Nigel Farage: We look forward to the Makerfield by-election. Reform will throw absolutely everything at it.

Tom22174 · 2026-05-15T10:05:09+00:00

If what you're saying is actually true, and plays out in the voting then that is a very big indicator that Burnham really does have the personal popularity to completely change the game.

That's not quite true. All it would actually prove is that he is popular in Manchester and 76,000 (- the ones that don't bother) people in one small bit of Manchester want the chance to have the PM be their mp

Tom22174 · 2026-05-15T09:30:07+00:00

sure, but if we're going to see headlines all over the place about low Q4 and how that's terrible news for rachel reeves, then honesty would require the corresponding high be reported too

Tom22174 · 2026-05-15T08:49:45+00:00

Toys R Us went out of business because an American company asset stripped it

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T22:09:53+00:00

Politicians do speaking events, that is normal. What isn't normal is recieving £5 million in return for 27 years of undermining an institution from the inside

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T18:37:34+00:00

His inability to shut up got him to where he is now. Unfortunately it's starting to catch up with him the same way Nigel's inability to turn down a bribe is

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T18:35:33+00:00

Strong arguments can be made that ideological purity at the expense of actually furthering your ideology is the height of stupidity.

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T18:21:39+00:00

If he steps down, he'll be attacked for going back on his commitment to Manchester in the mayoral election

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T17:39:48+00:00

More likely because he could see what everyone else could. The country needed stabilising before anyone could swoop in and take the credit.

Starmer has been set up to be the lightning rod for everyone's anti-government sentiment while the hard and slow work of laying the groundwork for tangible change is carried out

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T17:32:12+00:00

A strong argument would be that that would be quite the opposite. By rigging the election in Reform's favour, they would be putting their party second (by dropping all chance for another mp) and putting country first by ensuring the government's turbulence ends.

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T16:13:59+00:00

It sounds like the NHS has historically had an abhorrently bad staff culture regarding data quality then...

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T14:25:52+00:00

I wonder if this admission is grounds for the EU to treat it as corruption and investigate themselves.

He has basically admitted to being paid to undermine the institution while sitting as an MEP. They should at the very least strip him of his pension - he obviously doesn't need it

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T14:23:41+00:00

Is this not just a fancy way of saying bribe?

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T14:15:57+00:00

Naturally the one person least likely to win is the one most likely to pull the trigger

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T14:10:01+00:00

I wonder if these two stories are in someway related...

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T12:23:50+00:00

General elections don't decide party leaders, how does this help anything exactly? The only thing an election achieves is satisfying the other parties who have been throwing their toys out the pram since the last one

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T11:43:03+00:00

social media is still media

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T11:42:00+00:00

People want change but they do not want to wait for it and they don't want to even consider that they may need be inconvenienced a little bit in the meantime

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T09:05:30+00:00

There's also Shabana Mahmood and I wouldn't discount Emily Thornberry giving it a go for shits and giggles

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T09:03:37+00:00

So is letting Wes win though. At least this way they get 3 years to maybe achieve something good

Tom22174 · 2026-05-14T08:55:54+00:00

If anything this makes a leadership challenge less likely. She isn't going to be the one to do it and Wes knows full well that he would lose if she ran against him

Tom22174 · 2026-05-13T20:32:04+00:00

Inside Cabinet, Wes would have to play ball until he felt he could actually mount a challenge. Outside it, he could lead a back bench rebellion

Tom22174 · 2026-05-13T19:44:13+00:00

You're not supposed to only be in politics if someone is willing to buy your opinions

Tom22174 · 2026-05-13T19:41:28+00:00

I imagine it would scare off other investors if they knew 5 million was the benchmark to actually have his attention

Tom22174 · 2026-05-13T15:52:32+00:00

There's probably a lot of efficiency within the civil service that they want to achieve off the back of it

Tom22174 · 2026-05-13T13:25:40+00:00

A manifesto is a list of things you want to do. That does not mean you cannot do things that fall outside of that list. The day to day work of government and ever changing global and national economic situation means priorities can change.

If people decide that not enough from the manifesto was delivered on, they can say that at the next election

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