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Robert Largan, the 2024 General Election, and the constituency of High Peak
Largan. A Conservative Friends of Israel puppet. A nasty little man, who used to be an accountant for Marks & Spencer. Also, a dishonest little bastard.
Largan has obviously realized that, as a “Conservative” MP who won his seat narrowly in 2019, with a majority of only 509 votes, he has little chance of beating the Labour candidate this time in the normal way, so has decided to cheat.
Largan is an election cheat. Those fake “Labour” and “Reform UK” posters he has published are an outright attempt to defraud the High Peak electorate.
Despite having been a barrister (in practice or overseas employed practice 1992-2008, and still nominally a barrister until wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred for political reasons in late 2016), I know little about the law pertaining to elections.
I have just looked at the links below: https://www.college.police.uk/app/policing-elections/investigating-electoral-malpractice; and https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/guidance-candidates-and-agents-uk-parliamentary-general-elections-great-britain/campaigning/table-offences; and
“What’s not in the law—
There is nothing in law that requires a party to include their logo on campaign material.
“There is also no requirement in law to specify what colours or branding a party needs to use in their material.“
The above, however, does not seem to cover the case of a candidate deceptively using the style and colours of his opponents in order to trick voters directly.
See also https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/election-offences
Even if Largan is not actually in breach of electoral law (and I cannot say whether that is so or not), in view of his deliberate and dishonest copying of the colour and style of Labour and Reform UK posters, the voters of High Peak must be made aware of how very dishonest and desperate Largan is (desperate not to have to get a real job again, something he has only had for 5 out of his 38 years).
Send Largan back to counting beans for M&S.
Actually, when you think how likely (in fact, inevitable) it was that Largan’s deception would be discovered (having after all been publicized on Twitter/X by Largan himself!), it does call into question Largan’s commonsense or lack of the same. His judgment too. He is an idiot.
Desperate, yes, so stupid and desperate, maybe not.
Robert Largan—serially dishonest and not even very clever in being so.
Imagine, though, how little confidence Largan must have in the “Conservative” brand to try to camouflage himself on different election posters as Labour, and Reform UK and Green, in other words anything but “Conservative”…and also even printing a fake “newspaper”.
Faux-proletarian scribbler Dan Hodges is one of the least credible of his type. “Poor” scarcely covers his nonsense.
Well, I agree with Hodges on that, at least in terms of the gap between Con and Lab, but then, after all, I did predict on the blog quite some months ago that, contrary to the usual scenario, there would not be a convergence in the polling prior to Election Day. The reason is clear— people have just given up on the “Conservatives”. Labour is disliked but, in the UK’s basically binary system, if people do not vote Con, Lab profit thereby.
Look at how many Con MPs are failing to contest GE 2024, and look at the poor quality of most of those intending to contest it. Robert Largan is but one, and egregious, example of that.
The voters have a choice: Labour, who will probably be both incompetent and repressive, and the “Conservatives”, who have already proven themselves incompetent and repressive. Both parties are as good as controlled by the…”Israel lobby”.
Really? I can think of a number of things of which one could accuse Sunak, but surely not that. Or have I misunderstood the headline?…
Penny Mordaunt got a very high 61.4% vote-share in 2019, and her vote -share has increased every election since she was first elected in 2010, but Portsmouth North has been a “bellwether” seat since 1966, so the chances are that she will lose this time, though she may just be able to buck the trend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.
Seems a good idea.
In the past, there was clear blue water between Con and Lab, at least on some issues, but the Cons cannot now even compete on issues traditionally (if falsely) their own: immigration, defence, law and order, Treasury competence. Etc. They have failed miserably on all of those and more.
That is the core point, surely. I can think of no issue on which the Cons can credibly make a stand, not even on cultural issues such as the trans nonsense, free speech etc. They are, on those topics, so far as bad as Labour, overall.
I suppose that it might be embarrassing to invite the murderous Israeli regime there; akin to inviting one of the African cannibal dictators of the recent past, such as Bokassa, to a food and drink exhibition.
I suppose that Netanyahu is well-guarded, but so far the only Israeli (ex-) PM to be assassinated (Rabin) was hit by Jewish dissidents, not Arab Palestinians.
The label “far right” (like “right and “left“) is meaningless. Policy is key.
The “Tommy Robinson” crowd are sheep, though they cannot see that. What policies does “Tommy” offer? None, except to —somehow— stop the growth of Islamic or Islamist influence in the UK. Gesture politics, and controlled opposition. Meaningless.
“you read it here first“…
Afternoon music
More tweets seen
There were genuine reasons to favour Con over Lab in, say, 1970, 1974, even 1979 and 1983, though I personally have voted only once, aged —just— 18, in October 1974, and it was not for a System party (my chosen candidate came 4th out of 4 with about 600 votes).
Both major System parties have changed out of all recognition since the 1970s, and are really just corporate facades, indeed to a large extent similar corporate facades, hiding the almost identical core ideologies within.
Oh, I believe that evil woman all right. She will stop the cross-Channel boats, or most of them. She will do it by setting up places in France where 90%+ of those applying for asylum will simply have their applications rubberstamped. They will then get ferries to the UK.
At present ~1M unwanted immigrants are coming to the UK every year, whether “legally” or not. That is the problem, not the rubber boat mob as such.
The other aspect of the problem we face is that there are large numbers of complete idiots who naively (or actively maliciously) prefer to believe that the UK can absorb millions of mostly uneducated, mostly parasitic, often hostile non-white immigrants without any effect on our way of life, culture, or public services. Some of the idiots even prefer to believe that the influx is something positive…
Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.
That Osland person, apparently a freelance scribbler, has posted quite a number of other socially and economically-illiterate tweets, such as, today:
Incredibly (or maybe not, in view of Britain’s ever-sliding educational standards), no less than 109,000 Twitter twits “follow” Osland’s Twitter/X account.
There may be a billion or more non-whites in the world who, in principle, might make out a case for UK residence, either on the basis of asylum (under outdated rules) or otherwise. How many houses do Osland and his fellow-idiots think might be required? 500 million? 200 million? (paid for, incidentally, by the British people). That’s before they start to breed, of course. The whole argument these people put forward is a nonsensical one.
Look at it, making one of “their” characteristic gestures…
As to China being “Putin’s tool“, how ridiculous can Zelly get?
Late music
Ian Robert Millard 
If the Tory MPs had a brain they would have either selected Penny Mordaunt to be their leader in the Summer of 2022 or, certainly, in October of that year. If they had done so they would probably have still been defeated but not as badly as is predicted to happen very soon.
Penny can relate to ordinary people far more than many of their leading figures can. I hope she can buck the trend and get re-elected. They would very likely do better with her as their new leader than 99% of the other contenders. Mind you, it will be an immense struggle in Opposition when you are likely to have less than 100 MPs regardless of who the new leader is.
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John:
I have little regard for Penny Mordaunt ideologically, and I should not want to trivialize her by saying that she looks good in a swimsuit (“tell the truth and shame the Devil”…), but her political good points are that she has seen a less privileged early life than many MPs, and she is at least somewhat in touch with the “popular masses”, if you like.
As I said on the blog, Ms. Mordaunt has a 50-50 chance of surviving the upcoming cull; she is now nationally known, and not generally hated or despised by voters (I think).
Unless the “Conservatives” receive Divine intervention, they are toast in July. Labour is then an “elected” dictatorship until 2029. I cannot see what any Conservative Party rump could offer anyway. Privatization? Everything, or almost everything, has been privatized already, since the 1980s. Vague promises of a better future?
I am not convinced, not 100%, that Britain as we know it will even exist by 2029. The drums of war grow louder daily.
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She comes across as quite ‘normal’ for a politician and yes, it would be hard to dislike her on a personal level.
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Apparently, she is quite liked in her seat so she has a small personal vote which may enable her to just about hold on. Also, some of the Tory voters may, knowing she is likely to be a leadership candidate, still vote for her when they would otherwise vote Reform UK or abstain.
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John:
Perhaps. Being an MP often on TV does boost a rating. Look at Caroline Lucas, for one. People like the idea of their MP being “famous”, or a Prime Minister, or whatever.
I was just reading this:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/02/labour-conservative-battle-buses-sunak-starmer
The author of that report sees Kemi Badenoch, Grant Shapps, and Penny Mordaunt as at least among the Con leadership contenders. Naturally, I myself could never countenance an African or a Jew as potential Prime Minister. Shapps would surely be a bad joke anyway, with his history of false names, near-fraud, and get-rich-quick schemes.
Mordaunt seems not to be a member of Conservative Friends of Israel, but I may be wrong on that; the other two are.
Mordaunt has non-political interests too, and (gold tick) is a cat-lover…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Mordaunt#Personal_life
Of those three, only Mordaunt would resonate at all with voters generally.
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She has had a difficult life in many respects most notably her mother’s sad death from breast cancer when Penny was quite young.
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Yes, the Tories have performed abysmally badly on law and order and particularly so on immigration. It isn’t a good idea in politics to effectively tell your natural voters to ‘get lost’ on issues regarded as traditionally your own.
Voters ALWAYS have ‘somewhere else to go’ in that they can abstain from voting at all which is legal in this country and, apart from very elderly people, voters show an increasing tendency to do precisely that.
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John:
Beyond the parties, or above them, are the real powers. Starmer was a member of the Trilateral Commission. This may be a handover of power planned for some time.
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That fellow Largan is a joke and a bad one. I could not believe it when I read that he put his name forward as a candidate for three parties. Anyway, it doesn´t matter because, from what I have read, the man is a nobody (LOL)
Fancy having in your CV this as your ONLY qualification: “I worked as an accountant for M&S” (HAHAHAHAHA)
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Claudius:
Largan is deceptive in what he is showing to the public, whether or not he is actually committing electoral fraud. The Jewish-Zionist-Israel lobby supports him, one major reason to hope that he will soon lose his seat.
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What an UTTER MORON with a capital M, David Osland, is. There is a little thing called supply and demand in economics – a concept studied in GCSE Economics let alone at A level or degree level. Employers have NO incentive to pay better wages if there is a constant supply of cheap labour coming in.
And to think cretins like him are located in ‘swing seats’/’marginals’ and therefore have a vote with much more value to it in the overall electoral system than mine living as I do in an ultra-safe Tory seat called Brentwood and Ongar in Essex with a Tory numerical majority of 29,165, a percentage vote share of 68% and a PERCENTAGE MAJORITY of 54.9% over Labour (with the Liberal Democrats a mere 0.1% further behind).
REAL electoral reform ie the introduction of Proportional Representation/fair votes is needed NOW so idiots like that in marginal seats have votes with no more value to determine the fate of this once great nation than voters in ‘safe’ seats like where I live.
https//www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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