MEME MONDAY #80

Keir Starmer was very much the focus of the output last week and looks set to remain so as the clock ticks down to his inevitable demise as PM.  The rent boy trial begins today, albeit with a total news blackout that only proves that our suspicions were right all along.  Starmer is a wrong 'un and he's going to pay a very big price after his party's May 7th disaster unfolds...

Mon 20 Apr - 647 shares

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Thu 23 Apr - 352 shares

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Four Facebook Stories were published last week, with more Green degenerates to follow this week...

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BOATWATCH #56

The busiest week of the year was followed last week by one of the quietest, with just two boats being picked up all week - both on Saturday.  More than 6,000 colonists have been ferried to our shores so far this year.

Total = 122 (down 819 from previous week)

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 23.04.26

Just the one by-election took place on Thursday, with another having been held on Wednesday.  Reform were defending Thursday's vacancy, the third week in a row they have been on the defence.  However, this time it is not a resignation - the incumbent tragically died from a brain tumour at the age of just 46.  The late Cllr Kevin Towill defected from the Conservatives prior to last year's local elections and gained the seat at the expense of his old party, who were pushed into third.

We expected a Reform hold here, but there was a surprisingly strong challenge from the Greens who came from nowhere to claim second place with almost a quarter of the vote.  Labour should be as deeply concerned about the rise of the Greens to their left as they are about Reform to their right.  With both insurgent parties set to pincer Labour in May, there is every likelihood that the Greens will win more council seats than Labour and - more worryingly for Labour - there is an outside chance Polanski's crazy gang could push Labour into fourth in both the Senedd and the Scottish Parliament.

We are currently witnessing the final weeks of Starmer's premiership, with a resignation likely in May.  If the scale of the electoral disaster is such, he will resign the morning after.  If he opts to cling on a wee bit longer, he will be forced out by cabinet resignations and a total collapse in PLP support.  Labour MPs and potential successors are now merely counting down the days.

Newquay Porth & Tretherras, Cornwall Council

Ref: 645 (30.2%) -7.7%

Grn: 529 (24.8%) New

Ind: 361 (16.9%) New

LDm: 349 (16.3%) -9.9%

Con: 132 (6.2%) -14.6%

Lab: 120 (5.6%) -9.6%

Ref HOLD

Wednesday's by-election was also triggered by the death of an incumbent, the 81-year-old Labour councillor having passed away due to old age.  This was an exceptionally strong Labour ward, with the party having won here in 2024 by more than 1,200 votes.  Despite this, we predicted a Green gain, but defeat to anyone here would have been indicative of the massive scale of Labour's looming electoral disaster in May.  Labour have controlled Salford since its inception as a metropolitan borough in 1974.

As it turned out, this previously solid left-wing ward opted for Reform with a huge swing from Labour.  We predicted that Labour would haemorrhage votes to both the Greens and Reform, but the swing was almost exclusively towards Reform.  The Greens slumped from second to third and ended up with less votes than they received in 2024, while a hard left independent endorsed by Your Party finished last.  The Greens only increased their vote share courtesy of Labour's almost 30 point dip against a low turnout.

This was a devastating result for Labour, but another first for Reform as they added their first Salford council seat.

Barton & Winton, Salford City Council

Ref: 676 (34.9%) New

Lab: 643 (33.2%) -29.1%

Grn: 363 (18.7%) +4.0%

Con: 118 (6.1%) -8.2%

LDm: 94 (4.9%) -3.8%

Ind: 44 (2.3%) New

Ref GAIN from Lab

There is now just one more council by-election before the May elections.

EJECTED FROM THE HOUSE OF LIES

Zarah Sultana and Lee Anderson would normally hold each other in the utmost of contempt, but on Monday the Commons watched as both of them were removed from the chamber for accusing the PM of lying.  It's a rare occasion in itself for one MP to be ordered out, but one after the other in the same sitting is almost unheard of.

MPs were responding to a statement from Keir Starmer in relation to the Mandelson scandal, in which he pointed the finger of blame at the Foreign Office and continued to deny any wrongdoing.  Reform's Lee Anderson told the PM that 'no-one believed him' and accused him of 'lying'.  Starmer stood hesitantly, while looking towards the Speaker, but Lindsay Hoyle was slow to react.  Eventually, Lindsay Hoyle interjected and told Anderson that 'we don't use those words' and asked him to withdraw his accusation.  In true Anderson style, the Ashfield MP doubled down and refused, adding: "That man couldn't lie straight in bed".

The Speaker then ordered Anderson out of the chamber.  Watch the exchange below.

A short while later the chamber was treated to the juvenile screeching of Your Party's Zarah Sultana.  Sultana's prepared statement accused Starmer of 'gaslighting the nation', before she accused him of being a 'bare-faced liar'.  She appeared to be about to demand his resignation when her microphone was cut and the Speaker interrupted.  On this occasion Hoyle was clearly upset and immediately demanded her departure.  With her microphone cut, her protestations about 'serving the interests of her constituents' was barely audible, but did nothing to placate Hoyle's ire.

Hoyle gave her multiple opportunities to comply, but like Anderson she doubled down and could be heard saying: "The Prime Minister is a liar".  However, whereas Anderson duly left the chamber, Sultana's repeated refusal led to her being 'named' by the Speaker.  This process means that Sultana is now suspended from the Commons for a period of several days (usually five), during which her salary is also put on hold.

As her statement appeared to be written in advance, this was probably a pre-conceived publicity stunt that Anderson had unwittingly usurped by being ejected first.  Whether or not she had initially intended to push the Speaker so far is not clear, but with Anderson having left in such a dignified manner, she may have wished to up the ante for maximum attention.

Watch the exchange below.

It never ceases to amaze how such a setting - frequented by hundreds of professional liars - can have such a process in place that punishes those who accuse colleagues of lying!

MEME MONDAY #79

It was a fairly quiet week for Karl, but things will pick up again soon.  The demise of Keir Starmer's premiership draws ever closer and Karl may well want to dispose of as many Starmer memes as possible.

Mon 13 Apr - 51 shares

Mon 13 Apr - 231 shares

Tue 14 Apr - 65 shares

Tue 14 Apr - 446 shares

Wed 15 Apr - 15 shares

Wed 15 Apr - 14 shares

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Sun 19 Apr - 24 shares

Five Facebook Stories were unleashed last week, including the first in a new series that will showcase the most absurd Green candidates yet.

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BOATWATCH #55

It was the busiest week of the year to date, with a bumper set of arrivals on Saturday.  These numbers are more in line with recent years, coming after several relatively sparse weeks.  An uptick in arrivals as we head towards the May elections will do Starmer no favours when it comes to the scale of Labour's crushing defeat.  Why have several Prime Ministers failed to stop the boats?  They weren't meant to.

Total = 941 (up 571 from last week)

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 16.04.26

It was all about Reform this week, with the party defending both of the two vacant seats.  After last week's surprise loss to the Greens, they were looking for a pair of holds and to prevent Polanski's crazy gang from hijacking their momentum.  Both vacancies arose through resignations of incumbents elected last May, both ostensibly on health grounds.  In Leicestershire the Reform councillor had been forced to issue a statement as to the motive for his departure, after it was linked to his poor attendance record.  The Northumberland councillor had also been accused of poor attendance, in addition to a lack of engagement with local residents.  Having confirmed he is being treated for kidney cancer, perhaps they could have cut him a little slack.

We expected podium finishes in Northumberland to go to Reform, the Conservatives and Greens, and probably in that order.  We also predicted a narrow Tory gain in Leicestershire, but as it turned out we got the results the wrong way around.  The narrow Tory gain actually came in Northumberland and Labour kept the Greens down in fourth place.

The Reform hold in Leicestershire was quite comfortable, with the party more than a thousand votes in front of the second placed Conservatives.  The presence of Advance UK did nothing to dent Reform's performance, with their rivals finishing in last place with just 28 votes.

Results have been slow to appear this week as we were both attending a funeral on Friday.

Narborough & Whetstone, Leicestershire County Council

Ref: 1,033 (33.0%) -9.3%

Con: 927 (29.6%) +5.1%

Grn: 884 (28.2%) +13.4%

LDm: 134 (4.3%) -3.6%

Lab: 124 (4.0%) -4.8%

Adv: 28 (0.9%) New

Ref HOLD

Cramlington South West, Northumberland County Council

Con: 278 (34.2%) +9.0%

Ref: 212 (26.1%) -13.3%

Lab: 187 (23.0%) -5.8%

Grn: 116 (14.3%) New

Ind: 13 (1.6%) New

LDm: 7 (0.9%) New

Con GAIN from Ref

TOON TUESDAY #99

Starmer was given a relatively easy ride last week, with most cartoonists choosing to focus on the Middle East.  There were also plenty of space travel references with regards to the Artemis mission to the far side of the Moon.

And so we begin with negotiations on the disastrous Iran conflict that is dismantling Trump's presidency and the movement he created, raised the cost of living for every single family across the entire West, killed thousands of Iranian civilians (including over a hundred schoolchildren in a single strike) and achieved nothing discernibly positive.  Nobody wins...

Ella Baron for The Observer

Patrick Chappatte for The Boston Globe

Tjeerd Royaards for Trouwe

Peter Brooke for The Times

Stanley McMurtry for The Mail on Sunday

Peter Brookes for The Times

Jimbob on X

Christian Adams for The Sunday Telegraph

Steve Bright for The Sun

Pete Songi for The Mirror

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Josh on X

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Ben Jennings for The Guardian

HM PRISON ABOLITION

Pink-haired weirdo Kate Nevens is one of the Green candidates for the Scottish Parliament regional list of Edinburgh and Lothians East.  In a campaign video posted to her Bluesky account (where else?) she discusses her desire to abolish the prison system: "Prisons are not safe, they're violent and they're poor for people's wellbeing".  Er, yeah, they're full of criminals you muppet.  They are where we send people who have been very, very naughty - as a punishment, a deterrent and to keep the rest of us safe.  Every single country on this planet has a prison system.

Prisons are not meant to be pleasant holiday homes you wet liberal, that would defeat their very purpose.  Needless to say, Kate is from the same university-educated class that turns a blind eye to all manner of crime, with the exception of the thought crimes they refer to as 'hate speech'.  As well as legalising hard drugs, she would probably decriminalise rape gangs in the name of progress and atonement for the colonial spread of the British Empire.

Watch Kate's prison pitch below, with Richey's input (four minute watch).

The Green Party is polling nationally at 16 per cent, level with Labour, according to the most recent YouGov poll,

MEME MONDAY #78

A quiet week by Karl's standards, but then he does have a day job.  Starmer's ban on Kanye West is a double feature, a tyrannical act which led to the cancellation of an entire music festival and the loss of income for over two thousand Brits.  The man hours otherwise generated by the Wireless Festival is equivalent to 52 full time jobs, that's in addition to the economic impact of thousands of fans and tourists flocking to the area, but which is now lost income for swathes of hostelries, stall-holders and local businesses.  Organisers have yet to confirm if the festival will even return next year.

All in the name of barring someone who may potentially say something that the regime doesn't endorse.  So much for free speech, well done Keir!

Mon 6 Apr - 76 shares

Mon 6 Apr - 6 shares

Wed 8 Apr - 81 shares

Sat 11 Apr - 46 shares

Sat 11 Apr - 65 shares.  Cartoon by Christian Adams

Sun 12 Apr - 45 shares

Sun 12 Apr - 171 shares

Four Facebook Stories were published last week, the very latest featuring the outgoing Prime Minister of Hungary with one of his trademark rails against mass migration...

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