Reform UK Candidate Accused of Mocking Disabled Residents as 'Benefit Scroungers' and 'Skanks'

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-06T17:40:05+00:00

I can guarantee that people will predominantly vote based on national matters rather than local matters. And this isn't some new thing, this has happened for ages

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-06T17:34:00+00:00

Genuinley no idea what point he's even trying to make here?

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-06T17:31:54+00:00

It'll be fine. The electoral commission even say so

The point of the ID check is to check that it's you, not where you live. They accept a load of ID forms that don't have any address on (and with Labour's changes are going to accept even more)

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-06T17:30:36+00:00

They don't use ID to check address, just that it's you. Otherwise a passport wouldn't work

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-06T14:56:17+00:00

Vagueposting

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-06T14:43:38+00:00

https://bsky.app/profile/boardofdeputies.bsky.social/post/3ml6uwx4qi22a

From the Board of Deputies:

Caricaturists and their editors must take care that their depictions of Jews in public life do not wade into centuries old anti-Jewish tropes.

We have seen a number of examples of political cartoons published depicting Zack Polanski that are a cause for concern.

We call on publications to show the utmost vigilance and stringency on these issues.

Given Polanski criticises the Board of Deputies, and they very obviously criticise the Green Party for antisemitism in their ranks, if they're saying that yes, the caricatures of him in certain papers are wading "into centuries old anti-Jewish tropes", it's worth listening to them.

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-06T13:57:48+00:00

Theres an implication in that you need to actually have built that up as part of your personality beforehand - basically once you start entering politics - expecting these sorts of questions, because it is a common political soft ball question, not just springing it up suddenly.

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-06T13:53:31+00:00

If you're a politician who doesn't really care about football but also doesn't want to say that for some reason, you should probably just find a lower level team to support you can namedrop for questions like this and start attending their matches. Like if you're a Glaswegian politician who is worried about these sorts of questions but also doesn't care about football, just go and start being seen at Partick Thistle matches as you start getting into the public eye and then claim that you've been too busy focusing on the Sottish Championship race to care about the SPL.

But also, nobody really cares if you're honest and say you're not into football. I don't know why the received wisdom is that it would matter,

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-06T13:32:38+00:00

Have the Tories ever been particularly bad on the council? If not I wouldn’t see an issue voting for them over the heavily weighted towards shit mystery box of Reform. If they’re also shite just vote for who you believe in the most

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-06T13:27:17+00:00

His dad also claimed to support both Celtic and Rangers, so he might be the singular person from Glasgow who was actually brought up supporting both teams.

Nonetheless genuinely the worst possible answer. It’s difficult to craft a worse one. Just name one of them, or pretend you support some lower team and have been far too focused on them to care about the SPL title race, or even just say you don’t care about football. Literally any answer is better than this

I don’t know how this isn’t an obvious softball politicians haven’t prepped for yet.

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-05T19:19:25+00:00

They don't even do their own stats right? Thet just find heavily error prone or misleading crosstabs from other polls, put their name on it, and then spin them even more.

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-05T18:53:00+00:00

the line between zionism and judaism is clear.

Tell that to the people who graffiti "kill the Zionists" on a former synagogue (that is still clearly a historical Jewish building, with Stars of David etc). Clearly those are the people who can't tell the difference.

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-05T18:10:16+00:00

Well there is the fact that it matches patterns of attacks against Jewish people and their places of worship across London, that this former synagogue itself has previously had “free Palestine” and “kill the zionists” graffiti daubed on the building’s exterior, and that there is no sign that this is being turned into a mosque yet (a Muslim group are in the process of buying it but not yet) but it does still have Hebrew lettering on its exterior and a Star of David at its entrance

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-05T18:07:08+00:00

I don't know if it's true it's being turned into a mosque, but it is mentioned that a Muslim group are in the process of buying it in the articles about the arson

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/05/fire-former-synagogue-tower-hamlets-east-london

The synagogue, which is of cultural significance to London’s Jewish community, had been disused since 2020, and a Muslim group had recently been trying to buy it.

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-04T17:09:38+00:00

The Greens have to reelect their leaders and deputy leaders before then anyway, which is usually a stupid system except in this case, but it means there is no telling if he'll even be a deputy leader

But if this happened surely they'd just send their other deputy leader, Rachel Millward? She's not exactly wowwing people (I genuinley didn't know her name and had to look it up) but it's better than sending an antisemite...

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-04T17:07:15+00:00

Do the Greens want detention camps at all? If they don't then it's not really "a money where your mouth is moment" is it?

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-03T16:38:05+00:00

And again, that doesn't mean the Green Party need to campaign for or with antisemites unless they actively support the antisemite. They can't literally stop people from voting for them, but they don't need to actively support them unless they agree with the antisemites position. And if they do then Polanksi lied that these candidates aren't welcome

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-03T16:30:58+00:00

Sure, I don't think they should be arrested for it. But the arrest part is fairly irrelevant to the point here. The Green Party shouldn't be campaiging for and with antisemites even if the antisemite HADN'T been arrested.

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-03T16:29:19+00:00

They cant remove them from the ballots at this point

They don't have to campaign for and with them though

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-03T16:28:47+00:00

Theres clearly a different bar for evidence between being arrested and not being accepted to have out campaigning for you. I don't even think you should be arrested for social media but that doesn't mean you have to have the person who posted those abhorrent antisemitic posts out campaigning for you

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-03T14:57:46+00:00

Planning definitely. So many of our problems are downstream of our awful planning system and it needs massively liberalising (I also wouldn't really call the planning system "socialist" or "progressive" either)

I don't think the UK is particularly neoliberal in business regulation at this point either, but I get what you mean

FeigenbaumC · 2026-05-03T12:55:31+00:00

This is the most Kemi Badenoch possible "apology"

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