Nigel Farage is the most consequential British politician of the 21st century. Certainly a more important historic figure than any of the last eight Prime Ministers. Tony Blair is the only realistic rival.
Without Farage, the UK would never have left the European Union. Farage’s role in forcing the issue to the top of the political agenda, and putting electoral pressure on the Tory Party which Cameron sought to assuage through a referendum, was indispensable.
Subsequently Farage has been central to placing racism at the centre of British electoral politics. Farage has been key to redirecting the frustrations of ordinary people at twenty years of falling living standards, while wealth concentrates to an incredible degree in the hands of the billionaire class. That the blame for this has been loaded onto hapless immigrants, rather than those looting the economy, owes much to Farage. He has more than anybody made UK elections revolve around who can promise the most blood-curdling measures against immigrants.
In doing so, Farage appeared to have shattered the UK’s two-party system. He certainly brought about the biggest shift in Labour/Tory dominance since 1921. It was entirely thanks to Farage splitting the right-wing vote, that Starmer could gain a thumping parliamentary majority with just 32% of votes cast, under the UK’s appalling electoral system. Reform had the same effect in the recent Scottish parliamentary elections, enabling the SNP to win 57 out of 73 constituency seats despite a 10% drop in their vote.
Even after all the abuse hurled at Farage by the media in recent weeks, Reform still leads in UK opinion polls.
I am by nature diametrically opposed to Reform’s brand of politics. For me tolerance, empathy and compassion are the most important virtues in life, and I deplore the atavism and racism which is Reform’s stock-in-trade. I also detest their anti-intellectualism, while the stupidity of believing that the hardship to ordinary people caused by the structural imbalance of late capitalist systems, is somehow the fault of poor refugees, fills me with contempt.
I am however relaxed about leaving the EU.
It has become a right-wing bloc of a very unpleasant nature, under leadership of von der Leyen and Kallas. The sight of MEPs chanting “send them back” in the European Parliament was chilling. I am glad to be out of it. However the decision to reject all sensible trading arrangements with the bloc has greatly damaged the UK economy and harmed the prospects of young people. Again at base this was due to Farage’s electoral pressure on the Tory Party and Johnson’s desire to exploit the sentiment which Farage had created.
I would argue that Blair is in fact a more harmful and more evil figure than Farage.
Blair fundamentally changed British society by gutting the political instrument prepared to use the power of the state to improve the condition of the working class – the Labour Party – and turning it into another reliable agency of neoliberalism. The Uniparty in Britain started with Blair. His government furthered privatisation, particularly of services within the NHS, and ended free university education. Together with Brown, Blair brought in the ruinous Private Finance Initiative, to guarantee looting by private capital of public provision. Brown went on to bail out the banks in the biggest single transfer of wealth from poor to rich in history.
Blair killed hope and progress – in addition to the millions he killed in wars. He now rakes in large multiples of the money made by Farage, from even dodgier sources, while receiving none of the media scrutiny.
Farage of course did not change history on his own. He was relentlessly promoted by both state and corporate media for decades. He has been by a mile the most frequent guest on BBC Question Time, and the relentless media promotion started when he ought to have been an obscure figure, from a party, UKIP, which had never won an election.
In 2005, when I left the FCO and went on to fight Jack Straw in Blackburn in the General Election that year, Nigel Farage contacted me and invited me to lunch. As an Independent I had obtained 5.0% of the vote in Blackburn. UKIP had got 2.2% of the UK vote. Despite having just 2.2% of the vote and no MPs, Farage was already all over the BBC and massively promoted by the newspapers.
Farage said he wanted to explore my joining UKIP. I did a little research, and declined the invitation, finding too much evidence of racism. But interestingly, Farage’s approach to me emphasised his opposition to the Iraq War and to the attack on Human Rights in the name of the “War on Terror”. I believe he was genuine about this – and it is forgotten now that Farage was an outspoken, though in 2001 not very important, critic of the Iraq War – a position he has never repudiated.
All main party politicians are frontmen for other interests. They are owned and controlled by the defence industries, by Big Pharma, by the Israeli lobby, by media barons, by the media industry. Sometimes there is an element of symbiosis, where a politician becomes so confident in the power they exercise in the state as to feel able to address the billionaire class on equal terms, but this is rare.
Farage was promoted, systematically, into a major political figure by intense media coverage. He took full advantage of this, and is a canny operator. His bluff manner and ease in social situations makes him appear different to polished politicians – he can drink a pint without making it look like a rare stunt for the cameras. He was of course always a creature of the wealthy, who promoted him so assiduously.
But having helped turn the dial of politics so far to the right, Farage has been left stranded as it moves rightward still. One problem for him is that Farage is not actually a real racist. He is prepared to pander to racism, to whip it up and exploit it for votes. That is perhaps morally worse than being an actual racist. But Farage does not actually hate brown or Muslim people.
Nor is he enthusiastic for war or NATO expansion.
In the age of the apartheid nurtured, openly racist Elon Musk, the forces that propelled the career of Nigel Farage now want Tommy Robinson and his ilk. Farage is not a stone-cold killer. Trump has cooled his relationship with Farage, and even Farage’s eventual coming round to support Trump on Iran hasn’t changed that.
In UK politics, competing with Shabana Mahmood and Kemi Badenoch, Farage actually comes over as slightly more decent than they are. Politics have moved so far to the right that Farage has nothing really to offer.
When it comes to downright vicious authoritarianism, Robert Jenrick, Rupert Lowe and others now look a far better prospect to the billionaires, with Tommy Robinson as their King (mostly) over the water.
So poor Farage has been dumped. With an extraordinary coordination, all of the media suddenly savaged him. The BBC, the Murdoch press, the Daily Mail, all of those who put him in place have bitten great lumps out of him in just the last three weeks. Farage’s sordid personal financial dealings are revealed bit by bit.
I don’t see a way back for Farage, though he will get re-elected in Clacton. Mainstream media exposure has been his only weapon. It was devastating when fully lined up behind him, but what has he now?
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The coordinated (and abashed – in the case of Nick Ferrari*, for example) focus of the legacy/MSM on Farage’s financials is the quid pro quo required of them by the State for the latter to lean upon the judge in the Hacked Off case.
Lowkey has done a much more revealing look at the funders of Reform than anyone else appears to have attempted…I wonder why? (It’s obvious when you watch it, F35s and all)
*in that interview, Farage said he could have spent the money on Ferraris if he wished – was that a reference to purchasing media influence, or purchasing automobiles?
Some good news for a Sunday.
“US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has died following a brief and sudden illness.”
One less war mongering, pedo. Good riddance.
Don’t usually celebrate deaths, even of those I intensely dislike, but that horrible bastard’s passing is def cause for celebration and if his fellow Genocide-approving, warmongering repulsive creep Mitch McConnel is – as speculated – dead ( though how would anyone spot the difference between his being alive/unalive? ) – that is also ‘ not a bad thing ‘. The World is a better place in their absence.
Right, 2 down XXXXXXXXXXX to go.
Paging Mr Reaper: You’re urgently needed in Washington, Tel Aviv, Brussels
“that horrible bastard’s passing is def cause for celebration”
Don’t open the Bolly until we find out who his replacement will be. Admittedly it’s difficult to imagine someone worse, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. AIPAC will certainly try.
I can imagine someone worse but I have also seen on her Facebook page that she will not be running for Miss LG’s seat.
https://www.facebook.com/DavidJHarrisJr/posts/breaking-nikki-haley-is-reportedly-considering-a-run-for-south-carolina-senate-p/1807028214329045/
Worst of humanity. Beloved by the BBC, C4 News, Sturgeon, Burnham et al — as was his old mate Red Hands McCain.
Apparently he’d been touring a drone factory in Kiev/Kyiv and died suddenly in the evening. The plot thickens…
Widdy, Bonnie Tyler, Dermot Murnaghan, Ken Bates, and now Lindsey Graham. Why is everyone dying all of a sudden?
They probably are not ” dying all of a sudden ” ; in any given time-period one could collate a similar constellation of deaths of well-known people
It would take a novelist with the conspiratorial imagination of, eg Thomas Pynchon to link those people into some kind of organised assassination plot: but it would be fun to try…..so let’s do so
Maybe Bonnie Tyler found out that Lindsey Graham was indeed the sexual deviant ( ie paedophile ) many suspect he was and approached Murnaghan in the hope that, given his MSM presence, he might be able to bring this monster’s vile actions to public/police attention; but Widders got wind of the possible exposé of a fellow Right Wing Christianoid type and contracted known Chelsea Hit Man – Ken Bates to * take -out * both Tyler & Murnaghan.
To which end she – Widders – arranged a meet with the two would-be exposers and thought ” where would it be likely no intrusive Western media would ever think to look ” and, smartly concluded….” why, of course, a Drone Factory in Tellytbubbyland East – that Shangri La of Peace, Harmony & Solid Gold Toilets “.
The trap was set: on the appointed day – by coincidence ( or was it? ) that happened to be St Stepan Bandera’s Day – such remarkable synchronicity! the dramatis personae gathered at the agreed upon location.
All seemed to be going according to the plan; drinks were imbibed, Bonnie even spontaneously bursting into an a capella rendition of ” It’s A Heartache ” ( such retrospective pathos in that little detail, huh? ), Lindsey reminiscing wistfully about the first time he performed fellatio on his idol – Bibi and Dermot trying artfully to segue into a weather update; Ken snoring peacefully – if VERY LOUDLY – in the corner when……KA BOOOOM! a tremendous explosion erupted in the ” beautiful, so beautiful ” ( so Trump said ) Drone Emporium, killing all the occupants ( except, strangely, a stray cat named Vlodo ). Source of the explosion not known but was definitely of Russian origin. Tragic, really tragic.
Oh well, nothing we can do, total eclipse of the heart
Thanks for your reply Robert. It’s pretty rare for five famous people to die in the same week* – all bar Ken before 80, the average age of death in the UK. Nice to see that you can connect the dots.
A total eclipse is due in exactly one month’s time, which will be visible in Iceland & northern Spain. The UK will have a partial eclipse with 90-95% coverage. Then next year on 2nd August, it’s the ‘Eclipse of the Century’, visible in southern Spain and North Africa and lasting up to six and a half minutes.
* Fun factoid: Aldous Huxley & CS Lewis died on the same day as JFK, though neither was shot.
” * Fun factoid: Aldous Huxley & CS Lewis died on the same day as JFK, though neither was shot.” Coincidentally, again!, I came upon that fact just yesterday whilst reading a book that has nothing to do with any of those people – just that a character in the book also died that day; hence the reference.
Yeah I suppose it is fairly unusual for five * celebrities * to die in the same week; though not unheard of. It’s a little like the number of famous musicians who died at the age of 27, eg Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse to name the most well known ones; although if you cast the net wider, ie globally, you’d probably find a similar confluence of deaths at particular ages of well known musicians or other famous people.
Humans seem to have an instinct for pattern-recognition, or maybe more accurately an innate inclination to find meaning in the world around them – and themselves. You may have seen piss-takes of constellations – supposedly -representing the Signs of the Zodiac where someone has ‘ joined the dots ‘ between various stars to form the shapes of banal things like, eg cups, ears, cars and, of course, the ubiquitous cocks n balls
I would read that book! And watch the film made from it! Who do you have in mind for each of the leading characters?
Hi Mark……hmmm dunno, but off the top of my head ….
Rod Stewart as Bonnie T ( same gravelly voice n hair-do )
Nick Sturgeon as Widders ( only lacking a few more ‘ pounds of flesh’ to fill-out the role )
Bill Gates as Ken Bates ( names rhyme so, fuck it, he’s in )
A Spitting Image puppet of Mr Murnaghan as Mr Murnaghan
STARRING….Dennis Neilson as Lindsey G ( if unavailable, dig-up Fred West; make-up dept should be able * do something * re skin pallor )
Screenplay – Mervyn Peake
FX – Hieronymus Bosch
Director – David Lynch ( obvs )
The Guardian reports:
“Citing police scanner audio, the Washington Post newspaper reported that emergency medical services had received a call at about 8.30pm on Saturday regarding a person suffering chest pains at Graham’s home on Capitol Hill. About 25 minutes later, according to the Post, emergency personnel said CPR was in progress and a man was suffering cardiac arrest.”
That would imply he was in Washington though doesn’t rule out some event having happened in Kyiv that caused him to have a cardiac event when he got back home.
Earlier today after I had read the news of his death I did a search and oddly came across this link:
https://en.mediamass.net/people/lindsey-graham/deathhoax.html
The date on the article is July 12 2026 and in it is this quote:
“On Saturday (July 11) the politician’s reps officially confirmed that Lindsey Graham is not dead. “He joins the long list of celebrities who have been victimized by this hoax. He’s still alive and well, stop believing what you see on the Internet,” they said.”
Thanks for your reply ET. Several sources including the Kyiv and New York Posts reported him touring the factory earlier in the day. As DC is about 8 hours behind Kiev/Kyiv, it’s entirely possible that he could have got back in time. Maybe he got too excited seeing all the deadly drones soon to be killing Russians, which led to his fatal heart issues.
Correction: The New York Post says he toured the factory the previous day. Should have read the whole article, Apologies for the error.
@ET: That page was originally published on 23 March 2025:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250323074912/https://en.mediamass.net/people/lindsey-graham/deathhoax.html
Anyway, the good news is that he’s definitely dead this time.
So, the hoax is a hoax? Hoax squared?
Thanks for that, I didn’t think to check archives.
“… Anyway, the good news is that he’s definitely dead this time …”
I would put in a call for Professor Van Helsing just to make sure.
“Apparently he’d been touring a drone factory in Kiev/Kyiv ”
Lindsey Graham was a supporter of Ukraine, and even a moderate concerning immigration in the USA. Apparently he tried (albeit in vain) to regularize the situation of Dreamers (immigrants brought to the USA illegally as children).
So, not all bad. R.I.P.
And R.I.P. Anne Widdecombe.
There was never a war Graham didn’t like, never a military strike by Israel or the US that he didn’t thoroughly approve of, he was enthusiastic for the Gaza genocide and his only criticisms would be that not enough civilians died.
He was also a total suck-up to Bush, “Insane” McCain, Beelzebub Netanyahu, and Trump once he was in power.
Obviously our ideas on who’s “not all bad” are rather different.
Ann Widdecombe was also enthusiastic for the genocide in Gaza.
I do find it harder to find things that Anne Widdecombe did for other humans that I would commend, as Lindsey Graham did. She was politically a right-wing Zionist. She disapproved of Pope Francis. She disapproved of Amnesty International, in particular their reports accusing Israel of maintaining an apartheid state or carrying out ethnic cleansing against Palestinians.
But because she’s dead, and judgment belongs to Heaven, I’m reluctant to refuse to wish her R.I.P.
PS. Apart from supporting animal rights (like opposing fox hunting), she seems to have been a good MP to her constituents, and who treated them equally, and also helped charities for the marginalized, like the homeless and elderly.
So, like Lindsey Graham, not all bad. R.I.P.
MJ 17:20 –
Your old mate Adolf was a vegetarian, was kind to his dogs, and believed in promoting physical fitness and so on. So, as you would have it, not all bad, eh?
glenn_nl 18:36 –
One theory that Adolf escaped to South America from the Allies said, if I understood correctly, that he was tormented by his conscience in the months before his death. The standard theory is that he did himself in – shot himself in the mouth. Either way, I wouldn’t like to be in his shoes thereafter.
I would likely disagree with Anne Widdecombe on many things politically, and in my opinion so would likely many readers of this website, but that does not mean that as an individual she was a bad or unpleasant person to know – by accounts, on the contrary. She was lucky enough to have built an idyllic life in a beautiful house in Dartmoor, a life which was taken from her in a shocking crime. The law must take its course, but may she R.I.P,
As the saying goes “it couldn’t have happened to a nicer fella.”
LG visited a drone factory in Ukraine. It was later hit by a Russian hypersonic missile so maybe he returned to America in a large bucket.
Farage’s rise to the top? Really?
How on earth did Starmer rise to the top?
How on earth does Burnham rise to the top?
Reeves? Lammy? Cooper?
It’s amazing Farage is still viable, they’ve tried everything.
The majority of British know the immigration is an engineered fraud, but dont understand why it happened. What they dont get is a bottomless public purse paying out benefits, an open border in the Channel and the last two (six) governments incapable of doing anything.
No extra schools, houses, prison spaces, training or jobs.
Not even a working courts system.
We’ve had a decade of this incompetence. Intentionally.
“a bottomless public purse paying out benefits”
Subsidies to the boss class?
How satirical it would be if Farridge was elected rather than a dustbin….
“Subsequently Farage has been central to placing racism at the centre of British electoral politics.”
No, that began with the Commonwealth Migrants Acts. some of the working class racists are quite noisy but it’s the rest of society that incites them that are the real villains.
? Racism became central to British electoral politics in 2016.
Already during 2012-2013, UKIP run a well publicised campaiign against immigrants. When on 1/1/2014 the UK opened its borders to workers from Romania and Bulgaria, media reported that UKIP sent vigilantes to Luton Airport so they intimidate the would-be immigrants from those countries. (It failed spectacularly, as planes were half-empty on the New Year’s day, and only two passengers came with immigration purpose, both already having a job.).
Anti-immigrant resentment has been part of politics for much longer. I’d say, for centuries.
Immigrants have always been blamed for falling living standards and crime of all kinds in almost every country. Pointing the finger at immigrants is as old as immigration itself.
Back in the 1960s, when my dad immigrated to Germany, the Italians were blamed for stealing jobs, keeping wages low and committing crimes such as rape, theft and murder.
In the 1970s, it was the turn of the Jugoslavs, then the Kosovans and Albanians, the Turks, and anyone from Africa, South America or Asia. And now it’s the Muslims’ turn.
Don’t the baby boomers and Generation X remember this blame game? Don’t they remember that the problem was not the immigrants, but the politicians and big corporations?
Can’t they think before blaming? Is that too much to ask?
Apparently so, as they keep pointing the finger and teaching their children and grandchildren to do the same.
” For me tolerance, empathy and compassion are the most important virtues in life”
Yet you support people who have none of those qualities as regards one religious group…..
When it comes to people, I’d suggest, you cannot map the stated virtues of an individual to a group of people. A national grouping or religeous grouping for example is going to have multiple interpretations of what those virtues mean. Trying to live a virtuous life may be good but don’t expect your neighbour, church or government to agree with your beliefs. We’re all individuals, apparently. 🙂
Bob, what are your personal experiences with Muslims?
who do you mean Bob, Satanists?
Together with Brown, Blair brought in the ruinous Private Finance Initiative, to guarantee looting by private capital of public provision. Brown went on to bail out the banks in the biggest single transfer of wealth from poor to rich in history.
Small point perhaps but John Major introduced PFI in 1992. It was massively expanded by the Blair government true enough.
The consequences of Brown not bailing out the banks could’ve been much worse.
“The consequences of Brown not bailing out the banks could’ve been much worse.”
Really?
Iceland arrested the banking crooks prosecuted them and allowed banks to go to the wall.
Banks are NOT to big to fail, corrupt politicians are in bed with the banking shysters, and that’s why the poor taxpayer was forced to bailout those gangsters known as bankers – I doubt very much (no matter what the MSM or the captured FCA says) that the shysters paid it all back.
Iceland convicted 25 bankers for fraud. Many have been released early and still have the wealth they’d accumulated. No British bankers were suspected of fraud, simply of greed and incompetence neither of which are criminal offences.
Three Icelandic banks failed, Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir —they’d been allowed to swell their balance sheets until their assets were 11 times the country’s GDP so a bailout was simply not affordable. As a result the currency collapsed, unemployment tripled, people lost saving and investments and national debt ballooned to 7 times GDP. Iceland had to accept a €4.6 billion bailout part funded by the IMF who insisted on austerity measures in return.
Attracted by the good interest rates many individuals, companies and local authorities in the UK had money invested in Icelandic banks and only got a fraction back. In the latter case this led to job losses and cutbacks. Eight Scottish councils lost nearly £40 million and were forced to approach Westminster for a bailout.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-13032622
Bankers/Gangsters have caused more suffering around the globe via poverty than just about anyone nation, the IMF and World Bank are two of the more prominent culprits, as is the secretive BIS where all the dirty and stolen money from nations – ends up passing through.
Men in suits – have killed more people than anyone in a track suit and baseball cap ever will.
Banks and their shyster owners, must never be bailed out again, and especially not by the taxpayer.
“I am however relaxed about leaving the EU.
It has become a right-wing bloc of a very unpleasant nature, under leadership of von der Leyen and Kallas. The sight of MEPs chanting “send them back” in the European Parliament was chilling. I am glad to be out of it.”
That’s why I voted leave in 2016, as did many others, only to be denounced by you as a racist. We were just more aware of the who the technocratic, neoliberal remainders were. If you truly believe what you now say an apology is in order.
Personally, I was horrified by the way Greece in particular was treated bybthe EU. Reading Yanis Varufacus’ books (the former Greek finance minister at the time), it seems that this was done primarily by Germany in order to teach France a lesson.
Nevertheless, Varufacus – at the time of the UK referendum – advised us to stay in. Now, he advises that we should stay out – with the EU in its current form.
The Greeks and the Zio-Monster now have a very close relationship, despite the Zio-Monster carrying out a clear-cut genocide in Gaza.
“Greece has emerged as a key supporter of Israel in the Eastern Mediterranean, a position unimaginable little more than a decade ago and apparently at odds with public opinion.
“I come here not just as an ally but as a true friend,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu
“Greece, from the very first moment, supported the right of Israel to defend itself in line with international law,” he said.
Unlike some other European leaders who demonstrated similar solidarity, Mitsotakis did not also pay a courtesy visit to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the Fatah Palestinian movement.”
” Greece is interested in jointly developing weapons with Israel, Greek officials have told Al Jazeera.
“We’re an excellent customer of Israeli systems,” Angelos Syrigos, chairman of the Greek parliament’s Defence Affairs Committee, told Al Jazeera. “The leap in our defence relationship will happen when there’s co-production of defence systems and common planning.”
Over 1,000 days of genocide, and the Greeks want to develop weapons with the Zio-Monsters.
Agreed Frank.
Brussels rules the EU with an iron fist, the likes of Kaja Kallas and Ursula von der Leyen, Roberta Metsola, and Antonio Costa, are slowly but surely consolidating power, the EU has interfered in elections in Moldova, Romania, Estonia etc, the EU even had the PM of Slovakia Fico shot five times but he survived, the EU has also sanctioned those who have spoken out against its authoritarian stance, great MEP’s such as Clare Daly and Mick Wallace, have previously had their re-election campaigns undermined, because they speak out in the EU parliaments chamber.
Brussels is just as bad as say the Whitehouse, the Kremlin and Westminster, its as power hungry controlling body.
“The EU has sanctioned German journalist Hüseyin Doğru for his reporting on Gaza, which has led to significant financial and personal consequences for him and his family. ”
https://data.europa.eu/apps/eusanctionstracker/individuals/p/1
“But Farage does not actually hate brown or Muslim people. Nor is he enthusiastic for war or NATO expansion.” “Farage is not a stone-cold killer.”
Certainly. He isn’t an evil person. He simply played a game of chess he didn’t understand. Nor did he know who the other players were, or what the game was about.
An apt term for him is: useful idiot.
And now a Reform leading light, Ann Widdecombe, and indeed their immigration spokesman, dead in mysterious circumstances. (I’ll say no more because of the legalities in place.)
Tom74.
Speaking of deaths.
I can’t say I’m upset by his sudden demise, he made Mad Dog Bolton look positively nice.
“Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has died at the age of 71, according to his official account on X.
Graham passed away on Saturday evening “from a brief and sudden illness,” a statement, published by the senator’s office on Sunday, read.”
Politically he has nothing in common with Corbyn. But his threat to established politics is the same existential threat. He doesn’t play by the ‘house rules’…. so he has to go.
The question is, have things got so bad for the establishment, that he is a permanent fixture that can’t be removed so easily.
I’m keen to find out if there is a back story to the death of Ann Widdicombe.
It wos the russians, they got Graham, now they got Widdecombe. Obvious innit ?
Correction, Stevie…..it wasn’t ” the russians ” wot kiilled those two exemplary products of West moral & spiritual superiority; it woz Putin personally wot dunnit.
Yessir, in one of his many shapeshifting guises, he donned his Ruski-Ninja costume and slipped stealthily 1st across the border into The Pure Land, thence to the ‘ Drone Factory ‘ / Male Brothel where Loathsome Lindsey was * relaxing * before another round of Russo/Islamic extermination promotion and spiked the latter’s adrenochrome – spritzer with a slow-acting solution of Novichok + Sars-Covid 99.
That part of his mission successfully completed, Vlad Tha Ninj hijacked a loitering dragon and flew it to the peaceful, comatose village in Angletown wherein resided the gentle Ms Dubya: quickly morphing into a new disguise as an Uber delivery man ( assassin ) V rang the doorbell ( having in advance telepathically created an overwhelming desire for a red-hot Vindaloo in the mind of the blissfully unaware Ms W ). What followed is easy to predict……of course the dastard Putin had contaminated the spicy repast with the same lethal concoction that done for Mr Grey Ham. What is really chilling in this scenario is the doorcam footage showing the evil grin on VP’s face as he handed the poisoned delivery to his victim and the words he used as he done so….” enjoy your mealski Madam ” followed by sniggers so replete with evil it could send shivers down the spine of the Devil himself; but let’s face it, VP IS the Devil himself
* Note……these attempts at comedy/satire are my response to the fckn insanity that surrounds us on all sides
Yeah, as soon as they said man with a stick from Yorkshire, I knew it was cheeky old Vlad. Can’t fool me !
No, they said it was a ‘pole’ but it was clearly a baseball bat. That revelation must be for another day.
Clearly it was a Yorkshire Morris dancer angered by her appearance on ‘Strictly’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHcLvepPRX4
Look at that controlled aggression…
Seriously though. This will be another excuse for the regime to tighten the screws on our repression.
Clever old Vlad, replacing all those North Korean battalions by recruiting thousands of Yorkshire Morris Mercenaries. Ukraine will be a suburb of Doncaster before England wins the world cup.
@ FSP. Now there’s a thought! A crack team of Morris Dancing Mercenaries! ( Kudos to Mr Migraine for the original idea ).
Here’s another thought…….what if that MDM Expeditionary Force in addition to their BMD ( Batons of Mass Destruction ) were also armed with hours of Football Pundit Commentaries, eg to keep it current, about England’s chances of conquering Malvinas Unida en route to a glorious end to 60 years of * hurt * ( at life not conforming to sense of entitlement ) by winning the Jules Trump-Rimet Cup and broadcasting it on a loop at max volume in a Kremlinwards direction!! For maximum destructive effect they could splice-in some Jimmy Hill pearls re ” minnows ” and ” toe-pokes ” ( the only of type goal Scotland have ever scored, according to that illustrious Leg End, JH ).
The Proxy War would be over in hours – if not minutes.
re: israel and Germany
Allow me to quote a news item in full on following issue:
The first chamber of the German Parliament passed a bill that would make illegal to publicly deny the right of Israel´s “existence” with imposing prison terms of up to five years. IMO this bill will pass the second chamber too without much kerfuffle. If Constitutional Court might reverse this after the fact is another matter. But even that I would doubt.
So while the whole world is radically considering Irsael the pariah state – German elites are acting as if deaf and blind:
“(…)
On Friday, the Bundesrat voted to adopt a bill proposed by the state of Hesse—a measure deemed unconstitutional by numerous legal experts, including the Bundestag’s own research services. The bill seeks to insert a new Paragraph 4 into Section 130 of the Criminal Code (incitement to hatred). It would make the public denial of Israel’s right to exist punishable by up to five years in prison. If enacted, it would create a special criminal offense that violates the Basic Law. Moreover, international law recognizes no such “right to exist” for states.
This botched piece of legislation—a similar motion failed in the chamber of states as recently as early 2024—stems from the political establishment’s growing tendency to suspend fundamental rights. This practice is already being applied against rallies in solidarity with Palestine, often involving brutal police violence. Since 2023, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly have effectively been repeatedly curtailed. This is justified by invoking a hollowed-out definition of antisemitism—the same concept used to “justify” the alliance in arms and war between West German imperialism and Israel long before 1989. The Bundestag’s 2019 classification of the BDS campaign—which advocates for economic, academic, and cultural boycotts of Israel to compel it to meet its obligations under international law—as “antisemitic” follows this same tradition of demagoguery.
Hesse’s justification for the new criminal offense further exacerbates the situation: the “use of the slogan ‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free’ or the presentation of maps of the Middle East in which present-day Israel is replaced by a ‘Palestinian state’ within the borders of Israel, the Gaza Strip, and the so-called West Bank”—that is, maps of the kind Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly displayed for years without Palestine—allegedly trivializes the Holocaust and, through “indirect communication,” condones violence against Jews, supposedly containing a “subliminal meaning.” This approach has about as much to do with the rule of law as the domestic intelligence agency’s concept of extremism. “Subliminal” content—this is the legal equivalent of the Dark Ages, reminiscent of the Inquisition’s snooping into the lives of Jews and Muslims.
This piece of legal dirty work mirrors the Chancellor’s jubilation over the “dirty work” being carried out against Iran, in Gaza, and elsewhere. The nuclear-armed state of Israel has no fixed national borders, yet currently occupies roughly 1,000 square kilometers of newly seized territory in Gaza, Syria, and Lebanon. The state existence of a settler-colonial project that invokes the Bible as its land registry precludes the existence of other states—and indeed other population groups—within the claimed territory, while simultaneously entailing the seizure of land. In the Bundesrat, just as in the Chancellery, a majority—with at least Bremen and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania abstaining from the vote—concurs with Netanyahu’s genocidal policies. This is the German *raison d’état*.”
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Thanks for this excellent report of the German macabre repression of free speech, seemingly in lock step with the English courts and political policing here, AG.
Mein Heimatland ist tot, regressive und ohne mandat!
How long will it take before our divided groups, communities and fighters for justice and international law such as Craig are
criminalised, have their family life disrupted and their persons threatened?
Nigel is riding the political lazyness of the divided masses, hence unity of minds and needs cant come to the fore. Rupert Lowe is following him on his Muskovite donkey.
Norfolk county council is ruined by Reform and Ruperts men, their councillors faoiled to learn from the induction into their first time jobs, they are making it up as they go, senior civil servants and employees are leaving, as cllrs. are errecting their Wagenburg inside county hall, keeping anyone of the public away from staff and their attention.
Positive thoughts are not enough to stem this s..tshow of Orks from feasting on public funds.
Initially the police ‘reassured’ us that the murder of Ms Widdicombe was not political.
Surely they really meant that they were reassuring the political class, Most of would be more reassured that some maniac was bumping off politicians than randomly burgling houses with violent intent.
Good article Craig, thanks. Totally agree about Blair. Certainly a war criminal in my view.
So, if you wanted to create antisemitic feelings amongst the population what is a good way to do that ?
“Police forces across England are to get a £251m funding boost to help protect Jewish communities following a rise in antisemitic attacks, the government has announced.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78y2xg0090o
Yeah, that’ll do it, two tier policing based on false, fantasy threats.
2TK is on a roll.
“Starmer to proscribe IRGC: The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps will be designated as terrorists along with another Iranian-linked group and part of Russia’s GRU”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/13/keir-starmer-proscribes-irans-islamic-revolutionary-guards/
I guess soon Starmer is going to announce the proscription of the genocidal IDF …
People’s Andy a fan of this proscription too, which of course is intended to criminalise criticism of military aggression by the UK and its allies and prevent reporting of atrocities committed by those states during that aggression.
Andy Burnham@andyburnham
Good.
Supporting a group linked to death threats and attacks here in the UK, doing the dirty work of Iran and Russia, should absolutely be against the law.
Met alone to recruit THREE HUNDRED extra officers to patrol Jewish neighbourhoods.
The People’s Andy is of course all in, vowing to continue the gaslighting indefinitely and make it ‘a priority’.
Andy Burnham@andyburnham
I have seen firsthand the anxiety in our Jewish communities and the very real threat they face.
Their safety will be a priority for me – we must do more to stamp out the scourge of antisemitism and protect Jewish communities across the country.
This funding boost is a welcome and necessary step towards that.
Well at least if Andy is splashing all this tax payers money on protecting his Jewish friends from unicorns then the good honest British criminals can go about their business unmolested and safe in the knowledge that the filth will be occupied within the [expanding] UK Israeli settlements.
“The Ditching of Nigel Farage”
I feel sorry for the ditch; it’ll need dredging now.
Interestingly, Iain Duncan Smith (“In Deep Shit”) declared that Farage is prejudicing the Police investigation of their colleague by speculating about it and that the proper thing to do is wait until the Police have finished their investigation “then we’ll know what happened”.
Uh. No. We will know what happened once a JURY has listened to all the evidence from both prosecution AND the defence.
It’s no wonder we’re headed to Hell in a handcart with dipshits like IDS’ “understanding” of the law…
More from the ditch.
“… for the past several years, as Farage has appeared to get closer to the levers of power, the stakes have got higher for the Yookay regime itself. About six months ago, Dominic Cummings made an interesting prediction in an interview: that it is “reasonably likely” that Farage would get “smashed up” before the next general election.”
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/07/13/in-end-stage-yookay-the-regime-satirises-you/
Also,
Binface: Jonathan David Harvey, a scriptwriter and author who has, allegedly, frequently worked for the BBC on programmes such as, ‘The Thick of It’ and ‘Have I Got News For You’.
‘The Thick of It’ – did that get spiked? I wouldn’t know, I don’t watch telly, but I think I saw at thecanary.co someone said the BBC should reinstate it.
All episodes of the ‘The Thick of It’ are still available on BBC iPlayer:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006qgrd/the-thick-of-it
Aye, I dare say, but did all planned episodes and/or series get made?
And was there any re-editing?
What is there to say about the nations leaders, that hasn’t been said a thousand times about them aiding and abetting the Zio-Monster in genocide.
“Two women have told a court how they felt compelled to join the Palestine Action protest group after watching “a live-streamed genocide” of Israeli attacks in Gaza.
“I would see mothers scrape up tiny pieces of their children,” 53-year-old Hannah Davidson told jurors at the Old Bailey this week. “I saw a stray dog with a toddler’s arm in its mouth.”
Co-defendant Teuta ‘T’ Hoxha, a 30-year-old care worker, said she watched a video of a Palestinian father carrying two bags. “He was wailing. It was the type of wail that comes from the soul.
“What he was saying was, ‘I have my son in these plastic bags’, and that devastated me.”
“It was the realisation that if a state wants to exterminate people and it’s in the interests…of another state to collude, they will.”
Both women were motivated to join Palestine Action after watching graphic videos from Gaza, but deny organising a raid on an Israeli-owned arms factory in Filton, Bristol, in August 2024.
Hoxha and Davidson are among eight defendants accused of helping plan the raid. Both women are charged with violent disorder and criminal damage, which they deny.”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/a-stray-dog-with-a-toddlers-arm-how-israeli-atrocities-fueled-palestine-action/
I’m not so sure he is not a racist. At least classmates of his at Dulwich college have called him out for precisely that. What evidence is there that he is not? There could be many reasons for opposing the Iraq war.
“Farage blaming the BBC was the straw that broke the camel’s back for Yinka Bankole, whose family were from Nigeria. He went to Dulwich’s prep school when he was nine years old for a year, when Farage was 17: “One day Farage, and at least one other, spotted me in the lower-school playground. He was about 17. He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa.’” ”
Sounds genuinely racist to me.
https://www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-farage-sweeney-dulwich-college-racism-history-michael-crick-peter-ettedgui
The bar for any British politician being considered legitimately racist is *massively* high. Virtually impossible to achieve, unless you’re Corbyn.
He also used to go up to Jewish schoolmates and whisper, Hitler was right you know. Yet the British media try and portray him as a profoundly anti-racist defender of Jews because he condemns anti-Genocide protests.
Of course, if the agenda is to destroy him because he is a potential threat to TPTB, then we would expect all these stories to surface. Doesn’t necessarily mean they are true, or false, as a rule of thumb I don’t believe anything that comes out of the MSM and particularly the BBC. Farage tends to be Marmite, so finding enemies won’t be hard.
OTOH when you’re over the target …
He’s one of their own. They forced him into people’s attention for decades with no justification. All his positions – on economics, Gaza, Ukraine and even immigration – are textbook Uniparty. The media and political class did not use the testimony of his schoolmates to destroy him. Their consensus when it came out was he is definitely *not* a racist. Even Craig arrived at that conclusion.
Farage has not flat out denied any of this. If you follow the link you’ll see that he always weasel words. “I said no such thing when I was 15” and the like. “I’ve never belonged to a racist organisation” – when he was asked instead about his use of racist language. etc. As for him being anti-establishment, I am sure the billionaires behind all the main parties would not be at all worried if he got in, after all they are funding him and he would do nothing to e.g. redistribute wealth as opposed to migrant bashing.
Don’t you think trying to put someone down for something they may have or may not have said (ie. hearsay) 45 years ago whilst a 15 year old schoolboy smacks of desperation. Is that their best ?
Might be instructive to look at what was actually acceptable in those far off times. The past is a foriegn country …
Your opinion of Mr Farage is rather generous, although I suspect you’re being a gentleman, something he as his backers see as a weakness. He’s a grubby little rabble rouser, a coward hiding behind his accomplished ability to exploit a situation without the messiness of having to care. To him politics is a business venture, UKIP was a registered company as is Reform, electorates are just a key component in assuring profit. On a wider scale he’s a useful asset, just as Stephen Yaxely-Lennon is to the security services. Vanity and greed enable others to take advantage whether a justification for the ingrained hatred and bitterness displayed by his adherents or the callous machinations of his opportunistic handlers. The sad theatre of Mr Farage has many more scenes to play.
I don’t know whether these are on-topic or not, but I guess they will be as soon as Farridge says something about them:
UK arrests 12 over extreme right-wing ‘terror’ threat to Muslim event
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/13/uk-arrests-12-over-extreme-right-wing-terror-threat-to-muslim-event
Anti-terror police take over probe into death of UK politician Widdecombe
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/13/anti-terror-police-take-over-probe-into-death-of-uk-politician-widdecombe
It’s obviously a new interpretation of the English language, epsteinspeak: terror, terror, terror (not to be confused with a similar sounding Japanese war film). We don’t have crimes or criminals or laws anymore, it’s all terror.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Yes, in the not too distant future on present trends there will only be one crime – or Meta-Crime – under which every other will be subsumed; Aunty-Semitic Terrorism.
Selling drugs = funding Islamic Terrorism
Physical Assaults of vary degrees of seriousness = Voodoo-style intent to harm a Jewish person at-a-distance
Theft = stealing the bread from the mouths of poor Settlers in Gazrael
Dropping litter = A Hate Crime against the Jewish People
etc etc etc
Joking aside…..there is indeed reason to ” be afraid, be very afraid “. The UK is turning full-on AshkeNAZI. Whether they actually give a solitary fuck about Jewish people or not is debateable: what isn’t is them using the whole ” protecting Jews ” bollocks as pretext to clamp-down even more severely on already diminished, once-valued freedoms, eg of speech, protest, express disagreement and, ultimately, think.
My impression is that they’re going to overreach, as all bullies do, and there will be a concerted fightback by sufficient numbers to counter the totalitarian trajectory. There fckn better be or we’re heading to Dystopia; rather, we’re heading even further along the path to Dystopia we’re already on
“Keir Starmer used his speech in the Downing St garden at an emotional farewell with members of the Jewish community to confirm that the Home Secretary will be using her new powers under the National Security (Hostile State) Act 2026 to designate the IRGC as a terrorist group.
Jewish Labour Movement chair Ella Rachel Rose delivered a fine introductory speech at the event. Board of Deputies president Phil Rosenburg presented the PM with a kiddish cup. The PM and Courts Minister Sarah Sackman looked close to tears as they reflected in the fight to rid Labour of antisemitism”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2026/07/13/irgc-proscription-hypocrisy/
Starmer is unquestionably Israels man. Good riddance you zionist c*nt.
Or is it just that an arrest under the terrorism act gives plod enhanced powers, detention without charge for 14 days for example.
According to reports last night the home of a man arrested on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Ann Wiiiddecombe contained RUSSIAN COMMUNIST literature. Not just Communist, but Russian Communist – perhaps an important distinction. I notice Donald Trump was not so specific when he alerted his citizenry to the dangers of Communism last week.
BTW, where does this information about reading material in Rotherham come from? I would assume from a ‘police source’ – in other words a copper looking for a bung from a news reporter. Yet they keep telling us not to speculate.
Blumenthal had this done to him in England as well, about six months ago.
“The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal was targeted by an Israeli doxxing outfit and Laura Loomer when he arrived in Iran to report on Khamenei’s funeral and the war. Upon his return, US agents seized his electronic devices and subjected him to interrogation. “Our reporting at The Grayzone has clearly become a problem for this criminal cartel,” he commented.
On July 10, 2026, American journalist Max Blumenthal was traveling back to the United States from Iran, which he had visited to report on the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the largest gathering in human history. While in Iran, Blumenthal interviewed members of Iran’s negotiation team, top political officials, academics and average citizens for a series of video and print reports for this news outlet, which he founded.
He also documented several US and Israeli war crimes from the ground, including the destruction of an entire neighborhood in Eastern Tehran which left at least 40 civilians dead.
Under Israeli pressure, US seizes Max Blumenthal’s devices on return from Tehran reporting trip – The Grayzone
Meanwhile Trump admit that he used nukes to attack Fordow.
https://nitter.poast.org/cirnosad/status/2076789399220801541#m
Republicofscotland
I do suspect that the shorthand for this that no criticism of Trump or Israel can be allowed as it is necessary to keep on the right side of capricious Donald.
If you piss him off he won’t come back in on the Ukraine/European project that he deserted last time.
The European part of NATO need US ‘ assurances ‘ although Trump’s ‘assurances ‘ are not worth the paper they are written on.
I think his Autopen uses Invisible Ink anyway.
I bet Iran proscribes the SAS due to the Iranian Embassy Siege.
The Sun will be fuming about that.
Or – Iran will just ignore it.
Not trusting Trump is a very wise move.
Antony Burgess once described the Pentagon as “a Tudor monarchy with telephones.” The Trump administration is increasingly looking like Caligula with nuclear weapons. As i the current incumbent of the White House shares with the Roman Emperor not only being capriciously psychotic but also a preposterous blond coiffure.
On Blair, you mention economics and foreign policy, but one of the most damaging things he did was to destroy free speech and predictable law and turn the UK into a tinpot banana sh*thole. ASBOs, indeterminate sentencing, “terrorism” legislation, all made the UK a place where today you get banged up for expressing opinions and cannot rely on the courts to treat you with any sort of fairness.
I’m curious, Mr. Murray, what do you think of the thread that seemingly no one at all has ACTUALLY pulled on*: Farage claiming he has an agreement with the Taliban to take asylum seekers and refugees he would deport to Afghanistan?
*I mean investigating with whom he was in contact, how he obtained such contact etc. – you know, the things an investigative journalist ought to be pursuing – rather than merely mentioning that Farage referred to it as an unforced error. Does it have something to do with the gold extraction/money laundering scheme in Africa that his mates would seem to be involved in?
Great anger toward illegal invaders is separate from the issue of wealth inequality or any number of others. I don’t know what possesses you to refer to these invading unassimilable parasites and hostiles as “hapless.”
The UK “government” is an enemy of native Britons in welcoming and favoring their enemies and Britons know it, but all you can cough up is “racism.” That’s just bizarre.
“these invading unassimilable parasites and hostiles”? They are ordinary, working class people who want nothing other than what most people want: a decent life, earning a living and raising a family.
Interesting article. But, I am disappointed that you automatically put all of the illegal immigrants, and they ARE illegal immigrants, in law, in the classification of refugees. Indeed, POOR refugees at that.
It lowers the tone of the article. However, Craig, I’d like to ask you if you think it is alright that foreign, legal, low paid workers to undercut the UK low paid workers? I have seen, witnessed, foreign workers, Poles in these cases, being taken on to replace, in this case, Scottish, labourers. They, the Poles, worked for lower wages. So, the contractor took on the cheaper foreign workers.
It is because the low-paid workers lost out that THEY, the low-paid, voted for BREXIT. The only trouble is, no way was the Establishment going to allow the riff-raff have a say in their own affairs. And, Farage shafted UKIP by ditching them and starting the BREXIT party, then Reform…
“and they ARE illegal immigrants, in law”. We live under capitalism. That makes the creation of laws subject to that economic system. Laws are not good simply because they are laws, and the UK’s laws controlling working class movement from overseas are far from good.
“if you think it is alright that foreign, legal, low paid workers to undercut the UK low paid workers” because, obviously, workers from overseas enjoy being paid as little as possible to carry out tough, demanding labour. Why are you blaming workers for the consequences of capitalism?