News Round-Up
- “All the times Reeves falsely claimed there was a Budget black hole” – The Telegraph has examined all the times Ms Reeves and government sources falsely claimed that Britain faced a multi-billion-pound hole in the public finances.
- “Reeves will be lucky if only punishment for this deceit is losing job” – The real issue is not whether the Chancellor will have to resign – or course she will – but whether she can avoid jail, says Dan Hodges in the Mail.
- “Labour’s lies have put Britain on the road to economic oblivion” – We are returning, for the first time since Denis Healey, to high taxation and high spending as moral choices, writes Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Forget the Budget fiasco. The OBR’s numbers are a complete fantasy” – In the Telegraph, Roger Bootle argues the OBR’s forecasts make fiscal policy a guessing game.
- “Life in the Universal Credit capital” – In the Mail, Piriyanga Thirunimalan reports from Lozells, Birmingham – Britain’s Universal Credit capital – where locals vent over widespread benefit fraud and a lack of jobs, warning that recent Budget changes, like scrapping the two-child benefit cap, will only fuel the crisis.
- “Tense moment Reeves refuses to meet Kemi Badenoch’s eye in TV showdown” – Rachel Reeves looked away as she was stared down by Kemi Badenoch on screen before their separate interviews on the BBC, reports the Mail.
- “Britain’s economy will soon be overtaken by Lithuania unless we act now” – We cannot afford another wasted year of high tax and low growth, warns Matthew Elliott in the Telegraph.
- “Andy Burnham’s taxpayer-backed Skyscraper tycoon moves to Monaco” – A wealthy property tycoon who was handed more than £700 million in taxpayer loans by Andy Burnham’s Manchester authority has moved to Monaco, reports the Telegraph.
- “Angela Rayner faces fresh tax controversy over Westminster flat” – Angela Rayner’s housing arrangements have come under fresh attack after she was accused of trying to dodge her own council tax surcharge on her grace-and-favour home, according to the Mail.
- “UK asylum seekers to be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments” – Asylum seekers will be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments after it was revealed the Home Office spends about £15.8 million a year on the service, reports the Guardian.
- “Migrant, 30, ‘who entered UK illegally’ charged with sexual assault of three women” – A migrant has been charged after allegedly sexually assaulting three women in the space of five days, says the Sun.
- “The Race Relations Act and the origins of two-tier justice” – Britain’s ‘two-tier justice’ dates back to the Race Relations Act 1965, writes Laurie Wastell in Pimlico Journal. It criminalised speech, politicised policing and hard-wired anti-racism into the state.
- “Fury as prisoners dine on chicken takeaways in cells at scandal-hit jail” – Lags dined on smuggled-in takeaways in their cells at a jail that had already let out three prisoners by mistake and where an officer had sex with an inmate, reports the Sun.
- “Cambridge reaches out to Reform over fears of anti-woke crackdown” – Cambridge University has reached out to Reform UK amid fears Nigel Farage could cut funding to higher education if he leads the next government, says the Mail.
- “GB News contributor in racism row after Pakistani HoC post” – A GB News contributor is at the centre of a racism row after saying that Deputy Speaker Nusrat Ghani shouldn’t be allowed in the House of Commons because she was born in Pakistan, reports the Mail.
- “The BBC’s staggering hypocrisy on anti-Semitism” – The BBC works with journalists who literally want to ‘gas the Jews’ and yet it thinks it can lecture Nigel Farage? Please, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Banning Tel Aviv football fans was anti-Semitic, says Israel” – Israel has accused West Midland Police of risking “inflaming tensions” with its “anti-Semitic” ban of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans to Aston Villa’s grounds, reports the Mail.
- “The problem with Islam is the violence at its heart” – In TCW, Gillian Dymond argues that the core issue with Islam lies in its unchanging, violent foundations.
- “Cutting jury trials will undermine free speech, Lammy warned” – Research by the Free Speech Union has found defendants accused of speech crimes were almost twice as likely to be found not guilty in a crown court, where juries determine verdicts, as they were in magistrates’ courts, where there are no juries, according to the Telegraph.
- “Culture matters: that was Peter Whittle’s message to the British Right” – Too many conservatives for too long felt the crucial battles were about economics, says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph. The late Peter Whittle helped to correct that error.
- “Why is my energy bill even higher” – Gas prices down, but the energy cap has gone up. What is going on? wonders David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
- “Foreign steel is fuelling Britain’s Net Zero drive” – In the Telegraph, Matt Oliver reports that UK steel mills face high costs and need stronger government backing to compete.
- “Cabinet split over plans for solar farm near Miliband’s constituency” – Labour has been accused of “astonishing hypocrisy” after it emerged that two ministers are trying to torpedo a vast solar farm near Ed Miliband’s constituency, reports the Mail.
- “Study: 2010 Russian heat wave not caused by ‘climate change’” – A new study shows the 2010 Russian heatwave was mainly caused by natural surface dynamics and aerosols, not climate change, reports Anthony Watts in WUWT?
- “Drip, drip, drip” – In Climate Scepticism, Mark Hodgson takes aim at a Guardian climate scare story blaming drought on climate change.
- “European climate change activists forced to pay more than $1 million over protest damages” – European climate activists from Last Generation must pay over $1.28 million for disrupting Lufthansa flights, or face two years in prison – a ruling set to shake up future climate protests across Europe, reports Blaze.
- “A vindication of Bjorn Lomborg” – Lomborg’s ordeal shows what happens when a researcher challenges a powerful narrative with inconvenient numbers, writes Marian L. Tupy in Quillette.
- “Dublin park honouring Israeli president could be renamed ‘Free Palestine Park’” – The name of a former president of Israel is set to be removed from a public park in Rathgar, South Dublin, with Dublin City councillors expected to approve the change, according to the Irish Times.
- “Switzerland rejects 50% wealth tax over fears of millionaire exodus” – Switzerland has rejected plans for a new tax on the super-rich after wealthy residents threatened to leave the country, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why cutting aid to buy bombs is making us less safe” – The West’s retreat from global development is leaving the door wide open for China, warns ex-Army chief Lord Dannatt on the Telegraph’s Battle Lines podcast.
- “Fauci met Baric back in 2003” – On Substack, Jim Haslam recounts Dr Raszek’s timeline of gain-of-function work from the 1990s to Covid.
- “mRNA Covid jabs should never have been approved for children or young adults” – On Substack, Alex Berenson says mRNA Covid shots for kids were a disaster from the start – companies knew they didn’t work and hid deadly side effects.
- “I grew up in a cult that said gay men were evil. After escaping, I found trans ideology was worse” – The homophobia that permeated Ben Appel’s childhood was nothing compared to the woke extremism he encountered at university, writes Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
- “The banks of this world know it’s not going to happen” – Self-made oil tycoon Dan Peña delivers a truly brutal smackdown of a climate change zombie.
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“The West’s retreat from global development is leaving the door wide open for China, warns ex-Army chief Lord Dannatt”
Yeah all that global development we’ve been funding has worked out so well for us and the grifters who’ve mainly got hold of the aid money. How about we develop ourselves and let other countries worry about themselves. Who was sending aid to Britain during the Industrial Revolution?
“Britain’s ‘two-tier justice’ dates back to the Race Relations Act 1965, writes Laurie Wastell in Pimlico Journal. It criminalised speech, politicised policing and hard-wired anti-racism into the state.”
Thank you Mr Wastell for pointing this out.
Ultimately it hard-wired anti-whitism into the state. Why? Why has the governing class in almost every rich world country by hook or by crook tried to maximise the influx of non whites into their countries despite the relative negative reaction of the indigenous population, in parallel with desperate attempts to suppress dissent?
Spot on! That 1965 Act was shoved through the UK Parliament in the SAME YEAR as similar legislation was shoved through the US Congress, and both had the same result of Opening the Gates to Third World Invasion. At least in the States, American war widows did not suffer the appalling threats suffered by grieving British War Widows, who were threatened by the British government with heavy fines and even imprisonment if they refused to welcome Ethnic Africans into their own homes as Bed & Breakfast lodgers, to cook and clean for them and wash their laundry, and let them sleep in the empty beds of the widows’ dead children, while taking jobs denied to British War Veterans. It was Communist Traitor Clement Attlee who started rounding up 100,000 Indigenous British children from poor families after the war and forcibly transporting them to Australia like Tiny Criminals, while refusing to let their parents go with them, and assuring their parents that they would be living a wonderful life abroad. It was Traitor Attlee who also started importing 200,000 Ethnic Africans & Ethnic Indian Subcontinentals to take the jobs denied to the British War Veterans who survived the Mass Slaughter of… Read more »
What better way to decimate The White Man and force Miscegenation, just like ex-French President Sarkozy once vowed to force Miscegenation upon the Indigenous French people?
Kill off the White Men in WW1 & WW2, send 100,000 poor White Children to an island thousands of miles away, import 200,000 unvetted Third World Ethnics, force British War Widows to welcome them into their homes, and give them preferential treatment over White Men in job applications.
Since none of these Third World Ethnic lodgers were vetted for criminality in their countries of origin, it would be interesting to know the police records for rapes of British War Widows in their own homes by these lodgers, and the resulting offspring of FORCED MISCEGENATION.
That Act was primarily to eliminate “discrimination” in the work place by pressure on employers from trades unions, and trades unions refusing membership to immigrants who were imported as cheap labour, undercutting wages and displacing British workers.
Cheap imported labour was essential to bankrupt Governments to try to reduce the huge payroll expense in the State-run industries, and public services, particularly the NHS.
Racism then, as now, was the excuse for legislation but in fact there were so few immigrants, less than 1% of the population in the early 60s, that it could not possibly be a widespread social problem.
Well there were supposedly race riots in Notting Hill in 1958, and in 1968 Powell was sacked for his speech. Why did the 65 act contain provisions regarding incitement?
I believe in free speech and that global warming is a scam, but does DS really need to give space to Dan Pena’s foul mouthed rant?
Clean it up guys.
Words are words, sticks and stones and all that stuff. See past it and see the message. Would banks really destroy themselves if they believed in the climate fairy story?
I think you can assume he is fairly cross at the nonsense of climate emergency etc
I have to agree. Dan Peña is arrogant and direct and uses expletives that are common verbiage in US. But I agree that 3 decades of this lying, manipulative, guilt-tripping scam might even drive me to come out with a few of those words. And his message is absolutely right; banks and people like Gore don’t believe in sea level rise either. My own experiences confirm this. There is a very small tidal range in the Mediterranean- if average sea levels had risen in the 5 decades I’ve been visiting and working there it would have been measureable. Instead it’s not.
Ive just read a story on GB News about a road closure on the M5 in Somerset.
The incident is described as, and I quote, ‘police-led incident’…..???
In another unrelated road closure on the A13 in Kent this incident was described as ‘a serious collision which occurred off network’…???
What the Fu@k is all this gobbledygook?
Its obvious when the authorities start speaking in tongues like this there’s something they are hiding! and they wonder why the public don’t trust them anymore!
For a guess, these ‘incidents’ are to do with batteries or immigrants!
Good point! It’s like the news reports of a Vehicular Jihadist in a lorry running down schoolkids, or a mother with a baby in a pram, or a cyclist riding carefully along the side of the road, minding his own business, and the news describes it as “Children Collide with Lorry”, or ” Mother with Pram involved in Collision with Van”, or “Cyclist in Collision with Vehicle”, as if really it’s all their fault.
Can Lord Dannatt provide any evidence we have been supporting “global development” over the past decaded. It seems to me we have been promoting every woke and market destroying, anti-democratic scam the left could dream of.
If we really were trying to promote development we were utterly unsuccessful. Just compare the economic development of Kenya and South Korea as evidence. Or justify our aid to Singapore, China and India.
What Vina wants is strategic minerals, ports and territory. They get it by bribing politicians, importing their own citizens and building the installations themselves. Apart from open cast mining by juveniles China seems to promote little local employment and zero local development.
“The real issue is not whether the Chancellor will have to resign – o(f) course she will…”
Oh please, oh please. All I want for Christmas is a General Election. I hope Rach takes 2TK down with her – surely his position will be untenable if she goes.
Who then – if this doesn’t take the whole gov down – will they replace him with?
Rayner is surely damaged goods by this point, Lammy, yeah, don’t make me laugh.
Burnham?
All three of the main political parties have utterly disgraced themselves in the eyes of the public, and deserve to be wiped out. Britain survived and thrived for more than a thousand years WITHOUT ANY POLITICAL PARTIES, which were only introduced in the UK Parliament a couple of centuries ago.
Whilst the sentiment to get rid of this execrable passel of nitwits is understandable, since Reform UK is the only hope, the problem there is they are not quite ready.
Nigel Farage has his sights set on 2027 – others too in the Commentariat have opined that year will see the end of the Labour Government – which would see him with Party infrastructure, candidates in place, ready to run an effective campaign and form a functioning government.
I think it will be no bad thing for people to get a real good dose of the disaster that is upon us, to accept major structural change – such as no more welfare state.
Burnham is a ruddy crook and just like the current stock.
I have no doubt – I just wondered if he might be their choice, given the glaring lack of credible candidates.
“The Race Relations Act and the origins of two-tier justice” – Britain’s ‘two-tier justice’ dates back to the Race Relations Act 1965, writes Laurie Wastell in Pimlico Journal.”
This is a fantastic article by Laurie Wastell, courageously pointing out the true origin of two-tier justice. May I repeat two crucial quotes from his article:
— “Dissenting opinions on the topic, rather than being engaged with, were simply rendered illegal. Britain’s new multicultural identity was imposed top-down, with the full force of the law.”
— “Today, in a period of demographic change that has been shockingly rapid and entirely unconsented to, we must be able to speak freely about the future of our nation. For that to be possible, our great repeal must not stop at the oft-cited and admittedly egregious Blair-era restrictions. It must remove the full body of law that restricts our freedoms, so we might conform our politics to the sentiments of the people — not the other way around.”
Welfare, before the State nationalised it, used to be called the voluntary sector, charity. It was well established and widespread and functioned well. Like our nationwide health service of fully staffed 2 750 hospitals and 480 000 beds, and plenty of GPs, prior to it being consumed by the State in 1948 and regurgitated as the NHS.
Nobody in those days wanted charity because it was a benefit. In fact people were ashamed they needed it. Welfare on the other hand is a benefit for those on it, and a matter of pride.
In the 1950s, not long after “welfare” had been established, nobody was entitled to it unless they had worked and got enough stamps on their cards. School-leavers did not get it. Dole payments were minimal and had to be collected at the dole office where jobs were advertised. Dole recipients were offered jobs and if they turned three down, or didn’t last in them, no more dole.
The OBR says: “This event is an object lesson in the challenges faced by small organisations to keep pace with online developments, options and threats. Although it is not our business to advise others, at the urging of our expert adviser we would encourage other agencies of government handling sensitive material to use this event as a prompt to review their own arrangements.” I observe their funding is totally assured, unlike businesses who have toi graft for every order. Their staff is 55 and they are pretending their status as a wholly owned and wholly financed quango of government puts them in the same position as a private small business. Small businesses in the regulated sector get no leeway from the FCA. A mistake on a par with this would result in big fines for the organisation and possibly fines and career changing restrictions on one or more directors or responsible officers. It is unacceptable for the OBR to walk away from such a failure with no accountability. It reminds me of the College of policing about which I recently posted. See below. Government departments and quangos don’t know they are born. College of policing Accounts and annual report to… Read more »