BBC wrote:Reform UK's Zia Yusuf said Dorries would be an "asset" to the party.
I laughed at this. And then I realised, he's not wrong. For all that she had admit that most of the stuff she wrote on her website was just made up, temporarily losing the whip for going on I'm A Celeb without permission, and so many embarrassing statements on so many things, she never went so far she had to resign. Unlike so many Faragist elected representatives.
She held Mid-Bedfordshire for 18 years. I couldn't imagine anyone voting for her. Which just shows how incapable I am of thinking myself into the heads of those that that do. The Conservatives regained Mid-Beds in the 2024 general election, having lost it in the 2023 by-election. So I wonder if she might still be in Parliament if she hadn't decided to make the news by very slowly and noisily resigning in 2023.
IvanV wrote: Fri Sep 05, 2025 9:32 am
Which just shows how incapable I am of thinking myself into the heads of those that that do [vote for Mad Nad]
And, by chance, to help me, BBC today publishes an article by Sir John Curtice on what we learn from attitude polls about what voters currently favouring Reform do think, in contrast to what others think.
Most of them think that Reform will fix the NHS. I wonder if they know what Reform's health service policy is. I suspect they don't even care to find out.
Reform is the largest party in Warwickshire Council, with no overall control, but are able to run it with the backing of the Conservatives. The guy elected leader has soon discovered that running a county council is hard work, so he has resigned as it is too much for him to cope with. From the 21 other Reform councillors elected, he chose an 18-yr-old as his deputy, who is now interim council leader until a new leader is elected.
He's now 19, but he is no longer interim and has been duly elected as the leader of Warwickshire Council.
Meanwhile, it seems everyone wants to be Reform these days. When you read Thanet Council is trying to ban swearing in public (BBC), you would tend assume it must be a Reform administration, trying to get itself on the front page. But no, it's the Labour party trying to show they can be illiberal like that too.
Basic strategy, military and poltical, says don’t fight on the ground your enemy has picked. Labour can’t beat Reform on being c.nts, because Farage will always out-c.nt them, so why are they trying? They should be attacking them for their desire to want to f.ck everyone over and Farage’s desire to be as far up Trumps bum as he can be. Unfortunately they’ve ceded the ground on that as well.
I despair.
Absolutely agree.
We need an optimistic vision, which I'm not sure Starmer can provide.
