- “Emmanuel Macron calls shock snap national election after being hit by disaster in European Parliament vote” – Emmanuel Macron has called a snap national vote and dissolved parliament after his party was projected to come a distant second to Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in the European elections, according to GB News.
- “The European elections and the ascent of the Right” – The Right is winning. In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally will win twice as many votes as President Macron’s Renaissance, says Freddy Gray in the Spectator.
- “Scholz’s party faces defeat at EU elections in Germany” – The Mail reports that Germany’s leading party has suffered losses, while French hardliner Marine Le Pen is set for a massive win in the European elections.
- “German Right triumphs on bloodbath night for ruling coalition” – Members of Germany’s traditional parties in Germany will not sleep well following the results of elections to the EU Parliament, says Ralph Schoellhammer in UnHerd.
- “The European election revolt is real, but is it sustainable?” – The emerging picture from the 2024 EU Parliament elections seems to confirm earlier predictions of significant but not decisive “hard Right” gains, writes Gabriel Elefteriu in Brussels Signal.
- “Private school VAT may swell state school class sizes, admits Thornberry” – Emily Thornberry admits that Labour’s plan to charge VAT on private school fees risks increasing class sizes in the state sector, reports the Telegraph.
- “Suella Braverman urges Tories to embrace Nigel Farage” – The former Home Secretary Suella Braverman says there is “not much difference” between Reform’s policies and those of the Conservatives, according to the Times.
- “Starmer’s history of Left-wing views revealed” – Questions remain over the extent to which Keir Starmer has abandoned his Trotskyist beliefs, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak losing will be a blessed relief” – The Conservatives should be put out of their misery, says Tim Dawson in the Critic.
- “Nigel Farage is wrong: if the Tories move Right, they will be out for 20 years” – The Conservatives cannot afford to turn ‘Faragiste’. As Labour learnt to its cost, elections are won from the centre, writes Kamal Ahmed in the Telegraph.
- “‘Why I’ll be voting Reform (reluctantly)’” – “I won’t be voting for Reform with any of the sense of joy that I did when I switched parties in 2019 to back Boris Johnson,” says Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Meta to focus on censoring ‘misinformation’ and ‘hate speech’ ahead of U.K. election” – As the U.K. prepares for its General Election, Meta has announced a series of measures aimed at combating “misinformation” and “hate speech” on its platforms, writes Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
- “The Observer view on Baillie Gifford sponsorship row: writing is on the wall for book lovers” – Now the investment fund Baillie Gifford is pulling out of literary festivals, what other sponsors will dare expose themselves to the scrutiny of Fossil Free Books? asks the Observer.
- “Spain is now Europe’s most despicable nation” – Madrid’s anti-Israel stance is shameful, rewarding Hamas and tying the hands of the Jewish state. Britain under Labour would follow suit, warns Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “In the very best of hands” – On SteynOnline, Mark Steyn comments on the D-Day debacle and Europe’s looming demographic crisis.
- “How Sweden became a ‘haven’ for mafia gangs” – Over the course of one night last year, three people were killed in separate attacks in Sweden. The violence made global headlines, but to many in the country, it was no surprise, writes Chris Jewers in the Mail.
- “Narendra Modi is sworn in for a third time as India’s Prime Minister” – Narendra Modi has been sworn in for a third term as India’s PM after worse-than-expected election results left him reliant on coalition partners to govern, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer risks losing support for fighting climate change” – Labour’s plan for ‘cheap renewables’ means more pain for squeezed households, says Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
- “New Zealand to lift oil drilling ban amid blackout fears in blow to Starmer” – New Zealand is expected to revoke a ban on drilling for oil and gas amid fears of blackouts, as Labour plans to impose a similar crackdown on the North Sea, reports Reuters.
- “Did the Aussie opposition leader just call for cancelling the Paris Agreement?” – Does “there’s no sense in signing up to targets you don’t have any prospect of achieving” translate to a commitment to dump Australia’s Paris obligations? wonders Eric Worrall in WUWT?
- “Reclaim the rainbow!” – Christians and social conservatives have been too slow in defending the ideas, traditions and culture which created the society we know and value, says Dr. Campbell Campbell-Jack in TCW.
- “The average age of my staff is 61 – they are dependable and trusting” – In the Mail, a businessman reveals that all the staff at his firm are above the age of 50, as he believes older workers have more “sense” and know how to get things done.
- “The radical Left website sabotaging research” – Aporia takes aim at the radical Left-wing website RationalWiki, which exploits its suspiciously high Google ranking to demean anybody who researches controversial topics and gets the “wrong” answers.
- “The EU is over-regulating AI” – In the Critic, Pieter Cleppe warns against prioritising caution and control over the economic and technological opportunities presented by AI.
- “David Boaz (1953-2024) – Champion of liberty” – The Cato Institute pays tribute to David Boaz, who turned Cato from a small organisation with a handful of employees, to a leading think tank in Washington with a global presence.
- “Green leader’s nuclear disaster” – On LBC, co-leader of the Green Party Carla Denyer gets mauled by host Lewis Goodall defending her party’s position on nukes.
Carla Denyer co leader of the Green Party is way out of her depth… trying so hard to defend their nuke policy.
— WeGotitBack 🏴
It’s embarrassing ! She is trying to compare it to carrying a knife pic.twitter.com/34GYxb7Qkt(@NotFarLeftAtAll) June 9, 2024
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/09/nigel-farage-wrong-if-tories-move-right-out-for-20-years/
What Kamal Ahmed fails to understand is that the ‘Faragistas’ are the centre and those of us in that space will be glad to see the back of the Tories for twenty years if not for good. Their treachery should never be forgotten and never forgiven. The guy is totally out of touch.
Could his name give a clue to his thoughts ?
Good point Freddy.
I don’t understand how anyone can vote for Brexit
I don’t understand how anyone can vote for Trump
I don’t understand how anyone can vote for Boris
I don’t understand how anyone can vote for Farage.
There’s a pattern here. I wonder if I’m the only one to spot it….
I think you might be on to something Neil. 😀😀
Tories haven’t been around since Cameron became party leader. Coincidence?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-beginners-guide-to-covid-part-11-the-great-pcr-fraud/
This is an absolute belter.
Paul Weston’s series on the C1984 Scamdemic part 11 – links to previous articles embedded – absolutely rips a gaping hole in the PCR testing regime. His assessment is brutal but nothing that the majority here at DS had already realised.
“AFTER the pace of deaths driven by the Great Care Home Cull in spring 2020 showed down, the government switched to positive PCR tests to drive the Covid Pandemic. These tests were dishonest and fraudulent.”
“If 100,000 tests returned 10,000 positive results, the true positive number would be 7,700 (10,000 positive tests minus 2,300 false positives).” Not necessarily. That is not what false positive means. You have to take into account the amount of positives out there. If everybody in the group did have covid then everybody would be 100% positive no false positives and that is that. It is when nobody has covid in the group, then there will be 2300 false positives. Two extremes- reality is somewhere in between. It means that in the summer of 2020 locking down Leicester was a waste of time. In the winter more accurate, although who really knows with cross-contamination etc/
It’s called Bayes theorem. I think Hancock admitted so much.
Thanks 👍
A couple of other points though :
1. The testing cycle was always above 25 and usually 35 or 45, levels considered too high to be valid.
2. The PCR test was not designed for diagnostics although in view of the above largely irrelevant.
It was still a con.
https://thecritic.co.uk/rishi-sunak-losing-will-be-a-blessed-relief/
This is the problem with the commentariat, they don’t understand and so their analyses lack true depth. Compare this piece to Paul Weston’s article to appreciate the good from the also-rans.
“Perhaps Sunak’s sudden resignation, and the conspicuous clearing out of all the silly-ass dross around him, would save a few seats. I don’t think he is an evil man. He is a privileged man, privileged in a way that removes him completely from the life experience of virtually everyone, including those with conventional wealth. His political inheritance was atrocious.”
Sunak is an evil man, a deeply evil man. He has no allegiance to this country and so cares not a jot for the conditions of its people. If he was not evil Nut Zero would have been nuked on Day One with an end to all immigration on Day Two but rather than deal with the greatest issues facing this country since WWII he has allowed both to get worse. These matters cannot be written off as incompetence because that would imply he at least tried. The reality is he has encouraged both. He is a failure, a completely useless, abject failure who centuries ago would have lost his head for his treason. Let’s call a spade a spade – he’s evil. He’s a traitor.
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https://miriaf.co.uk/stop-starmer/
An excellent article by Miri which decidedly skewers the “don’t vote” brigade and why it is so dangerous. Bottom line if not voting damaged the establishment they wouldn’t allow it.
“Your vote does matter, and that’s why “they” try so hard to sway who you vote for, including and especially encouraging you not to vote at all, because this is the top way of ensuring their desired candidate (Starmer in this instance) walks in.
Directly rigging an election by removing or adding votes is highly illegal and therefore very risky. Convincing people not to vote, however, is neither illegal nor does it carry any risk.
So that’s the “rigging” strategy they opt for – because convincing someone not to vote has the same effect as ensuring an additional vote for the lead candidate.”
Going back to my post last night about the amount of ‘Useful Idiots’ that are thick as sh*t, and have proven this to be the case time and again. A classic example here, if you haven’t seen the short clip already, have a watch. This lady thinks Israel is a Muslim country and didn’t know you’d get launched off a roof if you were openly gay in Palestine. But even stupid people have strength in numbers, worryingly;
”Since the wave of hate marches, student encampments and other protests began after October 7, social media has been full of examples of jaw-dropping ignorance about Israel and the Middle East that only a determinedly stupid person could embrace. As Martin Luther King Jr famously remarked, “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
The entire Queers for Palestine movement, for example, is based on stupidity rather than ignorance. It doesn’t matter how many times these people are told – and can see with the evidence of their own eyes – that in Israel gay people are embraced while under Hamas they are murdered, they simply refuse to acknowledge anything.
It requires a really very stupid mind – and a determination to remain untroubled by information – to believe that gay people have a natural place alongside fundamentalist Islamic terrorists. As Benjamin Franklin is said to have put it: “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
If we are properly to understand the role of stupidity in the public realm, it’s important to be clear that it’s not about disagreeing with someone.
The commentator and broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, for example, is someone for whom I have near total contempt. But he is far from stupid; indeed it’s precisely his ability to (in my opinion) distort facts in order to shape them to fit his own agenda that makes him an opponent who cannot simply be swatted away as an idiot. George Galloway, likewise, is not stupid.
Jeremy Corbyn, on the other hand – who I would imagine agrees with almost every word that comes out of Hasan’s mouth – is an all too obvious example of someone who is, I would contend, simply stupid. There has been no self-reflection, no development in his thinking, no intellectual growth in Corbyn’s mind since he emerged on the left political scene in the 1970s. And his positions on so many issues are based not so much on ignorance – it’s not as if he hasn’t been told! – but on stupidity, because he is simply incapable of understanding ideas or challenges to his worldview.”
https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/dont-forget-the-role-of-stupidity-in-the-debate-about-israel-mblpdwnb
It isn’t that they are all stupid, it’s that they live in a culture that encourages accepting authority, unquestionly, using many techniques that used to be discouraged in Western universities.
Thanks for the link 👍
“Green leader’s nuclear disaster”
Why do the left never seem to think anything through..?
If they thought things through, they wouldn’t be on the Left! 🙂
(Thank you for setting up the joke.)
The swing to the right..?
Personally, I see it more as a reclaiming of the middle. ‘Far Right’ only looks ‘Right’ because of how far ‘Left’ the left have gone.
Just FYI:
The Belgian Prime Minister resigned last night.
The 2024 EU elections prove very interesting. What will happen next with the EU?