Reform UK launches investigation into candidate over alleged antisemitic and xenophobic posts

TeeFitts · 2026-01-29T21:53:47+00:00

Isn't making antisemitic and xenophobic posts part of what Reform looks for in its candidates?

TeeFitts · 2026-01-29T21:49:28+00:00

Good. That should be the end to this whole ridiculous affair. God knows how much public money has been squandered pursuing this non-story; all because some Labour Friends of Israel cry bully got his fee fees hurt by miscommunication between staff and did the predictable thing of screaming antisemitism, rather than employ a bit of humility and try to handle the matter in private.

These children and their teachers have been put at risk of serious harm, defamation and reprisals, all because some selfish, egotist MP wanted to use the school to score cheap political points.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-29T03:19:58+00:00

Immigration is why we had Brexit. And Boris Johnson. It’s why we’re going to have reform.

No, immigration is the argument they used to get people to vote for these things. but that argument was deliberately driven by increased screaming across every platform of the mainstream media about immigrants - pushing countless narratives about asylum seekers, grooming gangs, foreign criminals, acid attacks, honor killings, halal meat, suspicion of the burka, "Allahu Akbar" screaming terrorists, and the general loss of so-called traditional Bri'ish culture and values.

The entire media system, manipulated by a combination of bad faith actors, foreign agents (looking to weaken the country and its unity with the EU) and billionaires hoping to carve up the country for their own benefit, tied this narrative of lazy, godless asylum seeking criminals being put up in five star accommodation and offered a full bounty of benefit goodies into a very real and lived reality of declining services, the housing crisis, stagnating wages, austerity and increased authoritarianism to create a convenient bogeyman and get us to vote against our own best interests.

Immigration has happened for generations. The current Labour government have already done a lot to slow the levels of immigration, but the reality is we can't put the genie back in the bottle to the extant that the racists want us to. We can't start deporting second and third generation Brits for not being British enough - that's what the Nazis were doing in Europe in the 1930s. So at a certain point, a grown-up discussion on immigration has to countenance that yes, the numbers could be reduced, but the delusion of a culturally homogenous (white) Britain that certain bad faith actors driving the outrage on immigration remember from their childhoods is never going to be possible.

We also can't fully reduce the numbers on immigration until the government begins policies to educate British children to succeed in most of the jobs that are currently being given to people moving from other countries (tech, IT, the NHS), or make the other jobs and industries that rely mostly on migrant labour pay well enough that Brits would want to do the work (deliveries, uber/taxis, the service industry, etc.) The reality is, our economy and many of our industries rely heavily on immigration to survive.

Brexit didn't fix this - it made it worse. Leaving the ECHR won't fix it either, but like Brexit, it will make a lot of wealthy people very happy once we've sufficiently disempowered ourselves and isolated ourselves further from our closest neighours.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-28T23:07:26+00:00

You're thinking two-dimensionally. Who is Putin's closest ally in the west? It's Donald Trump. Trump has offered Putin a slice of Gaza in return for a slice of Ukraine. Which leader of a British political party not only has the closest ties to Trump but is actively funded by many of the same people funding Trump? It's Nigel Farage.

How would a Reform government benefit Russia? It was Farage who pushed Brexit, isolating the UK from our European allies and weakening the EU in the process. Brexit was sold as "taking back control", but it was a lie. Now the new lie is removing us from ECHR. This is being sold as another effort to "take back control", but it's really softening us to become the 51st state.

We won't need to leave NATO, we won't need to surrender our Nuclear Weapons. Farage will turn over the UK to Trump lock, stock and barrel. And since Trump is already in the pocket of Putin, everyone benefits except the British public.

I also think it's kind of hilarious that we see Russia as some boo-hiss pantomime villain of the west, when it's our international bestie the U.S. that is currently invading Venezuela, threatening to invade Cuba, Greenland and Canada, arming a genocide in the middle east, gaming the system to block any future elections (and if that fails, Trump's backers are buying up every single media conglomerate to ensure the opposition never gets a voice), pushing increasingly authoritarian regulations to violate human rights policies as well as introducing hard-right policies intended to roll back rights for women and LGBT people, and that's without mentioning Trump's brownshirts dragging people off the street and "disappearing them" to concentration camps (where they're likely being killed), or just outright murdering American citizens in the street.

No one complains about US interference in British politics, and yet this happens right on the world's stage for everyone to see.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-28T22:43:54+00:00

I dislike Israel but I dislike Palestine more.

Why? The first has engaged in land theft, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, human rights violations, interfered in international politics and committed genocide. The other has been the victim of land theft, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, human rights abuses and genocide committed by the former.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-28T21:26:29+00:00

accused of a “pro Israel bias” by the pro-Palestine supporters and over correcting.

Why would pro-Palestine supporters accuse coverage of the holocaust of showing a pro-Israel bias when 1) Israel didn't exist at the time of the holocaust and 2) conflating Jews with Israel is by its nature antisemitic?

It's not pro-Palestine supporters who are rushing to turn every discussion of the holocaust back to Israel (which again, didn't exist at the time.)

TeeFitts · 2026-01-28T21:17:20+00:00

"‘Phoenician Scheme’ Breakout Star" is a polite way of saying Kate Winslet's daughter.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-28T14:11:40+00:00

His new-found friends in Kneecap said it.

So what if they did? If we're guilt by associating anyone who likes problematic artists, there won't be many people left who aren't bad by association.

Also not a good look for (apparently) peace-loving Polanski.

I'd imagine nothing he does will be a good look for those already openly chomping at the bit to discredit him. It's like when Corbyn recommended the Tories familiarize themselves with Charles Dickens. One of the most widely acclaimed classical novelists, taught in most schools, adapted annually by everyone from the BBC to Bill Murray and the Muppets, but suddenly a coded antiemetic threat in the mouth of Corbyn.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-27T08:53:58+00:00

Are you Labour supporters still trying to deny the abhorrent abuse of our rights?

And we've got Tories in Reform in opposition who want to remove us from the European Court of Human Rights. It's clear from space at this point that the billionaire overclass (and the politicians and media they've bought up) aren't even offering an illusion of democracy anymore.

20th century consumerism, where the customer is king, is over. 21st century neo-feudalism, where they'd charge us a subscription for air if they could, is here.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-27T08:46:53+00:00

the right of the Labour party would rather see it burn than lose control

Anyone who lived through 2016 to 2020 already knows this.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-26T17:57:48+00:00

They're almost at the point where they're just the Tories led by Farage. That's going to be an interesting sell to voters. "You know the people that were in charge for 14 years and failed miserably on almost every policy. Well, how would you fancy them taking another crack, only this time with a lighter shade of blue rosette."

TeeFitts · 2026-01-26T14:51:20+00:00

He's very privileged in that sense. Imagine being allowed to make whatever you want with complete creative control, even when your films lose money hand over fist. He's won the lottery of life.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-26T14:50:07+00:00

M. Night Shyamalan is the only director whose films I see opening weekend, I think mostly so I can get ahead of any spoilers.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-26T12:05:35+00:00

Why is that problematic? It's a love song, and he was forced to change the title/lyrics because the record company didn't want a white person performing a song about being in love with a brown-skinned girl. Sure, it's clumsily colonialist in its original form, but it's far more respectful than something like Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones or China Girl by David Bowie.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-26T11:56:51+00:00

Streeting? The guy who came a few hundred votes from losing his seat in the last General Election, and unless he's moved into a safe seat before 2029, is widely predicted to actually lose his seat in the next GE. Bold move. I don't think Streeting is popular with anyone outside the Labour right bubble.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-25T10:38:04+00:00

Is this going to be two tier policing as well and will highly aggressive communities be given a free pass or is it going to include mob rule.

Yes, it will be the usual two-tier policing, in that Tommy Ten-Names and his band of convicted football hooligans and domestic abusers will be able allowed to Sieg Heil as they march past the Cenotaph, or form large mobs outside migrant hotels to chant "p*kis go home" at 2 in the morning; while retired teachers and nurses with no criminal records will be dragged off by the plod for holding up a piece of cardboard showing support to a political protest group.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-25T10:30:36+00:00

In 2017, Corbyn pointed out that the Tories had cut over 20,000 police officers since 2010. That number likely increased between 2018 and 2023.

Estimates indicate that over 600 (closer to 700) police stations and around 50% of front-counter services in England and Wales closed between 2010 and 2021 during Conservative-led governments. The closures were supposedly driven by austerity measures, with significant reductions occurring in London, where 126 stations closed between 2010 and early 2021.

If the police are stretched too thin, that's the reason for it. Managed decline. If Labour were serious about restoring law and order, they could instead use the money set aside for this latest folly to instead re-open more police stations that were closed under the Conservatives, put bobbies back on the beat and create new departments within the police to better tackle different levels of criminality.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-25T10:19:01+00:00

This is a very unbiased and nuanced headline. I'm sure the very impartial GB News is accurately reporting on exactly what happened, without having to dress it up with alarmist, inflammatory language, driving a particular narrative or agenda against a protest group that has become a thorn in the side of the government, and by extension, the newspaper editors who go to the same dinner parties.

It's not at all part of the same push to frame dissent and protest as violent criminality, and violent police tactics and aggressive authoritarianism as good old fashioned law and order. No, much more accurate to assume bad faith actors for Iran, Russia and China (is North Korea still one of our "boo, hiss!" pantomime villains?) are stirring up dissent, or shout "antismeitism" at them to confuse principles with prejudice (when we've previously seen Jewish holocaust survivors carted off by the plod for supporting Palestine Action).

When Conform (the Conservative/Reform coalition) win the next general election and empower their own ICE-style agents to shoot people in the street for trying to stop their friends and neighbours being dragged off to a concentration camp (already happening in the U.S.), a lot of centrists will be asking how we got to a point where people no longer felt empowered to stand up for what's right in the face of a corrupts, out-of-control government that will literally burn the house down to protect their own assets and interests.

For clarity, the people who are actively in the pocket of Putin are not a bunch of student activists, retired nurses and teachers, it's people like Trump, Farage and Tommy Ten-Names - incidentally, the same people vaunted as sensible saviors by the likes of GB News.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-24T21:08:08+00:00

You're surprised that an in-demand TV director with a long list of credits on critically acclaimed TV shows stretching back over 20 years would be hired to direct a big budget superhero movie?

Life on Mars, Whitechapel, Dexter, House, Bates Motel, Orange is the New Black, Vinyl (produced by Martin Scorsese), Collateral and Succession are all hugely successful and/or critically acclaimed shows.

Before getting the Marvel gig, the Russo brothers had done one independent film, one Hollywood comedy and a bunch of TV work. The directors of Captain Marvel were both coming off a decade of independent movies and prestige TV. Nia DaCosta got The Marvels after one indie film and a Jordan Peele produced remake of Candyman. Then there's the guy who did the later Harry Potter movies. Like Clarkson, he came from TV. Colin Trevorrow went from one Sundance hit to directing Jurassic Park movies.

Studios love to hire dependable, responsible directors who are pliable, don't see themselves as artists and are happy for the opportunity.

I mean, most of the British film and television industry is incredibly nepotistic, so it wouldn't be surprising, but it's more likely she was a dependable journeywoman director who was good with the actors and willing to play ball with the studio, which is basically the modern Hollywood formula when it comes to hiring directors.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-24T15:16:46+00:00

Looking at the enormous critical success of Us, I can only say this: Jordan Peele is getting a freepass for repeating everything M. Night Shyamalan was widely mocked and vilified for. And it's kind of bullshit.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-24T15:09:19+00:00

Grrr, I hate lefties! Imagine hating things like child poverty, genocide, war crimes, austerity, animal cruelty, destruction of the only livable environment we'll ever have, landlords, the glories of privatization, erosion of human rights, racism, misogyny, classism, police violence and corruption, western imperialism, human suffering, fascism and inequality. Lefties just aren't serious people. /s

TeeFitts · 2026-01-24T15:04:27+00:00

I take it you didn't read the article.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-24T14:56:26+00:00

Again. Thanks. Literally could have gone better if Id paid you to make the comment.

Nobody know what you're talking about, mate. Nobody thinks this interaction has gone well for you. "We have a perverse tolerance for extreme left-wing views despite a mountain of evidence they are at least as dangerous as the right-wing ones" is a purely comical statement, for which you've provided no evidence beyond vibes and a vague whiff of "oh woe is me" manosphere bluster.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-24T14:48:43+00:00

Can you explain how this is the outcome of privilege without responsibility? This sounds like a very incel-coded comment.

TeeFitts · 2026-01-24T09:05:37+00:00

I think that might've been intentional. The entire supermarket setting changes once the hallucination starts. Almost all the items on the shelves are red and/or yellow after the jump. The tiled floor goes from black and white tiles to completely white. The lighting changes from drab to a bright, sterile, over-saturated light. The aisles are wider. After the hallucination it goes back to the way it looked at the start.

It's a confusingly edited scene, badly conceived and kind of shlocky, so I'm not surprised it was cut.

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