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Farage hits back after Ed Davey warns against letting 'Trump's America' become 'Farage's Britain'

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DaisyAnneReturns Thu 25-Sept-25 11:28:52

This is a "short" from Sky News.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7lywKtIN8k

growstuff Thu 25-Sept-25 17:18:29

DaisyAnneReturns

Bukkie

The asylum seekers are eating swans from the parks in Hull and fishing and eating the carp from the ponds.
Ed Davey is a complete buffoon with his stupid gimmicks and nonsense. Reform certainly isn't a one man party and virtually everyone I spoke to on a recent holiday had voted Reform in recent elections.

Well, I'll be sure to take your opinion/posts as gospel, Bukkie.

And I'll try to avoid whatever kind of holiday it was because I don't think I'd like the company. hmm

sundowngirl Thu 25-Sept-25 17:17:42

Casdon - I know a goose is not a swan but is it not still illegal?

Casdon Thu 25-Sept-25 17:09:40

A goose is not a swan sundowngirl. Brits do it too, a doctor was caught by the police deliberately knocking down and killing a sheep on the Pennines to cut up for his freezer when I worked up there - it was the talk of the hospital for weeks.

sundowngirl Thu 25-Sept-25 17:05:23

There is a video on YouTube ‘Migrants in London Catch a Goose’ from 2 months ago. someone followed the migrants into a lift and filmed the goose in their bag
It is happening

MaizieD Thu 25-Sept-25 16:58:16

FriedGreenTomatoes2

MaizieD

I understand that swan isn't particularly nice to eat...

Very popular on the dinner tables in Tudor times I seem to recall?

I know, but even so, I have read somewhere that they're not particularly nice to eat.

Being a wild waterfowl, swans generally have darker, tougher meat compared to domesticated poultry bred for tender meat. Their muscles get more exercise from flying and swimming than chickens in a coop. As a result, their meat has a dense, chewy texture which requires slow moist cooking to become tender. The taste and texture is not as palatable as chicken, duck or goose for most consumers.

www.birdful.org/why-dont-we-eat-swan-meat/

Allira Thu 25-Sept-25 16:51:53

Casdon

The Royal Parks Authority say it’s not true, and if anybody would know, surely it would be them? Swans are protected birds, so if there was any evidence at all they would be onto it.

Mute Swans belong to the Crown.

You can catch carp and take them away if they are under a certain size.

keepingquiet Thu 25-Sept-25 16:51:49

Why is this even a story?

Stop giving Frarage the air to breathe...

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Thu 25-Sept-25 16:51:19

MaizieD

I understand that swan isn't particularly nice to eat...

Very popular on the dinner tables in Tudor times I seem to recall?

Allira Thu 25-Sept-25 16:45:32

MaizieD

I understand that swan isn't particularly nice to eat...

I've never tried it 😁

The cooked swan incident was twelve years ago in 2013.
Yes, I thought it was a long time ago and it was Eastern Europeans who were blamed, I think.

Right, then, any good suggestions for a new name for Farage's new party when Reform implodes?

Bukkie Thu 25-Sept-25 16:45:19

It was in the Hull Daily Mail and on regional news.

PaynesGrey Thu 25-Sept-25 16:40:37

Thanks for the link DAR. A very clever analyisis from Phil M. And look at what has happened? We have ended up talking about swans rather than NF’s jibe at Davey’s mental state. Perhaps we should get back to that rather than give more oxygen to a fake story.

DaisyAnneReturns Thu 25-Sept-25 16:38:55

New Statesman video www.youtube.com/watch?v=34UKKQgVEKc Labour is losing votes to the Lib Dems. It's also a review of the conference.

petra Thu 25-Sept-25 16:25:31

vintage1950

Didn't Farage say that asylum seekers were killing and eating swans? However would they manage that?

I do know of that actually happening. The swan was shot.

DaisyAnneReturns Thu 25-Sept-25 16:22:05

Bukkie

The asylum seekers are eating swans from the parks in Hull and fishing and eating the carp from the ponds.
Ed Davey is a complete buffoon with his stupid gimmicks and nonsense. Reform certainly isn't a one man party and virtually everyone I spoke to on a recent holiday had voted Reform in recent elections.

Well, I'll be sure to take your opinion/posts as gospel, Bukkie.

DaisyAnneReturns Thu 25-Sept-25 16:19:51

It seems to have come back because Nick Ferrari had a bet with Farage that it wasn't true. Now Farage is refusing to pay up (there's a suprise) and is saying it's up to Farrari to prove it didn't happen. As you can't prove a negative and he should be able to prove his case, if true, Farage is just showing us his normal behavior.

If you want to find out more about why politicians make these outrageous claims - not as straightforward as we may assume - Phil Moorhouse has made a video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUoSPALgbnM

Oreo Thu 25-Sept-25 15:48:19

Was that reported in Hull newspapers Bukkie ? Depending on the country asylum seekers hail from it’s entirely possible they see it as ‘fair game’. What happened to them, were they caught?

Bukkie Thu 25-Sept-25 15:45:01

The asylum seekers are eating swans from the parks in Hull and fishing and eating the carp from the ponds.
Ed Davey is a complete buffoon with his stupid gimmicks and nonsense. Reform certainly isn't a one man party and virtually everyone I spoke to on a recent holiday had voted Reform in recent elections.

Maremia Thu 25-Sept-25 15:39:22

Swans are probably delicious, as they often featured in medieval banquets.
Has anyone ever tried to go near a swan? Even an injured one could break your arm.
Farage has no respect for this followers, feeding them such drivel.

MaizieD Thu 25-Sept-25 15:26:21

I understand that swan isn't particularly nice to eat...

Oreo Thu 25-Sept-25 15:25:33

That it happened once is no reason for Farage to say it’s happening in various locations.

Oreo Thu 25-Sept-25 15:24:05

They must have thought any river wildlife was fair game.

Oreo Thu 25-Sept-25 15:22:47

Goodness, was the barbecued corpse thing twelve years ago?
So some people really did kill and cook it?

PaynesGrey Thu 25-Sept-25 15:19:44

There is no recent evidence of this. There was a fabricated Sun story 22 years ago and a BBQd corpse found at Windsor 12 years ago.

This is about the completely unworkable policy of wanting to deport people who have ILR. There is no appetite for this kind of cruelty towards people who have made a life here. Hence finding some nonsense to deflect from the bad press over that while still keeping up the anti-migrant rhetoric.

Once day people will wake up and realised they are being played.

Oreo Thu 25-Sept-25 15:18:49

Then Farage will have to prove that’s so. Being him he won’t I expect.

Casdon Thu 25-Sept-25 15:14:41

Farage claimed that migrants were taking them from the grounds of the Royal Parks though. That’s what is in the press now.