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News Round-Up

by Richard Eldred
5 July 2024 12:23 AM

  • “Sick of woke censorship? You ain’t seen nothing yet” – In Spiked, Toby takes us through what to look forward to under a Starmer premiership.
  • “The Conservatives deserved this brush with annihilation” – What’s left of the Conservative Party should count its blessings. Each seat retained is an unearned act of kindness, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.`“The Conservatives deserved this brush with annihilation” – What’s left of the Conservative Party should count its blessings. Each seat retained is an unearned act of kindness, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
  • “The Tories have only themselves to blame” – If the Right is to cohere, it will have to have some soggy centrists and some people who are actually Right-wing, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
  • “The Conservative and Labour parties no longer deserve their names” – When was the last time the Conservative Party was actually conservative? asks Laura Dodsworth on her Substack.
  • “Tories will have to come to terms with Reform’s success” – The question for the Conservatives now is clearly how they reinvent themselves and regain credibility, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
  • “‘We warned the Tory leadership that catastrophe was coming. Now they must go and never be seen again’” – “Decent man though he is, Rishi Sunak’s brief, tragic premiership has ended, though I wish it could have done so sooner,” says David Frost in the Telegraph.
  • “Are the Lib Dems and Reform really right to feel happy?” – Ross Clark in the Spectator says the Tories should feel a bit of relief after the exit poll, which shows only a 10% gap between the Conservative and Labour vote share.
  • “SNP collapse as party predicted to retain just 10 seats” – The Telegraph reports on the best news of last night – the collapse of the SNP.
  • “The key moments that defined the general election campaign” – A lot has happened since a drenched Rishi Sunak called for the country to cast their ballots, says the Telegraph, as it takes us through Rishi’s worse moments of the campaign.
  • “Labour’s backdoor British blasphemy laws” – Under Labour, we might very well see legislation that would irreversibly damage freedom of speech and stifle any ability to criticise radical Islam, warns Ayaan Hirsi Ali on her Restoration Substack.
  • “Independent inquiry launched into Channel Four Reform report” – Ofcom-Watch, the new campaign group set up to monitor Ofcom, has instructed a senior barrister to lead an independent inquiry into Channel Four’s undercover report of the Reform campaign, according to Guido Fawkes.
  • “Dermatology’s horrendous war against the Sun” – On Substack, a Midwestern Doctor untangles dermatology’s huge skin cancer scam.
  • “Lucy Letby: courtroom drama, a failed appeal and battles over the truth” – Lucy Letby was convicted of multiple baby murders, but then fell out of the headlines. The BBC explains what has happened since.
  • “Rejecting Kant’s cant” – In the Critic, Freddie Attenborough discusses Germany’s draconian hate speech law and its impact on fundamental liberal norms.
  • “Ukraine’s new F-16 fighter jets will be destroyed as soon as they arrive” – Russian ballistic missiles are pounding Zelensky’s air bases, writes David Axe in the Telegraph.
  • “Zelensky U-turns as he invites Russia to attend peace summit without giving up land” – After two years of war, the Ukrainian leader appears to be taking peace talks seriously, says James Kilner in the Telegraph.
  • “Biden is as big a narcissist as Trump” – The Bidens’ decision to contest the 2024 U.S. Presidential race was arrogant and criminally oblivious to the country’s future, writes Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
  • “No, the Supreme Court has not turned Trump into a king” – The Democrats’ reaction to the Presidential-immunity ruling has been typically hysterical, says Luke Gittos in Spiked.
  • “The awesome, terrifying power of the press” –On Substack, Eugyppius marvels at how the media have changed their tune on Biden’s mental acuity.
  • “The Democrats’ civil war has begun” – The unholy Democrat alliance of oligarchs and identitarians is about to come apart, writes Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
  • “Calm down, it’s a joke” – In the Spectator, Rod Liddle comes to the defence of the writer and broadcaster David Aaronovitch in the wake of his recent Twitterstorm.
  • “UBS on green energy: from ’a wave of capital’ to ‘sluggish rollout’ in just four years” – In WUWT?, Eric Worrall wonders how investors who bet on UBS’s 2020 imminent green energy boom hype feel today?
  • “What happened to that ‘wettest summer’, Met Office?” – The Met Office warned us all to prepare for at least 50 days of rain in the next three months. Well, so far the summer has been much drier than average, says Paul Homewood in Not A Lot Of People Know That.
  • “No, CBS News, New York City isn’t going to be flooded by sea level rise” – A recent CBS News article claims that climate change-induced sea level rise could result in large parts of New York City being underwater by the year 2100. This is false, writes Anthony Watts in WUWT?
  • “Parishioners stop donations to churches in protest at £100 million slavery fund” – Parishioners are withdrawing donations from local churches in protest against the CofE’s £100 million slavery reparations fund, reports the Telegraph. 
  • “Bad TV impressions: U.K. General Election 2024” – On X, Kieran Hodgson serves up a treat for fans of the election with impressions of all the major players.

A little treat for fans of the election!

Bad TV Impressions: UK General Election 2024#impressions #sunak #starmer #GeneralElections2024 #GE2024 #comedy #bbc #justabitoffun #dontkillme@bbcnews @RestIsPolitics @TheNewsAgents pic.twitter.com/poLG0iP3xw

— Kieran Hodgson (@KieranCHodgson) July 3, 2024

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
10 months ago

https://order-order.com/2024/07/03/independent-inquiry-launched-into-channel-4-reform-report/

I posted this yesterday from TCW. The credit belongs to Kathy Gyngell.

Do keep up.

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stewart
stewart
10 months ago

I hope that all those who went out to vote hoping that a sea change was coming feel suitably foolish.

The system is rigged in so many ways. The distorted representation of votes in parliament, the media assault on anyone that might be a threat to the establishment, the gaslighting making people think that this freak show we call elections represents their actual views and wishes.

Thing will only actually change in a meaningful way when enough people get tired of being suckered, say enough is enough and refuse to play the rigged game.

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Monro
Monro
10 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Labour 33.8% of the vote share

54% turn out

46.5m eligible to vote out of a population of 67m

69.4% of the population eligible to vote

0.694 x 0.54 x 0.338

Just 12.7% of the population voted for this government.

Time long overdue for PR

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

There are many varieties of PR, so you do need to specify which you prefer, and why.

For example, party lists only encourage central control, which has caused much dysfunctionality already. Multiple members for each constituency means muddled responsibility.

And, given that European countries have very different means of electing representatives, yet all have had their problems, there is much to be said for some thinking rather than unspecific soundbites.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
10 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Well said. Whenever I try to say exactly the same thing I get hammered on the downvotes, but your same point has been well received. An indication of the fluidity, and easily managed, of many?

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Monro
Monro
10 months ago

We see clearly the next task.

Scotland, Wales, London show us what is in store for us all.

The demolition of Labour……we’ll have to get them before they get us……

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Monro
Monro
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Two thirds of the country did not vote for this (big majority of seats) government.

Time for PR.

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

As I already said on this thread, you need to specify which type of PR.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Wales clearly likes socialism as they have booted out the Tories. So let us all look forward the an NHS Welsh style.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
10 months ago

Jet Set Climate Activists Kill Freedom – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, your local vicar, online media and friends online. We have over 200 leaflet ideas on the link on the leaflet.

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Freecumbria
Freecumbria
10 months ago

Based on declared seats Reform have the third highest share of the vote. And labour share of the vote is only just above one third.

Vote-vs-seats
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Baldrick
Baldrick
10 months ago

Noticed that Chris Chope got back in for Christchurch. I think he was one of the good guys. Andrew Bridgen has failed for NW Leicestershire- by a long way as well.

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Valerie_London
Valerie_London
10 months ago
Reply to  Baldrick

He was one of the few good guys – constantly trying to highlight the plight of the vaccine injured in the HoC.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
10 months ago
Reply to  Valerie_London

The people of Leicester NW deserve all the shyte that Kneel and Co can throw at them.

What a vile electorate.

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
10 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

It’s as though Andrew is worse than an inconvenience.

I’m shocked, truly shocked, telI you! 🙂

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JohnK
JohnK
10 months ago

The https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/dermatologys-horrendous-war-against was worth a read, but in the “Benefits of sunlight” section it is silent about one of the fundamental ones. I.e. the way we use Ultra Violet-B to make vitamin D. Perhaps the author has shares in the manufacture of supplements, a cynic might observe!

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
10 months ago

If the Tories could do this after winning an 80 seat majority last time, just think what Labour will achieve in 5 years with double the majority.

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
10 months ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

How many extra windmills will Labour manage to plan, build, and put into production before they get found out?

And then there’s the miles of Power Lines, acres of solar panels and Carbon Capture & Storage installations that fail.

I do have a good idea on the number of CC&S successes.

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Heretic
Heretic
10 months ago

So Reform won 14% of the popular vote, and got 4 seats in Parliament.

LibDems won 12% of the popular vote, and got 63 seats in Parliament.

Errrr, yes, that seems fair…

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
10 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

And the Greens got around half the Reform vote, but the same number of seats.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
10 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

This election is the first chance that Reform have had to judge where their support lies on national issues. In their next election they will be able to crunch the numbers and build funding to allow then the target resources for best effect.

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