- “Labour ‘virtually certain’ to win a bigger majority than 1997” – A new mega-poll shows that Labour are “virtually certain” to win a bigger majority than Tony Blair delivered in 1997, reports the Mail.
- “Boris Johnson warns Labour super-majority would be ‘height of insanity’ in surprise speech” – Boris Johnson has warned voters of the perils of a “sledgehammer majority” for Labour that would deliver “the most Left-wing Government since the war”, says Sky News.
- “Hung parliament is in our grasp, says Sunak” – Rishi Sunak has suggested voters could deliver a hung parliament if only 130,000 voters switch to the Tories, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Tories are in no position to attack Farage” – Cries of hurt and anger over disgraced Reform candidates look less powerful when the Conservative Party was perfectly happy to take the money from Frank Hester, writes Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s worst blunder should disqualify him as Prime Minister” – We are ready to punish the Tories for their failings. But why are we so ready to forgive Labour for errors that were much more serious? asks Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
- “Reasons to be cheerful…” – On his Substack, Ben Pile is trying to stay positive ahead of Labour’s expected victory on July 4th.
- “Allison Pearson meets Nigel Farage: ‘Kemi Badenoch was very unpleasant’” – The Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson joins the Reform leader in Clacton to find out why he’s come back to torment the Tories.
- “Conservative candidate rabbi ‘abused and intimidated’ at local mosque” – Jewish community representatives have condemned the treatment of a rabbi berated outside a mosque, according to the Standard.
- “The BBC’s Miriam Cates hit job doesn’t add up” – The BBC attack on Miriam Cates is thin gruel, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Super-rich ‘already fleeing Britain ahead of Starmer’s crackdown’” – A leading City lawyer warns that fear of higher taxes under Labour is already scaring off the wealthy, reports the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer adviser’s Jimmy Savile prosecution report revised before publication” – Newly released papers show that a report into the failure by the CPS to prosecute Jimmy Savile under Keir Starmer was amended with some harshly worded criticism revised, says the Times.
- “Britain’s defence forces not ready for ‘conflict of any scale’” – A senior official has warned that Britain’s depleted military capability has left our Armed Forces unable to defend the country properly, reports LBC.
- “Labour may have no choice but to reintroduce free movement” – Coaxing the leisured masses back into the workforce won’t be enough to fulfil Starmer’s housebuilding ambitions, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph. Free movement will have to be brought back.
- “Ex-DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson faces 18 sex offence charges” – The former DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is to face additional sex offence charges when he appears in court on Wednesday, reports the BBC
- “Jeremy Clarkson is highlighting another British industry in peril” – Chef Tom Kerridge says he hopes Jeremy Clarkson will shine a light on the challenges of running a pub when he opens his own, according to the Shropshire Star.
- “Ed Sheeran claims every area of London is ‘sketchy’” – In an interview with American comedian Theo Von, Ed Sheeran admitted he often feels unsafe when visiting London, reports the Mail.
- “Democrat donors threaten to pull plug if Biden doesn’t resign” – Growing Democratic uproar over Joe Biden’s shockingly feeble debate performance appears to be turning into a full-blown revolt, says the Mail.
- “The Trump-Biden debate disaster” – Ancient philosophers and tragedians would have understood the human folly – from the media, the President and his party – that led to last week’s debacle, writes Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “BBC presenter deletes tweet urging Biden to kill Trump” – BBC radio host David Aaronovitch has deleted a tweet urging Joe Biden to murder Donald Trump, reports the Washington Examiner. Aaronovitch says it was clearly a joke.
- “Donald Trump’s sentencing in hush money case to be delayed” – Donald Trump’s sentencing for a hush money conviction will be delayed until September after the Supreme Court released its decision on presidential immunity, reports NBC News.
- “Stop calling it the ‘Democratic’ Party” – The American people don’t want to be ruled by the deep state, says Michael Shellenberger on the Public Substack.
- “Biden mocked for ‘fake tan’ in comeback speech” – Donald Trump has mocked Joe Biden for his apparent change in complexion after appearing ghostly white at last week’s presidential debate, reports the Telegraph.
- “Man returning from his sister’s graduation party is beaten to death by Syrian migrant; Interior Minister Nancy Faeser blames Germany’s poor refugee accommodations and failed ‘social integration’” – Germany’s Interior Minister has totally abandoned the welfare of her country’s citizens in favour of appeasing hostile foreigners, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Behind Davos, claims of a toxic workplace” – Despite its lofty goals, the WEF has faced numerous accusations of sexual harassment and discrimination, say Shalini Ramachandran and Khadeeja Safdar in the WSJ.
- “Israeli study explains how Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA shot causes menstrual irregularities” – On Substack, Sonia Elijah examines a recent study from Tel Aviv University which found that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could cause menstrual irregularities by affecting ovarian cells.
- “Differential increases in excess mortality in the German federal states during the COVID-19 pandemic: study” – A new German study demonstrates that ‘Covid’ deaths were exaggerated, interventions were ineffective and the ‘vaccine’ caused more harm than good, writes Joel Smalley on his Substack.
- “Crisis in casualty: A&E patients waiting up to 10 days to be admitted” – Almost every trust in England reports leaving at least one person languishing on a trolley in their emergency department for 24 hours or more over the past year, reports the Mail.
- “Sadiq Khan to impose congestion charge on electric vehicles” – Sadiq Khan is extending London’s congestion charge to all zero-emission vehicles from the end of next year, says the Telegraph.
- “Protesters outside Just Stop Oil trial arrested for ‘attempting to sway jurors’” – Around a dozen Just Stop Oil protesters have been arrested for allegedly trying to sway jurors in a court case, reports the Telegraph.
- “The resilient Great Barrier Reef: analysing the surprising recovery amidst climate alarmism” – Recent reports indicate that the Great Barrier Reef has hit record coral cover for the third year in a row, says Charles Rotter in WUWT?
- “New cars to have automatic speed limiters – can drivers turn them off?” – All new cars sold in Europe are required to be equipped with speed limiters from this week – and U.K. models are likely to have them installed too, reports the Mail.
- “Keir Starmer says trans women won’t be allowed to use female toilets” – Keir Starmer has hardened his position on gender rights, saying trans women with penises should not be allowed to enter female-only spaces, according to the Mail.
- “Head teacher awarded over £100,000 after she was unfairly sacked” – A primary school headmistress who was sacked and accused of assault after tapping her own toddler’s hand while he played with a bottle of hand sanitiser has been awarded more than £100,000, reports the Mail.
- “Are you guilty of these ‘microaggressions’? Take our quiz to find out” – In the Telegraph, George Chesterton has compiled a list of scenarios to find out if you are guilty of discrimination.
- “The Faust and the furious: German critics demand classics protected from liberal rethinks” – The liberal spirit of German culture is coming under attack, says Oliver Moody in the Times.
- “Greece brings in six-day week” – At a time when many nations are considering four-day weeks, officials in Athens are adamant that Greek citizens need to work even harder – and longer, reports the Mail.
- “Mob brutally beats lesbian couple celebrating a birthday” – A lesbian couple was beaten by a group of men who made rude comments about their sexuality while the couple was out celebrating their birthdays, says the Mail.
- “This is what happens when you watch too much MSNBC…” – A viral video shows a woman crying actual tears because nurses told her that her mask doesn’t do anything to protect her.
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https://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-puts-up-united-front-with-rishi-sunak-to-warn-against-disaster-of-labour-government-13162623
Just Foxtrot Oscar Johnson. Traitor.
Perhaps, with the benefit of hindsight, they might have thought about this in 2020 before plunging us into this bloody mess for no good reason.
Exactly.
No explanation, no apology and the country all but destroyed. I don’t know how that Next Tuesday has the nerve to show his face let alone open his gob.
https://off-guardian.org/2024/07/02/thats-all-folks-redux/
This absolutely first class article by C J Hopkins is about as good as it gets in explaining where the world is currently.
“As I have pointed out repeatedly over the past four years, we appear to be headed toward a dystopian future in which there will essentially be two classes of people: (a) “normals” (i.e., those who conform to global-capitalist ideology and decrees); and (b) the “extremists” (i.e., those who don’t).
It will make no difference whatsoever what type of “extremists” these “extremists” are … religious-fundamentalist extremists, Islamic extremists, Christian extremists, right-wing extremists, left-wing extremists, white-supremacist or Black-nationalist extremists, virus deniers, anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, anti-maskers, recalcitrant transphobians, anti-transhumanists, pronoun resisters, defiant oppositionalists, or whatever … the names don’t really matter.
The point is, conform or be labelled an “extremist,” a “domestic terrorist,” or some other type of “antisocial person” or “social deviant,” or “potential threat to public health.”
I don’t claim to know every detail, but one thing seems abundantly clear. We are not going back to the way things were. GloboCap has been explaining this to us, over and over, for almost a year. They couldn’t have made it any more explicit.
When they warned us to get ready because a “New Normal” was coming, they meant it.
And now … well … here it is.”
CJ Hopkins
Written with an American perspective but it transposes equally well to the UK.
Globalist puppet tyrant.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/02/labour-reintroduce-free-movement-get-britain-building-again/
How convenient.
Jeremy Warner needs to speak to some builders.
We have imported 2 million in two years and Warner wants to import more…right.
Bloody idiot.
Another commentator who thinks that unskilled people who cant speak the language can build houses. What about the cement, and the bricks that we cant make for fear of CO2, or the steel we no longer make, or the sewerage capacity, or the electricity grid, or the roads, or the lorry, crane and telehandler drivers. What about all of that.? What about the houses that the 2m people will need to live in while they build the other houses that we are short of.? Brains in their arses…
Spot on.
I have a good friend who has a building company and he knows all the big players. He was at a building industry conference recently and some wizard announced that government were looking for builds of one million houses per annum. The whole audience laughed. The industry does not have the skilled manpower to build even a quarter of that number. It is a pipe dream.
Good brickies by the way can earn a grand a week.
Unless all the Biodiversity Net Gain requirements are relaxed and surveys totaly abolished for trees, archaeology, bats and the like then the house building numbers will fall and not rise. I am aware of a site, owned and sponsored by the council, which has had all topsoil stripped but no building since the site opened in 2019.
Now the builder has gone bust.
The birth rate in the UK has been below replacement for many decades – I think since the 1970s if I am not mistaken. The only reason we “need more homes” is because of immigration.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/sadiq-khan-to-impose-congestion-charge-on-electric-cars/ar-BB1phaWK
Blimey, didn’t see that coming
The inexorably slid towards pay per mile seems not to be a conspiracy theory anymore
Then that too will be expanded nationwide, which means on top of ved and fuel duty and electricity price increases, you’ll be paying per mile as well, all very fair ugh?
Fuel duty is indeed already a pay per mile tax on driving.
I am looking forward to hearing EV owners who voted for Khan complaining about this. They will get no sympathy from me.
Agreed tof.
Nor me. These EVs are very quiet.
Tuesday Morning Broad Lane & Bagshot Road Bracknell
Bracknell 2nd July Broad Lane & Bagshot Road Bracknell
https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/03/04/russias-population-nightmare-is-going-to-get-even-worse
What’s really going on?
Negotiations with Putin are pointless.
For Putin expediency is all.
His goal is Russkiy Mir, ‘Great Russia’, the ‘Union State’
This seems crazy, unbelievable; an imperialist delusion.
It is not.
‘And, if you believe the forecasts and the estimates are based on actual work, the real work of people who understand this, who have devoted their whole lives to this, in 15 years, there may be 22 million fewer Russians. I ask you to think about this figure: a seventh of the country’s population. If the current trend continues, the nation’s survival will be in jeopardy’
Putin to the (Russian) ‘Federation Council’ 2000
In 2006, Putin declared the need to address population decline as “the highest national priority,”
So the story of kidnapped Ukrainian children is not just one of many horrifying Russian war crimes, but represents the core of this military aggression.
Putin will do everything possible to protect Russia from its enemies: us, the West! Nobody else: no one in the east or the global south, just us in the supposedly civilized western world!
We are threatening Russia on a daily basis. We are attacking Russia on a daily basis, with our British, French and US missiles, operated by British, French and US personnel, firing on targets occupied by Russian military in Ukraine and by Russian civilians in Russia itself. We are openly at war with Russia!
All our politicians (with the only notable exceptions being Hungary and Slovakia) are busy financing and urging Ukraine to fight a hopeless war against a superior enemy, sacrificing Ukrainian lives, sacrificing Ukrainian property and land, while repeatedly rushing over to the illegitimate President of Ukraine, eager to give him a fanatical hug in front of the cameras.
Which of all our marvellous politicians has visited Moscow to discuss the situation with Putin? Why is not every single visitor to Ukraine’s illegitimate president continuing on his way to hear and discuss the other side of the story with Russia’s legitimate president, Putin?
There is only one mature person in the room and that is Putin who, despite the west’s idiotic sanction packages (the EU, incapable of learning, is on package No. 14, I believe), is driving Russia to ever greater economical heights, so that Russia has now been upgraded to a “High income” country by the World Bank.
And the old, idiotic story of “kidnapped Ukrainian children” is nothing other than Ukrainian parents very sensibly sending their children to Russia for reasons of safety and continued education. Who can blame them?
You can watch Scott Ritter again on YouTube, swearing at the idiocy of the White House which is now driving Russia to develop short and medium range nuclear missiles which will then be aimed at Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHcwT7BJCZk.
“… those weapons weren’t threatening Europe or the United States for decades because of the work that I did … it was Trump that withdrew from the INF treaty, but Russia said OK but we’re not going to take that step, we’re not going to begin producing these weapons unless you introduce them into Europe. Well, Joe Biden introduced them back in September of last year in a training exercise in Denmark, but even then the Russians went we don’t want to take that step.
“Thanks to the stupidity of the American leadership that authorized Ukraine to strike a target in Crimea using the ATACMS missiles, Russia’s now going to open up the production lines begin building these missiles … now Russia will be building missiles that strike all of Europe – all of Europe – with nuclear warheads.
“… in June of 1982… we understood that we were literally on the brink of nuclear Annihilation. That’s why Ronald Reagan signed that treaty on December 8th, 1987, the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty. That’s why I spent two years in the Soviet Union helping getting rid of these weapons so that we didn’t have to worry about this. We’ve gone back to square one. We’re back to where we started, ladies and gentlemen, and that is a very, very dangerous place to be. Thank you, Joe Biden.”
There has been a non stop revolving door of Western politicians to Moscow:
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer April 2022
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán 17 Oct 2023
Hungarian Foreign Minister, Péter Szijjártó
Reciprocal visits Macron/Putin 2017/18
President Macron to Moscow Feb. 2022
Boris Johnson to Moscow 2017
Liz Truss to Moscow Feb 2022
Olaf Scholz to Moscow Feb 2022
Etc. etc…….
Scott Ritter is entirely discredited:
“Desperate men like him have frequently come to Russia to get a fresh start. It’s true that Russians will overlook anything as long as you’re useful to them. They don’t care…….If you follow the local Russian news as it reports on Ritter’s grand tour of Russia, in local outlets such as the Kazan or Izhevsk news, none of them mention his arrest record and conviction…..They don’t even say, ‘oh this man was wrongfully imprisoned, it was a conspiracy against him.’ They just don’t mention it at all.”
Natalia Antonova, Moscow-based reporter and editor and OSINT researcher familiar with Russian disinformation techniques.
With regard to the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, the International Criminal Court has taken a different view on the program: last year, it issued arrest warrants for Putin and Lvova-Belova for their alleged roles in the war crime of deporting Ukrainian children to Russia.
It really doesn’t matter whether Putin is ‘mature’ or quite mad.
His intention is revanchism, to reinstate the USSR as a Russian ‘Union State’ ‘superpower’ of three hundred million people, by force.
That has made him an indicted criminal and he will pay the price that all criminals pay, one way or another….
This is what happens when you watch too much MSNBC…
I’m sure that I’ve seen that woman somewhere before……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvujypVVBAY
Perhaps you can take Newhart’s advice.
Newhart nails it. For the last three years the electorate have been threatening to bury the Conservative Party alive in a ballot box if they don’t Just Stop It. Instead the party developed this suicidal self-harming compulsion and were threatening to take the hysterical electorate with it. Perhaps five years of being sectioned rather than running a-mok and a-country will be more effective. Unfortunately, the electorate will be paying a lot more than five dollars for the Tweedledum party therapy, while being abused by the Hit Me More Please Daddy I Love You Too Tweedledee party. On Thursday we shall have a choice: the cane or the whip.
The Conservative Party has deliberately set about a process of self destruction and particularly in the last term. Kneel’s job over the next five years is to utterly wreck the Labour Party and the country with it. In order to re-write our past the Davos Deviants have to destroy the present and current political parties have history. Our history has to be obliterated.
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
Those running our world are way above the crummy middle / regional managers who make up our government executive.
The crying masked woman is so over-the-top she reaches, nearly, my Poe’s Law threshold.
Britain’s defence forces not ready for ‘conflict of any scale
It is clear now why Putin has invaded Ukraine.
We know that the actual timing of the invasion was last minute.
We know that the decision to invade was linked to the weakness Biden demonstrated in his precipitate withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Had the U.S. demonstrated strength, Putin would not have invaded, certainly not at that particular moment.
That is conventional deterrence.
Why, then, if we know that deterrence works, do we not invest in conventional deterrence?
Weak leadership, weak government is the answer.
Is it a good idea to negotiate from a position of weakness? Clearly not.
So the idea that Putin can be negotiated with right now is therefore a bit silly, really, isn’t it.
We know what to do. We have done it before. It worked.
How did the American show of strength go in Afganistan?
Putin had no desire whatsoever to invade Ukraine, which is why he waited so long. And he has been criticized for not acting earlier to help avoid the 16,000 or so killed in Donbas – Ukrainian citizens killed by the neo-Nazi Ukrainian military, wanting to ‘cleanse’ eastern Ukraine of its ethnic Russians.
And the west, USA, UK and EU, continue to show they are militarily no match whatsoever for Russia. And this stupidity is now driving us towards a nuclear war. Well done to our marvellous politicians who have forgotten what war means: death and destruction, nothing else.
Maybe you don’t know this.
As Putin and his security-service allies (siloviki) consolidated power, fantastical narratives of imperial grandeur, replete with time-traveling historical figures restoring Russia’s honor, burst into the mainstream. These tales, many of which originated during the tumultuous 1990s, often depict democracy as a Western plot designed to destabilize Russia.
Russian revanchism and confrontation with the West started long before Putin, as was most remarkably manifested in 1999, when Primakov turned his plane around over the Atlantic and returned to Moscow in an objection to NATO’s decision to proceed with military force over the Kosovo issue.
More relevant today is that “Putin’s madness tactics” can be also traced back to the 1999 Kosovo events, specifically to the Pristina incident. That was the first time after the Cold war that the Kremlin used simple tactics to put troops on the ground, then watched the West (or NATO) retreat and accept the situation.
Russia repeated the trick in Georgia 2008, in Ukraine 2014, in Syria 2015, and now in Ukraine. Thus Putin is neither mad nor irrational but rather draws on past experiences to guide his actions. The Russian leadership has learned its lessons and is doing now what it was previously allowed to do.
The Kremlin’s assessment of possible Western reaction was most explicitly articulated by Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting of the Russia Security Council on February 21, 2022.
In particular, he emphasized, “I remember 2008 quite well.… This experience showed that it would be difficult, but after a while [the West] would get tired of this situation and would themselves ask to return to the negotiations, because the Russian Federation means more to the world community than Ukraine.”
So Russian revanchism has been on the cards since 2000 and before and Putin, in his speech of 2000 indicated that he had identified a cause, the shrinking of Russia’s population.
But every action has a reaction
The major problem that has not, is not being considered at all, which many have warned of since 2014 is Ukrainian revanchism……….
Contemporary Russia’s belief system is a hodgepodge of conflicting “values”: Christianity amid a war cult, Stalinism coexisting with contempt for Lenin (who sought to accommodate Ukrainian identity), and anti-Western sentiments alongside conspicuous consumerism.
Putin had to invade……or be invaded, sooner or later, and Russia, in its current form, is unlikely to survive an invasion.
And, yes, the West is weak. You know what that means? We will not be able to stop Ukraine once it starts its invasion…….
And the source of this information is? You are usually very good at quoting sources.
Just one more example of how lunacy trumps biological fact and common sense ( ‘uncommon’ would be more appropriate these days ) now that Clown World has eclipsed reality. Can anyone imagine this sort of thing happening 20 years ago? There weren’t so many victim cards in circulation then and people weren’t such crybaby nutjobs;
”A trans-identified male in the Maine-et-Loire region of France has been awarded €7,000 in compensation after a court determined he was the victim of “gender discrimination” by his former employer.
Syntia Dersoir, 22, had filed a complaint against the McDonald’s franchise where he worked after management referred to him by his legal, male name and asked him to remove the makeup he wore during his shift.
Dersoir began working at a McDonald’s located in Segré-en-Anjou Bleu beginning from September 2022. He was hired under his birth name and was legally registered as a male at the time. In early 2023, he began wearing makeup and prosthetic breasts to work, and, by the spring of 2023, he obtained an alteration of his identification documents.
Dersoir alleged that the discrimination happened over several weeks in 2023 after he began wearing his prosthetic breasts and makeup to work. Management at the McDonald’s branch where Dersoir was employed continued to refer to him by the name he had been hired under, his male name, despite his requests to be called by his feminine preferred name.”
https://reduxx.info/france-trans-identified-male-awarded-7000-euros-for-gender-discrimination-after-being-called-by-his-birth-name/
I know we’re all aware of this but just to shine a light on the hypocrisy of people that attend festivals who also happen to be eco-nutters/Green voters. There must be a way of avoiding this happening or penalizing those that are guilty, surely? Look at the scale of the problem;
https://x.com/WayneGb88/status/1808208993015431665
I think it’s called VAT, unless they get in for free.
The crying masked woman, like, needs it mansplaining to her, like, because, like she clearly has a no faith in female professionals, like.
https://x.com/USAmbKyiv/status/1807770299414491372
What’s really going on?
I think we can see where this is going……..
‘Russia’s offensive in Kharkiv Oblast has failed and is an “unconditional success of the Ukrainian army,”
Former Polish Defense Minister Janusz Onyszkiewicz 02 July 2024
The active Russia-Ukraine front line has recently expanded as intense fighting continues in the areas of Pokrovsk and Toretsk, Ukraine’s Chief Commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said 02 July 2024
U.S. officials later clarified that Ukrainian troops may use U.S. weapons to strike targets within Russia wherever Russian forces launch cross-border assaults on Ukrainian territory, not just near the Kharkiv Oblast border.
‘…..with the possibility of launching missile strikes up to 300 kilometres deep.’
Mike Turner, chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and a Republican said his position on Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory was “broader than the (Biden) administration’s.”
Mr Turner is in Kyiv to discuss how U.S. assistance is supporting Ukraine against Russia’s brutal invasion.
Russia now occupies a great deal less of Ukraine than it did immediately after Putin’s invasion.
But the Ukrainian army is considerably smaller now, despite three rounds of conscription, and given that Rusian objectives were demilitarisation and de-Nazification of Ukraine plus the protection of the opressed Russian speakers in Donbass, rather than territory.
US missiles fired at Belgorod are managing to kill civilians on a regular basis, including babies; there don’t seem to be any reports of the military successes on Russian territory.
The report on Kharkov region seems to omit the latest advance by Russian troops on the east of Vovchansk, the upgrading of the Russian forces from the original infantry to armoured units nor the two villages recently occupied on the Sumy border..
The Russians have dug themselves in in the high ground above Kharkov and are just wiping out the Ukrainians who attack them. The same ‘Active defence’ policy the Russians successfully used in Bakhmut.
They’ve had a good stuffing, are deserting in droves…..and you know what……it’s all going to get a great deal worse for Putin.
“Labour ‘virtually certain’ to win a bigger majority than 1997”
Yeah, from 37% of the vote, and thats optimistic!
Landslide?
my ar$e
Yes, worth remembering Corbyn won 40% of the vote in 2017.
I watched BBC news on Monday and Tuesday and have been wondering about election interference.
On Monday they followed Sunak, on Tuesday they followed Starmer and they talk about the elections as if these are the only 2 choices.
They also asked a member of the public a question each night and then look at Labour, Conservative and LibDem manifestos to see how these parties would answer that question.
Surely the State broadcaster should be going through all manifestos? Or not at all? I am in favour of the latter, as going through all manifestos would not mention the independent candidates.
i think this is a real issue. Not sure how many people only get their news from MSM, but listening to it you really would think that there are only 2-3 choices.
MSM interference and bias in the electoral process is now rife.
They are scared of Reform.
The latest Electoral Calculus poll predicts that Reform will be in second place behind Labour in terms of vote share
“Coaxing the leisured masses back into the workforce won’t be enough to fulfil Starmer’s housebuilding ambitions, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph. Free movement will have to be brought back.”
Another hack taking an easy day by copying and pasting a briefing, this time from Labour.
The effect of yet further relaxation of immigration rules and / or higher immigration on the electorate will be electric. For the firsr 12 months the Tories will likely bear the blame (largely rightly) but after that Labour will suffer and Reform will gain strength.
If won’t just be building workers we will be short of. The materials, fittings, windows, carpets, furnoture and money will all have to come from overseas. In that way we all get poorer just to provide subsidised housing for immigrants who will never pay enough tax to finance even their running costs, let alone the rwquired infrastructure costs.
Most Ponzi schemes last several years before they run out of money. The immigration ponzi will collapse soon but the debts and bad will remaining will affect politics for decades.
BBC presenter deletes tweet urging Biden to kill Trump” – BBC radio host David Aaronovitch has deleted a tweet urging Joe Biden to murder Donald Trump, reports the Washington Examiner. Aaronovitch says it was clearly a joke.
Aaronovitch is an absolutely ghastly person, in my opinion. A bit like Ed Davey. Both sanctimoniously sneering at anything that does not fit with the “progressive” narratives on climate, immigration, DEI, Covid, Ukraine, etc.
According to Johnson’s slur on Reform, apparently the Mrs and I are voting for Putin tomorrow.
So suggesting Trump is murdered was satire? Well, can we all use that excuse when plod comes knocking? Has he been interviewed by the police? If not, why not?
“Allison Pearson meets Nigel Farage: ‘Kemi Badenoch was very unpleasant’”
For those without access to the Telegraph paywall, here is Alison Pearson’s excellent article in full on MSN:
Allison Pearson meets Nigel Farage: ‘Kemi Badenoch was very unpleasant’ (msn.com)
Some gems from it:
“There is one thing Farage didn’t tell me but a friend did. His dad has been very ill in hospital these past few difficult, demanding weeks. He won’t eat. Nigel asked his father if there was one thing in the world he could eat what would it be? “Oysters from Chichester,” Farage Senior replied. So Nigel took a break from the campaign drive to get the oysters and brought them back to feed to his dad.”
“It was said of Charles Dickens, “He didn’t give the people what they wanted; he wanted what the people wanted.” That is the secret of the success of Nigel Paul Farage.”
“At the end of a packed, tiring day, when we are in the pub – where else? – I remind Farage about Sam, the lovely lad we met earlier whose grandad died [in the war] and who had sought out Farage, looking for something.
“Why on earth are you, Nigel, worthy of Sam’s trust? He sets down his pint. “I have many failings, but I am courageous. I will fight and fight anyone who needs fighting and I will bloody well go on fighting.””