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Translates to a Commons with about 260 Reform UK MPs (about 66 short of a bare majority), Lab 106 (very weak official Opposition), Cons 104, 51 LibDems, 46 Greens, 45 SNP, 12 Plaid [etc].
So much for the “Burnham Bounce” the msm scribblers expected.
I blogged, after the Makerfield by-election, that Burnham’s supposed popularity, an entirely contrived idea anyway, would not travel far outside Manchester. I think that it is becoming obvious that that is so.
Farage is under attack for his various sleazy connections, but people are voting, or intending to vote, Reform not because they much agree with or much like Farage or Reform, but precisely to hit out at Lab and Con, to do them down. An anti-System tendency.
I saw Annie Machon once, with her then boyfriend David Shayler. They jumped onto the platform of a bus I was already on, in Baker Street, at the traffic lights at Marylebone Road. I believe that such buses with open platforms no longer exist; what a pity— brilliant and useful design.
I have no idea whether that was their way of throwing off surveillance, or whether they just wanted to catch the bus. I recognized them immediately.
At that time, Shayler and, by association, Annie Machon, were fairly if briefly famous, and were in the newspapers fairly often. Must have been around 2002. I think that they were on their way to what had once, in the mid-1990s, been my old stamping-ground, the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand.
Small world. I later spoke, in 2017, at the London Forum, where Shayler also gave a talk about half an hour before me, though I did not actually meet him or exchange any words with him. By that time, he had already been —and then not been— both a sort-of transsexual “cosplay” and, by his own account, the Son of God.
Actually, I quite enjoyed Shayler’s talk at the London Forum.
As for Annie Machon, I believe she lived in Iceland for a while, though her Wikipedia entry does not mention that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Machon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shayler
[“The Government has confirmed that its so called ‘independent’ Digital ID Advisory watchdog, will not have its minutes published.
We are expected to carry out parliamentary scrutiny on one of the most significant erosions of our civil liberties for decades, and yet we are not told the group budget, member selection process, or given the minutes from their meetings. Journalists have also been excluded from advisory panels.
The Government must give us answers on this sinister policy, and rethink its current course.“]
We do not really live in a democracy but in a thinly-disguised oligarchic tyranny.
That bastard Ellwood is one of the worst criminals in this country. If the UK becomes a radioactive wasteland by reason of a pointless and unnecessary war with Russia, a major part of the guilt and blame will be his.
Ian Robert Millard 