Wednesday, 30 October 2024

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.

Tuesday, 29 October 2024

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?

Monday, 28 October 2024

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

Sunday, 27 October 2024

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.

Friday, 25 October 2024

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

Thursday, 24 October 2024

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.

Wednesday, 23 October 2024

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.

Tuesday, 22 October 2024

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

Monday, 21 October 2024

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

As always, feel free to share our memes anywhere you like.  All that we ask is that you do not remove our binlabour.com watermark.  Thank you!

Friday, 18 October 2024

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

Wednesday, 16 October 2024

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.

Tuesday, 15 October 2024

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...

Monday, 14 October 2024

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