WOKE WEDNESDAYS #5

We were tempted to go with a Trump theme today, but the memes are endless right now as the left continue to melt down, so we opted for something else.

Incidentally, prior to Seth's appointment, Newcastle United banned a fan from their ground for social media posts about transgender people.  The fan is now taking legal action against the club, who took the Orwellian action after someone complained that: "If I were trans, I would feel extremely unsafe and incredibly discriminated towards had I had to share a space with someone openly transphobic".

This happened long before Labour introduced the Employment Rights Bill, in which employers will be made liable for speech from members of the public that may offend their staff.  Full on dystopia.

Last week's trans meme generated 25 comments and 32 shares on Facebook.

CAN HE? WILL HE?

He most certainly can, but whether Trump will win again remains to be seen.  Polling going into election day is so tight nothing is certain, with all of the seven crucial swing states polling well within the margin of error.  It is impossible to confidently call any one of them for either candidate.

The seven so-called swing states are as follows, with the electoral college votes in brackets.  A candidate requires 270 electoral college votes to win the election.

Pennsylvania (19)

Georgia (16)

North Carolina (16)

Michigan (15)

Arizona (11)

Wisconsin (10)

Nevada (6)

The importance of winning Pennsylvania cannot be understated.  If Harris wins Pennsylvania and the neighbouring Rust Belt states of Michigan and Wisconsin - in addition to all the traditional blue states the Democrats would normally expect to win - she will be the 47th US president.

However, there is a very good chance that Trump could flip one or more of those traditional blue states, nullifying Harris's Rust Belt route to victory, as long as he takes swing states elsewhere.

So what are the other states that could come into play?  The two most likely states to flip to the other side are Virginia (13) and New Hampshire (4).  Both states have seen some impressive polling for Trump and he even took time out from his tour of swing states to hold a surprise rally in Virginia on Saturday.  He confidently announced to the packed rally that he was going to flip the state on Tuesday.  Virginia has been a blue state since 2008, while New Hampshire has been blue since 2004.

If Trump wins a landslide victory, a third state he could flip is New Jersey (14), a state that has been blue since 1992.

Beyond those three states, it is hard to imagine any more states flipping.  Trump is expected to poll very well in New York state (28) and, again, he has stated he will flip it.  However, New York state has been a blue state since 1988 and Democrats have had a huge majority there at every presidential election since 1996.  Highly unlikely to flip, but if it did then Trump's victory would likely be huge.

In the pursuit of fairness we should mention Iowa (6).  Trump flipped Iowa from blue in 2016 and held it in 2020 with a bigger vote share.  On Sunday a shock poll showed Harris leading Trump by three percentage points in Iowa and this was widely circulated by the establishment media outlet CNN.  The timing and prominence given to the poll suggested that the left-wing oriented broadcaster was trying to distract its viewers from other demoralising polls suggesting Trump could flip states elsewhere.  Another intention was to potentially distract Republicans from the key battlegrounds of Pennsylvania and elsewhere.  In any case, all other polls carried out in Iowa during the same period showed Trump leading Harris by between four and ten points.

The outcome of the election is not likely to be known until late on Wednesday or possibly longer.  The longer it drags on the more questions will be asked about the validity of the election.  Some counties in states such as Arizona, Georgia and Nevada are saying they won't be able to verify results for several days, up to a week and more.  When one considers that all these counties are led by Democrats, it opens up very serious questions about the counting process.

Our own United Kingdom general elections are counted and the results announced within hours of polls closing.  Even India - a country of 1.5billion people - can declare their electoral results within 24 hours.  The 2020 US presidential election was a joke, and this latest election looks set to follow suit.  The words 'banana republic' spring to mind.

We know that the party of the globalists will cheat in order to maintain their grip on power, this is a given.  As conservatives and libertarians, we've got to hope that this one is too big to rig...

TOON TUESDAY #30

Thanks to Red Rachel's land grab budget, we will see our wonderful farmers fighting back against her net zero nanny state very soon.  Protests are planned for later this month - no farmers, no food!

Bob Moran on X

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

With a very important election day over the Pond, this is how US conservative AF Branco sees it...

AN ELECTION OF WORLD IMPORTANCE

Many conservative commentators have called this election 'the most important in our lifetime' or even the most important in American history.  In actual fact, this election is much more important than that.

While it is well documented that Trump was the first US president in decades not to drag his country into a new foreign conflict, what is less well known is the fact that without him in the White House we are now closer to nuclear apocalypse than at any point since the end of the Cold War.  When Putin talks about 'red lines' do we take him seriously or keep provoking him by crossing those lines?  Let's not forget that Putin's invasion of Ukraine only came about through decades of NATO provocation.  Who is to say he would not 'push the button', especially if he felt his back was against the wall?

It is not simply that Western leaders are playing a deadly game in Ukraine, they are playing a game that could result in end times.  It has to stop.  The war has to stop.

That will not happen if Harris wins on Tuesday.  She and Biden have barely uttered the word 'peace' over the last two years, these are globalist war hawks only too happy to prolong the conflict indefinitely.  The eye watering amounts of money flowing into Ukraine will continue, the war will continue.

Contrast with Trump's position: End the war as soon as possible.

He actually claims he would stop it in his first 24 hours if re-elected.  That is a bold claim and certainly one which can be taken with a pinch of salt.  But we know from his previous term that he is not a hawk and instead of isolating and antagonising our designated enemies, he speaks to them.  Who can forget his historic meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, in which he became the first US president to set foot in North Korea?

If Biden and Harris won't even speak to Vladimir Putin, how on earth can there ever be peace?

While establishment media continues to promote the idea that Trump is Putin's greatest ally, they conveniently omit the fact that Russia did not attack or annexe any neighbouring state during the Trump presidency.  The Donbas War and annexation of Crimea took place in 2014 - on Obama's watch - while Ukraine was invaded in 2022 under Joe Biden.  Mass media's implication that Putin presents a greater threat under a Trump presidency does not hold up to scutiny, in fact the opposite is true.

Trump is the man who can pull us back from the brink of World War III.  Harris is the war candidate, the continuity candidate, the establishment choice.

Trump will not merely save America - or in the very least hold back the tide of the globalist onslaught against it - he can save the world.

MEME MONDAY #11

With a shocking budget in play, it was a bumper week for memes.  Rachel Reeves and Mike Amesbury featured prominently, both of which in relation to criminal acts.  One physically attacked a constituent, while the other robbed millions of Brits of their earnings, welfare and property...

Mon 28 Oct - 92 Facebook shares

Tue 29 Oct - 279 shares

Wed 30 Oct - 103 shares

Wed 30 Oct - 29 shares

Wed 30 Oct - 103 shares

Thurs 31 Oct - 166 shares

Fri 1 Nov - 66 shares

Fri 1 Nov - 319 shares

Sat 2 Nov - 317 shares

Sat 2 Nov - 196 shares

Sun 3 Nov - 24 shares

Sun 3 Nov - 70 shares

KEMI GOES MLK

Speaking to the Beeb's Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday, the presenter inevitably drew attention to Kemi Badenoch's immutable characteristics of being a black female party leader.  "What do you think of it as a milestone?" asked Kuennsberg.  Badenoch's response was pure Martin Luther King as she said: "I think the best thing will be is where we get to the point when the colour of your skin is no more remarkable than the colour of your eyes or the colour of your hair."

She added how astonished she is that Rachel Reeves goes to such great lengths to remind everyone that she is the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer.  "I think that is a very low glass ceiling within the Labour party... no more significant than what other women in this country have achieved".

Watch the clip below.

BADENOCH ELECTED TORY LEADER

Kemi Badenoch has been elected Tory leader in the membership ballot.  She defeated Robert Jenrick by a comfortable margin of 12,418 votes.  After the applause and cheering subsided, Badenoch gave her maiden speech as leader and wasted no time in taking a shot at Keir Starmer's party, asking "Isn't it great to have another woman as party leader?"

Not just a woman, a black woman.  Another first for the Tories, and succeeding their first Asian leader no less.  Meanwhile, the so-called 'progressives' over at Labour have still not elected a single female leader, let alone anyone who isn't white.  The left will be bubbling with hate at the sight of Badenoch taking the helm, just as they could not contain their hatred for other non-white Tory females such as Patel and Braverman.

Badenoch continued:  "The task ahead is tough, but simple.  First, hold the Labour government to account and second, prepare for government with a clear plan.  Keir Starmer is discovering all too late the perils of not having a plan".

Starmer has a plan, alright.  To bring this country to its knees.

Will Badenoch provide a valid alternative to his globalist net zero agenda, or can we expect more of the same left-leaning nanny state authoritarianism of Johnson and Sunak?  The latter is more likely, which is probably why the new kids on the block over at Reform won't be losing too much sleep over this appointment.

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 31.10.24

Seven contests this week and just two Labour defences.  They held with a reduced majority in the deepest of red territory - Salford - but lost spectacularly to newcomers Reform in Wolverhampton.  Labour's vote share was down in all six of the seats the party contested, including almost 40 percentage points in that aforementioned Wolverhampton seat.

Sileby & Seagrove, Charnwood Borough Council

Grn: 752 (52.9%) +0.1%

Ref: 297 (20.9%) New

Con: 262 (18.4%) -8.2%

Lab: 70 (4.9%) -12.0%

LDm: 40 (2.8%) -0.8%

Grn HOLD

Bishops Waltham, Hampshire County Council

LDm: 2,210 (52.2%) +28.6%

Con: 1,431 (33.8%) -23.1%

Grn: 477 (11.3%) -2.0%

Lab: 115 (2.7%) -2.6%

LDm GAIN from Con

North Middleton, Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Ind: 812 (51.7%) +8.3%

Lab: 572 (36.4%) -11.9%

Con: 108 (6.9%) +0.3%

LDm: 80 (5.1%) +3.4%

Ind HOLD

Eccles, Salford City Council

Lab: 951 (51.2%) -11.8%

Con: 426 (23.0%) +6.2%

Grn: 261 (14.1%) -0.2%

LDm: 142 (7.6%) New

TUS: 61 (4.1%) -1.8%

Lab HOLD

Bramhall South & Woodford, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Con: 1,909 (47.9%) +4.6%

LDm: 1,733 (43.5%) -1.4%

Ref: 133 (3.3%) New

Lab: 115 (2.9%) -4.2%

Grn: 95 (2.4%) 2.3%

Con GAIN from LDm

Kirkby Stephen & Tebay, Westmorland and Furness Council

LDm: 887 (82.7%) +39.1%

Con: 186 (17.3%) -24.8%

LDm GAIN from Con

Bilston North, Wolverhampton City Council

Ref: 652 (34.8%) New

Lab: 471 (25.1%) -39.9%

Grn: 438 (23.4%) New

Con: 257 (13.7%) -14.3%

LDm: 55 (2.9%) -4.1%

Ref GAIN from Lab

Abbreviations

Grn = Green

Ref = Reform UK

Con = Conservative

Lab = Labour

LDm = Liberal Democrat

TUS = Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

Ind = Independents and local groups

REEVES SNUBS MARTIN LEWIS

The Chancellor snubbed an invitation to appear on Martin Lewis's prime-time Budget special on ITV last night.  We know why and he showed it.  Lewis knows a thing or two about finance - arguably more than Red Rachel - and he spent an hour dismantling her dreadful Budget and laying out the true cost for ordinary Brits.  He reminded us again on Good Morning Britain why she ran scared of him.

Watch the clip below.

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #4

It was a very telling statement when Blackrock CEO Larry Fink said his powerful investment firm wanted to 'force behaviours' when it came to DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion).  This was way back in 2017 and since then the West has been sinking into a pit of ever more absurd social engineering.  It should come as no great surprise to anyone with a basic knowledge of political history to find that wokeness - like the Marxism that pushes it - can only be implemented by force.

Last month a 17-year-old girl was charged by the Football Association in relation to 'transphobic' comments made during a match.  The young female was reportedly upset that a much larger opponent - sporting a beard, allegedly - was participating in the female game.  She is said to have asked him: "Are you a man", additionally remarking to team mates: "That's a man".  She is also alleged to have told him: "Don't come here again".

Quite right, too!

The very few newspapers that carried this story made capital out of the girl's 'suspected autism', as if this might explain her actions.  This is irrelevant - her behaviour should be celebrated and not explained away as if she was somehow in the wrong.

She is also said to have raised her concerns with the referee, following 'a number of overtly physical challenges'.  And therein lies one of the main problems with the absurd acceptance that a man can be accepted in female sports just because he identifies that way.  Men are overwhelmingly larger, faster and more powerful than females, raising legitimate safety concerns - both on and off the pitch.  While the opposition team reported the girl for her 'transphobia', are those players all happy to share a shower with this biological male after the game?

The girl could be banned for up to 12 matches if found 'guilty', surely a deterrent to others and clearly 'forcing behaviours' as Larry Fink would no doubt be proud of...

Last week's Robin Hood meme generated 274 comments and 69 shares on Facebook.

TOON TUESDAY #29

It's the eve of Rachel Reeves' expected horror budget and cartoonists wasted no time in using Mike Amesbury's vicious assault to make that point...

Ben Jennings for The Guardian

Richard Jolley for The Spectator

Nick Newman for The Sunday Times

Meanwhile, the Democrats and their media allies have pushed the Hitler panic button in response to Trump's rising poll figures.  This is not the first time they have deployed this smear tactic, in fact they have used it not only against Trump at the last three elections, but against each of his Republican predecessors George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney.

When Trump held a rally at Madison Square Garden this week, they again likened him to Hitler because the Nazis just happened to hold a rally there in the 1930s, while ignoring the fact that the Democrats themselves have held events at the same venue - as have thousands of other organisations, musicians and entertainers!  Desperate stuff indeed...

Tom Stiglich on X

AF Branco on X

SKS Cartoon on X

Cian Ci on X

AMESBURY 'FELT THREATENED'

Labour's Mike Amesbury is in serious deep water and he knows it.  With video footage from multiple angles, including the CCTV footage, there is zero doubt that Amesbury committed a sustained violent assault on a constituent in the early hours of Saturday.  With millions of Britons watching on in anticipation of how this plays out, if nothing is done it will further instill what we already know - Two Tier Britain is not a myth.

Amesbury's only public response to date is a statement on his social media accounts, in which he says he 'felt threatened'.  However, the video footage clearly shows that his victim was standing off Amesbury, with his hands down by his sides and he actually looks away the moment before Amesbury launches his attack.  There is no visible threat to the MP and even with reports that the man had been complaining about a local bridge closure and cuts to winter fuel payments, if the debate was so heated why is everyone else in the video standing well away and apparently minding their own business - and yet, crucially, immediately intervene when they realise an assault is in progress?  If the two were arguing so vociferously and the MP felt 'threatened', surely these people would have been surrounding the men and trying to calm them down?

As ever, there is a very apt social media post from the MP at the centre of this incident.  Less than three months ago, Amesbury posted about 'thugs and criminals' on X, sharing a Home Office graphic that threatened rioters with hefty sentences...

What sentence can we expect for you, Mr Amesbury?

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