I think that's one of the annoying things about Farage (regardless of how you feel about his political views): he's such a talented campaigner and speaker, yet he frames everything as Leave v Remain. It's 2023, man, try to raise some other points of view.
At this point, I really hope Reform UK makes some progress at the next general election. The Tories are weak on almost everything, including the economy, and Labour have no hope of being anything but the same.
I’m still amazed they were permitted to make their logo an arrow pointing towards the box on the voting form.
This was a pretty genius (and dubious) move, surprised it was allowed too.
Did you ever read the Brexit Party manifesto? I don't see how it makes them 'ultra-right-wing tories'. These are a few pieces from the manifesto:
No privatisation of the NHS
Cutting VAT on domestic fuel
Banning the UK exporting its waste
Providing free broadband in deprived regions
Scrapping the television licence fee
Abolishing inheritance tax
Scrapping High Speed 2 (HS2)
Abolishing interest on student loans
Changing planning to help house building
Reforming the Supreme Court
Reform the voting system to make it more representative
Abolish the House of Lords
Making MPs who switch parties subject to recall petitions
Reform the postal voting system to combat fraud
Introduce Citizens’ Initiatives to allow people to call referendums, subject to a 5 million threshold of registered voter signatures and time limitations on repeat votes
Which is why I wouldn't mind if they pulled some votes away from the Tories :) Coal-mining would be a big win for those dying Northern towns these days (though admittedly due in part to the Tories), not to mention massive health and safety advancements since the 70s would make coal-mining somewhat safer these days (though I wouldn't do it). Certainly a better idea that importing gas from Russia.
I recall Labour wanting to keep coal mines open in the 70s, strangely enough.
The constant lead for Labour is pretty impressive: Tories deserve to lose the next election for what they've done (or haven't done at all).
It's interesting how Labour has managed to separate themselves from Corbyn and make themselves seen to be electable. The Tories usually close polling gaps during a general election, but this one is pretty much a guaranteed loss for the Tories if it were held soon.
Snapshot of Eurozone inflation falls to 5.5% in sharp contrast to UK. Economists put reason for divergence down to Brexit and Britain’s energy price guarantee.
You do realise that Germany and Italy are in a literal recession right now, with negative growth rather than slowing growth? I don't think that's Brexit.
This is a pretty terrifying figure! Why does the NHS keep getting worse despite the budget for the NHS being almost half of our total spending in the UK? Got to be total mismanagement by the government and the NHS trusts.
Nigel Farage fell below the financial threshold required to hold an account at Coutts. (www.bbc.co.uk)
TLDR 🤖...
Sunak's progress on "5 promises" (www.bbc.co.uk)
I still can’t believe one of them was “stop the boats”....
Westminster Voting Intention: Con 25% (+1) | Lab 48% (+1) | Lib Dem 10% (-2) | Other 17% (+1) (twitter.com)
🚨🚨New Voting Intention🚨🚨...
Eurozone inflation falls to 5.5% in sharp contrast to UK (www.theguardian.com)
Snapshot of Eurozone inflation falls to 5.5% in sharp contrast to UK. Economists put reason for divergence down to Brexit and Britain’s energy price guarantee.
Lib Dems warn of GP retirement time bomb as ‘one in five near retirement age’ (uk.style.yahoo.com)
Some 8,000 members – or 22% – of the current fully qualified workforce are over 55 and 10% are 60 or over, according to party analysis of NHS figures.