"By their own accounts, there have been two Westminster-adjacent victims of inflammatory language this week. One is the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, hurt to the point of requiring smelling salts by some politically commonplace words spoken by the prime minister. And the other is legally besieged bra baroness Michelle Mone, who has always been performatively sensitive, with chaos as her rising sign."
"Alas, far from their shared victimhood drawing our two snowflakes closer together, in Michelle, we may have finally found the Tory from whom Nigel would not accept a defection to Reform. Which really means something, considering Britain's would-be next prime minister currently has precisely zero peers in the House of Lords. Like the PPE she provided during the pandemic, Michelle would be deemed incredibly expensive and absolutely unusable."
"Not that you'd get that vibe from the letter she sent to Keir Starmer this week, claiming that Rachel Reeves reportedly mentioning a vendetta against her retaining her peerage was a security threat. This began, amazingly, with the words: I am writing to you first as a wife, second as a mother, and lastly as a baroness Surely writing at least second-and-a-halfly as a Range Rover driver?"
Two Westminster-adjacent figures claim victimhood from inflammatory language: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage reacted strongly to words from the prime minister, reportedly requiring smelling salts. Bra baroness Michelle Mone faces legal challenges linked to a company ordered to repay £122m to the Department of Health for defective surgical gowns and has framed remarks about her peerage as a security threat in a letter to Keir Starmer. Mone uses performative, affluent imagery and contested analogies—comparing identity to a Range Rover—while critics portray her pandemic PPE as expensive and unusable. Farage has no peers in the House of Lords and would reject a defection from Mone.
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