This is Farage's response to the scandal and yes, there is is something that stinks about this sting, as you will hear

I don't normally buy into conspiracy theories, once you start you can lose all sense of reality, but this one is feasible. I don't believe Channel 4 set it up, they'd lose their licence for such a stunt, I think it's more likely the man did it either independently or in the pay of someone else and he fooled Channel 4 into believing he was a Reform activist.

If Channel 4 did set this up then they're in serious trouble. I'll be magnanimous and say they knew nothing about this man, he did it of his own accord or was paid by an outside source unknown to Channel 4. I can't believe a national broadcaster would do something blatantly illegal. 

Going back to the standard of Reform candidates, Farage has thrown several out today, so there is obviously a problem with whom they're recruiting.    

Yes they do but there's been some real horror stories from these trips.

Any clarity on the Supreme Court ruling that a President is immune from prosecution for "official" acts? Does that mean that a President can commit murder and not be prosecuted? A dangerous ruling surely? Biden ought to be in favour, it indicates that he too will be safe if Trump wins and comes after him. 

It's not the Presidency that's up for grabs but the Parliament and the office of Prime Minister, Macron isn't up for re-election until 2027. We could see therefore a Right Wing Parliament led by a Centre-Left President for the next three years. 

There are plans to employ tactical voting to keep Le Pen's party from gaining a majority, so yet another coalition is on the cards. 

Remember Geert Wilders winning the Dutch Election last year? He never became PM.  

In the past presidents have authorized mass murders, see carpet bombings & political assassinations. Nothing new here.

Election day today; which, oddly, is a politics free day in the media, they're only allowed to report the fact of the Election and what to do. All this will end of course at 2200 when the polls close and then the media frenzy resumes. 

We're resigned to a Labour victory and Sir Keir Starmer will be Prime Minister tomorrow, the only question is how big will Labour's majority be.  

How do you vote over there in the USA and Canada? A cross on a voting paper or on a machine, "hanging chads" and all? Here we use a stubby pencil, why a pencil I don't know, ink would be better as pencil can be rubbed out.   

Voting machine? So it's counted there and then? Here we put it in a box which is carried away at the end of the day to be counted manually, hence the results aren't known until hours later; even now ten hours after the polls closed some results are still to come in.

Anyway, the result is as expected, a huge Labour win. The only positives I can take from it are - the SNP demolished in Scotland and George Galloway lost in Rochdale. Nigel Farage's Reform have got four seats, more than I thought but fewer than some predicted.  

Some big names gone too, most notably former PM Liz Truss, plus Jacob Rees-Mogg and a number of Tory Cabinet Ministers. 

Voting machine? So it's counted there and then? Here we put it in a box which is carried away at the end of the day to be counted manually, hence the results aren't known until hours later; even now ten hours after the polls closed some results are still to come in.

Anyway, the result is as expected, a huge Labour win. The only positives I can take from it are - the SNP demolished in Scotland and George Galloway lost in Rochdale. Nigel Farage's Reform have got four seats, more than I thought but fewer than some predicted.  

Some big names gone too, most notably former PM Liz Truss, plus Jacob Rees-Mogg and a number of Tory Cabinet Ministers. 

Headlines over here say that Starmer's honeymoon may be brief.