Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/06/09/in-uk-election-campaign-nigel-farage-lasted-nearly-a-week-without-saying-anthing-racist-about-the-prime-minister.html
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If anything, this will accelerate Reform’s gobbling up of the Tory vote, because the remaining tory voters are likely to be exactly that section of the population for whom “saying the quiet bit out loud” is a plus, not a minus.
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I’m inclined to take the petulance of a less-successful City finance bro about a more successful one completely seriously. The story is even more internally consistent and intellectually respectable considering the 2.5 million-ish troops from India employed by the British for WWII; which would make at least the broad outlines of the conflict a matter of their history as well as yours; were Sunak actually some sort of hardened xeno-Indian.
That doesn’t mean I can fathom what Sunak was thinking in skipping the pure political gimme that is making the low effort to attend and rub shoulders with the notables and look appropriately solemn about the triumphs and tragedies of that war we won while being the good guys; but this seems like the (expected) degree of bad take on the question from Nigel.
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(cartoon credits to Nicola Jennings)
(we are promised that fine gentleman Sunak will not end up in corporate employ in the states …yes? “well, Hindu folks do tend to expect reincarnation…”)
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Regarding the headline image:
(h/t @Mindysan33 )
How dare you do that to the troubadour behind “Shape Of My Heart”?!
(oh, and Farage (rhymes with garage (UK stylee)) can fuck off. Again. Someone should suggest he goes up on a plane with a banner.)
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Sunak wanted to rush back to the campaign trail, failing to realise that he was already on it – gifted the greatest of all campaign photo-ops. Incumbency has its advantages, and one of them is that you get to play the world leader, rubbing shoulders with presidents and princes as their equal – while your opponent looks on from the domestic sidelines. Instead of seeing 6 June as a distraction from the campaign grid, Team Sunak should have realised it was the best thing in it. That they didn’t confirms their political instincts are either defective or missing altogether.
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When he says “our culture,” one really has to ask which culture Farage is actually commemorating on D-Day…
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Sunak was ‘talent-spotted’ by the Tories and parachuted into a very safe seat where he didn’t have to campaign; this probably also riles Farage somewhat.
Note: the same thing applies to Starmer from the Labour side. It’s not a healthy sign for democracy when both big parties are led by people who did not even have to burn themselves running for election in hopeless seats first (usually several times.)
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Yeah, Farage is what he is expected to be. Sunak’s idiocy is what jumped out at me.
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Farage believes the wrong side won World War II.
And most of the Tories agree with him.
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That’s not quite it. They’re all over WW2 nostalgia. It’s more like “That Hitler chap had some bloody good ideas. If only he hadn’t been a filthy foreigner! Our boys had to show him what’s what! Rule Britannia! Spitfires! Blitz Spirit!”
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Projections show that the ultra right wing is winning big in the European Parliament
People like Farage, People like Trump. People llke Orban.
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“He doesn’t care about our history, frankly, our culture.” Says the guy who thought that keeping Europe democracies divided was a great idea. And having an isolationist in office in the US would have been the way to discourage Putin from attacking, because appeasement is such a historically successful strategy to discourage right wing dictators.
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… fascists are all great buddies until two of them end up in power in adjacent countries 
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farage should be pronounced FAIR-ij instead of the posh-er sounding fah-RAHJ.
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God I loathe the cowarderman creature.
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It rhymes with garbage.
Edit. Not “rhymes with”. It’s pronounced garbage.
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