Absolute *** of our time Pt.MXXVI

[Parafox]

Just now, StanSP said:

Nigel Farage speculating and doing a speech after laying flowers for Widdecombe. 

 

Why not just lay them and leave? What is it with people lapping up photo and video opportunities at such a time? Feels so staged.

Farage/politicians/celebs at every photo opportunity, innit.

[Grebfromgrebland]

This is very convenient timing for farage he can milk this for all he can.

[urban.spaceman]

6 hours ago, StanSP said:

Nigel Farage speculating and doing a speech after laying flowers for Widdecombe. 

 

Why not just lay them and leave? What is it with people lapping up photo and video opportunities at such a time? Feels so staged.

This is the same man who just spent a full month exploiting the murder of a teenager for his own racist political ends to push his two tier bullshit, explicitly against the wishes of the family. 
 

The police in this case asked in no uncertain terms for people to not speculate about the case, then Farage claims it was premeditated without a shred of evidence. The police then stated they deliberately weren’t sharing more information as it might compromise the investigation, and Farage then announces sensitive investigation information about the suspect.
 

You see this trend throughout the right - TWO of Traitor Tommeh’s many convictions were for trying to collapse the trial of a grooming gang because he was stood outside the court broadcasting it to his fans. This is Farage’s method.

The right do not care about the victims they exploit for their own political ends.

 

They’re just treasonous little crooks. 

[davieG]

13 hours ago, StanSP said:

Nigel Farage speculating and doing a speech after laying flowers for Widdecombe. 

 

Why not just lay them and leave? What is it with people lapping up photo and video opportunities at such a time? Feels so staged.

Because we've become a nation besotted my celebrities and whom ranks as a celebrity has never been lower and all elevated by the media desperate for advertising clicks

[Bellend Sebastian]

I suppose I should be pleased that Farage has got The Mail on Sunday on top of the Times after him now and his popularity taking an actual hit for once but you cannot ignore that they could have done this years ago but chose not to

[HighPeakFox]

1 hour ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I suppose I should be pleased that Farage has got The Mail on Sunday on top of the Times after him now and his popularity taking an actual hit for once but you cannot ignore that they could have done this years ago but chose not to

They always like to be seen to be on the winning side.

[Bellend Sebastian]

4 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

They always like to be seen to be on the winning side.

Bleak isn't it? I'm always interested in how much influence they have on public perceptions in reality. Whenever the media is under any scrutiny itself it tends to downplay the extent to which people pay it any mind but in some demographics (I'm thinking of my parents' generation here, mostly well into their 80s) tabloid newspapers are still their go-to for pretty much everything

[leicsmac]

Stephen Miller. 

 

Again, and apparently always. 

[urban.spaceman]

After watching the trophy presentation, Donald Trump. What an utter ****ing humiliation of a 'human being'  

[Parafox]

Get pissed, kill your baby boy.

 

Tony Bartlett jailed for murder of baby son Atticus in Chard - BBC News

Edited 24 July by Parafox

[Wymsey]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rd0r5zez9o

 

[Bellend Sebastian]

33 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rd0r5zez9o

 

Not sure that fits the definition here, old boy. I read it and just felt really sad

[Wymsey]

10 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Not sure that fits the definition here, old boy. I read it and just felt really sad

Not even the benefits aspect?

[urban.spaceman]

56 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Not sure that fits the definition here, old boy. I read it and just felt really sad

 

45 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

Not even the benefits aspect?

It’s nowhere near as ****y as Ed Miliband let’s be honest. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

3 hours ago, Wymsey said:

Not even the benefits aspect?

All the reports on this I've read mention the vulnerable status of the bloke in question.

 

I'm not convinced that someone who sleeps downstairs to be close to his mum in a freezer and is regularly putting flowers on that freezer is a strong candidate for defrauding the state with malice aforethought but there you go, I'm old fashioned

[Trav Le Bleu]

On 03/08/2026 at 14:00, Bellend Sebastian said:

Not sure that fits the definition here, old boy. I read it and just felt really sad

Yeah, very sad

 

[urban.spaceman]

****ing monstrous. 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3q5vl581wo

[Bellend Sebastian]

59 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

****ing monstrous. 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3q5vl581wo

I think that's the single c**test thing I've ever seen in here

[Jon the Hat]

28 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I think that's the single c**test thing I've ever seen in here

He is a ****ing moron, but I am sure he believes he is doing the right thing.

[CornwallFox]

The Tories. Close a bunch of prisons. Don't replace their places. Constantly bang on about needing harsher prison terms (despite imprisonment leading to higher rates of reoffending that other options), begin early release themselves, then pretend it's all labour's fault, complain about every solution, then if labour use any of your ideas accuse them of backtracking/u-turning etc. Just like the republicans in the US, they have no interest in genuinely solving anything, it's just a constant game of trying to get power. 

[leicsmac]

19 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

He is a ****ing moron, but I am sure he believes he is doing the right thing.

Come on man, please don't even try to sugarcoat this shit in any way. 

 

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. And this certainly falls exactly under that. 

[kenny]

15 minutes ago, CornwallFox said:

The Tories. Close a bunch of prisons. Don't replace their places. Constantly bang on about needing harsher prison terms (despite imprisonment leading to higher rates of reoffending that other options), begin early release themselves, then pretend it's all labour's fault, complain about every solution, then if labour use any of your ideas accuse them of backtracking/u-turning etc. Just like the republicans in the US, they have no interest in genuinely solving anything, it's just a constant game of trying to get power. 

I wonder how much of this is a complete fabrication?

[Clogger_]

43 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

He is a ****ing moron, but I am sure he believes he is doing the right thing.

I am sure that he believes nothing of the sort. He thinks there are votes (and quite probably money!) in it

Edited 11 August by Clogger_

[Clogger_]

3 minutes ago, kenny said:

I wonder how much of this is a complete fabrication?

A fabrication? The Tories left office with around *100* unoccupied prison places, and the absolute certainty that they would have to implement the *exact* early release program Labour (and our country!) have been lumbered with. Word has it this was why Sunak called the crazily early election... things would have gotten even worse for them.

 

It's 100 % on the Tories, this. They ran our country into the ground in so many ways

[SpacedX]

45 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

He is a ****ing moron, but I am sure he believes he is doing the right thing.

Nonsense. He's simply pandering to his scientifically illiterate, uneducated MAGA supporters and their susceptibility to dumb online conspiracy theories. His rhetoric on this topic has intensified to appeal to certain voter bases that lack the will or the intelligence to independently verify his claims.

 

Incorporating these dipshit theories into federal policy platforms serves as a populist political strategy to galvanise support from anti-establishment and vaccine-hesitant groups. Medical organisations like the American Academy of Pediatrics have recently condemned the messaging, warning that reducing vaccine schedules decreases follow-through compliance, directly contributing to severe public health risks such as the current worst U.S. measles outbreaks in 35 years. By 2019  it had all but been eliminated in the US. 

 

Vaccination is the only known prevention for measles, and there is no specific treatment to date. Governments around the world are running campaigns urging parents to make sure their children receive their due vaccinations whilst the Trump administration and their anti-science deregulation agenda is yet another purposeful stride towards the stone age.

Edited 11 August by SpacedX