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Makerfield by-election
Well, Burnham won. Not unexpected. The msm is going mad with this supposed great turning-point etc. Rather overblown, as is their contention that all Labour (or both of the main System parties) needed to do was to change horses, and both Reform and Restore would be left behind.
Not quite. At the 2024 General Election, Labour scored 45.2% at Makerfield, and Reform UK scored 31.8%. At the 2026 by-election, the Labour vote was 54.8%, so higher but not stunningly so, and the Reform vote was 34.5%, also higher than in 2024, despite the challenge from Restore Britain (6.8%) which did not exist in 2024.
While Reform and Restore together scored well below Labour’s vote, that combined vote still added up to 41.3%; quite respectable. Over 41% of the total of eligible voters did not vote at all, a sign that many are either apathetic or more radical than Reform and Restore.
Prior to the vote, enemy of the people Lisa Nandy made some foolish comment that “about 6% or 7%” of the Makerfield electorate were “racists” who would vote for any anti-immigration party. 6% or 7%. Now see the combined Reform/Restore vote— over 41%.
I think that several factors contributed to Burnham’s win. The split Reform/Restore was one. True, the two parties still scored a total below that of Burnham-Labour, but that might not have been the case had only one party stood.
Then there is the hullabaloo and msm reportage about how Burnham would unseat the hated Starmer-stein, and about Burnham’s supposed more radical and/or active ideas to improve life in the North of England. Unconvincing to me, but apparently not to many Northern English voters.
The other interesting parts of the by-election result were the poor showings of the Conservatives and LibDems.
The Conservatives scored only 2.2% at the by-election, and lost their deposit. In 2024, their vote had been 10.9%, and in 2019, 34.4%.
The LibDems scored only 0.4% at the by-election (a mere 163 votes) as against 6.8% in 2024.
An indication of how far the credibility of both parties, Con and LibDem, has fallen in parts of the country.
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The so-called “vaccines” have done huge and hugely underreported damage to millions.
The growing anger and frustration of the British people may be expressed, by 2029, in Parliamentary form, or in some other form(s).
I remain far from convinced that the “our Andy” show (complete with “our communities” and “our NHS“) will travel well anywhere very far south (or north, or east) of Manchester.
I saw a minute of so, on BBC TV News, of Burnham speaking today. He wants to “re-industrialise the North (of England)” (how? has he never heard of China?) and spread much money here and there. For me, not at all convincing or even interesting.
The Irish “tinker” or “traveller” element is also, of course, notorious for such activity. Others too.
I can recall, from when I was staying in some hotel on the Corniche in Alexandria (Egypt) in 1998, looking from my balcony and noticing an obviously wealthy Egyptian family in a large Mercedes stop, and a little girl, obviously instructed to do so, exit from the vehicle with all their fast food boxes and paper bags, and simply dump them over the parapet into the beautiful blue sea of the Eastern Harbour, which sea once would have been seen by Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus, not to mention Churchill and others.
If anyone is interested in a little more of my reminiscence of my 1998 visit to Egypt, please see:
[“If anyone doubts the power of community action over the @EnvAgency’s spineless inertia, you can walk to the outskirts of Ilford & walk along an ancient lost river to see for yourself.
With 10 days of intense effort by dedicated volunteers, the river River Roding Trust managed to clean up & restore 250 metres of the Aldersbrook (about 1/3 of the brook). This allows a direct comparison between the parts of the brook we restored & those we haven’t got round to yet.
These photos & videos are all from May 2026. The first is on a part of the Aldersbrook still to be restored & shows the old flood defences which are no longer needed & are killing the river but which the EA won’t remove unless we volunteers pay them £50,000 just for surveys.
These defences have caused 2-3ft of stinking sludge & silt to build up over 70 years, such that the water in the brook is just a few centimetres deep. Combine with huge amounts of rubbish & and out of control knotweed infestation & the river ecosystem is essentially dead.
A river that is older than England destroyed by official indifference.
A hundred metres away, and it’s a different story. The rubbish & the invasive species (I sprayed the knotweed myself last autumn) are gone. The silt that used to clog the river is now spread on the banks & rapidly providing fertile ground for native plants. Instead of sludge, there’s 2-3ft of water, so fish have returned to the brook for the first time in decades, along with dragon flies, herons & a nesting moorhen.
We river guardians knew our intervention would make a difference, but have been shocked at quite how quickly nature has come back. The restored Aldersbrook is now a rare jewel: pretty much the last fully natural tidal brook in London. The EA now has a choice. It can salvage some good from this situation & work with us to restore the remaining sections of the brook, or it can continue to do nothing. If the latter, river guardians *will* be back this winter to finish the job & the EA can see how well prosecuting volunteers for restoring a river without permission goes for them.“]
Bravo.
[“Around the country, a huge tree planting programme of our most important native tree is underway. But no bureaucrat decreed it in a policy paper, & it relies on no government funding. This mass planting is being carried out by nature herself.
2025 was a ‘mast year’ for acorns. In order to have the best chance of reproducing, some trees like oaks all produce a huge amount of acorns in the same year. This sheer abundance overwhelms creatures like squirrels that snack on the nuts, as they simply can’t eat them all.
Now, in woodlands & fields across the country, we see the results of this self-directed tree planting. Huge carpets of baby oaks that in some places are so thick they look like a grassy green lawn. I’ve honestly never seen so many oak saplings in my lifetime & this scene is all the more incredible given the oaks somehow knew to coordinate their reproduction like this.
Although this planting effort is natural, there are some things that humans can do to help. As self-sown oaks are usually significantly more vigorous & healthy than nursery grown saplings, encouraging these oaks will likely lead to much better trees than through planting.
What you can do depends on the local circumstances. Sometimes they can just be left to their own devices. If they have sown themselves in a area of high footfall, consider putting rocks or logs round them to stop trampling. If they are in an area with lots of deer, consider putting tree protectors round them, or fencing off areas of them. If we have a dry spell, watering your chosen oaks might help them through the dry patch. In choosing which of the many oaks out there you want to support, concentrate on those outside of the canopy of existing trees, where they will get light (the saplings under the shade of existing oaks are unlikely to make it long-term). You could also consider giving them light by removing invasive species (like rhododendron) or cutting back less ecologically useful trees (like sycamore), or potentially scrub (if there are no deer about) that are covering the baby oaks.
With a little bit of care, you could be helping to nurture a tree that will last for 500 years or more!“]
[“For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!
With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not forfeit. All of Lebanon must burn. Our supreme duty is to protect the citizens of Israel and the soldiers of the IDF, and this commitment takes precedence over every other consideration.
I told the Prime Minister, even in our private meetings: For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep.
Enough with the ping-pong. In the Middle East, you don’t win with measured responses and restraint—you need to go berserk. To obliterate. To crush the terror.“]
[Ben Gvir]
That crazy Jew is disowned even by many other Jews.
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Ian Robert Millard 
It has to be said that physical attacks on non whites are not what I envisioned when we finally got two centre right wing parties.
https://x.com/i/status/2067724755306738067
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I see that Matt Goodwin is crowing on Twitter about Reform Zilce’s apparantly brilliant performance at the by-election. He is forgetting his ‘safety valve’ operation ‘party’ LOST and lost BADLY a by-election which was winnable.
Apparently, we all need to get on board the Reform Zilch train and Restore Britain should just do the decent thing and shut-up shop. WHY? There are major ideological differences between Reform Zilch/Turquoise FAILED Tories 2.0 and Restore Britain so that will not be happening. Reform Nothing were ready to blame a vote split for their loss yet they lost comprehensively without that occuring.
As for the Labour morons who voted for ‘Our Andy’, he will ignore them. They will be very lucky if he ever manages to find the time for a constituency surgery.
They obviously love the increasing risk they will be beheaded or their women folk will be gang raped. It is is not for nothing that ‘Northerners’ are often called thick.
I think the time has come for the North to be expelled from the UK and become an independent state. We really can not afford for their cancerous voting habits to be tolerated any more along with London’s.
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John:
Now that Reform has become another puppet of the System-state and Jewish/Israeli lobby, they have for me only a very limited utility— to help to bring down the old parties, if they can.
Same with Restore, but at least they are willing to stand up a little against the Jewish/Israeli lobby.
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Labour will not be presiding over ANY reindustialisation of the North or anywhere else. Infact, under Labour, more of our manufacturing base has closed down than under Tory misrule!
It could be done but it would require radical economic policies akin to those Japan used post 1945 to go from a bomb shattered wreck to being an economic superpower by the 1960’s/1970’s ie state guidance to private enterprise, close co-operation between the state and business, getting the City of London to prioritise British business instead of foreign ones. In other words economic nationalism. Policies which are anathema to a Britain and the British hating party like Labour and the treasonous Tories.
Importing 3rd World savages from places like Somalia and the Sudan with low average IQs to replace higher average IQ Britons is not how to go about rebuilding industry!🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Countries like South Korea have not become leading export-led economies by importing masses of low IQ retards from Africa, Pakistan ect.🙄🙄🙄 Their big investment in science subjects in universities would have been a waste of time otherwise.
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What a brave and decent man, Paul Powlesland is. It says a lot about how hateful and anti-British the Establishment has become.
BTW, here are some funny and sarcastic observations by Tucker Carlson about the G7 and the way Trump referred to Israel.
Trump Humiliates Netanyahu. Tucker Reacts.
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Claudius:
Under the surface, the tectonic plates of the post-1945 settlement are moving.
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That is the case in Europe to a certain extent but not here. Many dimwitted Brits think a high trust, socially cohesive society (which even lefties should value since a cetain level of social solidarity is needed for people to be willing to pay taxes for the welfare system) can still be maintained with high immigration levels from some of thr most backward, low average IQ countries on the planet such as Sudan, Somalia and the fake Conservative Party’s favourite Afghanistan.🙄🙄🙄
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It is doubtful we will get to the next, rigged ‘election’ without experiencing a civil war first. Professor David Betz who studies these matters (you can see him on Youtube) is more sure than he has ever been that it will breakout in the next five years It will comprise a death toll of around 23,000 yearly. Thanks a lot, you fucking DIM Labour, fake Conservative, Lib Dem and Green voters! Take a bow! I bet they will not suffer the consequences of their moronic voting behaviour only others who have the sense to not for them.🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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John:
It becomes gradually more likely with every passing day.
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I hope it arrives soon as the quicker it comes the more likely it will be that we will win. With a bit of luck most casualties will be the moronic, selfish arseholes who vote Labour, (especially), fake Green, Lib Dems and fake Conservative. Those most enamoured of the diversity delusion should taste the fruits of their willful stupidity instead of special needs guys in Belfast.
After victory, we can put every living PM, civil servants, chief constables, MPs and globalist cretinous ‘journalists’ who have all helped to construct this anti-British ‘country’ in court for treason charges and then, if they are found guilty, they will be executed.
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John:
I have so many of the guilty in mind that I expect I shall have to wear a crossed bandolera (bandolier), like a Mexican bandit.
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The media is not informing us about the perpetrator but today we learnt that a 3 year old boy was chucked into the path of a crocodile/alligator. It that more ‘cultural enrichment’ and ‘diversity is a strength’ one wonders?🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡😢😢😢😢
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John:
God knows. May or may not be.
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Of course we do not know for sure but how many average Britons would contemplate doing that to a defenceless toddler? Some would but I would expect the comitting of such a wantonly cruel act to be more likely from an ‘enricher’ from somewhere like Sudan, Somalia or Afghanistan.
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With wicked actions by ‘enrichers’ becoming more frequent it is unsurprising the Labour misgovernment wants to put yet more restrictions on internet use. Frankly, such is their and the Tories’ tryannical attitudes I am surprised they do not ban the internet totally here -the land which invented the World Wide Web part of it.🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡😡
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John:
As people say, watch this space…
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Labour and the fake Conservatives should already be losing votes over their ridiculous, unneeded, tyrannical attitudes and policies towards internet use. The Tories have this attitude because so many of their voters are 80, 90, 100 year old people with senile dementia who think Churchill is still PM and that ittle Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Bademoch the Nigerian anchor baby is not party leader. As so many Tory voters are that demented, live in a fantasy world and have not even used the internet will the party please not interfere with something their voters do not use or understand!😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🙄🙄🙄🙄
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Two great articles about the state of the UK today, worse than Orwell could have imagined or did he simply know and warned us about it in 1984?
Orwellian nightmare: UK confirmed to have ‘thought police’
https://infobrics.org/en/post/100039
The Brits Should Declare Their Independence, Too
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/06/the_brits_should_declare_their_independence_too.html
British tyranny is globalism, and globalism must be destroyed.
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