[Andy McDandy]

In the sense that they don't just let in anyone off the street, yes. But he's been on it enough times to know how they select the audience to reflect the locale.

[safe_timber_man]

It doesn't really stack up, either. He's been cheered many times while being on QT. Is that rigged? I know I'm indulging in his Trump tactics and he's appealing to his base, but it's all just so fucking thick.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I'm not a lawyer, but wouldn't that be a rather big call? To sue the leader of a (in vote terms) major party in election week? By all means, put out a statement or whatever, but legal action?

[Bones McCoy]

Or maybe: Not as popular among people as within bot-farms.

[Tubby Isaacs]

He loses best PM to Sunak, Starmer and Ed Davey. Lots of people don't like him at all, including lots of people who'll vote Tory this time.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yeah, Channel 4. Why haven't you preemptively denied a load of stuff that you haven't been accused of yet?

Andrew Parker on the other hand has denied all this apart from saying he was "goaded".

What about the other guy who even Reform admit was a fair cop? Did Channel 4 have that story in the bag, and add on a fake story? Why?

[Abernathy]

I'm not a lawyer, but wouldn't that be a rather big call? To sue the leader of a (in vote terms) major party in election week? By all means, put out a statement or whatever, but legal action?

Farage could be going down the Donald Trump route.

[Tubby Isaacs]

So that complaint to the Electoral Commission then...

[Youngian]

Reform are conducting their own investigation according to the Telegraph. Team leader Gareth Keenan heading that one up.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ha ha ha ha ha.

Will that involve talking to Andrew Parker? Farage could talk to his GB News mate, who's already spoken to him and found that the conspiracy is bollocks.

[satnav]

Reform know that any investigation would take mor than a week so no conclusion would be reached before election day. All they are doing is kicking the can down the road.

[Youngian]

It’s not Nigel’s week
https://www.threads.net/@steven.cookson ... 7v9p46XPtw

[Abernathy]

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[davidjay]

It's as though he has the media hypnotised. or has something on every editor in the country.

[Andy McDandy]

Fill the space. Man bites dog. What bleeds leads. Tomorrow's chip wrapper.

[davidjay]

Possibly the least convincing reprimand ever.

Reform drops three candidates over offensive comments

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c727xz2kkgjo

Asked what Reform would say to voters in the constituencies where the candidates had been dropped, the party spokesman said he would “encourage them to vote for the party, by voting for these people on the ballot paper".

This way, he said people could still vote for Reform's "policy platform".

[Bones McCoy]

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If MC Escher did Swastikas.

[Oboogie]

It’s not Nigel’s week
https://www.threads.net/@steven.cookson ... 7v9p46XPtw

For those without Threads, here's the You Tube version.

[satnav]

I can't believe that Sky News are broadcasting Farage's entire speech in Birmingham today. Have any other party leaders been afforded this amount of unchallenged airtime.

This is also grossly unfair to all the other candidates contesting the Clacton seat.

[Youngian]

I can't believe that Sky News are broadcasting Farage's entire speech in Birmingham today. Have any other party leaders been afforded this amount of unchallenged airtime.

24 hour news stations have a lot of dead air time to fill so I’d be surprised if they haven’t broadcast other candidates’ equally tedious speeches.