Best of The News Quiz 2025

The other way back across the Atlantic now, and in February, just over six months into their government, there were more suggestions that Labor had hit the ground stumbling, slipped on their own packed lunch, which they dropped whilst trying to fight off a nonexistent bear, ruptured a cruciate ligament, and fallen into a wheelbarrow, which then plummeted down a bobsled run, because Nigel Farage's Reform UK topped a national opinion poll for the first time.

I mean, Reform, they're do- It's understandable why they're do- I don't know what their policies are.

But when you've got, like, the party that were in 14 years, no one likes them.

The other lot come in, and there, there was some hope, and then that's been dashed.

So, but the problem is Reform, they're sort of like UKIP if you feed them after midnight, aren't they? They-

[laughs]

Their, their manifesto's the last thing we really know anything about, right? And it was kind of like right-wing fantasy football, wasn't it? They just threw every single right-wing idea.

They put Messi, Ronaldo.

Uh, probably should be doing cricket references.

They put Cowdrey and Gower in the same team.

Each, yeah.

But their agenda, no one knows what it is, right? It's, it's a sentiment at this point, but they do have Farage, right? And for all people might not like about him, he can talk.

Problem is, he doesn't have anything to sell.

He's sort of like a doctor who's all diagnosis and no prescription.

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He'll tell you, "Oh, well, you've got a cyst on your arm.

Uh, you, your leg's hanging off, a- and your head is broken." And you go, "What do I do about it?" "Well, it's a farce." You're going, "Oh yeah, I get it, yeah."

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It's, it's a far- It's a farce.

It's a disgrace.

It's calamitous.

What he really is, is he's a thesaurus.

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