Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
  • Vlado@feddit.orgEnglish
    43·
    1 day ago

    It was never a question whether this corrupt russian asset is corrupt, or russian asset. The only question is whether he’ll be finally punished for that.

  • DigDoug@lemmy.worldEnglish
    116·
    2 days ago

    Oop, sounds like Clacton’s having another by-election.

    One can only hope they don’t vote for the joke candidate this time.

    • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      1 day ago

      I’m not sure about the voters of Clacton. They had the chance to know how f-ed up Farage is, and they still voted him in. Which tells me that they have a majority consisting of idiots (who do not understand what Nigel Farage is doing) and assholes (who might understand what he is doing, but still vote for him).

      • reka@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        1 day ago

        Reform supporters for the most part aren’t fans of thinking. They are scared specifically of people who occupy the same physical spaces as them who they see as not in their tribe, something which they learned from their parents most likely and then had reinforced by billions of pounds of propaganda via every possible media source the mega rich can access. Being concerned with anything beyond that requires effort which is not what they’re in the business of. This isn’t even said with judgement, this is just what’s happening.

        • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          1 day ago

          Reform supporters for the most part aren’t fans of thinking.

          Like GOP in the US, RN in France, AfD in Germany, etc. Right wingers everywhere love the stupid. Lack of education and understanding is the best fertilizer for fascism.

          • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            6 minutes ago

            And they’re all taking Russian money and getting help from the Russian troll farms.

            Were Ukraine to drone those troll farms, you’d see a rapid drop in support for those jackbooted bulletheads across all of Europe and probably the US as well.

          • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
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            17 minutes ago

            It’s more an Authoritarian thing than a Right thing, it’s just that currently Auth-Right is what the Epstein class are pushing.

            The Khmer Rouge were as hard left as it gets, and the Cambodian genocide was almost entirely fuelled by the notion that educated city folk weren’t true Khmer.

    • Sturgist@piefed.caEnglish
      26·
      1 day ago

      You’d think £1 croissants mandated by law would be a clincher, it’s a real world policy that should speak even to bigots.

      • NoForwadSlashS@piefed.socialEnglish
        22·
        1 day ago

        Croissants too foreign for the Clactonians. You’ve got to speak French to even say it out loud. £1 steak bakes and you’ve won for sure.

        • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          1 minute ago

          Socialist here. Don’t disparage a good Greggs steak bake. A bit more than a quid, but still decent value.

          Sadly, it’s harder to find decent cheap croissants in this country. I’ve had far better for a euro in provincial French railway station cafes.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
    321·
    1 day ago

    Navalny was caught on video with treason from seeking/accepting Mi6 money to destabilize Russia. It is actually more democratic to jail corrupt traitors than for establishment to protect corrupt manipulation of voters, which is the more likely outcome of protecting rather than exterminating Farage/Reform’s political relevance.