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Diary Blog, 10 May 2026

Morning music

[Neuschwanstein]

Talking point

Talking point

Talking point

Thesis–antithesis–synthesis.

Market capitalism/Leninism/National Socialism–synthesis

Tweets seen

Shocking.

Only white English/British persons should be MPs, elected officials, judges, barristers, armed forces officers etc.

A big anniversary is not so far off now— 1933-2033.

[“I am now under investigation for a ‘Racially Aggravated Public Order’ offence following an allegation of ‘Holocaust Denial.’

This is a calculated conflation designed to criminalise my anti-Zionism by falsely framing it as Holocaust denial and ‘antisemitic.’

I have been hesitant to share anything on social media recently, as I am currently navigating the immense weight of an oncology referral. For weeks, I have existed in a state of torturous limbo and psychological paralysis – teetering on the edge while awaiting medical confirmation.

Last night, I was met by police upon disembarking the train from an Oncologist appointment in London. A passenger (who had apparently overheard a conversation I was having with another passenger) reportedly contacted the British Transport Police by text, stating they felt ‘uncomfortable’ because they claim I had allegedly made reference to – and specifically ‘denied’ – the Holocaust.

I will state categorically: I have, for some time, absolutely expressed my deeply held anti-Zionist beliefs in criticism of a nationalist and racist ideology. I continue to draw a clear, vital distinction between Judaism and Zionism.

This is not ‘Holocaust denial.’

As I stated to the police, my own grandfather was Jewish.

We are living in the prophecy. The Orwellian enforcers are no longer fiction. Free speech is dead. Two-tier ‘justice’ is the new standard. And eventually, the hammer falls on everyone. I am living the warning, and have been for 6 years: once you’re in their sights, the cycle is eternal.

That said; I am not, in any capacity, a racist or ‘antisemite.’ I have spent over half a decade relentlessly fighting for truth, justice, peace, and freedom for all people – regardless of faith or race.

While I am drowning in the weight of a constant, killing obligation – a life spent tired, broke, and broken by sacrifices that the system uses to bury me… I still continue the fight.”]

In fact, as blogged for several years, and as repeatedly declared by the courts in England, neither “holocaust” “denial” nor “antisemitism” are crimes in England.

One of the major problems in this country is that the police, particularly at ground level, are often unaware of what the law is, and so what is either lawful or unlawful. On the face of it, the above tale illustrates that.

We saw, in the whole national nonsense-panic of the “Covid” scam of 2020-2022, how the police (infected by the Common Purpose cancer) tended to take it upon themselves to make up laws and make up new powers for themselves, and so attempt to stop people from going for walks, or sit on park benches, or use the roads, or go shopping etc. Some police woodentops even examined people’s supermarket purchases to “check” whether they were “reasonable”! This is not “conspiracy theory”. It happened. It happened in this country. It happened only 4-6 years ago, at that.

At an educated guess, the passenger who called the police in the above story was yet another of the often seen Jew-Zionist troublemakers, one who (as far as one can see from the tweet) did not wait around to say anything in person.

My educated further guess, therefore, is that he/she will never testify in court as to any “anxiety” or whatever that he/she may pretend to have suffered as a result of having eavesdropped on the conversation of others. In any case, as already stated, neither “holocaust” “denial” nor “antisemitism” are, without more, crimes in this country.

It does remind us what sort of semi police state we now live in, though, and what types are behind most of that.

The lady tweeter seems to be under the misapprehension that “holocaust” “denial” and/or “antisemitism” are crimes in England. They are not.

Someone should tell that lady as much, in view of the fact that she, suffering from a diagnosis of possible cancer, is also now suffering by reason of the operation of the present toytown police state made worse by Starmer-stein and his satraps.

[“Are people like myself and @CoviLeaks safe in London where our police chief, Sir Mark Rowley, has meetings with Israeli assets and lobbyists?

@metpoliceuk These two cops showed up at my door this week claiming I had been reported for ‘anti-semitism’ on my ‘Golders Green’ report. They were confused about the whole thing, including whether the person who reported me lived at my address! They didn’t know if the allegation against me was true or not (it wasn’t) but they were still sent out to threaten and intimidate me on my doorstep. They wanted to come in. I said no. In part, because my dog was kicking off at their presence but also because I knew my neighbour’s ring camera would capture the whole thing – and it did. Last night @CoviLeaks was met by a police officer when she exited a train because some a-hole took offence to her zionist-questioning conversation.

@10DowningStreet these are attacks on our free speech on behalf of a foreign state but you can bet your life that the ‘Free Speech Union’ won’t be interested because the man running it – Lord Toby Young – is a director of British Friends of Israel Ltd.

@toadmeister We are a captured nation and this week I will be taking action. I will not be scared into silence.“]

Brava!

Another example, on the face of it, of uninformed police people sent on a mission the aim of which seems to have been socio-political intimidation by “the usual suspects”…

Again, though, there seems to be a background belief that “holocaust” “denial” and/or “antisemitism” are crimes. No. They are not crimes, as such, not in England.

Starmer-stein’s recent pathetic kow-towing to the Jewish/Israel lobby was a blatant attempt to keep his undeserved position as, or posing as, Prime Minister, and to do that he was willing to remove even those few free speech rights left to the people. An evil little bastard.

The present Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is now apparently doing the same at his lower level, so seems to be another enemy of the people.

See also:

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[Black and Tans search a suspect at gunpoint in Ireland c. 1920. Note that the private soldier, his long weapon standing alongside, appears to be using the officer’s service revolver, already cocked, to cover the suspect, as the officer (wearing Sam Browne belt) searches the man’s pockets. Alternatively, the officer himself may have a pistol or revolver in his right hand as he uses his left to go through the suspect’s pockets. Note also that there is the body of a woman lying in the roadway behind]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_War_of_Independence]

More tweets

Looks like not very many turned up, looking also at other tweets. “What if they held a demonstration against ‘antisemitism’ and nobody came?“…so to speak.

GB News Irish reporter-drone talks about “thousands” attending in Whitehall. Looks to me more like hundreds. When you think that Jews in the UK number 250,000-300,000, and that most live in the London and surrounding (Hertfordshire/Essex etc) area, not a very impressive turnout.

One of the few photos showing much of the crowd at that Jew-Zionist demo. Hundreds, yes, thousands, no.

I expect the TV news shows will play along, though, and talk about “thousands“, or even “tens of thousands“…

Out of well over 200,000 Jews even in the London area…

Seems that the Nigerian woman presently “leading” what is left of the Conservative Party was at that Jewish demonstration.

Also, seems that Tice was there. Reform UK was underwhelming even before it became overtly pro-Israel and pro-Jewish lobby. Now, it is dead for me, except that it has the potential to kill the rigged Con/Lab political system over the next 2-3 years, so I support its rise on that basis. Later, we’ll see.

Buffoon LibDem, Ed Davey, also turned up to pledge allegiance to “them”…

Noticeable that no mainstream political commentators are bothering to tweet about that Jewish demonstration. Underlines how marginal or peripheral it is.

Allison Pearson is a sadly-dim msm drone and scribbler; writes about “free speech“, and whines about having had the police at her door, yet makes common cause with the Jew-Zionist lobby which is behind most of the assault on free speech and freedom of expression in the UK.

…and there we have yet another non-European Reform UK candidate and now office-holder. It feels at times almost as if Reform is “taking the p***”.

Apparently a South Korean immigrant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Kim.

[“I have a lot of Jewish friends and none of them voted Tory this time. She is part of the antisemitism problem – she backs Netanyahu no matter what and refuses to recognise Palestine. That is a complete break with long-standing Tory policy. As for “outperforming”, she suffered catastrophic losses – in my area losing control of 2 county councils and she was beaten in her own backyard meaning she is likey to lose her seat. CCHQ seems unhinged.”]

Labour’s supposed Great White Hope, Burnham, is not even an MP, so if Starmer-stein goes, and a leadership election held so, Burnham will not have the locus standi to contest it. If someone else takes over, then Burnham may find a seat but (unless willing to trigger yet another leadership contest), be unable to become Labour leader prior to the next general election.

There is also the point that, while it is not mandatory to hold a general election merely because a prime minister has stepped down, not to do so gives an impression to the voters of illegitimacy, that the new incumbent is afraid to hold a general election, and that he or she is clinging to an office not fully-legitimately occupied.

The problem for Labour is that, even if Burnham were to be anointed as Leader of Labour, any general election in 2026 would probably still be disastrous for them. Maybe not as disastrous, and leading to maybe 150 MPs rather than the 100 or fewer predicted by present opinion polling, but still pretty poor.

Typical. Former (?) little cocaine-abuser Toby Young, who runs the fake “free speech” org called “Free Speech Union”, suddenly does not want free speech or reportage, or comment, if the speech, reportage, or comment says anything critical (honest, accurate) about the Jews and/or Israel.

Needless to say, Young’s fake free speech org also said not a word to support my free speech, or that of –to take a few examples out of many— Alison Chabloz, Jez Turner, Sven Longshanks, Nick Griffin etc.

Toby Young. Hypocrite. Puppet.

Cat fight?

Late tweets

Not so much the worship of the Golden Calf as worship of the gold-plated bullshitter…

I can only think of one good thing to say about Angela Rayner: she did not turn up today at the Israel/Jewish lobby protest in Whitehall.

Were I to say what I really think of Starmer-stein —unexpurgated version— I should probably have to endure the boredom of having to interact politely with the ground-level operatives of the new “British” toytown police state, at my door once again, so I leave it to the imagination of the readers of the blog.

If Starmer-stein is replaced, his replacement will face a dilemma— either call a general election to validate the change of Prime Minister, which is not constitutionally “necessary” but is politically necessary, or just hang on until the polling looks better for Labour, which will probably never happen.

The latter must be tempting, but has not worked out well in the past for those in such situations; Sunak, Gordon Brown, James Callaghan etc.

That dilemma is made more difficult by the fact that, on present polling, Labour might well, in a 2026 general election, lose all but a relative handful of MPs (some polls indicate that the survivors might number as few as 37, and few if any polls have Labour with more than 150).

At present, Labour has 403 MPs out of 650. In other words, if a general election were to be called this year, the likelihood is that at least 253, and possibly 366, would lose their seats.

Basic Income is one necessity or at least near-necessity.

Well said.

Late music

[Arno Breker, Lion Bastion, statuary by the shore of the Maschsee, Hanover; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Breker]

Diary Blog, 25 June 2022

Morning music

Saturday quiz

This week, another victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 4/10, which I trumped by scoring 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 5, and 9. Question 4 was particularly easy for me, I having shot there myself, though many many years ago.

On this day a year ago

Ukraine

The Western msm now awakening to reality. Kiev-regime forces east of the Dnieper are, as predicted on the blog, running out of fuel, ammunition, heavy armament, perhaps food as well. Russian forces have taken Severodonetsk and are closing in on Ukrainian forces in several places, though the Ukrainians seem well-embedded defensively in some areas of the Donetsk region.

The above map shows the state of play as of yesterday (24 June 2022).

I have predicted previously that Russian forces would move up from the Sea of Azov coastal zone to Zaporozhye, Dnipro, and then northward, following the river to somewhere southeast of Kiev itself. Meanwhile, once the Donetsk and Lukhansk areas are secured, Russian forces will move west and northwest from there, as well as west/southwest from Kharkov, once, or if, Kharkov is in Russian hands.

If that is done, the bulk of Eastern Ukraine will be in Russian hands. Kiev will then be threatened again.

The pockets of Kiev-regime resistance here and there have not, so far, amounted to a counter-offensive. Even in the Kiev area, Ukrainian forces moved back into previously-occupied areas only because Russian forces left. The prisoners exchanged on both sides so far amount to several thousands, however.

It is for the Russian General Staff (the “Stavka“, in traditional terminology) to decide, if the above turns out that way, whether Kiev or Odessa is the greater prize. Psychologically, and in terms of propaganda or public relations, Kiev; however, Russian capture of Odessa and the remaining Black Sea coast would choke off any possibility of large-scale Ukrainian grain exports, or any relief by sea.

At any rate, it seems clear that the tide of war has changed in favour of the Russian forces.

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[Serov, Yeremka’s Song from the opera Enemy Forces, aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Fiend]

London zoo

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sly-pickpocket-22-steals-pensioners-27323149

[Roma Gypsy professional pickpocket Vasilka Stancheva]

A woman has been jailed for one month after stealing medicine from an elderly woman at a busy London tube station.

Vasilka Stancheva, 22, was caught by British Transport Police officers in plain clothing rummaging through the pensioner’s handbag outside Oxford Circus station.

The crime occurred on Wednesday, June 15, at roughly 5.20pm.

At the time, the 22-year-old was wearing a leather jacket and blue hat. She used the accessory to block the view of her right hand as she rooted around in the woman’s rucksack.

Ms Stancheva then proceeded to steal the elderly woman’s medicine, as well as her gold purse.

Within 24 hours she was charged with attempted theft, and put in front of Westminster Magistrates Court.

There, she was sentenced to 28 days in jail.

A month earlier she was caught using the exact same tactic on another person, where she again targeted and lurked behind an elderly woman on Tottenham Court Road in the West End.

For her first offence, she was charged £369 – and spared time jail.”

[Daily Mirror]

Now look look again, with more scrutiny.

Firstly, the Daily Mirror has seen fit to omit the very obvious fact, looking at the criminal’s features, skin colour etc, that said criminal is a Gypsy from Central or Eastern Europe.

Secondly, look at her practised technique, as reported. This is a professional pickpocket, but the Westminster Magistrates’ Court has seen fit to sentence her to only (in reality) a couple of weeks in prison.

Westminster Mags was the same court in which persecuted singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz was sentenced to a far longer term simply for lampooning Jewish behaviour in cartoons, sketches, and song.

The court seems to have twice treated “Ms. Stancheva” as if she were some misguided young person who had made an uncharacteristic mistake of some kind. In reality many of the Roma and other similar Gypsies of Eastern Europe intensively train their children from an early age to commit certain types of crime. A predatory tribe, known throughout Europe for centuries.

I have seen examples myself, and seen Home Office reports about it (when I was a practising barrister in the early/mid 1990s).

Why did the court not properly take into account the previous conviction, only weeks before the latest one?

Incidentally, it is clear to me, reading between the lines, that “Ms. Stancheva” was captured not by chance but because police surveillance on the Underground noted her Gypsy appearance; she was obviously tailed and observed closely, and finally arrested.

What kind of deterrent to her and other Gypsies (and other non-Gypsy malefactors) is what amounts to a two-week sentence? Odds-on, the creature will be back “at it” within weeks.

Incidentally, also, I would bet my shirt on her living in London social housing paid for, ultimately, by the British people; I bet she also gets various State benefit monies that should be reserved for (real) British people.

You ask “why did people vote Leave, years ago“? In reality, to get rid of evil trash of this sort. It has never happened.

Were I in a position of power, I would look at covertly or otherwise eliminating social cancers from our national life.

I blogged about a slightly similar case about 30 years ago, in which I was not so much a participant as an observer: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/08/03/first-steal-a-chicken/.

Tweets seen

…and guess who is there? Greta Nut. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10952149/Greta-Thunberg-Glastonbury-Teenage-climate-change-activist-announces-surprise-appearance.html.

Starmer is, in a sense at least, an even worse political joke than Boris-idiot.

A good example of the kind of box-ticking socio-political madness around: “pardon” people dead for hundreds of years, convicted under the laws of a very, almost completely, different society to Britain in 2022. Nothing concrete accomplished, just pointless virtue-signalling on social media.

Exactly. Take the UK, which is already short of electrical-generation capacity. If every car were electric, from where does all the electricity come?

Exactly. Labour, the only (supposed) “alternative” to the equally-misnamed “Conservative” Party, is not seen as something positive or very good by most voters.

Late tweets

Ha. Wouldn’t you know it? The smug hypocrisy of Trudeau and his kind. Why can the Canadians not get rid of him?

That star medal round his neck should have 6 points, not 5 (arguably).

Late music

[Vicente Romero, Moonlight]

Deadhead MPs, An Occasional Series: The Esther McVey Story

I was intending to write this examination of Esther McVey some months ago. Now here we are, almost in October, and the Conservative Party Conference is on. Looking at Twitter, I noticed some amusing things, one of which was the following tweet about thick-as-two-short-planks Esther, here seen both trying to orate and trying to seem as though her single brain cell is switched on:

Some of the msm and social media responses to Esther McVey’s latest idiocy have been hilarious:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/housing-minister-esther-mcvey-mocked-for-saying-3d-architects-are-now-building-homes-on-computers-a4250356.html

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/esther-mcvey-humiliated-after-making-17010109

Rather like those bumper stickers with their silly tasteless jokes, such as “Divers do it deeper”; or in this case, perhaps, “Conservatives do it on computers— in 3D!”

Perhaps rather too near the knuckle in view of the Conservative Party sex scandals of recent years:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/28/stephen-crabb-sent-young-woman-sexually-explicit-messages-rejecting/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3682745/Married-Tory-high-flier-Stephen-Crabb-goes-total-lockdown-sexting-scandal.html

[Stephen Crabb MP, fervent pro-Jew and pro-Israel puppet, so stupid that he got caught twice for very similar and very pathetic “sexting”; a prime candidate for a future “Deadhead MPs” article];

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/brooks-newmark-resigns-minister-caught-in-sex-sting-to-quit-as-mp-over-new-scandal-9789165.html

[buck-toothed Jew MP (now ex-MP) Brooks Newmark, another one who was caught more than once; I suppose that I shall be called “bigoted” for my view that sleazy American Jews should not even be MPs in this country…]

There are other examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Westminster_sexual_misconduct_allegations#Conservative_Party_allegations

“You don’t have to be Jewish!” (or a doormat like Crabb) though…

So, Esther McVey. What do we know about her?

This is the Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_McVey

The bare bones are that Esther McVey has an LL.B. from one university, an MA from another, and a “corporate governance” M.Sc. from a third. I tend to think that people who have several degrees are either brilliant or are semi-idiots wanting to look good on paper, and usually the latter. I was once slightly acquainted with an African ex-High Commissioner who had degrees from Oxford, as well as either Yale or Harvard (I forget which) and the Sorbonne. A complete idiot…

Esther McVey is at time of writing a few days short of 52 years old. Her Wikipedia entry seems almost deliberately confused or misleading in part (which makes me wonder how much of it she edited personally).

Esther McVey seems to have graduated from the —at-the-time not very prestigious— Queen Mary College, East London in 1988 or 1989 (a decade or so later it became part of the University of London). Why she, from the Liverpool area, decided to study in an unfashionable part of London, I have no idea. It may be that she wanted to be in London and nowhere else offered her a place. Her degree was in law (level of degree awarded not known). She did not, however, continue either to the Bar or to the solicitors’ profession; neither did she seek or take any salaried appointment outside her family’s business (a demolition and site-clearance business in the Liverpool area). In fact, McVey was a director of the family business later, from 2000 to 2006, though her father has said that “she was there in name only”, which is a strange idea of the fiduciary and other duties of a company director. Perhaps she did not understand (that is rather a habit of hers). Still, there it is.

Though Esther McVey set up a couple of unsuccessful and/or publicly-funded small businesses (thus enabling her to claim on Wikipedia etc that she had been a “businesswoman” before becoming an MP), her main activity from 1991 and for much of the 1990s was being a TV presenter for both BBC and ITV, the high point being, apparently, co-presenting “GMTV” (ITV breakfast show) with that ignorant Irish slug Eamonn Holmes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eamonn_Holmes].

I have no idea how she got into that kind of work, though I notice that, at the time, her boyfriend was a TV producer. She has a Liverpudlian accent that seems, at times, impenetrable.

Esther Mcvey was elected as MP for Wirral West, a so-called “bellwether” seat, in 2010:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirral_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections

The Liverpool Echo described McVey as the “most reviled MP on Merseyside”:

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/record-shame-esther-mcvey-unpopular-16645987

Few will forget the infamous moment in 2013 when the then Wirral West MP said she thought it was ‘right’ and ‘positive’ that struggling people were turning to foodbanks because they could not afford to eat.

She told the House of Commons: “In the UK it is right that, you know, more people are visiting – which you’d expect – going to foodbanks.”” [Liverpool Echo]

Even the Jewish Zionist Liverpool Wavertree then-Labour MP, Luciana Berger, said that McVey’s response still “haunted” her: “It was disgraceful and showed absolutely no empathy – I was on the benches going ballistic.

McVey served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Disabled People from 2012 to 2013, prior to being appointed Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions from 2013 to 2015. She was sworn of the Privy Council in February 2014, and attended cabinet as Minister of State for Employment in the 2014 British cabinet reshuffle.”

[Wikipedia]

McVey was removed as MP for Wirral West in 2015 by the electors, many of whom described her, perhaps understandably, as “McVile”. She was then handed a well-paid sinecure for 2 years by her cronies and their cronies, as Chair of the British Transport Police Authority [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Transport_Police_Authority], an organization and activity about which stupid McVey knew absolutely nothing (and probably still knows nothing). We talk about corruption in Africa or Asia, but what to make of an appointment like that?!

McVey was then, almost beyond belief, selected as Conservative candidate for the safe Conservative seat of Tatton, vacated by part-Jew ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne. She returned to Parliament in 2017.

She served in the Second May ministry as Deputy Chief Whip from 2017 to 2018. She was appointed Work and Pensions Secretary on 8 January 2018, but resigned on 15 November 2018 in opposition to the Brexit negotiations and the Brexit withdrawal agreement. In July 2018 it was reported by the head of the National Audit Office (NAO) that McVey had misled parliament over the new Universal Credit scheme by claiming that the NAO report showed that it should be rolled out faster when in fact the report concluded that the roll-out should be paused.[3] She apologised to the House of Commons on 4 July 2018[4][5] amid calls for her resignation.” [Wikipedia]

The bitch of course did not resign. Her type only understands brute force. People of her type have to be forced out of lucrative or careerist positions.

Incredibly, having been totally dishonest and incompetent as junior minister at the DWP (under part-Jap sadist Iain Dunce Duncan Smith), she was appointed by part-Jew Theresa May as Secretary of State in 2018. She later resigned over Brexit, but was re-appointed to Cabinet by Boris-Idiot in 2019.

In June 2019 she stood in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election. She was eliminated in the first round after finishing in last place with nine votes.” Well, so that was how her fellow Conservative MPs rated her— only 9 votes out of 317

I detect three main strands in Esther McVey:

  • useless at her jobs (I cannot comment on her as a TV presenter, because I do not watch the kind of rubbish she presented);
  • lacking not only competence but any decent empathy or understanding;
  • a tendency to get personally involved with those working in the same organizations: when in TV, with at least one television producer; later, in politics, involved with the useless and lazy half-Jew “Conservative” MP, Ed Vaizey [formerly Con, now Independent, Wantage], who was made a minister and then —ludicrously— Secretary of State for Culture] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Vaizey#Expense_claims]; now she is apparently engaged to another MP, Phillip Davies [Con, Shipley], in whom she apparently had “a long-term, on-off romantic interest” or vice-versa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Davies#Personal_life

McVey is also, I read, friendly with the McCann couple, whose little girl, notoriously, disappeared in mysterious circumstances in Portugal many years ago now.

McVey is a member of Conservative Friends of Israel.

Some tweets about Esther McVey

https://twitter.com/carryonvending/status/1139189823183511554

So there we are. Esther McVey. A major deadhead, who is in a very safe seat and therefore unlikely to be removed by the voters. She, in her very person, is an indictment of the political system that has sustained her for a decade.

Notes

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2018/jul/04/esther-mcvey-apologises-for-misleading-parliament-video

Update, 16 February 2020

Well, credit where due. Boris-idiot (or his eminence grise, Dominic Cummings), decided to bin Esther McVey, whose last Government job was as Housing Minister, a non-Cabinet post, though she was, I read, invited to attend Cabinet. God knows why. Housing is vitally important at present, but that merely begs the question: why appoint a deadhead like McVey to that portfolio?

A few tweets seen:

https://twitter.com/OliverBuckleyM1/status/1227895173285392385?s=20

Esther McVey was an example of a whole phenomenon which grew up since 1997: MPs lucky even to be MPs, and who became MPs because they were once on TV (eg Esther McVey, Gloria de Piero, Anna Soubry), or because they once wrote cheap novels (Louise Mensch— remember her, the drug abuser and “ho”?) etc, but who were unable even to function properly as MPs before being promoted, incredibly, to ministerial and even Cabinet positions.

Now? Well, deconstructing her CV, she has never had a real job (a real one, not the fake ones on her CV such as pretending to have been a director of her father’s demolition business, or a “businesswoman”); save for her TV presenter years. Hard to imagine anyone offering her a position (I mean a business one…). I therefore assume that she will stay on as MP in her safe seat of Tatton (rural Cheshire) indefinitely. She will of course never again hold Government office.

Update, 18 December 2023

“Never say never“…: “In the November 2023 British cabinet reshuffle, McVey was appointed Minister of State without Portfolio in the Cabinet Office by Rishi Sunak, reportedly tasked with “leading the government’s anti-woke agenda” as a “minister for common sense”.[61][62]

[Wikipedia]

Update, 3 April 2025

Incredibly, McVey remains MP for Tatton, having managed to hang on in the 2024 General Election (a vote-share of 38.4%; Labour 36.3%; Reform UK 11.3%). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_McVey#4th_term_(2024%E2%80%93); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

Esther McVey is now 57, so will probably be about 61 when the next general election happens. Whether she stays on or not is an open question, but she may try, especially now that her husband, Philip Davies, is no longer an MP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Davies; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.