- “I’ll govern ‘unburdened by doctrine’” – The Spectator has reproduced the text of Keir Starmer’s first speech as Prime Minister outside Downing Street.
- “Starmer kept cool when told he’d won, while staff roared like football fans” – The new PM kissed his wife amid rapturous cheers as news of Labour’s victory rolled in, reports the Times.
- “Starmer’s Cabinet: Thornberry ‘snubbed’ and McFadden made enforcer” – The victorious Labour leader is building his team – and alongside the anticipated appointments are one or two surprises, says the Telegraph.
- “Sir Patrick Vallance: From Covid adviser to science minister” – Sir Patrick Vallance has been made a peer and given a job as a junior science minister in Starmer’s first Government, reports the Standard.
- “Starmer kills off Rwanda plan on first day as PM” – Labour insiders tell the Telegraph that the Tory Rwanda scheme is effectively “dead”, given Labour promised to scrap it.
- “Migrants vow to cross from France ‘as soon as possible’ after Labour victory” – Speaking to the Telegraph, some migrants near Dunkirk have welcomed Starmer’s victory and say they’ll make the journey across the channel as soon as they can.
- “How Starmer pulled off a triumph with three million fewer votes than Corbyn” – Starmer has promised to fix Britain, but with no clear plan to do so, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “The elite liberals on our screens could barely stomach that Reform was the big story of the night” – Allison Pearson’s highlight of the wall-to-wall coverage of the election on TV was the mainstream media being forced to give Nigel Farage’s upstart party its due, she says in the Telegraph.
- “The seeds of Starmer’s downfall have already been sown” – This was not a vote for the Labour party, but a rejection of the entire political class, writes Sebastian Milbank in the Telegraph.
- “Labour election result most distorted in history” – Labour has won nearly two-thirds of the seats with third of popular vote, the most distorted election result ever, according to the Telegraph.
- “What I think – detailed thoughts on a historic election, the morning after” – Matt Goodwin gives his thoughts on the election result for his Substack.
- “The Tories have only themselves to blame” – Douglas Murray in the Spectator thinks he know where blame lies for the Tories’ historic defeat.
- “British politics goes Continental” – Labour won big. But the rise of small parties proves we’ve entered a new political era, says Luke Hallam in Persuasion.
- “The centre-Right is dying a slow death. It is an epochal change for politics across the West.” – The results of the U.K. election are in and Labour has carried the day. Does this mean the end of the centre-Right across Europe? asks Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Labour’s hollow victory” – On his Substack, Jack Watson reflects on the election result.
- “What the polls got right – and very wrong” – Voters delivered the big Labour victory everyone expected — but the industry must reckon with how its predictions varied so wildly, says James Kanagasoorium in the Times.
- “My 10-point guide to bashing Labour” – In the Mail, Boris Johnson sets out his 10-point plan for defeating Labour in 2029.
- “There’s no shortcut for the Tories. A divided Right will never win an election again” – Pretending that Labour’s majority is built on sand is a pure coping mechanism, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Early runners and riders to replace Sunak as Tory civil war begins” – The battle lines were drawn before dawn broke when critics rounded on the ex-Prime Minister, as senior Conservatives lambasted him for failing to listen to voters, says the Mail.
- “Who could replace Rishi Sunak? The potential Tory successors” – With so many rivals in the Conservative Party losing their seats, the odds are looking better for the leadership candidates still standing, reports the Times.
- “The Tory blame game: Scorned MPs rage at peerage for Sunak ally” – The ex-Prime Minister has been accused of rewarding aides who led a duff campaign after giving a peerage to Liam Booth-Smith, according to the Telegraph.
- “Next Tory leader needs to win over Right and shift party to the centre, says George Osborne” – The former chancellor’s suggestions come after ‘true blue’ seats like Kensington and Chelsea fell to Labour, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Tory ‘wets’ are finished. Good riddance” – There is one silver lining to this catastrophic defeat, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph. The Party is now more cohesively Right-wing.
- “Moment furious Labour MP Jess Phillips takes on pro-Palestinian mob” – The Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley suffered jeers by pro-Palestinian supporters after she beat a Muslim independent by just 693 votes, reports the Mail.
- “The terrifying pro-Palestine campaign that hurt Labour – and threatens democracy” – Some of the party’s biggest names have complained of shocking intimidation and abuse by those campaigning “for Gaza”, according the Telegraph.
- “The pro-Palestine independents who turned the Gaza war on Keir Starmer” – Barrister Ayoub Khan, who quit the Lib Dems over Gaza, is the new MP for Perry Barr, according to the Mail.
- “The successful Muslim Vote campaign is a snapshot of the future of British politics” – No one anticipated how many pro-Gaza independents would be elected to Parliament, writes Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
- “Britain can no longer ignore the new sectarianism” – Suella Braverman was monstered when she raised concerns about British politics drifting towards sectarianism, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph. But the election has proven her right.
- “‘The worst election I have ever stood in’” – Sectarian politics is now a reality in England, says Ed West on Substack, quoting Jess Phillips.
- “Jeremy Corbyn wins as an independent: ‘I’m the one they couldn’t put down’” – The member for Gaza, sorry, Islington North, has been re-elected, defeating his Labour opponent, reports the Times.
- “SNP figures left reeling after ‘cataclysmic’ election night” – The SNP won just nine of the 56 Scottish constituencies declared yesterday after voters deserted them following a series of scandals and controversies, says the Mail.
- “Donald Trump congratulates Nigel Farage on election win” – The next President of the United States has congratulated Farage on his election win, but not Starmer, says the Telegraph.
- “The culture war is about to get a lot worse” – The Tories deserved to lose, but the Labour landslide will keep the ‘woke’ movement on life-support for another few years, laments Andrew Doyle on Substack.
- “Disney heiress withdraws donations to Democrats until Biden is replaced” – Abigail Disney says the Democrats will “not receive a single dime” until they “bite the bullet” and get rid of the 81-year-old President, according to the Telegraph.
- “What did reporters who cover the White House know, and when did they know it?” – As President Biden lurches toward a withdrawal from the 2024 election that seems likelier by the hour, questions need to be asked about the media’s role in hiding his mental decline, says Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “Letter to a Liberal: Your Media Lies to You” – Biden’s senility was long known, but the media gaslighted the public until the gas finally ran out and they could no longer protect him, writes Paul D. Thacker in the Disinformation Chronicles.
- “How long until the ‘Joe must go’ faction prevails?” – If President Biden wanted to quash demands for him to step aside in favour of Kamala Harris after his devastating debate against Donald Trump, his July 4th appearance will not have helped, writes Freddie Gray in the Mail.
- “Church of England fears parish backlash over £100m slavery fund” – Bishop concedes there is anecdotal evidence that anger about the scheme has led to people stopping giving to their local church, reports the Times.
- “Right-wing AfD debanked by angry German grandmothers” – An option to donate has been removed from the AfD’s website in a victory for a debanking campaign group in Germany, says the Telegraph.
- “Fifty attacked in French election violence — and officials fear riots” – A strong police presence is planned for the second round of voting in France on Sunday, with officials fearing riots if the National Rally wins, according to the Times.
- “Who swamped the comps? Not us” – Refugee parents from the private sector have been promised a “welcome in a brilliant state school”. Mr Chips is dubious.
- “Thin-skinned megalomaniac rich bully wants Chinese style firewall for Britain” – Dale Vince briefed the Guardian this week that he is suing Paul Staines, editor of Guido Fawkes, for repeating a phrase Vince used in an interview on Times Radio. Guido has more.
- “Orwell hits the highways” – In Zero Hedge, Tyler Durden reveals that the EU has mandated that all new cars will now have to include Automatic Speed Limiters, preventing them from exceeding the speed limit.
- “At last I’m free” – Steve Baker clashes with Ed Balls and George Osborne on breakfast TV in an exchange many people on X think he got the better of.
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https://watsonjack351.substack.com/p/breaking-labour-win-election
It’s very important that we receive the views of the non voting elite.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13604919/BORIS-JOHNSON-Starmers-majority-built-sand-mile-wide-inch-deep-ten-point-guide-bashing-Labour-getting-power.html
Traitor.
Foxtrot Oscar Johnson.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/05/britain-has-entered-a-new-era-of-sectarian-politics/
A point I have been making these last few weeks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13603707/Moment-furious-Labour-MP-Jess-Phillips-takes-pro-Palestinian-mob-booed-beat-independent.html
Suck it up you scruffy sod. Reality bites.
https://x.com/GMB/status/1809114873894228261
Well why on earth did you want to be an MP in the first place? Nobody forced you. What a bloody insult to the electorate.
Useless failure. Any skeletons Steve?
Steve Baker is a good man. Please remember that he was almost alone in Parliament (honorable mentions to Mark Harper, Desmond Swayne, Charles Walker and Christopher Chope) in articulating the case against lockdowns and against mandatory vaccination.
Yes, he dropped the ball on the rushed vaccines, and took it himself, and is a bit too ‘Church of England’ on the alphabet people and woke issues, but he was done vastly more for our side in Parliament than almost anybody else.
He was also the leader of the Brexit “Spartans” during May’s miserable tenure as Prime Minister.
Bridgen is a particular case and was late to the party.
The case of Andrew Bridgen shows me how hopeless the situation is.
He got beaten very badly and lost his seat, despite the fact that he stood up bravely to denounce the horror perpetrated on the public with the covid jabs.
The establishment obviously chewed him up and spat him out. That is to be expected, that is what this disgusting system does with anyone who confronts it.
But the really hopeless part is that the public who he stood up for have rejected him so completely. We have a population that has lost its ability to distinguish good from bad. Or perhaps worse doesn’t care.
The British public don’t deserve him.
To me however he stands with people I consider hero’s. Ed Snowden, Assange and the many others who perhaps in less public ways stand up against the tyranny of the system, at great expense to themselves and more often than not get no thanks for it.
I wish Mr Bridgen the best.
The support was fake and state sponsored? Or perhaps it was real but actually quite small – just because there seems to be strong support, on the scale of the population it is quite small.
I’m no longer surprised at how dumb people are. One poster yesterday referred to me as a “nasty lefty”, which then got a load of up-votes. I honestly couldn’t make this sh*t up. I used to believe that most people are are just asleep, and once woken will demand real change, but that’s not true. It’s so much simpler. Most people are simply thick as f*ck.
Nice strategy. Anyone who doesn’t agree with you is thick. I am not sure how thick “f*ck” is, so your analogy is lost on me.
‘Thick’ isn’t very precise, but nevertheless the quality of the electorate is the major issue of this country, and in virtually all countries.
In due course I expect there will be a global separation.
I don’t have a strategy on here, I just say what I believe to be true. My opinions are just that – opinions. You may agree or disagree, I really don’t care tbh. So there’s that. My reference to “thick as f*ck”, and it seems that this may surprise you, really wasn’t intended to be a meaningful analogy; it’s just a saying. And I was saying that about the type of people who believed, and still do, all the Covid nonsense and the type of person that doesn’t understand the difference between right and left, right and wrong. I doubt you’re one of those people.
Well, it was a criticism of one poster and those who agreed. It was also undoubtedly an opinion, which is what every comment is on here is.
I’m struggling to understand why you’re struggling to understand. The comment was about me being left-wing, which is factually incorrect. Not an opinion in any way at all. Anyone that reads my comments and construes them to be left-wing are, yes, thick as f*ck.
Ah, not seeing your original comment I assumed, clearly wrongly, that you were a leftist and that you were having a pop at those of us here who are not. My apologies.
As adequately demonstrated from the scamdemic years, can’t blame the MSM propaganda for all this stupidity, has taken me a few years to fully understand just how thick the general population are…..sigh
It was disappointing that the Reform party didn’t embrace him. Tice is behind that, no doubt, although Bridgen’s somewhat colourful personal history won’t have helped.
When it comes down to it, the Reform party’s manifesto called for a full investigation of vaccine harms, so in practical terms not that different from what Bridgen has advocated.
It was also frustrating that Bridge was not given credit for his role in uncovering the Post Office scandal, having first raised the issue ten years before the BBC programme.
It seems it wasn’t Richard Tice, but Lee Anderson who put the kibosh on Bridgen joining Reform, after Lee walked over to the restaurant table where Andrew and a Scotsman friend were discussing politics, and told them he took umbrage at Andrew’s comments. When the Scotsman leapt to Andrew’s defence in a heated exchange, Lee Anderson called him “grandad”, and challenged him to step outside to settle things. The Scot replied in the historical manner “Pistols or Claymores?” 🙂
It’s too bad Lee and Andrew couldn’t have been persuaded to patch things up for the sake of the nation.
Sad but true.
Headline on the Daily Mail this morning about Starmer: “Now he must deliver”. Sums it up for me. The Mail presumably endorsed the Tories or Reform, and they want Starmer to “deliver”. Deliver what? I hope they deliver nothing. The less the better.
I imagine they mean Labours pledge regarding immigration control.
But I see it all as part of the gaslighting operation making the public think elections decide things.
Maybe, but they can’t possibly believe that Labour will reduce any kind of immigration, surely?
Not for a minute. They are surely just setting it up so that when they don’t they can criticise them and do their job as Team As propaganda arm.
Seconded 👍
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https://www.severreal.org/a/vrag-prikryvaetsya-blagimi-namereniyami-deputaty-i-svyaschenniki-boryutsya-s-satanizmom/33017607.html
What’s really going on?
‘This week, the State Duma held a round table on the topic of ‘On counteracting the spread of Satanism and other destructive phenomena in the media-culture space of Russia’
‘The round table (is) chaired by General Vladimir Shamanov (sic)…..under the auspices of the State Duma Committee on the Development of Civil Society, Public and Religious Associations.’
‘Deputies, political scientists, priests and state propagandists seriously discussed ways to fight Satan and his minions. In which, as you might guess, they included LGBT people, childfree supporters, abortion rights defenders, eco-activists and even children who have fun playing furries…….
Deputies have nothing better to do? Definitely. But the problem is that what was said at this event was not just hot air.’
Shortly before launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Putin claimed that “the hegemony of the West is aimed at a complete denial of faith, acquiring features of Satanism.”
Kremlin-backed propaganda immediately picked up on this new moniker for Europeans, adding it to old tropes about “Nazis” and “sodomites.”
In other words, any opponent of the current regime becomes a “Satanist” in the language of propaganda.
‘The head of the committee for the development of civil society, issues of public and religious associations, Olga Timofeeva, said that it is necessary “not just to adhere to traditional values, but also to actively defend them, opposing destructive ideology,” since “we are confronted by fascists, Satanists, Nazis, who consciously rely on the forces of evil.’
Putin’s negotiators will be eating loads of garlic.
Top Tip for Trump’s negotiators: Don’t forget the parsley…….
Another barrel-scraping comment. Just for balance Sever.real is based in Prague and rates at around the 11,000th most viewed media website in Russia.
The JX Fund conducted a study of Russian media outlets in exile. According to this study, the combined monthly Russian audience of media in exile today is about 10 million people.
I presume you are talking to me, and not talking to yourself. That statistic says nothing about Sever.real. Stop using squirrels.
… it is necessary “not just to adhere to traditional values, but also to actively defend them, opposing destructive ideology” …
It depends naturally on what traditional values are but this statement could equally apply to European countries suffering from open borders – unless you are a globalist.
… we are confronted by fascists, Satanists, Nazis, who consciously rely on the forces of evil …
Was it only yesterday that Ukraine fired British Storm Shadow missiles at Sevastopol, missiles presumably configured by UK personnel using either US or UK intelligence information? And that only recently after US ATACMS missiles were fired in the same direction, killing and maiming children and other civilians enjoying a relaxing Sunday on the beach?
‘Satanists’ is perhaps slightly old fashioned, otherwise fascists and Nazis (apparently the Azov battalion is being reconstituted) certainly fits to these attacks on innocent civilians by Ukraine, which is unfortunately nothing new, using weapons and money supplied by us, western tax payers.
And then you had the Ukrainian deputy something-or-other who claimed that the civilians killed in the Sevastopol attack deserved to die because they were “Occupiers”, contradicting the otherwise typical Ukrainian claim that Crimeans are victims of Russian occupation.
The “Occupier” statement came from Mikhail Podoliak, adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine, who “controls the entire information policy of the Office of the President and advises Volodymyr Zelensky directly” (Wikipedia).
The problem with Crimea is that Russia has explicitly breached the Geneva Convention.
The Fourth Geneva Convention specifically prohibits the transfer of the population of an occupying power into the territory it occupies.
I’m not quite sure why Ukraine would need any assistance with targeting information for static targets on its own territory. It also receives targeting information from Atesh.
If you have reliable evidence that Ukraine is receiving targeting information from third parties, you should present it. Without it, your comments lack credibility.
I am not quite sure why you are quoting the Fourth Geneva Convention, of which there are apparently 159 articles: civilians are to be protected from murder, torture or brutality, and from discrimination on the basis of race, nationality, religion or political opinion.
Civilians are to be protected from murder … and from discrimination on the basis of race: both these main points were breached by, firstly, Ukraine’s missile attack and, secondly, Podoliak’s comment.
I wrote “presumably configured”: the https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom channel has repeatedly reported that ATACMS missiles can only be configured and operated by US personnel, and indicated the same applies to the British (and French) missiles. I think the idea one can type in a simple latitude and longitude and press ‘Fire’ to operate these missiles is rather too simplistic since they are “guided by a combination of GPS, terrain-matching and infrared imaging”.
Every time an election is held the next day people lament the voting system this country has. And quite rightly so.
A result of this system is that a lot of people are not represented and unheard.
And it is not in the interest of the ruling party to change the system.
My opinion is that we need a party whose sole aim is to change the voting system. We need to think outside the box to work out a system that gives the best possible representation of people’s views on the whole.
If we can get this party into power, they would change the system and then call a re-election.
Daft idea?
Worth a try?
If you’re interested in a relatively local experiment – Wales – have a look at this one: https://www.gov.wales/senedd-reform No doubt the Permanent Secretary and others in Westminster will be watching that!
At any rate, the Welsh outcome would most likely be used as part of any revised system in England. Not sure what would happen in Scotland & NI.
Having done a little homework on it, all the UK regions that do some kind of proportional voting – including the London Assembly – use a “Modified d’Hondt Formula”. No doubt there would be arguments about the geographical structure nationally to achieve that. E.g. the London one is some kind of hybrid between FPTP & d’Hondt. https://www.londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/counting-votes
To achieve an equivalent without expanding the size of the House of Commons and maintaining constituency allocations would need some sort of geographical set up with larger constituencies spread across them.
Changing the voting system is something the public can do without waiting 5 years and voting for an ineffectual Party. The government promotes this elsewhere.
80% of those who voted gave their support to parties of the globalist left. The public had the chance to vote for Andrew Bridgen. He came virtually last. The problem is not the voting system, it’s the voters. I think that is the sad truth we have to face. We need to win people over with our ideas, but I think we will fail and things will have to collapse completely before enough people wake up. I will probably get lots of downvotes for being so pessimistic. But to be clear, just because I think the situation is bleak doesn’t stop me from trying.
I only partly agree.
With the current system people vote strategically and often negative.
There is no party or candidate even close to expressing their views with a chance of a parliamentary seat, so they either don’t vote, spoil their ballot paper, protest vote or vote for the least bad option.
A more representative democracy would at least engage more people in a positive way.
I guess it might make some
marginal difference.
Which views do you think are not represented among the choices on offer?
Good question. The current offering is bland. All parties worried by loss of votes if they really have a distinct vision.
I grew up with a PR system, with a lot of different parties.Problem with straight PR is that the rural vote gets lost (most people live in cities). Maybe a combination of PR within slightly larger constituencies, each providing 5 MPs might work?
Or active participatory democracy with a direct line between the voting public and their representatives?
The Swiss system?
Reform on paper looked fairly unbland to me
Heritage, Freedom Alliance and Alliance for Freedom and Democracy and Bridgen didn’t look bland to me. Nobody voted for them.
You are right about the rural vote, because I read that the only reason Macron defeated Le Pen at the last election was that France does not have an electoral college. So even though all of the Indigenous French in rural areas and small towns voted for Le Pen, all the 3rd World Invaders and their Communist Enablers in the big cities voted for Macron, so he won.
If I remember correctly, the article said that was the whole reason the American Founding Fathers created the electoral college, because they realised very early on that the big cities would dominate every election, elbowing out the rural areas and small towns.
And that’s why the Globalist Traitors encourage the 3rd World Invaders to concentrate their settlement in the big cities of the West.
There is nothing pessimistic in facing facts. The situation, as I have posted more than once, is grim.
But we won’t let them grind us down
“No one anticipated how many pro-Gaza independents would be elected to Parliament”
Alongside the pro-Israel MP’s that we’re not supposed to draw attention to. Parliament seems more a representation of the Middle East at the expense and to the detriment of the nations it is supposed to represent.
https://labour.org.uk/change/mission-driven-government/
Oh Beggar!
And there everyone was thinking it was ‘Working From Home’ that was causing the productivity problems within public sector bureaucracies…..
Nope!
Its the new wonks wet dream that, unsurprisingly, is making government wonky.
‘Mission Driven Government’?
What The Dickens?
Don’t Worry. It’s from the same people who brought us ‘The Precautionary Principle’, you know, the one that tried to kill everyone in 2020.
Disaster……..Starmer Space Station day one:
‘Mission-driven government means raising our sights as a nation and focusing on ambitious, measurable, long-term objectives that provide a driving sense of purpose for the country.’
This is really why we are so comprehensively fecked as a country
‘The organization I visited did a great job of defining and tracking goals. Few of those goals, however, connected to a broader sense of purpose. Yes, reaching goals could bring a greater bonus, and, yes, reaching goals could lead to promotions and salary bumps. Chasing goals day after day, week after week, however, did not bring engagement to the organization. It brought the sense of living on an endless treadmill.’
As the great Lord Botham might have said: ‘They forgot the leadership!’
Mission driven anything doesn’t work with drivers. It only works with leaders.
But ‘mission driven management’ has redefined leadership!
‘….a third model of leadership is embedded in what we might call mission-based management. When grounded in a mission, all members of an organization–from top to bottom–are both leaders and followers.’
We’re all leaders…….and followers……
No more ‘How shall we feck off, Lord?’. Plenty of ‘Feck off yourself, Lord!’
‘…mission-based management…..is directive guidance in the service of transcendent aims.’
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brettsteenbarger/2015/07/19/mission-based-management-the-leadership-of-purpose/
Got that? Right, off we go….
Mission based manage this:
Oh for heavens sake! Earth to Starmer space station:
‘Can we all feck off at the next stop, Lord?’
Steve Baker always spoke well but watching that, you know he generally held back. Osborne in particular was without reply. The succinct truth hurts
The “17 years ago” dismissal of his motivations gives a glimpse of the political mindset that thinks events like Hillsborough, infected blood, Horizon etc. will disappear without consequence. It was refreshing to hear mention of extraordinary rendition: a reminder that our freedom promoting governments considered kidnap and torture acceptable.
“some migrants near Dunkirk have welcomed Starmer’s victory and say they’ll make the journey across the channel as soon as they can.”
Hold your foot up just a minute lads, why take the risk of a small boat? After all, the uber rnli is finding it difficult to cope with all the extra custom.
Starmer will send Luxury ferries to come and pick you all up! Just try to be patient 😌
Too true!
“Labour election result most distorted in history”
If one hundred people can vote, but only one does, then its a landslide for the winner!
Starmer’s Government of service. Am I alone in thinking the Kneeler sounded exactly like a vicar preaching at a church service; that lowering of the voice at the end of the sentence?
I was amused to read it had been written by former speech writer to Justin Welby!
“How long until the ‘Joe must go’ faction prevails?”
Biden’s plan was always to step aside for the Ethnic African/Indian woman, as he said when he first chose her as his Vice President: “I’m just a place-holder for disadvantaged ethnic minorities”, he said.
It could well be that he’s not even senile, but just acting out his part in order to “nudge” the public to accept the woman they NEVER would have voted for.