Last week\u2019s photo op with the Reform leader and X owner was further evidence of the UK\u2019s inevitable march towards the far right. Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a new photo of Nigel Farage and the Reform treasurer, Nick Candy, who partied through the pandemic at Lord Shaun \u201cBum and Boobs<\/a>\u201d Bailey of Paddington\u2019s Pissedmas disco<\/a> with a load of dancing Tory spads in horrible Christmas jumpers, meeting Elon Musk at Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago<\/a> document storage unit slash vanity art display mausoleum. How\u2019s that for an opening para? It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. They think it\u2019s all over. It is now.<\/p>\n The last time Farage posed like this was eight years ago, with his fellow bad boys of Brexit and Trump<\/a> himself at the same Trump Tower lift where Michael Gove contemporaneously observed \u201can immensely dignified African American operator\u201d. But now Farage is finally standing next to the organ-grinder in charge of democracy\u2019s hand-cranked dance of death, instead of the orange monkey whose jaunty capering distracts the punters while their passports are lifted and burned.<\/p>\n Stewart Lee tours Stewart Lee vs the Man-Wulf<\/a><\/em> next year, with a Royal Festival Hall run in July. He is also a guest of all-female Fall karaoke act the Fallen Women, at the Lexington<\/a>, London, on 28 December<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week\u2019s photo op with the Reform leader and X owner was further evidence of the UK\u2019s inevitable march towards the far right. Merry Christmas! There\u2019s a new photo of Nigel Farage and the Reform treasurer, Nick Candy, who partied through the pandemic at Lord Shaun \u201cBum and Boobs\u201d Bailey of Paddington\u2019s Pissedmas disco with … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}