Jeremy Corbyn to launch new "Contrary Party", Nigel Farage interested in pact

Jeremy Corbyn has hinted that he may launch a new party, the "Contrary Party" as an alternative to being responsible for policy.

"I got scared a few years ago when a group of right-wing commentators convinced a load of students to support me as leader of the Labour Party," he said from the memorial service for some 'freedom fighter' somewhere.  "It looked like I might have to be in government and actually put into practice all these principles that I have so proudly and proudly controversially held."

Corbyn, no doubt holding a wreath and condemning something that Britain did, was thought to have done, or perhaps might well do in the future, was speaking on a bourgeois, capitalist TV programme barely fit to carry his contrarian views.

"There is an independent group of MPs who absolutely want to criticise everything without there being any risk of them having to come up with a policy to correct the massive, genuine, historic and ideologic injustice which we have no doubt is at the heart of your question, "he said. "What was it again?".

The new party will be based on 40 years of steadfast refusal to support any government or party, even one he was leading.  

Upon hearing the news an excited Nigel Farage was understood to be making overtures of a coalition.

"Arguing against everything everyone else has done, and putting forward policies that I will never have to carry through myself has been my entire political career," said Farage during a press conference to complain about being not being able to get his message across. "I look forward to working with Mr Corbyn for at least a few months until we fall out over who gets top billing on the posters."

Farage promises to spend £34bn to give every low-paid worker £25

Reform UK has launched it's new Britannia card which will cost the hard pressed taxpayer a mere £34bn a year  but ensure that 10% of the lowest paid workers will receive an extra £25 per year.

The scheme, which a foreign billionaire can join with a simple one-off lifetime payment of £250,000 will mean that they no longer have to worry about paying tax in the UK.  However the natives will have to make up the tax take gap - calculated at being about £34bn or about £9,000 per tax payer.

"It's a great deal for foreign billionaires, they get to save millions, a great deal for British low-earners who get £25!" exclaimed Farage from his box at Ascot. "That's 10 Euromillions lottery tickets.  Wait, not the Euro one. Don't buy that one."

When pressed as who he thought would be the perfect candidate for the ticket, The Member of Parliament for Florida indicated one particular category of non-domiciled oligarch.

"Well, I think if you are just about to enter you 80s, probably changing jobs and may well soon be seeking asylum," he said.  "I think being able relax on your golf course and spend all the extra money on all fake tan you need will be very appealing. Do people pay VAT on fake tan?  Or is that a business expense?"

Raise a question about “Regime Change” to restore a once great nation

Can the international community stand idly by as a once free nation descends into authoritarian oppression?  That is the question being asked in capital cities around the world. The patterns are clear.

The current regime in Washington D.C. is a theocratic institution seen as largely a façade for the evangelical Christian movement who have anointed their leader, President Donald Trump as a demi-god.

During his first term Trump encouraged insurrectionists to march on the Capitol building.  The mob armed with a gallows stormed the building to disrupt what had up until that point been the traditionally peaceful transition of power.  A mob whose members were, upon Trump’s returning to power in his second term, pardoned of their treasonous behaviour.

Trump has turned his aggression to both internal and international foes.  He has conducted negotiations with Iran knowing full well that Israel was planning to attack during them and then joined in himself with a bombing raid on nuclear facilities.

Domestically he has deployed troops onto the nation’s streets to quell protests at his policies and all of this in a country notorious for gerrymandered election districts in which the candidate who spends the most wins.

Closer to home, Trump has threatened to annex a peaceful neighbour in Canada, whilst threatening to crush its economy if it does not comply.  He has threatened a land grab to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal over resources he simply wants.

All of this against a backdrop of a failed economic policy in which he has used tariffs to impose sanctions on his own working people onto whom he is, through his Big Beautiful Bill moving the tax burden from the wealthiest in society with any shortfall being made-up by the tariff funds acting as a federal Value Added Tax.

“It’s clear that this despotic behaviour cannot be allowed to continue, otherwise the USA as we know it will cease to be,” said Ali Billingsworthni from his office in Tehran.  “Perhaps we need to simply  raise a question about regime change in the USA.”

Narrow and Limited Military action, day 8,130

Speaking from his grave, the late Donald Rumsfeld solemnly marked the 8,130^th day since the beginning of the narrow and limited action to remove Weapons of Mass Destruction from Iraq.

“We said all along that Iraq should not have a nuclear weapon since that would destabilise the region,” said the former Secretary of Defense.  “That was very much a known, known.”

As tensions once again lead to military action in the region figures from beyond the grave, or indeed the fiery pits in which they are currently residing, are surfacing to commemorate the successful way in which air strikes have always ended all such conflicts exactly on the neat, telegenic political terms that they are ordered on.

“The initial spectacular military success proved decisive two decades ago.  We barely had to deploy a tiny force of only about half-a-million soldiers,” he said. “It led to a mere few hundred thousands of people killed, millions injured and displaced.”

Rumsfeld went on to emphasise that without the limited action in Iraq then, the region now, in 2025, would be filled with warring factions, not just in Iraq, but conflict would have spilled across borders, likely happening in all areas of the middle east. Such as Israel and Iran.

Also speaking was Colin Powell who emphasised the role that intelligence gathering plays in such actions.

“We were clear that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, which we have just entered our third decade of trying to find,  “ he said. “This was despite all the information from our own and allied intelligence gathering saying Iraq did not have any such capability. But you can’t listen to such reports from so-called experts as they don’t have prime time shows on Fox.”

The Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance was pleased to emphasise that he is very much still involved, and who, despite his use of eye make-up is very much alive. “Israel has been claiming for just as long that Iran is on the brink of obtaining a nuclear weapon.  So, we must act now,” he said.  “And those bunker busting bombs are not cheap, have the Iranian’s even said thank you?”