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OK, I know that human rights are this new-fangled European thing (except, you know, largely drafted by Brit lawyers after WWII), but trial by jury is about as fundamental to the English polity as you can get.[<*]

At this rate, there will be very little left for #Reform to do to turn the country into a fascist fantasia. What have we done to deserve this bunch of myopic charlatans?

#Labour #lammy #UKPol

[<* just bearing in mind different national legal traditions and histories].

Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt |

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/25/dont-believe-nigel-farage-denials-targeted-me-for-being-jewish-and-it-hurt

Don’t be surprised when the leopard eats your face Reform voters

#Farage #Reform #Racism #AntiSemitism #UkPol

Mein früherer Arbeitgeber hat den Entwurf zur StVO-Reform analysiert. Er würde eine umfassende Kameraüberwachung im öffentlichen Raum ermöglichen, zB die vollständige Erfassung aller ein- und ausfahrenden Fahrzeuge in der Wiener Innenstadt.
Deren Fazit: Der Entwurf ist verfassungswidrig.

Hauptkritik: mangelnde Bestimmtheit, fehlende Verhältnismäßigkeit, keine Datenschutz-Folgenabschätzung & Gefahr der Massenüberwachung.

#researchinstitute #stvo #reform #überwachung
https://researchinstitute.at/stellungnahme-des-ri-zur-geplanten-innenstadtueberwachung/

Has everyone filled in their “#Reform” questionnaire? It’s very important they know what we think…

The parliamentary group of Die Linke (The Left) has yet to finalize its position on the government's proposed pension reform package, signaling a potential chal... https://news.osna.fm/?p=24791 | #news #left #party #pension #reform

Farage's attempts to bluster his way out of his racism and anti:semitism problem are exposing himself all the more. Flailing around with the "a long time ago", "just kids" and "only bants" versions of his, er, defence, he reveals the stark truth: he evidently still regards casual racism and anti-semitism as entirely acceptable and unproblematic' and expects his audience to agree. This is the man the #BBC has been relentlessly platforming for decades.

#UKPol #fascism #racism #Farage #Reform .

From elsewhere

#farage #tice #reform #russianasset #arronbanks #voteleave #Curruption

Tuyển giáo viên nên giao quyền trực tiếp cho nhà trường và chính quyền cấp xã, trong khi Sở GD-ĐT chỉ giữ vai trò giám sát. TS. Hoàng Ngọc Vinh cho rằng nhà trường là đơn vị hiểu rõ nhất nhu cầu nhân sự, từ đó tuyển dụng đúng người, đúng vị trí. Việc điều động, bố trí giáo viên có thể do Sở hoặc chính quyền địa phương đảm nhận tùy cấp học. #TeacherRecruitment #GiaoQuyen #GiaoDuc #VietnamEducation #TuyenGiaoVien #Reform #SchoolAutonomy

https://vietnamnet.vn/tuyen-giao-vien-nen-giao-quyen-cho-tru

Whilst I can't remember being racist 49yrs ago I can definitely remember that I didn't do it to hurt people.

#farage #gobshite #racist #racism #reform #ukpolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/24/nigel-farage-responds-to-racism-claims-saying-he-never-tried-to-hurt-anybody

A Trump-aligned anti-abortion lobbyist who hosted Nigel Farage’s meeting with a 6 Jan rioter in Florida has been funding and advising the #Reform leader and pushing Project 2025’s hard-right agenda into Britain…

Our latest example of Creeping Fascism!

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/nigel-farages-project-2029-the-pro-trump-lobbyist-pushing-his-agenda-into-the-uk/

The point of school, rather, is that we remember a lot of what happens and we learn there.
Some of it is taught.

#Farage #Reform #memory #fascist #racist

Is there an up-to-date guide on how to move the Pocket Reform to Debian stable?

#mnt #reform #pocket #linux #debian

Nathan Gill, Russia and Farage

Its timeline heavy, but worth persisting with. And while the Nerve is careful not to attribute accusations against particular individuals, it is not difficult for readers to make some connections

https://www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gill-guilty-prison-reform-uk-russian-bribes-timeline-brexit-mep-nigel-farage

#TheNerve #Gill #Farage #Reform #AgentsOfAForeignPower #Russia

To All My Lukewarm Supporters

It's great you like this new democracy. But I can't build it by myself.

You will have to sacrifice 10 hours a month:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=29&id=161

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#reform

To All My Lukewarm Supporters

It's great you like this new democracy. But I can't build it by myself.

You will have to sacrifice 10 hours a month:

Shocking remarks by Danny Kruger MP

The Reform MP is asked about Israel and Gaza

November 2025

Danny Kruger is the MP for East Wiltshire (part of a county in England) and was voted in as a Conservative candidate in 2024. He switched just over a year later to become a Reform MP. He has a range of largely bizarre views and was interviewed by a Guardian journalist the results of which were published on 22nd of this month.

Our concern is not with his overall political views but on the specific remarks he made in answer to questions about Israel and Gaza which have implications for human rights. The journalist is Charlotte Edwardes. That section is as follows:

“[…] We move on to the conflict in Israel and Gaza, because he’s declared Palestine woke and I’d like to know how. He says the position of Israel is important to our politics in the UK, but also to the west in general, “because it stands for the idea of the nation and of western civilisation being something worth defending. [Israel] is fighting the battle for all of us in the Middle East”.

“Kruger does not believe Israel is committing genocide in the region: he says all the deaths in Gaza are the responsibility of Hamas. Nor does he feel Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has gone too far. “The children wouldn’t die if Hamas was not a security threat to Israel” he argues. “I can’t judge the precise tactics of particular IDF operations. I can well imagine there have been atrocities and excesses, as happens in wartime.” Is there no price too great in terms of human life for the elimination of Hamas? “Well, if that price is the elimination of Israel, then nothing is too great […].”

Normally, statements such as these would go unremarked being just one of many foolish statements made by a variety of MPs. But Kruger is advising Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform who, current polls predict are in a good position to form a government in the next election. He is thus someone who is influential and may be in a position to influence policy if Reform are successful in forming a government. A reading of the whole article – the result of three interviews – sees another journalist struggling to make sense of his remarks.

Comments

His comments are simplistic. To say ‘all the deaths in Gaza are the responsibility of Hamas’ is a gross distortion. It is accepted that Hamas is a terrorist organisation and the attack on October 7th was horrific. But Israel’s response has been wholly disproportionate making Gaza a wasteland and killing 70,000 Palestinians – many of them women and children.
He shows no sign of recognising the history of the conflict. It did not start on October 7th as so many of the Israeli cheerleaders want us to believe but its roots lie in the events following 1948/9 and the brutal expulsion and murder of at least 750,000 Arabs and Palestinians. He makes no reference to the system of apartheid operating in Israel making non-Jews second class citizens. As someone who has a DPhil degree from Oxford, it might be expected to see a greater understanding of historical causes of conflict.
It displays a degree of callousness to the suffering of the people of Gaza. To say ‘the children would not die if Hamas was not a security threat to Israel’ is crass not to say offhand. Elsewhere in the interview (and in other interviews and commentary) he makes great play of his Christian faith yet there is no sign of this in these comments.
Denial. He denies that Israel is committing genocide. He echoes the Labour government’s position on this which is no recommendation. How would you describe the deaths of 70,000, the deliberate destruction of all the hospitals, schools and water treatment plants, preventing food, water and medicines to enter the area? Perhaps there is another word Mr Kruger would like to deploy?
‘Palestine [is] woke’ means what exactly? The interviewer does not get an answer.
The use of weasel words and phrases. ‘I cannot judge the precise tactics of IDF operations …’ is trite although he admits there have been atrocities and excesses. He has been quick to condemn Hamas (does he know the ‘precise tactics’ of their operations?) but tries to excuse IDF operations with these weasel words. The use of cluster munitions, using massive 500lb bombs to blow up entire buildings with no concern for who’s inside, parking remote control vehicles packed with explosives outside apartment blocks and blowing them up ditto.
His statement that Israel ‘stands for the idea of the nation and of western civilisation being something worth defending’ and that the country is ‘fighting the battle for all of us in the Middle East’. Can this really be true? How does apartheid fit into that? How does attacking olive farmers and destroying their trees count as civilised? Gangs attacking Palestinian villages at will with the police and army standing by – is this fighting the battle for all of us? The murder of many Palestinians in Israeli prisons. Holding over a thousand Palestinians in sometimes underground cells and the use of vile torture methods – are these values Mr Kruger wants us to support?
Finally, no mention or recognition of the violence on the West Bank.
His answer to the question ‘is there no price too great … ?’ is especially damning.

What emerges is someone who has a surface view of history and seemingly no understanding of the conflict or its roots. It is a combination of naivete and surface thinking. He seems to have swallowed Israeli ‘talking points’ wholesale. It lacks balance. Perhaps the most shocking part of the interview is the shear callousness concerning the death of children in vast numbers. We could add those who have lost limbs or have starved to death. This throwaway remark seems to be widely at odds with his purported Christian beliefs. He may be in an influential position in government after the next election when these beliefs will matter.

The full Guardian interview can be read here.

#Reform

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