Almost four years out from an election & paying *the actual fucking Taliban* to torture & murder people who risked their lives to escape them is getting the full ‘both sides’ treatment in Brexit Britain.
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It’s getting more than “both sides” treatment. It’s expected uk policy now with minimal feedback from most of the media
aug 27, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/ali... "Trump’s US is not ‘some other place’. His contempt for the global rules-based order and his normalisation of cruelty, hatred and the othering of vulnerable groups, have deeply impressed proto-fascists everywhere and been energetically adopted in the UK" -
aug 30, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 1 • view
Well I know you deserve a break but we only had the Far Rage show 7-10 now it’s on 7-1 so you are definitely missed!
aug 27, 2025, 11:03 am • 0 0 • view
Day 1 meet the Ayatollah Day 2 meet Hibatullah Akhundzada Day 3 meet Isaias Afwerki. Eritrea Nov Remembrance Sunday wear a poppy and remember all the lives lost in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban knowing you condemned the people you deported to death.
aug 27, 2025, 11:13 am • 4 1 • view
Language Timothy 😮
aug 27, 2025, 12:30 pm • 0 0 • view
How did we get here? And more importantly how do we get somewhere else?
aug 27, 2025, 1:00 pm • 6 0 • view
This comment, by T Welden, has real punch and ought to be shared wider, Mr O'Brien. A fair comparison. Imagine if in 1930s, Chamberlain had threatened to return Jewish Refugees to Germany, and offered to pay Hitler to accept them. That, in effect, is what Farage is proposing to do. [Terry Welden]
aug 27, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 0 • view
"protect arrr veterans....just not veterans", Isn't that a great advert for recruiting to the armed forces? "Work for us, we'll protect you...just not unless you fit a particular description....that's all" The level of dumbness is "Final Boss"...
aug 27, 2025, 11:08 am • 1 0 • view
I bet you must miss being where I know you are best being: on LBC broadcasting!!!!!
aug 27, 2025, 10:44 am • 0 0 • view
You're on holiday, relax, Emily's in charge today, and doing fine.
aug 27, 2025, 10:34 am • 9 0 • view
Brexit’s unknown, unknowns coming into blossom
aug 27, 2025, 12:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Sure Ed will be interesting on all this.
aug 28, 2025, 6:46 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s always been a lazy journalism trait, but it’s a systemic failure now. Whither the expenses scandal type work of yesteryear?
aug 27, 2025, 10:30 am • 15 0 • view
It is sickening
aug 27, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Anyone who deals in anyway with the Taliban deserves permanent oblivion. The Labour Party have utterly lost their way. WTF do they think they are doing???
aug 27, 2025, 9:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Did you see Rylan is now up with the right wing anti migrant dog whistling ?
aug 27, 2025, 7:38 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 6:31 am • 0 0 • view
Just when you think we've hit rock bottom, we keep falling. Another layer of ridiculousness emerges, largely unchallenged. I feel like banging my head against a wall with some force....
aug 27, 2025, 10:47 am • 4 0 • view
I honestly despair! I guess part of the MSM can't wait for the Farage (Britain Trump) reality show and to hell with decency and values! 🤬
aug 28, 2025, 7:24 am • 0 0 • view
Sweary James-O. I think he's *roused*.
aug 27, 2025, 6:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep. #R4today "would Labour do a deal with the Taliban?" I mean fuck off.
aug 27, 2025, 10:39 am • 67 0 • view
Saw the daily express chap on itv telling us it was a good thing, so the uk isn’t a weird place at all
aug 27, 2025, 12:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Its the lowest of the low!
aug 27, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Everything they do has a time limit James.
aug 28, 2025, 6:27 am • 0 0 • view
Take a look at YouGov poll today. Opposed by 61% including 50% of RefUK supporters.
aug 27, 2025, 5:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Nothing says winning like the UK paying Iran and the Taliban taxpayers' cash.
aug 27, 2025, 10:59 am • 1 0 • view
We need to change how at risk humans are homed, particularly from Af'stan. I volunteered to house a female refugee in my home in the South and was told by actual refugee agencies that "they only want Bradford". Really?! I thought that was a biased assumption. So a lady lost out on a home due to bias
aug 27, 2025, 12:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep .. say it again .. and again .. Reform and the actual fucking Taliban !!!
aug 27, 2025, 11:05 am • 0 0 • view
The Taliban throw gay people off buildings
aug 27, 2025, 10:30 am • 4 1 • view
So would Farage and his chums if they continue to be encouraged.
aug 27, 2025, 10:49 am • 1 0 • view
Give it a few months and we'll probably be doing it here as well
aug 27, 2025, 10:31 am • 12 0 • view
And the "vote Labour or get tory" lot would probably defend it
aug 27, 2025, 10:39 am • 2 0 • view
They are probably the ones who are going to suggest it and want to be seen doing it.
aug 27, 2025, 10:40 am • 1 0 • view
Perfidious Albion.
aug 27, 2025, 10:36 am • 1 0 • view
The most irritating part of the ReformUK Ltd speeches from yesterday is that the media are openly promoting it and the daily papers are praising it as if it is normal!!! The Mail is possibly the worst but I suppose that is expected
aug 27, 2025, 10:41 am • 62 5 • view
aug 27, 2025, 11:15 am • 2 0 • view
I saw that newspaper front page here in Ireland this morning too (no, I dunno why we get this crap either) and let out a hearty "fuck you" both to Farage and the DM. Poison is all it is.
aug 27, 2025, 10:44 am • 58 3 • view
Fucking pukes 🤮
aug 27, 2025, 12:34 pm • 6 0 • view
😡😡😡😡- I don’t understand why the media, particularly the BBC are promoting this bigoted, racist, party of hate and falling over themselves to include this toad of a man as much as possible. Are we learning nothing from what’s happening across the pond.
aug 27, 2025, 11:58 am • 5 0 • view
Well to be fair to the Daily Mail, it has openly supported fascism and its like for nearly a century. It was an apologist for Hitler right through the second world war And was one of the backers behind the British Union of Fascists. It has always been nazi loving scum.
aug 27, 2025, 11:33 am • 4 0 • view
Hurrah for the Blackshirts 2. Clacton Drift, (Oh and these socialists, are they in the room with us now?)
aug 28, 2025, 7:23 am • 0 0 • view
Anti Farage papers just need to push the fact that small boats are a result of Brexit and Farage. He knew this was likely. All day every day until it seeps into the public consciousness. It totally exposes his hypocrisy and total contempt for the intellect of the British people.
aug 28, 2025, 9:27 am • 2 1 • view
Can't we send reform there to test it out for us.
aug 27, 2025, 11:04 am • 0 0 • view
It is the modern-day equivalent of paying Hitler to take back Jews!
aug 27, 2025, 11:31 am • 3 0 • view
As Farage and his fascist chums are mostly funded by the uber-rich via Tufton Street etc, maybe the way to tackle him is every time he comes up with crap like this we slap a further hike on wealth taxes, and make it clear that's why it's being done. Farage would melt like the wicked witch.
aug 27, 2025, 10:52 am • 0 0 • view
Foreign funding of politics either directly or proxy (aka Tufton St) needs to be banned.
aug 27, 2025, 11:07 am • 1 0 • view
Better yet, the international super-wealthy need to be curbed. They're like a nest of wasps, spoiling everyone's picnic.
aug 27, 2025, 11:09 am • 1 0 • view
I find myself wondering every day if Hitler was around today would the media be breaking their necks to give him the “both sides”treatment?
aug 28, 2025, 11:05 am • 1 0 • view
Utterly batshit crazy nonsense from Farage. “Voting Reform will fuck you up”.
aug 27, 2025, 10:04 pm • 1 0 • view
That gobshite Nigel was front page on the BBC site all day yesterday, it's ridiculous.
aug 27, 2025, 10:32 am • 3 0 • view
Saw it this morning on GMB, Madeley actually said "actually, just to be technical the Taliban aren't a proscribed organisation".... we are truly through the looking glass.
aug 27, 2025, 9:15 pm • 3 0 • view
who looks west to what is happening in america right now and thinks, "that looks good, why don't we have that here?" are british people really that easy to manipulate? I pray not
aug 27, 2025, 11:15 am • 40 3 • view
52% of them totally are!
aug 28, 2025, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
You just beat me to it😂
aug 29, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Thankfully it’s a big NO from the majority of the population…apart from Reform voters obviously 🙄
aug 29, 2025, 3:27 am • 1 0 • view
Who? Fascists like this:
aug 28, 2025, 7:03 am • 0 0 • view
Unfortunately a significant percentage of them are just that
aug 27, 2025, 11:29 am • 18 0 • view
The week Princess Diana died I thought “this country would be so easy to manipulate for extremist political aims”
aug 27, 2025, 9:16 pm • 4 0 • view
One word answer: Brexit.
aug 27, 2025, 6:30 pm • 1 0 • view
52% of them are
aug 29, 2025, 9:42 pm • 0 0 • view
These are people who see toddlers bodies washed up on the beeches and laugh about it while making comments such as "one down" They are fascists, they want this evil, because there is a part of their soul missing.
aug 27, 2025, 12:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 27, 2025, 1:24 pm • 1 0 • view
It's a sad day when you can get arrested for flying a flag or wearing a tshirt if you support a Palestinian group who haven't been convicted of terrorism, but its ok to give taxpayer money to a terrorist group thats killed uk civilians and military personnel!
aug 27, 2025, 10:37 am • 34 6 • view
Especially when one of those things hasn’t happened
aug 27, 2025, 12:31 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes and can be prevented, if that's OK with you chaps.
aug 28, 2025, 7:25 am • 0 0 • view
The guardian: Does the Taliban feel suffering?
aug 27, 2025, 10:35 am • 1 0 • view
Farrige admires Putin and is happy to collaborate with the Taliban. I wonder who he took inspiration from?👇 www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
aug 29, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Come back James, the country needs you.
aug 27, 2025, 1:57 pm • 0 0 • view
There is a slight flaw in the frog face plan. The Taliban has sanctions against it since 2021. I really wish the media would stop giving him so much airtime.
aug 27, 2025, 12:23 pm • 11 2 • view
This country is doomed when the people support the politician who chooses to support and pay money to the Taliban, ISIS, and Al-queda .. just to get rid of refugees.
aug 27, 2025, 10:48 am • 1 0 • view
Please come back, the country's turning to shit without you. Meanwhile I thought you'd like this:
aug 29, 2025, 9:15 am • 0 0 • view
Did you notice the stochastic terrorism in Farage's speech? A reporter asked a question, and his answer included "I want our proposals to be accepted in order to prevent any more civil disorder" In other words "if the government dont do as they are told, my supporters will continue to riot"
aug 27, 2025, 11:59 am • 22 4 • view
Same as Trump
aug 28, 2025, 10:34 am • 2 0 • view
Not on mention on BBC Breakfast this morning. They seemed more Concerned about whether Jon Kay could break a record, running with a balloon between his legs.
aug 27, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely. We’re in a bad place when the journalists seem to be prepared to sell their soul for clicks. May regret it if they are eventually successful in getting Reform into Govt as Farage could copy Trump & block them if they criticise him, as has already happened with one of the Reform Councils!
sep 1, 2025, 12:15 pm • 1 0 • view
There’s no bottom to his barrel
aug 27, 2025, 11:08 am • 3 0 • view
YouGov suggests this is too far even for Reform voters.. I would guess not because of the humanitarian risk to the people being returned, but rather the money being given (both are equally horrific).
aug 27, 2025, 4:50 pm • 1 0 • view
So by sending anyone who help the British troops back to Afghanistan, we are basically putting all British troops in danger anywhere that civilians could have helped them.
aug 27, 2025, 4:56 pm • 1 0 • view
I found this. I hope it's not fake. bsky.app/profile/alex...
aug 27, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes it's like the truth doesn't matter. If someone says it's raining and someone else says it's sunny your job is to report the truth not give both people a platform.
aug 27, 2025, 11:26 am • 0 0 • view
I despair at the thought of where this country will be by the time of the next election if this Govt doesn’t get a grip and start loudly and clearly demonstrating delivery.
aug 27, 2025, 9:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Must admit I didn't have that on my post Brexit check list
aug 27, 2025, 11:35 am • 0 0 • view
Britain is apparently not broken enough for these bastards. Their evil rhetoric now makes a martyr of an evil woman who pleaded guilty and served time for advocating the burning alive of innocent human beings.
aug 27, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 9:22 pm • 6 1 • view
This should have been the end of Farage and Reform Unfortunately the media (and BBC) heavily platform him Labour should actively be fighting him Instead they want to become him
aug 27, 2025, 11:14 am • 3 0 • view
That's just not true.
aug 27, 2025, 1:07 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s hard not to despair.
aug 27, 2025, 10:39 am • 8 0 • view
Perfidious Albion, indeed. They're as bad as the US for hanging their "allies" out to dry.
aug 27, 2025, 10:33 am • 1 0 • view
It seems hanging them out to dry now includes handing them to our actual enemy to hang (plus the rape and tortured bit that reform&tories dont mention)
aug 27, 2025, 10:39 am • 1 0 • view
Indeed. It doesn't get much worse than that.
aug 27, 2025, 11:05 am • 1 0 • view
Appalling, but the worst thing? It’s popular
aug 27, 2025, 10:48 am • 2 0 • view
Honestly, I despair.
aug 27, 2025, 10:31 am • 0 0 • view
On the plus side that’ll p*as a lot of their military supporters off.
aug 27, 2025, 10:32 am • 0 0 • view
Don't be so sure. Most will perform some incredible mental gymnastics in order to justify it to themselves 😔 They will hate or admire whoever they are told to hate or admire.
aug 27, 2025, 10:41 am • 3 0 • view
I never underestimate denial and cognitive dissonance. I also don’t underestimate the anger of a soldier seeing their fallen friends disrespected. Not mutually exclusive.
aug 27, 2025, 10:53 am • 1 0 • view
PLEASE James, as a prominent media figure can you please, please start pushing the Dublin III agreement issue, Farage knew an uptick in irregular immigration would be the consequence of leaving and all his hard talk is an insult to the British public's intelligence. MSM won't touch it. Please.
aug 28, 2025, 9:30 am • 0 0 • view
The Overton Window is disappearing over the horizon
aug 28, 2025, 3:46 am • 1 0 • view
Glad you say "Brexit Britain" because Farage is currently standing tall and shouting atop a lovely hill. A hill created by all the Brexit truths that all governments of the past 10 years (including Starmer's) have eagerly brushed under the carpet. Reveal what's under that hill and Farage will fall
aug 27, 2025, 10:50 am • 14 3 • view
Indeed...think i've found video footage of that "Hill"...it's literally just a mountain of shite with a itty-bitty flag on top of it.
aug 27, 2025, 11:06 am • 6 0 • view
You are correct, trying to appease farages knuckle draggers is stupidity. Starmer could deliver a speech which farage wrote for him while wearing a reform t-shirt, and they will still hate him. All he is doing by pandering to the far right, is alienating the votes he needs to win a second election.
aug 27, 2025, 12:09 pm • 1 0 • view
The Government need to sort out foreign influence in our press who are working against the interests of the majority to bring the country to its knees. Enough.
aug 27, 2025, 1:57 pm • 4 1 • view
This 'both sides' needs to stop, besides being ridiculous it gives credence to the knobheads
aug 27, 2025, 5:03 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s incredible!!! It’s evil! It’s effing farage!!!
aug 27, 2025, 10:31 am • 0 0 • view
It’s a fucking joke. FOUR YEARS!
aug 28, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Are you really looking forward to a Reform government that much??
aug 28, 2025, 2:24 pm • 0 0 • view
lol. Can’t wait! Sorry that’s my awful half arsed sentence construction. I meant that Reform are chucking this shit about 4 years from an election, where the fuck are they going to end up? Farage machine gunning small boats from a turret in Dover? I’m surprised you didn’t get all that from my post!😁
aug 28, 2025, 2:43 pm • 1 0 • view
it's mad
aug 27, 2025, 8:54 pm • 3 0 • view
It's truly depressing
aug 27, 2025, 10:33 am • 1 0 • view
A whole different take on the past, programs like the "Ten Pound Poms" which encouraged British people to immigrate to Australia and, historically, there have been similar initiatives to attract British citizens to other countries.
aug 27, 2025, 10:39 am • 1 0 • view
We shipped kids out to the colonies en masse for over 100 years. And looked the other way when we knew they were being abused. Why would we think sending people "not like us" to somewhere they'd be harmed is bad?
aug 27, 2025, 11:14 am • 2 0 • view
😢
aug 27, 2025, 10:41 am • 0 0 • view
The Trump Farage, effect perpetrators of hate speech and propaganda designed to enrage, And manipulate the educationally challenged, to see others as the reason for their failure in life, rather than the wealthy greedy Stealing their money and opportunities for helping themselves out of poverty
aug 27, 2025, 10:40 am • 5 0 • view
It's not that long ago this nation was repulsed by images of a women being driven into Kabul stadium on a pick up truck and executed. Now we're cheering on sending people there to be that half time entertainment and paying the Taliban from our taxes to do it. Grim.
aug 27, 2025, 7:21 pm • 1 0 • view
You picked the wrong week to take off.
aug 27, 2025, 10:47 am • 2 0 • view
Can’t see many pilots willing to risk conveying people to certain death either. Farage is always light on ‘detail’
aug 27, 2025, 10:36 am • 16 0 • view
What has farage got to do with it? This is a Labour policy.
aug 27, 2025, 10:43 am • 1 0 • view
It really isn’t. This is Reform, a party of MP’s you could squeeze into a phone box.
aug 27, 2025, 11:19 am • 1 0 • view
'The Prime Minister’s spokesperson said that “we’re not going to take anything off the table” when asked about Farage’s programme to send asylum seekers to brutal regimes where they may be at risk of torture.' www.thenational.scot/news/2541727...
aug 27, 2025, 11:26 am • 0 0 • view
Since when has Labour knowingly deported people at high risk of death from a regime they’ve fled? Farage has stated he doesn’t care what happens to them.
aug 27, 2025, 10:50 am • 13 0 • view
'The Prime Minister’s spokesperson said that “we’re not going to take anything off the table” when asked about Farage’s programme to send asylum seekers to brutal regimes where they may be at risk of torture.' www.thenational.scot/news/2541727...
aug 27, 2025, 11:25 am • 7 1 • view
good god you arent very bright are you. Yea, failure to reject farages policies is bad....but that does not make it a labour policy. You even said it yourself "when asked about farages programme". Which by definition makes it farages policy, not labours! Weapons grade dumbassery
aug 27, 2025, 12:04 pm • 6 0 • view
Goodness, it's almost like I was being hyperbolic in order to criticise the labour government by suggesting their policies are impossible to tell apart from Reform's and that Kier Starmer is lurching rightward and trying to wear Farage's clothes. Have a lovely day, I bet you're fun at parties.
aug 27, 2025, 12:08 pm • 5 0 • view
I am load of fun at parties....I find the dog or cat and play with it because people are a constant source of disappointment.
aug 27, 2025, 12:13 pm • 5 0 • view
There’s nobody on the Labour front bench who can argue for anything against the might of Farage, who has all the RW media behind him. They want him, like they did Johnson, as the next PM. Labour’s debating, argumentation skills are non- existent. They’re being steamrolled on every outing.
aug 27, 2025, 11:38 am • 3 0 • view
Over 400 British service personnel died fighting the Taliban. Now Farage wants to pay them with our tax money. Perhaps the British Legion or Help for Heroes will be asked for a donation?
aug 27, 2025, 2:06 pm • 9 2 • view
Farage= extreme right wing. The Taliban= extreme right wing. Makes eminent sense, to them.
aug 27, 2025, 11:01 am • 7 1 • view
The question that's I've not heard ask, but would like to now the answer. If we have 110k people waiting for their asylum and 10k people from abroad in our prison who are the other 480k people that farage want to deport.
aug 27, 2025, 1:09 pm • 4 0 • view
Any forrin would do if it were up to his supporters on the streets.
aug 28, 2025, 7:03 am • 1 0 • view
Anyone they don’t like the look of (ie not white)
aug 27, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Presumably EU nationals, including his wife. 🙄
aug 27, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Here's lookin' at YOU, kid..
aug 28, 2025, 1:07 pm • 0 0 • view
I assume he is referring to all of the people who live here whose claim for political asylum was successful? Once he’s failed to deal with this imaginary threat, he’ll move on to Eastern Europeans/South Asians & of course the massive threat to society that are the gay folk. Got to keep ‘em frothing.
aug 28, 2025, 7:36 am • 0 0 • view
What have we allowed ourselves to become😢
aug 27, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view