Category: [Politics]

Reform councillor quits days after election

Oh dear. I was unhappy about Reform’s successes in the recent UK elections. despite the efforts of one commentator on social media to pretemd the outcome wasn’t that bad cos more than 70 percent of voters didn’t vote for them… meaning that nearly 30 percent did, of course, which is far too many. Still, there’s already one down…

A Reform UK councillor who was elected last week has resigned and been expelled from the party.
Stuart Prior was one of 53 Reform members who were elected to Essex County Council and earned a majority on the authority for Nigel Farage’s party. Prior also gained a seat on Rochford District Council.
But he was accused the week before the elections of creating racist and Islamophobic posts on social media by Hope Not Hate.
The BBC attempted to contact Prior. He denied being a racist when approached by the Daily Mirror newspaper. […]
Stuart Prior is alleged to have described white people as “the master race” who have “larger brains”.
Hope Not Hate also claimed Prior deleted an X account named @essexpriory earlier this year which had tweeted in November “Muslims are dirt” and “Muslims are awful, globally”. He was accused of posting that genocide could not be committed against them. […]
Farage was asked by BBC Essex last month if all of Reform’s candidates had been vetted in the county.
“I know that our candidates will be held to a higher standard than any of the other parties,” said the Clacton MP.
“That’s because we are the challengers. We are the ones taking on the establishment. Yet we have done a good, thorough professional job”.

A professional job of what, though? Apparently the party had been advised before the election that this Prior individual was a liability, so why did they let him through only to dump him almost immediately after the election? I don’t understand the thinking on Reform’s part, but then again there probably wasn’t any thinking in the first place…

OK. According to the story that I presume this Cody Simpson believes, Jesus was judicially killed by the Romans. Trump is still alive, even if only just, and his rotten physical health will almost certainly do him in before the courts ever will. I think that’s a slight difference between him and that Christ character (we will, of course, leave aside the theological question of whether the latter still “lives” or not)…

Gina Rinehart calls for immigrants’ social media to be screened in Anzac memorial speech

Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, called for immigrants’ social media to be screened and said children are being taught to be ashamed of the Australian flag in untelevised remarks before an Anzac memorial service on the steps of Sydney Opera House on Friday.
Rinehart’s public appearance was attended by about 4,000 people and sponsored by her company, Hancock Prospecting, and RSL New South Wales.
Rinehart claimed the Australian government was wasting money, eroding freedoms, running an ineffective defence force, leaving veterans homeless, teaching children to be ashamed of the Australian flag and doing nothing in response to “death chants”.
“Our immigration procedures must only allow immigrants who have been thoroughly checked – including their phones, iPads, laptops and social media,” Rinehart said in a speech later posted online.
“We need to protect our country – and welcome only peace-loving, contributing immigrants to our shores. This should not be controversial. What Australians really want their families’ lives hurt by terrorists?”

Quick question for Gina Rinehart: remember this guy who killed more than twice as many people as the Bondi shooters? What country did hie migrate from? What religion was he? Not surprising to discover that Gina’s a racist shit, of course, but this politicisation of that hideous event at Bondi revolts me. Curious that we’re only hearing about it now, too, given that when other racist shits booed the Welcome to Country at Anzac Day events in Sydney on Saturday we heard about that on the same day… I’d wait for the RSL to offer a statement on the matter, but I don’t feel there’ll be one…

Tucker Carlson says he regrets backing Donald Trump and is ‘tormented by it’

Tucker Carlson, a conservative podcaster, has said he is “tormented” by his support of Donald Trump, issuing in an extraordinary mea culpa that called for “a moment to wrestle with our own consciences”.
Carlson delivered that comment in a conversation with Buckley Carlson, his brother and a former Trump speechwriter, on The Tucker Carlson Show on Monday that reviewed the sidelining of traditional conservative values in a Republican party now dominated by the president.
“You know, we’ll be tormented by it for a long time – I will be,” Tucker Carlson said. “And I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people. It was not intentional, that’s all I’ll say.” […]
But the podcaster has now been at odds with the president over US support for Israel and the war the two countries started in Iran in late February. Carlson called Trump’s language on Iran “vile on every level” – and said he took personal responsibility for the president’s return to power.
“You and I and everyone else who supported him – you wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him – I mean, we’re implicated in this for sure,” Carlson said. “It’s not enough to say, ‘Well, I changed my mind’ – or like, ‘Oh, this is bad – I’m out,’” he told his brother.
He added: “In very small ways, but in real ways, you and me and millions of people like us are the reason this is happening right now.”

No. You were not responsible in a very small way, Fucker. You spent years being a voice for the regime on its official broadcaster and on your own show. Sure, you had doubts about Mushroom Cock like the article says, you even “hate[d] him passionately”. But you kept those doubts quiet until now. And it’s too late. You helped inflict this thing upon the world, and you helped him get there twice; now you’re worried about him sinking the ship and being dragged down with it. You don’t care about the damage you’ve helped inflict on millions of people, only about how you might be affected when those people hold you accountable. And fuck you accordingly, cunt.