{"id":15323,"date":"2025-03-29T10:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T10:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=15323"},"modified":"2025-03-29T10:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T10:09:29","slug":"welcome-to-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=15323","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The Reform UK Party Ltd., the private company\/cult of personality masquerading as a political party, launched its campaign for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2025_United_Kingdom_local_elections\">2025 English local government elections<\/a> with a rally at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arena_Birmingham\">Birmingham&#8217;s Utilita Arena<\/a> yesterday evening.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>However, the charlatan commonly known as Nigel Farage was not the only one waiting to welcome delegates to the rally.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our old friends from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ledbydonkeys.org\/\">Led By Donkeys<\/a> were also present, projecting their messages onto the side of the building, much to the bemusement of the local constabulary (<em>judging from the video. Ed<\/em>.).<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Delegates were greeted by a large picture of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (<em>aka Vlad the Invader. Ed.<\/em>) and Mr Farage, after the political activists projected the image onto the big screen, with the caption: \u201cVladimir and Nigel welcome you to Birmingham\u201d.\r\n\r\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_33808\"  width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UE_T3qNhKMY?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Led by Donkeys take over giant screen at Reform rally with pictures of Putin and Farage\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<\/p><p>Led By Donkeys have plenty of experience of this kind of action: just ask the disgraced &#8211; and disgraceful &#8211; former UK prime minister, one Mary Elizabeth Truss (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=14441\"><em>posts passim<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reform UK Party Ltd., the private company\/cult of personality masquerading as a political party, launched its campaign for the 2025 English local government elections with a rally at Birmingham&#8217;s Utilita Arena yesterday evening. However, the charlatan commonly known as Nigel Farage was not the only one waiting to welcome delegates to the rally. Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,17,15],"tags":[36,33,20],"class_list":["post-15323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-oddities","category-politics","tag-comment","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15335,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15323\/revisions\/15335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}