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Counting the Bastards in UKIP/BXP/Reform/whatever Brexit is more unicorny and pishy than ever

a red bus drinking from a river (or it might have accidentally driven into it, idk)
screengrab from BBC sport website with headline "Britain's Kerr breaks 27-year mile world record in London"
extract from story linked in quoted post: "Despite initially claiming only three flags would be flown over town hall - the St George’s Cross, Union Flag and Barnsley Council flag - they then proceeded to raise the Armed Forces flag, with a motion to finally cement their policy to be discussed at a full council meeting on Thursday (July 16)."
extract from bbc news online: "Farage said: "This is the first time the police have ever proactively acted on a social media post, and I hope they are looking at the other three or four hundred similar posts from this year alone.""
tweet from nigel farage, 21.08.2025: Welcome to freedom, Lucy Connolly. You are now a symbol of Keir Starmer’s authoritarian, broken, two-tier Britain.
from https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/139380/kai-stephens: Kai Stephens's policies Statement to voters I am proud to be representing the British Democrats as their candidate for the Clacton By-Election. Full statement I have chosen to stand as frankly, the choices being proposed to the public are entirely subpar. A traitor who works in the interests of Zionism, Capitalism, Globalism, and a failed leftist comedian who copies the act of a dead man. By voting for Binface, you are voting for 'Have I Got News For You' liberal slop politics, that perpetually degrades and humiliates our nation. You are justifying a pro-immigration, slop message. The British Democrats will be the only option on the paper that is serious, patriotic, and most importantly, NATIONALIST. Vote for what you believe, without lending your vote to crooks.
extract from guardian story: Tice, via lawyers, threatened to injunct the Guardian to stop it publishing these details. Without responding to any of the questions put to him, Tice then appears to have shared the allegations contained in the Guardian’s requests for comment with the Telegraph, which wrote them up without credit or contact ahead of publication.
a galvanized triangular key for an electricity meter cupboard
a black & white postcard image of Hereford Cathedral's chained library
a slide from the softbank presentation linked in the previous post headline: "Goose was not valued" below that, 3 golden eggs on the left, a white goose stands. on it is written "Goose value 0?"
links on the ITV website itv4 is showing the world cup the next channel down is showing Carry On Abroad
In February 2020, he claimed that sex and relationships education was being “taken over by ideologues and special interest groups who wish to promote their own agendas which in a number of cases are leading to serious child protection and safeguarding issues”. He said he wanted to “alert parliamentarians to the dangers involved and the potential increase in emotional, psychological and physical harms that are already arising due to the way RSE is being handled in some schools.”
snap of bbc weather showing a maximum temperature of 17C on tuesday
“The analysis also presents a downside scenario, finding that the shock could be much more profound, meaning the effect on the economy would be worse still. The rise in uncertainty could be amplified, the volatility in financial markets more tumultuous, and the extent of the impact to living standards more acute. In this severe scenario, GDP would be 6% smaller, there would be a deeper recession, and the number of people made unemployed would rise by around 800,000 compared with a vote to remain. The hit to wages, inflation, house prices and borrowing would be larger. There is a credible risk that this more acute scenario could materialise”.
comments on BBC News online piece about forthcoming heatwave: Comment by philaterely at 06:53 philaterely 06:53 to Rosalyn Dossavitch " Everyday the rip off energy cartel in the UK dont make a dime out of me is a good day " That’s why they are encouraging air con: using more energy. D Comment by Dez at 07:23 Dez 07:23 to Rosalyn Dossavitch " Everyday the rip off energy cartel in the UK dont make a dime out of me is a good day " The rip off turbines owners, being paid while they don’t turn. Comment by look at those penguins at 07:34 look at those penguins 07:34 to philaterely " That’s why they are encouraging air con: using more energy. " The clue is in the name 'air CON'.
extract from tomorrow's Telegraph front page's story about Andrew Castle being let go by the bbc It starts with a quote from Castle: "To be honest, when I got the job 23 years ago, a lot of the more experienced commentators felt that they should have been first in line. Their noses were put out of joint. So, in the wider scheme of things, I am lucky that I had the best gig in sports broadcasting for so long, during the greatest age of men's tennis." Asked what he would do in the future, he replied: "My wife continued on page 3
extract from Guardian article: "Those who consider Putin’s Russia to be a significant threat see Robinson’s remarks about the country as concerning. Last week he told the Guardian from Moscow: “I’ve come to see how this country got itself so well on to the straight and narrow and see the beauty of a civilised society here.” Robinson added: “Russia is not the enemy of Britain. That narrative has long since died a natural death. There are those who benefit from pushing Russia as an enemy but everyone laughs at those people now.” The Royal United Services Institute, a London-based thinktank, said: “Russia is one of the most prolific actors when it comes to conducting hybrid campaigns to influence the politics of other countries, including the UK. These campaigns blend online influence, cyber-attacks and other measures to try to cause offline effects – and events such as the Belfast attack certainly have the kind of incendiary potential that Moscow may seek to harness.”"
a large tarpaulin is hauled up the scaffolding erected for the removal of "the donald j trump and" lettering at the Kennedy Center
a man on a cherry picker installs the letter "d" on the Kennedy Center (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
snap from google maps showing various routes from hereford city centre to the cattle market
snip from bbc news online, leading to a piece by Laura Kuenssberg: "The Nowak murder has lit a match under British politics. This is how we got here."
post by sky news: "Henry Nowak murder's [sic] has highlighted the debate on whether UK police are anti-white" so far it has 36 RTs, 100% of which are quotes, 31 replies and 5 likes
a photo of street disorder in hampshire last night. a man wearing a balaclava appears to be attempting to launch a bike at police
a combine harvester on fire
screengrab from guardian article at https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/12/nigel-farage-eu-salary-docked-claim-misspent-public-funds quote: "Farage, who has been an MEP for 18 years, has one of the worst attendance records at the parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg. He is ranked 748 out of 751 MEPs and has taken part in only 37% of votes in the current parliamentary session, according to VoteWatch Europe."
screengrab of someone using a paypal account to try to obtain money by fraud on bluesky
a photo of nigel farage wearing a hiviz waistcoat and a lifebelt, apparently walking on (or alongside) a boat a sign between him and the camera reads: "CAUTION: SLIPPERY"
headline from BBC News Online: Is the UK's once favourite car coming back as an EV?
screengrab of Clarence Mitchell's twitter profile. the description reads: "Former Reform UK Councillor, Emmer Green Ward, Reading Borough Council, Ex BBC News. Likes the media and Reform UK. Communicates here and there"
grab from facebook from the "Rupert Lowe MP supporters group" (thank you algorithm for thinking for some reason i might be a hard-right headbanger) the post says "Pencil's [yes, with an apostrophe] being used at Croydon polling station. Took my own pen. Off to Norfolk know [sic] for celebration." the first photo is of the exterior of Boston Road Baptist Church with blue sky and some white clouds; a sign hangs on the fence saying "polling station" the second photo is inside a polling booth; there are some ballot papers on the work surface, and a pencil attached to the desk by string
extract from Google Maps showing Duke Street in Glasgow, which is 1.7 miles long
last paragraph of telegraph story: "A Reform UK spokesman said: “We posted letters physically through some of the doors on the day but weren’t able to deliver to all the addresses on the day. Letters are incoming for the remaining households. We always intended to pay for the whole road, as promised, and will do.”"
screengrab from companies house showing that ricky hodges's company, sentry scaffolding ltd, was compulsorily struck off in 2020
Guardian story: " British crypto billionaire Ben Delo says he has given £4m to Reform UK Delo, pardoned by Trump after violating US banking law, describes himself as champion of free speech"
article by Tibor Fischer in the Telegraph in 2017: "are you an unhappy snowflake? you'd better get used to it"
google ai response to the question "how many es are there in 'pointless technologies'": There are 6 "e"s in the phrase "pointless technologies".Here is the breakdown: p o i n t l e s s (1) t e c h n o l o g i e s (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) pointless technologies technologies
Fourth, Brexit will allow us to trade with the EU and deliver lower food prices. There are too many scare stories about the Single Market. The EU is a customs area. It sets an external tariff with those outside the EU. This is aimed at protecting agriculture and manufacturing, and results in people across the EU paying more for the prices of these things compared with world markets. With Brexit, people would suddenly face cheaper prices for food, as we would be paying world prices.
headline on bbc news online: "How wee collected at festivals could help with a project to grow a new forest"
a tweet exchange between me and James Delingpole i said Delingpole would be a "future winner of the Nobel Prize for interpreting interpretations" he said: "I'm glad you like that phrase 'interpreter of interpretations'. i invented it" i replied: "it certainly fits you better than 'climate expert'."
a notification in google workspace telling me to "unlock next-gen AI with AI utlra access"
grab from BBC News online headline: 'My aunt's loft was insulated with thousands of cigarettes' photo: man sitting on chair looking faintly bewildered, with about 100 cigarettes in his cupped hands
a picture of the trump flotilla from a while back. several people tried to drive down the value of their watercraft by attaching "trump" flags to them
some shattered glass. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO IT
front page of tomorrow's mail on sunday with screaming headline "FERGIE PLOT TO CLONE THE QUEEN'S CORGIS FOR REALITY TV"
extract from the IFS's response to reform uk's scotland manifesto: "First, the annual costs above already incorporate assumptions about behavioural responses to the tax cuts, including higher labour supply, less tax avoidance and evasion, and higher net immigration. There is room for reasonable disagreement as to the likely size of behavioural responses but there is no evidence to suggest that the tax cuts would pay for themselves. Moreover, because only around one third of tax revenues are devolved to Scotland, only part of the revenue increase that would result from increased economic growth would accrue to the Scottish Government. Because of this, the Scottish Fiscal Commission estimates that a 1% boost to earnings, for example, would boost devolved income tax revenues by only around £300 million a year (or around £3 billion over 10 years) . Second, the £2 billion (or more) cost of the income tax cuts is not a one-off up-front cost – it is an annual cost. Even if the figure were correct, £8 billion over 10 years does not exceed £2 billion per year, let alone repay it four times over. The ‘self-funding’ tax cuts are therefore a mirage created by a misunderstanding or misrepresentation of the current devolution settlement and incorrectly comparing cumulative and annual figures. This is not good enough."
extract from recent Spetactor article by Isabel Oakeshott. title: "I love Dubai. Get over it"
the logo of the british union of fascists
michael parkinson looks nonplussed as emu apparently prepares to attack
waitrose.com recipe for organic lemon chicken and artichoke pasta: Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a frying pan, add 1 clove organic garlic, crushed, and fry for 30 seconds. Add 400g Waitrose British Organic Mini Chicken Fillets, cubed, and fry for 7-8 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium and stir in 280g jar Waitrose Cooks’ Ingredients Grilled Artichokes, drained, or 150g Waitrose Frozen Artichokes, and the juice and grated zest of 1 organic lemon. Cover and cook for 8-10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Season and stir in chopped parsley from a Premier Pot of Parsley. Toss together with 150g Waitrose Organic Spaghetti, cooked to pack instructions.
grab from the telegraph of article by William Atkinson: "This is what Britain under PM Zack Polanski would look like"
The Times has investigated the figures on church closures and conversion to mosques. It reports that over the last 50 years, 8,500 churches in the UK have closed, leaving 38,500 still standing. They have become flats, bars, community centres, offices, shops or performance spaces – 496 were demolished. Reform says 41 places of worship have become mosques, based on a Wikipedia entry. These mostly belonged to Methodist, United Reformed, Seventh Day Adventist and Plymouth Brethren denominations. But for the Church of England, a spokesperson told the RMC that deconsecrated churches are sold under restrictive covenants which prevent the majority from ever from being turned over to other religions, even after they have been sold on. Two redundant CofE churches have become gurdwaras and one a mosque – in Peckham, south London.
screengrab of Gorton & Denton by-election results showing that Nick Buckley MBE was beaten by Sir Oink A-Lot of the Official Monster Raving Looney [sic] Party
steve buscemi in 30 rock in the "how do you do, fellow kids" meme
still of Matt Goodwin eating part of his book on sky news
a pink plastic lunchbox emblazoned with "my little pony" and a couple of stylized horses - though one appears to have a horn and so is likely a unicorn, not a horse
headline from the Allister Heath (fake) headline generator: "Britain's impotent state cannot survive the looming lemon party catastrophe"
screengrab of gmail inbox showing a message with the subject line "unlock better settings with Gemini"
skeet from The Times: "Left and right are both blind to their thugs" with a big photo of... Melanie Phillips