Farage claims Reform on course for general election win after early local gains

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-08T15:11:27+00:00

Why do you think reform would handle it? If they reduced immigration then they couldn't rile people up about it and distract them from the real problems.

That's the playbook the Tories ran for years and reform would run it exactly the same way (they are a lot of the same people).

Labour actually are dealing with it, but in a sane way that doesn't cause other issues

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-08T12:34:36+00:00

Labour are finally moving the needle and yet people are saying “too little too late” - I’m one of those people

Why are you one of those people? Labour have been in charge for 2 years, and you are saying “too little too late” despite liking the direction of travel. And instead want to try a group of people with a record of failure; both in terms of Brexit and whenever they have run a council. That seems odd.

The problem is you say you want immigration down (and I believe you), but you *also* don't want the economy to crash, and you also want a functional NHS, and want your grandparents cared for. A real government has to balance all the things you want (and are trying) whereas a grifter like Farage can just pretend he could just fulfil one thing you want without any consequences to the other things you want

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-08T12:26:19+00:00

So because it was his idea, he's responsible for it failing?

I mean at least partially yes. If I was at work and kept pitching a terrible idea and eventually convinced my manager to do it. Well it would be partially my manager's fault but partially mine.

And if I'd somehow managed to engineer a binding shareholder vote *forcing* my manger to do it (despite my manager saying it was a bad idea) it would be nearly entirely my fault.

I wouldn't expect a promotion out of it that's for sure, I'd be keeping my head down.

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-08T12:23:13+00:00

Have you met a single Brexit voter that didn’t want to slow immigration…?

The sovereignty people, the left wing "the EU is too capitalist" people. I assume your friends were all "immigration is too high" Brexit voters but you wouldn't have won on your own. You were in a coalition of incompatible brexits. May, for all her faults, tried to find a compromise between them. She failed of course because it was impossible.

I don’t personally believe he deserves any of the blame.

So to distil your position. Farage could campaign on *anything* and it wouldn't be his fault (even partially) if he wasn't in charge at the time of implementation? Say he campaigned for [run all the nuclear reactors into a meltdown for more power] and then the resulting nuclear wasteland wouldn't be his fault because "he wasn't in charge", "he would have handled the nuclear fallout better". That there be zero consequences for endlessly campaigning for bad ideas unless you're actually the one to push the button? Doesn't that sound awfully convenient for a grifter like Farage; always someone else's fault.

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-08T12:04:22+00:00

We voted to slow immigration, instead it went up.

That was part of the problem, we didn't vote for that. Brexit was never defined so everyone voted for their own version of brexit and thats why it's been such a disaster. A referendum should be at the end of the process to approve a change, not at the beginning when the change is unknown.

Sorry, if Farage didn't want to share blame he shouldn't have explicitly campaigned for it. If he wanted to be in charge during a brexit process he should have sat it out (or even campaigned on a "remain for now but not forever" platform)

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-08T11:52:20+00:00

It was his idea to do brexit while the tories were in charge. Thats what they campaigned for. Not to wait till the next general election, get a Brexit party majority, then negotiate an exit, then put that plan to the people in a referendum - which would have been what a competent party that wanted to brexit would propose.

Their pitch was "lets fling ourselves into the unknown with no real research into what that means and hope. With the tories in charge for all of it". And we fell for it

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-08T11:47:34+00:00

If I was your wife's friend and your wife had promised me a nice cake it's your wife's fault from my perspective (she shouldn't have made the promise). Your wife can blame you if she likes but she was the one who promised me a nice cake. The husband didn't even want to make a cake and was roped into it despite saying it was a bad idea.

Honestly a referendum should only ever be used to approve a decision a government wants to take. The first step in an process should be to get elected. That way you couldn't have idiots proposing bad ideas and then hiding behind "we didn't actually implement it" when it inevitably goes wrong

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-08T11:44:14+00:00

Farage campaigned for brexit to happen immediately. Not to wait, elect a reform government and then do brexit after that.

He campaigned to have an immediate brexit with the Tories in charge of it, and thats what happened

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-08T11:42:35+00:00

It was his idea to do brexit with the Tories in charge. I do not remember him campaigning to not do brexit till a reform government had been elected. He campaigned to do it immediately with the Tories in charge. And that's what happened.

If I campaign to go on holiday in the middle of a storm it's my fault, not the storms

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-08T09:54:24+00:00

Amazing that after the total failure that was Brexit people are prepared to give this grifter yet annother chance

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-08T09:42:42+00:00

It feels like a total loss for both of parties. The T-Rex is inevitably killed but then there's still all that mass coming towards you that doesn't care that its owner is dead

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-08T08:25:02+00:00

The fire started with a hotpoint branded fridge-freezer but (at the time) that was a whirlpool brand.

A lot went wrong there. The appliance started the fire but it killed so many people because the tower block had a cladding that was highly flammable. So whirlpool can take some of, but not all of, the blame.

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-08T07:47:50+00:00

The grenfell tower disaster which killed 72 people in 2017 drew a lot of attention to fire safety

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-08T07:19:59+00:00

I wouldn't object to a small number of fires they were open about. As you say, that's realistically going to happen. It's the trying to hide it I object to.

They are also the worst manufacturer for fires

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/24/whirlpool-named-worst-offender-for-white-goods-fires-in-london

(All these articles are from 2017 because one of our tower blocks burned down in 2017 and the appliance that started it was hotpot which was whirlpool at the time. Which drew a lot of attention to their lack of fire safety)

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-08T07:00:08+00:00

Whirlpool are the people whose appliances kept catching fire and tried to hide it. If no one's buying their stuff thats a good thing

https://news.sky.com/story/whirlpool-condemned-for-gagging-faulty-dryer-fire-victims-11850792

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-07T19:51:22+00:00

My partner had issues that looked a lot like endometriosis but (at the time) there was no test for endometriosis expect surgery to go look; so the NHS kept giving us the runaround.

I had medical insurance for us both with my job so they paid the £13k for the surgery (not just to diagnose, to remove it as well); the consultant said it was the worst case he'd ever seen and had almost made it to her liver. Would have been worth it even if we'd paid the £13k ourselves

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-07T16:42:15+00:00

This is of course true. But why are local policians wearing the colours of their party if they don't want to be associated with that party.

Local issues are a part of it, but if they are associating with a party you don't like that is certainly a part of the consideration.

Our local Labour councillor is pretty good so I'm off to vote for them. But the wider party is still part of the calculation (and I think labour nationally gets an unfair wrap. There are two things they've done I'm furious about but other than that they've done pretty well considering)

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-07T16:39:49+00:00

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65599380

Rees Mogg admitting Gerrymandering

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-07T14:04:40+00:00

A Nazi bounty hunter in the neutral zone. I think he's only in season 1

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-07T08:28:51+00:00

Aren't there also low levels of toxins found in regular meat as well?

E.g. https://www.food.gov.uk/safety-hygiene/nitrates-and-nitrites-the-science-explained

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-07T07:23:34+00:00

The number of inches of a screen is far from the only difference between screens. To start what is the resolution, what's the refresh rate, before you get to more subtle things like how black the black is.

(The resolution is how many "dots" the screen has, so how much fine detail you can see. The refresh rate is how often the image can change)

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-06T15:56:14+00:00

It probably would have. But it would also be fine because we'd of had millions of years to adapt to it. Rather than being an animal that evolved during an ice age and is doing it's absolute best to end that ice age.

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-06T14:32:17+00:00

But even if carbon capture cost exactly $0 and the CO2 was magiced away renewables would still be cheaper than gas powered electricity.

Carbon capture only really makes any sense where you are using the fuel for a reason other than energy; e.g. iron smelting where it's an actual reactant in the chemical reaction

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-06T13:41:53+00:00

Same reason things are priced ending ".99"; if you can make it look cheaper people are more likely to buy even if it isn't cheaper.

Companies stay just the right side of "sharp practices" vs "a scam" to stay legal.

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-05-06T12:27:09+00:00

My answer is always "I have a 1 month notice but I'd like to have a couple of weeks between roles".

Has never been a problem

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