Didn’t see that coming. Isn’t Jacob Rees-Mogg supposed to be a toxic reactionary type?
"The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils."–Enoch Powell, 1968
As Jacob Rees-Mogg suggests, that's the most terrible opening line ever. We know: "The supreme function of statesmanship is to cause preventable evils."https://t.co/o9R26LLc9U
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) August 6, 2024
I don’t know that I’ve ever written two extra posts on the weekend, but I’m just dumbstruck by what’s happening in the UK right now, and how it’s simply not showing up at all in the US mainstream media. As most of my readers are Americans, you need to know what’s happening.
There are riots and various violent civil disturbances all over Britain right now, all having to do with ethnic and religious clashes. If you are on Twitter/X, you may be up to speed. But most people aren’t.
🇬🇧Immigrant Machete fight 2 days ago in the streets of England while the police just stand and watch
💥 Britain is popping off
🛎️ Follow to Stay Informed #Hull #Stoke #StopTheBoats #SaveOurChildren #TwoTierKeir #Sunderland #Southport #Liverpool #Belfast #UK #Bradford… https://t.co/Yb6UOZDWZy pic.twitter.com/6GMGl3YF9c— Culture War (@CultureWar2020) August 3, 2024
Weeks of unrest have revealed tensions, anger and a collapse in social trust that can no longer be ignored.
The UK feels like a powder keg, threatening to explode at any moment. Recent events have exposed a simmering national anger and a pervasive sense that our social fabric is fraying beyond repair. Last week’s Manchester Airport altercation, the riots in Harehills, Leeds last month and the heinous murder of three innocent little girls in Southport earlier this week have all created an alarmingly volatile atmosphere.
Fears far-Right riots could erupt in a dozen cities tonight
A further wave of far-Right disruption is expected across the UK following the killings of three young girls in Southport.
Violent extremists are planning to descend on more than a dozen cities and towns in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, according to reports.
*Hope not Hate, the anti-racism charity, has warned demonstrations are being planned for London, Aldershot, Sunderland, Hull, Liverpool, Cardiff and Manchester.
*Hope Not Hate” is the Brit equivalent of the SPLC or CAHN, far left smear groups that support Antifa.
Starmer should have acknowledged that these protests didn’t spring out of nowhere, that they have nothing to do with a mythical ‘far right,’ and that a sense of injustice has been brewing for years over what looks like the deliberate destruction of our society and replacement of… https://t.co/jaBjmHEZZ5
— Pat Condell (@patcondell) August 2, 2024
An immigrant or child of immigrant goes on a killing rampage and the government goes after phantom “far right” threat. Is this a speech to usher in a slew of censorship measures on Islamophobia? https://t.co/t7uirwiUh4
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali (@Ayaan) August 1, 2024
How can you tell this guy isn’t a Muslim?
Mostly peaceful repeated punches to a restrained man’s face from the StarmTroopers.
— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) August 1, 2024
Brawl between stick-wielding walkers erupts at Peak District beauty spot
Police were called to a popular beauty spot in the Peak District after a fight broke out between several people wielding large sticks.
Video footage of the incident shows onlookers watching as several men attack each other at the stepping stones in Dovedale National Nature Reserve on Saturday afternoon.
The National Trust said the incident occurred as two groups of walkers tried to cross in opposite directions, despite the fact the stepping stones are currently closed.
There was much hand-wringing from @BBCCountryfile that ethnic minorities felt afraid to go to the countryside.
At the Stepping Stones in Dovedale in the Peak District, we have Muslims, hijabs, burkas & a fight with weapons. pic.twitter.com/gOLXpbiRIW
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) July 29, 2024
Pro-Palestinian MPs have become effectively the sixth largest party after five independent candidates unseated Labour rivals on Thursday.
One candidate, Shockat Adam, said “this is for the people of Gaza!” after being elected the MP for Leicester South, while holding up a Palestinian keffiyeh scarf.
Another independent, Ayoub Khan, who won in Birmingham Perry Barr, had previously quit the Liberal Democrats after appearing to question the Oct 7 massacre and refusing to go on an anti-Semitism training course.
The successful Muslim vote campaign is a snapshot of things to come.
Much of the focus on the 2024 general election will be on Labour’s landslide, the impressive Liberal Democrat performance, and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage finally entering the House of Commons. But the victories for a string of pro-Gaza independents should not be ignored.
While Left-wing maverick and leader of the Workers Party of Britain George Galloway failed to win in Rochdale, pro-Gaza independents elected include former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North, Ayoub Khan in Birmingham Perry Barr, Adnan Hussain in Blackburn, Iqbal Mohamed in Dewsbury and Batley, and Shockat Adam in Leicester South (where Labour heavyweight Jonathan Ashworth was defeated). Pro-Gaza independent Leanne Mohamad nearly pulled off an astonishing win in Ilford North, where Wes Streeting now has a majority of just 528 votes.
Sir Keir Starmer has become the UK’s first Labour prime minister since 2010 after his party’s landslide general election victory.
Labour is returning to power with a huge parliamentary majority of 174, following a collapse in support for the Conservatives.
Sir Keir has been formally appointed by the King at Buckingham Palace, replacing Tory leader Rishi Sunak, and will soon make his first speech in Downing Street.
Sir Keir Starmer has walked out of Buckingham Palace as the UK’s new prime minister, after holding an audience with King Charles III.
He will now travel to Downing Street to give his first speech as PMhttps://t.co/fT2zvfjYxd pic.twitter.com/pJekFHLI7Y
— ITV News (@itvnews) July 5, 2024
Nigel Farage understands the zeitgeist better than anyone – and the people of Clacton know it
In the end it was a walk-over. Having tried, and failed, on seven occasions to win a seat in Parliament, the most controversial, disruptive, and in many ways most significant, British
politician of the last 25 years finally won the opportunity to fulfil his promise to sit in the House of Commons and “make a bloody nuisance” of himself.
Wearing a mid-blue suit and tie and a Cheshire cat grin, Farage, 60, overturned a Conservative majority of 24,702 to win the Clacton seat, displaying an undisguised glee not only at his own result, but at the performance of Reform candidates across the country exceeding even Farage’s most optimistic expectations, and at the cost of the Conservative party that he clearly despises.
Note – Reform has won 4 seats.
Telegraph is posting good results now
Tories on course for a bloody night, exit polls indicate a Labour landslide.
Twitter – #UKElection2024
It seems all but certain that the Conservative Party will face a historic wipeout in the coming UK General Election. While we often see comparisons with New Labour’s landslide in 1997, which pushed the Tories out of power for 13 years, there is an even more striking precedent – namely, the fate that befell their Canadian counterparts just over 30 years ago.
Labour is on track to win the largest majority of any party in modern history amid evidence that voters are rejecting Rishi Sunak’s plea not to hand Sir Keir Starmer a landslide victory.
The final large-scale YouGov poll of the campaign finds that the Conservatives will be reduced to just 102 MPs, losing more than 70 per cent of the seats the party won five years ago.
Labour is expected to win 431 seats, giving Starmer a landslide majority of 212 — surpassing Tony Blair’s 1997 victory and making him the most successful leader in electoral terms. If confirmed on Friday it would also be the largest majority for any single party since 1832.
Why they elected Sunak is beyond me.
The election in the United Kingdom next week will mark another stumbled step in the descent of Britain into unprecedented political absurdity. It will bring in the sixth prime minister in eight years, a performance rivalling Third and Fourth Republic France, when General de Gaulle said that he often could not remember the name of the current head of the French government, so rapid was their turnover. (He was the only person in the history of France who served in cabinets in three different Republics.) The only time in British history when there has been such a frequent rotation of prime ministers was between 1827 and 1835, (Liverpool, Canning, Goderich, Wellington, Grey, Peel, and Melbourne, but Liverpool governed for 15 years, Grey for four, and Melbourne for six, and Canning died in office; all of them were statesmen of considerable or even great stature). The present cavalcade has been a broadening shambles, unlike anything in modern British history. It is almost certain to continue, as there is no indication that the incoming prime minister, Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, possesses what will be required to bring Britain out of this nosedive. The only leader in the history of the Labour Party capable of winning consecutive full terms in office was Tony Blair, and that was largely because Margaret Thatcher and John Major had left the country in such excellent condition. Starmer has no such good fortune and there is no indication that he possesses any comparable aptitude to govern.
A campaigner for Nigel Farage has told voters that illegal migrants should be used for army “target practice” and that mosques should be turned into pubs.
In the latest scandal to hit Reform UK, undercover reporters from Channel 4 recorded an activist in Clacton advocating shooting people arriving by boat and describing Rishi Sunak as a “f***ing P***”.
They also filmed a senior aide to the Reform leader putting forward a vision for the party in government, saying “our police officers will be paramilitaries” and that “we’re going to bring back the noose”.
Reform leader says the ‘ever-eastward expansion of Nato and the EU’ gave Vladimir Putin a reason to justify war
The West provoked Russia into invading Ukraine, Nigel Farage has said.
The Reform UK leader said that the “ever-eastward expansion of Nato and the European Union” gave Vladimir Putin a reason to justify war.
The comments in a BBC Panorama interview with Nick Robinson echo arguments made by Donald Trump, the former US president and friend of Mr Farage.
Rural Alberta may be a continent away from the faded British seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea, but Nigel Farage believes both places will be remembered for starting political revolutions.
Already a familiar face to Britons, Farage has injected some drama into an otherwise staid British general election that the Labour Party under leader Keir Starmer appears well on its way to winning.
Farage, instead, has set his sights on the Conservatives, transforming his political party, Reform UK, into a rising political force that appears to be siphoning off their votes.
