News Round-Up
- “Reeves must go for her Budget lies, say voters” – A new poll for the Mail says that a majority of more than two to one is in favour of Rachel Reeves quitting after the OBR revealed it told the Chancellor months ago there was no ‘black hole’ in the public finances.
- “‘Black hole’ row: Call for Financial Conduct Authority investigation” – Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride is calling on the City watchdog to launch a full investigation into potential abuse of financial markets after Rachel Reeves’ claims of a ‘black hole’ in the public finances ahead of the Budget turned out to be false, reports the Mail.
- “Union boss says voters cannot trust party after Budget ‘lying’ row” – Unite boss Sharon Graham criticised the Chancellor’s decision to hit ‘ordinary’ people with stealth taxes in the Budget, according to the Mail.
- “Tories launch ‘SackReeves.com’” – The Conservative Party has started a petition urging Sir Keir Starmer to sack Rachel Reeves after she was accused of misleading the public over the state of the country’s finances. You can sign here.
- “Labour’s biggest donor turns on Reeves” – Sharon Graham, the General Secretary of Unite=, Labour’s biggest union donor, has launched an attack on Rachel Reeves’ Budget for breaking promises to workers, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer signed off on Reeves’s black hole lies” – Sir Keir Starmer was aware there was no black hole in the public finances and yet approved Rachel Reeves’s “lies” that exaggerated the fiscal shortfall, says the Telegraph.
- “Reeves could take Starmer down with her” – The received wisdom in Westminster is that the fates of Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are intertwined. Does this mean she could take him down with her, asks the Telegraph.
- “Bosses to slash jobs and investment after shock property tax raid” – Hotel, pub and restaurant chiefs are preparing to cut investment and jobs after Rachel Reeves launched a stealth tax raid on the hospitality industry, according to the Telegraph.
- “Working families £18k worse off than benefit claimants after Budget” – Families on modest incomes will be £18,000 worse off than jobless parents claiming benefits following Rachel Reeves’s abolition of the two-child cap in the Budget, reports the Telegraph.
- “Surprise, surprise: The public sector is totally spared from the Budget pension raid” – In the Telegraph, Lord Mackinlay of Richborough says he’s worried that the Chancellor has private sector pensions in her sights.
- “Sir Tom Stoppard obituary: playful and prolific playwright” – Read the Times’s obituary of Tom Stoppard.
- “Mahmood to scrap asylum seekers’ taxpayer-funded taxis” – As reported in the Telegraph, The Home Secretary continues to audition for her role as a future leader… of the Conservative Party.
- “Brothers ‘drowned teenage sister in swamp in honour killing’, court hears” – Two Syrian brothers are on trial in the Netherlands accused of murdering their teenage sister over her “Western behaviour”, says the Telegraph.
- “Afghan charged with sexual assault and entering Britain illegally” – A 30 year-old Afghan man has been charged with sexual assaults on three women in Southampton as well as with illegally entering the UK, according to the Telegraph.
- “The Multiculturalism Paradox” – How identity-affirming policies fuel the competitive group dynamics that weaken national cohesion, writes Jowan Mahmod on his Substack.
- “I’m a criminal barrister. This is the real reason jury trials must not be scrapped” – In the Times, Adam King, a leading criminal barrister, defend the right to trial by jury.
- “Michael Gove: Cut jury trials and another lamp of liberty will fade” – The former justice secretary argues that David Lammy is pursuing a tempting quick fix without addressing the complex problems in our courts, repots the Times.
- “There are some crimes where only a jury can ensure justice” – There are already too many flimsy prosecutions for speech crimes, and the possibility of a jury acquitting in such cases needs to be kept alive, writes Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Lammy ditched portrait of late Queen for pan-African flags” – According to the Telegraph’s Craig Simpson, David Lammy’s Foreign Office removed a portrait of the late Queen in favour of pan-African flags.
- “Is Britain a free country?” – On his Substack, Ed West laments the state of free speech in the UK after a man was arrested for having a photograph of himself firing a shotgun in the United States
- “Trump declares airspace above Venezuela is to be closed entirely” – Warships and military personnel have moved into position near Venezuela in recent months, raising fears that Trump is preparing military action, reports the Mail.
- “Fear of AI beats climate change in Aussie poll” – Aussies are more worried their toaster will become self aware than they are about climate change, says Eric Worrall in WUWT?
- “Greta Thunberg launches tirade at Italian government at Rome protest” – In a recent speech, Greta Thunberg branded Georgia Meloni’s Government ‘fascist’ and said she felt “physically repulsed” thinking about the “war criminals in charge”, according to the Mail.
- “EV tax to drive up price of new petrol cars” – Rachel Reeves’s tax raid on electric vehicles is poised to push up the price of petrol and diesel cars as manufacturers ration them in order to meet net zero targets, says the Telegraph.
- “NPR’s climate ‘tipping points’ advocacy – three claims, zero evidence” – National Public Radio (NPR) recently posted an article titled, “3 massive changes you’ll see as the climate careens toward tipping points,” by Rebecca Hersher and Lauren Sommer, which claims that coral reefs, the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, and Arctic permafrost are approaching dangerous, near-irreversible climate ‘tipping points‘. WUWT? is unimpressed.
- “The downfall of Canada’s most influential ‘indigenous’ man” – It’s an awkward time in the upper echelons of the Canadian cultural establishment. It’s come to light that influential indigenous author and former broadcaster Thomas King, isn’t actually indigenous at all, writs Jane Stannus in the Spectator.
- “Ireland wants you to forget Chaim Herzog” – This week Dublin City Council voted to rename Herzog Park in the south of Dublin and launched a competition to see who could come up with the best alternative name, reports the Spectator. Hitler Park?
- “Cambridge University cosies up to Reform” – The Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University expects Nigel Farage to model his policies on Trump and says other Russell Group members are meeting his allies to see off a possible attack on funding, according to the Times.
- “How ‘woke virtue signalling’ ruined Dungeons & Dragons” – Long-time fans of the fantasy role-play game are unhappy about the Stranger Things generation invading their realm, reports Ed Power in the Telegraph.
- “I watched as Graham Linehan changed the way we police free speech” – The writer’s failed prosecution for harassment exposed trans activist tactics and may have persuaded the police to take trans complaints less seriously in future. Nick Wallis reports from inside the court in the Times.
- “Transgender castle owner drops lawsuit after NHS refused third sex change” – A transgender laird has dropped legal action against the NHS after it refused to carry out a third sex-change surgery, reports the Times.
- “NHS bosses offered £160k redundancy allowed back after six months” – NHS managers will be able to return to the health service six months after being paid up to £160,000 to quit, says the Telegraph.
- “Cash-strapped council spends £1,500 on LGBT bin carts” – A waste company owned by a debt-ridden Green-run council has spent £1,500 decorating street sweeper vehicles and bin carts with the trans-inclusive Pride flag, according to the Telegraph.
- “Your Party conference descends into all-out war” Your Party’s inaugural conference descended into all-out war as its two founding members turned on each other.
- “In the early 2000s this was a comedy sketch. In 2025 it’s the reality of living in the UK” – take a look at this satirical video produced in the early 2000s. It satirical policemen are very close to today’s police officers.
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The downfall of Canada’s most influential ‘indigenous’ man
Too good.
Comedy Gold. The man (fraud) is a ‘Pretendian’
‘It seems there had been rumours for years that King wasn’t really indigenous. In the end, it was the genealogists at the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds who got to him, an indigenous organisation dedicated to outing ‘Pretendians’,
King says he doesn’t deserve to be classed with that group, because his was an honest mistake.‘
‘believing on his mother’s say-so (but little other evidence, it seems) that his father, who abandoned the family early on, was part Cherokee.
Whether it was in good faith or not, when King came to Canada, he was able not only to dine out on his purported indigeneity, but to make it the central facet of a lucrative career. He taught indigenous studies, but also wrote books about being indigenous.’
Too busy to look into his own ‘Cherokee’ ancestry…clearly not interesting…Cherokees….just picking myself up of the floor….the ribs…….
Britain now requires a Parliamentary Alliance Against Frauds dedicated to outing Pretendonomists, Pretendstatistics, Pretendworkingclassmanofthepeople and that sort of thing…..
”Reeves must go for her Budget lies”….As if she acted independently without any knowledge or stamp of approval from her boss: Starmer, FGS. He needs to be held to account because he is the one who has the final say and gives the go-ahead to all the crap his Ministers come out with. Both organ grinder and monkey need to go; ”There’s a point in every scandal when the curtain drops and you see the thing as it really is. We’ve reached that moment. Until now, Labour’s defence was that Rachel Reeves went rogue – that she spun up a phantom black hole, misled the public, and panicked the markets all on her own. That alibi has just died. Downing Street has now admitted the truth: Keir Starmer knew there was no black hole. He saw the OBR’s positive forecasts. He read the speech. And he signed off the lie. This is no longer a story about one dishonest Chancellor. It is a story about a dishonest government. Reeves lied on 4 November because Starmer approved the script. She warned of a fiscal cliff that didn’t exist because Number 10 told her it would fly. She talked Britain into fear… Read more »
”BREAKING: Downing Street has reportedly admitted Keir Starmer knew there was no black hole in the Government’s finances.”
https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/1994934648854433845
This is the behaviour of a panicked government, the kind of behaviour you usually get to see towards the end of its term not 17 months in. And it’s clear as day to me that it wasn’t OBR who released the document, so cheers to whoever did that otherwise this wouldn’t have surfaced.
Now, the MSM is useless as expected, so my question is: what the hell were the Tories doing?
Nails it.
What’s the correlation between the size of the putative black hole and the demands of funding Miliband’s Net Zero?
Cash-strapped council spends £1,500 on LGBT bin carts
Cash-strapped? Nonsense! There’s plenty more where that came from.
Oh there’s always money for certain things, always.
The Dutch government sent a booklet to every household last week.
It contained the message that each person should prepare for emergencies and suggested to stock up for 3 days….
Apparently some households are having none of this and use ‘return to sender’ with the message that they don’t want the fear mongering.
A bit like Katie Hopkins sending the shirt of her back to Rachel Reeves…..
“Mahmood to scrap asylum seekers’ taxpayer-funded taxis”
Wow, that’ll show em, huh!
No taxi to the doctors!?
Immigration problem solved!
It’s a start though, but obviously leads to much bigger question – who in the hell approved that way of working in the first place? We never find out where it originated… which means to me it’s the civil service, they NEVER get pinned down
Too true 👍
— “How can I pretend to be taking decisive action against Fake Refugees from my ancestral homeland of Pakistan, while actually doing nothing, and letting The Muslim Army keep swarming in? It will help my campaign to replace Starmer. Any ideas?”
— “How about scrapping asylum-seekers’ taxpayer-funded taxis, and just quietly give them all taxpayer-funded chauffeurs instead? You know, just change the name without telling the public. You could even buy them all special chauffeur hats…”
— “You mean like we Muslims changed the name of “charging interest” on a bank loan to “charging a commission”, and then told the world we never practice “usury” in Islamic Finance?
— “Exactly! “