Not a very good week. I merely equalled the modest score of political journalist John Rentoul— 4/10. I knew only the answers to questions 1, 2, 3, and 7.
I take issue with the quiz-setter on question 10. As far as I know, no European country has forest cover as high as 78%, though Finland has, I believe, about 74%, and Sweden the same or slightly less. John Rentoul claims to have answered that question correctly, though; well, there it is…
The continuing abuse of the UK legal system by the Jew-Zionist troublemakersknown as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”
I happened to see the following tweet put out by the malicious and troublemaking “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, whose chief spokesperson, “Slitherman”, despite having been exposed (by the carelessness of the CAA’s own lawyer, and in open court) some years ago as a serial and sadistic online troller of people, especially women, is often featured on the “no one watches” Talk TV online outlet, GB News, and even Sky News, as well as LBC radio, all msm outlets under the (((usual))) influence, of course:
A warrant has been issued for Reginald D. Hunter to attend court in relation to a private prosecution brought by CAA.
Mr Hunter is charged with three offences under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, relating to posts on X that he allegedly published in September 2024.… pic.twitter.com/eTtfjPibPu
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) May 30, 2025
[“A warrant has been issued for Reginald D. Hunter to attend court in relation to a private prosecution brought by CAA. Mr Hunter is charged with three offences under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, relating to posts on X that he allegedly published in September 2024. The first hearing took place today at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, but Mr Hunter failed to appear. A warrant has now been issued for him to attend court on a future date. This is one of a number of private prosecutions that CAA is bringing, and there will be more to say on the case in due course.”]
That seems (in view of the date mentioned) likely to relate to events in 2024 described in a few previous blog posts:
Much of the background can probably be found in those blog posts.
As regular readers of the blog will know, the malicious “CAA” troublemakers, liars, and perjurers (who are disowned even by most Jews, even by most Jew-Zionists, in this country), and (connected by supporters and /or members, though not formally) “UK Lawyers for Israel” [“UKLFI”], have been gunning for me over the past 11-14 years: see
The right of individuals and organizations to bring private prosecutions, once, in practice, mainly the preserve of bodies such as the RSPCA and RSPB, is now being abused, mainly by tendentious political organizations such as the fake charity, the “CAA”.
The “CAA” is basically a volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in London. It has been, for about a decade, conducting both harassment and “lawfare” against individuals and bodies it considers anti-Israel and/or “antisemitic”.
So far, apart from me —not privately-prosecuted, the “CAA” having somehow suborned police and Crown Prosecution Service [“CPS”] personnel in order to have me prosecuted by direct police/CPS action (see blog posts above)— the CAA has harassed such as the famous David Icke, the (half-Jewish) jazz musician Gilad Atzmon, former footballer and TV pundit Gary Lineker, Al Jazeera TV, the BBC and its reporters, and many others, and has in the past privately prosecuted the satirical singer, Alison Chabloz, whose case was then taken over officially by the CPS.
Private prosecutions can be taken over by the CPS either on its own initiative or upon application by either the private prosecutors or the defendant(s). The CPS can then either stop the prosecution, or take it over and continue it officially.
The “CAA” seems to have had plenty of money donated to it, either by wealthy Jews in the UK, or from Israel. Indeed, their latest “lawfare” abuse follows on from their long-running attempt to recruit a competent lawyer as “General Counsel” (they love important titles— “Slitherman” is called “Director of Investigations and Enforcement”…):
Other “CAA” staff members have also been recruited recently.
The “CAA” usually tries (as in my own free speech trial) to use/abuse the notorious “bad law” of Communications Act 2003, s.127, which was recommended for repeal by the Law Commission, but which (so far) remains on the statute book mainly because Jew-Zionist organizations (principally the “CAA”) made representations, via “friendly” MPs and corrupt members of the House of Lords, to the effect that the provision should not be repealed (during the quite recent passage of the Online Harms Act).
This type of “lawfare” should be prohibited. It is a flagrant abuse of the English legal system.
Incidentally, the “two Israelis” mentioned in the report of the Daily Mail are the two dishonest Jew-Zionist fanatics mentioned in the blog posts above, in fact, that is “Mark Lewis Lawyer” and Mandy Blumenthal (his wife/carer), acting together with Daily Mail scribbler Sabrina Miller to create a contrived “incident”.
It is pretty clear why the abusive and malicious “CAA” cabal is now trying once more to bring private prosecutions. The police and CPS are now, more than heretofore, aware of the CAA’s “lawfare” abuse, and are less and less willing to take the contrived “CAA” complaints at face value. Ergo, with the CPS and even the fairly clueless police unwilling to be used as “CAA” puppets, the “CAA” has had to shift for itself.
Successful defendants to private prosecutions have the right to ask for the costs of their defence, which may be, in some cases, very substantial, by the way.
That made me laugh. Liz Truss is ancient history, politically (in the real Britain outside John Rentoul’s Westminster Bubble). I doubt that many voters care about any similarity between Farage’s economic views and those of already-near-forgotten Liz Truss.
As for whether the (non-existent) “books” or statistics “add up”, the people have had so much of all that nonsense wash over them for 15-20 years that it makes little or no impact.
People want to stamp on both Labour and Conservative parties. They know in their hearts that those System parties have to go, whatever the flaws of Farage and his Reform UK party.
Broadcasters should not use jargon phrases such as "read-out". Such terms are baffling to the vast majority of viewers & listeners – & probably to quite a few journalists. They give the impression that senior journalists are part of an elite club with its own language.
Just a Westminster Bubble club, which has as its main aim (together with personal careerism) amplifying the System message(s)…
Keir Starmer is a phony. Says he supports free speech, but arrests Connolly for a social media post. Promised Brexit, then gave power back to the EU. He backs global deals that sell out Britain. He’s not leading the country—he’s betraying it. pic.twitter.com/9HE95ku7Hs
Thank you to @RupertLowe10 for raising awareness on how immigration has made Britain unsafe for women. 👏
We need more politicians like him who are willing to call out the problem and represent the concerns of women around the country. pic.twitter.com/L7GpiMZxSW
— Women’s Safety Initiative (@WomenSafety_UK) May 30, 2025
Since the general election, Farage's support among Tory voters has rocketed from 25% to 33%.
Among Brexit voters has nearly doubled to 54%.
Among the working-class has surged from 20% to nearly 40%.
It is not a pro-Farage vote, or even pro-Reform vote, as such, but neither is it a “protest vote”. It is a seriously-angry vote against the System parties, their smug freeloading politicians, and about everything now going very very wrong in this country, and against the key cause (of several connected causes)— mass immigration, the trashing of a white European country, and turning that country into a black/brown/Chinese/God-knows-what dystopian mess.
"British workers actually make a tax contribution that is £3,300 higher than the average skilled migrant worker. That’s right. British workers contribute more to the economy overall than even the most skilled migrant workers."https://t.co/HAMsLfn2mn
"Almost half of all people, some 44 per cent, think ‘I sometimes feel like a stranger in my country’ –a figure which then surges to 73 per cent among Reform voters."https://t.co/Htnm35xJ7F
I suppose that the others are either non-Brits anyway, or too young (under 30? under 40? and brainwashed in the schools) to realize what Britain has lost, and what it has become.
Beria, Stalin, and the Soviet Union
Strange that some of the blog posts I consider among my best are also the least-read! Well, that’s “consumer choice”, I suppose. One such is this, written in 2018, and since then only hit on by a few people per month:
The conditions for Ukraine are deteriorating every day, and if it refuses a peaceful settlement, it will be left without Odessa, Sumy, Kharkov, and a number of other territories, Kartapolov, head of the Russian State Duma Committee on Defense, told TASS:https://t.co/wNPm5qvllbpic.twitter.com/V1hBkl21BV
‘Musketeers’ such as UK, Germany, France, Poland won’t secure victory for Ukraine — Sachs. American economist pointed out that they did not succeed even when the US was fully on their side:https://t.co/yrpCzRQgcCpic.twitter.com/l1Mmbo7fTU
The sanctions imposed against Russia have only strengthened and enhanced its economy instead of ruining it as was expected by Western governments, American economist, professor at the Columbia University Jeffrey Sachs said in an interview with TASS:https://t.co/XyKzXIhWvZpic.twitter.com/74uFFqXnnb
Yes, disability cuts are a disgrace so why did he run – very late – on a Labour platform? All he does is moan 24-7 about how awful his own government is. Majority of 18 and toast, he’s already said that too about himself. 🤡 https://t.co/3UDKv8KHrw
Not sure what that tweeter (the ex-wife and ex-expenses-paid secretary of a Con Party MP who was voted out last year) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Syms] is saying there. That Neil Duncan-Jordan should have joined the equally spending-cut crazy Con Party? Stayed at home and cultivated his garden? Still, her final point is unarguable. Politically, Duncan-Jordan is indeed “toast”: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Duncan-Jordan. At least he seems honest.
Yet GB News is certainly “biased and tribal” in one way— the (((usual))) way…
Finally men won’t be allowed to smash women in the face live on TV and win medals for it. Well done, World Boxing
Shame on the IOC (who allowed it in Paris) & male sports writers who cared more about a man’s feelings than the safety of women & their right to fair sport 🥊 pic.twitter.com/vAOFetaSP0
I agree with that. I also think, however, that women should not box other women either. Socially inappropriate. Martial arts such as taekwando, karate etc? That is a bit different, in my view. Grey area.
As scams go, this one is quite well put together. It's the sort of email you might easily think is genuine. Be careful out there… pic.twitter.com/IH88Tgj7mA
What does this even mean? Is Cummings going to disappear into the New Forest and form an armed guerrilla group? Or is it just the fake, Elon Musk type of "revolution", where they take power democratically, then make a huge mess of everything via Silicon Valley-style "disruption"? pic.twitter.com/FRcDmLEazy
The New Forest?! Ha ha! I almost used a laughing “emoji” for the first time. Co-incidence, I suppose…
In the last 48 hours, Keir Starmer and Labour have demonstrated to voters they think Nigel Farage is Prime Minister-in-waiting and if you support Reform they’ll send you loads of stuff. A great week for Nigel Farage. pic.twitter.com/ld1yq5ppJB
"Of the 766,000 people who migrated into Britain from outside Europe last year, how many came as ‘main work applicants’ ––It was just 113,000, or 14% of the total."https://t.co/qhwMUbBaLL
"Nearly one-third of Britain, 31% of all voters, now think Reform leader Nigel Farage will become the next prime minister within the next four years"https://t.co/HhI6t6XAWR
The appeal judge in the Rowan Laxton case disbelieved Falter’s sworn testimony, but it could not be proven “beyond reasonable doubt” that Falter and another Jew “witness” for the prosecution at the first-instance trial were lying, so Falter was never prosecuted for perjury.
The CAA sent a pathetic toilet-paper grade letter to my folks house to try and intimidate so the police had to have a word with them to cease & desist. Then they tried to raise 100k for Mark W⚓️ Lewis to litigate me for telling facts. Got that stopped. I'm Jewish! @ChtyCommission
Granted, but note that same person who provoked a reaction from Hunter was fined by the SRA for the above posts in 2019. Should I have brought a private prosecution – considering my own Grandfather was killed, bombed by the Luftwaffe, in 1940?#opinions#Meinungsfreiheit
Rather than your suggestion that I ask FSU directly – FSU formed in 2019 weeks after I was first jailed – perhaps members who truly claim to value freedom of expression could ask why FSU hasn't mentioned either Mr Hunter's or my own case. pic.twitter.com/Kc9HivLC49
…or, indeed, my own “case” (see this blog, above). Toby Young, the “Free Speech Union”, Matt Goodwin, Katie Hopkins etc, all the “controlled opposition” dissidents, are effectively in the pocket of (((the usual suspects))). Which is why they are “allowed” to hold public events, fundraise, get money, get onto TV etc.
I don’t have the words for the pain this image brings. After 86 days of starvation, they are herding my people into cages like livestock for a meal—concentration camps in broad daylight. The world watches. Some cheer. Most stay silent.
I missed that tweet from a few days ago. Jews brutalizing Palestinian Arabs in one of their new Jew-Zionist concentration camps in and about Gaza.
If Free Speech Union cared about free speech then they might have mentioned my case. Or those of my supporters Graham Hart, Mr Millard, Tahra Ahmed, Piers Portman: all jailed for 'anti-Semitism'
Not 100% accurate. I was not imprisoned after my free speech trial ended in conviction in November 2023 (sentence passed in March 2024). I was not even given a suspended sentence. I was given a financial penalty (fine and costs) amounting to about £740, and a “community order” of 15 “rehabilitation days” over 9 months, which in the end was finished (effectively though not officially) after about 5 months, and which basically consisted in my having about 6 or 7 chats (from 20 minutes to over 2 hours in duration, mostly about 30 minutes or so) with a rather charming and polite young lady from the Probation Service.
From time to time, the British Army comes up with crazy mavericks of Kemp’s sort. Orde Wingate. “Mad Mitch” Mitchell. Others. They rarely get to the higher ranks, though Kemp (pro-Israel to the hilt— quelle surprise…) did make full colonel, “Mad Mitch” Mitchell reached half-colonel, and Wingate was made up to major-general during WW2 (though at one point demoted to major).
Should Ukraine ever be in possession of nuclear weapons, Russia would have no choice but to destroy them using its own nuclear weapons (as Israel seems to want to do to Iran). Colonel Kemp is mad to suggest such an idea (which, however, will never happen).
"Zelensky's pitch-black week"
The German publication Bild echoes The Guardian and also reports that Germany has refused to send long-range Taurus missiles, and the well-known Russophobe and Bild editor Julian Röpke recalls in an article about Zelensky’s “black week” that Russian… pic.twitter.com/FKXj7IVp6q
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 31, 2025
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[Rio de Janeiro centre and Copacabana as seen from Corcovado]
Wow. A GB News Freedom of Information request has found UK police are spending £10.2 million on “diversity jobs” and training. Scrap it all and use the money to hire 300 more police officers instead https://t.co/JEaGkFL1CP
The fish rots from the head. It seems to be the senior and chief police officers who are the most brainwashed, no doubt by reason of having had to jump through so many hoops to get where they are.
A Pakistani drug dealer, Muhammad Asif, who committed 21 drug offences has been allowed to STAY in the UK so he can talk to his son about Islam & Pakistani culture. He used the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Why can’t he talk to his son about Islam while both of them are (permanently) in Pakistan? Was the mother English? If so, Rassenschande. Anyway, whatever…
Best idea for the main nuisance— wall, squad, end.
"The vast majority of people in this country, some 85%, now want to see the overall rate of net migration into Britain slashed below 100,000 a year, while almost half the country want net migration reduced to zero or less than zero."https://t.co/EBrprAQ8VJ
…and then start to carefully craft an ethnostate. In the words of The Six Million Dollar Man TV show of the 1970s, “we can do it; we have the technology.”
"Last year, 81 per cent of all immigration into Britain came from outside Europe —typically from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, and China."https://t.co/EbIco4Fyeb
Most immigrants to the UK originate in the most backward parts of the world. How can you build a more advanced state with backward people? Clue…you can’t. You cannot even maintain the level of the present society, as can be seen all around us.
While I should hate to see Germany destroyed or very badly damaged, Russia cannot and will not lose this war.
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The representatives of the Jewish state of Israel, as well as many Jew-Zionists in the UK and elsewhere, are whining that they are (once again) “victims” because the UN predicted that 48,000 Palestinian babies would die within days by reason of the Israelis cutting off food, water, medicines etc. The Israeli/Jewish plea seems to be “we are not killing 48,000 babies, but only (?) 4,800 or 480...”
Do they really think that such a plea is either credible or plausible? Even if the true figure were 1% of the original, i.e. 480 rather than 48,000, would that be acceptable to the non-Jewish world? I think not.
Even when they are destroying cities full of people, “they” are always the victims (in their own collective mind).
It is just like the Jewish/Israeli claim that what Israel has done in Gaza over the past 18 months is not “genocide”, according to various carefully-delineated intricate legalistic web-tracery, or Talmudic argument. The rest of the world just looks at the enormity of the Israeli brutality and sadism and thinks “what they have done speaks for itself, whether or not it be labelled ‘genocide’.”
Now we see that Israel is preparing concentration camps for deported Palestinian Arabs, but has labelled them “humanitarian zones“.
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 29, 2025
Britain officially acknowledges cyber war against Russia
Defence Secretary John Healey has announced the creation of a new cyber command that will coordinate attacks against Russia and China.
– The Times admits: during the start of the Cold War, Western intelligence services… pic.twitter.com/BAyZXcRNgR
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 29, 2025
The cabals presently in power in the UK are intent on conflict with the one country that can save us, the British, from steep decline in all areas— economy, energy supply, world presence, social decadence etc.
That's mental. I've actually met a Lesbian couple who live together in Kukës, Albania. As far as I know, they've never been persecuted, even though the city of Kukës is more conservative than Tiranë or Durrës. They might have issues in the more traditional rural areas, but the…
Argentine President Javier Milei believes that Russia, the United States and China will establish distinct zones of influence under the emerging new world order:https://t.co/ckfGtcpjxhpic.twitter.com/0ErrVUiXGP
At least one civilian was killed and nine more were wounded following a massive Ukrainian UAV attack on Russia’s borderline city of Kursk in the early hours, the regional operational headquarters reported:https://t.co/9KgNG2oC2Ppic.twitter.com/Qi2hXz11WB
Russia continues to fully comply with the moratorium on attacks on energy facilities, something that cannot be said for Ukraine, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergey Naryshkin said:https://t.co/STbXHTZLBApic.twitter.com/WnDBOSLu5K
“A woman smeared faeces on milk bottles and the walls of a nursery and climbed in clinical waste bins for “comfort”, a court heard. Abbi Taylor must have ‘horrified parents’, said a judge at Newcastle Crown Court.
The 46-year-old, from Newmarket Walk, South Shields, South Tyneside, who the court heard identifies and was referred to by all in court as a woman, has pleaded guilty to three counts of dumping bags of toxic materials – nappies containing human waste – at nurseries in the local area.”
[Daily Mirror]
So not a woman at all, but a crazed “trans person”…
There are quite a number of issues which this country really has to address as a matter of urgency. The “trans” nonsense is but one of them.
If Britain continues to fail to address the urgent problems within society, if it continues to facilitate craziness, then the country will go down in blood and fire eventually.
More than 700 illegal migrants are thought to have crossed into Britain today —taking the total to nearly 9,000 since January 1st. This is total chaos. The British people deserve so much better than this. https://t.co/IoJpXj3qvu
Jesus H. Christ! 700 of the bastards! So up to 700 (more) dwelling units now required, 700 loads of medical/dental services, 700 more loads of money given to them every week. Etc.
Voters of Runcorn! It is time for you to make history at the upcoming by-election.
Why do we call Israel an occupier?
🇵🇸 This historic video has just been released showing US President Harry Truman (1945-1953) standing next to a map with the name of the State of Palestine. pic.twitter.com/iHgcCxFy3z
Russian forces struck Ukrainian army personnel and foreign mercenaries in 137 areas over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/23cgsJMC84pic.twitter.com/qZmSxEmcDw
[Olympic skating rink, Medeo, near Almaty, Kazakhstan. I myself skated there once, in 1996; I was living at the time about 10 miles away (Prospekt Lenina, Almaty)]
Who is now in charge of the Home Office? The Home Secretary, Labour Friends of Israel expenses cheat Yvette Cooper, who wanted British people to be forced to take migrant-invaders into their modest homes…
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Siberian tiger caught in southern Primorsky Region returns to wild. The method of relocating predators to a new territory is an effective way to mitigate conflicts between Siberian tigers and humans:https://t.co/MZGZEWDtafpic.twitter.com/UJ0ZtevjlL
Vladimir Zelensky’s recent remarks about the provision of his country with nuclear arms that would be sufficient to defend against Russia are "approaching madness," Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:https://t.co/26Ab2Pkyw4pic.twitter.com/Y41lpmGBFz
Jew-Zionists often make false and malicious complaints of “racial harassment”. Several have done the same to me over the years, the latest (of which I am aware, at least) having been made by Stephen Silverman, self-styled “Director of Investigations and Enforcement at the tiny but (((well-funded))) fake charity, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], which complaint to police about me amounted to an attempt to pervert the course of justice. I have no idea why the police let Silverman and the “CAA” get away with stunts like that. He/Gideon Falter/”CAA” have been doing it for 10+ years, not only against me but also against many others (on various legal bases)— David Icke, Al-Jazeera TV, and many many other people and organizations
That faked complaint against me, on the entirely false basis of “racial harassment”, was back in 2021. The false complaint failed, as did all the others, but was then quite wrongfully twisted into a complaint against me on a different legal basis, which eventually led to my free speech trial of 2023. See below:
I hope that P.C. Plod and the “Clown” Prosecution Service are now, even if belatedly, aware of the malicious and troublemaking character of Silverman and his “CAA” pressure group.
In the circumstances, all those convicted of “rioting”, forceful protesting, pushing against police riot shields etc etc and imprisoned should be released on licence forthwith, at the very least.
Look at it….and the country now harbours many many like it…
An Albanian burglar who cannot be deported from the UK is currently driving around in a £300,000 Rolls-Royce whilst claiming asylum. Total madness.
We need to leave the ECHR and deport foreign national criminals.
Russia may use nuclear weapons in case of aggression against Belarus, according to the treaty with Belarus on security guarantees within the Union State:https://t.co/k6pEGOpQfzpic.twitter.com/UkFIpxlss7
⚡️Switzerland will probe state-owned arms maker Ruag AG after its failed attempt to sell almost 100 tanks that would eventually have been used by Ukraine in its war against Russia — Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/0sZqU35YUZ
Polly Toynbee represents a certain bloc of voters, though a small one; the “Labour”/LibDem bien-pensants of Blackheath, Hampstead, and Highgate who actually read not only the Guardian but also Observer, who mock the poorer British people concerned about, inter alia, migration-invasion, crime, and houses given to useless migrant-invaders and/or other blacks, browns and feral white hordes while real British people suffer.
That bloc either went to Oxford or Cambridge, or failing that to Durham University or Exeter, and want their children and grandchildren to go there (before joining the BBC, Foreign Office or maybe SIS, or becoming barristers, solicitors or doctors). Oh, and of course profess “liberal” values that are rooted not really in philosophy or ideology, but more in family trust funds, high salaries, and ownership of houses…
For as long as I can remember, Polly Toynbee has been the standard-bearer for that bloc, and wrong most (90%+) of the time.
Anyone who votes “Labour” imagining that it will be better or even much different from the Sunak misgovernment has not been paying attention.
Earlier,U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in an interview with TV presenter Tucker Carlson :
✔️US spending to support Ukraine has already amounted to $130 billion, although millions of Americans remain without health insurance and food stamps
In terms of cultural degeneracy, the UK has now outstripped the Weimar Republic. If and when the UK has a real government, a massive cultural (and other) purge will be unavoidable.
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Except Jack Monroe has been taking money from people on benefits for years and providing nothing in return. She’s targetted the very poorest and admitted to wasting their donations – nothing lower than that.
I have not seen any tweeter or other explain why the one-time Melissa Hadjicostas changed her name to the absurd “Jack Monroe”. God knows why; I don’t.
“The Tories are facing electoral oblivion in the red wall as a shock poll reveals they will lose every single seat.
Polling from Electoral Calculus, shared with The Independent, reveals all 42 red wall seats held by the Conservatives are set to return to Labour at the next general election.
The scale of the rebellion against the government appears to in part be driven by the spiralling cost of living, with a separate analysis seen by The Independent showing the crisis is having a devastating impact on Tory-held seats in the red wall.
Almost two-thirds of voters believe the economy to be one of the top three issues facing the country, putting it significantly ahead of health and immigration, YouGov polling shows.
…while the economic figures “underline” the struggle in voters in those areas for the Conservatives, the prospect of the party holding on to power in the general election is already “not likely”.
Nationally, Electoral Calculus predicts a landslide Labour victory, winning around 460 seats, with the Conservatives reduced to just 90 seats.”
[The Independent]
A loss of the 42 “Red Wall” seats (which seems almost inevitable after the total collapse of the Government’s credibility on immigration and health) cannot be prevented even were the economy overall to improve. Any such improvement is unlikely to trickle down (to coin a phrase) to most of the people in those 42 areas.
In theory, the Conservative Party could lose all 42 “Red Wall” seats and still have a Commons majority of 35-40, but in reality the Government’s standing is so damaged across the country that the best that they can hope for, and at present even that seems unlikely.
Not that there is —or will be— much enthusiasm for Labour under Starmer, Reeves, and Yvette Cooper, but there is really no reason why one-time Labour voters who voted Con in 2019 would go out and vote Con in 2024; none at all. Indeed, there is little incentive even for long-term Conservative Party voters to do so. That being so, Labour may well triumph by default.
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The Ukrainian military losses are staggering and can't be hidden much longer.
Kiev has allocated 266 hectares for a new military cemetery in the Kiev region.
"The Cabinet of Ministers plan to use 266 hectares of the territory of the Gatnensky community not far from Kiev." 🧵 pic.twitter.com/zOXRIKcDMu
A tendentious, probably brainless (and also —probably— atheistic) Church of England clergyman, and a plainly uneducated and also unintelligent fellow (or possibly someone with a mental health problem), both of whom favour migration-invasion by backward hordes into what is left of our country.
Truly, both stupidity and (in the lay sense) treason come in a variety of guises.
Beyond that, it is remarkable how little Question Time and Twitter reflect the popular mood. In fact, you could say that the popular mood in the UK is usually the precise opposite to whatever the Question Time audience and the main UK Twitter mob are saying.
73% of Conservatives & 67% of Leavers say they support the gvt's approach on small boats. Among all voters more support than oppose (YouGov). This will not be news to readers of my Substack.
My own approach would be rather different, certainly harsher, certainly more effective in destroying the migration-invasion, “but that’s just me“…
*New Substack* The Red Wall Reality Check:
-60% Red Wallers say "do whatever is necessary to stop small boats" -59% say don't let appeal removal -59% say don't put migrants in hotels -58% say lower acceptance rate -More say leave ECHR than stay https://t.co/aoCjfMwVQIpic.twitter.com/BtNuo4vzsz
On question time, Emily Thornberry says that older people are practicing 'generational discrimination' because older people have houses & young people can not afford to buy homes. So I worked hard, bought my house & that makes me bad.
Emily Thornberry (aka Lady Nugee) and her half-Jew husband, however, have about 7 or 8 buy-to-let and other properties. It might be said that they are profiting from the squeeze on housing.
Emily Thornberry never seems to wonder what the effect on housing availability might be of importing many millions of immigrants (mainly non-white, at that) over several decades, immigrants who have been breeding prolifically.
Yes, I am sure that Labour will, indeed, “clear the backlog” of migrant-invaders of all sorts. How? By approving almost all applications, and prioritizing the invaders above British people for housing (and all other services), then by setting up some kind of quick rubberstamp process in France, and even in the countries of origin of the invaders. That way, Britain will actually get swamped even more, but the bad public relations of the invading cross-Channel boats shown on TV and social media will be mostly avoided.
The USA is not working for most of its people. There again, who are we in the UK to talk?…
The old elite derived their status from wealth, titles, estates, & leisure time. The new elite increasingly derive their sense of status and moral righteousness by embracing radical "woke" progressivismhttps://t.co/LfAbV0sySLpic.twitter.com/zRIBUQ8ooN
The “trans” nonsense is everywhere now, but we must be clear: it has not emerged by accident. It is one of several attacks upon white Western civilization and culture, planned and incubated by forces of Evil embedded in our society, often in leading positions.
"Why has British politics come apart? My argument is it's driven by millions of people who want to push back against the rise of a new dominant class -a new elite- and a revolution they've been imposing on the rest of the country"
Good to talk with @Iromg about the rise of a new elite who no longer share many people's values, no longer give them a voice in the institutions, and look down on them as an underclass of ignorant racistshttps://t.co/1QRfbxojAopic.twitter.com/vND84oUK4H
"Radical progressives who are 15% of Britain are building a new 'moral hierarchy' in society. White straight men are inferior oppressors to be stripped of status, esteem & worth. Liberal women, minorities & elite 'allies' are righteous, superior, virtuous" https://t.co/VOCIC9DAMC
I spent a lot of my life studying the populist right but I now think the radical woke left poses as much of a challenge to liberal democracy Grab the book here https://t.co/Z2XrWotUP8pic.twitter.com/WXncy0oTe5
“Finnish politics could dramatically shift to the far-Right on Sunday as an anti-immigration party aims to replace Sanna Marin’s Social Democrats Party.
The ‘rock star’ prime minister, who took office in 2019 as the world’s youngest PM at 34, is Finland’s most popular leader this century, polls show.
However, latest figures put the mother-of-one’s centre-Left SDP in third place behind the anti-immigration and nationalist Finns Party and the centre-Right National Coalition Party, which held on to a thin lead.“
Sadly Jack Monroe has been exposed as a fraud. She even recently admitted to spending tens of thousands of pounds of donations/undelivered patreon subscriptions on luxury goods for herself. She was also part of a Tory think tank, and did paid work for the express – Tory defenders
Once more, a naive “Jack Monroe” supporter who, looking at her other tweets, is obviously entirely unaware that many “recipes” of “Jack Monroe” make food containing only a few hundred calories per person (some are around 200). So not “nutritious“. As for “thrifty“, anyone can buy cheapest pasta, mix in some fish paste and/or some tinned tomato pulp, then heat it in the microwave.
Colourised photo of a scene in the old town of Biskra, Algeria, 1899. 📷 Detroit Photographic Company. pic.twitter.com/U1j15dhElw
Not too far removed from the Berber/Arab oasis of Siwa, where I spent a month (out of a 3-month visit to Egypt) in late 1997 and early 1998.
[the citadel of Shali, Siwa oasis, Egypt]
Honestly, you leave prepping the container garden for 5 minutes and these little pests start digging a marching camp 🙄. Still, they left a nice planting trench for the geraniums.#RomanFortThursday#sorrynotsorrypic.twitter.com/vftvCch2uc
Brilliant 👏 And fair play to @LegalGengar for not just going down the easy route here, but forcing Jack Monroe bootstrapcook to reveal her finances under oath in court. Hopefully this fully exposes her decade long con & finishes it once & for all. https://t.co/GBeMT7D8r2
That should wake up at least a few of the somnolent “woke”…
I had a long discussion with some Berber Arabs who were selling ammonites in the Cairo marketplace (looong ago), and they told me that ammonites were plentiful throughout the Sahara, from Egypt to Morocco. A Google search shows a *lot* of Sahara ammonites available.
“At least one in five working-age families in most UK constituencies – including in Liz Truss’s seat – would lose out by hundreds of pounds on average if real-terms benefit cuts go ahead, a study has found.
The scale of the impact of a below-inflation rise on already struggling households and by extension, local shops and businesses, is revealed in a study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). It would amount to the biggest-ever real terms cut to benefits in a single year.
The findings will increase pressure on the prime minister to stick to promises made by her predecessor, Boris Johnson, to guarantee benefits would rise next April in line with September inflation – about 10% – rather than by the rise in earnings figure of 6%. This real-terms cut would deliver around £5bn in savings to the Treasury.
Dozens of backbench Tory MPs are understood to be prepared to rebel over real-terms benefits cuts, while a number of cabinet ministers – including Penny Mordaunt and Robert Buckland – have also signalled their opposition.
The JRF analysis shows seven out of 10 MPs represent areas where at least 20% of households are reliant on universal credit and other means-tested benefits.These include 193 Conservative seats, including a number of key marginals where over a third of working-age families would be affected by a cut.
“Politicians should think long and hard about the impact of withholding hundreds of pounds from thousands of families in their constituencies when the basic rate of benefits is already at its lowest in real terms for 40 years and prices are sky-high,” said Katie Schmuecker, JRF’s principal policy adviser
Families in ”red wall” seats in one-time Labour strongholds taken by the Conservatives at the last general election would be particularly badly affected by real-term benefit cuts. They include Blackpool South, where nearly half (46%) of households stand to lose out, Burnley (38%), and Redcar (33%).
The JRF analysis shows that even in the most affluent constituencies at least one in 10 households are on means-tested benefits.
[The Guardian]
Most Conservative Party MPs voting for the proposed measures will be turkeys voting for Christmas.
“A former academic at University College London must pay almost £50,000 in damages to a former colleague after falsely portraying her as a sex worker on social media as part of a months-long campaign of harassment.
Christopher Backhouse, a former research fellow at the department of physics and astronomy at UCL, has settled to pay £49,975 to Erica Smith, a physicist and a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University in the US.
Backhouse was revealed as the perpetrator after Smith enlisted a US lawyer to subpoena Twitter and Google. Documents from the tech giants identified an IP address in London, despite great lengths by the perpetrator to cover their tracks using global proxy servers, the court heard.
Using a Norwich Pharmacal Order (NPO) against BT, a disclosure order allowing information to be obtained from third parties, Backhouse was revealed as the customer connected with the London IP address.”
[The Guardian]
“Smersh Never Sleeps”…
Therese Coffey
Deadhead MP and now, absurdly, Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Health, Therese Coffey, still attracting critical and/or incredulous tweets:
[Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Health, Therese Coffey]
It is shaming for Britain to be represented by such as stupidly ignorant “ho” Liz Truss, ugly, nasty moneygrubbing drunk Therese Coffey, woolly-head Kwarteng, and ignorant half-caste James Cleverly.
The present Cabinet has no legitimacy.
The question is how to get rid of them.
More tweets seen
Actually, @DerbysPolice, there is a place for hate in society. Hate is a natural human emotion like love or anger. What you mean is there is no place for crime. pic.twitter.com/iT5NSKewu9
It will be recalled that Derbyshire Police (one of the worst-performing forces in the UK) was instrumental in the Jew-Zionist campaign against satirist Alison Chabloz, and its Police and Crime Commissioner at the time (removed in 2021) was a Labour Party drone, a Sikh, who was basically suborned some years ago by the malicious small pressure group called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”].
Derbyshire Police was also one of the worst police forces involved in illegal bullying of the public during the “panicdemic” of 2020-2021.
Talking about the police and their slide into becoming a pathetic poundland KGB, what about this, below?
Zelenskyy being nominated for a Peace Prize while simultaneously begging for Nuclear War exemplifies how nightmare-cartoonish our existence has become.
Lisa Nandy: "We can't.. get involved in individual disputes but what we can do is fight for the working people in this country"
Pathetic.
Lisa, if you refuse to support workers taking industrial action to fight against real terms pay cuts you're not fighting for working people pic.twitter.com/HGvsNpz8Dh
“Labour” is now just a label. In fact, one of Labour’s least impressive MPs, the unpleasant self-publicist Jess Phillips, said a few years ago that it was “just a f****** rose” (a reference to its symbol).
Labour is riding high in the opinion polls now by default, the Conservative Party having all but imploded, but Labour, in itself, is every bit as rubbish as the Conservative Party.
‘Within days, over 150,000 had signed up to become hosts, offering up their spare rooms, their summer houses, their annexes. Some put themselves down for a year, others indefinitely; many signed up for six months, the minimum the Government was asking for’https://t.co/vdqC34GWwmpic.twitter.com/AgnRVTAlek
🔴 “The council have said to me ‘You’ve got to make her homeless’,” says Karen, clearly upset by the notion that this is one of the few options available to them.
🔴'When a hosting arrangement comes to an end, the routes currently open to guests are: find a new host, rent somewhere privately, or agree with the host to extend the stay'
[This article will be updated as necessary, with updates posted at the foot of the main article]
The Batley and Spen by-election is set down for 1 July 2021. Nominations are open until the late afternoon of 7 June 2021, three days from time of writing, but the main parties and some others have already declared. It is likely that any further candidatures will either be crank or joke.
The constituency
Batley and Spen was created in 1983. There have been several boundary changes over the years. One particular Conservative Party MP held the seat until 1997, succeeded by a Labour Party MP who held the seat until he retired in 2015.
Batley and Spen area voted about 60% for Brexit.
The constituency remained Labour, with Jo Cox as MP from 2015 to 2016 when she was assassinated. The subsequent by-election was rigged, in that the System parties agreed that Labour should put up a candidate unopposed by the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties. Pathetic UKIP followed suit.
The percentage of the vote won by Tracy Brabin, the TV actress selected by Labour in 2016, declined steadily from that 86% high: 55.5% in 2017, and 42.7% in 2019. Now, in true Blairite fashion, Tracy Brabin has jumped ship in order to become Mayor of West Yorkshire, a newly-created and rather powerful role which also pays rather more than an MP’s salary— £105,000 plus expenses [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_West_Yorkshire].
It must be a possibility that Tracy Brabin could see support for Labour sliding, and weighed up the odds.
Parts of the constituency have high non-white populations (mainly Indians and Pakistanis), while others are still largely English. I have been unable to discover exact proportions for the constituency as a whole.
Labour is represented by Kim Leadbeater, the sister of assassinated MP Jo Cox. She was not even a member of the Labour Party until fairly recently, and the usual rule (that members of the Labour Party have to have been members for a year until they can be selected as candidates) was waived in her case.
Ms. Leadbeater is apparently a former lecturer in physical health, who also works as a personal trainer, but spends much of her time working for the Jo Cox Foundation.
When I had a Twitter account (a pack of Jews had me expelled in 2018), I tweeted rather extensively about the Jo Cox Foundation. My conclusions were unfavourable. I now notice that there were, in 2019 (when accounts were last published), six paid employees, and the salary cost of those six was around a quarter of a million pounds altogether.
The candidature of Ms. Leadbeater smacks of desperation on the part of Labour. They seem to be aiming, five years after the assassination of Jo Cox, for a sympathy vote.
Ms. Leadbeater, like most of the other candidates, is local or at least from a nearby area, which is perceived to be important.
The LibDems have chosen as candidate a LibDem councillor, Tom Gordon, whose council seat is in Knottingley, 20 miles east of Batley.
A relatively new entrant to politics is the Yorkshire Party [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Party], which came third (behind Lab and Con) in the 2021 West Yorkshire Mayoral Election. Its vote share was 9.7%, though, only narrowly defeating the Green Party (9.2%); there were 7 candidates in toto.
Yorkshire Party has a number of councillors in Yorkshire.
Two “nationalist” candidates, both from tiny parties, and neither with a good track record, are contesting the by-election: Anne Marie Waters [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Marie_Waters] of For Britain, and Jayda Fransen [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayda_Fransen] of British Freedom Party but standing as Independent because the Electoral Commission has as yet not “approved” BFP to stand in elections (so much for “democracy” etc…).
Neither Fransen nor Waters has much chance of even retaining a deposit. Jayda Fransen has made a short YouTube video about her Batley and Spen campaign:
Batley and Spen by-election: analysis and provisional prediction
This is probably going to be between the two main System parties, but there are complications.
In 2019, Labour won on 42.7% of the vote, with the Conservative Party second on 36%. The LibDems, on 4.7%, were beaten into fourth by a new entrant, Heavy Woollen District Independents [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Woollen_District_Independents], which scored 12.2%. The candidate for HWDI was not the leader, who is or was an ex-UKIP member called Lukic, who himself had scored 2% as Independent in the 2017 election at Batley and Spen.
It seems that HWDI is standing no candidate this time, but there is still time to declare, so that is not certain. I cannot say whether those who voted HWDI might now transfer their vote to Yorkshire Party. Perhaps.
I give little credence to the two minor British nationalist candidates, whose votes would probably have been tiny anyway, even had they not split whatever vote each might have had without close competition. Both are anti-Islam (or anti-Islamist), both are pro-Israel to some degree, neither has achieved much politically, though I commend anyone who keeps trying in the conditions of State repression, Jew-Zionist conspiracy and migration-invasion prevalent in the UK today.
I am not expecting either of those two ladies to score as high as 5% in Batley and Spen, or to get 5% even between the two of them. If either does retain her deposit, then she will have done well, indeed very well.
George Galloway? I hope that my bias against him does not prevent objectivity (he tweeted negative comments about me on Twitter, years ago, and also blocked my then Twitter account). He does not accept that old-style socialism died in and after 1989, and he is as outdated as the Battleship Potemkin.
I am unsure as to what level of support Galloway has among Muslims in Batley and Spen. Some, probably. All the same, if he scores 5%+ and retains his deposit, that would count as a major victory for him.
The LibDems likewise. They will be hoping, at best, for retention of their deposit, but I would expect them to end up with less than 5%.
Yorkshire Party? Perhaps the joker in this pack. I have no way of assessing their chances, except by reference to that mayoral election recently. 9.7% was a good result for a relatively new party (founded 2014 as “Yorkshire First”). They are very unlikely to win this by-election; the question is, if they do get a high-ish vote (over 5%), which of the two main System parties will be most damaged?
The Labour candidate is a mark of Labour desperation. Someone only there because her sister was assassinated (and later canonized, or at least beatified, by the System and msm).
The constituency having a fairly high non-white population (no exact figures found, but around a third), Labour’s expectations must be to win between a third and a half of the vote as a whole. Labour is now largely a black/brown party in terms of its voters; public service workers account for much of the remainder.
If the white population of Batley and Spen has turned away from Labour, even if not voting Conservative, then Labour has a problem.
My present feeling is that the Conservative Party candidate might win this. Labour is just not what most people want at present. The recent YouGov poll suggesting that about 37% to 23% think that Boris-idiot would make a better PM than Keir Starmer is stunning, even though I myself despise “Boris”. Likewise, latest polling on “Westminster voting intention” puts the Cons around 40% and Labour around 30%.
Ironically, the fact that the Labour candidate at Batley and Spen has not been a member of the Labour Party for very long might actually help her with the voters! On the other hand, voters may feel that, if Labour nationally is sliding, and unlikely to form a government any time soon (if ever), then they may as well vote in as MP someone who might be listened to by Government, and thus help the area more. Just a thought.
Much will depend on turnout; also on whether either or both of Galloway and the Yorkshire Party do well, and on whose votes those two take. Galloway will be aiming largely at the Muslim vote; as to Yorkshire Party, hard to say, but maybe they aim to capture white formerly Labour voters. If that is so, then Labour is again in trouble.
The Labour Party vote in Batley and Spen has been eroding steadily since the rigged 2016 by-election. Tracy Brabin jumped ship because she feared defeat at the next general election.
My feeling at the moment is that the Conservative Party might win this, but that it could either be very close, or it could be a total rout for Labour. My head says the former, but my heart is screaming for the latter.
Update, 6 June 2021
“John Rentoul@JohnRentoulPaul Halloran, the 3rd placed candidate in Batley & Spen in 2019, standing aside in by-election – boost for the Tories“
It seems that the said Halloran has now joined the no-chance Reclaim Party set up by the actor Laurence Fox, who now stands for free speech (except, it seems, where Jews disapprove or are mentioned). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Fox.
It is clear that Reclaim Party will never amount to anything. As far as the Batley and Spen by-election in July is concerned, the stand-aside will obviously help the Conservative candidate, but what is unknown is by how many votes. Halloran received 12.2% of the vote in 2019, true, but Fox, in the recent London Mayoral Election, only 1.9%. I suppose that it might be surmised that Halloran, had he stood, might have garnered 5% of the by-election vote, possibly 10%, and maybe even 15%+, but the fact is that that is pure speculation. We do not know.
What we do know is that the above news is probably a blow for Labour. A few percent might decide this contest.
Update, 7 June 2021
The tweet below gives an idea of the local government situation within the Batley and Spen constituency area:
Im 45 + . British. Worked all my life. Please can I have a say?
Christian Peoples Alliance [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Peoples_Alliance], which was founded in 1999, has won a handful of local council seats, and has contested a few Westminster seats, never reaching 1% of votes cast;
English Democrats [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Democrats], founded 2002, which has perhaps 2,000 members and has had limited local election success, but which has never scored as high as 5% in any Westminster election;
Some of those candidatures (UKIP, English Democrats, Heritage) will affect the contest between the two major contenders, taking away a few percent from the Conservatives, and the Green non-candidature will probably increase the Labour vote by a similar amount.
Brilliant mini-doc from @OwenJones84 on Batley & Spen. Galloway (unsavoury as he may be) has a strong argument: 1 extra Tory MP would make little difference, Labour defeat could have serious political consequences. It's reflected in many of the interviews. https://t.co/X5df3g69Pb
That Owen Jones YouTube piece is quite interesting; worth watching.
Looks as though both the white English voters and the brown Muslim voters are abandoning Labour. That may mean that Labour is up that well-known creek without a paddle…
I thought that Galloway might get 5%, then I thought 10%. Now I am wondering if he might not get 20%, or even more, and (as he says he might) beat Labour into third place. If that were to happen, Labour might get a vote around 20% or even below that…
Update, 22 June 2021
“The final fortnight of the Batley and Spen by-election has turned ugly up in West Yorkshire. Yesterday, the Mail on Sunday columnist Dan Hodges quoted an anonymous Labour official claiming that ‘We’re haemorrhaging votes among Muslim voters and the reason for that is what Keir has been doing on antisemitism… he challenged Corbyn on it and there’s been a backlash among certain sections of the community.’
Predictably such an incendiary quote sparked fury among Labour MPs with the hunt now on for the possible culprit. But as tensions rise in the seat and polls show a narrow six point lead, one familiar face seems all too happy to cause as much controversy as possible. Step forward George Galloway, the man who is incidentally polling at six per cent in this seat and who was sacked from TalkRadio in 2019 after claiming Tottenham Hotspur’s Champions League defeat meant there would be ‘no Israel flags on the cup.‘” [The Spectator] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/galloway-gets-the-gang-back-together-in-batley-and-spen.
The fact is that Labour has been retaken by the Jewish lobby. Corbyn, its recent leader, is suspended and may be expelled. Keir Starmer is a Jewish lobby puppet, married to a Jewish woman lawyer, and they have children being brought up as if fully-Jewish.
Starmer has actually said, outright, that he is “a proud Zionist” who puts Israel first!
Labour has gradually, over a couple of decades, become the party of the blacks and browns, some public service workers, and a few other and smaller groups such as some of the “woke” Twitterati twits etc.
White (i.e. English) people generally have already abandoned Labour to a large extent. If, at Batley and Spen, the brown Muslim people are abandoning Labour, then Labour has no solid bloc supporting it. On the premises just shown, that would leave Labour with only a small minority vote.
It may be that that process of abandonment has not yet gone far enough to collapse Labour’s vote entirely, and it might even happen that Labour can pull the rabbit out of the hat and win, but that does look very unlikely.
What percentage vote-share will Labour get at Batley and Spen? It could be anywhere from 40% right down to 20%. When I first started this blog post, I was thinking that Labour would probably lose, but come a close second, with maybe as much as 40% or more of the vote. Now? Not sure. Again, my head is more cautious, thinking maybe 40%, but my instinct is again screaming out that Labour is going to go down to below 30%.
I thought, a month ago, that Galloway would do well to get 5% of the vote, but having seen some reports, it seems that the Muslims in the constituency are equating a vote for Labour with a vote for Israel. Galloway and his “Workers’ Party” may well end up with 10% or more of the vote. Goodbye Labour, if so.
While the Mark Wallace analysis is (if I say so myself) far less interesting than what I myself have blogged, his article being scarcely riveting, it was not complete rubbish, whereas that New Statesman article is simply substandard. It ties in Conservative Party support to what is happening with the “dreaded” (though actually overblown) “virus”, to the exclusion of all else. Very poor.
Labour is failing because it no longer has an identity, no longer has a purpose, nor any vision of a decent future, especially for white English people. The Conservative Party is “succeeding” at present because it is not Labour. Simple as that, in a more or less rigged, and more or less binary, electoral and political system.
I suppose that the only answer Kim Leadbeater can give is “White English people have pretty much binned Labour; if the blacks and browns abandon Labour, Labour has nothing left…”
France is real bastion of liberalism. Just look how the French stood up for the murdered history teacher and how the British did not stand in support of the teacher in Batley. Salute to the french and their courage to defend their values unlike coward brits
Why does it take people who are not themselves British in any real sense to stand up for the values of this country? Where are the English people? Where is puppet-candidate Kim Leadbeater? Where is Labour? Where, indeed, is the misnamed “Conservative” Party?
I should say that one big difference between the situation at Batley and Spen, as compared to that at Chesham and Amersham is that, at Chesham and Amersham, Labour voters who did not abstain voted LibDem tactically. I very much doubt, though, that many LibDem voters at Batley and Spen will vote Labour tactically, though some may.
Another difference: at Chesham and Amersham, the 2019 Labour vote was 12.9% of votes cast (20.6% in 2017); at Batley and Spen, the LibDem vote in 2019 was only 4.7% (2.3% in 2017).
In other words, tactical voting is of less importance in this particular by-election.
That BBC report gives the Muslim population, as a proportion of the electorate of Batley and Spen, as being around 20%. If most of them abandon Labour, that would halve, more or less, the 2019 Labour vote. Almost halve it, anyway.
If most whites (English) and most browns (Muslims etc) abandon Labour, then what does Labour have left in a place like Batley? 10% of the vote? 20%?
We shall soon see.
Meanwhile, the Jewish/Zionist lobby is desperate to save Keir Starmer, its puppet Labour Party leader, from humiliating defeat (despite the fact that most Jews vote Conservative):
That piece made me laugh. Galloway really put the silly Channel 4 bimbo in her place. For Channel 4, the main talking point in Batley and Spen is that Galloway’s supporters are allegedly attacking the Labour candidate, Kim Leadbeater, because she is a lesbian.
It really is time for Channel 4 to have its rice bowl taken away.
The report did cover the Conservative and LibDem candidates as well. The Con man was, well, just that, in my opinion. A cautious woodentopped product of a Conservative Party public relations machine. No obvious original thought in his head. As for the LibDem, a pathetic damp squib limp-wrist, to be frank.
The more I see on TV etc about the by-election up there, the more I think it likely that Labour is going to get thrashed, which would mean that the Conservative Party will win, though not on merit.
Batley and Spen Labour Party by-election candidate Kim Leadbeater runs away from Muslims and others who do not want their young children taught about lesbianism etc. She is said to be a lesbian herself, and the “teaching LGBT-etc in schools” thing may damage her campaign with some voters, particularly Muslims.
Update, 26 June 2021
‘They’re all lawyers’: Labour voters look elsewhere in Batley byelection https://t.co/c4IKLtrQnV
The above statement was apparently made a year or two ago, and was posted on Twitter by a dissident Labour Party member in August 2020. I have been so far unable to find out in what year Starmer made that statement (assuming that he did) but he has anyway made plain many times that he fully supports the Jewish lobby and Israel. If he did not support it/them, then he would not have been “put in” as leader! I imagine that his Jewish wife would also have a few words to say to him!
Hardly surprising that many in Batley and Spen are not interested in helping Starmer by voting for Labour and Kim Leadbeater. Not only Muslim voters. Many others are very angry at the Jew-Zionist cabals that infest UK politics.
The Batley and Spen by-election is on this Thursday 1st of July. There are 16 candidates. It’s important to sink Starmer. So vote accordingly .
New Labour wilfully caused the #BatleyAndSpenByelection when their MP doubled her money and abandoned the constituency for a “better” job. Now they are losing it badly the snarl of robbed entitlement can be heard everywhere.
Exactly. The former Batley and Spen MP was a brainless ex-soap “star” (of whom I had never heard). Now Labour has selected another person with no real political profile.
The organized Israel/Jew lobby naturally want Zionist-controlled Labour and Kim Leadbeater to win. Voters of Batley and Spen take note…
Update, 28 June 2021
Kim Leadbeater, the Labour candidate, is plainly as thick as two short planks, and has quite obviously been drilled to deliver pathetic soundbites such as “there is no magic money tree“. She is one personification of why Labour is going nowhere but down.
If in 2019, Tracy Brabin and Labour only got 42.7%, almost half of that that would have been the Muslim vote. If, in this by-election, most of that Muslim vote disappears to Galloway (or to abstention), that would seem to reduce Labour to a vote-share around 30%. If half of the English former (2019) Labour voters also abstain or vote elsewhere, the Labour vote might reduce to around 20%, or less. That might knock Labour into third place.
Having said that, there is still all to play for at Batley and Spen. The Labour candidate still has as ammunition her local roots, the tradition of Labour voting locally, and the sympathy vote around the assassination of her sister (former MP Jo Cox) by a socio-political dissident. I have to say that I myself am sceptical that that sympathy vote even exists, but there it is.
Incidentally, there has been much msm and Twitter noise around the egg attack on Labour leafletters. Has it not occurred to anyone that that may have been locals expressing their opinion of the last thick-as-two-short-planks MP, Tracy Brabin, who was, it seems, one of those attacked?
Well, polling day is tomorrow. I shall post the result(s) here as well as on my daily blog.
It may be that Labour can still pull the rabbit out of the hat, but to my mind the campaign has sunk Labour, because it has exposed their candidate, Ms. Leadbeater, as a near-idiot who only joined Labour weeks ago, and is very obviously being used as a puppet to get a sympathy vote based on the 2016 Jo Cox assassination. A sympathy vote which I do not believe exists anyway in any strength.
The rigged 2016 by-election was won by Labour with a 85% vote-share only because Conservatives, LibDems and UKIP did not contest the seat, and on a miserable 25% turnout. It might even be argued that, in 2016, 80% or more of the eligible voters at Batley and Spen did not have sympathy…
My guess? 1. Conservative Party; 2. George Galloway (Workers’ Party); 3. Kim Leadbeater (Labour); 4. Yorkshire Party.
My feeling was that Labour would lose, and quite possibly come third. I was not correct. Labour won narrowly or, as they say on the racecourse, “by a neck, cleverly”.
Labour got a vote-share of 35.3%. The Conservative candidate got 34.4%. George Galloway, under the banner of the Workers’ Party, did better than many expected (21.9%); I at least got that right.
All other candidates, 13 in number, lost their deposits; LibDems 3.3%; Yorkshire Party 2.2%. The other 11 received vote-shares below half of one percent each. UKIP, on 0.4%, just beat the Monster Raving Loony (0.3%).
The small and supposedly “nationalist” parties were, as expected, an embarrassment. The English Democrats, whose candidate (Therese Hirst) actually wrote to my blog comments page to request a mention, seem to have withdrawn their candidature.
The For Britain party leader, Anne Marie Waters, got 0.3% (97 votes). Jayda Fransen did even worse, though on a par with her previous forays into doomed electioneering: 0.1% (50 votes). [nb. percentages approximate].
I shall discuss the result further on my blog post for 1 July 2021.
Ian Robert Millard 