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Lo's avatar

Say something often enough and loud enough, and people just believe it, because it suits them to. Scary times.

Martin brown's avatar

straight out of the lefty loser handbook !

Lo's avatar

Boring comment

Kevin Reilly's avatar

I know right. Imagine repeating '22bn pound black hole' over and over again... we are in the scared times...

Lo's avatar

This is a local story with the council saying ‘it’s hard to validate the £1m quoted by Reform UK and what this figure relates to’.

Kevin Reilly's avatar

Oh, so that's OK then. Still..... there is no black hole like there is no £1m savings.

Lo's avatar

Neither are ok if they’re both BS

Kevin Reilly's avatar

They clearly are BS. The OBR says it about the £22bn and we have evidence of local lies. Hard lies all round sadly.

Pamula Furness's avatar

Fibby Farage can't open his mouth without lying. Remember the Brexit bus? I do. This particular fascist monster can keep his ideas about abortion reform and privatising the NHS to himself. As well as pretending to be a 'man of the people' (pffffft!), whilst pocketing a huge wage and added bonuses. All whilst ignoring his constituency. Hey Nige, do you even know where Clacton is?

Tiberious's avatar

Remember these whoppers from Labour : Starmer March 2023 - we will freeze Council Tax were we to be in government - Council Tax has gone up. Labour party manifesto - we will recruit 6500 more teachers, the total number of teachers in the state sector has gone down since Labour came to power . We will set up GB energy to cut bills - bills have increased.

Kevin Reilly's avatar

Lots of leftist nonsense in your post Pam, if for instance I could afford private care, should I use it or clog up the NHS? If it wasn't for Brexit we would be just like Ireland. Completely banjaxed.

Den Howlett's avatar

What’s banjaxed about GDP growth forecast at about 3.4% in 2025 and 2.5% in 2026?

Tom Commis's avatar

The Brexit bus had nothing to do with Farage as he wasn't part of Vote Leave. If you're going to attack someone for lying it's probably best not to lie in your first sentence.

Pamula Furness's avatar

Then why on Earth stand in front of it for photo ops and bleat about how much the UK sent to the EU? Another fib!

Pamula Furness's avatar

Especially when he moaned about the fact that that (£350million) money could be given to the NHS, the same NHS that he wants to privatise so his mates can profit off illness, like the U.S. I know Wes Streeting is trying to do the same thing, I feel equally as disgusted by HIM, another traitor!

Tom Commis's avatar

Wow, you can't help yourself can you, you've now invented a photo op that never happened and a policy that never existed. This always happens when people like you get pressed.

Pamula Furness's avatar

Google 'farage and the brexit bus'. The photo op that never happened is there, in spades.

Tom Commis's avatar

You're lying again Pam, the top result from such a search is an article in the 'i' in which he criticised the NHS point. And the fact remains Farage had no connection at all to Vote Leave.

Sid Langley's avatar

Nige blowing the Reform Trump-et again. It works over there and will probably fool enough people over here as well.

Tiberious's avatar

Starmer March 2023 - we will freeze Council Tax were we to be in government - Council Tax has gone up. Labour party manifesto - we will recruit 6500 more teachers, the total number of teachers in the state sector has gone down since Labour came to power . We will set up GB energy to cut bills - bills have increased. Labour fooled enough people but not the sensible ones that voted REFORM

David Brede's avatar

Farage clearly believes no muck will stick on him as voters will back him whatever the truth is.

Tiberious's avatar

Farage is honest and reliable unlike the uniparties

Gerr's avatar

I have a bridge to sell you

Dave Pearson's avatar

We can expect the lies to come thick and fast from Nigel Farage. It's a deliberate strategy to stay in the headlines. While he will become known to the discerning as a liar, he will become known to the general public as a regular political presence willing to speak his mind, to "tell it like it is" even when it blatantly isn't! According to the Washington Post, Donald Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims in his first four years as president, increasing year-on-year from six per day in his first year to 39 per day in his fourth. In our increasingly post-truth world being a liar is no longer a political liability.

Tiberious's avatar

Remember these lies from Labour : Starmer March 2023 - we will freeze Council Tax were we to be in government - Council Tax has gone up. Labour party manifesto - we will recruit 6500 more teachers, the total number of teachers in the state sector has gone down since Labour came to power . We will set up GB energy to cut bills - bills have increased.

Dave Pearson's avatar

Erm, well, Great British Energy was created by the Great British Energy Act 2025, which came into force on 15 May. How many solar farms and wind turbines did you expect them to build in their first two months Tiberious?

Anita Andree Marie SHIELDS's avatar

Toberious you have made many valid points. I feel exactly the same about Labour promises. Starmer and Rayner have gone out of the way to promote something which none of it could ever be delivered. What the Labour party have done is to attack the most vulnerable in our society.

Martin brown's avatar

I don't like farage, but I but he's right about these savings and this is just councils trying to make him out as a liar when we all know how corrupt local and not so local government are !!!

Martin brown's avatar

yes good idea they need to show the evidence that Farage is wrong ! well done

Dave Pearson's avatar

Martin, I think John and I would like you to produce evidence for your claim that Farage is right about the £1m cost reduction. You can't just state something is true and then produce no evidence. Please prove that Farage is "right about these savings". We'll wait...

Tiberious's avatar

Please produced evidence he is wrong

Dave Pearson's avatar

Didn't you read the article we're discussing? It says his claim is "bogus" and that "he's making up the numbers". If you want to dispute that you'll need to do better than just saying "he's right about these savings" without producing any evidence to support your claim..

Tiberious's avatar

And so where is the evidence that he is wrong? Oh there isn't any just opinions

Tom Commis's avatar

But the article doesn't require evidence? Because it doesn't include any.

Anita Andree Marie SHIELDS's avatar

I do not like pretenders such as Farage. However, there are also many other pretenders in the WNC such as the two Councillors of our wards. They claimed that they had information on our doors step but...I have never seen them. Moreover, I do not believe that anyone's else in this ward has either. As far as savings is concerned you always need hard evidence to prove it.

Martin brown's avatar
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Dave Pearson's avatar

Show us then Martin. We're waiting for proof...

Tiberious's avatar

I would trust REFORM far more than this lefty biased rag

Gerr's avatar

Can't believe the people of Northamptonshire are that gullible to vote for Reform? House prices in the area must be dropping as a result. Who wants to live near thick racists?