- “Kemi Badenoch ‘rips into’ Rishi Sunak over election blunders” – At the first meeting of the Shadow Cabinet, Kemi Badenoch criticised Rishi Sunak’s election campaign and Suela Braverman’s recent remarks, reports the Express.
- “Suella Braverman hits back at Kemi Badenoch over ‘nervous breakdown’ jibe as Tory leadership hopefuls engage in public spat despite pleas for party unity in wake of election thumping” – Suella Braverman has hit back at comments by Kemi Badenoch accusing her of having a ‘very public nervous breakdown’, according to the Mail.
- “Can Robert Jenrick save the Tories?” – Robert Jenrick’s star has been in the ascendant throughout this year, notes Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Senior Tory confronts new 1922 chairman in bar over centrist leader ‘plot’” – Mark Francois has confronted the new chairman of the 1922 Committee in a Commons bar, accusing him of a “plot” to install a centrist Tory leader, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Red Wall may never forgive the Tories” – The Conservative Party has yet to grasp the sense of betrayal felt by voters in ‘left-behind’ Britain, writes Miriam Cates in the Telegraph.
- “The Tories betrayed Britain – and too many still refuse to admit it” – The Conservatives need to own their defeat if they’re to hope to recover, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “‘We Conservatives must unite to win back the public’s trust’” – There is important work to do in holding Labour to account and giving people a reason to vote Tory again, says James Cleverly in the Times.
- “The problem with Rachel Reeves’s ‘National Wealth Fund’” – What Rachel Reeves is setting up doesn’t really deserve to be called a National Wealth Fund, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Chancellor’s £7.3 billion green gamble to boost economy” – Rachel Reeves has set out plans to invest billions in high-risk projects to make the U.K. a world leader in green technology, according to Business Matters. Time to buy a diesel electricity generator.
- “Labour still doesn’t know what women want” – The Labour Party disregards gender at its peril, warns Sarah Ditum in UnHerd.
- “Labour MP opposes new homes in her first week on the job despite party’s housing plans” – A new Labour MP has opposed plans to build on the green belt in her first week despite it being a central part of the Government’s housing policy, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘I’m not a robot’, insists Reform candidate with AI-altered photo” – Reform candidate Mark Matlock has been forced to confirm he is a real person after a digitally altered image led to widespread accusations that he was AI-generated, says LBC.
- “Jolyon and the Guardian peddle crazed Reform conspiracy theory” – Some dark corners of the sanctimonious Left’s presence on Twitter/X have been frantically trying to come to terms with the fact that Reform did so well at the election by inventing conspiracy theories, says Guido Fawkes.
- “’I very much exist’ says Reform candidate after internet sleuths claim she is fake” – The Reform U.K. candidate for Glasgow North has been forced to insist “I do indeed exist” after internet sleuths claimed she was fake, says the Telegraph.
- “‘Conspiracy theorists say Reform’s candidates were AI avatars. If I were them, I’d feel flattered’” – A suspiciously sleek candidate photo has led to some bizarre claims being levelled at Nigel Farage’s party, writes Isabelle Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “On Call review: Anthony Fauci makes his case” – America’s top medical adviser during the pandemic seemingly has no regrets despite the collateral damage of lockdowns and school closures, writes John Tierney in the WSJ.
- “Jacob Rees-Mogg and family to star in fly-on-the-wall documentary” – Jacob Rees-Mogg and his family could become the ‘British Kardashians’ as they are set to star in a five-part series following their life, reports the Mail.
- “Jeremy Vine pursued by HMRC for disputed tax bills at BBC” – BBC presenter Jeremy Vine is the latest star to face a court battle with HMRC over a disputed tax bill, reveals the Mail.
- “Gary Lineker will not present BBC’s Champions League highlights, throwing future into doubt” – Gary Lineker’s future with the BBC has been cast into doubt following reports that he will not host their Champions League highlights programme, reports the Metro.
- “Royal Society of Literature faces summer party boycott” – Over 20 fellows are snubbing the Royal Society of Literature’s summer party in protest against a year of management gaffes and free speech troubles, says the Times.
- “Starmer is turning Britain into a vassal state” – Labour is beating Nato’s drums of war, writes Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
- “Disorderly ‘refugees’ turn commuter rail line into a daily hell of physical assaults, threats and fights; police respond by offering special classes on ‘railway rules’ and ‘German customs’” – Apparently not stabbing and spitting on conductors is a peculiar Central European cultural norm unknown to our guests from Syria, Afghanistan and Turkey, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Why a crack addict-filled Zombieland really does sum up Germany’s national disaster: ROBERT HARDMAN sees for himself how Germans’ pride in their competence and efficiency has been shattered as the nation goes off the rails” – Step out of Frankfurt’s magnificent central railway station, and within a one-minute walk you are inside what looks like the set of a dystopian film about a zombie apocalypse, reports Robert Hardman.
- “France has ended up with a socio-political Frankenstein” – Macron must now play second fiddle to an ideological Left that poses a much greater threat to economic sanity than Le Pen’s National Rally, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
- “Emmanuel Macron is cornered” – All the world’s a stage for Macron but voters from the Left and Right aren’t buying it. And even the Centre is having its doubts, writes Jonathan Miller in the Spectator.
- “Putin is about to deliver Nato’s final humiliation” – The critical summit in DC this week is the last chance for NATO to show its strength in the face of the new Axis of Evil, says Hamish de Bretton-Gordon in the Telegraph.
- “The New York Times fact checks Biden” – To measure the terror now gripping the mainstream media in the wake of the Biden-Trump debate, consider this: the New York Times is now fact-checking Joe Biden in favour of Donald Trump, writes Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “End your run now, George Clooney tells Biden as he hosts NATO leaders” – George Clooney has issued a damning call for Joe Biden to quit the U.S. presidential race hours after senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi swerved questions about whether he should continue, reports the BBC.
- “Synchronised messaging – the expanding phenomenon on behalf of those in power” – The media is failing to provide independent, critical perspectives on power, says Theo L. Glück on the Freedom Research Substack.
- “‘Pragmatic’ Democrats fall in behind President” – President Biden has been bolstered by a series of endorsements as he battles to save his re-election campaign, reports the Times.
- “Biden is not too old, suggests Starmer” – Keir Starmer has denied that his plans to force peers to retire at the age of 80 means Joe Biden is too old to remain in office, says GB News.
- “Just Stop Oil activist who sprayed paint at World Snooker Championship spared jail” – A Just Stop Oil activist has dodged prison after throwing orange powder on a snooker table at the World Championship, reports the Telegraph.
- “Police Federation demands ITV changes ‘grossly offensive’ title of Piglets show” – ITV has been accused of being “grossly offensive” for planning a comedy about police cadets called Piglets, reports the Telegraph.
- “Poll finds only 36% of Americans have confidence in higher education” – Americans are increasingly sceptical about the value and cost of college, with most saying they feel the U.S. higher education system is headed in the “wrong direction”, says ABC News.
- “‘Key campaigner’ for pro-Gaza MP who unseated Jonathan Ashworth charged with terrorism offence” – Former Labour MP Jonathan Ashworth has called on the man who took his seat to “provide a full account of all his dealings” with one of his supporters who has been charged terrorism offences, reports Sky News.
- “Oxford students are mocked for closing their pro-Palestine encampment as students break up for summer holidays” – Oxford University students have been ridiculed after the city’s pro-Palestine encampment ended in time for summer getaways to the south of France, says the Mail.
- “Birmingham and Nottingham universities win fight to close pro-Palestine encampments” – Two universities have won the right to start eviction procedures against pro-Palestine protesters who set up encampments for weeks, reports the Mail.
- “The Killers celebrate England’s Euro win in style” – On X, Henry Moeran posts a clip of the Killers celebrating England’s victory against the Netherlands last night at their O2 concert.
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“‘We Conservatives must unite to win back the public’s trust’”
They really don’t get it. Its not about healing the sick. They are trying to raise it from the dead. Dig the hole and put it the other side of the grass. Its done.
No doubt there is room for a Cameronite party on the UK political scene, favoured by managerial types who dislike “extremism”, but the broad church Tory party is dead. The Red Wall is now a straight contest between Reform and Labour (and, in places, the muslim vote).
Unfortunately, judging by the deluded and condescending messaging from many Tories post defeat, it is quickly starting to look as if they aren’t getting the message, and an electoral pact with Reform is not going to happen for 2029.
They shat on us from a great height so it’s too late to be grovelling when they had everything they could have wanted in 2019 !
One problem I see, which has been there forever as far as I can tell, is that there are (at least) three different factions under the Conservative banner, each of whom believe theirs is true Conservatism and they spend all their time fighting each other instead of the opposition.
How you ‘unite’ that is beyond me and, by evidence, them.
Labour are similarly afflicted and it is this which will ultimately bring them down too… God knows, their external opposition isn’t likely to.
Wednesday Morning Wokingham Road & Western Road Bracknell
Putin is about to deliver Nato’s final humiliation
What’s really going on?
The problem no-one is talking about: Ukrainian revanchism.
Putin is losing his war. He controls less of Ukraine now than he did in the days immediately after his invasion. He has lost 600,000 men already, still losing over 250/day. He will have run out of serviceable armoured vehicles within 12 months (why else would he humiliate himself in North Korea?).
Russian morale is stuffed, a defeated and demoralised rabble on the ground: Hotel California
‘Russian blogger and volunteer Anastasia Kashevarova speaks about this misconception. According to her, she receives a huge number of messages from surprised Russians who thought that they could serve for six months and leave. For some reason, they pay little attention to the terms and conditions for use of their own lives by Putin, and sign anything.’
‘Russian forces suffered 5,000 casualties for just one district of Chasiv Yar……..Kanal Microraion is around three blocks wide and three blocks long, and the loss of 5,000 personnel for such a small piece of territory is indicative of the highly attritional way in which Russian forces are conducting their offensive operations.’
As we have seen from the Wagner debacle, once Ukraine gets behind Russian defensive lines, there is nothing to stop them getting to Moscow.
What happens then? All bets are off……..
Britain, NATO, needs to spend 5% of gdp annually to contain the aftermath of Russia’s defeat.
Poland is already moving towards that target.
Otherwise this war never ends…..ever…….
Which kind of goes to prove that Putin is not after territory. Sadly for us he has succeeded in reducing the ability of the West to sustain the sort of attritional war that he has excelled in.
The combined ability of the Western powers to produce barrel ammunition, bombs and missiles is currently about one third of that of Russia, without even factoring in NK and China.
The longer the war goes on, the better the Russians like it.
An independent assessment of Russian losses is 75,000 and the rate of loss has declined since Artemovsk was liberated.
The calculation, which was based on analysis of various death notices in Russian public domain, is now to be changed to an algorithmic system (computer model) programmed to give the “right” answer.
Writing nonsense on a daily basis does not make it true.
Putin controls less of Ukraine now than he did in the days immediately after his invasion.
You are presumably referring to Putin withdrawing his demonstrative force from Kiev in 2022, as agreed with French and German negotiators in order to allow the Kiev government to agree to peace without ‘a gun being held to their head’.
Of course, that was another mendacious manipulation from the West. But Putin, in deference to their request, agreed to the withdrawal which also demonstrates that he is simply not interested in conquering the rest of Europe, as you imply on a daily basis.
Anyone can see the current status of Russian forces in Ukraine by viewing the many websites, such as https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary.
In the West, the success of a war is measured by the amount of territory gained. The Russians, however, are pursuing a policy of ‘active defence’, which means they are happy to keep their ground, minimize their losses and simply wipe out attackers, in which they are eminently successful.
If Ukraine were doing so well, why is Zelensky asking for more weapons and more money at every opportunity? Why have so many Ukrainians left their country? Why is the EU considering forcing Ukrainians to return to serve in the military, and thereby be sent to the front to face a vastly superior military force? Why are gangs of thugs patrolling the streets of Kiev to haul young and old forcibly into vans to force them into military service?
Ukraine will remain neutral. Ukraine will not join NATO.
There, those two simple sentences could have been spoken by Poroshenko in 2014, and probably a million lives would have been saved.
It would have been so easy.
What exactly is the problem with Ukraine remaining neutral? The only problem is, of course, the amount of money USA has already invested in Ukraine’s military in an attempt to use it to weaken Russia, not to mention USA’s investment in the various biological labs around the country – doing what precisely?
Ukraine was neutral in 2014 and 2022.
Putin chose war in pursuit of imperial delusions; an attempt to reconstitute the USSR as a new ‘Union State’ comprising Belarus (accomplished) Ukraine (partially accomplished) Moldova (started) and the Baltic States (started at sea).
He and the unfortunate Russian people will reap the whirlwind of Ukrainian revanchism. It could take five years, it could take fifty, but come it will, as night follows day.
Ukraine is stockpiling weapons, mass producing long range drones.
Within five years, they will have not only the most powerful and best trained land army in Europe but the most capable defence industry.
If NATO does not rearm, it will not be able to guarantee any peace settlement, a necessary pre-condition for the success of any such negotiations.
So Toby,s favourite Kemi shows her true colours in response to the seemingly very sensible Suella , not a good look for a leadership contender is it .
Absolutely. Disappointing, but good that she is showing her true colours before becoming leader rather than after.
I think it was a tactical mistake from Farage to stand candidates against proven ‘authentic conservatives’ like Moggs and Miriam Cates. An objective should have been to tilt the remaining parliamentary part to the right, to maximise the chances of a deal for 2029.
I am not sure there is anything left of our so-called Parliamentary democracy and if there is it will be gone when Kneel has finished with it. Anyway, assuming there is the last thing Reform need is a deal with the fake tories. Nobody will convince me that the Conservative Party has not undergone a controlled demolition job and they even made a town halls of that as they were supposed to have been reduced to a rump of about 50 MP’s. So why make a deal with a party that is working to an agenda set by the Davos Deviants?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/democracy-in-decay-jacqui-smith-is-risen-from-the-political-grave/
A wonderful resume of the incompetent has-been that is Jacqui Smith. She was a failure when she arrived in 1997 and has never swerved from that course. It is a roaring certainty she will be dipping once again.
As Janice Davis states in the article, over 400 chancers to recruit from and Kneel picks ghoulish owd tarts like this.
I agree and shows the real Labour Party 2024 intentions.
Cheers.
They are all just figureheads. It is the blob that is really running the ship and now they won’t get any pushback from their “masters”, especially superannuated yesterday’s people..
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/welcome-to-rayners-lane-comprehensive/
A run through of Kneel’s cabinet of has beens, wannabes and none-starters. Wonderful. Start the day with a chuckle.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/will-we-be-the-north-korea-of-europe/
Are we going to become another North Korea? Emphatically yes.
High energy costs means destruction and misery. It’s not complicated logic.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/systematic-suppression-of-the-truth-covid-vaccines-are-linked-to-cancer-and-death/
Professor Angus Dalgleish with a no-holds barred article which more than makes the case the the C1984 injections have led to a massive increase in cancer deaths, as no doubt Billy knew when the brews were put together.
Just so we know where we stand with Kneel’s bandit army Professor Dalgleish ends with this…
Now following the tremendous success he had in locking us down unnecessarily, destroying NHS services for anything other than covid (which almost exclusively killed very elderly patients), destroying children’s education, careers and mental health, not to mention wrecking the entire economy for decades, Sir Chris’s former colleague Sir Patrick Vallance has been made science minister and given a peerage to boot.
I can only assume that Sir Keir Starmer has read my book The Death of Science and wishes to continue destroying it and the population along with it.
So our previous killers are firmly ensconced ready for Scamdemic ll later this year.
What is the difference between the Tories and a rats fighting in a sack? That is a hard one.
I’ve not got the energy to read and comment on all the individual articles on and by the Tories, but overall they and many commentators seem to have missed the point, as did the 6million who voted for them. Whatever optimism I had before the election has been crushed by the lack of the complete destruction of the Tories. We would have been vastly better off with the Lib Dims as the official opposition and the Tories reduced to a few dozen MPs at best, and pushed well down into third place by Reform, but either we have 6million socialist “Conservatives” happy to see this country destroyed, or they are all so thick that they cannot see that the Tories have been playing a role for decades and are completely fake.
Centrist? So they want to lurch violently to the right then?
nice one!
NATO Summit
Given the political issues and economic problems in the the individual member countries I was looking for some searing analysis of the NATO summit. So far the best I have come up with is the Global Times;
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202407/1315817.shtml
It does seem to add to NATO’s image as a smoke and mirrors organisation that one of its current major actions is to pour money into a proxy war being fought by a country that is not a member of NATO. Am I being unduly cynical in thinking that the machinations of NATO seem to have about as much of a sense of reality as Ed Milliband’s plans to run the country on windmills?
Steve – you seem to have made tilting at windmills a respectable occupation!
“Synchronised messaging – the expanding phenomenon on behalf of those in power”
Clearly what is needed is a new Ministry for Speaking Truth to Power, committed to fact-checking any stories journalists wish to publish, and only allowing criticism of official agencies the Ministry has deemed to be true.
This will enable the valuable contribution of the Fourth Estate free press to our exemplary democracy, whilst avoiding the divisive polarisation caused by Russian-funded so-called whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Tommy Robinson and so on.
You know it makes sense.
“The Killers celebrate England’s Euro win in style”
But “England & the English” didn’t win anything. I knew before the game even started that the only way “England” will ever again be “allowed” by the Globalists to win anything is if they make sure at least one Ethnic African gets the glory. The same thing will happen at the final. The match photos of both teams feature Ethnic Africans masquerading as Ethnic European Dutchmen and Englishmen, rendering the whole thing pointless, erasing national and ethnic identity, as planned.
It was like that Somalian Muslim runner who claimed his victories were “for England”, but commenters said, “He does not represent England or the English, so he hasn’t won anything for us. He has won for Somalia.”
You can’t really say ‘I won X, I’m English, so I won it for England’ unless you have deep familial and cultural ties with English society.
I would take pride in my daughter winning, say, a maths contest, as I know that she won it with my support, tutoring, and yes, with the inheritance of my genes and that of my forefathers, as well as the value placed on learning by my family.
You can extend that reasoning outwards, but it gets more and more tenuous the further out it goes. In Japan, where almost everyone is a distant relation due to millenia of shunning of foreigners, you can stretch the point further than in most other places. In England? Maybe in some areas.
As for the Somalian runner. I doubt Somalian society very much had to do with him winning. He won it for himself. Well done.
“Biden is not too old, suggests Starmer”
Will Keir Starmer be kneeling before Kamala Harris,
as he knelt before the Criminal George Floyd?
“‘Conspiracy theorists say Reform’s candidates were AI avatars. If I were them, I’d feel flattered’ writes Isabelle Oakeshott. She’s right!
1) In case you haven’t seen this video of The Five Musketeers being sworn into Parliament, here it is:
WATCH: Nigel Farage MP and Reform Colleagues Sworn Into Parliament (breitbart.com)
2) Good news and weird news about Nigel’s sudden reshuffle of his top team. Good news that Richard Tice is the new Deputy Leader, and Lee Anderson the new Chief Whip. Weird news is that the millionaire Muslim Pakistani donor has now been made Reform Party Chairman, while the millionaire Jewish Pakistani donor is “considering his position”.
Why is just one Third World country, Pakistan, so heavily represented in all levels of the British government, legal system and society, placed in top posts everywhere, and every village shop? Why do we always have to have Pakistanis in everything? It seems that Future Map of Europe a few years ago clearly showed the Globalist intentions, with Germany re-labelled as “Turkey”, and the British Isles as “Outer Pakistan”.