- “Who won the Sky News general election TV battle? Our writers give their verdicts” – Starmer faced scrutiny on his support for Corbyn. Sunak was grilled on his record. Tim Stanley, Tom Harris and Janet Daley give their verdicts in the Telegraph. Meanwhile, a YouGov poll says Starmer was the clear winner.
- “Sunak blames lateness for TV interview on D-Day event that ‘ran over’” – Grant Shapps denies Prime Minister was ‘tone deaf’ on commemorations as leader also reveals he “went without Sky TV” as a child, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rishi’s Sky TV blunder says more about class than cash” – The Prime Minister has once again show how out of touch he is with his Sky News comment, says Michael Hogan in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer called out by Andrew Neil over claim he did not have Sky TV growing up” – The veteran broadcaster ridicules the Labour leader for claiming he didn’t have Sky TV as a child, given that he would have been 27 when the service was launched, according to the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak aide bet £100 on July election three days before it was announced” – Craig Williams MP, Sunak’s Parliamentary Private Secretary, who is seeking re-election in Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr, is under investigation by the Gambling Commission for betting £100 on a July election three days before his boss announced it.
- “The Tories’ doomsday scenario is worse than they could’ve imagined” – The Lib Dems winning more seats than the Tories is now a real possibility, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph. Which will make Ed Davey’s mob the official opposition.
- “Britain is heading for a populist tsunami far greater than anything seen in Europe” – In the Telegraph, Allister Heath says Labour’s coming supermajority will be the last hurrah of the failing, neo-Blairite political elite.
- “I’m a Tory peer, and I’m dismayed by the Conservatives” – As the party heads for extinction, Dame Helena Morrissey in the Telegraph says the Tory high command’s incompetence is inexcusable.
- “Labour VAT raid ‘could shut half of small prep schools within a year’” – Many of the 500 or so establishments catering for 200 or fewer pupils already operate on fine margins and could go bust if Labour sticks VAT on school fees, reports the Telegraph.
- “The bankrupt Queen of the Third Way” – Travis Aaroe in UnHerd casts a withering eye over Rachel Reeves and Labour’s economic policy and predicts a catastrophe.
- “It’s boom time for the lazy public sector – and we’ll all pay the price” – In the Telegraph, Matthew Lesh says the public sector will suck up even more money and perform even more poorly under a Labour government.
- “Why Rishi Sunak can’t weaponise the ECHR” – The Tory manifesto claims a Conservative government would “stop illegal migrants bringing spurious legal challenges”. But leaving the EHRC is politically very difficult, says Alexander Horne in the Spectator, not least because it would jeopardise the Good Friday Agreement.
- “Even worse than Greens’ awful manifesto is just how very boring they are” – The party is a repository of far-Left activists without any of the redeeming features of the Corbynistas, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Jeremy Hunt: My seat could be won on 1,500 votes or fewer” – The Chancellor is at risk of losing his seat to the Liberal Democrats, reports the Telegraph.
- “Home Office offers Nigel Farage extra security after objects thrown at him” – the Reform U.K. leader has been attacked with a milkshake and wet cement during this General Election campaign and, as a result, has been offered additional security by the Home Office, says the Telegraph.
- “Man charged after objects were thrown at Nigel Farage” – The man who threw cement at Farage has been charged with a criminal offence, according to the Telegraph.
- “Attack on Nigel Farage is an ‘affront to democracy’, says Jo Cox charity” – A foundation set up in memory of a murdered Labour MP urges people to treat all election candidates with respect, reports the Telegraph.
- “Half of voters think smaller parties should have fairer deal at elections” – A majority of Britons think our electoral system should be changed, according to polling expert Sir John Curtice, reports the Telegraph.
- “Matt Hancock libelled Andrew Bridgen ‘to devastating extent’” – Andrew Brigden, the former North West Leicestershire MP, is bringing a libel case against Mr. Hancock for calling him “antisemitic“ after he quoted a cardiologist saying Covid vaccines were the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust, reports the Mail.
- “My son died after the AstraZeneca vaccine gave him a blood clot” – MY lovely son, Adam Bounds, died from vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) 11 days after receiving the AstraZeneca jab, Lesley Bounds tells the Mail. He was 41, fit and healthy.
- “Father reveals partner’s last harrowing words before she was killed” – Scott Peden, 30, from Cambridge, lost his partner Gemma, 31, and their children Lilly, eight, and Oliver, four, during a blaze caused by an e-bike battery he had bought online, says the Mail.
- “Dr Anne McCloskey jailed over Covid fine” – Anne McCloskey, a former doctor in Northern Ireland, has been jailed over her refusal to pay a Covid fine even though she’s standing as a candidate in Foyle in the upcoming Westminster election, reports the BBC.
- “How Jacinda Ardern almost drove New Zealand to blackouts – and why Starmer should be worried” – The devastating impact of the oil and gas drilling ban in New Zealand casts doubt on the wisdom of Labour’s North Sea policy , according to the Telegraph.
- “Labour must drop ‘unviable’ net zero plans, warns GMB” – The GMB trade union claims Keir Starmer’s clean power pledge will lead to “power cuts and blackouts”, reports the Telegraph.
- “J.K. Rowling hits out at BBC over sports editor’s trans comments” – The gender-critical author says it was “utterly predictable” that the BBC should appoint Alex Kay-Jelski, who dismissed women’s concerns over transwomen being allowed to compete against biological women in women’s sports, as its new Director of Sport, according to the Telegraph.
- “Germany is descending into chaos – and it will take the rest of the eurozone down with it” – A decade of catastrophic mistakes are coming back to haunt Europe’s former economic powerhouse, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Pope Francis repeats homophobic slur weeks after apology” – Pontiff reportedly says there is an “air of faggotry” inside the Vatican in reference to gay priests, according to the Telegraph.
- “A new low for the W.H.O.” – Lockdown enthusiast Christopher Snowdon reconnects with his libertarian side and attacks a new WHO report written by hard Left public health loons on his Substack.
- “I Went to Cover a Protest. I Was Surrounded by a Mob” – Olivia Reingold writes for the Free Press about being mobbed by a group of Pro-Palestinian protestors in New York after someone in the crowd identified her as a ‘Zionist’.
- “Banning the office romance is a dystopian sign of a world gone mad” – BP’s edict that its employees must inform the board of any “intimate relationships” they have with their colleagues is deeply sinister, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Supreme Court considers turning First Amendment inside out” – The Supreme Court will soon issue rulings in two pivotal Big Tech disputes about free speech in which the U.S. Government and social media companies are arguing that the First Amendment protects their right to suppress other people’s speech, says the Washington Times.
- “The Sky News audience laughs at Keir Starmer saying his dad was a toolmaker” – Watch the Sky News audience at last night’s debate laugh when the Labour leader tells them his dad was… wait for it… a toolmaker.
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21/32 stories with links directly to the Telegraph… at this rate one might as well head straight there.
Yes, makes you wonder doesn’t it? And this is the media outlet that shadow-banned me, and countless others I’m sure, for saying the exact same things about the ‘vaccine’ that they’re now saying. Admittedly, they now seem to be the only mainstream right of centre media paper that exists, and my guess would be that Toby has struck some sort of nudge, nudge, wink, wink deal where he can print extended DT article references in exchange for the click traffic and possible subsequent subscriptions. That’s complete conjecture I should point out.
And didn’t he have a job on it in the past? Probably knows quite a few journalists there.
I think it’s one of many media outlets he’s wrote articles for, but he definitely has lots of contacts within journalistic and – what has always made a little cynical of his apparent views on many/most things – political circles.
And too much Westminster tittle tattle
You know how to fix that?
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https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-zelenskyy-says-kyiv-will-end-war-on-own-terms/live-69326832
What’s really going on?
‘”As soon as [Russian President Vladimir] Putin started to burn our cities … as soon as he started to pursue murder instead of agreements and contracts, the time for compromise ended,”
“Putin will lose this war,”
“We will not allow Russia to continue to march through Europe with its contempt for life. (…) We will not pass on this war to the next generation. We will end it. We will end it in the interest of Ukraine and the interest of Europe as a whole.”
“You can understand us in Ukraine, you can understand why we are fighting so hard against Russia’s attempts to divide Ukraine, why we are doing everything we can to make sure there is not a new wall in our country.”
“Russia is standing against all of us alone, so we all have to force Russia to change, and it is possible, because there is no wall that cannot be brought down.”
Zelensky
Somewhere over the Rainbow
Way up high
there’s a land that I dreamed of, once in a lullaby
Wow, sounds great, I wonder if Zelenskyy will now ditch the famous green T-shirt and dress up as the Lone Ranger and come triumphantly over the hill riding on Silver with Tonto at his side to personally drive the Russians back, it will certainly make quite a movie!
Nice one! 🙂
The idea of Russia marching through Europe is laughable. Have you seen how they are just creeping through Ukraine?
It seems to me as if Russia already has enough territory to take care of and they are more concerned about protecting what they have than acquiring even more territory to defend with their limited resources.
But I guess you either believe the Ukraine war to be primarily defensive war for Russia or you don’t.
Yes indeed and I think that ”protecting what they have” includes protecting their relationships with China, BRICS etc. they will not want to be seen as ‘going too far’ in the eyes of their partners and allies.
It is a fact that Russia is grinding slowly through Ukraine’s army and all the equipment that the West has donated. The Russians understand that all-out offensives favour the defending side – a rule of thumb I have seen is that the attacker will lose 4 times as many troops as the defender – so they have adopted a process of slow attrition. They simply bombard the Ukrainian front line and defences until they can move forward against demoralised and decimated troops with minimal losses.
It is a dull grind but it works.
I firmly believe that Russia is fully justified in supporting Russian-speakers in Ukraine against the anti-demographic actions of Zelensky, and his murderous campaign against the Donbas residents.
However I believe the true villains of the piece are the Americans and their tub-thumping sycophants, the leaders of the West
And isn’t it just one small corner of Ukraine, at the furthest easterly end? Leaving the vast hinterland of Ukraine untouched, so tourists can still go on holiday there, no problem?
“Ukrainian Refugees flee to Britain!” says the news, ignoring the fact that they cross about 800 miles of peaceful Ukrainian country full of their fellow peaceful Ukrainians, in order to “flee to Britain”.
It’s as if the Frenchies attacked Ramsgate in Kent, so the whole of Britain decided to “flee to America” as “refugees”.
You are surely not suggesting they are fleeing the Zelensky dictatorship? They have good reason to.
They’re all just chancers, and Tiny Zelensky the Globalist Actor is the worst, always with his hand out, draining the West of money while in cahoots with his secret pal Tiny Tatar Putin, both of them hurling Ethnic European men into the Meatgrinder War they set up for that purpose.
News photos show Tiny Globalist Traitor Meloni snuggling up to Tiny Sunak yet again, and also kissy-huggy with Tiny Zelensky at the meeting she’s hosting in Italy.
The people never get the leaders they really want, but always Globalist Substitutes.
https://verstka.media/mobilizovannih-siloy-otpravlyayut-na-front
What’s really going on?
Hundreds of Russian draftees who have opted to face prison time rather than return to the war in Ukraine are being systematically imprisoned and then forcibly sent back to the front
‘Accompanied by three military policemen. Or four. And they never let me go behind bars. We stood saying goodbye like monkeys in a cage,”
‘He has changed so much! He looked like a convict. He has grown very old and lost weight, really a skeleton. He looked like he had been in jail for a couple of years without food. And this is all in contrast to these pigs on the bay…”
The sister handed over the food through the slightly open door, and Vladimir was taken away. Half an hour later he flew off to war.
“I actually understand that this is the last time we saw each other. There’s really no point in it. He can barely stand on his feet, – the sister is crying again. – They took us to finish it off. He won’t survive there. He’ll be slammed there in a week, maybe two. They were simply sent there as cannon fodder. And all for what? So that these bastards can continue to drive around and serve their asses.”
I will repeat yet again. Russian law prevents conscripts from being used outside of Russia’s borders. The fighting is being done by volunteer contract soldiers, of which there are tens of thousands each month.
Depends where Putin thinks Russia’s borders are though. Doesn’t it?
One of the Russian top echelon (I can’t remember who) stated that for the purposes of defining the limits of conscript operations the border was the one that existed prior to the Special Operation so included Crimea but excluded Donbass.
Yet just 13 years ago the UK rejected the chance to shift our voting system to AV.
We must reject the temptation to go to PR – it’s what binds many countries in Europe into endless coalition fudges where nobody can get anything done. No coherent set of policies can ever be implemented,
AV is not perfect but it retains the concept of constituency representation and allows people to vote with their heart rather than tactically, safe in the knowledge that it would not be a wasted vote.
AV is the worst of both worlds. There are very few constituencies where the left of centre don’t command over half the vote, i.e. if you add Labour, Lib Dems and the Greens (and regional parties outside of England) together they will be over 50%.
PR isn’t perfect, and again is likely to generate a left wing block with more than 50%, but at least minority views will get heard, and over time there can be political re-alignment (for example in Europe the nationalist right have won over voters from both the left and right). You can combine it with constituency MPs, like they do in Scotland.
Just because you disagree with the potential outcome does not make it a bad system. If that’s what more than 50% of the population want then that’s what they should get. Not a good outcome in my opinion and perhaps the people would learn a lesson – but it’s democratic.
What is conversely not democratic is if you add up the right-leaning vote which is divided between, say, rump Conservatives, Reform UK etc and it exceeds the left-leaning vote that the constituency ends up with a leftist representative.
Under electoral systems which seek to elect representatives for a constituency ‘first past the post’ is an appalling system. Often a majority of constituents could have reached a consensus backing another representative given multiple rounds of votes. AV eliminates the need for multiple rounds of elections to determine a close run election with a crowded field of candidates.
My sister describes herself as ‘red on the outside and green on the inside‘ (needless to say we don’t agree on politics). She’ll vote Red rather than Green if she thinks it risks dividing the leftist vote. Would it not be useful for the Red candidate (and party) to know just how much of their vote primarily backed Green policies? Similarly, wouldn’t it be useful for the Blues to know how many of their votes came from disappointed Light Blues (or vice versa)?
FPTP is a crap system and most PR implementations have a tendency to impose representatives from a party list and potentially swell an already bloated Parliament. I think AV would be better – even if I don’t like the outcome.
The Kneel Starmer clip is funny no question – lying tw#t, but there is something else.
Does Kneel expect the British public to believe that he was invited to sit around the table with mum and dad after Friday’s tea to discuss how they were going to get away with not paying their bills? How old was he at the time?
“Kneel dear we can’t pay the bills. You will have to get a paper round to help out.”
Aw mum, I’m 18 now, can’t I just play with my Action Man?
“No do as you are told. I want money on this table next week.”
Or perhaps the hard truth is that his factory owning father and his nurse mother simply couldn’t manage the family finances.
Mum was a nurse? Grade?
Talk about hard-faced.
Ah yes, Starmer, And then there’s your personal fave, Gatesy. In fact there’s more globalist, control freak, corrupt penis-owners intent on screwing over the general public the world over than you can shake a stick at when you sit and think about it, who act as the inconvenient truth to easily debunk the misogynists’ world view that it’s females that are to blame for all of society’s ills. But why let pesky, plain as day facts get in the way of one’s obvious deep-seated hatred of the opposite sex, right?🤷♀️
I wonder what kind of a man is so easily triggered by somebody who’s in a position of authority *and* possesses a vagina….🤔 One can only hope none of them are fathers of daughters. Imagine growing up with somebody that has such a demonstrably unhealthy and contemptuous attitude towards females as your male role model.😨 It’d be bad enough if any of them turn out to be married. Definite ‘Sleeping With The Enemy’ vibes with some of their posts on here.
Let’s see if any of them decide to exercise their right of reply shall we?😏
3, 2, 1 GO!⏱
👍 😀 😀 😀
Well hux, 8+ hours gone and not a sausage, so what does that tell you? Not one member of the Misogynist Society has the balls to respond and tell me why they hate women, why they blame us for the shit the world’s in and why they hold us in such contempt. Well I never saw that coming!🤥😆 Even with their cloak of anonymity and from behind the safety of a screen….doesn’t say much does it? Just proves me right yet again. Load of spineless cowards that have nothing to justify or explain their hostile, irrational attitudes. Just insults, unsubstantiated accusations and little red thumbs, then they scurry away back to the manosphere and hide, so ‘Hamster Dick and the Scroteless Wonders’ they shall remain. 👍🐹
Actually, even a stick insect sized appendage would do at this point in time….🔍🤭
Your earlier post now has two red ones Mogs. You’ve wound a couple up at least.
It would be really interesting to work out what the best voting system would be.
The current system does not work, PR also has issues (most power in the urban vote). Should we abolish the party system and have a real representative of a constituency? And have an executive government carrying out the legislation as voted by the representatives? Would the representatives get instruction via direct participatory democracy?
To think outside the box and not just accept another established system.
Maybe one for the Academy of Ideas?
That surely depends on your point of view. The WEF will have one view, our neighbouring countries another, British socialist and conservative politicians will have different views depending on which way the wind is blowing. The British people? Well, we could ask them but we asked them once before but less than half of them could be bothered to respond.
In May 2011 the UK held a referendum on the question: At present, the UK uses the “first past the post” system to elect MPs to the House of Commons. Should the “alternative vote” system be used instead? The result was a firm No – but only 42.2% of those eligible to vote did so. Of those that voted, 68% voted No and 32% voted Yes. In other words, only 13.5% voted for the change and 28.7% voted against; the other 57.8% at best did not care or at worst did not understand the question.
Direct democracy must be part of the solution. People will at least vote in their interest, which must be better than having MPs vote in whatever way best impresses their mates in Islington/Davos.
Yes. There needs to be a robust method to raise questions that matter to significant numbers of people.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-beginners-guide-to-covid-part-14-is-the-vaccine-safe/
Paul Weston’s excellent series continues. Part 14 – Are vaccines safe?
No guessing. 😀
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-magic-money-tree-has-bankrupted-britain/
I am posting this because if nothing else some of the data is frightening. Overall the author blames our politicians without even referencing the nihilistic interventions of the Davos Deviants.
“In 2000 the population was broadly stable. Since Johnson became Prime Minister gross migration has exceeded six million.”
Not much point linking to all these Telegraph articles hidden behind their paywall?
There is if you then subscribe.
As I have absolutely zero moral problem whatsoever with taking from the establishment class that has taken so much away from me recently, which includes the DT who got very hot and horny for ‘vaccines’, lockdown and censorship, try this: https://archive.is/
That works for a number of publications including The Times too.
It’s a bit of a faff to do this every time, but if you’re interested enough by the excerpts maybe you’ll buy a subscription? I’m sure that’s what they intend/hope.
Don’t feel bad about it. If they didn’t want you to read it they wouldn’t publish it, would they?
Surely Sir Rodney’s school tax will affect the Madrasas, offending his core support, and presumably also Hebrew Schools which may upset Lady Victoria Starmer.
“Father reveals partner’s last harrowing words before she was killed”
The father outside entreated his partner to throw the kids out the window to him, and then jump out herself, but she only cried “I can’t get out!”, perhaps because her own size was larger than the window. She didn’t mention the young kids about to burn to death behind her.
With Father’s Day coming up, I hope people will appreciate the fact that kids need a mother to love and take good care of them, but they also need a father in any kind of emergency.
At the Labour manifesto (personifesto?) launch Starmer was upset by what he thought were people mocking his father by mentioning his trade of toolmaking. I had assumed they thought it funny because his dad made him.
Also, I assumed that the protestor at the launch was a set-up to enable him to make an uncharacteristically witty “off the cuff” response.