Farage. Well he’s Top of the Pops right now! 😂

bathsalts

Three words I suppose. Cuts out any actual thinking or basic humanity.

Our current PM and Home Secretary are rather fond of three word slogans

Smash the Gangs

The photo in the OP is sickingly retouched to make him look like an innocent angel! My foot.

This one is much more to the point, the text too

www.facebook.com/groups/tacticalvoting/permalink/1569798060371383/

Wyllow3

On "returning the boats" - here it is in Reform Policy document, clearly promoting the falsehood we can return the boats.

To the extent people on GN supporting Reform have been believing it.

What also chilled me however was point 4
New Dept. of Immigration staffed by believers

whats the plan? Like trump atm, sack all the workers in the Dept of immigration and reappoint by tested "believers".

For some reason that poster made me think of this www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv2MLlZKarM and now I can't get it out of my head.

Claremont

The photo in the OP is sickingly retouched to make him look like an innocent angel! My foot.

This one is much more to the point, the text too

www.facebook.com/groups/tacticalvoting/permalink/1569798060371383/

😁

Well, he's not going to walk round all day with the expression in your link, Claremont!

No-one has the same expression all the time, probably not even you; I know I don't. The media has a habit of catching well-known people at their worst then publishing the pictures.

I don't like him but let's stick to facts.

bathsalts

Three words I suppose. Cuts out any actual thinking or basic humanity.

That's what all politicians do, although some may even use five words.
"The pound in your pocket"
"Things can only get better"
"Not flash. Just Gordon” 😀
"Labour isn't working"
"Britain Deserves Better"
"Yes We Can"

And a longer one "A Week is a Long Time in Politics"

Because they're short and snappy people remember them.

GrannyGravy13

bathsalts

Three words I suppose. Cuts out any actual thinking or basic humanity.

Our current PM and Home Secretary are rather fond of three word slogans

^Smash the Gangs^

For sure, we've had a series of 3 word flops over the years.

Doesn't make this any more palatable.

Make Britain Great springs to mind?

For Mash Get Smash.... oh no that's 4.

You see - you remember them!! 😁

The media has a habit of catching well-known people at their worst

Remember poor Ed Milliband with that bacon sandwich?
Or the Kinnocks getting bowled over by waves on the beach?

Oh yes, and many actors looking like normal human beings or pulling a face (usually women).

Boris Johnson was the three word slogan king I think.
Get Brexit Done!
Oven Ready Deal
Stay at Home
Hands, Face, Space
and hundreds more. He also wins the most frequently photographed bloopers by a politician competition - just Google, again there are hundreds. I think we became immune, whereas we remember the one offs by other politicians, because usually they are more sensible.

As for Farage, I can no longer ever look at him without thinking of Parker from Thunderbirds, his doppelgänger.

As for Farage, I can no longer ever look at him without thinking of Parker from Thunderbirds, his doppelgänger.

Parker reminds me of someone else but I can't think who. 🤔

Staffed by believers?! Believing in what - Jesus? Allah? The Easter Bunny? Who decides?
My vote is for anyone who could sing The Monkees song ( although that might narrow the age of candidates somewhat)

Chocolatelovinggran

Staffed by believers?! Believing in what - Jesus? Allah? The Easter Bunny? Who decides?
My vote is for anyone who could sing The Monkees song ( although that might narrow the age of candidates somewhat)

My vote is for anyone who could sing The Monkees song
🤚

I thought love was only true in fairy tales
Meant for someone else but not for me
Love was out to get me
That’s the way it seemed
Disappointment haunted all my dreams

And then I saw her face
Now I’m a believer
And not a trace
Of doubt in my mind
I’m in love
I’m a believer
I couldn’t leave her if I tried 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

GrannyGravy13

I thought love was only true in fairy tales
Meant for someone else but not for me
Love was out to get me
That’s the way it seemed
Disappointment haunted all my dreams

And then I saw her face
Now I’m a believer
And not a trace
Of doubt in my mind
I’m in love
I’m a believer
I couldn’t leave her if I tried 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

What have we volunteered for GrannyGravy13?

Enforced rest is having an effect on my cognitive functioning, or it could be the drugs 😹🤷‍♀️

Which of you two sings the most like Davy Jones, that will clinch the deal.

Casdon

Which of you two sings the most like Davy Jones, that will clinch the deal.

I had his poster on my bedroom wall 💙

GrannyGravy13

Casdon

Which of you two sings the most like Davy Jones, that will clinch the deal.

I had his poster on my bedroom wall 💙

You win! 😁

No-one wants to hear me singing.

Ok Casdon and GrannyGravy, I'll go with that: sorted.
Who will let The Reform Party know that we've done the work for them?

Wyllow3

On "returning the boats" - here it is in Reform Policy document, clearly promoting the falsehood we can return the boats.

To the extent people on GN supporting Reform have been believing it.

What also chilled me however was point 4
New Dept. of Immigration staffed by believers

whats the plan? Like trump atm, sack all the workers in the Dept of immigration and reappoint by tested "believers".

There’s a really interesting programme on BBC2 called The Balkans. They just interviewed someone from Albania who had come to the UK on a boat but was sent back. The programme just pointed out that, if we want to stop people trying to get to the UK we need to help poor countries get richer. I also only recently learned that the reason why we left Afghanistan so suddenly ( thereby letting down all the Afghan people that had worked for us) was because it was militarily impossible for us to stay there once America had pulled out. Those poor people are still in danger and desperate to escape ( and Trump has just pulled the plug on them going to America). We have to get to the bottom of why people are needing to escape to the UK and it isn’t a quick fix.

This piece three months ago from Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, puts it very well:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/keir-starmer-migrant-crisis-tony-blair-crime-channel-crossings

The latest Reform poster.

"Any signs in a foreign language should be removed - on roads, in hospitals/GP surgeries, for transport networks, wherever. This is England, and we speak English. Don't like it? Leave."

If Rupert Lowe gets his way thousands of drivers all across England will find themselves at the end of unmarked cul-de-sacs.

Do you think he realises that HM Government isn't just about England but the whole United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?

Oh please, the road leading up from the Port of Dover is dangerous enough without holiday makers/ lorries/ coaches / caravanners checking their Google translate app to read the road signs.