Farage Ltd and Similar Watch

[Jolemai]

Eww.

 

[Sniffer]

No Conservative candidate and 2 independents have had an effect there. Elsewhere last night they didn’t seem to do as well….

Across the evening and into today the Britain Elects social media account has recorded a hold for the Liberal Democrats in Manor (Stevenage), a hold for Labour in Burnt Oak (Barnet), a gain for Reform UK from Labour in Trevethin and Penygarn (Torfaen) and a gain for the Green Party of England and Wales in Warwick All Saints and Woodloes (Warwick).

Ballot Box Scotland, meanwhile, has recorded a Labour gain in the Kirkitilloch East, North and Twechar (East Dunbartonshire) byelection. That seat was being contested because the Liberal Democrat Mid Dunbartonshire MP Susan Murray stepped down as a councillor after being elected to Westminster last year.

 

[leedswolf]

Although immigration has been the key to the Reform’s rise, deputy leader Richard Tice thinks anti-net zero rhetoric is their next big break.

However, what they hoped would be a series of popular pledges to stop controversial local infrastructure ahead of the May elections has placed them firmly in a minefield of anger. In fact, the proposals received such backlash that they’ve already been downgraded to “direction of travel” rather than official policy.

Reform’s solution to the energy crisis and rising bills is - and I’m not kidding - to: add taxes to renewable energy companies and in turn bill payers; add taxes to farmers who put up solar farms; ban battery energy storage systems which help make bills more affordable; and - just for good measure - force new grid infrastructure to be buried underground, where bill-payers will have to pay for the up to tenfold increase in cost.

 

[Sniffer]

Although immigration has been the key to the Reform’s rise, deputy leader Richard Tice thinks anti-net zero rhetoric is their next big break.

However, what they hoped would be a series of popular pledges to stop controversial local infrastructure ahead of the May elections has placed them firmly in a minefield of anger. In fact, the proposals received such backlash that they’ve already been downgraded to “direction of travel” rather than official policy.

Reform’s solution to the energy crisis and rising bills is - and I’m not kidding - to: add taxes to renewable energy companies and in turn bill payers; add taxes to farmers who put up solar farms; ban battery energy storage systems which help make bills more affordable; and - just for good measure - force new grid infrastructure to be buried underground, where bill-payers will have to pay for the up to tenfold increase in cost.

…. Whilst some of their MPs are benefiting from solar power at their personal properties.

Reform MP installed solar to cut bills but party calls renewables ‘massive con’

Exclusive: Rupert Lowe recently fitted panels on his farm, it emerges, as Reform claims renewables are more expensive

www.theguardian.com

 

[Wellen Wolf]

…. Whilst some of their MPs are benefiting from solar power at their personal properties.

.... Yup. And, bigger dividends can continue to be given out willy nilly a la Thames Water.

 

[Sniffer]

Andy Burnham and Ed Davey calling out Farage to make a comment on Trumps lies about Zelenskyy being a dictator with a terrible approval rating.
Silence from all of the Reform leadership group.

 

[Del Woppio]

Andy Burnham and Ed Davey calling out Farage to make a comment on Trumps lies about Zelenskyy being a dictator with a terrible approval rating.
Silence from all of the Reform leadership group.

More needs to be made of it, I think instinctively a lot of the Reform vote are very pro-Ukraine/anti-Russia, and so this a rare wedge issue for them

 

[visage]

Yes, I think they like strongman leaders in the abstract - the whole 'I may not agree with everything they do, but at least they get things done' schtick - but when faced with the actual consequences of someone who is batshit insane and with effectively unrestricted power they get a little more circumspect.

 

[Lupo]

He has said that we always have to take what Trump says seriously but not literally and that of course Zelensky is not a dictator

 

[Sniffer]

Then went on a rant about the British media lying about elections during wars as we held one in 1945 after VE Day but not before victory against Japan.