OPINION
The Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe spat will only have one loser (Image: PA)
Labour and the Tories are cock-a-hoop this week after what they’re calling the “implosion of Reform”. It follows the very public spat between and Reform MP, . Lowe, who’s popular among Reform voters, has now been suspended and reported to the police by the party after alleged verbal threats. He denies them and says it’s all a set-up because he dared to criticise Reform (he called it a “protest party”) and said he wasn’t sure Nigel was the right man to lead it, which is a pretty treacherous and stupid thing to say bearing in mind in-fighting is what destroyed the .
I like Lowe, but the bottom line here is that he thinks HE’D make a better leader than Farage. He wouldn’t. Farage IS reform. He’s the man who’s made the party a significant force in politics. He’s the one who’s turbo-charged support for it and is the reason it now has five MPs in Parliament.
Love him or loathe him, Farage is THE most influential and consequential politician of the 21st century. Why? Because he’s brave and because he relates to all creeds and classes in a way that Lowe – who’s filthy rich and a member of the huntin’, shootin’,and fishin’ set – never will. Nigel knows that, if Reform is to be taken seriously, it cannot be dangerously extreme in what it does or says, but Lowe clearly didn’t get that memo.
The bottom line is Reform is a busted flush without Farage and Rupert Lowe needs to stop smearing him and the party on social media. There will only be one loser.
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A new study says men put on more weight than women after they’re married. I’m guessing (the sexist reason) is because many think “OK, I’ve got my woman – I don’t have to try anymore.”
That said, it wasn’t The Husband who put weight on after we got married, it was me. At one point I ballooned to 15-and-a-half stone and one day he said to me, while we were watching an England rugby match: “You know, I said I’d love you no matter how big you got – well exactly how big are you intending to get because there’s an England prop forward there and you weigh more than him?”
He wasn’t wrong!
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Manchester Utd’s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe says he thinks some players are overpaid. SOME? Surely he means ALL?
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Michelle Keegan and Mark Wright have reason to celebrate (Image: Getty)
and Mark Wright announced the birth of their beautiful baby girl this week who they’ve called Palma, because she was conceived in their favourite holiday spot in Majorca.
Which all sounds very exotic and, obviously, they’re following in the footsteps of the Beckhams who called their son Brooklyn because Victoria discovered she was pregnant while they were there.
Look, I get the idea – it’s the trendy, stylish thing to do and this couple set a great store by being on trend. But what’s the betting Palma keeps getting called Pamela – especially by older people – which these days, like Carole, isn’t a trendy, stylish name at all.
Which won’t suit Michelle and Mark!
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Rachel Gilmore has made me laugh out loud (Image: Rachel Gilmore)
Lib Dem MP Rachel Gilmore reportedly launched into a foul-mouthed rant during a visit to Hinkley Point nuclear plant. It’s alleged she called a security guard a c**t and an “obnoxious t**t” before speculating: “And I bet he votes f***ing Tory.”
I laughed out loud when I read this because we’ve all met jobsworth security guards and, even if we didn’t say what Gilmore’s alleged to have said, we’d have liked to. Gilmore, who denies everything, was then taken to watch an end-of-year film including the story of a local apprentice who’d found work at the nuclear site and it’s reported she spat: “Don’t show me this s**t again.”
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Tesco says it’s going to hand out free food in an effort to reach its net-zero targets. Food that’s about to go out of date will be given a yellow sticker price of £0 and will go on sale after 9.30pm.
And while it’s a great idea to try and reduce food waste I see big problems here. Human nature being what it is, no-one’s going to shop at Tesco’s during the day. Everyone will get geared up for the 9.30pm reductions and there will be literal stampedes in supermarkets.
Mark my words…..
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DCI Simon Welch from the National Police Chiefs Council says we should consider taking paedophile’s homes away from them. Maybe. But I’d be happy if we simply sent them to jail – and kept them there – instead of freeing them, because the cells were needed for people who’d sent hurty tweets.
Margot Robbie is being lined up for a new role (Image: Getty)
Barbie star Margot Robbie is being lined up to play Anna Nicole Smith in a new movie. Smith was the stripper who married billionaire oil tycoon Howard J Marshall when he was 89 and she was 26. She’s alleged to have spent $2million of his money in a single shopping trip and had an allowance of $100,000 a month.
I really hope Ms Robbie isn’t going to portray Smith as some misunderstood, exploited, vulnerable woman. She was a heartless gold-digger who, just hours after she married Marshall, flew off to Greece to have some fun – on her own.
Ms Smith had few redeeming features. Let’s hope doesn’t try and invent some to sell the movie.