General Election 2024

I suppose it must be upsetting though, having Labour volunteers door knocking at your house on behalf of a parachuted in candidate only a few days after they unceremoniously, and quite publicly booted you out when you were all set to win that seat for them. Posting the picture is not really called for, but I can understand why she'd be angry.

Dramatic escalation:

I doubt Reform will get any seats even with Farage on board

Or post election, merge reform into the Tories and become pm.

Exactly this, without a doubt his end game is to win and then rejoin the Tories on a white horse after their decimation to become leader

Really?

Cameron is literally straight out of that mould. Eton>Oxford>some conservative research group>spad>comms director>MP.

Didn’t he work briefly for Carlton TV?

Maybe Farage would count Eton>Oxford>some conservative research group>spad>comms director>MP>Grift/Lobby for some firm that then is found to be dodgy as fuck and goes bust>House of Lords as 'real world' experience? ;)

Is this his calculated attempt to disengage from trump? I can't see him spending much time in the debating chamber or working on his constituents concerns

Apparently he's previously said he didn't want to run in Clacton as he couldn't face spending every Friday there.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/nigel-farage-the-tories-are-desperate-they-want-to-know-what-ill-do-xw3sbppn7

This would mean standing as an MP for Reform in Clacton-on-Sea. The Reform Party has morphed from fighting for a hard Brexit to campaigning against carbon net zero, immigration and taxes. He talks to its current leader, Richard Tice, several times a week and says he "probably does want me" to replace him. But "do I want to be an MP? Do I want to spend every Friday for the next five years in Clacton?"

Didn’t he work briefly for Carlton TV?

Yeah, my ex used to work for him. No dirty gossip though.

https://t.co/ckKJOyLxId?ssr=true

This is good on the odious toad Farage

I'm surprised he didnt go to the tories tbh.

Yes. That was the comms director role.

I'm not saying I don't think Farage is a career politician, just explaining what I think he means in terms of differentiating between people like say Cameron / Miliband and him.

Sounds like (across the twitterati) mayhem in the tory camp. More defections to reform going to come now. They don't have any idea what to do now.

Finally a clear benefit of Brexit: destruction of the Tory party.

So not “literally out of the same mould” then?

I feel you're split hairs here. There is a common pattern of modern politicans going to Oxford to do PPE or Cambridge, then predominantly doing purely political jobs prior to entering professional politics - like Cameron or Miliband.

You can compare and contrast this to people who don't go to Oxbridge, enter into the world of work without the express aim of it being a stepping stone to politics and then entering politics later - like Davis or Rayner.

Edit: thinking on it, maybe it's as stark a binary as those who did PPE and those who didn't.

Farage isn’t explaining/differentiating in the slightest, he’s offering a sound bite to those who see him as their saviour by literally, disingenuously setting himself apart as different.

Which isn’t surprising as he’s a thundering hypocrite alongside all his other bellendery.

tories tryin to stoke up a culture war, then bang Nigel blows them out the water.

Another good campaign day for rishi

Also. To me it looks like the tory campaign is simply trying to save as many things from a burning building as possible, the're so defensive tryin to cling onto what they have. They know they've lost, wont ever say it, but the way they are fighting show it. Rather pleasurable to watch.

Rory Stewart with some good insights on why he quit politics. Of all the Tory’s quitting over the last few years he’s arguably the only decent one?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/03/rory-stewart-why-i-quit-mp-government

@implausibleblog · 12h Sophy Ridge, "Keir Starmer could be heading to
Downing Street with a majority of 194 seats.. According to the first
major polling by YouGov"

Sam Coates, "To put that in context, this is a bigger figure than any
election in 100 years"

He is inverse diane abbott IMO. If he wasnt a white guy who was born into privilege, he has nothing else to offer.

Or in meme talk, final boss of centrist dad.

And he was a tory.

He’s no Margot Robbie but this is class.

https://youtu.be/eaejKZWUWqY