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NeilParkin
5 months ago

Reform is fascist. We must stop Nigel Farage” 

Bit of Enoch bashing from Heseltine I see. There is, on Youtube an extended interview Powell did with Dick Cavett in the 1960’s and a debate with Jonathan Miller. I suggest anyone who thinks Powell is a racist should listen to this brilliant and eloquent man explaining himself.

Dinger64
5 months ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Agreed 👍
Powell was anything but racist!
Seems Heseltine is just another ‘useful infidel’ for the Muslim cause

Boomer Bloke
5 months ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Tarzan is not fit to tie Enoch Powell’s boot laces.

NeilParkin
5 months ago

Rachel Reeves broke housing law by renting out her home

How fortunate we are to be governed by people with a firm grasp of their responsibilities.

JohnK
5 months ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

And it shows that the Chancellor can get away with things that others cannot, perhaps.

huxleypiggles
5 months ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

I am sure her resignation letter is already with the Furher.

NeilParkin
5 months ago

Sarah Pochin is being hounded by the same people who turned a blind eye to the grooming gang scandal

Her statement about advertising might be a little awkward for some, but it is an accurate observation.

For a fist full of roubles
Reply to  NeilParkin

The furore around what she said underlines the importance of context, which her critics are only too happy to ignore.

huxleypiggles
5 months ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

She should have refused to apologise. Why should we dance around instead of stating blunt truths?

Purpleone
5 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

100% – why did she, and why did Farage roll over – you’ll never satisfy a baying (spelling?) mob

Heretic
Heretic
5 months ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

The weird thing is that Nigel drove Reform candidates out of the party for saying things like Pochin did, even when they had said them 15 years previously!

NeilParkin
5 months ago

How safe is safe?

Another conspiracy theory turns out to have some substance. Conspiracy theorists currently lead 24-0

For a fist full of roubles
Reply to  NeilParkin

I am still not convinced that Mrs Macron is a bloke.

Heretic
Heretic
5 months ago

Of course she isn’t! Her own daughter by her first marriage has reported the distress these false accusations have caused her mother. This was all supposed to be settled in court in October, so why the delay?

Lockdown Sceptic
5 months ago

Creative Accounting Creates Climate Change

Mogwai
5 months ago

Just as a reminder. It’s not your imagination. This from Grok: Twitter AI bot;

”Over the past decade, UK data indicates foreign nationals (about 10-15% of population) account for roughly 20-25% of homicide convictions, equating to hundreds of British victims killed by migrants—far exceeding per capita expectations. In contrast, homicides of migrants by British nationals number in the dozens, often domestic or intra-community rather than anti-migrant. Official Home Office and ONS figures show the asymmetry: British safety concerns from migrant violence outweigh the reverse, challenging narratives of predominant native threat.”

https://x.com/grok/status/1983549247623753749

DiscoveredJoys
DiscoveredJoys
5 months ago

In the Times, Alice Thomson sits down with Michael Heseltine, who compares Nigel Farage to Oswald Mosley and Enoch Powell.

I seem to recall that Heseltine consistently held wrong opinions and Farage has consistently held correct opinions. So some old Tory Grandee has little basis for such a comparison.

For a fist full of roubles
Reply to  DiscoveredJoys

He caused much mirth saying the secret to restoring the Conservatives’ fortunes is rejoining the EU.

Jon Garvey
5 months ago
Reply to  DiscoveredJoys

Ah – so those guys in black in Tower Hamlets are actually Farage’s thugs. Who would have thunk?

Tonka Rigger
5 months ago
Reply to  DiscoveredJoys

Tarzan has lost the plot. Go and sit down Michael, the tea trolley will be through shortly.

huxleypiggles
5 months ago
Reply to  DiscoveredJoys

I have never understood why Heseltine is given the time of day. He has been a PIA since birth.

stewart
5 months ago
Reply to  DiscoveredJoys

I think that the number of people who think Heseltine is somehow relevant and what he has to say worth listening to is dwindling close to zero.

At best he is preaching to a choir, of a certain age, basically Robert de Niro type boomers who are so attached to the world they’ve always lived in that they will never accept that world is gone.

I can see how for them a Heseltine interview is like a sort of drug that helps keep them in that state of delusion.

Boomer Bloke
5 months ago

““Sarah Pochin is being hounded by the same people who turned a blind eye to the grooming gang scandal” – The Reform MP’s remarks about TV adverts lacked tact””
Why worry about tact when dog walkers are having their throats cut in the interests of diversity?

Heretic
Heretic
5 months ago
Reply to  Boomer Bloke

Spot on.

soundofreason
soundofreason
5 months ago

Creative accounting” – On Climate Scepticism, Mark Hodgson dismantles the Guardian’s latest “wind power saves billions” claim, arguing the numbers don’t add up.

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds

says The Guardian.

£104bn? That’s a lot!

Let’s see…

£104,000,000,000 over 15 years = £6,933,333,333 per year

£6,933,333,333 per year over 28,000,000 UK households = £247.62 per household per year.

Smaller households using less energy will get a lesser reduction, bigger households, more.

All bullshit, of course. The £104bn claimed saving is based on predicting the price of natural gas would be that much higher if we didn’t use windmills (yes, I know they don’t mill anything except birds, bats and insects).

At least Ed Milliband won’t have to dig too deep to save each household the additional £52.38 to make it up to the £300 per year he promised.

Did I say ‘make it up’? Oh. Silly me.

Charles Smedley
Charles Smedley
5 months ago

I asked Chatgpt about Reform UK and fascism. This is its somewhat long response = Final Review: Reform UK on the Political Spectrum (as of 2025)1. Core IdeologyReform UK is a right-wing populist party rooted in: Nationalism and sovereignty — prioritising British identity, independence from supranational bodies (like the EU or ECHR), and opposition to mass immigration. Economic liberalism — advocating low taxes, deregulation, and small government. Cultural conservatism — opposing “woke” politics, gender ideology, and what it sees as political correctness. It positions itself as a “people vs. elite” movement, claiming to represent ordinary citizens against the political establishment. 2. Authoritarianism and State Control Aspect Reform UK stance Fascist comparison Comment Democracy Operates fully within UK parliamentary democracy; calls for electoral reform (proportional representation). Fascism seeks to abolish democracy. ✔ Democratic populist, not authoritarian. Individual freedoms Frames itself as pro-freedom and anti-state interference. Fascism suppresses individual liberty. ✔ Libertarian tone. ID cards / digital identity Strongly opposed. Nigel Farage has publicly denounced digital ID proposals, saying they enable state surveillance and control; he vowed to resist them outright. Fascism enforces compulsory identification and state monitoring. ✔ Opposes, not supports, state control. Law and order Calls for tougher policing and sentencing — but within normal legal structures. Fascism fuses police, party, and military… Read more »

transmissionofflame
5 months ago

Ask in what way Reform are authoritarian on cultural issues? Utter nonsense.

stewart
5 months ago

The Reform MP’s remarks about TV adverts lacked tact, but she was pointing out facts that are staring all of us in the face

She is absolutely right in her observation. But I think this is a completely ridiculous debate.

Adverts have never, ever, ever reflected reality. They are always completely idealised scenarios with completely unreal people having the most ridiculous artificial conversations that don’t reflect reality in any way but rather some aspirational image of the world which the product for sale is supposedly going to get you closer to. They’ve always been total deceitful fantasy.

So who cares if ads are full of black people? That just says that people in advertising think that people will buy more of their product if there is a black person in there. And there are two possibilities. They are either right and that just reflects where we are as a society. Or they’re wrong and that reflects how detached the advertising industry is from reality.

Either way, I couldn’t care less. I don’t watch ads.

Boomer Bloke
5 months ago
Reply to  stewart

I don’t watch ads either at least on terrestrial TV, but they get shoved down our throat on hoardings or on the sides of buses and public transport stations or in print media, including the recent bus shelter I saw with an advert for mortgages featuring 2 Middle Eastern looking (implicitly) gay men buying a home together. They will not allow us to avoid it.

stewart
5 months ago
Reply to  Boomer Bloke

Ads have always been shoved in our faces.

Boomer Bloke
5 months ago
Reply to  stewart

So why suddenly is an MP or anyone else for that matter smeared for complaining about them?

stewart
5 months ago
Reply to  Boomer Bloke

Oh, I think that is unconscionable. It’s outrageous that she should be hounded for stating an opinion let alone a fact.

But I think her point was silly for the reasons I stated.

The whole thing is demented.

transmissionofflame
5 months ago
Reply to  stewart

A rare occasion on which I disagree. It’s a key part of a wider, insidious pattern.

stewart
5 months ago

The thing is I know where she’s coming from, I agree that it’s part of a much bigger pattern of elevating so called minorities and diminishing white people. I agree with all of it.

I just think that this isn’t the instance that matters or is worth fighting over for two reasons.

1. Everything in advertising is fake, as I’ve explained already. For example, advertisers tend to show good looking people. The proportion of physically attractive people in ads doesn’t in any way represent the population. Nothing that the advertising industry has ever shown is properly representative of anything.
2. There is no imposition here. It isn’t DEI where the discrimination against white men has a real very negative consequence. This has no repercussions on anyone except maybe adding to a vibe. By complaining about this, what do we want to achieve? Force the ad industry to make their ads properly represent the people? So what, more ugly people? Some disabled people? That’s not what advertising is supposed to do.

I agree with the broader idea that whites are being demonised. I just think this is completely the wrong battlefront.

transmissionofflame
5 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Of course it is fake. Actually now less fake than before in many ways as there are more fat, ugly people. I don’t care about exact representation and that is not really the point.
It has very real negative consequences- for white especially white male actors, for the general public who are being preached and and either believing it or hating it.
Before, advertising was about selling product. Now it is a political platform.

This is one of many battlefronts and actually a good one to pick as it is so visible.

I certainly don’t think the advertising industry should be forced to do anything, though I despise them with a passion, but there’s nothing wrong with calling it out and normalising in public what many of us think in private.

So I still think you’re wrong- but thanks for your reply and always a pleasure

stewart
5 months ago

👍🙂

Heretic
Heretic
5 months ago

Good point!

Boomer Bloke
5 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Silly?  Well she was calling out the sinister anti white racist gaslighting of the UK population which is designed to legitimise a new diverse normal. Which is very much along the same lines as the psychological warfare waged against population by the government funded nudge unit during the COVID lockdown, masking, testing and injecting experiment. I image it is not so silly if you are out walking your dog and the blood vessels in your head are suddenly and violently disconnected from your neck. In the interest of diversity, which apparently is our greatest strength. 

Purpleone
5 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Interesting points… I hear in other countries, particularly Scandinavian ones, they have a far different demographic in their ads. Assuming this is because it’s who their target audience is and this differs to the UK target?

Jon Garvey
5 months ago
Reply to  Purpleone

Perhaps only black and Asian people can afford to buy the products?

stewart
5 months ago
Reply to  Purpleone

There is a possibility as others are suggesting that the advertising industry is pushing a political agenda in detriment of its own interests. It is certainly possible. I’m just not sure it’s very likely.

My guess is that they do it because it works or they think it works and are mistaken, jaded by their own ultra progressiveness.

transmissionofflame
5 months ago
Reply to  stewart

I can’t believe that in general it works BETTER than not deliberately including lots of black people (and if you notice, not many Far East Asians and not many from Indian Subcontinent either). Whether it’s WORSE, I don’t know. Possibly for a lot of products you just need to push the name and the content of the ad, or at least the actors, is not that important. I suspect it gives them a good feeling and they probably don’t care much how well it works as long as they can get away with it. What client is going to say “er, sorry, ditch all the blacks, it’s not working”?

Heretic
Heretic
5 months ago

I wish we would all stop using the word “blacks” instead of what they are: Ethnic Africans, no matter where they happen to live, or which nationality or passport they have obtained.

And “Asians” is only used in Britain, and should be changed to “Ethnic Indian Subcontinentals” or just “Subcontinentals”, as opposed to “Ethnic Orientals”.

transmissionofflame
5 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

Yes your terms are more accurate and clearer

Boomer Bloke
5 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

Asians is used by the police and the media to mask the real identity of the r@p€ gang members.

Heretic
Heretic
5 months ago

Danish commercial warns white citizens about breeding with other whites” 

This is horrific! Yet more WHITE GENOCIDE being openly advocated, just like former French President Sarkozy once threatened the indigenous French with “state sanctions” if they refused MISCEGENATION!

Dear White People, Ethnic Europeans, members of The World’s Smallest Ethnic Group, now only 7% of all the people on the planet, DO NOT CONSENT TO EXTERMINATE YOURSELVES.

Heretic
Heretic
5 months ago

May I ask a question about this latest news just now:

Buckingham Palace statement in full as Prince Andrew stripped of all titles by King Charles – Mirror Online

The final paragraph of the statement says:

“Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.”

That is excellent, but does it also apply to the victims and survivors of the PAKISTANI MUSLIM RAPE GANGS that have destroyed the lives of THOUSANDS OF BRITISH CHILDREN?

I don’t remember any royals ever referring to that in the past, so I’m not sure if they are now, or only to Virginia Guiffre.