Reform UK - A symptom of all that is wrong?
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This is what it takes to be dropped by Reform
Reform drops candidate over BNP links
Reform has dropped a candidate after it was revealed he had been on a list of members belonging to the British National Party.
Raymond Saint’s name and address appeared on a list of BNP members that was published by WikiLeaks in 2009, The Guardian reported.
The newspaper said Saint, who is standing in Basingstoke, did not wish to discuss the matter when they approached him.
Reform said: “As Nigel Farage has repeatedly made plain, people who belong or used to belong to the BNP are not welcome in the Reform UK party.
“Every candidate was asked to declare their past or present political affiliations and was specifically asked whether they had ever been a member of the BNP. Mr Saint failed to do so and clearly lied to us.”
A simple Google search can return that list and is an obvious place to look if you want to avoid previous BNP members to the point that you specifically bring it up.
Reform drops candidate over BNP links
Reform has dropped a candidate after it was revealed he had been on a list of members belonging to the British National Party.
Raymond Saint’s name and address appeared on a list of BNP members that was published by WikiLeaks in 2009, The Guardian reported.
The newspaper said Saint, who is standing in Basingstoke, did not wish to discuss the matter when they approached him.
Reform said: “As Nigel Farage has repeatedly made plain, people who belong or used to belong to the BNP are not welcome in the Reform UK party.
“Every candidate was asked to declare their past or present political affiliations and was specifically asked whether they had ever been a member of the BNP. Mr Saint failed to do so and clearly lied to us.”
A simple Google search can return that list and is an obvious place to look if you want to avoid previous BNP members to the point that you specifically bring it up.
Vanden Saab said:
President Merkin said:
uk66fastback said:
I’ll wager not in your lifetime, pal - if ever. The EU will implode long before we would ever rejoin.
Talking of things that sound familiar...To be a Brexiter is to be a denier of gravity.
Denying gravity models is a good thing as they generated pure dreck in terms of post-brexit economic guestimates. After the Treasury realised their brexit forecasts based on gravity models were failing badly, they were dropped in favour of a black-box general equilibrium approach.
Mr Penguin said:
This is what it takes to be dropped by Reform
Reform drops candidate over BNP links
Reform has dropped a candidate after it was revealed he had been on a list of members belonging to the British National Party.
Thank goodness for that.Reform drops candidate over BNP links
Reform has dropped a candidate after it was revealed he had been on a list of members belonging to the British National Party.
Would it not have led to him being dropped by Labour and the Tories?
turbobloke said:
PM's snidey popshot post is a model of error in every way :sinar:
Denying gravity models is a good thing as they generated pure dreck in terms of post-brexit economic guestimates. After the Treasury realised their brexit forecasts based on gravity models were failing badly, they were dropped in favour of a black-box general equilibrium approach.
Parklife!Denying gravity models is a good thing as they generated pure dreck in terms of post-brexit economic guestimates. After the Treasury realised their brexit forecasts based on gravity models were failing badly, they were dropped in favour of a black-box general equilibrium approach.
turbobloke said:
PM's snidey popshot post is a model of error in every way :sinar:
Denying gravity models is a good thing as they generated pure dreck in terms of post-brexit economic guestimates. After the Treasury realised their brexit forecasts based on gravity models were failing badly, they were dropped in favour of a black-box general equilibrium approach.
So what do you call ignoring actual, concrete data then?Denying gravity models is a good thing as they generated pure dreck in terms of post-brexit economic guestimates. After the Treasury realised their brexit forecasts based on gravity models were failing badly, they were dropped in favour of a black-box general equilibrium approach.
Asking for a friend.....
M.
z4RRSchris said:
im not really sure what you would cut from the public sector that isnt already s
t.
other than old ex tory reform voters with no mortgages and nice pensions, saying, "well we would slash the welfare bill and make poor people get off their lazy arses etc,"
But not the biggest part of the welfare bill of course!!t. other than old ex tory reform voters with no mortgages and nice pensions, saying, "well we would slash the welfare bill and make poor people get off their lazy arses etc,"
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/blogs/ec_vipol...
New Electoral Calculus and Find Out Now MRP poll data shows Reform could win 18 seats, fieldwork to 24 June, sample 19,000+
New Electoral Calculus and Find Out Now MRP poll data shows Reform could win 18 seats, fieldwork to 24 June, sample 19,000+
Mortarboard said:
So what do you call ignoring actual, concrete data then?
Asking for a friend.....
M.
Seriously?Asking for a friend.....
M.
https://en.macromicro.me/charts/541/eu-pmi-eurozon...
Digga said:
Mortarboard said:
So what do you call ignoring actual, concrete data then?
Asking for a friend.....
M.
Seriously?Asking for a friend.....
M.
https://en.macromicro.me/charts/541/eu-pmi-eurozon...
I'll wait
M.
Mortarboard said:
Digga said:
Mortarboard said:
So what do you call ignoring actual, concrete data then?
Asking for a friend.....
M.
Seriously?Asking for a friend.....
M.
https://en.macromicro.me/charts/541/eu-pmi-eurozon...
I'll wait
M.
FWIW, in the last year, UK moved up into the #4 global exporter spot too. I would agree, it is not all beer and skittles though.
Digga said:
I’m not the one saying every metric points in a single direction.
FWIW, in the last year, UK moved up into the #4 global exporter spot too. I would agree, it is not all beer and skittles though.
PMI is the industrial equivalent of the consumer confidence survey.FWIW, in the last year, UK moved up into the #4 global exporter spot too. I would agree, it is not all beer and skittles though.
Trade intensity is actual numbers, and negates for things like covid, Ukraine, currency movements and inflation.
M.
Mortarboard said:
Digga said:
I’m not the one saying every metric points in a single direction.
FWIW, in the last year, UK moved up into the #4 global exporter spot too. I would agree, it is not all beer and skittles though.
PMI is the industrial equivalent of the consumer confidence survey.FWIW, in the last year, UK moved up into the #4 global exporter spot too. I would agree, it is not all beer and skittles though.
Trade intensity is actual numbers, and negates for things like covid, Ukraine, currency movements and inflation.
M.
Exporter status is an absolute.
bhstewie said:
hstewie said: Something Channel 4 are going to be reporting on later.
I'm sure there will be the usual excuses made by Farage and his apologists on here.
Farage’s statement very strongly condemned comments made by people campaigning in Clacton, which sounded significant. However, Peter Cardwell has had it confirmed by channel 4 that this is racist language from a couple of volunteer leafleters. Secretly recorded by an undercover journalist. I'm sure there will be the usual excuses made by Farage and his apologists on here.
If that is all it is then I suspect it may turn out to be a storm in a teacup.
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