2024 Election Specials: 3. Reform.

Tom Walker rails against right wing populism by rattling off a list of lazy left wing populist tropes - and he doesn't have the self-awareness to realise he's the mirror image of the Reform voter he sneers at. When he does get near a point, he observes that Farage doesn't have any policies that will address the urgent everyday concerns of ordinary people, and would have no idea how to deliver what he promises. To a point, that much is true. Farage doesn't do detail. But Labour is a magnitude worse. Labour is promising economic growth and they have no idea how to achieve it. They're promising 650,000 jobs in energy which is only going to make energy more expensive and exacerbate the cost of living crisis. Not a single policy from Rachel Reeves withstands a nanoseconds of scrutiny, but somehow the establishment party gets a free pass. Farage is "dangerous" but the Net Zero fantasies of Labour escape scrutiny by technically illiterate metro-libs. He further complains (in character) that as a journalist the story of this election is Nigel Farage, and that they're condemned to follow him around the country. But that's it's *their choice* to make Farage the central focus of this election. To my mind, the bigger story of this election is the emergence of a new sectarianism, where The Muslim Vote, working to an Islamist agenda, is poised to score more MPs than Reform. This truly is dangerous to our democracy. Over the course of this election, we've seen the Palestine mob chasing female MPs down the streets and Labour constituency offices daubed with Nazi-esque slogans, and a Jewish MP forced to step down. We are, however, supposed to keep ignoring this elephant in the room, and instead have a panic attack over a fairly pedestrian centre right populist party that wants immigration levels roughly back to where they were in 1997. Shining a light on the new sectarianism is too much like journalism and would force Walker and his luvvie friends to confront issues they would rather not think about at all, not least because it would vindicate a great many popular concerns about mass immigration. As such, Walker is not a bold or edgy political satirist. He's just playing to a shrinking gallery of virtue signalling leftists who are just as prone, if not more so, to lazy populism. He's well inside the safety margins - as though he was a music critic taking a pop at Justin Bieber or Coldplay. It's tired, unoriginal, and achingly conformist. But it seems to work for Tom Walker. So who's really the grifter Tom?

"Liz Truss in human form" lmfao

Is this supposed to be funny?

Cheers. You've now persuaded me to vote for Farage. 🙋‍♂️

lol love how butthurt everyone is over Farage 😂😂😂

Without a doubt on of the best summations of Farage I’ve ever heard.

It would be a lot easier to dismiss the right’s use of the phrase a “giant left wing remainer plot” as a joke and a lie, if it wasn’t for the ACTUAL FACT that the left have been plotting to undermine Brexit and ignore the will of the people since the vote. But do carry on Jonny, your tedious schtick is hilarious. 🙄

Brilliant

Your country is fked. I’d be worried more about how you’re going to fix it than putting down a conservative politician trying to save it. Labour sure won’t help. Europe is moving right, and rightly so. Could it be that all the “cool kids” and “cool comedians” are WRONG about politics, economics and society and have been for about 30-50 years?? And people are sick of you and waking up? I’m sure you won’t see it that way. Carry on. You’re so hilarious Jonathan. Doing the same joke for more than a decade. 🥱🥱🥱😴💤