Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th January 2025

[Frog222]

I started at 5°, and finished at freezing -- a VERY heavy barrowful of wild cherry logs . To be split tomorrow.

Felt almost sad for Rachel from Accounts, did nobody tell her that the Chinee economy is in a dire condition ?


Anyway, off to listen to R4 .

(Cat currently warming the foot of my bed )

[AnatolyKasparov]

It has been claimed that the RFA nickname has slight misogynistic vibes, just saying.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

On the Shamima Begum issue I've always thought she should be returned to the UK, she was a teenager who was groomed by some of the worst scum imaginable, she deserves every bit as much sympathy/understanding/justice as any other groomed and sexually exploited child. The fact that Labour aren't even considering her repatriation is shameful.

Having said all that it's still hilarious seeing Farage's discomfort on the subject as he tries to play both sides of the Atlantic. Stuck between the rock of nutters like Gorka and the hard place of his own dimwit supporters. It's an impossible position to be in, he can't reason his way out of it because neither side does reason. I genuinely think he's in trouble for the first time since he founded Ukip. How does he square the circle of remaining relatively politically (and socially) acceptable in the UK, keep his increasingly extreme political base happy, while simultaneously pandering to nutters from across the pond like Musk and Gorka? I don't think it can be done.

We're already seeing Trump's courtiers starting to knife each other with Bannon's attack on Musk. If Farage had any brains he'd distance himself from Trump and US politics altogether, it's going to be a shitshow and parochial small fry like him are going to be eaten alive, but his vanity and avarice won't allow it. Say what you like about Marine Le Pen but she's smart enough to focus on France and not be beholden to the kind of cranks orbiting Trump that attract Farage like he's a fly round shit.

I'm not one for making predictions because I'm often wrong, but if things carry on as they are I'd give him 6 months at best, the populist sands are shifting beneath his feet and from what we've seen over the last week he's already struggling to keep his balance.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

It has been claimed that the RFA nickname has slight misogynistic vibes, just saying.

Why not go the whole hog and say anti-Semitic as well. Rachel being a biblical Hebrew name. Just saying.

[AnatolyKasparov]

I don't think that's a very fair comparison really, RFA is routinely used by the types who adore GB News. Maybe think about that at least.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

You don't think its fair? You half heartedly wafted the misogyny card, I was merely offering the traditional Labour alternative if that didn't work.

Tell me, were you so concerned when we mocked Osborne or Sunak with equally juvenile jibes? I don't remember you raising any objections at the time.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Nothing is too bad to say about the towel folder, really. Good argument he is THE person most responsible for where we are today.

Some of the jibes at Sunak were a tad childish admittedly, but I like to think I mostly steered clear of them.