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Diary Blog, 15 December 2025

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Morning music

Bondi incident thought

The unpleasant incident at Bondi Beach may not be a “false flag” attack (as some are already claiming) but the System, prodded by the global Jew-Zionist lobby, is already “weaponizing” it. In Australia, it is being used by the System in several directions: to take away rights to ownership of firearms, to reduce freedom of expression and association, and generally to promote a pro-Israel message.

In respect of free speech and rights of association, as well as pri-Israelism, similar attempts are being made in the UK. The serial liar/perjurer Gideon Falter (of “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) has been on several UK TV stations over the weekend, demanding —in effect, if not expressly— fewer rights of freedom of expression etc, in case people are critical of Jews, Zionists, Israel, or the “holocaust” farrago.

It has never been claimed by anyone (not even the Jew-Zionist troublemakers) that I myself favour “terror” attacks. At the same time, one cannot ignore the fact that 200,000 people, mostly women and children, have been slaughtered, mutilated, maimed, poisoned, starved, deprived of medical services etc by the [Israeli] Jews in Gaza over the past 2 years.

Tweets seen

Mirvis was born in South Africa, spent much of his life in Israel, several years in Ireland, and only after that came to the UK.

[Yvette Cooper with Mirvis, Chief Rabbi of the UK and Commonwealth]
[Yvette Cooper, inviting —not for the first or last time— migration invasion]

Yvette Cooper is also a proven expenses cheat and fraud.

Perhaps not “treason” in the technical legal sense, but in the real and down-to-earth sense…yes.

Good point.

Another good, if obvious, point by “Prison Planet” Watson.

If that stupid and ignorant woman helps to trigger a major European war, I hope that one of the first missiles lands on her.

Even I myself do not necessarily share all of Nick Griffin’s views (and I expect that that is true in reverse as well), but I think that we probably agree on most of the big things.

So far, few if any Muslims have attempted to interfere seriously with my blog or, before that, my Twitter/X account (a pack of Jews had me expelled from Twitter in 2018).

All the attempts to gag me, shut down my views, close down this blog, and prosecute me, have come from the Jew-Zionist direction.

Jewish scribbler and talking head Finkelstein claims to support free speech. Is that what he was doing when he used to tweet to people retweeting me, about a decade ago (especially journalists or MPs), that if they were retweeting tweets from my then Twitter account (closed down by Jewish complaint in 2018), that they should not do so?

Typical (((hypocrite))).

Now, the bastard is in the degraded House of Lords…

Mad…

[Zhukov inspects the ruins of the Reichstag in 1945]

Symptom of a society in the throes of degeneration— a painfully ignorant and ludicrously over-promoted monkey-on-a-stick appointed to the Cabinet.

This Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment is also proposing to end automatic right of appeal from magistrates’ courts (usually to Crown Court). Police state in the offing.

Jewish scribbler (and now, apparently, public relations operative) says that anything that any Jew finds (or claims to find) “offensive” should be banned and/or criminalized.

See also:

The Slide of the English Bar and UK Society Continues and Accelerates
Diary Blog, 15 January 2022, including an outline of the failure of the latest Jew-Zionist attempt to prosecute me
Diary Blog, 16 March 2024, including an account of my recent free speech trial and sentencing
Diary Blog, 17 March 2024, including the aftermath of my sentencing hearing

Jew-Zionist supremacism in plain sight. As mentioned on the blog yesterday, the “Hannukah” festival is not (as many British people seem to imagine) a kind of Jewish version of Christmas (which happens at about the same time); it is a celebration of an ancient military and ethno-religious victory over non-Jews.

Starmer-stein recently lighting Jewish ritual candles in a window of 10 Downing Street, alongside his Jewish wife, strikes me as very un-English. Not a private observance, but a public show.

Yes, but not everything bad in the world, or that happens in the world, can be laid at the feet of MOSSAD, Israel, Zionists, or Jews…

I rather like that Rahmeh Aladwan.

Incidentally: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/help-me-fight-the-israel-lobby/

Late tweets seen

The karmic guilt of the Israeli Jews will eventually result in karmic punishment, perhaps not in this generation but a future one, perhaps seven generations in the future. That weight of guilt will be crushingly heavy. The Jew-Zionists can often be observed on Twitter/X etc, laughing at the plight of the Gazan Arabs, but that is now, not then.

As noted earlier today, and yesterday, on the blog, “Hannukah” has nothing in common with the Christian festival of peace called Christmas. It is a ritualized and unashamed crowing about an ancient military and socio-religious victory and, thus, Jewish supremacy.

Another untermensch who should be put up against a wall.

“They” almost always support mass immigration, and seem to want to destroy white Europe. They hate us, at root. That (other) man (you know…) was right…

Translates to a Commons with about 390 Reform MPs (very large overall majority), 89 Lab, 60 LibDems, 45 SNP, 19 Cons, and 12 Greens [etc].

For the Conservative Party, surely terminal, yet the Con MPs now in the Commons seem unwilling to bin Kemi Carpetbagger. Strange. She is a millstone round their necks. There are 121 of them sitting now, and 102 of them are predicted to lose their seats, as things stand.

Late thought

A young man called David Morgan, from South Wales, was recently sentenced to 20 months in prison (10 in actual custody) after (perhaps foolishly) having pleaded guilty to incitement to racial hatred following publication of 9 tweets. The prosecution was driven by only two complainants, both fanatically pro-Israel Jew-Zionists, one in North London, the other (oddly) in Pembrokeshire. Those two already, it seems, knew each other, incidentally.

The police were at first disinclined to waste time on such an obviously contrived persecution/prosecution, but it seems that political pressure from “the usual suspects” was brought to bear.

I do not know anything specific about David Morgan, beyond his tweets, but I should say that if he has personal or political friends, they should set up a crowdfunder for him on GiveSendGo [https://www.givesendgo.com/], a reliable American crowdfunding site, and one not amenable to the (((usual pressure))) in or from the UK. The aim would be to provide Morgan with some pocket money while he remains incarcerated, and then some money to help him after his release.

See also the biased but fairly detailed report from Wales Online:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/twisted-welsh-loner-able-spread-32962872

Late music

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Diary Blog, 15 October 2025, including thoughts about the Chinese spy scandal in the Westminster Bubble, Israeli Jewish brutality, and Hopi Indian prophecy

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Afternoon music

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

Talking point

How the [Israeli] Jews treat their prisoners

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/14/freed-palestinians-describe-horrors-of-israeli-jail

“Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two days...”]

[Guardian]

Strange prophecies— are they credible?

“An ancient Hopi prophecy predicts the rise of a mysterious figure known as the ‘True White Brother,’ marked by a red cap, who would change the nation forever.

Believed to be centuries old, the prophecy comes from the Hopi tribe of the southwestern US, whose wisdom has guided generations for over a thousand years.

In 1992, spiritual elder Thomas Banyacya brought the prophecy to the United Nations, warning that during a time of great turmoil and rapid technological change, an individual bearing a symbolic ‘red hat’ would emerge, shaping the fate of the world.

Hopi prophecies describe a cycle of four worlds, with humanity currently in the fourth and final one.

These teachings foresee a period of upheaval and purification, known as the ‘Great Purification’ or ‘Third Shaking,’ brought on by humanity’s greed, corruption and disregard for nature. 

The prophecies also mention specific technological signs, catastrophic events, and the eventual birth of a Fifth World of peace and harmony if humanity chooses the right path.

The prophecy also describes two helpers who will appear alongside the True White Brother. 

One is associated with the swastika, representing purity and female life-giving energy, while the other is linked to the symbol of the sun, representing wisdom and power.“

[Daily Mail]

Hard to know what to believe, harder still to see Trump as some kind of saviour. Maybe he heard about that prophecy and that then triggered Trump to create the Trump/MAGA red baseball cap thing. Who knows…

Tweets seen

If only the politicians of Germany, France, the UK etc were so clear-sighted.

Interesting that the caution printed on the flaps is in Russian.

The big picture behind the minutiae of legal and constitutional analysis is that the System has already decided to attack (so far mainly by proxy) one huge “enemy” (Russia) and cannot fight an even larger “enemy” (China) at the same time.

In any case, the rise of China has not primarily been caused by the Chinese, but by Europe and North America, by their demand for endless quantities of consumer goods at the cheapest possible price. Who is fuelling Chinese expansionism? We are.

For all the (perhaps quite justified) outrage in the Westminster Bubble about the Chinese spies etc, the fact is that that is “caviar to the general”; the public are more concerned, hugely more, about migration invasion, mass immigration, the cost of living, the housing crisis (and housing going to immigrant parasites) than whether a spy or two has been retailing government secrets or Parliamentary gossip to Peking. (yes, I refuse to call it “Beijing”; same goes for Bombay, Madras and Calcutta, incidentally).

Import Afghans or Pakistanis in sufficient numbers, and you import Kabul, you import Islamabad, you import the poverty-stricken villages, mired in what Marx called “rural idiocy“, from which those masses came.

Likewise, import Jews in sufficient numbers, and you import Tel Aviv and/or the ghettoes of 19th/20thC Central and Eastern Europe. How hard is that to understand? For many, it seems, too hard…

“When will it end?” When we have enough walls and squads at our command to end it.

The answer, to that last tweet, is that Labour are still (perhaps) on 22% because 15%-20% of the voters are non-white, and most still vote Labour. Also, there are enough of two white British groups to make weight: 1. public sector admin types, plus low-level academics and teachers; 2. the sort of voters, mainly north of the line between the Bristol Channel and the Wash, who always vote Labour because their grandparents did. That second group is ebbing away fast, though.

Fact is, if only white British, and especially white English, people were to be polled, Labour would be on about 5%, certainly no more than 10%.

As for Con Party on 20%, that may well be an over-estimate. Either that, or some voters like the new Reform-lite stance of Kemi Badenoch and actually believe that nonsense.

The poll would still give Reform a very solid Commons majority, though lower than the other, “megapoll”, below:

Cons in 6th place by number of MPs (7)? Terminal.

On the silver lining side, at least the British people will not have to endure their first chavscum prime minister…

Ever-more “diverse” Britain, 2025

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/pm-groundsman-chequers-jailed-attack-old-bailey-b1252888.html

“A groundsman for the Prime Minister has been jailed after kicking the father of a murdered teenager in the head during a brawl outside the Old Bailey.

Mr Gordon had just left court after watching four teenagers be sentenced for killing his 17-year-old son Shea.

Inner London crown court heard he was ambushed by Johnson and three friends, in a pre-planned attack which happened yards away from the front door to the Old Bailey.

On Monday, Johnson was sentenced to 26 months in prison after admitting affray in the incident at the Old Bailey and a separate bout of dangerous driving while high on cannabis and trying to evade police.

He was joined in the dock by Deije Underwood, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his part in the affray. A third man, Daniel Akere, is set to be sentenced at a later date.

The court heard tensions had been mounting between associates of the defendants and Shae’s friends and family during the criminal trial.

When the day of sentencing arrived, Johnson drove to court in a hired white Mercedes and parked it on double yellow lines outside the Old Bailey.

The court heard Johnson has held his Chequers role despite two past convictions for six offences, being on bail while awaiting sentencing for the affray, and also awaiting sentencing over a 2022 bout of dangerous driving.

His barrister told the court Johnson has ambitions to become a social worker.“

[Evening Standard]

[defendant]
[defendant]

26 months, so out in about a year. Second defendant only 18 months, so out in less than 9 months. Under a social-national emergency government, they would be eliminated.

God knows what London will look like in 2035, 2045, or 2055. Dystopian, unless social nationalism can triumph.

More tweets

Amazing. I was unsure as to whether Reform would rise above the level of 35%. Well, there it is. The unjust and illogical FPTP voting system will now give Reform —as it has given Labour, the Conservatives, and the SNP (re. Scottish seats at Westminster) in the past— a massive Commons majority if those figures are maintained until (?) 2029. “A big ‘if’, as people say.

Translated into MP numbers, works out as a Commons with about 443 Reform MPs, 80 Lab, 57 LibDems, 34 SNP, 7 Cons, 5 Greens, 4 Plaid (etc). A Reform majority in the Commons of well over 100; working majority of about 130. Unassailable. Likely to create a Constitutional crisis in view of the fact that Reform has, at present, no peers at all, out of 826.

Conservative Party— 7 MPs. Amazing. Only two more than the Greens. Surely terminal. Not sure which Con MPs would be left standing. Not Kemi Badenoch, Jenrick, or Mel Stride, anyway.

Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan crowdfunder

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/help-me-fight-the-israel-lobby/

If only the Shah were still in place, or his legitimate successor, but “we are where we are”, and the latest member of that dynasty looks like he is just a puppet of NWO/ZOG.

[Shah of Iran, 1973]

The Shah had the best title of all, one I should like to carry: Light of the Aryans.

…where we should be ruling both of you… [discuss]…

Late tweets

I predicted on the blog that Starmer would be like that (a combination of —at best— mediocrity, combined with ruthless infighting) when in power, though I referenced Malenkov (arguably unfairly) rather than that literary character, Widmerpool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Widmerpool; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Malenkov.

[“I am told that the director of public prosecutions Stephen Parkinson has just told some of parliament’s most senior MPs – chairs of home, justice, foreign and security committees – that the evidence provided by the government’s witness in the China spy case, the deputy national security adviser, was “5% less than the evidence threshold that was needed.” Parkinson told the MPs that the deputy national security adviser, Matthew Collins, had made it clear to the Crown Prosecution Service he was not going to provide the additional 5%. Which is why Parkinson canned the case. And as I said earlier, he informed the Attorney General Hermer of his decision to kibosh the prosecution. The MPs were surprised by what Parkinson told them, to put it mildly. They asked why Parkinson did not get a second expert witness, to fill in the small gap left by Collins. The DPP in essence said that is not the way the CPS operates. He was also pressed by the MPs about why he would not take the risk of putting the case to a jury. He claimed he did not believe a judge would let it get that far. The MPs were not convinced. One said: “he was just a bit wet about the whole thing. He should have taken the risk of prosecuting and have let a jury decide.”]

I have to say that, as I said earlier on the blog, this whole “China spy scandal” strikes me as a storm in a Westminster Bubble teacup; outside the Bubble, no-one really gives a damn. In fact, I doubt whether even MI5 gives much of a damn. The British people are worried about, frustrated about, angry about migration invasion, and the consequent slide to a Janus-faced society— a dystopian police state on the one hand, and an equally dystopian street-jungle-scape on the other hand.

Plaid Cymru is (like the SNP) a fake “nationalist” joke party, but (unlike the SNP) is no danger to anyone, because they only have 4 MPs, and are at present predicted to get about the same, maybe —at most— 5 or 6 (out of 32) at the next general election.

In fact, Plaid is not that popular in Wales anyway. 4 Westminster MPs out of 32, 2 peers out of 828, 12 out of 60 members in the Welsh Assembly (Senedd), and 200 out of 1,234 local councillors. Plaid only leads 4 local councils in Wales (out of 22).

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

[“Iranian nuclear scientist Seyed Mahmoudreza Aghamiri: In the very first hours of the 12-day war, one of my friends who held a responsible position tried to dissuade me, claiming that the fate of the country was already decided: “they have hit all our air defense, launchers, the next targets for assassination will be you — your work is done.” But I replied that we have no right to give up. It was precisely the country’s leadership and the prudence of the Supreme Leader that turned the situation in our favor. When I later asked that person why he said it was all over, he just shrugged. For several weeks my family did not know where I was, and I myself did not know my location — security services took me to a safe place. We have the capabilities and resources to create an atomic bomb, but we do not intend to do so. If someday we decide to create an atomic bomb, we have the ability to do it in the best possible way. All our nuclear scientists at some point thought about creating an atomic bomb, but it is precisely the fatwa (prohibition) of the leader that restrains them from this. However, all our efforts over the past two decades have been aimed at showing the people and the world that “nuclear” is not only a bomb; it is also radiopharmaceuticals, reactors, energy, well logging, and much more.”]

The Iranians or Persians are a subtle people…

Israel is doomed. The only question is when.

David Starkey

Worth watching.

Vienna

Shocking. Not the Vienna I remember (from the 1980s). Absolutely terrible. They need social nationalism, or National Socialism…

Late music

In the last days and hours of doomed Berlin in the Spring of 1945, the city was defended mainly by units of the Volkssturm (boys of 16+ too young to be called for other service, and those of greater age —official age rubric 16-64— otherwise unconscripted, and some retired men), as well as valiant remnants of the S.S., and a few foreign volunteers, including a handful of British volunteers from the very small Legion of St. George (aka Britisches Freikorps) which operated under the command of the S.S.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkssturm; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Free_Corps.

[Germany 1945— “We fight for the future of our children!“]

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Diary Blog, 23 February 2020

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Andrew Marr Show

Newspaper review: Andrew Marr with two not very interesting women, one a newspaper journalist or editor, the other being Sarah Vine (looking at her, presumably Jewish or part-Jew), who is also the wife of —pro-Israel and pro-Jewish lobby— expenses cheat and cocaine-sniveller Michael Gove, a Cabinet minister [switches off…].

Useless drone Prince Andrew under more pressure

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11021300/witness-prince-andrew-grope-virginia-roberts-claim/

https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/23/prince-andrews-alibi-questioned-night-accused-sex-girl-17-12286796/

I dare say that the “royal prince’s” Google searches now include the enquiry “what is Royal Immunity and does it cover royal princes outside the scope of their official duties?”!

Interesting short film

I was sent this short film. Worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=68&v=DnqOqYZMYUs&feature=emb_logo

 

Meine Ehre heisst Treue

“There will be men who even without mentioning us because they will not be allowed or because they will fear to do so, will try to travel on that path of ours. And they will be fought and betrayed just as we were. But in the end, we will win, because good and true always triumphs over this world.” [Goebbels, 1945]

CHNxZMjWMAAZp38

Labour in the South of England

https://www.ft.com/content/bc2d233e-4cae-11ea-95a0-43d18ec715f5

A Financial Times report and analysis by Sebastian Payne. Worth reading despite having been published a couple of weeks ago (and despite the fact that London-oriented Payne regards Swindon as being situate in the “south east”).

Priti Patel

What is worst, a Cabinet minister who is too thick for her job, one who is an Israeli agent of influence (maybe not just of influence), or one who is simply deceitful, unreliable and malicious? With Priti Patel, you don’t have to choose: she hits all of those…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8035825/MI5-chiefs-insist-NOT-keeping-secrets-Priti-Patel.html

“They don’t have confidence in her abilities.” [anonymous official source]

Diane Abbott

“Diane Abbott has confirmed she will be stepping down as shadow home secretary when the next Labour leader is elected.” [Daily Mail]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8035395/Diane-Abbott-quits-shadow-cabinet.html

Labour just increased its future electoral chances significantly.

A good joke never ages:

Midnight music

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Deadhead MPs, An Occasional Series: The Justin Tomlinson Story

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Background

Here, in my occasional series about those I am pleased to call “deadhead MPs”, I now feature Justin Tomlinson MP [Con, North Swindon]. Tomlinson is unique —so far— in terms of this series, in that he has actually achieved junior ministerial rank (appointed junior minister at the DWP). [*Note: I have previously written about Kate Osamor MP, but until she resigned she was only in the Shadow Cabinet and has never been in government].

As on previous occasions in this series, this MP’s academic and work background do not inspire confidence. His family origins seem obscure. Having been born in Blackburn, Lancs, in 1976, he attended a comprehensive school in Kidderminster, Worcs, before reading History and Politics at Oxford Brookes University (the former Oxford Poly).

Arguably bizarrely, Tomlinson’s only known employed position was as manager of a small nightclub known as Eros, in Swindon: see Notes, below (the photographs show scenes every bit as ghastly as expected, a strange mish-mash of provincial, cheesy, decadent and humdrum. Forget Cabaret, think The Office).

It must remain a mystery as to why Tomlinson, a son of either Lancashire or Worcestershire, and then a student in Oxfordshire, relocated yet further South to Wiltshire. Was the Swindon job (as manager of “Eros”) the only one he could get?

We are asked to believe that Tomlinson also “ran a small marketing business” called TB Marketing Solutions Ltd at the same time (c.2000-c.2010). It must have been “small” indeed. The Companies House accounts summary shows the company’s net worth in 2011 at only £66,000. It seems to have had, at any one time, only one director other than Tomlinson, as well as a company secretary, and to have operated from a privately-owned or rented flat in Swindon. It was dissolved in or shortly after 2011. Still, something to add to the CV, I suppose…

Tomlinson may be short on background but he is certainly not lacking self-confidence, having when a student placed a bet on himself to become Prime Minister!

“Chris Kelly and Justin Tomlinson stand to collect £500,000 from William Hill should either become prime minister before 2038. Tomlinson placed two £50 bets at 10,000/1 when the pair were at university. Both are already Conservative MPs.” [BBC, in 2012]

Chris Kelly stood down as MP in 2015 (returning to his family’s Midlands truck-rental business), which is a pity in that he might have made a good “deadhead MP” for this series, were I able to find anything even slightly interesting to say about him.

Back to Tomlinson. He was a local councillor for several years prior to being selected then elected as MP for North Swindon, one of the two constituencies in the town.

Some highlights from Tomlinson’s Parliamentary career

  • “In May 2015, it was reported by The Huffington Post that his appointment as Minister for Disabled People was controversial as he had previously voted against protecting the benefits of disabled children and those undergoing cancer treatment.” [Wikipedia];
  • “Tomlinson faced calls for his resignation in October 2015 after it was reported that he had leaked information from the Public Accounts committee regarding regulation of short term high cost credit “payday lenders” to Wonga.com back in 2013. Tomlinson accepted he had broken the rules and apologised, stating that his “strongly-held belief that action needed to be taken on payday lenders” had caused his “judgement to be clouded”.[13] Tomlinson arranged £30,000 of sponsorship for Swindon Supermarine F.C., a local football team by the same payday lender wonga.com. The football club’s chairman, Jez Webb, has made donations of £30,218 to both Tomlinson’s and local Conservative Party funds since 2014. Webb stated that he donated in a personal capacity and that the very similar amounts “were coincidental.”[14] Tomlinson was subsequently accused of trying to remove references to previous links to Wonga from his website, including the arrangement of a sponsorship deal with Swindon Supermarine F.C. in 2011.” [Wikipedia];
  • Tomlinson, 42, employs his personal partner, Katie Bennett, 28, as his office manager, on a salary of £50,000 p.a.; Tomlinson was married from 2012-2016 to another lady but is now divorced;
  • “Tomlinson leaked a draft of a public accounts committee report on the credit industry to someone he knew who worked for payday lender, Wonga. And when that person emailed four suggested amendments back, Tomlinson had forwarded them virtually word for word on to the Committee as if they were his own.” [The Guardian];
  • “In November 2018, Tomlinson again sparked controversy, this time by suggesting that families facing penury under the Universal Credit scheme initiated by the Conservative governments of 2010-2018 should “take in a lodger.”

“Tomlinson was apparently unaware that [even discounting the fact that few such families have spare rooms], both private and other (e.g. local council and housing association) leases prohibit any form of sub-letting.” [Evening Standard].

North Swindon

Considered to be a “bellwether” constituency, North Swindon has, since its creation in 1997, always followed the national trend. Tomlinson was elected for North Swindon in 2010, receiving a 44.6% vote share (Lab 30.5%). In 2015, the Conservative vote share was 50.3% (Lab 27.8%) and in 2017, 53.6 (Lab 38.4%). In other words, Labour are creeping back but were still well behind in 2017.

Tomlinson has consistently voted for Leave/Brexit, which may help him hang on.

Tomlinson’s vote in numbers was just under 30,000 in 2017, and his majority about 8,000. If, as a recent opinion poll claimed, half those who voted Conservative in 2017 are not going to vote Con in any 2019 General Election, that would reduce Tomlinson’s likely vote to about 15,000 and render the election of another candidate, probably the Labour one, likely. Labour got over 21,000 votes in 2017.

Conclusion

Well, there he is, voters of North Swindon— your deadhead MP. If you want to kick him out, the only lawful way is to vote for Labour or, if it stands, Brexit Party, next time.

Notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Swindon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

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

https://www.gov.uk/government/people/justin-tomlinson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kelly_(British_politician)

http://www.justintomlinson.com/about/biography

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/16320207.rewind-pictures-from-cairos-and-eros/

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/16320207.rewind-pictures-from-cairos-and-eros/#gallery9

https://companycheck.co.uk/company/04739303/TB-MARKETING-SOLUTIONS-LIMITED/companies-house-data

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/120514/tomlinson_justin.htm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18769451

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/dwp-tory-apologises-parliament-making-14224350

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/15/justin-tomlinson-shows-sorry-seems-to-be-the-easiest-word

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1434753/mp-justin-tomlinson-announces-love-for-25-year-old-aide-after-divorcing-wife/

Below, Justin Tomlinson’s one-time milieu, Eros nightclub, Swindon, in 2002:

Update, 7 May 2019

Below, Tomlinson making himself look stupid and nasty again…

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/dwp-leaves-claimants-waiting-9-15010363

Update, 30 May 2020

In the end, Tomlinson held on at North Swindon rather easily. Nigel Farage stabbed his Brexit Party and its candidates (and supporters) in the back; Brexit Party candidates in Conservative Party-held seats (even where the sitting MP was a Remain partisan) were all stood down so that the Conservative Party could win the General Election of late 2019. Tomlinson thus faced no danger that much of his vote would defect to Brexit Party.

Not that the absence of Brexit Party materially altered the result. Labour’s vote slid substantially, and Tomlinson was re-elected by a majority double that which he had achieved in 2017, both in absolute and percentage terms (majority in 2017 was 8,335; in 2019, 16,171).

His vote share in 2019 was 59.1% (2017: 53.6%); pretty convincing by any standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Swindon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s

Tomlinson continues as Minister of State (i.e. junior minister) at the DWP, the post he has held since April 2019.

Update, 9 August 2022

Tomlinson was sacked as junior minister in a Government reshuffle of September 2021.

“In February 2022 Tomlinson was accused of bullying and sending inappropriate “unprofessional” and “belittling” messages to employees at Conservative Campaign Headquarters.[32]“

[Wikipedia].

Tomlinson must have blagged plenty of money since 2010 in terms of pay, expenses, and “consultancy fees” from Wonga etc. He may need those monies. On present opinion polling, the bellwether seat of Swindon North may jettison him at the next general election.

Update, 5 July 2024

As expected, Tomlinson was binned at GE 2024. Time for him (and girlfriend/wife?) to get employment of a more useful type.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swindon_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s