- “I’m ready to govern, says Sir Keir Starmer as polls predict historic Labour victory” – The final YouGov poll of the campaign forecasts a 212 majority for Labour, the biggest since 1832, says the Telegraph.
- “Labour will win biggest majority since 1832, final MRP poll predicts” – More on that YouGov poll in the Times, predicting the Conservatives will win just 102 seats.
- “Rishi Sunak set to stay on as leader if Tories lose” – Ministers have asked Sunak not to quit until September to stop a civil war erupting in the Conservative Party, reports the Times.
- “The U.K. is about to enter a nightmare much darker than anyone yet realises” – A Labour landslide with the Lib Dems as the official opposition will turn us into a Left-wing one party state, warns Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s plans will need a robust Opposition” – Ed Davey as Leader of the Opposition is a nightmare scenario, says Harry Phibbs in CapX.
- “Labour ‘will launch £15 billion tax raid’ if it wins super-majority” – City analysts warn that Rachel Reeves will launch a tax raid on pensions, capital gains and inheritance if Labour wins a super-majority, says the Telegraph.
- “Your wealth is about to be surrendered to socialist Starmer” – Labour’s inheritance tax raid would be an unforgivable abuse of power, writes Ben Wilkinson in the Telegraph.
- “Boris and Gove give the perfect Tory requiem” – Impressive speeches from Michael Gove and Boris Johnson at a recent Tory rally have left the Spectator’s Fraser Nelson with a sense of missed opportunities ahead of the election.
- “Ofcom will not investigate Channel Four over Reform undercover sting” – Ofcom will not investigate Channel Four News after Nigel Farage’s Reform claimed the broadcaster used an actor as a “plant” in its undercover investigation into his campaign, reports the Border Telegraph.
- “A Right-wing youthquake?” – Optimism about the Zoomer Right is premature, writes Samuel Martin in the Critic.
- “Hold your nose” – There seems to be more reasons not to vote for a party than for it, says Alastair MacMillan in the New Conservative.
- “Things can only get worse” – Britain is about to be remade in the image of our deranged cultural elites, warns Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “‘The Tory candidate system is broken: I should know’” – “I didn’t get a seat as a Tory party candidate at the General Election and it turns out that I’ve dodged a bullet,” says Lauren Atkins in the Spectator.
- “‘I’ve been appalled by the assaults on traditional family values at this election’” – We claim to be a more tolerant society, so why is the nuclear family under threat? asks Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Future Right-wing governments must prioritise taking back control from the state machine” – Until we restore power to the voters, we will keep ending up where we are now, writes Daniel Hannan in Conservative Home.
- “Kemi Badenoch leadership bid may be delayed over postal vote issue” – Kemi Badenoch’s bid to stand in a future Conservative leadership contest could be thwarted by the delays in General Election postal votes, reports the Telegraph, if she wins by a small margin and the result is contested by her Labour opponent.
- “Keir Starmer is an enemy of the free press” – The Sun has endorsed a man who persecuted its own journalists, remarks Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Labour’s possible new job for Harriet Harman couldn’t be more alarming” – If Labour replace Baroness Falkner with Harman, it would be a body blow to those who believe biological sex matters, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “No party for female voters” – Gender-critical feminists have almost no one worth supporting, says Josephine Bartosch in the Critic.
- “Do the Lib Dems have an intolerance problem?” – Is the Liberal Democrat party really all that liberal? The Spectator’s Mr. Steerpike isn’t quite so sure.
- “Michelle Obama the only Biden alternative who would beat Trump” – According to a new Ipsos poll, the only prospective candidate who could beat Donald Trump in the presidential election is Michelle Obama.
- “Gavin Newsom won’t save the Democrats” – He’s charming, dashing and funny – so why isn’t the Governor of California the best person to replace Joe Biden? asks Nellie Bowles in the Free Press.
- “Ukraine to be told it is too corrupt to join NATO” – Ukraine is too corrupt to join NATO, the U.S. is set to tell leader Volodymyr Zelensky in a major blow to his nation’s security ambitions, according to the Mail.
- “Ed Miliband prepares to wage a wind-powered war on the shires” – Labour’s Shadow Energy Secretary is on the brink of unleashing a turbine revolution in Britain’s countryside, says Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.
- “Our energy policies should not go from one extreme to the other” – According to Prof. Alar Konist, solar and wind energy look cheap only when we disregard the costs of construction, writes Hannes Sarv on the Freedom Research Substack.
- “Google damage control over AI driven 48% CO2 emissions surge” – The AI revolution has broken Silicon Valley’s commitment to Net Zero, says Eric Worrall in WUWT?
- “Starmer refuses to rewrite Equality Act despite trans U-turn” – Keir Starmer has refused to rewrite the Equality Act to protect women, despite changing his view on whether biological men should be banned from using female toilets, reports the Telegraph.
- “Forbes piece on Bridgerton’s ‘mixed-weight relationship’ sparks drama” – Forbes has been met with fierce criticism after an opinion piece branded the romance between two characters on the hit show Bridgerton as a “mixed-weight relationship”, reports the Mail.
- “Outrage over rapists? Only when they’re white” – A defining aspect of Left-liberal outrage at violence against women is that the level of outrage is determined by the ethnic and/or religious identity of the attacker, says Andrew Devine in TCW.
- “How South African universities are training teachers to be woke commissars” – The cultural marxists have come for South Africa’s universities, laments Richard Wilkinson in School Capture.
- “How ‘misinformation’ becomes common knowledge” – Fear of being punished by a crowd is not unique to Democrats, or liberals or Americans. It is an innate human response to the dangers of being ostracised, says Timur Kuran in the Free Press.
- “Reform supporters are absolutely killing it on TikTok” – Lee Harris praises the latest Reform election video on TikTok, depicting Farage as Neo in The Matrix.
This is brilliant! Reform supporters are absolutely killing it on TikTok.
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https://youtu.be/C5ItyuDpQT8?si=zDxgY9lmhOpUB74m
Our wonderful civil servants are offering a “bespoke service” – that is Health Service – for the Dinghy invaders.
Lurvley.
I needed to see a doctor on Monday. Surgery – no appointments. Try ‘Out of Hours.’ So I did and was cut off after one ring.
Right, 111 – eventually got through and was given an appointment the following day with a senior nurse. If the prescription doesn’t work I have to go through the same rigmarole at weekend.
Bespoke eh?
I dialled 111 and got a doctor call me back, and they gave me the completely wrong advice. Fortunately I saw a gp the next day.
https://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/national/24429343.ofcom-will-not-investigate-channel-4-farages-reform-uk-undercover-sting/
“What do you mean Mr Farage, electoral interference? From Channel 4? A state broadcaster. Don’t be ridiculous.
Nothing to see here. Move along now.”
Absolutely Unreal ! The Barstewards are all over everything , Steyn , Wooton , Fox etc but a blatant balls out attack that’s so f-cking obvious & as you say – nothing to see here !! Todays round up is so depressing
There is not even a pretence of hiding any corruption nowadays.
Democracy?
Mark my words, there will be wholesale corruption in these elections and much will be around postal votes.
Morning Freddy.
Good Morning HP , what a day this is ! All of Sir Kneels & Labours flaws have been laid bare & yet & YET they are going to take control ! We are 8 years into this particular nightmare , starting with Brexit & Trump ! Then for the UK months of Bercow & Parliamentary collusion to stall & f-ck Brexit up followed by Boris,s landslide upon which I thought “YES” we are saved . Sadly we were not saved as all those Barsteds waved ALL the Convid Shite through without ANY opposition from either side ! God Help Us
Surely no corruption in the election is needed, HP? The system (first-past-the-post) is sufficient to ensure the chosen one (Kneel) gets in and continues their (TPTB) evil agenda.
It’s like football in the park as kids , games would last until dusk , the score could be 8-3 then someone shouts Next Goal Wins & it usually was the lowest scoring team that claimed Victory
I sort of agree Michael but having been directly involved in all elections since 2019 I have witnessed postal vote fraud first hand.
Galloway won Rochdale and the postal vote was 42 %. No need to state which community that came from.
V interesting – thanks HP
I note that C4 didn’t actually say they didn’t do it, but issued a string of non-specific weasel words.
Exactly and yet another reason to privatise C4.
This has appeared over at TCW courtesy of Kathy Gyngell re the Channel 4 denial of any misbehavior with their undercover team.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/inquiry-into-electoral-interference-over-c4s-reform-uk-allegations/
An Important Update
OFCOM WATCH a new campaigning organisation monitoring the TV and online ‘regulator’ Ofcom (Office of Communications), has instructed a senior barrister to lead an independent inquiry into alleged election interference by Channel 4 Television.
“They believe that there is worrying evidence of electoral interference and the breach of the law that may have had a serious effect on the democratic process. This incident is particularly concerning as the report was broadcast so close to the general election.
The use of a paid undercover actor by Channel 4 and their associates is central to the inquiry. Ofcom Watch believe this constitutes serious election interference.”
Ofcom has refused to investigate.
Whooh, hoo. Go get “em.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/remember-voters-tories-and-labour-were-conspirators-in-the-covid-disaster/
Neill Hodgkinson at TCW with an excellent short summary of alleged “vaccine” effectiveness. Basically, there is none. It is all negative.
Morning all and happy election day. Enjoy a short break from the slide to madness before we jump off the cliff tomorrow.
Morning Neil.
Until we are thrown off the cliff. I am not doing it voluntarily.
You say that now, but lets give it a month…
Actually, I think it will be amusing to see how quickly the Labour Party fragments into its tribes, with the inevitable lefty civil war.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/democracy-in-decay-a-tale-of-two-elections/
An optimistic piece from Andrew Cadman at TCW on why we should vote today and why it should be Reform. I did take issue with his hyperbole for Matt Goodwin above Nigel Farage.
“Both Farage and the ever more influential thinker and commentator Professor Matt Goodwin have spoken in favour of Direct Democracy and about building a much wider movement based on what might be called the Substack revolution.”
Erm, no Mr Cadman, Matt Goodwin is NOT a more “influential” thinker than Nigel Farage. Not by a long way. Nigel Farage has roused a nation in four weeks. Matt Goodwin could not rouse a nation if he had the rest of his life to try.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/five-reasons-to-vote-reform-uk-today/
Kathy Gyngell’s impassioned and rousing call to support Nigel Farage and Reform in today’s elections:
“IN MY view no thinking person has a choice but to vote Reform UK today. ‘Tactical’ voting thinking must be put to one side. It is pointless. The Tories are a spent force. They deserve to die, as we first argued years ago on TCW, a view we have never veered from. We did not fall for Boris Johnson.
Today I commit all our energies on TCW to ridding the country of that other segment of the uni-party, the execrable, anti-democratic, anti-family, anti-freedom and anti-country party that is called Labour. Like the Conservatives, the name belies the aims. It has long stopped advocating for or representing the working man. But, the only way we will succeed in making Labour die too is by backing a new political force in the country. There is but one. It has been granted to us in the shape of a newly invigorated Reform UK led by Nigel Farage.
Here are my five compelling reasons to take the plunge and vote for Reform UK. Three of them can be summed up in two words: Nigel Farage. But there is more to it:
1. It is our only – once in a generation – chance to start to set our country free. Take it!
2. We have a leader in Nigel Farage. He is unquestionably the outstanding, most dedicated and committed politician of this century. An ever-commanding figure, the heir to Churchill and Thatcher, head and shoulders above every living British politician, he is the only one amongst them who can communicate and lead.
3. Like Achilles, Farage, has been persuaded out his tent. Why did that story go down in history? You all know. Because it came at personal cost – it was the acceptance responsibility and risk. For Farage it is a load to bear that will now weigh on every minute of his life. It is not enviable. But in that decision Farage upturned the political landscape and has possibly changed the course of British history. He found couldn’t stand aside. Neither should you. We owe it to him to get behind him.
4. Nigel Farage is a true and instinctive conservative. He has a comprehensive command of our country, its history and its current lamentable condition. He already brilliantly mapped out the reforms needed to halt its terrible decline into disorder, dysfunction and dependence, the reforms needed to restore personal and family autonomy and freedom. Only he has the strength and determination to secure and protect our borders. None of this is to be dismissed as ‘populism’. It reflects political clarity and necessity.
5. Where there is leadership, others with brains, ability and a sense of duty will follow. Those people exist but not in the current establishment. Take Zia Yusuf, whom I wrote about here. Who, I ask, with a true reformer at the helm, with the renewed hope in the future he offers, would not offer themselves, their skills and their expertise up? Who would not sign up to Farage’s veritable battle for Britain?
That five year battle starts today with your vote.”
Great article about the Conservative Party MP selection process.
It explains very well the madness and dysfunction we observe daily.
Pretty much every institution and organisation has a tendency to become self serving or captured by narrow interests. And the force that keeps it “honest” is competition, some system of “natural” selection.
The Conservative Party has degenerated thanks to a our duopolistic system. Eventually even that may end up breaking. Perhaps this election.
My final thought is that the Labour Party system of selection is probably just as dysfunctional and removed from ordinary people.
As many of us have observed on here, the system is broken.
“According to Prof. Alar Konist, solar and wind energy look cheap only when we disregard the costs of construction”
..and the agreed energy pricing and all the other long running subsidies guaranteed by governments using tax payers money!
I can’t recall any mainstrean politician saying when the green levies will be removed from power bills or when the claimed savings from wind power will start.
Precisely
Worrying that isn’t it? an endless fountain of tax payer cash for any who chose to invest in this, no wonder they preach its virtues with all their might
Will anyone be jumping out of tower block windows tomorrow morning?
Can we vote on who it will be?
“Rishi Sunak set to stay on as leader if Tories lose” – “Ministers have asked Sunak not to quit”
Were they kneeling before the self-styled “Maharajah of the Dales” as they said this? Can they get any more pathetic?
Palms were obviously greased.