News Round-Up
- “Starmer accused of forcing out OBR head for ‘telling the truth’ about Reeves’ Budget lies in PMQs hammering – and urged to sack Chancellor” – Keir Starmer has been accused of forcing out the OBR head for “telling the truth” about the Chancellor’s Budget lies, reports the Mail.
- “Fears Rachel Reeves might have to return for more tax as OBR chief warns Government’s books are still vulnerable after Budget – with welfare costs rising” – There are fears Rachel Reeves might be back for even more tax after the Treasury watchdog warned that the public finances are still vulnerable, says the Mail.
- “Starmer and Reeves are now a threat to British democracy” – Labour were elected on a dishonest manifesto – the Prime Minister and Chancellor must resign, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “I’ve claimed Universal Credit for the last six years – work simply isn’t worth it” – In the Telegraph, Erica Crompton shows how Universal Credit beats low-wage work hands down, proving why for many, working just isn’t worth it anymore.
- “Labour’s blatantly unfair benefits splurge will tear this country apart” – Making working parents pay to support non-working parents’ children is not only illogical, but a complete betrayal of the social contract, warns Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Reeves may have survived disaster Budget but it has destroyed faith in Labour” – Rachel Reeves’s latest Budget has wiped out public trust in Labour’s economic management, says the Sun.
- “Labour lies because its policies are evil” – In TCW, Sean Walsh uses a brutal doctor-and-spouse analogy to argue Labour hasn’t just lied on the Budget but has slid into authoritarian moral rot.
- “Why Reform fears a Tory comeback” – Rumours of a Reform-Tory pact are just like Doctor Who – they never die, only regenerate, says the Telegraph.
- “Farage denies plotting election pact deal with Tories” – Nigel Farage has denied plotting a deal with the Tories before the next general election, according to the Telegraph.
- “Migrant staying in asylum hotel ‘raped and sexually assaulted crying woman who secretly recorded attack on her phone to snare him’” – A migrant staying in an asylum seeker hotel raped and sexually assaulted a crying woman who secretly recorded the attack on her phone, reports the Mail.
- “Teenage cadets kicked out of camp after defence chiefs admit it will no longer be safe when 600 male migrants are moved there” – Cadets have been ordered to leave their long-standing training camp in Crowborough to make way for 600 illegal migrants, says the Mail.
- “What the Blob doesn’t want you to know about ethnicity and crime” – In the Spectator, our own Laurie Wastell blasts the Blob for fighting transparency on crime and ethnicity.
- “Brit, 50, who was thrown in a cell ‘for posting holiday photos holding a gun’ says he plans to sue ‘the thought police’ who arrested him” – A businessman who was thrown into a police cell after posting holiday photos of himself holding a shotgun plans to sue the ‘thought police’ who arrested him and leave Britain for good, reports the Mail.
- “Priests must grasp that welfare benefits have a cost” – Clergy will not be taken seriously if they fail to appreciate that their worthy demands will always have a cost that has to be borne by the taxpaer, says Nigel Biggar in the Telegraph.
- “Teacher training in England and Wales, 1833–1994” – On the Real Education Policy Forum Substack, Prof Anthony O’Hear charts how teacher training lurched from a craft to an ideology as the state tightened its grip from the 1830s to 1994.
- “Junior doctors are striking for the wrong reason” – Junior doctors aren’t really striking for pay but because they want jobs being handed to overseas recruits, writes Druin Burch in the Spectator.
- “Miliband warned over surging reliance on gas amid data centre boom” – A new report warns Britain faces a surge in gas-fired power generation to meet demand from data centres unless construction of new nuclear plants can be sped up, reports the Telegraph.
- “Billions in green subsidies to be added to household bills” – Households face paying billions more in energy bills to fund green subsidy costs that were not outlined in Rachel Reeves’s Budget last week, says the Telegraph.
- “Claim: household bills are causing mental distress – but recycling more can help” – If you’re worried about green energy prices, apparently the solution is to recycle more, writes Eric Worrall in WUWT?
- “Tax the rich: the successor to Net Zero?” – On Master Resource, Robert Bradley Jr calls out Extinction Rebellion’s Roger Hallam for his doom-and-gloom Net Zero dogma.
- “Europe’s green transition sends energy costs soaring and industry fleeing” – Europe’s push for renewables has driven up electricity costs, squeezed industries and fuelled voter backlash across the continent, says Tom Fairless on Climate Change Dispatch.
- “Failure of a UN climate summit is great news for humanity!” – Trump 2.0 is poised to strike a fatal blow to the climate hold that has been oppressing America these past 33 years, writes Marc Morano on Real Clear Energy.
- “Sorry, NPR, there is no evidence that climate change made Hurricane Melissa worse for Jamaica” – NPR claims climate change sped up Hurricane Melissa, but the data don’t really back that up, says H. Sterling Burnett in Climate Realism.
- “What if we burned it all?” – It’s time to test the ultimate taboo: what really happens if we burn every bit of fossil fuel? asks Dr Matthew Wielicki on his Irrational Fear Substack.
- “Thousands of leftist protesters clash with thousands of police in a massive action to defend ‘Our Democracy’ against a few hundred AfD members” – On Substack, Eugyppius reports how a small AfD youth event in Gießen attracted thousands of leftists who swarmed the town to block it.
- “Trump freezes all immigration applications from 19 countries – as White House prepares to expand travel ban to more than 30 nations” – The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by immigrants from 19 non-European countries, citing concerns over national security and public safety, reports the Mail.
- “Trump may now abandon both Russia and Ukraine” – Stalled Kremlin talks raise the prospect of Trump walking away from peace talks entirely, writes Joe Barnes in the Telegraph.
- “Women’s Institute bans trans members” – Men will be banned from becoming members of the Women’s Institute from April next year, according to ITV News.
- “Are the Girl Guides ashamed of their trans ban?” – The Girl Guides have issued a hand-wringing apology for banning biological males from joining their ranks, but many former Brownies will be cock-a-hoop, writes Joanna Williams in the Spectator.
- “This is the most authoritarian move the Government has made to date – and it’s a pretty high bar” – If you care about the right to trial by jury – and about free speech – Toby urges you to sign the Free Speech Union’s Save Jury Trials petition.
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As correlation does not prove causation, I’m sure this is nothing more than pure coincidence and these two issues are entirely unrelated;
”Fresh analysis has revealed that nearly one in three school pupils in Glasgow do not speak English as their first language.
Figures from the Scottish government showed that 28.8 per cent of students in the country’s largest city speak English as an additional language (EAL).
The data also found that the number of pupils speaking English as an additional language has risen sharply, up nearly a third since 2019 when it stood at 22.5 per cent.
In Glasgow, 20,717 of the city’s 71,957 pupils are now classed as EAL students, according to figures collected in September last year.”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/glasgow-one-in-three-children-does-not-speak-english-language
Not something I’d typically associate with Scotland. Anyone from that way remember Humza Yusuf speaking out about this? The fact such an Act even exists in the UK is mindboggling;
”Earlier today, I raised reports that over 1,200 women in Glasgow have needed treatment for FGM in the last five years.
Five years on from the FGM Protection Act, it still hasn’t been implemented. This failure to protect women and girls is completely unacceptable.”
https://x.com/AnnieWellsMSP/status/1995899840513880205
Who would have thought Gaelic speaking would have made such strides in Glasgow?
Truly shocking that girls are being mutilated in one of our “finest” British cities. Why is this not more widely known? Oh, wait a minute probably “Islamophobic” to point out that females have a right to bodily autonomy.
I think these are likely women who’ve had the barbaric assault done to them in their country of origin as young girls, but it’s only as they mature that complications arise. Therefore they’re seeking medical help in Glasgow as a result, maybe having been granted asylum there. There’s also the possibility of Somalian girls born in the UK and going back to Somalia in the school holidays to have this done. I read 99% of Somalian girls are victims of FGM.
Yes, but surely you would agree that MALES also have a right to bodily autonomy, and that it is “Truly shocking that BOYS are being mutilated in one of our finest British cities”.
It’s called CIRCUMCISION OF BABY BOYS, and over 200 baby boys die EVERY YEAR IN THE US from this BARBARIC RITUAL GENITAL MUTILATION, which should be banned worldwide for males and females.
The hospitals actually make money out of this DEPRAVED SAVAGERY, because they SELL THE CHOPPED-OFF FORESKINS for cosmetic and medical research.
Yes, ladies, it’s in your Rejuvenating Face Cream: Stem Cells from the Chopped-Off Foreskins of Baby Boys.
Jesus H. Wept. First I’ve heard of it. It’s long, so this is just an excerpt; ”A nation often reveals its future not in speeches or manifestos, but in bricks, land deeds and silent structures built to outlast the present. That is why the Issa brothers’ plan to build Britain’s largest Muslim cemetery in a Lancashire village of barely ten thousand souls is a marker for the country Britain is becoming, not the country it is now. You don’t build a burial ground with 12,000 plots – originally pitched at 35,000 – in a town of 10,815 people unless you are planning for a population that does not yet exist. You do not pair it with a 95-foot minaret mosque, a private medical complex and a string of mega mansions unless you are designing long-term religious, cultural and territorial dominance. This is not accommodation. It’s foresight. These men are not responding to current demand; they’re building infrastructure for the future population. The polite class talks about drainage and “visual impact on the green belt.” But that is the surface noise. The real issue is the quiet creation of parallel nations: separate ethnic, religious and cultural blocs anchored by land acquisition,… Read more »
They’re not here to integrate They’re here to colonise.
Too many people still have their heads in the sand.
And the government don’t care. They hate us.
Tuesday Morning – Aborfield
“Farage denies plotting election pact deal with Tories”
I would be deeply disappointed if it were necessary to have some kind of election pact, but then we have seen already how desperate the Far-Left blob will go to ‘save us from fascism’. The next GE will be the dirtiest dog fight we’ve ever seen in the UK with Labour, Libs and Greens. Who’s to say what might be necessary. Eyes on the prize.
The blob are desperate to stop Farage. I hope his security are the best.
I expect you are right – but will the two ‘main’ parties be able to muster enough money and local volunteers to carry out an effective political campaign? I suspect their failure is already baked in so the ‘dirty tricks’ are likely to come from the Lib Dems, the Greens, and the nationalist parties. And they may be judged as ‘not serious enough’ outside their traditional support.
It does also mean that Reform must be seen as ‘the most serious’ party – which may explain the current hyperventilating of the others.
“Labour’s blatantly unfair benefits splurge will tear this country apart”
I wondered when someone would notice that ‘reducing child poverty’ (a noble soundbite), is ‘reducing’ only the ‘poverty’ of the children of the Welfare Class, while the children of Working Class parents move closer to the bread line. Typical socialism.
I realised some time ago that the Far Left is a mental deficiency. They are unable to accept two different cases can be true simultaneously, then choose a compromise between them. They see only an issue that must be addressed regardless of when fixing one problem creates many others. It is stunted development, imo. I only didn’t mention this, because they will all qualify for a Motability car.
Curiously, if a person is good at Chess, you might expect them to think through the consequences of their moves, maybe three or four moves ahead. Maybe that’s what we need. Someone who’s good at Chess. Any ideas.?
“I’ve claimed Universal Credit for the last six years – work simply isn’t worth it
And if we then have to import cheap labour from abroad to do those jobs, it won’t be worth it for them, either. They’ll either have to work hard to qualify as lawyers, chancellors etc, or rely on Universal Credit.
“Why Reform fears a Tory comeback”
If Reform make the slightest move to engage with the Tories they are finished! I for one will not vote for them if they even entertain a merge
I stand with you shoulder-to-shoulder on this one, Dinger.
How can people be so foolish as to trust Nigel again, after he betrayed our trust so many times in the past, even ordering his own party’s candidates to STAND DOWN, not even refunding their deposits, and handing the previous election to the Tories!
Then there was Nigel kicking good people like Rupert Lowe out of Reform for advocating Deportation of Third World Invaders, and then Nigel adopting those same policies himself!
I’ve signed the FSU jury trial petition but puzzled by the choice not to set up a parliamentary one like the digital ID one- it would have had a wider circulation and impact
Talk about hypocrisy!
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/climate-tsar-air-miles-labour-hypcorisy-5HjdNs4_2/
“Migrant staying in asylum hotel ‘raped and sexually assaulted crying woman who secretly recorded attack on her phone to snare him’” There’s something creepy about this “crying woman’s” behaviour that night, as the Mail gives more details: “The woman had met up with friends in Bournemouth Pleasure Gardens on the night of June 13 and [Ethnic African Asylum Hotel Parasite] Callender was there. [Joining her and her friends??? Why???]” “Mr Pyne said: ‘At the end of the evening she went home in a taxi. ‘She had offered [Callender] a lift to the hotel where he was staying [ WHY?] because she was concerned about him being drunk and he had said no. ‘He turned up at her front door, she didn’t want him at her address [SHE HAD GIVEN HIM HER ADDRESS BEFOREHAND??? Why???], but ALLOWED HIM TO COME IN and eventually agreed to LET HIM STAY OVERNIGHT [What!!!??? Why???]. [And she obviously had time to set her phone up beforehand to record his expected sexual assault ???] ‘She pushed his hands away but he persisted against her wishes. ‘She describes the measures she took to try to stop him – most obviously, the word no said repeatedly, “I don’t want… Read more »