- “Johnson joins election campaign by backing Tory MP who called for Sunak to quit” – Boris Johnson has joined the election campaign trail – by publicly backing an MP who has called for Rishi Sunak to quit, according to the Northern Echo.
- “‘Voting Tory is the only way to stop Starmergeddon’” – If Labour wins big, the Commons will be crammed with Palestinian-flag waving Corbynistas – and it won’t just be the rich getting soaked, it’ll be everyone, warns Boris Johnson in the Mail.
- “Labour’s dangerous pledge to ban conversion therapy” – An incoming Labour Government will enact legislation that could prevent gender-questioning children getting the help they need, warns Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “Labour’s Race Equality Act will only divide Britain further” – Labour’s proposed Race Equality Act ignores the complexity of racial outcome discrepancies and will ultimately prove counterproductive and divisive, argues Tony Sewell in the Telegraph.
- “The illiberal implications of Labour’s manifesto” – The most significant impact of Starmer’s Government could be to unleash the full force of progressive illiberalism in British society, writes Eric Kaufmann in the Spectator.
- “Britain still doesn’t have a clue about the scale of the disaster heading its way” – Starmer’s plans will entrench the worst aspects of the Blair and Brown eras, and hand power to lawyers and quangos, warns Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “‘Migration to blame for Tories’ electoral woes – I warned Sunak to tackle it’” – Suella Braverman says she believes the Right would not be divided if the Government had taken action on migration sooner, according to the Telegraph.
- “This is doomsday for the Conservative Party” – The PM has unwittingly created the best possible circumstances for his party to be eclipsed by Reform, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “You are not prepared for how brutal the 16-way race to succeed Rishi Sunak will be” – If you thought the previous Tory leadership contests were brutal, you ain’t seen nothing yet, says Tom Newton Dunn in the Standard.
- “Farage will only lead Tories off the end of the pier” – Aping the populist Reform party is a one-way ticket to annihilation, symbolised in the decay and despair of seaside Clacton, writes Matthew Parris in the Times.
- “How Reform overtook the Tories” – Reform is the perfect receptacle for a giant Right-wing protest vote, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Why Reform will struggle to win any seats – despite beating the Tories in the polls” – Nigel Farage claims Reform is “the opposition now”, but making that a parliamentary reality will be hard, write Ollie Corfe and Ben Butcher in the Telegraph.
- “‘I vowed I’d never vote Tory again. But…’” – How to vote tactically in the North Lancashire constituency of Morecambe and Lunesdale is giving Julian Mann a headache in TCW.
- “If the Right is to have a future, it must recognise that our civilisation is precious and fragile” – Conservatism had its last serious rethink 50 years ago with Mrs. Thatcher. It desperately needs one again now, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Hamas admits it doesn’t know how many hostages are still alive” – A senior Hamas official has told CNN that “no one has any idea” how many Israeli hostages are alive.
- “Noa Argamani says she and other hostages were kept as slaves” – According to the mother of one of the youngest female captives, women still held hostage in Gaza are being kept as slaves, reports the Mail.
- “Almost one million people claim mental health benefits since lockdown” – Almost a million people have started claiming Universal Credit for mental health problems since the end of lockdown after applications surged by more than 100,000 in just three months, says the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s benefits bill to jump by £20 billion as long-term sickness soars” – Surging sickness benefit claims will drive an increase in Britain’s welfare bill of more than £20 billion a year by 2030, new analysis shows, as the country grapples with a worklessness crisis, according to the Telegraph.
- “Lockdown is the inspiration behind Labour’s ‘plan’ for growth” – The world of busybodies, certificates and passes is set to make a return as we head for state control of the economy, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “The Cochrane editors’ comments” – Attempts to underplay the editors’ mismanagement of the Cochrane Mask Review continue with a very thin smokescreen, says Dr. Tom Jefferson on the TTE Substack.
- “Pathologists are unaware of the pathogen killing the vaccinated – a consequence of medical journal censorship” – On Substack, Dr. Pierre Kory reveals the deadly consequence of “inconvenient science.”
- “Letter to the Prime Minister” – On the TTE Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson has penned a letter to Rishi Sunak regarding the conspicuous absence of the ‘C word’ in this election.
- “The trouble with calling everyone ‘far-Right’” – The various parties described as ‘far-Right’ across the continent include parties that are no such thing as well as parties that need keeping an eye on, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “Cologne prosecutors charge Twitter user for the crime of assembling a list of Covid-era insults that politicians and celebrities directed against the unvaccinated” – Calling for people to be jabbed against their will? Totally legal in Germany. Pointing out that others have called for this? Potentially a violation of the criminal code, according to Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Why the EU is cracking down on Hungary’s migrant policy” – In the Spectator, Andrew Tettenborn discusses the latest high-profile tussle between Budapest and Brussels.
- “The EU is punishing Hungary for rebelling against mass migration” – The EU’s action against Hungary serves as a warning to voters about Labour’s plans to develop a common immigration policy with the Bloc. Thank God for Brexit, says Alan Sked in the Telegraph.
- “Macron’s centrist alliance faces wipeout in snap elections” – President Macron’s centrist alliance could be facing a wipeout in snap parliamentary elections after France’s Left-wing parties struck a unity pact, reports the FT.
- “Meloni and Macron clash over abortion at G7 summit” – Italy has been accused of scrapping a reference to “safe and legal abortion” from the text of the G7 summit’s final declaration, according to CTV News.
- “Putin ‘ready for a ceasefire tomorrow’ if Ukraine pulls back troops” – Putin says he will call a ceasefire and immediately enter peace talks if Ukraine pulls back its troops from four regions occupied by Russian forces and gives up plans to join NATO, reports the Mail.
- “The world is using more oil, coal and gas than ever before and will use more. Net Zero is dead” – China, India and the Global South will drive crude oil consumption no matter what, says David Blackmon in the Telegraph.
- “Sharks and lions are LGBTQ+, according to museum partially funded by taxpayers” – According to a “queer” museum project, sharks and lions are LGBTQ+, reports the Telegraph.
- “No, we haven’t reached ‘peak woke’, it’s going mainstream” – Cancel culture may seem to be waning but it is only likely to increase its power as millennials and Gen Z rise through Britain’s elite institutions, warns Eric Kaufmann in the Times.
- “Why bosses are suddenly rethinking Britain’s boozy pub socials” – The work-sanctioned trip to the local is under threat, says Daniel Woolfson in the Telegraph.
- “Stanford’s censorship operation finally shut down by the University, but only after the chutzpah became unbearable” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass celebrates the Stanford Internet Observatory, responsible for COVID-19 and 2020 election censorship, closing its shutters.
- “Elon Musk accused of pursuing women at his company for sex” – Elon Musk reportedly pursued women at his company for sex, including a former intern more than 20 years his junior with whom he had a relationship, reports the Straits Times.
- “Donald Trump calls Joe Biden a ‘brain-dead zombie’ in birthday row” – Donald Trump’s campaign has branded Joe Biden a “brain-dead zombie” after footage showed him appearing to wander off during a photo call with leaders at the G7 summit, according to the Telegraph.
- “Young voters are leaning Republican as Dems try to sell themselves as the ‘cool’ thing” – New polling shows young voters in the U.S. are shrugging off their habit of voting Left and actually thinking of voting Republican in November, says Douglas Murray the NY Post.
- “‘What is a woman, Keir?’” – The ‘What Is A Woman?’ campaign takes a closer look at Keir Starmer’s ‘evolving’ stance on women’s rights.
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Seriously who the hell is firkin bothered?
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/rishi-sunak-election-resignation-tory-leadership-contest-conservatives-battle-b1164389.html
Not me! Parliament was largely silent about the biggest travesty in peacetime history- what a shower.
As the old saw goes Hux: ‘Like a roomful of bald men fighting over a comb.’
Love it.
It was entirely suitable that a LibDem like Tom Newton Dunn should opine about the coming leadership (sic) election in the Tory Party. Maybe he could stop being so coy and tell us who will be appointed.
Clearly they wouldn’t want the few remaining member to have a say (oh, hang on, it would be the Remainers who will decide ).
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/farage-will-only-leads-tories-off-the-end-of-the-pier-d6whpq8hb
Fortunately for Matthew a flight from the end of a pier should provide a soft landing.
Idiot.
He is worried that they might one day get elected and enact actual conservative policies.
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/rishi-sunak-election-resignation-tory-leadership-contest-conservatives-battle-b1164389.html
Am I bothered?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/14/right-imust-recognise-that-civilisation-precious-fragile/
Another one who has been asleep for four years.
We’ve GOT to stop using their language. So-called ‘conversion therapy’ is a deliberately aggressive leftist term to to put a big, bright red cross through being able to help children who have been eaten by the lefts malevolent agenda to remove identity, and who have been brainwashed into believing that they may really be the opposite sex or not heterosexual. They want to own our children; that’s how they secure their future. What the left – which obviously includes the fake Tory’s – have done to children is pure evil, and evil needs to be rooted out and destroyed. Why anyone right-leaning would choose to use their language is absolutely beyond me. STOP IT.
Thanks for making this point. As so often, the language suggests that reality is the opposite of what it actually is – these evil people want to try and CONVERT males to females and vice-versa, or at least that’s what they pretend (I don’t think they believe it, which makes it even more evil) and this “therapy” is actually an attempt to help people who are confused come to terms with REALITY.
The Scottish government did a consultation on this about 6 months ago. Their policy makers seem to have an obsession with children and their genitalia.
I could be wrong but I don’t think there is much of a political push to repeal the recent hate speech legislation. I wouldn’t be surprised if Labour tries to introduce that also.
Yes, I think that is really weird. Why are no Scots demanding that Sharia Law/Hate Speech legislation be repealed?
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Typically sparse with details, this tragedy happened just this morning. Could obviously be unrelated, of course. But much like indigenous people have always raped and stabbed fellow natives, whenever I hear of a stabbing or rape nowadays my mind always goes to, ”was it a migrant/Muslim?”, in the same way whenever somebody dies suddenly ( and no details of illnesses are provided ) and decades before their time, I always think the obvious;
”Millwall and Montenegro keeper Matija Sarkic tragically passes away at the age of 26, according to reports on Saturday (15 June).
The goalkeeper of the Montenegrin national team, Matija Šarkić, died this Saturday in the morning hours in Budva.”
https://fanbanter.co.uk/millwall-keeper-matija-sarkic-tragically-passes-away-at-the-age-of-26/
Apparently dying in your twenties is now the norm!
Yes, it’s horrible what the clotshots have done, and the only bright spot is that many people are now awakening to the real cause.
“Labour’s proposed Race Equality Act ignores the complexity of racial outcome discrepancies and will ultimately prove counterproductive and divisive, argues Tony Sewell in the Telegraph.”
Yup – that’s the intention!
“crammed with Palestinian-flag waving Corbynistas”
Except for those in Labour Friends of Israel and those Labour MP’s receiving funding from pro-Israel groups and possibly their Leader given his wife is Jewish and children raised in the Jewish faith.
“Putin ‘ready for a ceasefire tomorrow’
To my mind this statement from Russia is chilling because it draws a line in the sand, a reference point to which all future events can be linked. For Russia’s allies, China etc. it makes it clear that Russia’s aims are clear and well defined and that Russia is not about to invade Western Europe, whether you believe that or not is a matter of opinion.
Apart from having to eat a huge amount of humble pie, one has to ask what for the ordinary folk of Europe and the USA would be so terrible about accepting Russia’s proposal? If Ukraine’s borders had been set up in this way at the end of the Soviet era would everyone have been happy? Could the west and the world live with a smaller neutral Ukraine? This proposal leaves the bread basket wheat fields of Ukraine in the remaining country of Ukraine, it leaves Odessa in Ukraine as a major port for Ukraine. As an ordinary everyday citizen of the UK I am more concerned about the Starmer UK project, Net-Zero and immigration and could quite happily accept Russia’s proposal. I believe that Russia’s links with China, BRICS and it’s other allies are such that it will have to stick with this agreement.
It seems to me that the result of not accepting Russia’s proposal is potentially very bleak, Russia will continue and possibly intensify it’s military advance. The west cannot respond with conventional troops and a ground army and so it will respond with missiles and so it will start!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! see you all on the other side.
Given that the elites goal of a global government is hiding in plain sight, my thoughts are thus:
1) Putin is not complicit. His said incentives and intentions are genuine. In this scenario there seems to be nothing to gain by the elites accepting a peace deal which will end a very convenient crisis that empties government coffers – transferring public money into targeted areas of the private sector, hampers the flow of essential supplies, reduces population, provides a welcome plethora of political excuses, and weakens a power that won’t play ball.
2) Putin is complicit. In this scenario the whole crisis is staged. The peace deal will be accepted as part of the globalist strategy. What then comes next God only knows, but watching governments everywhere seemingly abandoning their sinking ships like rats makes me deeply nervous.
Given Putin’s WEF ties, the coincidental timing of the start of the war and, most notably, the fact that Putin has never publicly stated that there is a globalist coup to subvert our current illusion of democracy and replace it with socialism (more likely than communism I believe) at play, I believe scenario 2 is more likely. To preempt all the replies I’ll get that say Putin said this and that about the West and that this and that imply that he knows what’s going on…. I’m only interested in Putin making an unequivocal statement that Western populations are under attack by a global elite who plan to install a global government.
There is one other possibility. I’ve gone batshit crazy.
Russia has a very generous supply of land, and resources. Their economy is humming along, and they have a labour shortage. They haven’t lost the art of diplomacy, and the people still remember when times were harder, much harder, and remember that it was their politicians that made it harder.
So, the country isn’t really set up for ‘conquest mode’, but they don’t want to be invaded.
The West isn’t like that at all. While it has plenty of resources, the Green Agenda, negates that attribute, and the people are divided and confused: over the conjured Climate Emergency and its ridiculous NET Zero policies, Gender, Economic Reality and Money Printing, and the inability of the ignorant to acknowledge that inhibiting discussion will lead to the demise of Western Civilisation as we know it. STEM subjects depend on it, as does industry, where specialisation has generated the immense wealth it has accumulated, let alone normal life.
And those Minsk Agreements were generous, at the time, let alone when viewed today.
I was very young when we started having strikes in the UK, in the 60s, but they seemed like revolution. I would put it to you now as, why would any graduate start work in an industry that was afflicted by strikes? And then, along came the computer industry: that was fortunate for me, but not for the British car industry and all those 1948 nationalisations. And we still haven’t realised our predicament, just added conflict, a la Marx. And Russia already knows about that, though I think China is another story.
And Western leaders (and advisors) appear so incompetent, as do the Legacy Media, and the Academic Blob, and in the same way too. It’s to much of a coincidence.
Steve-Devon, you have nailed it! You summed it up with one sentence:
“…What, for the ordinary folk of Europe and the USA, would be so terrible about accepting Russia’s proposal?”
It would also stop the Meatgrinder War now slaughtering thousands of Ethnic European Russians & Ukrainians in one small corner of Ukraine. As you rightly pointed out, the priceless “Breadbasket of Ukraine” will remain in Ukraine, and the Tinpot Tiny Zelensky will be booted out and replaced by that general he dismissed, because he was envious of the general’s popularity.
“General Zaluzhnyi is widely respected among Ukrainian service members and considered a national hero. He is credited with stalling Russia’s full-scale invasion in the early days of the war and expertly pushing back Moscow’s troops.”
Net-Zero, my Red Line
All the above articles about politics, elections and voting numbers are all very well but for me Net-Zero is a red line. At section/page 49 of the Conservatives 2024 manifesto you can read ;
”Our plan for an affordable and pragmatic transition to net zero”
This section includes;
”We are proud of our record and remain committed to delivering net zero by 2050. ”
”Build the first two carbon capture and storage clusters, based across North Wales and, the North West of England and Teesside and the Humber, cutting carbon ”
”We will implement a new import carbon pricing mechanism by 2027 to ensure that imports of iron, steel, aluminium, ceramics and cement from countries with a lower or no carbon price will face a comparable carbon price to those goods produced in the UK.”
”Treble our offshore wind capacity, to deliver low-cost, home-grown energy ”
It does not say anything about cars, EVs and the future of private motoring. It does not say it will do anything about the zero-emissions mandate that in my view will have a huge impact on the UK economy.
For all I know somewhere else in the manifesto it might be promising all grumpy old men like me free beer for the rest of our lives but that would not tempt me to vote for a party that can come out with all this Net-Zero stuff.
For me the bottom line is that a vote for the Conservatives is a vote for Net-Zero immiseration in pursuit of the Net-Zero scam and thus they will not be getting my vote.
“The PM has unwittingly created the best possible circumstances for his party to be eclipsed by Reform, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.”
Unwitting or deliberate?
https://m.independent.ie/life/food-drink/food-news/crunch-time-looms-for-smoky-bacon-crisps-as-eu-bans-potentially-cancerous-flavouring/a1137542604.html
Fecking ludicrous!
Nanny state on steroids, what next will they decide is ‘not good for us’?
“It’s all for the common good”
Barstwerds the lot of them! I love smokey crisps, bacon, cheese, sausages, meat!
I’ll pay to have them imported
“Voting Tory is the only way to stop Starmergeddon”
Boll×#ks!
One thing to look forward to is that 5 years of Starmer will make labour the most hated government of all time so, in 2029 the brain dead populous will be begging for Reform!
“You are not prepared for how brutal the 16-way race to succeed Rishi Sunak will be”
Really? Couldn’t give less of a flying f@#k who leads the bunch of traitors!
Matija Sarkic rip
If my fit healthy world class football playing 26 year old son died.. I’d be up on my hind legs demanding an autopsy and a reason for the cause of his death! not asking for privacy at this sad time, I’d be f÷@king jumping mad!
What is it with these weak families just lately? Do they not care? Or are they being paid hush money?
We have a climate emergency in East Sussex. It’s blowing a gale, chucking it down, and some days this June have been 13c colder than last year.
Rubbish where I am too. Muscles atrophy through lack of use – I wonder if the same happens to sun loungers? I’ve used ours only a handful of times this year – usually by this time I’ve been out doing my laptop based job in the garden for months.
“Ooh you lucky barsted!”
Wish I had a laptop
.. and a garden!
That’s why they renamed it ‘climate change’
as opposed to ‘global warming’
Climate change encompasses all weather events, not just the hot ones!
If its cold..Climate change
If its hot…Climate change
If its wet..Climate change
So on and so forth
Please have a look at the Electroverse website showing what is really happening weather-wise around the world. Even though the articles are now behind a paywall, you can still find out useful information and photos just by scrolling down the page:
Electroverse – Documenting Earth Changes During The Next Grand Solar Minimum
Off topic, I was thinking that as a bloke, I feel a bit left out when people talk about “TERFs”. So I thought maybe I could be a TERM – Trans Exclusionary Radical Misogynist/Masculinist. I’m neither a misogynist not masculinist, just a male, but I quite like “TERM”. Then I thought a bit more about TERF and obviously it’s a bullshit phrase – “Trans” is a fantasy, not a reality, “exclusionary” is true only in so far as we want to exclude men from women-only areas, “radical” is nonsense because surely 90%+ of the population of planet Earth agree with this, and “feminist” is nonsense too – some “TERFs” may be “feminists” (whatever that means) but many women probably would not class themselves as such but they still don’t want to look at hairy willies while they are getting changed.
Yes I agree totally. The word “feminist” seems to be very fluid and the meaning seems to depend on who’s using it. As I’ve said before, I’d argue it’s completely obsolete in this present day. You don’t need to wear a label and identify as anybody, other than a person who is in possession of both common sense and a basic understanding of human biology, in order to oppose this trans ideology/woke bollocks generally. For this is an issue which effects everybody, regardless of age or sex.
) their hatred of the opposite sex. As if we are all of a hive mind, and not made up of individual people with our own opinions, personalities and unique lived experiences, just because we have vaginas.
The “F” word does seem to trigger the misogynists though and then they conveniently use it to slag off and demean all women, lumping us all in together, in order to air ( once again
No don’t identify as a misogynist, you’re better than that. You’re not a pathological bore or a one-trick pony.
“‘Voting Tory is the only way to stop Starmergeddon’” says Boris Johnson.
I hope Nigel realises the depth of the Tories’ betrayal, after he handed them the election and a huge majority last time, by forcing his own UKIP candidates to stand down.
“Elon Musk accused of pursuing women at his company for sex”
He has a habit of stealing other men’s wives, such as Johnny Depp’s second wife The Abominable Herd, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s Chinese-Irish wife and serial adulteress Nicole Shanahan, who is now RFK’s running mate, even though she says she is not an anti-vaxxer. Shanahan had started an affair with Billionaire Sergey Brin only weeks before her marriage to finance executive Jeremy Kranz, who divorced her when he found out, then later she went from Billionaire Brin to Billionaire Musk, then to Bitcoin Billionaire Strumwasser. If you vote for RFK Jr., she will be the US Vice-President.
Putin ‘ready for a ceasefire tomorrow’ if Ukraine pulls back troops
What’s really going on?
Russian pro-war Telegram pundits describe Putin’s plan as a clear signal that Russia is not ready for negotiations, as the proposed conditions are impossible for Ukraine to accept.
‘Regarding Putin’s proposals.
1. They obviously will not be accepted by the West and their Ukrainian puppets, since they document Russia’s fulfilment of the stated goals of the Northeast Military District and the strategic defeat of the United States.
2. Against the background of the “peace summit,” this will indicate that in fact it is the West that is prolonging the war, so these statements are another “torpedo” to the “peace summit.”
3. Russia is thereby showing the countries of the Global South that it offered peace, which will be rejected by those who talk about “peace summits.”
4. The basis is laid in advance for claims on other regions of the former Ukraine, in the event of refusal of these conditions, shifting responsibility for this to the West and Ukraine. Just like Kherson and Zaporozhye appeared in Russia’s demands after the abandonment of Istanbul, although they were not contained in the original purposes of the North Military District. Each subsequent proposal will be worse, not better, for Ukraine.
5. The war will continue. The goals of the Northern Military District will be achieved through military means.’
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/126850
‘Russia is an empire: it perceives itself as an empire, it has an imperial history, and currently in geopolitics it sees itself as continuing to play the role of an empire. For this reason most Russian negotiations, not only those by the Russian government, but also those conducted by Russian business people, come from a power perspective.
Russians perceive negotiation as a “power game,” as a “сила” (force).
They will typically present a very tough position at the beginning of a negotiation, and they will offer tough responses to their counterparts even at the final stages of negotiations.
Although negotiation theorists speak about the overall opportunity, and finding “win-win” outcomes that can benefit both sides, Russians find it difficult to adapt to this negotiation approach. Indeed, the word “victory” itself in the Russian language means that the other side loses or leaves the game.
The Russian negotiation mentality is a very strong approach, and a rather inflexible one, which to some extent ignores emotional and psychological considerations often discussed in negotiation theory.’
Skolkovo School of Management, Moscow
Ukraine understands this.
‘…..these messages are ultimatums, and they are no different from any other ultimatums he made in the past.”
“What he’s doing is a revival of Nazism,” Zelensky said. “…He wants us to renounce our occupied territories but he also wants our unoccupied territories. He… doesn’t intend to stop, and there will be no frozen conflict.”
Zelensky also compared Putin’s ultimatum to Hitler’s demand for annexing Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland in 1938, when he claimed that he would not go further.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Zelensky’s chief of staff, said in a post on X that the proposal was “highly offensive to international law and speaks eloquently about the incapacity of the current Russian leadership to adequately assess reality.”
He added the demands effectively amounted to “give us your territories.. give up your sovereignty… leave yourselves unprotected.”
“It’s all a complete sham,” he added.’
Gordon Brown says he is embarrassed to get a CH. so he should be.
however, please note, all Ho ours are signed off by the PM which is still Sunak for a few more weeks.
“Gordon Brown says he is embarrassed to get a CH. so he should be.”
That he is not doing prison time is a point of wonder.