People want actual scrutiny of Reform policies in government- so on my LBC Sunday show today I did just that with newly elected Lincolnshire Mayor Andrea Jenkyns. Do have a watch. https://youtu.be/WzxfvcZkluw?si=RmwccgIBtSLfW2_O
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It wasn’t personal - they voted for Reform.
It could have been Charles Bronson and they would have convinced themselves they were justified in voting for him.
Great that she wants to take us back to the 70s, that she wants Cruella in Reform, that fossil fuels > climate & that illegal migrants are all bad and that blocking a few thousand people will solve our issues. "Dame" Andrea already showed us what she thinks of the British people with one finger...
They're taking over authorities which have been starved of funds by the Tories, Reeves says that there isn't a magic money tree, so they won't be able to deliver on anything that they promised.
Starmer's either a political genius (he isn't) or Garage has misjudged (he has).
Except with the help of mainstream media, including LBC (Leading Britain's Conversion), the blame will be layed at Labour's feet with the excuse that it would all be different if only Reform were in Downing St...
Who do you keep platforming these people ? seeing the greens or anyone such as TUSC, SWP, Independents platformed is like hunting the elusive haggis, whereas any specimen from the right of politics is trotted out with metronomic regularity. No wonder they are so popular with all this free airtime.
If only your LBC colleagues were similarly inclined. Having heard Ferrari interview Farage, he’s either a woeful journalist or working for Reform doing PR. Ali Miraj was so bad today I gave up and switched him off.
Kate. Not all LBC is the same. Ferrari is Reform adjacent and I’m pretty sure Miraj was actually in UKIP, wasn’t he ? Still to the factual ones likes James O’Brien , Shelagh Fogerty, Matt Frei, Andrew Marr and Mathew Wright
Interesting to go back to this..He wanted “managed migration not an EU open door which didn’t discriminate against Indian engineers and doctors from New Zealand “
So @lbc.co.uk be sure to ask Farage (and Braverman when she joins) about how their big #Brexit idea is going.
Fanboy Ferrari is never going to hold Faridge to account & the same with Ali Miraj - LBC have regularly platformed bigot Faridge & his rw flunkies & I haven't heard a single Green, Lib Dem or independent MP interviewed on the station in the run up to the elections. Who owns LBC I wonder?
Ferrari is becoming insufferable. He constantly encourages the bigotry, racism and intolerance with awful shock-jock tactics. When the idiots he’s baited ring in and voice horrible opinions, he rows back with faux disapproval. Then he stirs them up again ready for the next topic.
Fracking is definitely on her agenda but I’m not sure she’s thought it through to that extent. Nigel goes to America to promote Clacton (!) so his disciples must follow in his footsteps
They don't seem to be able to have a coherent approach on vetting. She's saying there was serious vetting done, but already hearing rumours some councillors out of Reform since Friday and Farage was telling anyone who would listen at the GE that it's not their job to do vetting, it was outsourced.
I'm glad Reform now has a chance to govern. As a wise teacher at my school said, "There are two types of people in the world; those that stand up and have a go, and those that stand on the side mocking, and I know which group has my respect".
Nigel, you've mocked for 20 years. Now have a go...
The point being, standing on the sidelines, mocking, calling people names and saying how rubbish everything is is incredibly easy. Leading isn't. I think we all know which way this will end up going...
So she's been in touch with the US to see if Lincolnshire council can send a delegation to study how DOGE works. I thought the idea was to save money for tax payers or is she paying for it from Reform funds?
She wasn’t taught about the UK’s disgusting history in schools. None of us were. It was designed that way.
We now have the internet. Those that have read history, don’t feel too proud.
I'm sad to say that people are continuing to be mugged by Farage and his gang of wealthy oiks. He's raking in the cash at the expense of the clots who voted for REFORM UK PARTY LIMITED. Wise up, fools. This is not a game of 'owning the libs.' They are coming for the things that you hold dear too.
Dear Lewis, the demographics responsible for Reform's rise are incapable of scrutiny and therefore are oblivious of the consequences of their own actions. And not just in politics.
The new Lincolnshire Mayor said she's ready for a fight with the unions, will promote fracking, will roll back the green agenda & DEI, & is OK with asylum seekers living in tents (possibly also children, she dodged the question) "in a confined area."
Do Lincolnshire residents really want this?
Glad to hear, bcs that was a farrago of half-truths and evasions.
Just one eg: afaics, purdah applies to Mins & civil servants, not CBI/ TUC etc. And the leaflet doesn't say "Don't vote Andrea Jenkyns,". Still, be kind and help your community, as she said.
Only the labour party benefits from her win, they will probably underfund lincs as best they can, the result is she'll have to raise local taxes, that's not gonna go down well 🧐
Not when the tents appear in my back yard lol
Kindness my foot !! You get what you vote for so when they appear on the leafy greens of Lincoln, Spalding and Stamford I can’t wait to hear the cries of nimby !!
Reform winning local elections gives us time to scrutinise them in “power”. Their simplistic “solutions” will be exposed before the next GE. That said, this government need to sort their ideas out. Stop focussing on immigration and start delivering for those who have suffered during austerity.
Dude it doesn’t matter if Reform fail to deliver anything they will just blame someone else and their cult supporters will lap it up. We’re not talking about rational voters anymore.
We import a lot of our culture from the US and MAGA behaviour is definitely here. I’m not convinced that the majority in the UK will be as gullible, especially as the US continues to implode under Trump. Starmer could help by delivering for struggling folk.
I'm glad you're doing this. We won't have any serious scrutiny from Reform's lackies in the Telegraph, Mail, Express & Sun or, sadly from the completely 'impartial' BBC Newscast team. Go LBC, Ch4, Sky & The News Agents!
Wow, did she say she's struggling with cost of living because her mortgage went up £800 a month? That means she's got a 500k mortgage.. in Lincolnshire. Thinking about starting a Go-Fund-Me for hard up millionaires
Who wants scrutiny?
Those of us that find Reform abhorrent know there are no policies, just dog whistle.
Those that voted aren’t bothered by policies they just respond to the dog whistle.
Clearly Reform are going to replicate Trump and his despicable policies; that’s frightening. This interview needs to be heard by as many people as possible so we can stand up against these wannabe MAGA idiots.😤
Do the people of Lincolnshire want huge tented areas on their doorstep? Are they going to have guards for this sort of concentration camp?
Jenkyns is going to have fracking, spend taxpayers money on delegations to the USA and dump all the Green jobs.
This is going to end in tears.
Will watch - did you ask what they will do with all the ‘savings’. Presumably they’ll think they can reduce community charge but in reality they will just get less from central Government once they have demonstrated they do t need it
The clown show has begun and just think what would happen if anyone actually asked Repuke what Brexit has delivered in benefits thus far FFS they are a joke sad but true a very sad joke
There's evidence that less educated electorate voted Reform- I suggest it also applies to their councillors and MPs on the basis of her responses. She spouted the usual offensive phrases and untrue dog whistles. Lewis did his best to maintain a normal type of discourse against all the odds
Jenkyns flails around over her party rejecting green investment in Lincolnshire on idiotic ideological grounds… then segues seamlessly from saying she prioritises community, family and kindness to insisting child asylum seekers should be housed in tents in segregated areas.
Deeply unpleasant.
Reform are a marmite party. You either love them or hate them. My biggest concern is that the centre and left of centre vote is split between Labour, Lib Dem and Green. They’re broadly on the same page but just disagree about the priorities and how to go about it. Time for preferential voting?
The right vote will be Reform with a few voting Tory because they can't bring themselves to vote Reform.
Labour lurch further to the right and inevitably gain nothing because Reform types will never, ever vote for "Liebour" this leaves a huge space on the centre-left that the Libs gleefully fill.
My worry is Reform Ltd. could end up winning, especially if they can persuade some people who don’t normally vote. Maybe a preferential vote would help stop this because presumably anyone left of centre would rank them in last place. The least disliked candidate would win in each constituency.
Reform are a very real danger because one thing you can guarantee is Reform will 100% get their vote out.
If Labour are smart they will use their huge majority to change the voting system but they'll no doubt continue trying to outReform Farage and continue to fail miserably at that.
I just hope that Reform end up being ineffectual and their voters begin to see it, and that meanwhile Labour manage to make enough positive change that people feel better off. Some kind of progressive centre left coalition could be fantastic for the country if those elected truly wanted it to work.
I hope that this final, final warning to Labour gets them out of their policy slumber and they get their good ideas through the House of Commons as fast as procedure allows them.
I fear though that they will ignore the alarm blaring.
I’d be fascinated to know how it affected things. I would imagine it would probably work out quite well for Lib Dems and Greens but if for some heinous reason it ended up working out well for Reform then at least those of us who abhor them would know where we stand. Then I’d emigrate to Finland.
She's going to be an absolute shit show, and the whole country has a limited window of time to wake up to this, and ensure we don't repeat the Brexshit catastrophe - but worse - with Reform.
Unwittingly helped destroy the tory Party, in a historic tory County, if she's any sense she'll take the £80k and keep quiet, i doubt farage will let her though, I suspect the remaining tory councillors may be a little vengeful towards her, so she may not see out her first term 🤔
I gave you some stick the other day. Today, I'm saying thank you. Credit where it's due, you obviously listened, and this is exactly the kind of scrutiny and tough questioning we want and expect from all national press going forward.
So she's for concentration camps, no more inclusiveness and frack the county away. What a selection of buzzwords the Dame had, chuck in globalist and main stream media and she really is the populist Queen.
Thank you Lewis. I really hope to see more journalism like this. Too many media outlets fail to ask Reform the important questions and highlight their idiocy. The rise of the right is crushing to watch.
Reform are so demonic. There gonna convince the UK that black is white, up is down & polluting the Planet will do no harm. Using there rhetoric these people are Viruses.
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How anyone can vote for such a vile, ignorant half-wit, is completely beyond me.
It could have been Charles Bronson and they would have convinced themselves they were justified in voting for him.
As usual, these ReFUK politicians have nothing but hot air and bombastic rhetoric.
Let's see what they achieved by 2029/30.
My guess is sweet FA.
The best way to kill off populism is to give them a crack at low level power.
They'll fail and show they are unfit to lead
Starmer's either a political genius (he isn't) or Garage has misjudged (he has).
Fortunately, racism isn't good at economics.
Sunak lost 240 MPs last time around and ReFUK didn't make a dint in parliamentary representation.
Looks like 677 councils saw the racists move their votes from Tory to ReFUK.
Why are the media losing their shit over this?
https://www.youtube.com/live/-pyYoL9ngtE?si=F7cidDkafkoea4dq
So @lbc.co.uk be sure to ask Farage (and Braverman when she joins) about how their big #Brexit idea is going.
But Ferrari, Miraj and Feltz...yukk
Is she suggesting US companies take over the running of Lincolnshire County Council’s public services?
Because that’s what it sounded like at one point?!
Are US companies coming to Frack Lincolnshire?
How does FauxRage Farage keep getting away with it?!
#Clacton
https://www.youtube.com/live/-pyYoL9ngtE?si=F7cidDkafkoea4dq
Nigel, you've mocked for 20 years. Now have a go...
Is that what ppl wanted when they voted for Sovrinty?
That’s what I thought she was (indirectly) saying but I wondered if I was being paranoid! 😂
That is what she inferred isn’t it?
Albeit perhaps she didn’t mean to?
It was one of those things where you think “She couldn’t possibly have said that because that’s mad!”.
DOGE doesn't work. It's already cost more than it 'saved'.
We now have the internet. Those that have read history, don’t feel too proud.
Do Lincolnshire residents really want this?
Oh hold on, there aren’t any😄
Not this one
She really isn’t going to have it easy.
Oh, and ask them how they think Farages Brexit is going …
Just one eg: afaics, purdah applies to Mins & civil servants, not CBI/ TUC etc. And the leaflet doesn't say "Don't vote Andrea Jenkyns,". Still, be kind and help your community, as she said.
Kindness my foot !! You get what you vote for so when they appear on the leafy greens of Lincoln, Spalding and Stamford I can’t wait to hear the cries of nimby !!
Andrea Jenkyns was a Tory MP for 9 years!
I really can’t understand Reform voters.
They complain about the Tories then go and vote for the exact same Tories in Reform UK! 🤦♀️
They voted for a double dose of 🐂💩🤦♀️
Those of us that find Reform abhorrent know there are no policies, just dog whistle.
Those that voted aren’t bothered by policies they just respond to the dog whistle.
Hardly “patriotic”.
Utterly depressing that creatures such as this can so easily achieve power.
Just another failed Tory pretending that Reform aren't just Alf Garnett style Tories.
Working class Tories being the worst Tories of all.
Jenkyns is going to have fracking, spend taxpayers money on delegations to the USA and dump all the Green jobs.
This is going to end in tears.
Well done Lewis!
https://youtu.be/P2y3Uspr8Bg?si=w-GyLT7nG1sINTt8
Deeply unpleasant.
Labour lurch further to the right and inevitably gain nothing because Reform types will never, ever vote for "Liebour" this leaves a huge space on the centre-left that the Libs gleefully fill.
If Labour are smart they will use their huge majority to change the voting system but they'll no doubt continue trying to outReform Farage and continue to fail miserably at that.
I fear though that they will ignore the alarm blaring.
I don't know the exact number but I wouldn't be surprised if it was big.
Lewis, this is all too little, too late from you.
But at least it's a start.
You've helped platform & normalise these people.
Offering explainers & weak justifications in the past, prioritising SM clicks & faux balance
If only you approached Farage like you did Corbyn.
His current and past sponsors are:
1. Putin
2. The Federalist Society
We all know where that ended
It’s a real shame there wasn’t more of this kind of interviewing over the last 10 years:
https://www.youtube.com/live/-pyYoL9ngtE?si=F7cidDkafkoea4dq
#Farage
#ReformUK
https://www.youtube.com/live/-pyYoL9ngtE?si=d_DQFRCIiv4aYKzJ