- “Starmer squirms as Question Time audience smirks and exposes his waffle” – The Conservatives believe Labour’s Achilles’ heel is tax, but for the public it seems that Keir Starmer’s vulnerability lies in his lack of truthfulness, says Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Sunak looked like a man who was running the country – until he wobbled” – Rishi was strong on the gambling allegations but spluttered his way through the National Service issue during the Question Time debate, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Sunak says plan ‘making a difference’ in Question Time election show” – Rishi Sunak vowed to kick out any Tories found to have broken rules over betting on the election date during a Question Time grilling, reports the Mail.
- “Tory ministers fear defeat beyond their ‘wildest nightmares’” – Senior ministers have said that polls showing the Conservative Party on course for its worst election result in a century are beyond “people’s wildest nightmares”, says the Times.
- “Farage predicts Tory wipeout will be even worse than polls suggest” – Nigel Farage claims that a Conservative wipeout at the General Election could be even worse than the polls suggests, reports the Telegraph.
- “Winston Churchill’s great nephew backs Reform” – The Duke of Marlborough hails his “friend” Nigel Farage as the only person who can stop the U.K. from being dragged into war, says the Telegraph.
- “Conservative campaigning director takes ‘leave of absence’ amid election gambling probe” – The Conservative Director of Campaigning has taken a “leave of absence” while he is investigated over an alleged bet on the date of the election, reports the Standard.
- “Huge spike in bets on day before Sunak announced election” – An unusual burst of bets on a July poll preceded Rishi Sunak’s announcement of the General Election, according to an analysis by the FT.
- “The truth is out: Labour will tax Britain to destruction” – Starmer could hardly have made it clearer: his party plans to target the productive to bribe dependent voters to stick with Labour, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “How Keir Starmer plans to rule through the courts” – The real theme of a Keir Starmer government will be the eclipse of elected politicians and the continued draining away of power to the courts, warns Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “James Cleverly ‘lacks appetite’ for Conservative Party leadership contest” – James Cleverly is not planning to stand in the Tory leadership race, as the field of candidates to replace Rishi Sunak begins to narrow, reports the Times.
- “Labour’s Islington North Chairman who ‘hid in bush when spotted campaigning for Corbyn’ quits” – A senior Labour figure has been forced to resign after hiding behind a hedge when caught campaigning for Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North, says the Express.
- “Budget rules mean private schools VAT raid won’t start before September 2025, Labour insiders claim” – Labour’s private school tax raid would not kick in until September 2025 at the earliest, party insiders have insisted after Rachel Reeves said it would be in her first Budget, according to the Telegraph.
- “Vote Priti, get Boris? The Tories in defeat are dreaming of better times” – Conservative candidates are grasping at stratagems for post-election revival, but even these are flaky, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Tory voters want to punish their party – and themselves” – Tory voters are set to elect an extreme Left-wing government to punish the current one for being too Left-wing, writes Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
- “Whoever you vote for, the Blob wins” – MPs are little more than human shields whose job is to take the blame for decisions made by bureaucrats, says Matt Ridley in the Spectator.
- “Social Democratic Party candidate Rod Liddle admits ‘deal’ with Reform” – On the latest Planet Normal podcast, columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson ask the SDP’s candidate for Middlesbrough Rod Liddle about his hopes for the election.
- “Eminem hit back in top 40 as Nigel Farage adopts it as election anthem” – Eminem’s ‘Without Me’ has made a reappearance in the U.K.’s top 40 more than 20 years after it was first released – after Nigel Farage made it his election theme tune, reports the Mail.
- “BBC’s Emma Barnett calls armed terrorists ‘men working for Hamas’” – BBC Radio 4 star Emma Barnett has sparked a backlash after calling a pair of armed terrorists who kidnapped an Israeli grandmother “men working for Hamas”, according to the Mail.
- “Lockdown sank both Trudeau and Sunak” – For both Sunak and Trudeau, the evaporation began after the pandemic lockdowns, writes Michael Coren in the Telegraph.
- “Pfizer CEO says there will be another holocaust if we don’t ‘follow the science’, compares Pfizer and elite establishment to the Jews” – On Substack, Rebekah Barnett reacts to Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla comparing the spread of COVID-19 disinformation to Nazi propaganda.
- “Covid fines were ‘bonkers’ and slate should be wiped clean, says David Davis” – Conservative MP Sir David Davies says that Covid fines were “bonkers” and that the slate should be wiped clean for people who were landed with criminal convictions as a result, according to the Telegraph.
- “Lockdown rule-breakers don’t deserve to be treated like criminals” – Of course there must be an amnesty for those convicted of breaking lockdown rules, says Isabelle Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “A&E waits causing ‘plane-load of deaths every week’” – Senior doctors say that long A&E waits are causing a “plane-load” of deaths each week, according to the Express & Star.
- “‘No bulls–t’ and Thatcherite thinking: the unstoppable rise of Kemi Badenoch” – The Business and Trade Secretary could be the next leader of the Conservatives – but can she unite a divided party? asks Mick Brown in the Telegraph.
- “Democracy in decay: Parliament’s Legion of the Damned” – In TCW, Andrew Cadman asks us to have faith and build a new democratic golden age for the future.
- “Russian hackers demand £40 million ransom from NHS” – Russian hackers who targeted NHS hospitals have demanded a £40 million ransom, reports the Telegraph.
- “Don’t outlaw ‘Islamophobia’” – If you look into the forces demanding that Britain outlaws Islamophobia, you find the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, writes Ed Husain in the Spectator.
- “Zelensky’s peace summit flop” – If Zelensky’s summit demonstrated anything, it’s that international support for a forever war is waning and the time for ugly compromise is beginning, says Owen Matthews in the Spectator.
- “U.K. and U.S. at loggerheads over Ukraine joining Nato” – The United States and Germany have derailed a European plan to grant Ukraine an “irreversible” path to Nato membership, reports the Telegraph.
- “British cows could be replaced with ‘double-muscled’ European breed to cut emissions” – A foreign cow breed known as the XL Bully, renowned for its muscular physique, could replace U.K. breeds under secret new plans, says the Express.
- “‘I’ll close the gender pay gap – once and for all’” – Rachel Reeves says that she will “close the gender pay gap once and for all” if she becomes Britain’s first female chancellor, according to the Telegraph. She’ll have to find it first.
- “The hidden perils of equity” – The stark divide between genuine inequality and that which the grievance industry claims to be fighting, is now at comedic proportions, says Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
- “Racism is an incoherent, stupid and dangerous concept” – The reason that racism is in such high demand and such low supply is that it is a fake concept, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “We’re all Soviets now” – A government with a permanent deficit and a bloated military. A bogus ideology pushed by elites. Senescent leaders. Sound familiar? asks Niall Ferguson in the Free Press.
- “Free speech doesn’t just need defending in NZ” – New Zealand’s Free Speech Union invites everyone who can attend to see Toby Young, founder and Director of FSU U.K., currently on tour down under. Join them at an event near you.
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Police forces are the paramilitary wing of the leftist deep state. The Met’ is the worst. Anybody who expects the law to be enforced without fear or favour is delusional.
That may be so. This one just up the river a bit seems to have a habit of assuming that they can’t be antisocial, though.
This issue needs balance.
I am most interested to know what DS readers think of this parallel. How would you deal with this if you were a police officer of the Police Service of Northern Ireland?
And without doubt those who fail to read carefully what I write here will be clicking the downvote icon like there is no tomorrow.
This is an hypothetical but entirely possible scenario – a British citizen in Northern Ireland who supports Irish Republicanism chooses to carry the Irish tricolour and insists on crossing the street in the middle of and during a loyalist Apprentice Day march in the middle of the marching season in NI.
On the one hand we have a man of the Jewish faith openly demonstrating his religious affiliation by wearing a skull cap. And on the other we have a British citizen openly demonstrating being a supporter of Irish Republicanism and insisting, like the British citizen who follows the Jewish faith, of openly demonstrating his political affiliation.
In either case there are without doubt concerns some of those demonstrating – but not all – might be prone to break the law either with abuse or worse in response.
On the other hand, in London, was the police officer concerned about avoiding a situation in which he and his colleagues might be unable to protect that one man of the Jewish faith in the midst of a large crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators?
Would a police officer in NI be similarly concerned in that parallel situation?
Was this this London England case one of a police officer failing to communicate in a diplomatic way reasonable concerns and so appearing to act in a high-handed and ?
What if in either case the police officer said – “I am concerned we cannot protect you if you choose to cross this street as you suggest you are intent on doing in the middle of this demonstration. The chance a breach of the peace will ensue is almost certain at the least with threatening insulting or abusive behaviour from this crowd and possibly violence.
So if you insist on this course of behaviour, despite the circumstances, I am my colleagues may have to act against you to maintain the peace and protect you from the likely consequences of your actions.”
That seems to be the gist of what happened in London according to the quotes in this article like: “Your presence here is antagonising a large group of people that we can’t deal with all of them if they attack you… because your presence is antagonising them.”
We don’t have a police force to run diplomatic missions in Palestine. A main aspect of their job is keeping the peace.
And we do have religious and political no-go areas in the UK – and Belfast is one clear example – literally with walls to separate communities. They have walls in Israel for similar purposes to separate Israeli areas from Palestinian areas.
In this London situation we have a man using the demonstration to make a political point and then taking advantage of the use of the officer’s “openly Jewish” description to complain.
So what if the police officer was in the hypothetical but possible Belfast situation and said the republican sympathiser was being “openly Republican“.
So here we need a third-handed person to argue the matter further.
The complaint is of the Met Police creating “no-go zones for Jews” and about the claim his actions were “antagonising a large group of people” and of “the threat of antisemitic violence” and that “no part of London should be unsafe”.
But in NI there are “no-go zones for” Catholics and Protestants. The example of the hypothetical republican sympathiser would without any doubt be “antagonising a large group of people” and of “the threat of” sectarian “violence” and that “no part of” Derry [or Londonderry] “should be unsafe” but that is not true either.
So how would you deal with that situation and what is different from the London England example?
I have lived and suffered with this kind of discrimination in NI. One might expect that nothing should happen (that is the law!), but I wouldn’t dare try it. The same in London, we need arrests for not following the actual law, it is intimidating behaviour at its worst.
Well he gets minimal sympathy from me because I remember this guy as the one who got Tommy Robinson forcibly removed ( by 30 officers, restrained and pepper-sprayed then banned ) from a protest when he did precisely nothing wrong. We don’t have amnesia! Karma’s a bitch and this hypocrite deserves a dose of his own medicine. My sympathies lie with the whole Jewish community, bar this gonk. Falter, and the rest of us, know full well where the threat is coming from and it certainly isn’t from the likes of Tommy Robinson, who just showed up that day in a journalist capacity, or other patriots.
”That Jewish man @petercardwell
is the exact same Jewish man who had the police remove @TRobinsonNewEra
from London a few months ago because he said Tommys presence might upset people. Now he’s upset because he’s just been told the exact same thing about himself. Irony.”
https://twitter.com/MarkChaloner9/status/1781612435276710188
I have to be honest, this guy nails it as far as I’m concerned;
”Message from the constabulary regarding openly Jewish people.”
https://twitter.com/andrewlawrence/status/1781595009520669124
I check out Andrew Lawrence’s post each evening before tuning in to GB News. His stuff is always ‘on the money.’. Same for Katie Hopkins too, love her or loathe her, she speaks her mind. The fact that the pair of them have been royally shafted for doing so in the past is a badge of honour.
The heads-up re’ Falter is interesting. Keep up the sleuthing on our behalf.Thanks.
This from Tommy’s Twitter. I won’t post a link because it’s a high security account and people won’t be able to access it if they don’t have an account themselves.
”Look at the amazement on @GideonFalter
face, that if he remains there, he’ll be arrested.
Shocked by the same authoritarian policing that he encouraged and celebrated against me.
He had me arrested, subsequently banned from London, when there was no breach of the peace, no opposition.”
Many good responses in the comments and many Jews, like there was when it happened, calling out this Gideon Falter as being bang out of order and how he doesn’t speak for the Jewish community;
”Police officer: “you are quite openly Jewish”, so that is the breach of the peace.
Same as when you are quite openly a proud British person and that is the breach of the peace.
The police basically admit they can’t control the mob and therefore they enforce the mob rules before the mob can.”
”He made the mistake of thinking he spoke for all Jews when he had you arrested, myself and many others who were there that day were glad you were and wanted you to stay.”
”Not all Jewish people were against you taking part in the march.”
Thanks for that Mogs
Being openly football-minded in Cheshire is risky too.
I don’t remember any Jewish people protesting that the Met were making “No-Go Areas for Englishmen” in 2013, when two Englishmen were arrested for walking through a “Muslim Area” of London:
EDL leaders arrested over Woolwich walk – Channel 4 News
“EDL co-leaders Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll are arrested in east London during a planned walk to commemorate Lee Rigby, the soldier hacked to death in Woolwich.”
“The Metropolitan police said on Friday that anyone trying to march to Woolwich would be arrested.”
After their arrest for walking down a street in their own capital city of London, the pair said they still hoped to walk to Woolwich to lay flowers.
In fact, after Fusilier Lee Rigby’s death, when UK Muslims loudly claimed victimhood instead of condemning the terrorists…
“In the London Borough of Hackney, the Stamford Hill Shomrim, a Jewish volunteer Neighbourhood Patrol Group, made an offer of help to the local Muslim community which was welcomed and subsequently commended by the Hackney Police Borough Commander Chief Superintendent.”
The two Muslim Terrorists were given nearly a quarter of a £million pounds of British Taxpayers’ money for legal aid to challenge their life sentences, which were fortunately rejected by the courts.
Khan’s Sharia London. Time for the Home Sec to implement emergency powers and stop this wickedness. But that takes courage, integrity and leadership, sadly lacking in government ministers.
Meanwhile Cameron is bullying Israel to allow the Red Cross access to Hamas terrorists. This authorises their pay for slay stipends from the PA. I wrote Chris Heaton-Harris my MP to object. He didnt reply. I wrote again, which he also ignored.
It’s obvious our government is either complicit with Islamists or running scared.
https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/20/war-in-the-new-normal-slaughtering-your-proles-for-convenience-fun-profit/
An excellent appraisal of the state we are in.
As each day passes I become more and more convinced that George Orwell’s ‘1984‘ is actually being used as the Manifesto of the Davos Deviants. It really is their play-book.
I see. Keeping some people safe is the excuse to remove freedom of movement, eh? This is extreme totalitarianism! Britain is descending to be the lowest country in the World. It really is time to leave.
Enough of the marches. Let them go Hyde Park and have a rally instead. This taking over of London every Saturday has got to breaking either a real law or one of the new pretend offences such as ‘he looked at me in a funny way,’ or something.
The Chief Executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, walking around London after attending a synagogue, happened to find himself in the path of a pro-Palestinian march and, having no desire to be near it, crossed the road to get away from it. And somebody was there to record the incident. Really?
What synagogue did he attend? A search suggests that the two nearest are Bevis Marks and Marble Arch, both well over a mile away. Why did he have to cross the road? There are plenty of streets leading off Aldwych. And is it his custom to walk round London on the sabbath? Surely he was not carrying money on his person so far outside the Hendon eruv?
I don’t believe it. This was a manufactured incident.
I see on GB News this morning the silly Eammon Holmes saying that the Police were only doing their job and asking “Why was that man there”? Eamoon is implying he was only there to cause trouble? ——–Eamonn are you kidding me mate? Are you really telling me that wherever a bunch of Palestinian supporters are marching that anyone “Openly Jewish” should scurry away around a corner with their tail between their legs and hide? Eamonn that is exactly what you are saying mate.