{"id":14297,"date":"2024-07-06T17:15:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T17:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=14297"},"modified":"2024-07-06T17:33:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T17:33:42","slug":"the-new-enemy-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=14297","title":{"rendered":"The new enemy within"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher infamously branded the leaders of the 1984\u201385 miners’ strike<\/a> \u201cthe enemy within<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

In the wake of last weeks’ general election, there is a new enemy within; and one far more dangerous to the country than Arthur Scargill<\/a> and his NUM<\/abbr> colleagues.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

There’s now an enemy within the walls of the House of Commons.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Step forward Nigel Farage and his four fellow MPs elected for pretend political party Reform UK, which is actually constituted as a limited liability company with Farage as the person with significant control and financed by perma-tanned “businessman<\/em>” Richard Tice.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Disgraced former MEP<\/abbr> Farage, who once famously had his MEP’s salary docked for misuse of EU funds<\/a>, has finally become a member of the Westminster parliament at the eighth attempt. Your ‘umble scribe hopes that parliamentary watchdog IPSA<\/a> keeps a beady eye on the new dishonourable member for Clacton<\/a> given his past behaviour in Strasbourg and Brussels.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

As is usual, social media has been awash the reactions to the general election result, including the following exchange.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"Original\r\n\r\n
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No more needs to be said. Farage has been known to harbour extreme right wind views for decades, dating back to his schooldays<\/a> at reassuringly expensive Dulwich College<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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