MEME MONDAY #10

Smacking bans, slavery reparations, the death of a political prisoner and more...

Mon 21 Oct - 105 Facebook shares

Tues 22 Oct - 400 shares

Wed 23 Oct - 369 shares

Thurs 24 Oct - 94 shares

Fri 25 Oct - 247 shares

Sat 26 Oct - 57 shares

Sat 26 Oct - 143 shares

Sun 27 Oct - 64 shares

Sun 27 Oct - 74 shares

MIKE AMESBURY SUSPENDED

Labour have suspended MP Mike Amesbury following an assault in the early hours of Saturday morning in Frodsham, Cheshire.

The Daily Mail have obtained CCTV footage which shows the 55-year-old MP for Runcorn and Helsby punching a constituent and then repeatedly punching him as he lay on the ground.  In a separate video filmed by a witness, Amesbury is heard pointing and telling the man: "You won’t threaten the MP ever again, will you?"  The man's body language in the CCTV footage does not appear threatening and he is not even looking at Amesbury when the MP sucker punches him.

Watch the clip below.

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 24.10.24

A total of 13 seats were available in this week's round of by-elections, with Labour defending six of them.  It was yet another grim set of results for them, with three of those seats lost to the Conservatives.  Labour finished last in two contests, while the vote share was also down in all 11 of the seats it contested - including some huge margins.  It was down 31.4 per cent in Calderdale, 26.3 per cent in South Ribble and 30.2 per cent in Surrey Heath.

Muscliff & Strouden Park - Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council

Con: 1,008 (42.3%) +16.4%

Lab: 424 (17.8%) -3.0%

Ind: 406 (17.0%) New

Ind: 188 (7.9%) New

LDm: 174 (7.3%) +1.9%

Ind: 100 (4.2%) New

Grn: 84 (3.5%) New

Con GAIN from Ind

Calder - Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Lab: 1,009 (36.3%) -31.4%

Grn: 784 (28.2%) +13.8%

LDm: 410 (14.6%) +9.6%

Ind: 316 (11.4%) New

Con: 251 (9.0%) -3.9%

SDP: 12 (0.4%) New

Lab HOLD

Northgate & West Green - Crawley Borough Council

Lab: 704 (38.5%) -15.0%

Con: 492 (26.9%) -2.0%

Ref: 292 (16.0%) New

Grn: 174 (9.5%) -3.0%

WPB: 133 (7.3%) New

TUS: 35 (1.9%) -3.2%

Lab HOLD

Prestatyn North - Denbighshire County Council

Con: 295 (25.9%) +0.1%

Ind: 221 (19.4%) New

Ref: 218 (19.2%) New

Lab: 212 (18.6%) -18.7%

Plaid: 169 (14.9%) -4.4%

LDm: 33 (2.0%) New

Con GAIN from Lab

Croft - East Lindsey District Council

Con: 198 (46.5%)

Ind: 79 (18.5%)

LDm: 75 (17.6%)

Ind: 48 (11.3%)

Grn: 21 (4.9%)

Lab: 5 (1.2%)

Con HOLD (previously elected unopposed)

Whickham North - Gateshead Borough Council

LDm: 902 (64.6%) +6.7%

Lab: 285 (20.4%) -6.3%

Con: 137 (9.8%) +0.9%

Grn: 72 (5.2%) -1.3%

LDm HOLD

Talybolion - Isle of Anglesey County Council

Ind: 678 (51.6%) +24.6%

Plaid: 518 (39.4%) -9.6%

Con: 72 (5.5%) -14.5%

Grn: 46 (3.5%) +0.5%

Ind GAIN from Plaid

Hemlington - Middlesbrough Borough Council

Lab: 422 (53.1%) -10.2%

Con: 251 (31.6%) +16.0%

Ind: 55 (6.9%) New

WPB: 47 (5.9%) New

LDm: 20 (2.5%) New

Lab HOLD

Town - Monmouthshire County Council

Con: 350 (58.9%) +29.9%

Lab: 184 (31.0%) -15.3%

LDm: 41 (6.9%) -1.6%

Grn: 19 (3.2%) New

Con GAIN from Lab

Barton & Becton - New Forest District Council

Con: 671 (57.1%) -0.9%

LDm: 505 (42.9%) +18.9%

Con HOLD

Histon & Impington - South Cambridgeshire District Council

LDm: 942 (38.7%) -2.3%

Ind: 617 (25.3%) +4.1%

Grn: 420 (17.3%) +5.8%

Con: 283 (11.6%) -0.1%

Lab: 172 (7.1%) -7.4%

LDm HOLD

Middleforth - South Ribble Borough Council

Con: 517 (46.3%) +21.7%

Lab: 362 (32.4%) -26.3%

LDm: 173 (15.5%) -0.9%

Grn: 64 (5.7%) New

Con GAIN from Lab

Old Dean - Surrey Heath Borough Council

LDm: 394 (44.7%) New

Con: 278 (31.6%) -27.3%

Ref: 109 (12.4%) New

Lab: 96 (10.9%) -30.2%

Ind: 4 (0.5%) New

LDm GAIN from Con

Abbreviations

Con = Conservative

Lab = Labour

LDm = Liberal Democrat

Grn = Green

SDP = Social Democratic Party

Ref = Reform UK

WPB = Workers Party of Britain

TUS = Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition

Plaid = Plaid Cymru

Ind = Independents and local groups

TRUMP FILES LABOUR COMPLAINT

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump

Two weeks before the US presidential election a major row has blown up between US Republicans and UK Labour.  Last weekend close Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a screenshot to her X account, accusing Labour of breaking US federal law by getting directly involved in the forthcoming election.

The screenshot (see below) came from the LinkedIn account of Sofia Patel, whose role is 'Head of Operations at the Labour Party'.  Patel was advertising for volunteers to travel across to the United States and campaign for Kamala Harris in the key state of North Carolina.  She boasted of almost 100 Labour colleagues already heading out to North Carolina and other key states in the tightly contested election.

"Foreign nationals are not allowed to be involved in anyway in U.S. elections," wrote Taylor Greene, an outspoken Congresswoman from Georgia.  She added:  "Please go back to the UK and fix your own mass immigration problems that are ruining your country".  Boom!

On Tuesday the Trump campaign formally complained to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in the US, accusing Labour of 'blatant foreign interference' in the election.  They claim that the offer of accommodation from Patel - "we will sort your housing" - amounts to a foreign contribution to the Harris campaign, which is against FEC law.

The six page complaint also refers to newspaper reports that senior Labour officials have met with the Harris team to offer tactical advice on securing victory in the forthcoming election.  These officials are exceptionally close to Keir Starmer and are named as follows:

Morgan McSweeney, Downing Street Chief of Staff

Matthew Doyle, Downing Street Director of Communications

Deborah Mattinson, Keir Starmer's Director of Strategy (2021-24)

Starmer has responded by saying that staff members campaigning for Harris do so 'in their spare time' and stay with other volunteers during that time.  However, the name-dropping of his two most senior aides have clearly caused the PM acute embarrassment.  In the last 24 hours the LinkedIn account of Sofia Patel has been deleted, as has a campaign page created for her by Newham Labour.  The page was to promote her candidature in the Boleyn council ward by-election of July 2023, in which she finished second and was not elected.

If the polls and the bookies are to be believed, Keir Starmer will be telephoning Donald Trump in a fortnight's time to congratulate the president-elect on his victory.  Given all the previous disparaging remarks from senior Labour figures during Trump's presidency, this might have been awkward enough, but it is likely to be eminently more awkward now.

We can only hope that Trump puts Starmer on hold, indefinitely.

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #3

Nottingham Building Society was founded by a Quaker in 1849 and has used local legend Robin Hood as part of its branding since the 1980s.  Not any more.  He has fallen victim to the globalist DEI agenda.

The Nottingham has decided to drop Robin from its logo because he is not 'inclusive'.  You see, a major organisation cannot possibly associate itself with a white male heterosexual in this woke day and age - even one who appears to be the perfect companion for a communist agenda, namely one who takes from the bourgeoisie and redistributes their wealth to the proletariat.

Race trumps ideology in this instance and Robin has been binned in favour of a black squiggle, which appears to be a black bow that forms the vague shape of a letter 'N'.  What does the bow represent?  No idea, but a black bow usually represents mourning.  Perhaps it is their final 'fuck you' to hordes of customers who are miffed, confused and angry with the rebrand.

Like so many businesses and organisations, the furore and resulting losses appear to be an acceptable cost in order to push the communist agenda favoured by globalists.

Last week's climate meme generated 115 comments and 48 shares on Facebook.

MAHMOOD PRESSED ON LYNCH DEATH

The Justice Secretary has faced awkward questions following the death of convicted 'rioter' Peter Lynch.  The 61-year-old grandfather was found dead at HMP Moorland in South Yorkshire on Saturday where he is widely believed to have taken his own life.  Lynch, who had a series of health problems and recently survived a heart attack, was sentenced to an absurdly harsh sentence of two years and eight months over his involvement in a protest in Rotherham during the summer riots.  However, during that protest Mr Lynch did not attack anyone, damage anything or throw anything, he simply shouted at police officers, accusing them of 'protecting people who are killing our kids and raping them'.  He also used the word 'scum' and repeatedly shouted: "Protect my children".

Shabana Mahmood was challenged by Kay Burley on Sky News following My Lynch's death.  Burley framed the question around his poor health and the fact he had no previous convictions, something that Mahmood later went on to contradict when she said that '90 per cent of people sent to prison are repeat offenders'.  The minister dodged the question, saying she could not comment on the case until the investigation into his death is complete.  Pushed again on whether Mr Lynch was worthy of a prison sentence, Mahmood waived responsibility to the Crown Prosecution Service, saying it was their 'independent decision'.

Yeah right, as if the CPS alone made the decision to swiftly send down hordes of people with hefty prison sentences for such trivial and minor offences, as in the case of Mr Lynch?  The Director of Public Prosecutions answers to the Attorney General, who happens to be Lord Hermer who is a member of... yes, you guessed it, the Labour party.  He in turn answers to none other than Keir Starmer himself.

Everyone knows that Starmer and his ministers promised 'swift and harsh justice' on those partaking in the riots.  What we didn't know at that time, was that people posting memes on social media (or shouting at police officers) would be in the dock alongside actual rioters.

Watch the clip below.

Peter Lynch did not deserve to die in prison, in fact he did not deserve to be in prison full stop.  Why is Huw Edwards not in prison?  Why have the Manchester Airport attackers not been charged with anything?  Why are serious criminals being released early in their thousands, while political prisoners such as Mr Lynch are left to rot and die?

Welcome to Two Tier Britain.

TOON TUESDAY #28

On the eve of Halloween, Rachel Reeves will deliver her maiden Budget.  The timing is apt, because we have been preconditioned to expect nothing but horror...

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Morten Morland for The Times

Graeme Bandeira for The Yorkshire Post

Morten Morland for The Times

Andy Davey for The Sunday Telegraph

A special shout out to Dave Brown of The Independent, who last week decided to depict Kemi Badenoch as a cannibal.  Yes, you read that correctly - he drew a black woman as a cannibal.  Imagine the outrage if the Telegraph depicted Diane Abbott or Dawn Butler in this way?  The left are so short sighted and distracted by their constant finger pointing, they cannot see that the biggest racists are themselves...

Dave Brown's racist cartoon for The Independent

MEME MONDAY #9

Keir Starmer's contempt for this country, combined with his globalist agenda, spells trouble.  Worse still, his huge parliamentary majority means he can pass his anti-British, anti-human laws with impunity.  He says he is not afraid to be 'unpopular', well that's just as well, because he will soon become the most hated PM in the history of our nation...

Mon 14 Oct - 236 Facebook shares

Tues 15 Oct - 364 shares

Thurs 17 Oct - 253 shares

Fri 18 Oct - 132 shares

Sat 19 Oct - 344 shares

Sat 19 Oct - 189 shares

Sun 20 Oct - 143 shares

Sun 20 Oct - 87 shares

Sun 20 Oct - 130 shares

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COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 17.10.24

16 seats available this week, with Labour defending seven of them.  They lost four - three to the Conservatives and one to the Greens.

Labour held a seat in Bexley, London, despite a significant swing to newcomers Reform.  They held a seat in Cumberland, despite a big swing to the Conservatives.  They narrowly hung on in Falkirk, despite the SNP gaining more first preference votes and they clung on by just four votes in North Hertfordshire!

All in all, the Labour vote share was down in 11 of the 14 seats the party contested.

Aylesford & East Stour, Ashford Borough Council

Grn: 299 (31.6%) +2.8%

Lab: 293 (31.0%) -1.2%

Ref: 216 (22.9%) New

Con: 111 (11.7%) -2.2%

LDm: 26 (2.8%) New

Grn GAIN from Lab

Belvedere, Bexley London Borough Council

Lab: 862 (38.5%) -14.4%

Con: 713 (31.9%) -1.4%

Ref: 378 (16.9%) New

Grn: 157 (7.0%) -6.8%

LDm: 127 (5.7%) New

Lab HOLD

Tirymynach, Ceredigion County Council

LDm: 285 (48.9%) 

Plaid: 242 (41.5%) 

Ref: 25 (4.3%) 

Con: 17 (2.9%) 

Lab: 8 (1.4%) 

Grn: 6 (1.0%) 

LDm HOLD (previously elected unopposed)

Keswick, Cumberland Council

Lab: 513 (50.7%) -17.1%

Con: 384 (38.0%) +22.0%

Grn: 85 (8.4%) New

LDm: 29 (2.9%) New

Lab HOLD

Wetheral, Cumberland Council

Con: 665 (51.6%) -1.7%

LDm: 463 (35.9%) +16.9%

Lab: 160 (12.4%) -15.2%

Con HOLD

Llanberis, Cyngor Gwynedd (Gwynedd Council)

Plaid: 254 (60.9%) +1.7%

Grn: 422 (36.7%) New

LDm: 9 (1.3%) New

Ind: 8 (1.2%) New

Plaid HOLD

Falkirk South, Falkirk Council

(first preference votes)

SNP: 1,043 (31.3%) -10.3%

Lab: 1,014 (30.5%) +8.1%

Con: 448 (14.7%) -13.9%

Ref: 330 (9.9%) New

Ind: 184 (5.5%) New

Grn: 151 (4.5%) -1.1%

LDm: 119 (3.6%) New

Lab HOLD (elected at stage 7)

Eltham Town & Avery Hill, Greenwich London Borough Council

Con: 1,522 (48.8%) +11.8%

Lab: 981 (31.5%) -8.9%

Ref: 290 (9.3%) +5.9%

LDm: 132 (4.2%) -2.9%

Grn: 123 (3.9%) -8.1%

Ind: 70 (2.2%) New

Con GAIN from Lab

Holme Valley South, Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council

Con: 1,639 (39.1%) -2.2%

Lab: 1,134 (27.0%) -18.3%

Grn: 734 (17.5%) +8.0%

Ref: 511 (12.2%) New

LDm: 158 (3.8%) -0.1%

Ind: 17 (0.4%) New

Con GAIN from Lab

Royston Palace, North Herts Council

Lab: 302 (25.9%) -12.4%

LDm: 498 (25.6%) +1.7%

Con: 280 (24.1%) -0.8%

Ref: 196 (16.8%) New

Grn: 88 (7.6%) New

Lab HOLD

Harpenden North & Rural, St Albans City and District Council

Con: 661 (49.3%) +18.7%

LDm: 546 (40.7%) -13.0%

Grn: 82 (6.1%) -0.9%

Lab: 51 (3.8%) -4.8%

Con GAIN from LDm

Bredbury Green & Romiley, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

LDm: 1,056 (65.8%) +7.1%

Con: 552 (24.1%) +5.5%

Lab: 127 (5.5%) -11.4%

Grn: 104 (4.5%) -1.2%

LDm HOLD

Cheadle West & Gatley, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

LDm: 1,159 (45.1%) -12.0%

Con: 553 (21.5%) +7.3%

Lab: 517 (20.1%) +0.5%

Grn: 341 (13.3%) +4.2%

LDm HOLD

Rodbourne Cheney, Swindon Borough Council

Con: 991 (48.8%) +15.9%

Lab: 694 (34.2%) -19.6%

Grn: 173 (8.0%) -0.7%

Ind: 100 (4.9%) New

LDm: 82 (4.0%) -0.4%

Con GAIN from Lab

Grange & Cartmel, Westmorland and Furness Council

LDm: 2,180 (84.8%) +7.6%

Con: 392 (15.2%) -3.5%

LDm HOLD

Ascot & Sunninghill, Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council

Con: 1,264 (58.5%) +18.4%

LDm: 703 (32.6%) +1.3%

Ind: 118 (5.5%) New

Lab: 74 (3.4%) -11.6%

Con HOLD

Abbreviations

Grn = Green

Lab = Labour

Ref = Reform UK

Con = Conservative

LDm = Liberal Democrat

Plaid = Plaid Cymru

SNP = Scottish National Party

Ind = Independents

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #2

Who is he?  Never heard of him?

They are sure to be among the replies to today's meme.  Well, it's not really that important.  Actor Rainn Wilson (aka Rainfall Heat Wave Extreme Weather Wilson) is an idiot - an American idiot to coin a phrase from fellow leftist idiots Green Day.  Toeing the establishment line is very much the order of the day in acting and popular music circles.  When it comes to scamdemics, trans nonsense, Trump Derangement Syndrome or 'climate change', there will never be a shortage of useful idiots to promote the latest tyranny.  Raging against the machine is mostly a thing of the past, unless that is, you want to be dropped and shunned by your industry...

Last week's Star Wars meme generated 45 comments and 40 post shares on Facebook, with a further 7 comments and 14 shares on X.

TOON TUESDAY #27

The past week marked the first 100 days of Keir Starmer's government and it was commemorated by several cartoonists with abject mockery.  We can only hope that Peter Brookes can perfect a half decent depiction of Starmer before the end of his premiership...

Christian Adams for The Evening Standard

Morten Morland for The Times

Peter Brookes for The Sunday Times

LABOUR'S MUSK BOYCOTT

Labour ministers have faced awkward questions over their apparent snub of Elon Musk from the UK government's recent investment summit.  Responding to BBC claims that Musk was not invited because of his political views, Keir Starmer said he would 'welcome' any UK investment from the world's richest man.  So why was he not invited this year?

Peter Kyle did his best to explain away Musk's absence by way of saying the summit was for existing and potential investors only, albeit Musk had been invited to last year's event (under the Tory government).  Musk has since stated that he is happy to invest in the UK, but it appears that mocking our hapless Prime Minister on X and endorsing Donald Trump gets you frozen out.

Jonathan Reynolds faired far worse in a Sky News interview with Trevor Phillips.  The Business Secretary repeatedly dodged the question and ended up humiliating himself as Phillips persisted to the point of exasperation.

Watch below.

Labour's Musk snub will surely come back to bite them, as will their pathetic school playground stances against Donald Trump during his presidency.  If Trump returns to the White House, which is currently more likely than not, there will surely be some humble pie for various Labour politicians now in government.  Our current Foreign Secretary repeatedly insulted President Trump, labelling him a 'neo-Nazi sympathiser' and a 'sociopath' amongst other things.  Here's to Dave eating that humble pie...

MEME MONDAY #8

We had two very popular memes this past week, one mocking Dave Lammy over his hilarious Mastermind appearance and another featuring Labour backbencher Gareth Snell who pledged in 2017 to vote against any removal of winter fuel allowance and then this year did the opposite.

On Saturday we had the audacity to mock the latest meeting between Starmer and Zelenskyy, leading to accusations in the comments that we were 'Kremlin trolls' and 'Putin/Hitler apologists' etc.  No, we just don't appreciate billions of pounds being poured into a foreign conflict that does not concern us - at a time in which we have our own domestic problems...

Mon 7 Oct - 848 Facebook shares

Tues 8 Oct - 444 shares

Tues 8 Oct - 89 shares

Wed 9 Oct - 968 shares

Thurs 10 Oct - 197 shares

Sat 12 Oct - 113 shares

Sat 12 Oct - 64 shares

Sun 13 Oct - 133 shares

SOCIALISM: A SCARY STORY

A video critique of socialism, featuring a well spoken attractive lady, went viral on various social media platforms earlier this year.  The video originated on TikTok and was copied to other platforms with no credit, the only clue to her identity being the name of a now deleted TikTok account - 'Rebecca Paul in Surrey'.  We can now reveal that she is none other than the Conservative MP for Reigate, Rebecca Paul.

The one and a half minute video can be seen below.

The story she tells is nothing new, having first appeared online around 2009 and revisited many times over ever since.  Paul's version is no different, in fact she has read one of the most popular versions word for word, adding only the line at the very end: "And that is socialism my friends, a race to the bottom."

Paul made the video before she was elected as an MP in July, having posted it to TikTok last year.  However, it later mysteriously disappeared from her TikTok account and it is not clear whether she removed it or the communist censors based in China.  Her account has since disappeared altogether, again no clue as to why.

Is it acceptable to criticise socialism in today's left-leaning non-conservative party?

Ms Paul told us in an email: "I made the decision to deactivate my Tiktok account last year for a variety of reasons.  I do have the option to reactivate it in the future if I so wish".

Tory MP Rebecca Paul pictured earlier this year

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 10.10.24

There were a whopping 20 council seats up for grabs on Thursday, over half of which Labour were defending.  The Labour vote was down in all but two of the seats they contested.  In four seats the Labour vote was down by over 20 per cent and they lost four of the eleven seats they were defending.  The Tories took two of those seats, while the Greens and Lib Dems took one each.

The Conservatives also gained an additional three seats, two of which from independents and one from the Lib Dems.

St Michael's, Coventry City Council

Lab: 899 (49.1%) -20.7%

TUS: 327 (17.9%) +4.2%

WPB: 212 (11.6%) New

Con: 145 (7.9%) -2.0%

Grn: 86 (5.2%) -1.4%

Ind: 94 (5.1%) -0.1%

LDm: 57 (3.1%) -1.0%

Lab HOLD

Hanger Hill, Ealing London Borough Council

LDm: 1,655 (52.3%) +19.3%

Con: 814 (25.7%) -5.1%

Lab: 315 (10.0%) -13.3%

Grn: 245 (7.7%) -5.1%

Ref: 98 (3.1%) New

WPB: 35 (1.1%) New

LDm HOLD

Northolt Mandeville, Ealing London Borough Council

Lab: 1,126 (44.7%) -10.3%

Con:730  (29.0%) +2.5%

Ref: 271 (10.8%) New

Grn: 199 (7.9%) -3.9%

LDm: 114 (4.5%) -2.2%

WPB: 90 (3.2%) New

Lab HOLD

South Acton, Ealing London Borough Council

Lab: 1,009 (48.5%) -1.2%

Con: 303 (14.6%) -0.9%

Grn: 287 (13.8%) -6.1%

LDm: 208 (10.0%) -1.8%

Ref: 159 (7.6%) New

Ind: 65 (3.1%) New

WPB: 32 (1.5%) New

TUS: 18 (0.9%) -0.3%

Lab HOLD

Hersham Village, Elmbridge Borough Council

Con: 1,029 (55.4%) +11.0%

LDm: 736 (39.6%) -5.5%

Lab: 94 (5.1%) -5.5%

Con GAIN from LDm

Weybridge St George's Hill, Elmbridge Borough Council

Con: 608 (46.0%) -5.5%

Ind: 598 (45.2%) +9.3%

Grn: 116 (8.8%) New

Con HOLD

Warton, Fylde Borough Council

Con: 351 (51.2%) +20.2%

Ind: 223 (32.5%) New

Lab: 78 (11.4%) -16.7%

Grn: 34 (5.0%) New

Con GAIN from Ind

Little Parndon & Town Centre, Harlow District Council

Lab: 511 (50.2%) -9.2%

Con: 227 (22.3%) -8.0%

Ref: 201 (19.7%) New

Grn: 56 (5.5%) -4.9%

UKIP: 23 (2.3%) New

Lab HOLD

Farnley & Wortley, Leeds City Council

Grn: 1,450 (38.7%) +4.7%

Lab: 965 (25.8%) -22.2%

Ref: 912 (24.4%) New

Con: 202 (5.4%) -12.5%

LDm: 118 (3.2%) New

Ind: 70 (1.9%) New

SDP: 26 (0.7%) -0.9%

Grn GAIN from Lab

Wivelsfield, Lewes District Council

Grn: 315 (42.3%) -10.3%

LDm: 216 (29.0%) +18.2%

Con: 213 (28.6%) -7.9%

Grn HOLD

Clay Cross North, North East Derbyshire District Council

Con: 624 (51.0%) +10.1%

Lab: 356 (29.1%) -21.2%

LDm: 175 (14.3%) +5.5%

Grn: 69 (5.6%) New

Con GAIN from Lab

Fortissat, North Lanarkshire Council

(first preference votes)

Lab: 807 (36.6%) +0.1%

Ind: 529 (24.0%) New

SNP: 447 (20.3%) -10.6%

BUP: 241 (10.9%) -7.9%

Con: 124 (5.6%) -5.6%

LDm: 57 (2.6%) New

Lab HOLD (stage TBC)

Mossend & Holytown, North Lanarkshire Council

(first preferences votes)

Lab: 616 (36.5%) -2.9%

SNP: 586 (34.8%) -7.8%

Ref: 263 (15.6%) New

Con: 127 (7.5%) -5.3%

LDm: 83 (4.9%) New

UKIP: 11 (0.7%) New

Lab HOLD (elected at stage 5)

Burton & Broughton, North Northamptonshire Council

Con: 939 (46.4)% -2.8%

Grn: 489 (24.2%) -7.9%

LDm: 337 (16.6%) -12.7%

Lab: 260 (12.8%) -16.5%

Con HOLD

The Havens, Pembrokeshire County Council

Con: 365 (49.1%) +7.8%

Ind: 201 (27.0%) New

LDm: 145 (18.1%) New

Ind: 43 (5.8%) New

Con GAIN from Ind

Addlestone South, Runnymede Borough Council

Con: 520 (55.9%) +11.6%

Lab: 262 (28.2%) +3.5%

LDm: 83 (9.1%) New

Grn: 43 (6.8%) -6.0%

Con HOLD

Shirley, Southampton City Council

LDm: 1,249 (39.2%) +25.6%

Con: 770 (24.2%) -4.4%

Lab: 764 (24.0%) -19.5%

Grn: 241 (7.6%) -4.7%

Ind: 117 (3.7%) New

TUS: 44 (1.4%) New

LDm GAIN from Lab

Bamber Bridge West, South Ribble Borough Council

Lab: 253 (44.8%) -21.6%

Con: 186 (32.9%) -0.7%

LDm: 126 (22.3%) New

Lab HOLD

Hoxne & Eye, Suffolk County Council

Con: 895 (45.3%) +0.3%

Grn: 891 (45.1%) New

LDm: 102 (5.2%) -14.0%

Lab: 89 (4.5%) -10.4%

Con HOLD

Heene, Worthing Borough Council

Con: 742 (42.1%) +6.6%

Lab: 704 (39.9%) -13.6%

Grn: 186 (10.5%) -0.5%

LDm: 132 (7.5%) New

Con GAIN from Lab

Abbreviations

Lab = Labour

TUS = Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition

WPB = Workers Party of Britain

Con = Conservative

Grn = Green

LDm = Liberal Democrat

Ref = Reform UK

UKIP = United Kingdom Independence Party

SDP = Social Democratic Party

SNP = Scottish National Party

BUP = British Unionist Party

Ind = Independents and local groups

SHOCK AS CLEVERLY FALLS

After storming into an impressive lead in yesterday's ballot of Tory MPs, James Cleverly has today been sensationally knocked out of the leadership contest.

Following yesterday's ballot, in which he surged from third to first place with a lead of eight, Cleverly was installed as the new bookie's favourite.  This was also in light of a membership poll, which favoured Cleverly over the remaining candidates.  However, in today's vote he actually lost a couple of backers, while all of Tom Tugendhat's 20 votes went to Badenoch and Jenrick.

It was Badenoch who surged from third to first today, and she will now face Robert Jenrick in the final round.  The party membership finally get to have their say at the end of the month, with the result announced on November 2.  The bookies now have Kemi odds on to win.

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #1

Quite often in the past we've been faced with the question: "What has this got to do with Labour".  This question is generally posed in response to a meme, with little understanding that we may have perhaps expanded our horizons over almost a decade in being - our list of grievances can be found in social media descriptions and cover photos.

Therefore, in addition to Meme Mondays and Toon Tuesdays, we have added Woke Wednesdays to our roster of regular features.  The Wednesday meme will not be Labour-specific, but will be from the Clown World that leftists and globalists are only too happy to endorse.

Star Wars was a groundbreaking film in 1977, with amazing special effects that have stood the test of time.  The premise was a simple good versus evil battle across the galaxy, featuring an array of memorable characters.  Luke, Han, Leia and Obi-Wan were joined by furry ally Chewbacca and a couple of entertaining androids.  The cast would expand in two glorious sequels to include legendary beings such as Master Yoda and Jabba the Hut.  Luke Skywalker's journey across the trilogy, bridged by the revelation in part two (or part five, as they were retrospectively framed) that Darth Vader is his father, formed a sci-fi fairytale that will remain an all-time classic of seldom equal.

The franchise remained untouched for almost twenty years, until director George Lucas returned to deliver a CGI mess of not-so-memorable characters, poor casting, dreadful acting, and a story that was predictable and dull.  However, there was much worse to come.  Much, much worse.

In 2012 Disney bought the franchise and over the course of the next decade proceeded to destroy Star Wars, rubbishing its original cast of characters and gradually discarding storytelling in favour of DEI-LGBT-woke propaganda.  Disney has done a similar job with the Marvel properties it owns and will next year release a multi-cultural woke version of Snow White, in which Snow White is not so white.

TUGENTWAT OUT

The dreadful Tom Tugendhat is the latest candidate to be knocked out of the Tory leadership contest.  MPs vote today and tomorrow in order to whittle down the list to a pair of finallists.

Kemi Badenoch slipped to third place, just one vote behind Robert Jenrick, while James Cleverly has stormed into an impressive lead.  One of the three will be drop out after tomorrow's vote and then party members will finally get a chance to vote.

It's now hard to bet against Cleverly making the final two, while Jenrick's consistent lead in earlier ballots may come to nothing if Badenoch gains votes tomorrow.  The outcome hinges on how Tugendhat's 20 backers vote...

TOON TUESDAY #26

The Tory leadership hopefuls will be whittled down to two over the next couple of days, so this week we're featuring a selection of toons from the course of the campaign so far...

Steve Bright for The Sun

Morten Morland for The Times

Steve Bright for The Sun

Graeme Bandeira for The Yorkshire Post

Dave Brown for The Independent

Chris Riddell for The Guardian

Peter Brookes for The Times