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Jon Loveridge
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Optimistic but pragmatic. Data & Analytics enjoyer. Derby County and Bromsgrove Sporting supporter
It’s actually mental that Farage can just get away with this without his supporters pointing out the incredibly obvious flaw in his logic
January 16, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Depressing that people in Labour don’t realise how much comments about “open borders” ultimately hurts them
“Robert Jenrick is the man who as Immigration Minister oversaw the open borders experiment that led to the biggest increase in illegal immigration in our country”

Labour's Steve Reed reacts to Robert Jenrick's decision to defect from the Conservatives to Reform UK
January 16, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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I once obtained a Nobel Peace prize medal by blackmail
January 16, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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This intro to David Frost's Telegraph column sums up so much that is wrong with British politics.
January 16, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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It's not great for trust in politics that two MPs who've been slagging each other off all year can just turn round & say "obviously I didn't mean it".

It feeds the perception (mostly false) that all politicians are liars & politics just a game.

And the party that feasts on that is of course Reform
January 15, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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January 15, 2026 at 8:07 PM
It’s easy to just let this sort of thing wash over you in these times, but this really is quite mad. What has happened to that country that THIS is what the Press Secretary thinks she should be doing
LEAVITT: Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically killed?

REPORTER: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably

LEAVITT: Oh, ok. So you're a biased reporters with a biased opinion. You're a left-wing hack.
January 15, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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Jenrick saying he's "put aside personal ambition" too join Reform is the single most shameless statement I've ever heard.

If he "put aside personal ambition" he'd disappear. That's all there is.
January 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
If you look through everything Jenrick and Farage are saying - about the Conservative Party, about today’s announcement, about each other, it’s all lies. Almost everything they’re saying is untrue or is at least deeply hypocritical
January 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
AT LAST!!
Sky's Rob Powell asks Nigel Farage that, given Robert Jenrick is the 7th person to have served in Boris Johnson's government to defect to Reform, how can his party be "a new, reforming force" when it is "bringing in so many people who caused the mess that you're trying to clean up"
January 15, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.
January 15, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Reform? They’ve rebadged it you fool
January 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Jenrick is such a c***. He’ll be right at home with Reform and Farage
January 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Why lie about Jenrick’s defection when a) he was evidently going to defect and b) you are in the middle of announcing he defection. Bizarre
BREAKING: Nigel Farage confirms that Robert Jenrick has defected from Tories to Reform UK - the most high profile defection yet.

He says Jenrick wasn't planning to join Reform UK any time soon and "might not have joined at all... you never know until the deal is signed".
January 15, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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Keep watching - Trump and his circle almost have their precious goal: invoking the Insurrection Act.

As per said before: a great deal of what is being done is simply Trump and his circle working backwards from this objective.
January 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
If you want to understand what Jenrick actually cares about, well, it’s nothing beyond himself. He’d have been happy to be leader of the Conservatives or failing that he’ll join Reform. He’s got no loyalty & no principles. People should think seriously before putting their trust in people like this
January 15, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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Keir Starmer says it shows Kemi Badenoch's weakness that she only sacks Robert Jenrick when he's about to defect to Reform

"Jenrick has been making toxic comments to try to divide our country for months and months and months"

Very good point.
January 15, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Nothing says “we are the party of change & reform” like picking up the dregs from the party you aim to replace. Again, I’m sure people smarter than me can explain the benefit of the Reform strategy of hoovering up the worst of ex-Tory supporters, MPs, voters and commentators, but I can’t see it
January 15, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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The absence of any public pushback from the Republican Party on a situation as insane as Trump is rapidly reaching on Greenland is itself a huge sign of how far gone the US already is.
January 14, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Trump and MAGAs words and actions are always quite over stimulating, there is just so much to process and keep up with. Clips like this that really distill down the absurdity and dishonesty are incredibly useful. People should rightly be worried and appalled in equal measure
Jon Stewart on the disconnect between Trump excusing J6 protesters and MAGA condemning Renee Good
January 13, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Performatively supporting protestors abroad whilst performatively criticising protestors domestically
Trump: "Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING- TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price. I have cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY. MIGA!!! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP"
January 13, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Three thoughts:

1. This does not play the way they think it does.

2. Their brains are so microwaved by Twitter that they are incapable of seeing it.

3. Even if they could see it, their no-apologies-no-admissions philosophy is so rigid they'd struggle to course correct.
Bovino on the officer who killed Renee Good: "Hats off to that ICE agent"
January 13, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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It speaks to how broken MPs' media diet is that all parties didn't collectively go "pedophilia bad" at the first possible opportunity here
January 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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They are called Reform FFS.

And all they are are the reheated slop and detritus from the worst governments we’ve ever had.

The backwash of a diminished and incompetent Tory party.

Farage doesn’t care. And he assumes his supporters are so thick they won’t either.
January 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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❤️‍🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.
January 12, 2026 at 2:35 PM