I GREW up in a working-class family and I will tell you this for nothing – Reform UK are not who we are.
Reform campaigner Andrew Parker was filmed by Channel 4 calling Rishi Sunak, “a f***ing P***”.
Forget Reform, the Tories are the only chance to avoid a Labour governmentAlamy
Racist Reform campaigner Andrew Parker is one of the many cranks representing the partyChannel 4
The same paunchy, pea-brained bigot loudly declaimed that asylum seekers arriving in Dover should be shot.
And he offered advice about what to say if the family you are door-stepping turn out to be a family of, “P***s”.
Who thinks like this any more? I believed that the one unassailable good thing about Rishi Sunak’s tenure of office is that nobody — of any political persuasion — gave a damn about his race, religion or skin colour.
But they care deeply in Reform, where they keep the racist fires burning.
Pathetic. Truly disgusting.
And it would be comforting to think that Parker is just one stray moron — and yes, every party has them.
But the talent pool of Reform is so pitifully shallow that you could not get your feet wet in it.
Get beyond Reform’s big box-office star and they are riddled with the worst kind of sad, twisted little cranks.
Thursday saw Reform dropping support for candidate Raymond Saint because he was once a member of the BNP.
Leslie Lilley, 70, Reform’s elderly supremo in Southend, said he would “slaughter” migrants, in an online post.
Malcolm Sedgley, the Reform candidate in Meriden and Solihull East, reportedly called our late Queen “a tax-avoiding OAP on benefits” and labelled the Royal Family “Nazis”.
Get beyond Nigel, and Reform are a confederacy of dunces.
They are not patriots. They are not working-class heroes. They are not the answer to what ails our country.
And you are not punishing the Tories if you vote for Reform on Thursday — you are punishing yourself.
Rank stupidity
You are punishing your family. You are punishing your country.
You are ensuring that we have a one-party Labour state for at least the next ten years or so.
And the notion that Nigel Farage is going to remake the Conservative Party in his image is for the birds.
There was never any chance of that happening.
And now that Nigel has made conciliatory remarks about the EU and Nato provoking Vladimir Putin into his murderous invasion of Ukraine, the very idea is comical.
If Farage joined the Tories, then Boris Johnson would leave.
Elections are won from the centre. The British don’t like extremes.
That is why Keir Starmer is about to become Prime Minister.
Labour offer the illusion of moderation, stability and common sense after all those years of Tory chaos.
But it is, I believe, an illusion. The Tories remain the only hope for those of us who love this country.
The fightback begins Friday morning. Voting for the saloon bar cranks of Reform is an act of self-harm, of national suicide, of rank stupidity.
Why not cut out the middle man and simply vote for knee-taking, tax-hiking, border-busting Labour?
Because if you vote for your local Reform crank, that is what you will get.
Please get Joe to go
Joe Biden must do the American people a favour and step down nowReuters
“I DID not have sex with a porn star!”
The American presidential debate certainly had livelier dialogue than our staid, tetchy General Election head-to-heads.
To the enlightened neutral – that is, someone who can’t stand either Donald Trump or Joe Biden – the result was beyond doubt.
The Tango-tinted convicted felon won it by a mile.
It is impossible to imagine how Joe Biden could successfully complete a second term in the White House when he sometimes struggles to complete a coherent sentence.
They must be laughing themselves sick in Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang and Tehran.
And this is what I don’t get – why don’t Biden’s loved ones step in?
Why don’t they do the only compassionate, sensitive thing and gently persuade the frail old booby to step down and get some serious medical help?
Right now, the safety of the free world is being put in danger by the monstrous ego of one stumbling old man.
A woke joke
DAVID LAMMY, Shadow Foreign Secretary, once promised to “chain myself to the door of Number 10” if then-President Donald Trump had the temerity to visit the UK.
“If Trump comes to the UK, I will be protesting on the streets,”
Lammy raved on Twitter. “The man is a racist. The man thinks it is OK to have protesting Nazis on the streets.”
By the end of next week, David Lammy will almost certainly be the politician responsible for the UK’s relationships with the rest of the world.
And Donald Trump could soon be in the White House.
How will that work, Mr Lammy? Will we still have a special relationship with the US?
For 14 years, Labour politicians have been free to mouth off like hysterical, virtue-signalling students.
And from Friday, all those woke chickens are coming home to roost.
Marianne made the Sixties swing
Marianne Faithfull wishes she was back in the Sixties, a time she helped make betterGetty
MARIANNE FAITHFULL writes in The Oldie magazine that everything was better in the Sixties.
That was mostly because of you, Marianne.
There was wistful teenage Marianne crooning the Jagger-Richards lullaby, As Tears Go By, in 1964.
The legend of naked Marianne wrapped in only a rug when the cops came through the doors of Keith Richards’ country home, Redlands, in 1967.
And – most iconic of all – Marianne straddling a motorbike in her film Girl On A Motorcycle a year later.
“Art was more intense,” sighs Marianne of the Sixties.
“There was a genuine intellectual bohemia instead of this hipster-lite culture we have today.”
She is right. The big-selling artists of the time back then were a thorn in the side of the establishment.
“Sex was hotter too,” insists Marianne. But if sex was hotter back in the day, then that might be because Marianne Faithfull was born in 1946.
The sex was hotter because Marianne was the optimum age to enjoy the Sixties.
And, oh yes – sleeping with Mick Jagger.
Nice Ed image a sham
Ed Davey should not be allowed to gloss over his handling of the Post Office scandalGetty
IS Sir Ed Davey the most loveable chap in politics?
It feels like every time we catch a glimpse of the Lib Dem leader on the campaign trail, dear old Davey is falling off a paddle board.
Indeed, I can’t recall seeing Ed do anything else in this campaign other than get a hilarious dunking.
What a good sport! What a decent bloke!
Some polls predict that the Lib Dems will win more seats than the Tories and become the official Opposition.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke than Ed Davey – could it?
But I can’t help but wonder about Ed’s “good bloke” credentials.
For this is the same Sir Ed Davey who, as Business Minister from 2010 to 2012 in the Tory-Lib Dem coalition, initially refused to meet Alan Bates when the Post Office was hounding hundreds of innocent branch owner-operators to jail, ruin and the grave.
“The Horizon Post Office scandal is the greatest miscarriage of justice of our time,” Davey has since grovelled, and he is right.
Davey had the chance to intervene early on. He could have reached out a helping hand. He chose not to.
And we should not be allowed to forget that fact simply because Davey now acts like a loveable village idiot in a life jacket.
If you were one of the innocent men and women who were mercilessly hounded by the Post Office for crimes you did not commit, or if you are one their loved ones who witnessed lives destroyed, then I would bet you struggle to see anything remotely loveable about dear old Ed.
No matter how many paddleboards he falls off.
Gareth win? No problem
The country has been quick to forget that Gareth Southgate has given us plenty to cheer during his tenureGetty
“I AM the problem,” says Gareth Southgate.
I disagree. Southgate is a decent man, a true patriot and a brilliant manager.
The problem is English entitlement. The problem so far in these Euros is a lavishly gifted squad of players who have not performed at anything like the level we know they can.
The problem is half-cut fans who have spent too long supping German ale in the sunshine and are too quick to boo, bitch and chuck plastic cups.
The problem is a country too fast in forgetting that Gareth Southgate has given us more to cheer about in recent years than any England manager since Sir Alf Ramsey.
The problem is yesterday’s men like Gary Lineker who believe they are still the story.
Some of us still believe. We believe in this young England manager.
We believe in this squad of players.
And we believe England can still win the Euros.