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Originally Posted by Russ
The Daily Mail and the Sun are 2 of the most popular newspapers in the UK. Does that automatically make them any good?
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Not really. They are popular because they are easy reads at a time when the news in the more serious press is full of doom and gloom.
Popular politicians are those who connect with the popular opinions of the people. Whether they can deliver is a different issue, which can only be tested once elected. As Starmer is showing us all too well.
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Originally Posted by Russ
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Er, Russ. A word in your ear. NO credible political party will divulge their policies four years before a General Election.
His candidates will be hand picked and subject to a vetting process far more rigorous that any of the other main parties have in place. I think you will find he has the last laugh. This isn’t going to be a UKIP Mark II.
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Originally Posted by Russ
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No, abandoning the ECHR alone will not stop the boats, but coupled with amending our own legislation (which led to the Supreme Court’s judgement) and deporting illegal migrants straight away WOULD work.
It’s Starmer who is playing smoke and mirrors, saying things like he’s given millions more to the French to stop the boats when we heard just the other day that they are giving them life jackets before they set off!
We are being played, but not by Farage. He knows what is needed, and some of us know that, too.
By the way, your smilies indicate a lot of aggression. Calm down, old chap, no need for raised blood pressure.
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I had to stare at this for several minutes to try and figure out whether you were being serious or not.
Going on the basis that you probably are, mark this page and mark this date.
There is not a cat's chance in hell that Reform (in the extremely unlikely event they make it into power) would use "ordinary people from the professions" as their cabinet.
If they do, I will eat my own underpants (washed or not, it'll be your choice), record it and post it on here for public amusement or nausea (you decide).
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That’s something we can look forward to. Someone else on here made that promise a few years ago and wished he hadn’t.
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He's already been tested and failed/delivered nothing.
The first time in in European Parliament when he just tried to disrupt ( in the few times he turned up).
The 2nd as MP for Clacton, whose residents haven't see him since the election.
Like Boris, populists get found out when they actually have to deliver something.
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I think Farage showed us that the European Parliament was nothing more than a talking shop. It’s the bureaucrats who put forward the policies and Parliament, in the end, can say only yes or no. It was not worth his while turning up, but his reason for joining was fulfilled.
As for your second point - oh dear….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crlr5ry8jwgo
You’ve just got to believe me when the Beeb says it too.
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The Clacton MP said he had visited his Essex-based constituency "a couple of days a week" since July.