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Oh my! Farage isn’t up to it - according to Musk😄😄

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Whitewavemark2 Sun 05-Jan-25 14:39:56

Glorious😄😄😄

Freya5 Sun 05-Jan-25 16:21:16

Ladyleftfieldlover

Reform has just 5 MPs. 5!

More votes than the wet dems, who should be the ones with only 5 seats.
Yet Rupert Lowe etc are standing up for British people more so than Davey. In fact all of those 5 have more nouse about them than all the wet dems put together.

FlitterMouse Sun 05-Jan-25 16:22:57

I wrote about this on the other thread. He was making a lot of noise about "surrendering" his shares but retaining the party leadership. There is nothing in Company House records yet that says he has done so.

Last year, the company was technically insolvent, owing Tice over a million pounds. He was repaid £200,000 in the summer, sources say as a sweetneer so that he would step aside as leader in favour of Farage but that still leaves £800,000 owing which must give his a good deal of leverage.

Whitewavemark2 Sun 05-Jan-25 16:25:28

Thanks for that flittermouse - I don’t follow the shenanigans too closely - but I suspected that Farage hadn’t given up control.

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Sun 05-Jan-25 16:26:02

Excellent response from Farage.
Measured & calm as usual.

Whitewavemark2 Sun 05-Jan-25 16:26:12

Freya5

Ladyleftfieldlover

Reform has just 5 MPs. 5!

More votes than the wet dems, who should be the ones with only 5 seats.
Yet Rupert Lowe etc are standing up for British people more so than Davey. In fact all of those 5 have more nouse about them than all the wet dems put together.

😄😄 that’s not how I would describe it!

fancythat Sun 05-Jan-25 16:27:47

What a hoot.

If it all wasnt so serious.

Whitewavemark2 Sun 05-Jan-25 16:28:26

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Excellent response from Farage.
Measured & calm as usual.

Measured and calm??!! That is not Farage’s default setting however much he would like you to think it was.

mae13 Sun 05-Jan-25 16:28:36

Musk has seen far too many Bond films: he probably really does believe "Ha! Ha! Soon I will completely control the world!"

All he needs now is a white Persian cat with a diamond collar.

But he'd do well to look back to the Wall Street crash of 1929. It happened so fast that men who had been powerful multi-millionaires one day were jumping to their deaths the next, broke and ruined.

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Sun 05-Jan-25 16:28:38

So, Musk falls out with Farage because Farage has stuck to his principles and doesn't want Tommy Robinson anywhere near Reform. I would go for Farage's principles over Musk's money every time.

whywhywhy Sun 05-Jan-25 16:31:09

Hahaha!!!

HousePlantQueen Sun 05-Jan-25 16:32:14

FriedGreenTomatoes2

So, Musk falls out with Farage because Farage has stuck to his principles and doesn't want Tommy Robinson anywhere near Reform. I would go for Farage's principles over Musk's money every time.

Yesterday you wanted both! It grieves me, but yes, I agree with Farage about Tommy Robinson, he is not some sort of folk hero, he is a criminal.

"He is not The Messiah, he is a very naughty boy"

Mt61 Sun 05-Jan-25 16:42:01

I much preferred Ben Habib

Whitewavemark2 Sun 05-Jan-25 16:42:16

What’s the betting that they will be all cozying up at the inauguration?

This really is a pantomime.

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Sun 05-Jan-25 16:48:43

Musk will fall out with Trump next.
After the inauguration.

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Sun 05-Jan-25 16:49:44

I too wish Ben Habib were more involved. He wasn’t selected as an MP though. Then he left.

MayBee70 Sun 05-Jan-25 16:53:34

HousePlantQueen

FriedGreenTomatoes2

So, Musk falls out with Farage because Farage has stuck to his principles and doesn't want Tommy Robinson anywhere near Reform. I would go for Farage's principles over Musk's money every time.

Yesterday you wanted both! It grieves me, but yes, I agree with Farage about Tommy Robinson, he is not some sort of folk hero, he is a criminal.

"He is not The Messiah, he is a very naughty boy"

The only reason Farage is distancing himself from Robinson is that he has to pretend that they don’t share the same political beliefs even though they do.

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Sun 05-Jan-25 16:54:42

Like Starmer and Corbyn.

Indigo8 Sun 05-Jan-25 16:58:52

HousePlantQueen

I loved your quote from Monty Python's Life of Brian.
It made me laugh out loud. Very apt.grin

FlitterMouse Sun 05-Jan-25 16:59:33

Whitewavemark2

Thanks for that flittermouse - I don’t follow the shenanigans too closely - but I suspected that Farage hadn’t given up control.

Absolutely, Maybee. The public are being played.

Habib was sacked by Farage.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DPcWzADXfA

HousePlantQueen Sun 05-Jan-25 17:02:04

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Musk will fall out with Trump next.
After the inauguration.

I agree. No platform is big enough for two such huge egos. The fall out will be cataclysmic.

FlitterMouse Sun 05-Jan-25 17:02:42

Apologies. Wrong quote in my reply.

Whitewavemark2 Sun 05-Jan-25 17:07:24

How is GBNews - that bastion of unbiased reporting dealing with this latest tripe?

Yesterday they were praising Musk to the hilt - today I guess not so much seeing as they employ Farage as one of their presenters.

gangy5 Sun 05-Jan-25 17:11:45

Over the pond they are suggesting Tommy Robinson should be our leader !!!! What absolute boll..............s !!!!!!

Graceless Sun 05-Jan-25 17:13:45

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Like Starmer and Corbyn.

If only 😒

Allira Sun 05-Jan-25 17:16:13

growstuff

Whitewavemark2

What a lot of nonsense it all is.

Musk, Trump, Farage and the like seem to have all the maturity of 14 year olds.

That's an insult to 14 year olds!

It certainly is!!
😁