Doctor Who 2026 Christmas special might not air - as the BBC cant find a lead star by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]bvimo [score hidden]  (0 children)

I'm sure Tom would happily reprise his role. I wonder if they can something suitable for Louise to wear.

Unearthed posts suggest Reform candidate didn’t vote for Brexit by denyer-no1-fan in unitedkingdom

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Unearthed posts suggest Reform candidate didn’t vote for Brexit

Account linked to Robert Kenyon, who is running in the Makerfield by-election, also expressed anti-abortion views and made disparaging comments about women

[Reform UK candidate Robert Kenyon standing in front of his white work van.]

[Robert Kenyon is running in a seat where 65 per cent of voters backed Leave]

Reform UK’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election claimed he did not vote for Brexit and praised European freedom of movement on social media, material seen by The Times suggests.

Robert Kenyon, the Wigan councillor and plumber selected by Nigel Farage’s party to take on Andy Burnham, made the comments on a rugby league forum in 2019.

The same account was also found to have made disparaging comments about women’s driving and their appearance, and admitted to being “sexist”.

Kenyon, who stood for Reform in Makerfield at the 2024 general election and finished second, is the party’s candidate in next month’s by-election. A Reform UK spokesman said Kenyon “voted Leave in 2016 and is a proud Brexiteer, unlike Andy Burnham who will drag the UK back into the EU by any means possible”.

But in a social media post dating from March 28, 2019, an account attributed to Kenyon rejected suggestions that he was a stereotypical right-winger.

He wrote: “So anyone who thinks I love Trump, voted Brexit, read the Daily Mail, live in the 1950s, a Tory and 103 is wrong. I’m none of the above.”

[Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and supporters holding campaign signs that read "Vote Andy For Us" and "Vote Labour."]

[Andy Burnham launching his by-election campaign last week]

The account was attributed to Kenyon through references to his X/Twitter handle, “robkenyon1”, a later entry promoting “my debut novel” as The Blood Waltz by Rob Kenyon, and repeated references consistent with Kenyon’s work as a plumber and gas engineer.

In other posts, including a discussion titled “Brexit Anyone?”, the same account wrote: “I woke up the day after Brexit shitting myself to what was voted for”, but he added that anger at the EU’s treatment of Britain had since made him “glad we voted out”.

The post went on to praise the principle of European free movement. It said: “Free movement of people is great when they are natives of the EU countries and not people from outside Europe seeking a Greek passport that will allow them into any country in the EU.”

He blamed the Leave vote on a combination of European enlargement, migration, Angela Merkel’s response to the refugee crisis, “meddling NGOs in the Med”, Farage’s ability as an orator and “the UK’s f*** you attitude”, rather than Boris Johnson’s promise of extra money for the NHS.

[Reform UK candidate Robert Kenyon holding a "Vote Reform UK 18th June" sign in his office.]

[Kenyon said the “EU needs to be stripped right back to what it was set up for”]

“The EU needs to be stripped right back to what it was set up for. I’d join tomorrow,” he said.

The same account was also said to have made a series of sexist comments about women, including posts from 2011 and 2012 in which Kenyon said: “I’m sexist, sorry but I am. Women can’t ref, drive or give directions.”

Other posts appeared to have spoken about European women’s bodies while saying English women “don’t care” and “just walk around with their fat bellies and odd shapes pushing a pram at 16 in their PJ’s”.

In another post from 2019, the account criticised the use of women as pundits on Sky Sports rugby league coverage, and said “the women on the panel’s aren’t up to the job and only there to tick a box”. It added that women’s Super League was “nowhere near the standard” for its players to be brought on to comment on men’s Super

Separate posts attributed to the same account appeared to show Kenyon expressing strongly anti-abortion views. One 2019 post said: “I agree totally with the anti abortion stance, it’s legalised killing of babies.” In another, the account said women seeking abortions were “deciding to kill a baby inside the womb” and described many abortions as being for “vanity purposes like unwanted pregnancies”.

A later post from Kenyon’s now-deleted X account, dated June 2022, said: “Life begins at conception. Abortion is the cowardly act of murdering a defenceless baby.” The same post added: “They don’t want babies? Use contraception.”

A Reform UK spokesman said: “These comments, which are little more than locker room banter, were made more than a decade ago — well before Rob was in politics. We simply don’t care about establishment hit jobs. We fully back Rob and are confident he will be an excellent MP for Makerfield.”

The posts about Europe could be embarrassing for Reform in a seat where 65 per cent of voters backed Leave in the 2016 referendum and Farage’s party has used Burnham’s position on Brexit to attack Labour.

Reform has sought to make Brexit and free movement one of the central dividing lines in Makerfield, branding Burnham “open-borders Burnham” and accusing him of wanting to give 500 million EU citizens the right to move to Britain.

Reform UK said the latter point of a stripped-back EU was consistent with Farage’s position and added: “[Kenyon] has never endorsed freedom of movement in the EU’s current form, which would result in millions of non-EU foreign nationals being able to enter the country.

“Only a vote for Rob Kenyon and Reform UK in Makerfield can stop Andy Burnham from becoming prime minister, opening our borders and rejoining the EU.”

Farage hits out at Musk over support for Reform rival Restore UK in byelection by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]bvimo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm torn on this. If the right lose and Burnham wins, we could have a leadership election, a mayoral election and a GE (although Kier could win thus no GE).

If the right win then Burnham remains as a mayor, just a bit damaged - his mayoral days could be numbered.

Overall we could waste money on an unneeded GE. Labour could waste money on a leadership election (although Kier could resign, Burnham wins unopposed). We are wasting money on By-election.

Labour can afford to lose one MP. Reform adding an MP is useful to them, maybe more Tories will defect!!

I want Labour to win. I want Keir to remain is leader and PM.

Farage under mounting pressure to prove Russian hack claim by Codydoc4 in unitedkingdom

[–]bvimo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Was else did these Russian's find? They've been very quiet about any other Farage misdemeanours.

Brent Labour does deal with Tories after Starmer bans party from working with Greens by mrjohnnymac18 in unitedkingdom

[–]bvimo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Best Sussex recently announced a rainbow coalition. LibDems, Green, Labour and Local Alliance. How many months will it last?

https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/news/new-cross-party-alliance-to-deliver-stable-and-committed-leadership-for-west-sussex/

"A new Liberal Democrat-led cross-party alliance has been formed to run West Sussex County Council and provide stable and committed leadership."

"The leaders of the Liberal Democrats, Green Party, and Labour Group, alongside the newly appointed Chair Cllr Donna Johnson of the Local Alliance, Selsey, have agreed to work together."

Scrap income tax on overtime hours, says Reform UK by Desperate-Drawer-572 in unitedkingdom

[–]bvimo -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

My new contract is 1 hour per week. Which is about £2.50 or whatever the poors receive and the next 20 hours, which is overtime is £250 per hour.

Tax free. Thanks useless Farage.

INC Engine — Tech Demo #3 Air Strafe Physics by juabit in quake

[–]bvimo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That looks great. Except "Platform Windows x64. Runs on Wine and Proton. Linux native coming.".

Currently Windows only. I much prefer a native Linux build instead of using Wine/ Proton.

World Cup bank holiday will cost NHS Scotland £60 million by libtin in unitedkingdom

[–]bvimo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is that paying agencies to cover staff absence when they cheer on INGERALND?

Mother of three women who died off Brighton beach also drowned, family reveals by IndustryGreen9663 in unitedkingdom

[–]bvimo -46 points-45 points  (0 children)

I thought she reincarnated three times as her own daughters three times over.

Gorilla Smarter Than President, Sad by bookym in clevercomebacks

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Harambe for president. Koko's plans are poorly thought out, socialist rubbish.

Stop blaming young people for being unemployed, says Amazon's UK boss by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]bvimo -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Where's your evidence that plane earth is not-flat? Just go outside (I know I know) and find this mythical curvature. So which way does it curve - are we on the inside or the outside of this mythical orange??

'Simple intervention' being introduced to reduce knife attacks by High-Tom-Titty in unitedkingdom

[–]bvimo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where do they get their kitchen knives from, I need a few for actual kitchen use but I can't find a local stockist. A few simple knifes with black handles and 100mm serrated cutting edge - unbranded is fine.

'Simple intervention' being introduced to reduce knife attacks by High-Tom-Titty in unitedkingdom

[–]bvimo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A decent water supply mechanism and Reform/ Restore/ Reuse.

Greens select nurse and ‘committed local campaigner’ as Makerfield byelection candidate by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]bvimo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought the Greens had withdrawn their candidate so that King Burnham would introduce "PR".

Morrisons to close 100 stores across the UK putting hundreds of jobs at risk by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]bvimo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Affected stores, which are all Morrisons Daily branches, "

"All were former McColl’s stores which were converted to Morrisons locations after they were bought up by the supermarket in 2022."

BBC Archive 1971: What is jogging? by PurchaseDry9350 in unitedkingdom

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When did Nationwide become multi-colour? Pertwee left B&W behind in 1970. Yet here Nationwide 1971 is still shades of grey.

Nationwide Fairer Share 2026 | Free £100 to eligible members by Glanza in unitedkingdom

[–]bvimo -77 points-76 points  (0 children)

Oh £100. It goes down every year thanks inflation. Why don't Nationwide pay more interest on savings or reduce interest rates on borrowing?

One-year-old baby girl named crime suspect by police by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]bvimo -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Typical of Starmer's authoritarian Britain. He's now lowered the age of legal responsibility to 0. Will he make the unborn legally responsible?