- “Rishi Sunak warns Keir Starmer will ‘raise taxes and raid your pension’ and has ‘no plan’ on immigration as leaders squabble in high-stakes ITV election debate – but as poll shows PM edging it 51%-49% was Nigel Farage the real winner?” – The Mail reports on last night’s debate.
- “I underestimated Rishi Sunak. He’s an excellent debater” – The Telegraph‘s Jake Wallis Simons argues Sunak landed the strongest blows and was nimblest on his feet in the ITV debate.
- “Farage’s return is Rishi Sunak’s worst nightmare” – From the moment the Conservatives called this summer election they seemed doomed, but the doom has only deepened with the arrival of Farage, says James Johnson in the Spectator.
- “Cometh the hour, cometh the man?” – TCW‘s Kathy Gyngell hails the entry of Farage into the political fray.
- “Farage Goes All-in” – Although it’s too early to say with any degree of certainty, Monday June 3rd 2024 may well go down as a pivotal moment in Britain’s rich political history, suggests Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
- “Farage says Tories ‘betrayed’ U.K. and calls for ‘zero’ net migration” – Farage kicks off with a hard line on immigration, according to the Mail.
- “Nigel Farage splattered with milkshake in Clacton” – A woman has been arrested on suspicion of assault after throwing a milkshake at Nigel Farage.
- “The Left shows its true colours by cheering on the drenching of Nigel Farage” – We want our politicians accessible, not hidden behind safety glass, a Zoom screen, or a phalanx of bodyguards – something that Left-wing commentators who cheer on the soggy assault of figures they dislike fail to understand, says William Atkinson in the Telegraph.
- “We Brits don’t do revolutions but this election will be as close to one as we’ll get. And the Tories are the aristocratic ruling class totally unprepared for what’s about to engulf them” – The Mail‘s Sarah Vine senses powerful political forces swelling in the country.
- “Top Tory donors ‘withhold donations’ from party’s election campaign” – Three top Tory donors will not support the party’s General Election campaign after private polling showed that the Conservatives are on course for defeat, reports the Telegraph.
- “Angela Rayner has confirmed that Labour is the idiot party” – We must question Rayner’s overall judgement on defence and foreign policy if she considers nuclear disarmament a reasonable objective, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “The Tories aren’t serious about protecting biological sex” – In the Spectator, Kellie-Jay Keen says only repeal of the Gender Recognition Act can restore women’s rights by preventing males from legally becoming women.
- “The Questions They Should Have Asked Fauci” – On Brownstone, Debbie Lerman says the first question Congress should be getting to the bottom of is who was actually in charge of the U.S. Covid response.
- “Five reasons the Covid pandemic almost certainly started via Wuhan lab leak, according to Harvard researcher” – Dr. Alina Chan, molecular biologist at Harvard and MIT and co-author of Viral: The search for the Origin of COVID-19, outlined in the New York Times five reasons why the pandemic likely stemmed from a lab accident in China, and the Mail has helpfully summarised it(without a paywall).
- “Better three years too late than never” – On Substack, ‘Galileo’ runs through the key insights from Israel’s state comptroller’s vaccine report on the Covid jabs.
- “Biden to skip Zelensky’s peace summit for George Clooney fundraiser” – Joe Biden will skip a peace summit organised by Volodymyr Zelensky in favour of a Hollywood fundraiser with George Clooney, the Telegraph reports. How are the right-on celebs going to square that?
- “Egypt has questions to answer over Rafah” – Cairo has serious questions to answer over posing as humanitarian while closing the Gaza border to aid and refugees – and maintaining secret military supply tunnels to Hamas, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Spectator.
- “China unfurls flag on dark side of the Moon as probe heads back to Earth” – China’s Chang’e-6 craft lifted off from the lunar surface on Tuesday morning after a successful mission to collect samples, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Many Problems With Batteries” – There are easier ways for humanity to avoid the problems that batteries are intended to solve, says Iddo Wernick in WUWT.
- “The Abilene Paradox revisited – how we have turbocharged groupthink in the workplace and what to do about it” – On Substack, C.J. Strachan says that since 2020 we have created the perfect incubator for organisational groupthink.
- “Mannheim Updates: The stabbed policeman has died, the assailant Sulaiman Ataee was a years-long illegal resident of Germany, and discourse about the incident continues to be very, very stupid” – Eugyppius with an update on the now fatal stabbing in Germany, where the latest deflection from the actual problem (violently radicalised migrants and far Left activists) is to blame knives, i.e., an inanimate object.
- “We Have Been Subverted” – The preservation of our way of life is at risk because we refuse to see the threats plainly, says Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the Free Press.
- “Biden to Issue Executive Order on Southern Border, Limiting Asylum” – President Biden is expected to sign an executive order that would ban migrants who cross the southern border illegally from claiming asylum, as polls show immigration is a top issue in the election, reports the Wall Street Journal. Why didn’t Sunak think of that? Just ban all asylum claims of illegal immigrants. I guess this means Biden is ‘far Right’ now.
- “Is it true to say that renewables are ‘cheap’? No. At the moment they’re not!” – GB News Economics and Business Editor Liam Halligan delves into Keir Starmer’s energy security plans, branding them vague and slamming the implausible assumptions about renewables.
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I didn’t see the debate between Starmer and Sunak, didn’t know it was happening and don’t much care. But I am not surprised Sunak was seen to have done better. Surely his is the easier task? I’m reminded of the great Thomas Sowell:
“There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is – compared to what? The second is – at what cost? And the third is – what hard evidence do you have?”
Tthere are talkers and there are doers. Most politicians fall into the later category.
People who, if they find themselves with a willing lover, would rather sit on the edge of the bed and explain how good its going to be…
Most fall into the former, because they’re virtually all lying gobshites that cannot seem to stop undermining the intelligence of the public: ”Stop the boats”, ”three weeks to flatten the curve”, deportations, Rwanda….too many examples, too little time.
Most politicians are doers?
Surely you don’t believe that?
What makes you think “Sunak was seen to have done better”? There was a YouGov “snap poll” – do you trust YouGov snap polls? – which asked:
Who performed best overall in tonight’s debate?
Rishi Sunak: 51%
Keir Starmer: 49%
Even if you trust YouGov snap polls, that’s a tiny margin and there’s a margin of error.
According to the same “snap poll”:
Who was more…
Trustworthy: Sunak 39% / Starmer 49%
Likeable: Sunak 34% / Starmer 50%
In touch: Sunak 17% / Starmer 66%
Prime Ministerial: Sunak 43% / Starmer 40%
% of debate viewers who think
Sunak did well: 55%
Sunak did badly: 44%
Starmer did well: 60%
Starmer did badly: 40%
No I don’t set much store by such polls but it’s certainly plausible that Sunak would do well in such a debate as Starmer has the task of selling utopian pipe dreams that are obviously nonsense (at least it’s obvious to me)
I didn’t think Sunak did well at all.
I didn’t think Starmer did well either.
Well I have no time for either of them, but that wasn’t really my point.
” The Telegraph‘s Jake Wallis Simons argues Sunak landed the strongest blows and was nimblest on his feet in the ITV debate.”
“who was actually in charge of the U.S. Covid response”. Nobody. That’s the point. As Fauci said of the “six feet separation” limit, “it sort of just appeared”.
From who or where did the six feet rule – and other such ‘rules and ideas’ – come from? Did someone or some group or organisation feed the suggestion / edict to key players with key roles in the scamdemic? Whatever, the key players revelled in their ‘authority’ and dictatorship.
Think of a number and double it.
Fauci’s insistence that, although it “just sort of appeared,” he didn’t think of social distancing begs the response, “Then why didn’t you make it disappear by invoking science?”
I would say that the visible driving force was almost certainly Bill Gates who (a) went on network news shows very early on to advocate forcefully for lockdowns (b) sent representatives of his foundation to major governments to convince them that the only solution was vaccination and that they needed to “protect” their populations until a jab was ready.
His foundation also held the Event 201 “pandemic exercise” in October 2019 in which all the weird covid measures we experienced and which ran completely contrary to all accepted wisdom were gamed out and put in the minds of the participants.
Those are not conjectures. Those are facts.
The speculative part is whether Bill Gates was acting by himself or on behalf of a more powerful establishment.
I’m inclined to think the latter. But that he was a major driving force is undeniable.
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So that’s it? The Moon now runs on China’s timezone?
Just the dark side.
Hope your not keen on smokey bacon, smoked cheese, kippers or anything else with a gorgeous smokey flavour! Because our Lords and masters in Brussels have decided they are not good for us so, they’re banning the lot!
Yet Another nail in the coffin of freedom to chose!
https://www.live95fm.ie/news/buzz/popular-crisp-flavour-to-be-banned-across-europe-over-cancer-fears/
They are banning a crisp flavouring because it “might” be associated with “fear” of cancer? Yep, that sounds very scientific to me.
Pity they can’t ban the jibby jabs which definitely cause deaths and severe injuries.
“I underestimated Rishi Sunak. He’s an excellent debater”
Sod off, he’s an empty vacuous vessel with no sense of meaning or integrity
It’s easy to debate if you do not belive in a single word you say! ACTIONS speak louder than words, what have is actions been? Can anybody name one of his achievements?
He improved dinghy turn around times quite significantly.
🤣👍
“We Brits don’t do revolutions”
I’m sorry? Have you not studied British history?
Oops, forgot, your Goves wife…What do you know!
Indeed though they probably mean violent revolutions which we’ve only arguably had one of, though it was more of a civil war than a revolution.
“The Tories aren’t serious about protecting biological sex”
Tories,Labour,greens,libdems
Non of them are serious about anything except getting into power! Then it will be back to business as usual
Name a contradiction in terms.. here’s one,
‘Renewable energy’
Albert Einstein
The only renewable in renewable energy is the subsidy.
Agreed👍
“Poll of the day.. Who won the first election TV debate?”
Who the f#@k cares?
Indeed
Surely the first and most important thing you judge them on is their track record. After that, on what they promise to do (taken with a ton of salt). If after that they both still seem like plausible options you might choose to watch a debate and judge them on that, but surely your mind will have been made up long since.
They’re both so darned boring, have they had their personalities surgically removed?
I’ve not seen much of them tbh – I would end up throwing things at the screen – but I am sure you are right
https://www.thefp.com/p/ayaan-hirsi-ali-we-have-been-subverted
An absolutely first class article and worth your time which will be about 20 mins.
An in-depth look at how our way of life is under threat and by whom.
I agree with you that it is well worth reading, though I am not sure about her concluding section on who is doing the subverting. She names 3 forces that she believes might be subverting western culture and societies – “American Marxists” (which she defines as including “old card-carrying communists, red-diaper baby socialists, antifa anarchists, and many of whom we now call woke”), radical Islamists and the Chinese Communist Party.
She omits to mention a force that I would guess we might put top of our list of suspects – comprising the Globalists, the WEF/UN/WHO/EU build back better brigade, new world order, corporate elite etc – and I’m not sure how the US military industrial complex and US Federal Reserve fit in here either. Is a key driver of all this the fact that the fiat currency system in western countries is on the point of collapse and its replacement with a CBDC system is seen as desirable by these crazy loons?
I agree Michael. I sort of discarded her Three Forces and entirely agree with your list of….”Globalists, the WEF/UN/WHO/EU build back better brigade, new world order, corporate elite etc .”
Notwithstanding her summary I thought it was an excellent article. Bezhemov knew his subject and discussed it often enough. Strange it wasn’t acted on n’est pas?
A potential con? https://www.gbnews.com/politics/labour-brexit-keir-starmer-uk-taxpayer “UK taxpayers stuck with multi-MILLION-pund bill”
But why should a new Gov compensate for expenses incurred by a previous one?
“Nigel Farage splattered with milkshake in Clacton”
Well done to the police who have charged the 25-year-old “OnlyFans” Porn Slut with assault and criminal damage, while Diane Abbott’s “Stand Up to Racism” Marxists gloat over the attack on an election candidate, forgetting that a man went to prison for 28 days after a similar attack on the Toadlike Abbott’s ex-boyfriend Jeremy Corbyn in 2019, and patriotic candidates in countries like Germany get stabbed.
OnlyFans model Victoria Thomas-Bowen, 25, is charged with assault and criminal damage after milkshake was thrown over Nigel Farage | Daily Mail Online
Nigel Farage challenges Diane Abbott after left-wingers gloat over milkshake attack | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
Right-wing AfD politician is stabbed in Mannheim days after police officer was killed in knife attack at anti-Islam rally in the city | Daily Mail Online
“We Have Been Subverted” says Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the Free Press.”
“We”? Here are some Youtube comments on Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Fake Conversion to Christianity. Some from Dutch people, and one from an Aussie:
— “She lied about her name, parents, age, history, and her reasons for fleeing Somalia. After her lies came to light, she was dropped by the political party she abused, by parliament, lost her Dutch nationality, and went to the USA to repeat everything again.”
— “Her position seemed to be “Christianity is useful”.”
— “I’ve found her to be very disingenuous, narcissistic and opportunistic.”
— “She’s just trying to get Clout. Anything for Fame. She and Candace Owens are of the same coin, just different sides.”
— “I have lost all respect for Ali. She is not a Christian, she is simply trying to unite with Christians and use them in her fight against what she perceives as threats. She has shown herself to be an astute political operator, comfortable with lies and omissions and twisting truth to meet her own ends. I suspect that her next move will be to seek political office.”
— “She lied about her name, age and claimed to have fled war zone Somalia when she was living in upper-middle class comfort in Kenya … among other lies … She was found to have not legitimately received her Dutch citizenship.” [Note: just like that new Fake Refugee Mayor of Derry in Northern Ireland, whose brother is actually a Senator in Kenya]
— “She’s a grifter; she knows the audience she has to appeal to in order to stay relevant. That’s it.”
— “This sounds to me like someone’s bank account was getting a little light. Her ‘conversion’ has and will get her paid speaking engagements, possible book deal, interviews, articles. She’ll get money.”
— “Her reasoning being first and foremost as a political tool to “combat” ideologies is so disingenuous it is sickening. Having my religion waved around like a weapon and being displayed as a stance instead of a spiritual practice is disgusting.”
— “She’s always been more politically than philosophically motivated. Probably her calling herself an atheist was also a political move.”
— “Well I’ve never heard of this Sheila, so I’m not interested in what she has to say now.”