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And this is a good explanation as to why.

If Farah isn't his name why does his entire family , brothers/sisters/cousins have that surname?

Where did this idea come from? His immediate family are all still in Somaliland and they seem to go by the surname Kahin. His story is that he first moved to relatives in Djibouti (their surname not mentioned) who sent him here where he was supposed to end up with more relatives (surname or surnames unknown, their contact details were taken away from him and discarded shortly after arrival, no account of him ever finding them and he has had no contact with the Djibouti relatives - the people who know those names - who moved on to nobody knows where). Farah is the surname of the family who used him as a domestic servant and their relatives who rescued him from that. Whoever his real relatives in the U.K. may be, nobody knows their names. If he's previously, before this revalation, mentioned other people with the surname Farah as his relatives, these were presumably either from that final rescue family or people he invented.

If somebody says they've been living a lie for years, it's not unreasonable to examine what they now say is the truth (although my first question would be what he, in his circumstances, has to gain). But this factoid seems to have come from a mishearing of his interview.

Where was Bill Gates when this happened though?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxn5k5/roger-stone-chat-proud-boys-oath-keepers-jan-6

Next Jan 6 is slotted for prime time. Wouldn’t be America if they didn’t make an entertainment spectacle out of it. Shame most if the criminals are still out living their normal lives.

I will never get the 10 minutes of my life I spent reading this back.
newstatesman - boris johnson the death of the clown

Ha!
Quick, someone email Martin Kettle the dictionary definition of solipsism and tell him he’s using the term wrong.

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Pro fox hunter jeremy hunt and aid ester mckvay did not get selected.

Fox hunting is unpopular with a large majority of the public (80% I think) but you can bet your bottom dollar that the remaining 20% vote Tory. What percentage of the population voted Brexit? 27%?

Edit: I typed that knowing its a false equivalence, but still shows that 20% could be seen as a useful figure to a Tory candidate looking to win back some of the older members who have switched to Lib Dem.

you can bet your bottom dollar that the remaining 20% vote Tory

I think we can be even more specific than that, and say that the not just the Tory voters but Tory party membership / fox hunting / Brexit venn diagram shows significant overlap.

I've often thought how nice it must be to be in the demographic of the Tory party members, breakdown here:

70% are men
44% are over 65
97% are white
55% live in London & the South

0.38% of the country apparently. Fitting that demographic should feel like the entire country is run on your behalf, yet I bet they still think they're being shafted by millennials.

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44% are over 65
55% live in London & the South

These surprise me. I thought they would both be much higher.

Yes, but then I suppose that only (apparently) 19% of the population are actually above 65, halfish of which are women.

So old men are significantly over represented in the Tory party.

You're right though - who are these middle age and below people joining the Tories...

The other thing about the fox hunting issue is that while 80% of the country are opposed, we're still a nation that has no problem in supporting a cruel breeding industry that produces deformed and unhealthy dogs that do not have a great quality of life. The British people can be very selective about animal welfare when they want to be. Besides, its only something that rich people do out of sight on rich people's land. We also routinely cram too many cats into urban areas causing them stress, anxiety and injury.

I'm not sure that being pro fox hunting would make that many people not vote Tory.

Isn't the Fox Hunting debate settled, in that the country folk that want to do it, general, still do it and get away with it and the rest of us that are against it have bigger issues to deal with, can tell are selves that its ban so were good people.

or something like that.

Golfists

Gravel bikers...

who are these middle age and below people joining the Tories

I wonder how big the Toryboy student contingent is? The group at Uni that see joining the Tory party as an extension of their Brideshead cosplay / enjoy wearing leather and singing fascist songs.

Then I suppose there must be some of the original Thatcher demographic knocking around, i.e. upwardly mobile / self-employed with working class roots that see Tory party membership as a signifier of ascending in the class system? Sounds very old fashioned though even as I type it.

Imagine the ball travels at 1m/s.
If the thrower is travelling away from you at 1m/s

The ball will never hit you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLuI118nhzc

Truss: "you can trust me to help squeeze families"

Serious flat fire on Eaton Place. Lots of fire engines and helicopter circling. Hope everyone got out (though there's a strong chance round there that the building is empty anyway).

Absolutely top lols at Suella Braverman basically admitting the Rwanda policy is illegal in her desperation to stay in the Tory leadership contest.

Explained here.

She's my MP, I'm so proud.

It’s bizarre it’s all come out now and to what end.

I’m more interested in his doping past with Salazar

That will be next once his charm offensive has been managed . Hopefully drop paula in it as well.

There's a documentary that all this comes out in. Maybe there's another doping allegation on its way and he's trying to garner some public support.

Alternatively it could just be as he said; he wants it all out in public.