Tuesday 21st July 2026

[refitman]

Morning all.

[Frog222]

Afternoon !




I often like to check on the age of the soundbite or video clip . The Standard is paywalled so here's another where you just have to allow ads --

https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/uk ... 650da493c7

Article from 22nd of June 2024 referring to the podcast in February .

This happened when Mr Farage spoke on a podcast back in February. His comments have been rediscovered and duly resurfaced by The Guardian.

“Tate was a very important voice for an emasculated – you three guys, you are all 25. You are all kind of being told you can’t be blokes, you can’t do laddish, fun bloke things,” Mr Farage told the podcast’s hosts.

“That is almost what you’re being told. That masculinity is something we should look down upon, something we should frown upon.

“It’s like the men are becoming feminine and the women are becoming masculine and it’s a bit difficult to tell, these days, who’s what.

“And Tate fed into that by saying, ‘Hang on, what’s wrong with being a bloke? What’s wrong in male culture? What’s wrong in male humour?’ He fed into those things.

“His was a campaign of giving people perhaps a bit of confidence at school, or whatever it was, to speak up.”

Giving people a bit of confidence at school! Ah yes, irrational hatred of all girls and women. Just what a young lad needs. To boost his otherwise fragile confidence, you understand.

These guys are always so deliciously vague, aren’t they? “You can’t do laddish, fun bloke things.” Which things, in particular, can’t men do anymore, Nigel? To which dinosaur-like behaviour in particular are you referring?

We can’t make extremely off-colour jokes without pushback? Can’t pinch passing waitresses on the bum? Can’t assault each other at the pub and write it off as “boys being boys”? What exactly can’t we do, Nigel? For what refuse from the dustbin of history do you pine? Please, do enlighten us. They never bloody specify what they’re talking about.

Anyway. Tate. He’s never been anything resembling “an important voice” for men, or indeed a voice for anyone except misogynists and misguided creeps. But his influence online is twisting our boys into emotionally stunted young men who are barely fit to enter society.

You would be horrified, utterly horrified, if your son grew up to be anything like Tate. It doesn’t take 20/20 moral vision to recognise this. Yet Mr Farage merely sees a man who “maybe”, perhaps, possibly, sometimes, has gone “too far in his relationships with women”. Whose comments have occasionally been “over the top”.

“The jury is still out” on the charges against Tate, says Mr Farage. (Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been charged with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. They deny the allegations.)

But we don’t need a jury to render a verdict on Tate’s character. He’s quite evidently a monstrous human being. How can someone like Nigel Farage, who has been on this Earth for 60 years, possibly fail to notice that? He uses harsher language describing Britain’s Remainers than he does when speaking of an unapologetic misogynist.

[Frog222]

Owen Jones got stroppy with his critics , replied in the thread --

"" Starmer was forced out because the left flank of Labour defected en masse""

Expulsions are not defections !

Those who WERE expelled represented a million others who Starmer/McSweeney thought they could do without ...

[Frog222]

https://bsky.app/profile/sigreign.bsky. ... 5xgrgvc22f

[Frog222]

All hat and no cattle !