And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare.

It’s not too difficult to stick to that because here it’d be largely the Mail and a few tabloids, which tend not to be used in the serious news sections here anyway unless it’s a piss-take of the Mail.

That’s like shooting fish in a barrel. A harder challenge would be to find someone in Reform who isn’t awful.

Is Sunak really so stupid

Yes.

They are never going to say to vote tactically but resources will be targeted at constituencies where they stand a good chance of winning, which will have a similar effect. I’d respect them more if they said “we aren’t going to win in X, so vote Lib Dem/Green/SNP to really stick the boot in” as it might make all the difference.

The thing about Clacton is polling suggests Labour are in second, with Farage well ahead. So an argument could be made for Labour to step it up a gear there because if Farage messes up (perhaps by continuing to be a Putin stooge) they could sneak between a split Tory/Reform vote and get a cheeky win. Anything to keep Farage out of Parliament as his influence is corrosive. They may be calculating that Farage as an MP might be the nail in the Tory’s coffin for a generation but it may bite them in the arse.

People go to Turkey for dental crowns (as well as hair transplants). The worst cases tend to look like a blazing white slab of tombstone teeth - like a cut-price “Hollywood smile” and even less natural looking. I know someone who had it down and you had to look at him indirectly or be blinded by the dazzle of them.

It would have been difficult for him to deny as he was filmed doing it.

I bet Tennant is worried now as Sunak gives him both barrels and even Starmer is sticking the boot in, or whatever that half-arsed nonsense is all about.

That’s him.

Weird coincidence that this happened as four men were trespassing on his home in Yorkshire but it doesn’t seem like a coordinated thing.

Do not let the bigots and bullies win

Said one of the worst bigots and bullies in a party largely made up of some pretty terrible people.

It is also understood that the party will return £100,000 in donations to the businessman that he has made since Sir Keir Starmer took charge of Labour.

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Posting on X, Mr Craig said he had “enjoyed the odd bet for fun” throughout his life, adding: "A few weeks ago when I thought I would never win this seat I put a bet on the Tories to win here with the intention of giving any winnings to local charities.

He clearly has more than enough cash, just donate straight to charity.

That would be the dream scenario and a decade back I’d be fine with rolling those dice but then BoJo and Trump got elected and I worry that an “outsider” populist candidate could pull off the same trick.

Seems perfect.

Careful, we don’t allow the N word on here.

R

Brilliant!

That’s the right wing media for you. I don’t have them blocked in my newsfeed so I can see what they are up to and it is a completely different world - pretty much anything green gets hammered.

Does he want to destroy the Conservative party and rebuild it in his image[?]

This is my worry - his sudden U-turn suggests someone has had serious words with him about how this is the best time to strike as the stars have aligned to show a route for him to get into power. He doesn’t need to win (m)any seats, he just needs to wreck the Tories chances in a number of seats, dragging them to historic lows and then propose some kind of merger as the best way to remove the threat. With so few MPs left and a desperation in the party, he can pitch himself as the best candidate to beat Starmer and, he may well be.

It would make the Tory party into the National Front Lite but they’re already most of the way there:

all these policies would be at home in a Thatcher-era National Front manifesto, and they are all now promoted by the Conservative party.

It Can’t Happen Here?

Indeed:

We have a traditional compact with voters. They might suspect that we are self-promoting posh boys and money-grabbing wotsits, in politics for no good reasons. But if we are bstards, at least we have been competent bstards, ritually elected to clean up after Labour’s habitually profligate compassion. The last few years have ruined that. Without competency, we are just b*stards.

Quite an amazing thing to see coming from a Tory. It’s like arguing “at least the trains ran on time”, except the Tories can’t manage that.

And “Labour’s habitually profligate compassion”? Things like reducing hospital waiting times? I suppose they did work hard to reverse that.