Excellent love a bit of rw infightingWell i've been up all night again
Party time wasting is too much fun
Then I step back thinking
Of lifes inner meaning
And my latest fling
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no idea who "ben habib" is though. I don't think he is one of the elected mp's.
His taken well
He has been one of Reform UK Party Limited's most prominent front men, most recently on the BBC's Question Time on 5 July 2024.
He is perhaps best known for stating that Britain should allow humans seeking asylum in the UK to drown the English Channel.
Farage claimed he had 'resigned' from GB News to take up the leader's position with Reform, I never believed him, he was just taking time off during campaign, it was clear to me that he would return, it's too lucrative for an old grifter like him, and guess what?
He's back, although only 3 instead of 4 days a week.
Nigel Farage announces return to GB News after taking seat in Parliament
Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, formally took his seat in the House of Commons as the representative for Clacton on Thursday, but will soon be returning to TV screens next weekwww.mirror.co.uk
Aren't there rules which prevented anyone who's standing as a candidate appearing as a presenter on a politics programme, which no longer apply now that the election is over?
Nigel Farage has quit GB News in order to run in the upcoming General Election. Describing the presenting role as the "best job" he's ever had, the politician admitted the decision wasn't easy.
Speaking during a press conference in London to announce his candidacy he shared that he had enjoyed life at GB News. He added that he had been reluctant to make the decision to run.
"I'd be very reluctant to do this. I mean, to be honest, I've been reluctant because I've actually rather enjoyed life at GB News. It has been a great job - best job I've ever had.
"I've loved being at GB News and doing a show four nights a week and doing extra stuff and travelling around the country and all of those things, so giving that up is not an easy thing," he acknowledged.
Reform may be right-populist rather than fascist, but in both types of organisation endemic instability is caused by everyone wanting to be the Führer.
The major shareholder will shrug & continue. But the penny may be dropping with some Reform customers that they are there to pay, wear turquoise in public & laugh at Farage’s jokes on cue during election campaigns- they needn’t expect any say in policy or internal discussion.
Clearly accepting him into Reform was just a opportunist move, Farage/Tice probably sees him as a bit of a oik, and he's certainly not a multi-millionaire like them, and their new chairman, I am not convinced their 'love' will last long, plenty of opportunity for trouble there.
Seems to me there's some mileage in working toward a big event/series of events around the centenary of the general strikeYes. This is always the litmus test for Reform or for any populist organisation. The tendency to autocracy has undermined successive efforts by the far right and right populists over the past 30 odd years. In each case the pattern is the same – popular support, a breakthrough, the breakthrough gives rise to tensions as the tops start to squabble over power, control and direction, a split, fallback, rapid collapse and then the eventual emergence of a new organisation and the reproduction of the same cycle.
It appears that Reform is inevitably going to follow the same path given that it is essentially a vehicle for Farage and assumes adherence to the cult of personality. It will therefore fail to become the organisation that delivers a real breakthrough for the right populists here.
But the FN was like that once too. In their case the emergence of a younger generation – Bardella types – bringing organisation, discipline and energy and a visible change in the class composition, age, gender, race of its leadership propelled its growth and stability. With all of that came presence and a structure with sustainability. There is no reason I am aware of to think that this could not also emerge here.
France, of course, in not Britain. But the conditions a) popular and widespread disdain for discredited elite liberalism b) a supposed left centrist government signed up to the management of the agenda of the rich c) divisive culture wars d) further cuts to public services and wages and e) the crumbling authority of the establishment parties inevitably means a large poliitcal space will remain ripe.
The absence of the left in the UK – and by that I mean any credible form of left, a pro working class left appears impossible – guarantees that as more and more people give up on Labour/Tories and look for alternatives there is only one place where they are going to go.
Once the ludicrous and groundless optimism of the commentariat and middle class centrist orgasm over Starmer has subsided (and that isn’t going to be far away) focus here needs to turn to realignment, electoral reform and ideas to engage the populist right.
From Nine days in May: the 1926 general strike in Southwark.Two other members of the EC of the local C-of-A were sent to prison. They were Walter (Wally) Southwell and Thomas Bishop, both unemployed. It was alleged that they, with a group of strikers, had pulled up garden railings and laid them across the road to stop unauthorised lorries and passenger traffic passing through, and for this they received a sentence of three months hard labour each.
My great uncle Wally in Elephant and Castle got three months hard labour for his participation in the general strike:
From Nine days in May: the 1926 general strike in Southwark.
Yep, General Strike 100 would be great
My great uncle Wally in Elephant and Castle got three months hard labour for his participation in the general strike:
From Nine days in May: the 1926 general strike in Southwark.
Yep, General Strike 100 would be great
Yeh I'm going to in a momentPickman's model, would be an idea to start a thread about this idea, it's going to get lost in amongst other stuff on this Reform thread.
Thread here General Strike 100And don't forget charlie mowbray
This is what always happens to these anti-politics political parties. It happened to the bnp, only in these days of accelerationism the wheels have come off the bus mere minutes after they'd been fastened onLoving the infighting , 2 of them ousted as deputy chairs, to give Tice another gig , & to bring in a funder . Even though it's a party of 5 , I predict a split.
I was wondering recently if the modern far right has a problem in how hyper-individualistic it has become? A complete rejection of any authority or obligation to society?Loving the infighting , 2 of them ousted as deputy chairs, to give Tice another gig , & to bring in a funder . Even though it's a party of 5 , I predict a split.