[smn159]

LimmerickLad said:

President Merkin said:

Well, Britain apparently not important enough for the uber patriot routinely draped in Union flags. Definitely nothing to do with the racing cert he'd chalk up his eighth straight defeat. What a cheap grifter.

Probably more to do with earning $s & £s I reckon.

Probably trying to raise his profile over there by gurning away next to Trump at every opportunity in the hope of getting a minor TV or radio show

They can keep him...

[CraigyMc]

President Merkin said:

Well, Britain apparently not important enough for the uber patriot routinely draped in Union flags. Definitely nothing to do with the racing cert he'd chalk up his eighth straight defeat. What a cheap grifter.

NewsThump's translation is more honest.


Satire sites are literally just news now.

[valiant]

Well, Tice is standing in Boston&Skegness whilst the true patriot is fleeing to the US.

Last election, the Tories had a massive share of the vote (around 75%) which would take a swing of gargantuan proportions to unseat.

Can't see him winning here.

Also, Ben Habib standing (and losing) in Wellingborough.

[S600BSB]

LimmerickLad said:

President Merkin said:

Well, Britain apparently not important enough for the uber patriot routinely draped in Union flags. Definitely nothing to do with the racing cert he'd chalk up his eighth straight defeat. What a cheap grifter.

Probably more to do with earning $s & £s I reckon.

Agree. Didn’t his bank drop him because he didn’t meet earnings thresholds or something? Clearly needs to get a few quid in the bank.

[CraigyMc]

S600BSB said:

LimmerickLad said:

President Merkin said:

Well, Britain apparently not important enough for the uber patriot routinely draped in Union flags. Definitely nothing to do with the racing cert he'd chalk up his eighth straight defeat. What a cheap grifter.

Probably more to do with earning $s & £s I reckon.

Agree. Didn’t his bank drop him because he didn’t meet earnings thresholds or something? Clearly needs to get a few quid in the bank.

I think it's to do with minimum balance rather than income.

Coutts is ~£3m minimum in order to maintain an account with them, I think.

[andymadmak]

S600BSB said:

Agree. Didn’t his bank drop him because he didn’t meet earnings thresholds or something? Clearly needs to get a few quid in the bank.

I thought it was established (after a lot of speculation and misinformation from the bank) that Coutts tried to drop him because of his politics?
Whatever we might think of Farage we should not be condoning banks behaving in that way imho.

[CraigyMc]

andymadmak said:

S600BSB said:

Agree. Didn’t his bank drop him because he didn’t meet earnings thresholds or something? Clearly needs to get a few quid in the bank.

I thought it was established (after a lot of speculation and misinformation from the bank) that Coutts tried to drop him because of his politics?
Whatever we might think of Farage we should not be condoning banks behaving in that way imho.

He had less than a million quid in his account because of paying off his mortgage, which was why his account was reviewed. The review found that they should close his account and offer one in Natwest instead (same group of banks, but not for the ultrawealthy), partially because he was "at best seen as xenophobic and pandering to racists".

So it's a bit of both. Without his account going so low they'd not have even reviewed it though.

[thetapeworm]

This is an odd take from the official Conservative twitter account...

https://x.com/Conservatives/status/179359794603196...