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Yeah, they're done, but they still won.

Very sad, but very true.

But is opposed to the right wing of the party.

Bridgen's missus again:

It is fantastic to see that my husband @ABridgen is putting the PR
front about caring so much for children’s educational needs, while
ruthlessly trying to force his own minor child, British-born citizen,
out of the British school system and out of Britain.

https://twitter.com/NevenaBridgen/status/1751931986417979848

first bit of litter i saw when i left my sisters house this morning was a disposable vape

get rid

I’ll start questioning Darwin if they turn out to be harmless.

oh i'm sure all the chemicals in a vape are perfectly harmless
nothing to see here

the tobacco companies will have to find another way to get their future addicts addicted
maybe tobacco sweets, tobacco energy drinks or tobacco smoothies, tobacco on avocado toast for the ( insert one of the millenial, boomers gen z nomenclatures here )

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/30/influencers-and-freebies-big-tobaccos-push-to-sell-nicotine-pouches-in-uk

Took me ages to actually clock what this Nordic Spirit plastered all over Brixton Jamm was advertising. Assumed it was good old booze.

tobacco on avocado toast

As if it wasn't expensive already

It's the tomaco and you know it

All the cool Swedish kids at uni used to use this stuff. It stank.

Yeah I was in Stockholm recently and so many people I met use that stuff.

I remember it came over to the UK in the early 80s, sold as Skoal Bandits. Me and a mate used a piece each in a Double English lesson one day and I nearly passed out from the sick feeling of such a powerful Nicotine rush

Skoal got banned over a tongue cancer scare .
Sliced bread on the bbc did a good feature about disposable or refill vapes. Worth a listen.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001qtqk?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

There is tobacco pouch oddness in the US with a brand called Zyn and Tucker Carlson and the Republicans.

Second-rate actor turned racist idiot Lozza Fox loses his libel case.
What a tremendous pillock he really is…

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/laurence-fox-loses-libel-case-high-court-b2486600.html

Second-rate actor

whoa, you must be a huge fan to rate him so highly.

Isn't this 'alleged' racist one of the original nepo-babies with his family connections?

Edited to remove liability for the forum.

Not technically proven whether he is racist.

Whoa, stop attacking him.

Although if you do call him a racist and he sues you, you'll probably win.

lol

Hope he has enough money left for when Jeremy Vine sues him.

"During the trial, Fox dismissed the Black Lives Matter movement as “grift” and “a Ponzi scheme”.

Not only is he a racist, but he lacks self awareness too.

Tik Tok is squarely to blame for the market growth of this garbage.

Tucker Carlson, pustulent human slime that he is, started a far right podcast/tik tok channel and has been promoting tobacco pouches. Hes in kids ears and getting in their heads, especially boys and young men who are susceptible to Jordan Peterson level bs (I.e., some truths mixed with conjecture and outright bs wrapped in pseudo-scientific jargon, spat out at a machinegun rate to overwhelm the audience’s cognitive bandwidth/filters). He’s even been accused of being paid by Phillip morris to promote the stuff (reportedly, during an interview precisely about his promoting tobacco, a journalist told him PM denied financing him, to which he replied ‘That’s funny’).

In a nutshell, he’s targeting an audience of vulnerable people susceptible to far right nonsense, especially teens, and is making bank (allegedly, possibly, looks like it and would not be surprised-ingly) promoting tobacco pouches to them. And he’s far from alone: there ‘zyn-fluencers’ with sophisticated business models and serious backing who are pushing Zynbabwe to their pre- and mid-teen audiences, mostly through humour and teen-speak comedy (e.g., a morning ‘ripuccino’).

Offensive to Ponzi.

Fox News are going after popular music group Taylor & Her Swifts:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1752074613847134701

16% of Americans say they're "avid" Swift fans. And her jet is eco-friendly actually: