- “Furious Tory MPs ‘working on plot to call off General Election’ by replacing Sunak” – Conservative MPs are said to be working on a plot to call off the General Election by replacing Rishi Sunak as Tory leader, according to GB News.
- “There are just 1,000 hours to save Britain” – Rishi Sunak must expose Labour’s socialist agenda and give conservatives clear new reasons to back him, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak’s summer election call is suicide for the Tories” – Calling an early election is an admission of defeat, says the Spectator in a leading article.
- “Voters must now face up to the reality of a Labour Government” – A vote for Labour would be a catastrophe for Britain and for Brexit, warns David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Turn down that bloody music” – Whatever you think of Rishi Sunak’s Government, the calling of a general election is an historic occasion – one that shouldn’t be ruined by narcissistic prats, says Sebastian Milbank in the Critic.
- “Rishi insisted on braving the rain for election speech” – For a man taking the biggest gamble of his career, Rishi Sunak did not look lucky, remarks Jason Groves in the Mail.
- “Soaked Sunak joins the list of most cringeworthy political photo-ops” – The Mail has gone through the last 50 years of British politics to bring you some of the most embarrassing political moments.
- “Labour takes down election campaign video after awkward mistake” – Labour has been forced to take down a video launching its general election campaign after it was spoiled by a spelling mistake, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rewarding fascism” – The recognition of the State of Palestine is virtue-signalling at its most dangerous and dumb, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “The butcher is dead. What comes next for Iran?” – The unexpected death of the Iranian President may be the vent that allows a volcano of rage to explode, writes Reuel Marc Gerecht in the Free Press.
- “Muslim mushrooms” – In the New Conservative, Dr. Roger Watson discusses the challenges anyone faces when talking about the Gaza conflict with Muslims.
- “Overreporting COVID-19 as an underlying cause of death inflated mortality numbers during pandemic” – A new study suggests COVID-19 was reported more frequently than it should have been as an underlying cause of death, inflating Covid mortality and attributing deaths from other causes to the virus, reports the Epoch Times.
- “New Jersey gym owner who defied Covid shutdown cleared of all charges after years-long legal battle” – A New Jersey gym owner who defied the state’s Covid restrictions was cleared of more than 80 charges relating to a series of pandemic-era confrontations with police, says the NY Post.
- “T-cells, cancer and immunity” – On his YouTube channel, Dr. John Campbell sits down with Professors Angus Dalgleish and Robert Clancy to discuss T-cells, cancer and immunity.
- “Horizon, maternity, infected blood – what other scandals await corrupt Britain?” – The major scandals, which seem to come along with numbing frequency – from Grenfell to the Horizon horror show to the infected blood calamity – all spring fundamentally from the belief that ordinary people don’t count, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Foreign Office HQ is where British interests go to die” – Standing in silence in the UN for the death of the President of Iran has to be one of the Foreign Office’s lowest points, laments Ben Wallace in the Telegraph. But he has some other candidates for that honour.
- “Killing the good Samaritans” – In the face of monstrous violence, we are losing control of our public spaces, warns Sebastian Milbank in the Critic.
- “A cap on migrants is our only chance” – Migration Watch, the independent organisation that monitors migrant flow in and out of the U.K., has set out the dire consequences of unchecked mass migration into this country, writes Alp Mehmet in TCW.
- “Dutch lawyer faces prosecution for social media post slamming mass migration” – According to Modernity, a Dutch conservative female lawyer is facing charges of “racism” and “inciting hatred” for signal-boosting a viral video depicting a white boy being assaulted and thrown onto a railway track by a group of migrants.
- “Supermarkets urge against panic buying over Government guidance” – Supermarkets are urging against panic buying after the Government launched a ‘preppers’ website, warning families to gather an “emergency kit” for use in a crisis, reports the Mail.
- “More than half the world cannot speak freely, report finds” – A new report on freedom of expression reveals that half the world’s population cannot freely speak their mind, says the Guardian.
- “The real carbon footprint of electric cars: part one” – The real carbon footprint of electric cars is far greater than we’ve been told – even greater than the carbon footprint of wet cars, writes James Edward Kamis in Climate Change Dispatch.
- “Ireland’s Social Democrats call to ban ‘best before’ dates on food” – Ireland’s Social Democrats party are arguing for ‘Best before’ dates on food products to be banned to help tackle climate change, according to Gript.
- “New paper finds tropical storm frequency linked largely to oceanic cycles” – Alarmists like to claim that an unusually active tropical cyclone season is due to man-made global warming, but it has more to do with natural oceanic cycles, says Pierre Gosselin in Climate Change Dispatch.
- “‘Pro-paedophile’ activist group celebrates as Germany decriminalises child porn possession” – According to Reduxx, Germany has passed a bill that downgrades the offence for possession of child sexual abuse materials to a misdemeanor.
- “Scottish Green Party backs transgender candidate ‘Sophie sparkles’ in upcoming elections” – The Scottish Green Party is backing a trans-identifying male candidate with a disturbing social media history in the upcoming parliamentary elections, reports Reduxx.
- “No man’s land” – In the New Conservative, Frank Haviland offers his unique perspective on the appointment of Britain’s first female deputy head of the military.
- “In defence of the right to addictions” – Paternalists should stop masquerading as defenders of liberty, says Charles Amos in the Critic.
- “Tatler’s Princess of Wales portrait is intolerably bad” – Tatler’s new cover image – an ‘exclusive’ painting of the Princess of Wales by British-Zambian artist Hannah Uzor – shows no flicker of resemblance to its subject, writes Alastair Sooke in the Telegraph. He’s not kidding.
- “The Cold War may be over, but NatCons and FreeCons still need each other” – The 20th Century conservative movement was always an alloy of historically separate parts. But the conditions that united it – opposition to socialism – have not disappeared, says Daniel Hannan in Conservative Home.
- “Trump would be no dark age of neo-Jacksonian Euro-phobia” – A renewed Trump administration will be perfectly amenable to working out a new and mutually satisfactory relationship with Europe, writes Conrad Black in Brussels Signal.
- “A ‘cisgender’ shadow ban on X is anti-free speech” – If Elon Musk really wants to be a free speech hero, he can’t keep making exceptions for things that hurt his feelings, says Brad Polumbo in UnHerd.
- “They hate our country” – A meme on X nails why you’ll end up with the same shit sandwich whoever you vote for in the next General Election.
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Reform just six points off becoming biggest party, says election predictor
The state of British politics:
Reform:
Kemi Badenoch is horrid
Putin is admirable
Send in the Royal Navy
Labour Party:
Mission driven government: ‘Missions are designed to set bold visions for change, inspiring collaboration across the system and society to break down silos and work towards a common goal. They represent the ultimate purpose of the government, and the story it aims to tell by the end of the parliament.’ Eh?
Conservative Party:
Reform are cheating. Systemic reform is required. ‘Watch this space.’
Liberal Democrats: Whatever they didn’t say.
Green Party: Don’t light fires, ever
We are comprehensively fecked.
Starmer’s Britain is like North Korea if it was run by David Brent
Today’s ‘Let’s test the water’ popular poll. Which style of management is better?
Upvote:
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1. Clarify vision and direction • Define the ambition and priority outcomes of each mission before the spending review: either by clarifying, building on or restating the specific goals in the manifesto. • Deliver some immediate, short-term confidence building measures – including Labour’s ‘First Steps’: the missions are a political project, and must start to make a tangible difference to peoples’ lives quickly. Unless they maintain the confidence of the public they will fail.
2. Establish strong political leadership • Appoint a lead cabinet minister for missions at the centre of government: providing the direction and challenge across government. • Appoint a lead secretary of state for each mission: with clear accountability for who is responsible for overseeing delivery. • Establish a mission leadership group for each mission: responsible for developing and enacting a shared strategy. • Create a Mission Strategy Board to oversee and broker between missions: and to act as the ultimate decision making forum for trade-offs within and between missions.
3. Develop a strategy – underpinned by the money needed to deliver • Undertake a series of ‘where are we now?’ reviews: to build the evidence base and set the baseline for where key priorities are starting from. • Develop five Mission Strategies: honing and iterating the approach. • Reform the spending review to budget for missions: putting cash behind the missions by funding a coherent strategy, not a series of disconnected initiatives.
4. Break down barriers to cross-government work • Build cross-cutting Mission Strategy Teams: to support each mission leadership group and owning the shared strategy. • Identify and dismantle barriers to working between departments: making it easier to work together on shared problems or priorities. • Reflect the missions in devolution deals, single settlements and intergovernmental relations: incentivising a shared approach between layers of government.
5. Open up more to partnership with the private sector, civil society and wider public sector • Create opportunities for the private sector and civil society to contribute to mission development: ensuring relevant leaders bring in delivery expertise and challenge for the government • Use a range of deliberative engagement methods to involve citizens early: supporting departments to try different approaches • Use red teams to test plans: facilitating learning and iterating on mission plans • Establish expert adviser networks: amplifying outside expertise • Introduce large-scale secondment programmes in each mission: building multidisciplinary teams across departments.
“Net Zero fines ‘set to drive up price of petrol cars’”
…All hail to the the Kommissars’ 5-year plan to outlaw private motoring and dismantle the auto industry. Just think how the Politburo Teslas will have the M25 all for themselves, while working parties of proles slave away emptying gullies and filling in potholes with their bare hands to the tune of the Internationale booming out from the PA system sponsored by Alphabet under license from Microsoft. Drones funded by Lords Alli, Gates and Schwab to provide air supremacy.
Meanwhile God-speed to Politburo private jets flying on aviation gasoline adulterated with cooking oil cast-offs.
The People’s flag is deepest rainbow.
Unfortunately, in the short term at least, it’s a win-win for the government. They put up the price of petrol cars, they slap extra taxes on flying, but people still pay. Because cars are so useful, because foreign holidays are so nice. The crunch will come when/if they actually follow through and make these things illegal. I wonder if they have actually made any plans for what happens then? (beyond their permanently relocating to the holiday home in Tuscany, that doesn’t count as a ‘plan’).
“Asylum seekers ‘drain money from Dutch state for generations’”
Pity the poor Dutch… they should take a leaf out of our book, where every immigrant adds immeasurably to the richness and culture of our nation, in so many ways, not least financially.
Or, so we’re told…
Well “diversity is our strength.” Apparently.
Whoever coined the phrase was being quite cute, the “our” being the establishment. “Our” was never intended to represent the masses but they attempted to con us this was so and quite successfully I believe.
The latest statement by the Dutch government is to cap the population at 20 million by 2030…. Current population 18.3. With current housing shortage, health care crisis, etc. etc….What could possibly go wrong?
“Why Britain could face ‘Babygeddon’: Experts’ warning over birth rates” – Britain is running out of babies, and this is predicted to lead to catastrophes, including the collapse of the NHS and pension system, and the atrophy of education, writes Christopher Stevens in the Mail.
The ‘problem’ is not so much a lack of babies, even though 2020 was a fairly slow year for the UK (most babies born in 2020 would have been conceived in 2019), 2002 and 1977 were ‘worse’. It’s also not that many more are dying.
It’s also not that we’ve got too few births per female of child-bearing age. The birth rate was lower in 2002 and nearly as low in 1977.
The ‘problem’ is that we’re living longer and spending longer in economically unproductive retirement. Society won’t accept that death is naturally inevitable. For example, if elderly people suffer heart attacks why in God’s name do we try to resuscitate? If I go through the pain and fear of dying why revive me and make me do it again later?
Of course this is easy to say when I’m not in the heat of the moment. I believe it was Bob Hope who overheard someone ask ‘Who wants to live to be 100?’. He replied ‘Someone who’s 99’.
The problem is partly that most of those that are born are called mohammed and will be brought up to hate Britain, britishness and the British.
If the working-age population is not generating wealth then it can’t be taken in taxes and used to look after the elderly. People on benefits who could be working and generating wealth are most of the problem. Also elderly folk who did not prepare for their retirement by building up capital – but it’s too late to fix that one – we were told the lie ‘don’t worry, the state will provide’, but it can’t unless there’s new wealth to tax.
Apparently, over 50% of the population are net receivers of money from the exchequer, in immigrant communities it’s even worse? Take out receipts from ‘London’ and we quickly slide down the wealth table, from fifth richest in the world to third world status. Unless they’re all bright-eyed, bushy-tailed entrepreneurs coming to build companies that will add significantly to the economy (which seems unlikely on current evidence) why would you want more? And, even if they were all medics, come to save the NHS, their contribution to the balance of payments is negligible, at best, since their pay comes from the public purse anyway…
My father worked until over 80 and I did until 70 or 73 depending how you judge it. He started at about 6 and I was working all the time not at school from 10.
after age 50 I found it difficult to get job interviews. My wife was thwarted by a Riyal Society that demanded a degree for an admin job she was ideal for – clearly their way of legalised age discrimination, perhaps also to filter out non lefties.
We need a better arrangement for employers and workers so work changes can be made later in life without the difficulties presented by employment law.
My dad worked until he was 89 and basically no longer able to work for health reasons. I think it kept him in good shape physically, mentally and emotionally. He “retired” at the “normal” retirement age and did part time jobs for the next 25 years. It worked for him. I don’t know what I will do – I have no firm plans other than to keep working for as long as I find it helpful. I am lucky in that I can work part time if I want to, which I have started doing. We have quite a few staff working part time – some seniors and others who have made a lifestyle choice for other reasons. It works for us – and we want to keep good people.
This always mystifies me…
First of all, why is it apparently such a shock that people born in the baby boom 60-80 years ago are just now reaching their 60s and 80s? If only there had been some way to know, so that we might have planned for it. A census every decade, or something, perhaps?
And then again, those in their 60s and 89s will be dead soon, mostly in the next 20 years, or sooner with a decent cold snap… releasing all that money they’re hoarding.
So, why do we need to relentlessly add to the population? Even yeast knows perpetual growth is not sustainable.
We seemed to do perfectly well with the population we had 50 years ago. Indeed going even further back, in Victorian era, with a population of just 18 million we conquered and held territory across the globe…
Why should such a piffling amount of snow make the news headlines? Its winter ffs!
I couldn’t agree more Dinger. Manchester Airport is shut apparently and I doubt there is more than a dust covering at Ringway. I suppose the fear factor has to be invoked at any and every opportunity.
Absolute Bollox.
Ah, well, you see, we weren’t expecting it because global boiling.