Tuesday, 17 March 2026

TOON TUESDAY #95

We begin again with the Israeli war on Iran, including Matt Pritchett's obsession with rising fuel prices.  The Telegraph artist spent the entire week referencing the disastrous effects the war is having on petrol forecourts.  And of course it wouldn't be a week in cartoons these days without a little bit of Mandy...

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph
Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph
Morten Morland for The Times
Peter Brookes for The Times
Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph
Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph
Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph
Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph
Ella Baron for The Guardian
Guy Venables for Metro
Morten Morland for The Times
Morten Morland for The Times
Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph
Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph
Dave Brown for The Independent
Jeremy Banks for Financial Times
Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph
Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph
Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph
Peter Brookes for The Times

Monday, 16 March 2026

MEME MONDAY #74

With such derisory distribution levels on Facebook, we have opted to wind things down a wee bit in the meme department.  We are not alone in noticing how distribution has dropped off in recent weeks, with other creators also bemoaning a loss of reach and revenue.  It appears that Facebook is moving in the direction of video content, potentially to compete with TikTok, and this is something we may have to adjust to sooner rather than later.

Our biggest drawback in this department is time and software.  Karl doesn't have anything resembling decent editing software and is not prepared to fork out from his own pocket.  If we could somehow replace the lost revenue from Facebook we could perhaps put this to good use and then in turn more professional software can save us time and effort.  At the moment Karl only possesses very basic single-track editing software, which requires very time consuming workarounds for multi-layering sound.

If anyone can donate software please leave a comment on this post, or send us a direct message via X.  As always, you can bung us a few quid any time via PayPal or BuyMeACoffee.

Mon 9 Mar - 18 shares
Tue 10 Mar - 27 shares
Wed 11 Mar - 49 shares
Thu 12 Mar - 749 shares.  This meme bucked the downward trend and
became our most shared meme in more than a month
Fri 13 Mar - 157 shares
Sat 14 Mar - 122 shares
Sat 14 Mar - 14 shares
Sun 15 Mar - 126 shares.  Another example of how the Lab-Con uniparty
is not prepared to tackle the border crisis
Sun 15 Mar - 8 shares.  Produced just in time for the Oscars, during which
there was sure to be plenty of highly articulate 'fuck ICE' and 'fuck Trump'
messages from the woke left Hollywood elite.  As it turned out, the political
speeches were kept fairly short (no Meryl Streep this year)

Facebook Stories are another avenue to redress the loss in distribution revenue and can include short video clips.  In an ideal world Richey would record a short video in the morning before work and upload it himself direct from his phone.  Unfortunately, Richey point blank refuses to have Facebook on his phone, so this would probably create more work for Karl during his workday.

In any case, Karl is ensuring that Facebook Stories are featured via at least one of our Facebook pages at any one time, with last week's selection below.



Sunday, 15 March 2026

BOATWATCH #50

Unsettled weather in the latter part of the week brought a lull in crossings, after a small flurry of boats were intercepted on Monday.  Intercepted, but not pushed back.

"We must be mad, literally mad" (John Enoch Powell)


Total = 384 (down 432 from previous week)

Friday, 13 March 2026

DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH: NY EDITION

'Diversity Is Strength' will go down in history as the biggest Marxist propaganda lie of the century.  As migrant communities continue to grow across the West, street crime and terror spiral.  And every time something particularly horrific happens, the left roll out their contradictory slogan in response.

Last weekend a protest was held outside the home of the Mayor of New York, in what has been described as an anti-Islam gathering.  Naturally, the hard left assembled a counter protest and one of those present was a 'comedian' by the name of Walter Masterson.  Masterson was in the middle of a 'diversity is strength' speech when a pair of Islamist terrorists tried to bomb the opposing march, one of them literally using Masterson's back as a launchpad to hurl one of the crude devices.

Fortunately, neither of the two IEDs exploded and the two men were arrested.  Media coverage of the incident deliberately misrepresented what had happened by trying to conflate the presence of the right-wingers and suggesting that the target had been Zohran Mamdani, the city's hard left Muslim mayor.  

Watch below (two minute watch)


Masterson has predictably been rinsed on social media, with many daubing him a 'useful idiot' whose ideology is totally at odds with the people he is trying to excuse.  A little bit like the Green Party here in the UK right now...

Thursday, 12 March 2026

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 12.03.26


Five seats were contested on Thursday, with this week's round being very much about the Lib Dems.  The party were defending three seats, all of which became vacant after the incumbents resigned.  Despite the resignations, we predicted three holds for the party.  Well, two out of three's not bad as the song goes.

The Lib Dems held in Cumbria and the Cotswolds, the latter featuring a particularly humiliating result for Labour who finished last with just seven votes.  Their third seat went to the Greens, who surged to victory in a middle class Liverpool suburb.  However, it was a mixed week for the new insurgents on the left.  

The swanky surroundings of Abingdon in Oxfordshire was the scene of another battle between the Lib Dems and Greens.  The Greens had won this seat previously when two seats were up for grabs, with the Lib Dems narrowly topping the poll.  The Greens would have fancied this one with all the media hype surrounding them.  However, as we predicted, the Lib Dems took the seat.  The Greens did not compete much beyond the two woke middle class seats, with finishes of 4/5, 4/7 and 3/4.

Finally, a local independent group slipped to defeat in Lincolnshire, a Reform gain as we predicted.  

Following last week's atrocious round of predictions - one out of five - we have returned to form this week with a more respectable four out of five.  Trumpet blown!

The Beeches, Cotswold District Council

LDm: 390 (52.7%) -3.0%
Ref: 168 (22.7%) New
Con: 122 (16.5%) -17.9%
Grn: 53 (7.2%) -3.0%
Lab: 7 (0.9%) New

LDm HOLD

Aigburth, Liverpool City Council

Grn: 782 (45.0%) +31.1%
LDm: 637 (36.7%) -13.6%
Lab: 177 (10.2%) -21.7%
Ref: 121 (7.0%) New
Ind: 12 (0.7%) New
Con: 8 (0.5%) -1.8%

Grn GAIN from LDm

Sleaford Westholme, North Kesteven District Council

Ref: 243 (45.1%) New
Ind: 87 (16.1%) -13.4%
Con: 81 (15.0%) New
Grn: 55 (10.2%) New
Ind: 49 (9.1%) -20.2%
Ind: 12 (2.2%) New
LDm: 12 (2.2%) New

Ref GAIN from Ind

Abingdon Abbey Northcourt, Vale of White Horse District Council

LDm: 647 (43.7%) +3.3%
Grn: 480 (32.5%) -2.1%
Ref: 204 (13.8%) New
Con: 101 (6.8%) -7.3%
Lab: 47 (3.2%) -7.7%

LDm GAIN from Grn

Penrith South, Westmorland and Furness Council

LDm: 749 (43.1%) -1.5%
Ref: 588 (33.9%) New
Grn: 225 (13.0%) +2.6%
Con: 174 (10.0%) -15.5%

LDm HOLD

Tuesday, 10 March 2026

TOON TUESDAY #94

The bulk of this week's selection features the Israeli war on Iran and Keir Starmer's indecision on Britain's participation, or at the very least despatching the Royal Navy to defend the British base in Cyprus.  If Starmer's reluctance was all about taking lessons from history and putting Britain first, it would be a shrewd move we at BTLP would commend.  However, we all know that he is more concerned about the feelings of Britain's fifth column and the safeguarding of his inner city MPs who rely on the Muslim block vote.  He's already too late for that, they are toast no matter what he does...

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph
Nick Newman for The Sunday Times
Ben Jennings for The Guardian
Dave Brown for The Independent
Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph
Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph
Steve Bright for The Sun
Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph
Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph
Steven Camley for The Herald
Kevin Kallaugher for The Economist
Jeremy Banks for The Financial Times
Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph
Morten Morland for The Times
Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph
Dave Brown for The Independent