News Round-Up
- “This is a massive crisis. We need mass deportations” – In an interview with the Times, Nigel Farage says a Reform government will carry out mass deportations of illegal immigrants.
- “Reform UK will pledge five deportation flights a day” – Nigel Farage says in the Times that his £10 billion plan to deport thousands of illegal immigrants will save money in the long run.
- “Nigerian father who was denied asylum three times allowed to stay” – A Nigerian father whose asylum claim was rejected three times has been allowed to stay in Britain after belatedly arguing he is gay, reports the Mail.
- “Murdering Somalian migrant to be jailed for life after horror bank stabbing” – A Somalian migrant has pleaded guilty to murdering a customer inside a branch of Lloyds Bank, says the Express.
- “Migrant hotel is ruining our village – we feel intimidated and all want to move” – Neighbours in a posh village have hit out after their local hotel was turned into migrant accommodation, reports the Sun.
- “‘I am a migrant hotel protester and here is the reason I am so furious’” – Speaking to the Express, a furious migrant hotel protestor says his town “is fed up” of hotels housing migrants.
- “It’s time to control the spread of HMOs in Mansfield” – In Chad, Steve Yemm MP warns Mansfield’s unchecked HMOs are destroying communities.
- “Why I feel like I have been dropped into the Third World without leaving home” – From burqas to belches in the theatre, Laura Dodsworth explores the small discomforts of mass immigration on Substack.
- “Man paints potholes with St George’s Cross to force council to act” – A serial pothole vigilante has begun painting over his local holes in the road with a St George’s Cross in a bid to force his local council to fix them, reports the Mail.
- “I was Starmer’s political prisoner” – Lucy Connolly speaks exclusively to Allison Pearson, the Telegraph journalist who led the campaign for her release.
- “Lucy Connolly’s jail torment revealed: truth about time in prison” – In the Mail, Kathryn Knight tells how Lucy Connolly is now fighting to rebuild her life and family after spending 377 days in prison over a deleted tweet.
- “Met Police arrests 100 people ahead of Notting Hill Carnival” – Some 100 people have been arrested and 11 guns seized ahead of the Notting Hill Carnival, reports the BBC.
- “Officers at Notting Hill Carnival fear being attacked or trampled” – Police officers fear being attacked, sexually assaulted or trampled in a deadly crowd crush at Notting Hill Carnival as fears mount over another weekend of violence, says the Mail.
- “How farmers in Britain’s ‘kindest village’ found themselves under siege from thieves” – Pigs killed with crossbows and joyriders stealing tractors – crime in Trawden is adding to the farming community’s already heavy burden, reports Rosa Silverman in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer accused of betraying farmers again” – Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of a new “betrayal” of farmers over Labour’s failure to deliver a manifesto pledge to back British-grown food, says the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s tax raid on family businesses and farms is an assault on the pillars of our free society” – This Government is much more comfortable with large multi-nationals than smaller enterprises that are the building blocks of our prosperity, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Britain is now ruled by the unelected and the unaccountable”– No one has voted to be treated as a nuisance by the NHS, for preferred pronouns or puberty blockers. This has been forced on us, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Lucrative TfL pension scheme costing taxpayer hundreds of millions” – Sadiq Khan’s TfL is paying out disproportionate millions to its lucrative pension pot, reports Guido.
- “Why it no longer pays to earn £100,000” – These days, workers on six-figure salaries can be left thousands of pounds worse off thanks to our warped tax system, says Charlotte Gifford in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer insists Britain is not broken. Here is the truth” – The PM’s pride in Labour’s record has been called into question by the immigration crisis, crippling inflation and the looming threat of Reform, writes Dominic Penna in the Telegraph.
- “Police remove sign for cars to ‘beep if you think Starmer’s a w****r’” – Police have removed a banner in Bristol calling for drivers to “beep if you think Starmer’s a w****r” over fears the noise could disturb residents, reports the Mail.
- “Corbyn plots union pact to take on Rayner” – Jeremy Corbyn is plotting a Left-wing push for tougher workers’ rights, says the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband shows us how to wreck Net Zero” – The Energy Secretary’s whole environmental strategy is misconceived and he only has himself to blame, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
- “Norway makes one of biggest North Sea discoveries in a decade” – Norway’s biggest North Sea oil find in a decade has put fresh heat on Ed Miliband’s move to end oil and gas exploration, reports GB News.
- “Tory councillor releases bizarre advert of him blowing up solar farms” – A Conservative council leader has released a Grand Theft Auto-style advert showing him blowing up solar farms after his county was earmarked for swathes of solar panels, says the Mail.
- “Regime change for Arctic sea ice” – In NetZeroWatch, Dr David Whitehouse says Arctic sea-ice has held steady since 2007, making a mockery of doom-laden climate predictions.
- “Wrong again, Grist, climate change is not causing higher coffee prices” – In Climate Realism, H. Sterling Burnett argues that Grist’s claim that climate change is driving up coffee prices is fiction; tariffs, not warming, are the reason.
- “Mad, bad and dangerous to grow” – In Climate Scepticism, Mark Hodgson takes aim at the crazy world of biofuels.
- “Media touted paper that climate change will make world poorer, but kept silent as flaws are revealed” – A widely cited study predicting climate change would slash GDP by 19% over 24 years has been debunked, yet all we hear is crickets from the mainstream media, says Just the News.
- “A takeover of the IPCC” – On Substack, Roger Pielke Jr. warns that the IPCC’s 7th assessment report is shifting its extreme weather chapter from rigorous science to politically driven “extreme event attribution”.
- “How Trump can end Europe’s reign of terror on American oil and gas” – Energy experts tell the Daily Caller that the Trump administration has an opportunity to free US oil and gas companies from EU climate regulations.
- “There’s good news for lawyers in a landmark climate ruling. But not for the climate” – In the Washington Post, Bjorn Lomborg argues that the ICJ’s recent climate ruling misreads the science and could end up harming human welfare more than the planet.
- “Ursula von der Leyen told to leave room during multilateral talks at Trump’s Washington summit” – Von der Leyen represents “over 400 million people” in the same way that rude clerks at the Registry of Motor Vehicles represent local drivers, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Chemical castration laws toughened in Kazakhstan” – Chemical castration laws in Kazakhstan are being toughened with those committing “lesser sexual offences” set to face injections before being released from jail, reports the Mail.
- “Amy Hamm was a hard-working nurse. Now she’s a case study in Canada’s descent into tyranny” – Even the support of J.K. Rowling wasn’t enough to stop Canadian nurse Amy Hamm from being punished for expressing gender-critical views, writes Michael Taube in the Telegraph.
- “At what point do the war dead lose their honour? A reflection on time, respect and identity” – On Substack, C.J. Strachan argues that even centuries-old war dead should be honoured, not treated as just history.
- “Academics are to blame for the woke wreckage at universities” – Writing in the Times, John Maier and Daniel Kodsi blame older, cowardly academics for allowing universities to be captured by woke zealots, destroying their reputation and jeopardising their survival.
- “I was Starmer’s political prisoner” – Watch the highlights of Lucy Connolly’s video interview with Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
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Friday Morning Crowthorne
Wow, Nigel Farage has certainly changed his tune, hasn’t he? That’s quite the U-turn, after explicitly stating in an interview there’d be no mass deportations. Let’s hope he’s being genuine. Meanwhile, all this talk of civil war, which would’ve sounded far-fetched not so long ago, but I think all it’d take now is something like a serious terrorist attack that resulted in mass casualties and you’ll be seeing more than protests and flag-flying on the streets. Imagine if this happens before the next general election. Starmer should be imprisoned for treason, if so; ”The Home Office has awarded a £1 million contract to update its “Mass Fatality Capability Resilience Storage Framework”, to house 700 bodies of a mass casualty event. A spokesman says it’s a routine update of provisions established since 2005, last updated in 2023. But I’m hearing chatter that this relates to the imminent Islamic terror attack that I reported on in July. A source explained that foreign intelligence are monitoring 30,000 active Islamic terror suspects, and predicts that a group will arm themselves with homemade explosive devices, Molotov cocktails, and machetes to attack critical infrastructure and dense civilian housing. The source warned people-smuggling gangs are bringing trained… Read more »
This is Connor’s report on this threat, from last month; ”The catalyst for this conflict, which could claim tens-of-thousands of lives, could be vigilante attacks on critical infrastructure: Gas pipes, overhead electrical lines, substations, the railway network, etc. All are viable targets for those looking to cut off cities from power, water, and food supplies. During an event at the UnHerd club last week, Betz cited the Purdown BT Tower in Bristol — protected only by a thin wire fence, dummy security cameras, and the occasional unarmed security guard — as an example of our vulnerable infrastructure. Much of the government’s response to the looming threat of civil unrest concerns maintaining the illusion that they are still in control, and that our incompetent politicians and under-resourced military are capable of handling the crisis. Hence the hysteria about “far right thuggery”, and Keir Starmer marshalling magistrates courts to work round-the-clock to convict people for social-media posts, following last summer’s Southport riots. Cummings explains this is part of “propaganda operations with the old media to spread the meme that our ‘real danger’ is the ‘far right’ (code for ‘white people’)”. The state’s playbook is to continue to force the discontented host majority to accept their “downgrading”, while appeasing… Read more »
Jeremy Corbyn needs to go on the list of those who should be jailed for treason. In fact, the UK will need more prisons for all the people who are guilty of this crime, when you stop and think about it. People such as Corbyn are rich and far removed from the realities of how mass immigration/suicidal empathy affects the ordinary people of Britain. He’s completely talking out of his arse here; ”’These are just people trying to survive in a hostile world. What’s happened to our humanity?’ Jeremy Corbyn says he’s ‘disgusted’ at the way those who have sought asylum in the UK are ‘demonised.”’ https://x.com/LBC/status/1958950100383781016 Top comment; ”Jeremy Corbyn weeps for asylum seekers. He calls Britain “hostile.” He asks, “What happened to our humanity?” I will tell him. Our humanity was buried with the girls of Rotherham. It was stabbed on the streets of Southport. It was drowned in the Channel as traffickers turned death into business. It was strangled when British pensioners were evicted from their homes to make way for strangers in hotels. Corbyn’s compass is broken. It points not to his people, but away from them. Always away. His tears flow for the outsider, but… Read more »
Beautifully put👍👍
Seconded 👍
He can lie his f@#king head off for all i care, Starmer did and he got in! Go Nigel 👍
The way I see it, what have the British people got to lose? Anything’s better than the shit that is the Uniparty, doing their tag team impersonation and handing the baton back and forth forever more. For all the reservations people might have about Farage, nothing can be worse than Starmer and his motley crew of traitorous gobshites. And if there is a significant terrorist attack between now and the next general election, surely that’ll be the final nail in the coffin for the useless buggers and a guaranteed win for Reform. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that, obviously. But is it really too much to ask to have people running the country who are genuine patriots and who have the best interests of the British public at heart, not frauds like Johnson, Sunak and Starmer? People need to show by their actions where their loyalties lie and that they’re genuine about improving life for the populace.
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/6bc9c974-d864-4f8f-9d02-024c03ea6d49?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMWZXJleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHoKW1u48qK8SwxUmmjv5cRcZB7IwBF-xG56A_uXdiKTQzpCtl7wYG7e9cxo1_aem_QoPLYr66lujSygRr9VGrOg
😨 are they expecting something?
Let’s hope British intelligence agencies continue to thwart the ongoing terrorist threats, but at some point their luck’s going to run out, the way the government keeps relentlessly importing this very ideology that the likes of Corbyn, Charles and all the Lefty wankers seem to love so much. It’s not so much *if* but *when*.
The Connor Tomlinson article from Courage Media which you limked to abive is a first class read and provides a detailed explanation of our situation.
Ursula von der Leyen told to leave room during multilateral talks at Trump’s Washington summit
Very, very funny.
How many Armoured Divisions does Von der Leyen have?
But even those present with a mandate should take a long hard look in the mirror.
‘In practice, any allied agreements will only be effective if they include specific obligations for the signatories and clear mechanisms for their implementation. The phantom pains of the Budapest Memorandum serve as a reminder that even signatures from the U.S. president and the U.K. prime minister do not make a paper document effective without proper practical enforcement.’
‘This security system should include air and missile defense systems to protect against Russian missile and drone threats, ballistic and cruise missiles for long-range strikes on Russian territory, joint combat capabilities for rapid response to Russian threats from the air and at sea, as well as a unified European nuclear doctrine. Additionally, the integration of Ukraine’s and Europe’s defense-industrial capacities with U.S. involvement must be ensured. Only under these conditions can real security guarantees exist — not just for Ukraine, but for all of Europe. Because paper agreements no longer work — for Russia, only armed force speaks.’
Just scanned the above 38 items to see which I want to delve in to this morning …..but it’s all so utterly familiar, negative and depressing
I read the Sceptic faithfully every morning and will always be loyal but
Enough Bloody Downright Misery!
Know the feeling #metoo (LOL)
Its called doom scrolling and it’s just the way of the world at the moment, not helped by the ravenous elites desperate and voracious clawing bids for more and more power!
Not so! This one is enough to brighten any Patriot’s day:
“Ursula von der Leyen told to leave room during multilateral talks at Trump’s Washington summit”
Oh, that was so beautiful, …The self important little trollop!
It is the way we must live now. Our situation is going to become markedly worse over the next eighteen months and I prefer to try to understand our predicament rather than pretend everything is hunky dory.
It must have a great impact on negotiations when you are completely out of big sticks with which to whack your opponent,
This is the situation with the Ukraine talks. The threats from Western negotiators is empty, simply because their arsenals are empty and will not be replenished any time soon.
And the rest of the world have put two fingers up to the threat of secondary sanctions; the primary ones (there must have been about 20 batches so far) have failed and Russia appears stronger militarily and economically, despite the propaganda to the contrary put out by the West.
Trump is flailing about for an effective position, the nett result being that he looks powerless and inconsistent.
And all the time Russian forces are slowly moving westwards and the Ukrainian army is declining. It is notable that a significant part of Ukraine’s losses are desertions.
A sad fact is that Russians characterise the leaders of the Baltic nations as yapping chihuahuas and treat the rest of European heads of state equally dismissively.
I think it’s worth mentioning that at about 7 a.m. this morning the ever more rancid BBC finally put a piece about Lucy Connolly on its news app. Last night there was nothing about her or anything that has happened to her from tweet onwards. A search for her name came up completely blank. Truly disgusting.
“It’s time to control the spread of HMOs in Mansfield”
I mention this only as it comes from the Mansfield Chad. Its only the second time the Chad has been mentioned in public outside Mansfield, to my knowledge. The first was when Boris wrongly declared it was from Derbyshire, not Nottinghamshire. Derbyshire is served by the Derbyshire Times. All power to The Chad..!
“It’s time to control the spread of HMOs in Mansfield”
🤣🤣🤣Being a local to this area for 50 years i assure you HMOs cannot make it any worse!
Mansfield named one of Britain’s most miserable places to live in new poll – Nottinghamshire Live https://share.google/NRU4wzhOV7gKhJ2j5
https://www.newstatesman.com/business/economics/2024/11/russias-economy-is-doomed ‘Falling oil prices continue to erode Russia’s resource revenues. Over May, June, and July, shortfalls from baseline monthly oil and gas income added up to nearly 100 billion rubles ($1.2 billion). In August, the Finance Ministry expects that figure to grow by another 12.1 billion ($150.2 million). To make up for the lost revenue, the ministry is dipping into the National Wealth Fund’s reserves. As of August 1, the fund’s liquid assets stood at the equivalent of 3.95 trillion rubles, or $48.3 billion. Since the start of the full-scale war, the Russian government has already spent roughly half the sovereign fund: on February 1, 2022, liquid assets totaled 8.78 trillion rubles, or $112.7 billion. Even so, the Russian authorities have no plans to scale back the enormous military spending budgeted for 2025. Defense and national security are set to consume 40 percent of all federal spending — the highest share since the collapse of the Soviet Union. As a result, the federal budget deficit reached 4.88 trillion rubles ($60.7 billion), or 2.2 percent of GDP, in the first seven months of the year. In July alone, the shortfall jumped by 1.2 trillion rubles ($14.9 billion). The Finance Ministry’s full-year deficit target had been 3.8 trillion rubles ($47.2 billion). Without spending cuts, the deficit could exceed three percent of GDP by the end of 2025. For now, the Finance Ministry is relying on the same tool — the National Wealth Fund. Between July 7 and August 6, net… Read more »
Which when compared to 5.83% GDP of USA is not so bad.
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“Met Police arrests 100 people ahead of Notting Hill Carnival”
And there’ll be plenty more during and after!
Here’s to ‘largely peaceful’
Jamaica used to have the lowest murder rate in the world during the colonial years, now it has the highest in the world!
“Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of a new “betrayal” of farmers over Labour’s failure to deliver a manifesto pledge to back British-grown food”
Sir my arse, That Git should be hung for treason, which apparently, still carries the death penalty!
(Along with raping the monarch’s wife (not so bothered!)
Bliar abolished the death penalty for treason. He knew what was coming.
This is what many of us have been saying for years now on this site.
When we first started writing such things they seemed reactionary and exaggerated.
Now they appear in the Telegraph.
In some ways at least the DS commmenteriat is ahead of the curve.
👍👍👍
“Ursula von der Leyen told to leave room during multilateral talks at Trump’s Washington summit”
Thanks to the DS for that cheerful news!