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Chu 朱 1d ago

Wow. Is not paying an option? What happens then?

@chu If you don't pay, the envelope isn't delivered and it gets bounced back to the sender. (But how do you know it's RUK spam if you don't pay to recieve it?)

Chu 朱 1d ago

And they hope to win voters by making them pay or is their game to annoy the F out of people?

Brad Macpherson 1d ago

@chu @cstross Or a postie is throwing a clog into the Reform loom 😆

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE 1d ago

@cstross I never pay postage due. If someone doesn't care that much about contacting me then I don't care that much about reading whatever it is.

@TimWardCam I wouldn't normally, unless I know to expect a letter from someone I know personally (not an institution). But some folks are more trusting.

NB: there is a freepost address for Reform UK and while they probably won't let you mail them a broken washing machine any more, something small weighing over 100 grams is a good bet to trigger the higher postage fee ...

Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱1d ago

Like the way you are thinking here!

@TimWardCam

Sam Livingston-Gray 1d ago

@cstross @TimWardCam glitter, perhaps?

@geeksam @TimWardCam

My go-to choice would be glitter, and a gift-wrapped Durian fruit in some sort of packaging to keep the smell in until it's unwrapped.

Ruby 1d ago

@TimWardCam @cstross one of my favourite keepsakes is a postcard my mum sent me, without paying the full UK->Ireland postage. The Royal Mail covered up the punchline with their ugly 'this sender has not blah blah blah' . I still don't know what she found funny enough about it to send on to me.

Mark Dennehy 1d ago

@cstross Can you not send it back to them by return unpaid post, wrapped round something heavy like a brick?

Angela Glansbury 🚽1d ago

@cstross
"patricia clegg" up to her old tricks again i see.

Dan Hatton 1d ago

If the recipient does pay, do Reform have to declare that as a donation? In which case, does the poor bloody recipient get publicly named as a Reform donor?

Fish Id Wardrobe ⁂1d ago

@cstross certainly going to win votes that way…

Kevin Karhan 1d ago

@cstross is there no way to decline said delivery?

Cuz in Germany one can and it'll be sent back at the original senders' expense!

wtrabex 1d ago

How is Nigel Farage not in prison?

@wtrabex

That is a *very* good question.

I suspect he serves the interests of some very powerful friends—unlike "Tommy Robson" (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon") who is stupid and violent enough to be pathologically unable to stay on the right side of the law, Farage knows how to work a grift without quite attracting police attention.

wtrabex 1d ago

Oh, he's broken the law. There's no question of that. The only thing to find out is whether anyone will have any courage to prosecute him.

@wtrabex He ended up paying a hefty fine to the EU over expenses. He's probably grifting his parliamentary expenses too, but if the Standards Committee goes after him RUK will doutless get an electoral boost by shrieking about Labour "persecution".

wtrabex 1d ago

Let him shriek. That's not a boost anymore. No one believes the Tories, not after Liz Truss.

(At least, that's my sense across the pond)

@wtrabex Alas, RUK have been polling very high recently. The only thing that seems to have disrupted this is the Greens finally getting their shit together under a new charismatic leader. It's really a protest vote, but low-info voters will cast their protest votes for fascists without realizing what they're being channeled into doing.

Kimberly Blessing (she/her)1d ago

@cstross Leaflets were delivered to my property (block of flats), but I assumed someone was stuffing them through the outer door mail slot as our mail carrier can enter the property.

Alberto Cottica 21h ago

@cstross a harbinger of any government they might form. Quite appropriate, really.