Charlie Stross1d ago

If you're in Scotland, Reform UK is sending election leaflets through the mail without paying the postage!

So the recipient pays to receive their grotesque racist spam. Niiiiice.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2F9cvt9lu6ocug1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D4000%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dadabbf444df35e0567ad056fd04dcdf2ce493c77

(Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/1shk33k/reform_uk_postage_fees_scam/)

Show threadwtrabex1d ago

@cstross

How is Nigel Farage not in prison?

Show threadCharlie Stross1d ago

@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.

Show threadwtrabex1d ago

@cstross

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.

Show threadCharlie Stross1d ago
@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".
Show threadwtrabex

@cstross

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)

Apr 10 at 4:46pmWeb
Show threadCharlie Stross1d ago
@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.