How wonderful to hear of flat cap fash Farage’s newly discovered concern for our great British wildlife.
British-born Foxes up and down the land will breathe a huge sigh of relief, safe in the knowledge they can enjoy Boxing Day without a large group of horse-riding, bloodthirsty, upper crust delinquents chasing them around the countryside in the name of tradition and Britishness.
Of course, there is no substantiated evidence of widespread or ongoing swan consumption by Eastern Europeans in the UK, and Farage has absolutely no issue with the dangerous, perverse, minority that think it’s okay to rip a fox cub to shreds.
But why would any sort of fact matter to a hateful hanging polyp on the anus of humanity such as Farage? His history of incitement and division is second to none in recent times.
Farage: chatting fishshit
I did manage to catch a bit of Farage’s bewildering interview with fellow toad doppelgänger, Nick Ferrari, which is never easy because the Reform führer is known to be ever so shy when a camera is pointing in his direction, and it must be said, the British media’s blanket censoring of the great Brexit believer is nothing short of utterly scandalous.
Apply a huge dose of sarcasm to the last paragraph if you think the men in white coats are coming for me.
Farage’s irresponsible scaremongering didn’t end with visions of swan fillet on the outdoor wood pellet Ninja barbecue, with carp also said to be a favoured delicacy of anyone Nigel doesn’t like the look of.
When I was a youngster, back in Dickensian times, carp theft was a common offence because of their high resale value. Unless Farage has actual evidence of a person of Eastern European origin, gleefully munching on a fucking great big pond fish, I’m calling bullshit.
Well, fishshit in this case.
The outlandish, wild paracetamol conspiracy theory claims made by Home Alone 2 extra Donald Trump are exactly what we can expect from Farage between now and the next general election.
In fact, someone a whole lot more creative than me might be able to create a Farage scaremongering bingo card, because I definitely don’t have air fried carp and a pack of Boots finest paracetamol on the one I made earlier today.
How on earth did we get here, you may wonder?
Thanks, BBC
May I be so bold as to suggest having your own prime time radio show and a stint munching on marsupial testicles in the celebrity jungle, cheered on by the talentless Geordie duo of Ant and Dec, might actually play a part in the normalisation of the hatred that is pedalled by epic oxygen thieves such as Farage?
Perhaps the mind boggling THIRTY EIGHT appearances as a panellist on BBC Question Time might also contribute to the poisoning of our political discourse, as well as lead to accusations of the BBC behaving as a mouthpiece for Reform UK?
But then who am to argue that the BBC routinely over-platforms Farage, giving undue airtime to his views on Brexit, immigration, and nationalistic populism?
Farage’s frequent media appearances should raise some serious and entirely legitimate concerns about how media outlets balance representation with responsibility.
The blatant over-platforming of a shithouse, hate-preacher like Farage will only serve to disproportionately shape public perception in favour of the party formerly known as UKIP.
Funnily enough, I seem to remember the ‘Kippers’ used to be rather fond of pedalling a conspiracy theory or two, such as the UKIP councillor, David Silvester who explicitly blamed severe winter floods across England on the UK government’s legalisation of same-sex marriage.
Starmer: digital ID
Despite the complete failure the first time around, digital identification cards are back in the news this week, further underlining Labour’s commitment to ensuring Britain becomes a database state that knows more about you than your nearest and dearest.
I’m not sure what Starmer has been smoking, but nobody in their right mind thinks a digital identification card is going to stop the perilous small boat crossings from France, it’s not going to smash trafficking gangs, and it will not fix the government’s failure to address the real need for safe and legal routes.
Labour’s blind obsession with digital identification cards dates back to the Blair administration. The only thing that has changed in that time is the shift from carrying a physical ID card to a digital concept.
Tony Blair still has huge vested interests in the introduction of digital identification cards. Oracle, the operator of the One Login system that powers the database state, is one of the biggest donors to Tony Blair’s Institute for Global Change.
The public purse has already been rinsed for billions of pounds, just for Blair and Gordon Brown to abandon the disastrous attempt to put an end to anything that resembles a free society. And now they want you to carry the security of a nation on a fucking smartphone?
In the era of potentially limitless cyber attacks from rogue foreign states, what could possibly go wrong?
The “nothing to hide” crowd seriously needs to put a sock in it. If they’ve got nothing to hide, perhaps they can put themselves forward as ‘DIC’ guinea pigs.
Me? No chance. I’ve got something to hide. It’s called my right to move freely from one place to the next without the government breathing down my neck.
Be in no doubt
Be in absolutely no doubt whatsoever, Starmer’s identity card scheme will entrench state surveillance, deepen inequality — with particular harm to vulnerable communities — and put a rather sudden end to our few remaining democratic freedoms.
Digital identification cards are not a matter for left and right wings to squabble over. This is a case of right and wrong, and we must come together to demand an outright rejection of this brazen assault on our democratic values by the Starmer administration.
Could this be Starmer’s poll tax moment? I wouldn’t bet against it.
Featured image via Rachael Swindon
This post was originally published on Canary.