- “‘I don’t believe I broke rules over Lord Alli holiday’” – Angela Rayner says she doesn’t think she broke parliamentary rules over a “personal holiday” in New York with another Labour MP funded by a multimillionaire Labour peer, according to the BBC.
- “Rayner faces investigation over Lord Alli New York apartment stay” – Angela Rayner faces an investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner over the use of a $2.5 million New York apartment lent by Lord Alli, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s handling of freebies scandal has been appalling” – It was only once the waves of sleaze over the freebies scandal began to lap at the doors of the Treasury that any clear and decisive action seemed to come from the Government, notes Harry Cole in the Sun.
- “Keir is already in meltdown at first Labour conference in power” – Keir Starmer admits he needs to stabilise his Government as he struggles to contain fury over ‘freebies’, a wave of bitter briefings about his chief aide and the winter fuel backlash, writes James Tapsfield in the Mail.
- “Labour is either shameless or stupid – close inspection at party conference suggests both” – Amid the usual gaggle of weirdos at the Labour Party conference, the faithful at the annual gathering are simultaneously completely mad and unbelievably dull, says Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “80,000 could be forced to leave private schools over Labour’s VAT raid” – According to a survey of parents, some 80,000 children could be forced to leave private schools due to Labour’s tax raid on fees, reports the Mail.
- “How much fees are rising at Britain’s best-known private schools after Labour’s VAT raid” – The Telegraph lists some of Britain’s best-known private schools and how much their fees are going up by as a result of Labour’s private school VAT raid.
- “Starmer’s gloom is depressing the public and the economy” – Labour desperately needs growth to kick into gear – the public mood is about to turn nasty, warns Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
- “Politicians who think the public support tax rises do so at their peril” – Polling over the decades clearly shows that tax rises are always unpopular and fatal to parties in the long run, writes James Frayne in the Telegraph.
- “The first-time Labour voters with buyers’ remorse” – After decades of Conservative MPs, Hitchin voted red – but residents are already frustrated with Keir Starmer, says Rosa Silverman in the Telegraph.
- “Red tape is so rampant it’s no wonder entrepreneurs are put off retail” – The news that an award-winning winemaker has decided not to monetise his crop tells you all you need to know about regulation in Britain, writes William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “Why is Britain poor?” – ‘Foundations’ by Ben Southwood, Samuel Hughes and Sam Bowman offers a diagnosis of Britain’s red tape culture that stifles investment and drives up housing and energy costs, says Ed West on his Substack.
- “Christian preacher paid £10,000 damages by Met for second time accuses force of two-tier policing” – Hatun Tash, a Christian preacher, has won £10,000 in damages for a second time from the Met Police after being arrested, strip searched and unlawfully imprisoned for wearing a Charlie Hebdo T-shirt at Speakers’ Corner, reports the Telegraph.
- “Terror attacks will be the result of going soft on illegal migrants” – Sir Keir’s scrapping of the Rwanda deterrent will lead to terrorists slipping into Britain via small boats, says Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
- “‘The piece I’m proudest to have written’” – Free Speech Backlash has republished Paul Sutton’s powerful poem about the Rotherham grooming gangs.
- “Enemies of free speech have been felled but the U.K. is still going in the wrong direction under Keir Starmer” – While some of the enemies of free speech have been vanquished, the U.K. under Keir Starmer seems to be marching in the opposite direction, says Jeff Dudgeon in News Letter.
- “Labour set to bring back ‘boiler tax’, say industry sources” – According to industry sources, ministers are preparing to enforce heat pump sales targets next year, potentially leading to a “boiler tax” on households, reports Share Talk.
- “JSO priest accused of vandalising Magna Carta barred from preaching” – An Anglican priest accused of attacking the Magna Carta with chisels during a Just Stop Oil stunt has been barred from preaching by the Church of England, says the Mail.
- “Lack of Net Zero clarity ‘puts future of British manufacturing at risk’” – In the Telegraph, one of the country’s biggest manufacturers warns that soaring power costs and a lack of clarity around Net Zero are threatening the future of British industry.
- “‘Lab grown meat could contribute to the health of the nation’” – Despite having a reading age of eight, Peter Kyle is now the Science Secretary and tells the Telegraph’s Nick Gutteridge that technology will make the U.K. richer and happier, starting with lab grown meat.
- “Up to one million people wrongly classed as too sick to work” – A study by the Centre for Social Justice reveals that joblessness in Britain is nearly twice as high as official figures suggest, owing to a surge in so-called hidden unemployment, reports the Telegraph.
- “Critical baby monitor at Lucy Letby hospital was broken during infant death spike” – A leaked document shows that a critical machine to monitor babies in the neonatal unit at Lucy Letby’s hospital was broken during the time when infant deaths spiked, according to the Telegraph.
- “Woman died from cancer after two-year wait for NHS to contact her” – A coroner has ruled that a woman died from cancer after waiting two years for the NHS to call or email her with her ultrasound scan results, reports the Telegraph.
- “Unmasking Lady Hallett” – Judges should be impartial – even with mask flip floppers, say Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson on the TTE Substack.
- “Brandenburg election post: SPD leading AfD in early projections, Greens facing their worst result since 2004” – The last of the East German local elections has come to an end, and it looks as if the SPD will cling on in Brandenburg, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “No, Lord Mandelson, we don’t need to cosy up to Xi’s China” – The blame for the deterioration in the U.K.’s relationship with China lies in Beijing not London, says Benedict Rogers in CapX.
- “Kamala Harris was ‘joking’ about shooting an intruder, insist aides in latest U-turn” – Vice President Kamala Harris, after saying that she would shoot someone if they broke into her house, is backtracking, according to the Post Millennial.
- “Pablo Marçal: a new standard-bearer for Brazil’s far-Right?” – As the São Paulo mayoral race heats up, Pablo Marçal is positioning himself as Jair Bolsonaro’s political heir and a potential Presidential contender, writes Brasília Alta Frequência in the Brazilian Report.
- “Far-Right life coach taking Brazil by storm after rival smashes chair over his head in TV debate” – Pablo Marcal’s televised chair-smashing incident during a TV debate has prompted political analysts to call the influencer the political heir to Jair Bolsonaro, says Simeon Tegel in the Telegraph.
- “Conversion therapy ban for trans people could backfire and put girls at risk, UN expert warns” – A UN expert has warned that plans to impose ‘trans inclusive’ bans on conversion therapy could backfire by preventing doctors from analysing the root causes of patients’ suffering, reports the Mail.
- “‘I blew up my lucrative public-service career (and so can you)’” – In Quillette, a former public servant in British Columbia’s explains how EDI fanatics forced him to choose between his job and his values.
- “If you think we’re past peak woke, we may not even be halfway up that hill” – Unconscious bias training and cancellation are mainstream for the young. Just wait until they’re in charge, warns Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times.
- “‘I’m fed up of hearing Gen-Z are ‘victims’ – they are the luckiest in human history’” – Despite their woes, young people are still vastly rich compared to the 20-somethings of their grandparents’ generation, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “No Brainer with Angela Rayner” – In a satirical video on X, Intel Lady nails down her impression of Angela Rayner, who provides a staunch defence of ‘Free Gear’ Keir in the Labour gifts controversy.
Absolutley hilarious. No brainer with Angela Rayner
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State Power Grab School Vaccination
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Welcome to sunny Berkshire.
Nothing to see here apart from the 5G tower and the chemtrails:
Scars across a clear blue sky
The Tories laughed as we launched Reform U.K. – they’re not laughing now
I’m sure Mr Tice realised this was a bit of a Bob Monkhouse moment.
‘‘People used to laugh at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well they‘re not laughing now.’
JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock drop out of massive UN climate alliance in stunning move
This will be what lies behind Labour dropping the climate pledge. Starmer and Reeves went to Davos, cap in hand, and found the green investment funds weren’t forthcoming.
“green investment funds weren’t forthcoming.”
Which has possibly saved British taxpayers a lot of money. The lying Kneel was in no position to borrow money that increasingly poor British taxpayers would have been responsible for repaying.
The Navalny I knew was moral, witty and charming – unlike his nemesis Putin
‘If they decide to kill me, it means that we are incredibly strong,’
A. Navalny
‘M: And on which piece of cloth was your focus on? Which garment had the highest risk factor?
K: The underpants.
M: The underpants.
K: A risk factor in what sense?
M: Where the concentration could be highest?
K: Well, the underpants.
M: Do you mean from the inner side or from the outer? I have an entire questionnaire about this, which I am about to discuss with Makshakov, but will require your knowledge as well.
K: Well, we were processing the inner side. This is what we were doing.
M: Well, imagine some underpants in front of you, which part did you process?
K: The inner, where the groin is.
M: The groin?
K: Well, the crotch, as they call it. There is some sort of seams there, by the seams.
M: Wait, this is important. Who gave you the order to process the codpiece of the underpants?
K: We figured this on our own. They told us to work on the inner side of the underpants.
M: Who said that? Makshakov?
K: Y-yes.
M: I am writing it down. The inner side. Ok… the grey-colored underwear, do you remember?
K: Blue.’
Bellingcat 21 Dec 2020
Makshakov is the squad’s commander, and Alexey Alexandrov and Ivan Osipov were the main perpetrators of the poisoning in Tomsk.
Col Stanislav Makshakov:
Military scientist
Makshakov allegedly supervised the Navalny plot and ran the seven operatives who carried it out. He regularly communicated with the FSB squad, Bellingcat reported, citing phone records. Makshakov previously worked at the State Organic Synthesis Institute in the closed military town of Shikhany-1, also known as military unit 61469. Soviet scientists developed novichok in the 1970s in the institute’s secret laboratories. Makshakov reports to Gen Kirill Vasilyev, director of the FSB Criminalistics Institute, according to Bellingcat. Vasilyev is subordinate to Maj Gen Vladimir Bogdanov, former chief of the Criminalistics Institute and deputy director of the FSB’s Scientific-Technical Service. Vasilyev’s superior is the FSB’s director Alexander Bortnikov. He in turn reports to Vladimir Putin.
I’ve been busy & just woke up so I’m firing blind atm , at first glance I thought it was the Bud Light person you were covering . Anyway a week after TC sat down with Putin are we to believe that rather than basking in the post interview afterglow he’s ordered the inner ring piece resting seam of Mulvanys Skidders to be lathered with Novichok which makes him CIA villian number one again !
A Piece Of Bread Would Buy A Bag Of Gold
I notice the reports of Ukrainian withdrawal from Avdiivka;
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4473848-ukraine-says-forces-are-withdrawing-from-avdiivka/
The article talks about the urgent need for USA money to redress the balance in the war.
”A senior U.S. defense official told reporters Friday that Ukraine faces challenges across the entire front from Russian offensives if more aid is not approved.”
But to my mind you do not fight a war with money, you fight with arms and troops. Is there a huge pile of armaments somewhere just waiting for Ukraine to purchase? This site is called the Daily Sceptic and in that spirit I would have to say that if the USA gives that money I am highly sceptical as to where it will go and how it will be used? I am more used to Agricultural markets than any other sort and simple market logic tells me that when there is loads of money and little produce; QED the price goes up. Somebody somewhere is going to be cashing in but I am not sure it is going to reverse the position in this war?
Of course Defence companies will make money but I don’t see any evidence that their earnings are much higher than normal. A lot of the stocks going to Ukraine are close to time expiry and would have to be replaced in any case.
”About $60bn would go to supporting Ukraine. The country would receive nearly $14bn to rearm itself through the purchase of weapons and munitions, and nearly $15bn for support services, such as military training and intelligence sharing. About $8bn would go to help Ukraine’s government continue basic operations (with a prohibition on money going toward pensions). There’s also about $1.6bn to help Ukraine’s private sector and about $480m to help Ukrainians displaced by the war.
About a third of the money allocated to supporting Ukraine will actually be spent replenishing the US military, which has been depleted by the weapons and equipment being sent to Kyiv.’
‘Lockheed Martin forecast its 2024 profit below Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, as the U.S. defense contractor’s largest aeronautics segment that makes the F-35 jets faces supply chain disruptions.’
Reuters 23 Jan 2024
“A piece of bread would buy a bag of gold…”
Larry Norman?
It has been widely reported that the amount of cash that goes to Ukraine is minimal. By “cash” I do not meen dollar bills but available bank balances for the Ukjrainians to spend.
The overwhelming support given to Ukraine is arms and munitions and the sterling or dollar figures reported are the value of them. In some cases it was found the USA was valuing redundant out-of-date stock at full replacement value but I understand that has now changed and a realistic value is put on older stuff.
There have been two main problems with the sipport the west has given Ukraine.
First, what was promised has arrived late and from some countries the delay has been so long it might not arrive at all. It appears the reserve stocks in the west were not properly maintained so if takes a very long time to check them and even to renovate them.
Second, all western governments repeatedly reduced defence spending following the end of the Cold War. Clearly a reconsideration of defence needs and a likely reduction was the right approach but it was taken much too far. Our reserve stocks were depleted and not replaced. Many effective arms were just destroyed while others were replaced but by tiny numbers (eg MBTs, aircraft or all types and ships).
As a result of the above, many arms manufacturing plants were closed, even demolished, and what remains has not been updated for decades. Our manufacturing capability is low and for some components, at least in the UK, it is Zero.
‘Met office’s stormy January was just average’. I have noticed that the disparity between forecasts and what we actually experience is becoming wider. For today and tomorrow in our area we have a met office ‘weather warning’ for bands of heavy rain, yet their actual forecast online shows light rain and/or drizzle with very low totals of rainfall. An independent weather site I use shows similar. So why the weather warning? could it be, at year’s end, they can trumpet that in the past twelve months they have had to put out more weather warnings than ever before, which indicates the progression of ‘climate change’?
Maybe. There is evidently a strong whiff of policy forecasting from them, but it seems to me that they have tended to become more defensive since the October 1987 débacle, which gave them a bad press. I often compare the met office forecasts with one from https://www.westweather.co.uk/, which uses the American GFS model, and there’s often a lot of variation between the two.
https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1758202588888252449/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1758202588888252449¤tTweetUser=TheChiefNerd&mode=profile
The mind boggles…..
Hahaha…enjoy those just deserts, you antisemite tosser!!!
”Comedian Paul Currie is continuing to face backlash after he abused a Jewish audience member and forced him to leave while encouraging the audience to scream “get the f*ck out.”
The controversial comedian has released a statement appealing for “eyewitness accounts” after denying the antisemitic outburst.
“HELLO. This is a message from me Paul Currie. I am pleading to any of the 140 audience members who attended by show SHTOOM on Sat 10th Feb at Soho Theatre to send me their statement to what they saw. I’m trying to get as many eye witness accounts. Or if you know anyone that was there ask them to send me their eye witness accounts.”
In the wake of the backlash, his upcoming performances at comedy events in Melbourne, Brisbane and
Lisburn, Northern Ireland have been cancelled with an upcoming show in Glasgow now being ‘reviewed.’
Soho Theatre, the venue where the outburst took place have permanently banned the comedian from performing at the venue again.”
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1758705005001908388
Doing that to any member of the audience is not a good look and equally so for any who went with the herd and participated.
An interesting article on weaponising anti-semitism.
“As some plausibly argue, one manifestation of the redefinition of antisemitism as anti-Zionism is that antisemitism is no longer about ‘who hates Jews’, but ‘who Jews hate’.”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/weaponising-antisemitism-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/
Just because the Jewish guy and his friend didn’t stand up and clap at the end when the antisemite produced a Ukraine and Palestine flag the antisemite turned on them and went mental, encouraging the crowd to join in on the bullying and abuse. Here he is explaining what happened ( 3mins );
”Israeli man thrown out of theatre by comedian Paul Currie for being Jewish speaks out.
“On stage, he turned to me and waited for me to apologise. He shouted and cursed at me before ordering me to leave and began chanting ‘ceasefire now.”
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1758701968183181383
Where in all of this was the audience member attacked for being Jewish? He and his friend stayed seated when the flags were brought out – an understandable response to any flag waving intended to invoke herd mentality.
The other people who left might have been Jewish but in this GB News interview, it was an assumption. When rabble-rousing starts, some will sensibly depart regardless of religion or ethnicity.
He sounds perfectly level headed and sensible to me, I think he was treated terribly by mob mentality goaded on by a braindead so called comedian.
Defending the action of mob mentality will lead to nothing good!
I totally agree, see my first comment.
However the comedian appeared to be triggered by their failure to engage in flag allegiance rather than being Jewish as reported. How did he know they were Jewish or was it karma? Those downticks without providing contrary information isn’t enlightening.
See the link in my comment on weaponising anti-semitism.
Did this young lad know anything about this “comedian?”
Excellent
Rishi Sunak is proposing tactical voting – hold your nose and vote Conservative to keep Labour out.
It seems to me there’s an increasing appetite for strategic voting, that is voting for someone whose principles you support, knowing that will lose the election but destroy the Conservative party and, after a period of great pain and setback, probably the Labour party too.
Taking a long-term view seems the only wise course when too many short-term plasters have been applied to a failing system.
Under Secretary of State for Scotland John Lamont MP campaigns on the basis that voting for him is the only way of keeping the SNP out as there’s historically not been enough support for other candidates. Pushing such messages is obviously intended to maintain that situation.
Even if people vote for who they believe will represent them, there’s no requirement for the MP to do so.
We should have recall rights.
Interesting downvotes yet what is factually incorrect?
Does the timing of the Navalny death, for whatever reason, not seem beneficial to anyone other than Putin?
Should the worse come to pass, we can expect to never see this headline.
“[Insert leader name] must pay for ‘murder’ of Assange, say world leaders”
The wall-to-wall coverage of Navalny’s death by the Western MSM yesterday – it even kicked the Gaza genocide off Al Jazeera news for several hours – was astonishing, right up there with the covid propaganda circus. OTOH Gonzalo Lira’s death in prison was completely ignored except in alternative media, and Julian Assange’s appeal next week only gets the occasional mention here and there. Clearly the global fallout from the Tucker Carlson interview needed some major distraction to reset the hoi polloi’s attention.
Repost from yesterday – The Duran provided good, balanced coverage.
https://rumble.com/v4drjik-alexey-navalny-dies-in-prison.html
Or Gonzalo Lira
I’ve come to the conclusion I’m too far down the rabbit hole. When I heard about the Navalny murder, and all my brainwashed colleagues talking about the evil Putin, my very first thought was “Well played Biden puppet master. There’s no way anyone will look further than Putin for the culprit. What a brilliant way to apply more international pressure on Putin whilst also making Putin unpopular in his homeland. Win, win, for the West”. That is crazy right?
I’m with you on the rabbit hole FL. When I heard ‘clot’ mentioned, especially in a 47 year old, I immediately thought: ‘jab’. Silly me. Here in the West we’ve become so inured to the ‘sudden and unexpected’ cardiac and clot deaths due to the jab that it’s taken as normal now; we barely bat an eye when yet another sports person or actor drops these days. So I clearly need to dose up on MSM propaganda to get my head back on the right Russia-bad Narrative™ .
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/02/16/vladimir-putin-must-pay-prison-murder-alexei-navalny-death/
who dunnit? Who benefits?
Am I the only one to think the Tories demise is nothing to do with the economy and everything to do with the war on British identity, liberty, energy?
I have posted previously that I firmly believe that the destruction of the Conservative Party is being deliberately engineered so your view that it links “with the war on British identity, liberty, energy” certainly has merit.
“MS Society defends axing volunteer, 90, who was confused over pronouns”
This is probably the most disgusting story I’ve ever read! MS charity can swivel until this hero women is reinstated!
supportercare@mssociety.org.uk
Let them know your veiws!
In GBNews today I found this:
Petrol drivers paying £1,200 more at forecourts than EV owners charging at home
The article has some numbers based on an electric Corsa vs a 1.2l petrol Corsa which indicate that using a home ‘smart’ charger will cost £231 per annum for a 12,000 mile/year driving habit or £1,461 in petrol. It also suggests that charging from a standard domestic 13A plug will cost 3 times as much as a smart charger.
So £1,200 more per year for a petrol car…
The electric Corsa costs £12,820 more than the petrol (Vauxhall site list price).
At £1,200 ‘saving’ per year it will take 10.7 years to break even during which time you will have driven 128,200 miles.
If you don’t have a smart charger the ‘saving’ will be £678 per year. So it will take 19 years and 226,000 miles to break even.
I understand insurance is more expensive for electric cars but I can’t find anything about servicing costs. Maybe that will help push these crazy numbers down a bit.
I don’t think depreciation would be much short of 100% for any 19 year car.
I’ve no idea how accurate those figures are, but assuming they are, they rely on the relative price of electricity and petrol remaining stable. I think there’s a good chance electricity will get much more expensive and petrol stay the same or get cheaper. If the current plans to turn us 100% electric are pursued, they won’t be able to generate enough for everyone and they will ration it by increasing prices.
Realistically tof the aim is simply to price we plebs off the road. The mode of transport is irrelevant.
I think you’re right. The market price of petrol not interfered with by the state would drop but they will make it stays expensive by taxing it more.
The numbers were from the linked article (GB News) except for the list price of the vehicles – I didn’t check them further except to say that I don’t pay quite that much per litre from my local Tesco. The implied miles / kWh and miles / litre seemed typically over inflated as all car manufacturers figures are.
The figures given suggest that the energy consumption of the electric Corsa would be 2,760 kWh / year (for 12,000 miles) which is a little under the 2,900 units which they reckon is the UK Medium Typical Domestic Consumption. So essentially nearly doubling a normal electricity bill if we don’t get a special tariff (so £693 / year seems cheap for a current annual leccy bill)
The price of petrol is already significantly made up of tax paid to the government. £0.5795 / litre in duty and then VAT at 20% on the subtotal amount.
Yes, I agree that TPTB would prefer most of us not to have personal cars. They’ll just about accept electric scooters to buzz about town – for now. They’ll probably issue them free to anyone over 100 – with parental permission.