@stellacreasy Serious question: what actual evidence is there that Nigel Farage believes women are “expendable” or unequal?
Not disagreement. Not inference. Not assumption.
Evidence.
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Quark, Strangeness and Charm. ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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And with this Farage confirms in his mind women will always be expendable, not equal, to him.
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar
"So what?" Nigel Farage says when asked about Reform UK's Makerfield candidate's past offensive comments on social media (see list below). "These comments were posted a decade ago. They’ve been taken wildly out of context, but they’re the sort of comments that you won’t necessarily get if you’re an Oxford-educated career politician living in a nice postcode in London," he adds. "But I tell you what, they are the kind of comments you’ll hear in every pub in the country every evening, and we should be unapologetic that Rob is an ordinary bloke who’s carved quite a career for himself, had the guts to set up a business, served as an army reservist, is a patriot, likes his rugby, likes the odd pint, and said a few laddish things on social media 10 years ago. "Do you know what I’d say to that? I’d say, so what?" huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/robert-k…
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@PippaCrerar The interesting part isn’t Farage saying “so what?”
It’s whether journalists like Pippa Crerar apply the same forensic scrutiny to Labour figures with embarrassing historic comments.
Standards that only operate in one political direction aren’t standards at all.
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"So what?" Nigel Farage says when asked about Reform UK's Makerfield candidate's past offensive comments on social media (see list below).
"These comments were posted a decade ago. They’ve been taken wildly out of context, but they’re the sort of comments that you won’t necessarily get if you’re an Oxford-educated career politician living in a nice postcode in London," he adds.
"But I tell you what, they are the kind of comments you’ll hear in every pub in the country every evening, and we should be unapologetic that Rob is an ordinary bloke who’s carved quite a career for himself, had the guts to set up a business, served as an army reservist, is a patriot, likes his rugby, likes the odd pint, and said a few laddish things on social media 10 years ago.
"Do you know what I’d say to that? I’d say, so what?"
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/robert-k…
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@SholaMos1 When every disagreement becomes evidence of racism, the accusation loses force. A jury considered the evidence, heard the self-defence claim and reached a verdict. Criticise the verdict if you wish, but calling it “Jim Crow justice” requires proof, not assumption.
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This isn't just a miscarriage of justice but also Jim Crow justice. The all white jury punished a 17 year old Black boy for killing a White bully in self-defence. No I don't think Metcalf should've been killed but it is clear Karmelo Anthony reacted to the imminent threat Metcalfe posed from his physical confrontation and did not plan a premeditated killing. It was self-defence or at the least a lesser charge. Not murder. Why 35 years when white people under the same circumstances or worse get far less sentencing?
Rittenhouse claimed self-defence for murder and is free. Rick Chow free for murdering 14 year old Cyrus Carmack-Belton by claiming self-defence.
It is ALWAYS a different standard for Black kids.
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@HelterSwirl @jk_rowling Did you read the thread? Usually a smart thing to do before posting a stupid comment.
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Appalling 🧵
I want those who champion men in women’s sport to explain why they’re happy to put girls at risk like this.
Kristen Waggoner@KristenWaggoner
This is a sexual assault—unknowingly captured by a mom filming her daughter’s wrestling match. Kallie didn’t know her opponent was male. But she knew something was very wrong. Today @ADFLegal helped Kallie sue the WA officials who placed gender ideology above her safety. 🧵⬇️
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@PhilMyers53 A mandate isn’t a lifetime achievement award. Governments are judged on delivery. Living standards, migration, crime, housing and growth will determine the verdict—not AI-generated posters and personality cults.
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The man IS UNSHAKABLE!
He was given a mandate and NOTHING or NO ONE will deflect him
He’s #NoFearKeir the best thing to have happened to the United Kingdom in a generation
#NoFearKeir
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@DPJHodges Ant Middleton served in the Paras, Royal Marines and SBS. Most people couldn’t even pass selection for one of those. By all means challenge what he said, but reducing a lifetime of service to a single conviction says more about you than it does about Middleton.
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Incredible that today of all days Reform have wheeled out a man who was convicted of common assault of a female police officer, and the wounding of her colleague.
Ant Middleton@antmiddleton
If the Government cannot keep your community safe and secure, and fail to protect its citizens then we must rightly take things into our own hands. Protect yourselves and one another at all costs! 🫡🏴
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@Seanchuckle “She’s a politician” isn’t a licence for other MPs to abandon basic standards of conduct.
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I've seen some cry bullying in my time but imagine claiming to have been shaken up by a lib dem accurately describing your behaviour.
Sarah Pochin MP@SarahForRuncorn
This morning in Parliament, I was accosted by Lib Dem MP Angus MacDonald, who accused me and others of inciting violence. His aggressive approach and tone left me feeling threatened and shaken. This kind of behaviour is unacceptable, especially from fellow MPs. We all have different views and should be able to disagree respectfully. The Lib Dems support open borders, while Reform UK supports controlled immigration and putting the British people first. That’s not inciting violence, that’s doing what’s best for the United Kingdom. 🇬🇧
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@meljomur Imagine replacing “white men” with any other racial group. If the sentence suddenly sounds unacceptable, perhaps the problem isn’t who it’s aimed at but the fact it’s a racial generalisation in the first place.
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@AndrewHWestern Calling someone a racist by implication is the equivalent of throwing a punch from behind a curtain. If you thinks she’s racist, you should have the courage to say it directly. If not, then perhaps you’re more interested in generating outrage than making a serious argument.
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And if you elect vile racists, you get vile racism
Sarah Pochin MP@SarahForRuncorn
If you import the third world, you get the third world.
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@TeresaC123 The fact that you’re asking why political opponents haven’t been arrested before identifying a criminal act is perhaps the answer to your own question.
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Anyone with legal knowledge able to explain to me why Nigel Farage,Tommy Robinson,Mr Musk & others have not been arrested by police for incitement to riot? Incitement to riot is a criminal offence.I'd really like to understand why they have not been at least questioned/cautioned.
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Family of the N Ireland stabbed man say many migrants make valuable contributions to the UK, condemn disorder and don't want to divide people or fuel violence.
And again Hard and Far Right extremists like Musk, Yaxley-Lennon, Farage and Lowe fan flames.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j…
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@Partisan_12 The screenshot proves only that the film is set before 1948.
If I show you a map from 1936 that doesn’t contain Pakistan, does that mean Pakistan doesn’t exist either?
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A frame from the Indiana Jones film that hit the screens in 1981.
Palestine is on the map, Israel is not, It never was, and it never will be!
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Lee Rigby's family didn't want his death to be used to divide people
Henry Nowak's family didn't want his death to be used to divide people
Stephen Ogilvie's family doesn't want his attack to be used to divide people
But the far-right 'patriots' always disrespect their wishes
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Those who use social media to incite violence and disorder are breaking the law.
Next week we will lay in Parliament an update to the Online Safety Act requiring services to take quicker action to remove illegal content circulating during times of crisis.
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@owenjonesjourno The victim’s family have every right to their opinion.
So does everyone else.
If a victim’s family supports stricter immigration controls, would that suddenly end the debate too?
Either arguments stand on their merits, or they don’t.
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The family of the Belfast knife attack victim have issued a statement.
They "want to make it absolutely clear that overnight unrest is not welcome."
They praise the contribution of many migrants, who "we depend on them to make our country work".
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@owenjonesjourno @PaulEmbery Ash Sarkar: crime is increasingly discussed through race.
Paul Embery: that’s because race has been made central to public debate for years.
Owen Jones: “So you’re saying pogroms are new?”
One of these things is not like the others.
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@PaulEmbery You implied that the phenomenon of lynchings and pogroms is new and inspired by the left.
Insane.
Are you now going to condemn the attempted pogrom in Belfast, including families with kids burned out their homes, with appropriate force?
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After spending years looking at every aspect of our national life through a “racialised lens”, radical left activists now express surprise that others have started to do the same.
Ash Sarkar@AyoCaesar
Crime is now being viewed through an entirely racialised lens – but only when the perpetrators aren't white. When Chas Corrigan stabbed a Saudi student to death, or Paul Doyle mowed down Liverpool fans, white people didn't have to fear being a target of collective retaliation.
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@owenjonesjourno The Belfast rioters are responsible for Belfast. The attacker is responsible for the attack. Politicians are responsible for their own words. Once you start blaming millions of people who never committed violence, you’ve stopped analysing events and started tribal point-scoring
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You see these scenes from Belfast?
That's our future if Reform, Restore, the Tories, GB News, Elon Musk and the right-wing media get their way.
Except this will be on a much bigger scale.
We have to decide: do we want those inciting hatred to destroy our country?
The Irish News@irish_news
Residents had to be evacuated from their homes in east Belfast following fires. Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service officers attended the scene at Lendrick Street on Tuesday night. Live updates: tinyurl.com/4xdm7tzu 📸: PA
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@nickreeves9876 If illegal migration isn’t a problem, why has every major party spent years promising to reduce it?
Labour.
Conservatives.
Reform.
Even the Liberal Democrats support border controls.
The debate is over scale and solutions, not whether borders exist.
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The big problem in the UK is not illegal migration. It is far-right thugs and treasonous politicians serving Putin who are whipping up fear, hate, and violence in a cynical bid for power.
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Last nights incident in Belfast is no excuse for tonights rascist attacks. Rascists are exploiting mostly young people without thought for the consequences. People deserve better. Say no to rascism.
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@jane__bradley If Northern Ireland’s femicide problem deserves more attention, then argue for more attention.
Using murdered women as a rhetorical shield to shut down discussion of a separate attempted murder doesn’t help either issue.
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Northern Ireland was dubbed the "UK's most dangerous place to be a woman" just two months ago.
30 women have been violently killed since 2020.
An Irish man murdered his pregnant girlfriend and left her facedown in a dog bowl as a final humiliation
Where were the rioters then?
BBC Breaking News@BBCBreaking
Several homes on fire across Belfast as disorder continues following knife attack bbc.in/49NVcYl
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