Good morning everyone, and a very happy Sunday.
I’m aware I haven’t done one of these in a while, and it’s largely been down to things actually just being pretty insane. A new job - which I love, don’t get me wrong - has been demanding in the best possible way. Life’s just been busy. Between being your favourite bear on the internet (and yes, I do believe that I am your favourite bear; screw all those other guys), I’ve also become a dungeon master in my free time. And no, there’s no sexual connotation there. I’m just literally the nerdiest man in the world, meeting three of my friends once a week to emotionally terrify them with horrifying stories they have to roleplay through whilst I try to murder them with really interesting monsters. But the less said about that, the better.
Now, yesterday, quite a few people looking at my subscriber numbers taking a massive drop were very annoyed with me over my approach to the local elections and my view on how Labour has done. I’m not here to challenge that. Anyone saying this was anything but a complete catastrophe for Labour is truly deluding themselves. It was a bad day. Yes, the losses weren’t necessarily as big as in other instances, but the fact remains they did lose voters. People didn’t want to vote for them, and they have serious questions to answer. However, that’s not what I want to talk about today. What I want to talk about is our own Teflon Trump-like person in the UK, very specifically, non-stick Nigel - Nigel Farage.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is probably one of the big winners from the local elections. They’ve made serious inroads, and anyone saying otherwise really does need to face reality. They’ve made inroads into councils where the status quo was very set. They’ve put a lot of councillors on the council. It was only a third of councillors, I believe, that actually stood, but they did have a successful run. Anyone has to acknowledge that. How they did it is questionable, but before we get to that part of it, the one thing that’s still sticking with me and bugging me is money.
Very specifically, five million pounds.
