Man of the people
Farage âI would rather not be discussing any of this but I am having to because someone has got hold of material about my private finances, which is outrageous, and which I believe was illegally obtained.â
I fucking bet you wouldnât, you Russian shill.
Wonder why heâs in Thailand? 
ÂŁ5m from crypto bloke from overseas because you got milkshaked? No way at all to see that as dodgy, of course.
Iâm going back to bed, wake me up in 10yrs when people have come to their senses.
25 seats were up for election in Wigan. Reform has won 24 of them and the remaining one went to an independent. Fucking hell.
Not liking the look of these results much 
Thereâs a Facebook page called Cornwall Live, that I follow. Yesterday there was some reference on there to Reformâs âweâre going to put the migrants in places that vote greenâ concept. There was, as youâd expect, a stream of comments following this. There were a lot of comments in support of the idea and a reasonable amount against. But what disturbed me enormously was the sheer volume of likes on the comments in favour of the idea, and in support of Reform. Thousands. Comments against the idea had only a handful of likes. What the actual fuck?! For me this was a bit of a wake-up. Seriously.. Iâm surrounded by morons. Fucking thousands of them. Reconsidering my enthusiasm for living in Cornwall to be honest.
Morons or Bots
That I donât know. I donât really understand bots in this kind of context. There were also a lot of very vocal âyou want them, you have themâ type comments. Do you think bots are likely to play a big part?
I hope thatâs the case, cos this was seriously depressing.
The thing is bots or not the numbers continue to form public opinion - They make this thinking legitimate, OK in the minds of closet cunts. The rest of the country is no better, this shit is rolling out everywhere. I went onto Facebook the other day - it was a swamp of dumb.
I see it as one or both of these things:
The most expensive protest vote since the EU referendum.
The normalisation of far right views and policy.
This, I fear. I can really only speak for here - the middle of the Thames valley - but thereâs a good deal of anti-immigrant feeling. The scrap over flags is now a running story in my townâs weekly paper (good, it needs airing) and my county councillor (Reform, ugh) has come out solidly in support of them. Heâs in a minority of one on the council and all the other councillors are against. So policy is to remove them and thereâs a legal cease-and-desist letter gone out to Raise the Colours (ugh, again). The flags go back up as soon as the council takes them down though.
Incredibly annoying but I got called to work early and then got stuck at an incident so couldnât vote. The first time since I was 18 I havenât voted.
The wife said when she went to vote it was full of gammons and mouth breathers. She also said as I didnât vote she would hold me responsible if Reform get in locally 
I think youâre 100% right. It is really very depressing. The Brexit vote let the genie out of the bottle. Everything since has led inexorably to the current widespread embrace of the populist far right in the shape of Reform.
This swing to the right has been powered partly by anti immigrant resentment stirred up by Reform and the right wing media. Sadly they have been greatly assisted by the staggering levels of political ineptitude repeatedly demonstrated by Starmer and his government. The previous government also bears a great deal of the responsibility for our current predicament.
I am ashamed that it has come to this.
huge part
Social media bots are increasingly designed to apply nudge theoryâsubtle interventions in a userâs digital environment that influence behavior without restricting choices. These AI-driven tools, often acting as conversational agents, influence decisions by changing the âchoice architectureâ of platforms