{"id":16830,"date":"2026-05-10T10:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=16830"},"modified":"2026-05-10T11:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:15:20","slug":"fanboi-cant-remember-tribute-act-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=16830","title":{"rendered":"Fanboi can’t remember tribute act name"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Last Thursday large swathes of the Untied* Kingdom went to the polls, electing local councils in England, as well as members of the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood and the Senedd in Caerdydd.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The big winners in Englandshire with a gain of 1,451 council seats were an alleged political party known as Reform UK, a limited company under the control of a charlatan, grifter and absentee dishonourable member of parliament for Clacton in Essex rejoicing in the name of Nigel Paul Farage.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Farage’s alleged greatest political achievement was conning folk into voting for the Untied Kingdom to leave the European Union, the country biggest foreign policy mistake since the disastrous Suez Crisis<\/a> of 1956.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

At the time, Farage’s personal fan club rejoiced in the name of the United Kingdom Independence Party, or UKIP for short.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

UKIP still exists, but under new management and even further to the right than it was under Farage’s leadership (if what he does can be covered by that noun. Ed.<\/em>), since Farage decided in 2018 that his fan club needed a rebrand as the Brexit Party, which in turn was renamed Reform UK in 2021.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

However, for some members of the Farage faithful, eight years is too short a time to absorb news of the party’s rebrand, as this social media post from Emma Volney illustrates, where the idiot fanboi wearing the rosette (which he evidently can’t read or hasn’t read. Ed.<\/em>) has to be reminded of the party’s name by his interviewer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Doh!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n

Perhaps he’ll remember by the time his defection to another right-wing rabble is due. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Spelling deliberate. Ed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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