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Richard Tice found the guts to speak to Laura Kuenssberg on her show on Sunday morning – unlike his party leader Nigel Farage the previous week, who has been doing everything he can to avoid scrutiny over his £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire. Richard Tice will be speaking to Laura Kuenssberg because I'm […] The post Watch Richard Tice repeatedly fail to condemn a newly elected Reform councillor’s disgusting suggestion that ‘Nigerians should be melted down to fill pot holes’ appeared first on The Poke.

Like us you might not be overly familiar with the work of Linden Kemkaran, the Reform UK leader (since May last year) of Kent County Council. But now we’ll never forget her (well, not for a day or two at least) after her attempt to own her Green Party rival blew up spectacularly in her […] The post A Reform UK-er’s attempt to own her Green Party rival totally blew up in her face and if this happened to us we wouldn’t leave home for a week appeared first on The Poke.

At the weekend, Donald Trump somehow found a sliver of free time between golf rounds, ending wars, and proving he can identify a squirrel, a giraffe, or a lion, to give an interview to investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson. They discussed the most recent alleged assassination attempt, the Iran War, US energy, the approaching mid-terms, and […] The post Donald Trump claimed he donates his presidential salary to ‘White House preservation’, and it was a self-own visible from the pile of rubble that used to be the East Wing appeared first on The Poke.

It’s fair to say that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is no fan of scrutiny. Whenever he’s confronted with an interview question he doesn’t like, he tends to turn into a Trump tribute act, using the same deflection tactics, tetchiness and dismissive arrogance as his mate in The White House. Here’s Beth Rigby from Sky […] The post Beth Rigby questioned Nigel Farage about his £5m gift from a crypto billionaire and he went full ‘Temu Trump’ – 22 scathing responses appeared first on The Poke.

Cast your mind back to June 2025, when the Trump family announced plans to launch its own phone service provider, complete with a gold mobile handset – a snip at $499. "Now we're doing Trump Mobile. And Trump mobile is going to revolutionize cell phones" — Eric Trump announces the new Trump phone pic.twitter.com/PtFOblfLcu — […] The post Maga cultists paid $600 million in deposits for a gold ‘Trump Phone’ that’s unlikely ever to exist… or be refunded – 17 of the least surprised reactions of all time appeared first on The Poke.

There’s something quite satisfying about seeing the smug political opportunist Robert Jenrick being called out – especially when it’s done right to his face. Due to Thursday’s seizmic elections in England, Scotland and Wales, BBC’s Question Time was a day later than usual, with a live show broadcast on Friday evening as something of an […] The post This Question Time audience member called out ‘grifters like you and your colleagues’ right to Robert Jenrick’s face, and the internet joined the applause appeared first on The Poke.

Pity the boomers and privileged property-owning classes for we know not of their endless suffering. For examples, this couple who wrote to the Telegraph this week with their problem. Their adult son and daughter have moved back in with them because “they can neither afford to rent, nor save for a deposit”. The issue is, […] The post Boomers wrote to the ‘Telegraph’ saying they can hear their adult children having sex with people since they moved back in, and there’s very little sympathy for their plight appeared first on The Poke.

Here’s a story you almost certainly weren’t expecting, though nothing should really shock any of us anymore. A new royal biography claims that Sarah Ferguson, aka Fergie, aka the former Mrs Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, had a four-year “friends with benefits” arrangement with disgraced, now jailed rapper P Diddy, aka Puff Daddy, aka Sean Combs. Sarah Ferguson […] The post Sarah Ferguson allegedly had a “friends with benefits” relationship with P Diddy, claims a new royal biography – 18 hilarious, horrified responses appeared first on The Poke.

Keir “Meep Meep” Starmer has acknowledged that the 2026 local elections were a bloodbath for Labour, with the party losing close to 1,500 councillors, mostly, it seems, to Reform UK. The prime minister said this weekend that “in the coming days I will be setting out our path to break with the status quo once […] The post Keir Starmer responded to Labour’s election crisis by bringing in fresh blood like Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman, announced in a weird video – 20 amused and baffled responses appeared first on The Poke.

There are so many things to get used to when you emigrate. There may be a new language, there’ll definitely be new money, different customs and accents, strange food, and on top of all that, there may be a whole other way that people interact – such as the one brought up by SomeEars512 on […] The post Someone moved to the UK and was baffled by the Brits using inanimate objects as insults – 21 beautifully British barbs appeared first on The Poke.