COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 28.11.24

Ten seats were up for grabs on Thursday, with two of those in the Village ward of Barking and Dagenham.  Only one of the ten seats changed hands - a Lib Dem gain from Labour in Sheffield, where Labour were pushed into third by an astonishing first time effort from Reform UK.  Reform were only ten votes behind the victorious Lib Dems.

Labour's vote share was down in all the seats contested, asides from a very marginal increase in Fife.  They held seven of the eight seats they were defending, but on the current trajectory they are heading for an electoral spanking in the next local elections.

Northbury, Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council

Lab: 561 (57.7%) -11.1%

Grn: 161 (16.6%) +2.0%

Ref: 101 (10.4%) New

Con: 100 (10.3%) -6.4%

LDm: 49 (5.0%) New

Lab HOLD

Village, Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council

(Two seats)

Lab: 776

Lab: 774

Con: 580

Con: 571

Grn: 103

Grn: 97

LDm: 70

LDm: 37

Lab HOLD x 2

Haxby & Wigginton, City of York Council

LDm: 1,847 (64.0%) +11.1%

Con: 435 (15.1%) -7.8%

Ref: 325 (11.3%) New

Lab: 203 (7.0%) -7.4%

Grn: 76 (2.6%) -2.6%

LDm HOLD

Jubilee, Enfield London Borough Council

Lab: 853 (39.4%) -13.9%

Con: 691 (31.9%) +8.7%

Ind: 208 (9.6%) New

Grn: 169 (7.8%) -2.4%

Ref: 149 (6.9%) New

LDm: 94 (4.3%) -1.8%

Lab HOLD

West Fife & Coastal Villages, Fife Council

(First preference votes)

Lab: 881 (33.2%) +0.7%

SNP: 879 (33.2%) -2.7%

Con: 426 (16.1%) -1.0%

LDm: 227 (8.6%) +1.9%

Grn: 121 (4.6%) +0.4%

Ind: 64 (2.4%) New

SFP: 53 (2.0%) +0.4%

Lab HOLD (elected stage TBC)

Junction, Islington London Borough Council

Lab: 785 (40.4%) -22.0%

Ind: 550 (28.3%) New

Grn: 219 (11.3%) -11.2%

LDm: 156 (8.0%) +0.9%

Con: 113 (5.8%) -2.1%

Ind: 97 (5.0%) New

SPB: 22 (1.1%) New

Lab HOLD

Woodhouse, Sheffield City Council

LDm: 1,018 (33.0%) +26.8%

Ref: 1,008 (32.7%) New

Lab: 650 (21.1%) -36.8%

Con: 168 (5.0%) -9.5%

Grn: 153 (5.4%) -4.5%

TUS: 56 (1.8%) -1.0%

SDP: 33 (1.1%) New

LDm GAIN from Lab

Frampton Cotterell, South Gloucestershire Council

LDm: 1,315 (49.3%) -2.4%

Con: 1,114 (41.7%) +8.1%

Grn: 160 (6.0%) -3.0%

Lab: 80 (3.0%) -2.7%

LDm HOLD

Kilpatrick, West Dunbartonshire Council

(First preference votes)

Lab: 725 (42.7%) -13.4%

SNP: 514 (30.3%) -7.7%

Ref: 176 (10.4%) New

Con: 97 (5.7%) -0.2%

Grn: 73 (4.3%) New

LDm: 65 (3.7%) New

SFP: 25 (1.5%) New

CPB: 23 (1.4%) New

Lab HOLD (elected stage 6)

Abbreviations

Lab = Labour

Grn = Green

Ref = Reform UK

Con = Conservative

LDm = Liberal Democrat

SNP = Scottish National Party

SFP = Scottish Family Party

SPB = Socialist Party of Great Britain

TUS = Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

SDP = Social Democratic Party

CPB = Communist Party of Britain

Ind = Independents

A SELECTIVE BLASPHEMY LAW

Tahir Ali's proposal is intended to protect Islam from criticism

A Birmingham MP and second generation Pakistani called on Keir Starmer to implement what amounts to a blasphemy law during Wednesday's PMQs.  Tahir Ali, MP for Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley, highlighted the timing as 'Islamophobia Awareness Month' and proceeded to call for 'measures to prohibit the desecration of all religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions'.

Ali is one of four Muslim members of Labour's Socialist Campaign Group and is highly supportive of the Palestinian cause, while being highly critical of Israel.  He can speak about 'Abrahamic religions' all he likes, but his intentions are clearly not intended to defend Judaism, or Christianity for that matter.  He framed the question around 'Islamophobia Awareness Month', so we know exactly what he wants to protect from criticism.  Also, by using that term, he conveniently omits Sikhs and Hindus as they are not of the 'Abrahamic faiths'.  What we have here is a bigot, born and bred in Birmingham, but whose loyalties are to Pakistan and Islam.

Watch the clip below, including Starmer's response, in which he does not rule it out...

We don't need more laws to protect Islam from criticism in this country, in fact we need to be able to speak more freely about this fifth column threat to the fabric of our society, whether that be innocent civilians blown up or stabbed to death, young girls groomed and raped or school teachers in hiding.  Our society - whether you are religious or not - is rooted in Christianity.  Defend it at all costs.

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #8

Imagine taking a classic British motoring brand, synonymous shall we say with older affluent gentlemen, and completely demolishing it with a rebrand aimed at a tiny minority of progressive sub-human androgynous trash who have no interest in driving cars, less so Jaguars...

Then, if you can, imagine that you remove the big cat - from which the brand is named and with which it has been associated since 1945 - from the logo and replace it with bland semi-literate lettering (a mix of capitals and lower case lettering, as if written by a five-year-old)...

Finally, imagine that the painfully woke advert does not feature so much as a tail-light or wheel trim of the very product said business is supposedly trying to sell.  That's right, the Jaguar rebrand ad does not feature a car!

Needless to say, the backlash against the brand has been off the scale and share prices nose-dived in a series of events very reminiscent of Anheuser-Busch in the wake of its braindead decision to use a trans individual to promote its Bud Light beer.  Furthermore, the response of Jaguar's bosses towards the consumer backlash has been oh so predictable.  Critics are full of 'vile hatred and intolerance' raged managing director Rawdon Glover (that is not a made-up name, apparently).  Whether he loves dong or not, he and his car firm are guilty of the most aggregious intolerance towards their own customer base, who, as we have already discussed, are not exactly over-populated by non-binary alphabet people.

The continuing theme of destroying brands in favour of post-human trans propaganda is testament to just how advanced our civilisation has fallen into the grips of communism.  Big multinational companies who used to be all about making profits and answering to their shareholders, now appear to answer to the DEI gods of Blackrock, while presumably transferring their wealth upwards as the proletariat ants below them waste away in net zero poverty.

We simply must resist this sick world they are driving us towards.

Last week's Vodafone meme generated 13 comments and 12 shares on Facebook.

BUYER'S REMORSE

While many people correctly surmised that the huge petition that gathered pace over the weekend would not result in any form of systemic change, it has undoubtedly turned up the pressure dial on Keir Starmer.  Our part-time PM faced awkward questions upon his return to work this week, and while he squirmed in the face of media questioning, his strategy became clear - blame all those who didn't vote Labour.

Now we all know that there are voters up and down these lands who put their cross next to Labour candidates in July and who are now regretting that decision.  Starmer's plummeting approval rating and Labour's tanking in the polls are both indicative of buyer's remorse.  When he took office, Labour were enjoying a double digit lead - anywhere from 10-19 points depending on the poll - but that poll lead began to shrink rapidly, up to the point that some pollsters now have the Tories in the lead.

That is quite a turnaround for a government elected with a huge majority just a few months ago and, even with a fairly significant margin of error, suggests that a significant number of voters will have turned their backs on Labour.

Starmer knows this, too.  He is well aware of just how unpopular he is, no matter what bubble he envelops himself in.  His back door escape from the recent Labour conference in Wales shows that he and his advisors are well aware of the growing anger outside.  Imagine being a newly elected PM with such a huge majority, but being unable to show your face in public?

From pensioners to businesses, to farms and the poorest in society, twelve months from now there will be seldom few across these islands who are not feeling the pinch of Starmer's rush to inflict globalist policies on the UK.

Many of these people voted Labour and they're not going to do so again any time soon.  Starmer's assertion that those demanding another election are purely 'those who didn't vote Labour' not only misrepresents the situation, it is a lie on his part.

The petition in question - to call a new general election in light of Labour's lies - ran out of steam on Tuesday and is currently stalled at less than 2.8million.  An impressive figure nonetheless, and with a Commons debate likely to follow, it is sure to remind the masses just how unpopular this man is.

TOON TUESDAY #33

A bumper edition this week, looking back at some of the various Labour-related shenanigans throughout the month of November.

Red Rachel and her mishandling of the economy featured strongly...

Andy Bunday on Instagram

Christian Adams for The Evening Standard

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Andy Davey for The Daily Telegraph

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

More and more people became aware of Labour's extreme globalist agenda to destroy Britain in the name of net zero, partly thanks to the farmers' protests, COP29 and Ed Miliband...

Josh on X

Graeme Bandeira for The Yorkshire Post

Bob Moran on X

Cartoonists even used 'Storm Bert' to take shots at Starmer and Reeves...

Christian Adams for The Sunday Telegraph

Morten Morland for The Times

On the global front, Labour politicians dodged questions about the prospect of Benjamin Netanyahu's arrest on war crimes charges, while Vladimir Putin weighed up his responses to Britisha and American missiles being fired at Russia...

Peter Brookes for The Times

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Finally, MPs will vote on the so-called 'Assisted Dying Bill' this Friday.  We prefer to call it the Euthanasia Bill, which is what it is, and we expect that if it is ever made law it will gradually be amended and expanded to include all manner of ailments until basically one day anyone can end their life - regardless of whether they are sick or not.  Never forget that YOU are the carbon these people want to reduce...

Guy Venables for Metro

Bob Moran on X

MEME MONDAY #14

It was a busy week for Karl with an endless supply of material to meme about.  Engagement was kept high by volume and variety, and of course the boundless treachery of the Starmer government and the establishment it serves...

Mon 18 Nov - 50 shares on Facebook

Tues 19 Nov - 71 shares

Tues 19 Nov - 284 shares

Wed 20 Nov - 271 shares

Wed 20 Nov - 197 shares

Thurs 21 Nov - 337 shares

Fri 22 Nov - 85 shares

Fri 22 Nov - 140 shares

Sat 23 Nov - 40 shares

Sat 23 Nov - 46 shares

Sun 24 Nov - 146 shares

Sun 24 Nov - 346 shares

Please feel free to download any of our memes and share away, all that we ask is that you do not remove, obscure or replace our binlabour.com watermark.  Thank you.

BRITS DEMAND A NEW ELECTION

Just after 16:00 on Sunday a petition on the UK Parliament website surpassed one million signatures.  There is nothing particularly noteworthy about reaching such a milestone, except that the petition in question only went online 24 hours earlier.

The petition demands another general election, in response to all the lies and u-turns undertaken by Starmer's wretched government since they took office.  It is reportedly the fastest growing petition in British history, surpassing the previous record held by a petition demanding 'justice for George Floyd' (yes, an American).

Pub landlord Michael Westwood is the man behind the petition, but he is as surprised as anyone as to its runaway success.

While the petition is unlikely to actually result in another election, it will heap further pressure on our disastrous PM and his government must not only respond to the petition - it must be considered for debate in the Commons.

You can sign Michael's petition here and don't forget to click on the confirmation link in your email.

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 21.11.24

15 council seats were available in this week's round of by-elections.  Labour were defending just five of these, three of which were in Glasgow.  With the SNP in freefall in Scotland's second city, Labour would not have many problems holding here and they did so, albeit with dips in their vote across two of the wards.  They also held in Sefton (Merseyside), again not surprising, but their vote share plummeted by more than 30 points with a huge swing to the second placed Greens.

Of course there couldn't be a week in Starmer's Britain where Labour didn't lose something and they did.  In Gosport (Hampshire) they lost a seat, with a swing to both Reform and the victorious Conservatives.

Labour also gained a rare seat, taking advantage of a vacant independent seat in Dacorum (Hertfordshire).  Reform also made gains at the expense of residents' groups in Kent, gaining two seats, one of which they had not previously contested.

The Tories improved on last week's performance, gaining three seats from the Lib Dems.

Bennetts End, Dacorum Borough Council

Lab: 318 (37.1%) +6.4%

Con: 313 (36.5%) +14.5%

Grn: 102 (11.9%) +1.7%

Ref: 92 (10.7%) New

LDm: 32 (3.7%) -3.6%

Lab GAIN from Ind

Hemel Hempstead Town, Dacorum Borough Council

Con: 347 (43.7%) +17.3%

LDm: 174 (21.9%) -24.8%

Lab: 147 (18.5%) -8.4%

Ref: 79 (9.9%) New

Grn: 45 (5.9%) New

Con GAIN from LDm

Greenhithe & Knockhall, Dartford Borough Council

Ref: 284 (31.2%) New

Ind: 251 (27.6% ) -17.2%

Grn: 150 (16.5%) New

Lab: 113 (12.4%) -7.0%

Con: 112 (12.3%) -23.5%

Ref GAIN from Ind

Drumchapel & Anniesland, Glasgow City Council

(First preference votes)

Lab: 1,084 (34.3%) -3.8%

SNP: 830 (26.3%) -11.6%

Ref: 405 (12.8%) New

Ind: 297 (9.4%) +4.2%

Grn: 263 (8.3%) +2.3%

Con: 184 (5.8%) -3.7%

LDm: 93 (2.9%) +1.3%

Lab HOLD (elected stage 7)

Maryhill, Glasgow City Council

(First preference votes)

Lab: 999 (35.9%) +1.9%

SNP: 814 (29.2%) -12.9%

Ref: 353 (12.7%) New

Grn: 338 (12.1%) -0.2%

Alb: 118 (4.2%) New

Con: 89 (3.2%) -5.0%

LDm: 75 (2.7%) +0.3%

Lab HOLD (elected stage 7)

North East, Glasgow City Council

(First preference votes)

Lab: 630 (34.3%) -9.7%

SNP: 591 (32.2%) -10.4%

Ref: 336 (18.3%) New

Con: 99 (5.4%) -3.3%

Grn: 77 (4.2%) +1.2%

TUS: 68 (3.7%) +2.5%

LDm: 36 (2.0%) New

Lab HOLD (elected stage 7)

Harbourside & Town, Gosport Borough Council

Con: 445 (48.5%) +10.6%

Lab: 255 (27.8%) -12.8%

LDm: 108 (11.8%) +3.4%

Ref: 85 (9.3%) New

Ind: 13 (1.4%) New

Hrt: 11 (1.2%) New

Con GAIN from Lab

Fort William & Ardnamurchan, Highland Council

(First preference votes)

LDm: 1,428 (58.9%) +21.4%

SNP: 619 (25.5%) -8.0%

Grn: 146 (6.0%) -2.6%

Lab: 109 (4.5%) New

Con: 107 (4.4%) -5.7%

SLP: 15 (0.6%) New

LDm HOLD (elected stage 1)

Denne, Horsham District Council

Con: 712 (38.6%) +9.3%

LDm: 672 (36.4%) -13.2%

Grn: 255 (13.8%) +5.0%

Lab: 205 (11.1%) -1.0%

Con GAIN from LDm

Swanscombe & Greenhithe, Kent County Council

Ref: 695 (29.1%) +27.5%

Lab: 588 (24.6%) -7.5%

Ind: 395 (16.5%) -23.9%

Con: 374 (15.6%) -10.3%

Grn: 296 (12.4%) New

LDm: 44 (1.8%) New

Ref GAIN from Ind

Litherland, Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council

Lab: 495 (43.7%) -30.3%

Grn: 385 (34.0%) +27.1%

Ref: 141 (12.4%) New

Con: 48 (4.2%) -0.6%

WPB: 40 (3.5%) New

TUS: 25 (2.2%) New

Lab HOLD

Oakham North East, Rutland County Council

LDm: 244 (40.9%) -30.7%

Con: 237 (39.7%) +11.3%

Ref: 93 (15.6%) New

Lab: 23 (3.9%) New

LDm HOLD

Blackmoor Vale, Somerset County Council

Con: 1,120 (57.4%) +13.1%

LDm: 724 (36.6%) -19.1%

Grn: 86 (4.4%) New

Lab: 32 (1.6%) New

Con GAIN from LDm

Rowbarton & Staplegrove, Somerset County Council

LDm: 817 (58.3%) +1.7%

Con: 396 (28.3%) -2.4%

Grn: 102 (7.3%) New

Lab: 96 (6.1%) -6.6%

LDm HOLD

Murston, Swale Borough Council

Ind: 269 (34.5%) -6.1%

Lab: 229 (29.4%) +2.2%

Ref: 139 (17.8%) New

Con: 116 (14.9%) +0.4%

LDm: 26 (3.3%) -6.2%

Ind HOLD

Abbreviations

Lab = Labour

Con = Conservative

Grn = Green

Ref = Reform UK

LDm = Liberal Democrat

SNP = Scottish National Party

Alb = Alba

TUS = Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

Hrt = Heritage

SLP = Scottish Libertarian Party

WPB = Workers Party of Britain

Ind = Independents and local groups

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #7

Two and a half years ago a mobile phone provider posted the following article to its website: "How to speak to your child about gender identity".  The article is as demented and sinister as it sounds, with the second paragraph introducing someone called John Grosshandler (yes, seriously) who talks about a supposed incident in which his nine-year-old daughter 'came out'.

Mr Grosshandler - if he even exists - goes on to explain how he found help with his LGBT nine-year-old from an organisation called GenderCool.  This group is just as disturbing as the article in which it is name-dropped.  Both unarguably have the aim of sexualising children and normalising trans/non-binary nonsense from an early age.

While most, if not all, big multinational corporations are now tied to the broadcast of establishment propaganda, we can all consider perhaps switching from Vodafone - the company that posted the above article.

Last week's 'midget' meme generated 161 comments and 219 shares on Facebook, to date our most engaging woke Wednesday yet.

TOON TUESDAY #32

With tens of thousands of farmers descending on London, today's theme is somewhat predictable...

Guy Venables for Metro

Guy Venables for Metro

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Tim Bales for The Spectator

WE STAND WITH THE FARMERS

As farmers trundle into London en masse today, BTLP stands behind them.  This is perhaps the most important issue of our time, because without farmers we starve.  It's that simple.

While the mass media will frame today's protest around inheritance tax, it is about much more than that.  The assault on farming is an ongoing and co-ordinated campaign by globalists and their puppets to dismantle farms and get farmers off the land.  It is one of the oldest tricks in the communist playbook - who controls the food, controls the people.

Throughout 2024 we have seen huge protests across Europe in response to a variety of attacks, such as dystopian nitrogen emissions curbs and pesticide bans.  All these efforts by globalist-captured governments are carried out in the name of 'net zero', the ultimate goal of which is to drastically reduce meat and dairy consumption.  One document from the C40 Cities Initiative (a globalist NGO chaired by Sadiq Khan) states that zero meat and dairy consumption is desirable.

In order to reach the extreme 'net zero' targets decreed by globalist states such as ours, the removal of farms and their livestock is seen as integral to achieving those targets.

If people assume that the inheritance tax land grab by the UK government is their first volley against livestock farming, they would be mistaken.  In 2022 the then Tory government offered to pay farmers a lump sum to leave the industry and sell or rent out at least 95 per cent of their land.  What we see now with inheritance tax is an extension of that drive to get farmers off the land.  The Welsh government will introduce their Sustainable Farming Scheme next year, which requires farmers to surrender at least 10 per cent of their land and give it over to 'habitat' and/or 'tree cover'.

It is no coincidence that Bill Gates met with Reeves and Starmer in Downing Street less than a fortnight before her land grab budget.  It is surely no coincidence, either, that Gates is already the largest landowner of private farmland in the United States and he and his globalist comrades make no secret of the fact they desire us to 'eat bugs' and 'synthetic meat'.  That is, of course, those of us who survive their dystopian plan to reduce carbon, that carbon being primarily us.

Meanwhile, as we are offered crickets and the lab-grown meat that will no doubt kill more of us off, rest assured that people like Gates, Blair, Schwab etc will be enjoying the finest cuts of steak from their own private farms.

This cannot and must not be our future.  Stand with our farmers - today and every day - as they have fed and sustained us every day of our lives.

MEME MONDAY #13

A real mixed bag these last seven days...

Mon 11 Nov - 93 shares on Facebook

Tue 12 Nov - 117 shares

Thurs 14 Nov - 27 shares

Thurs 14 Nov - 337 shares

Fri 15 Nov - 99 shares
George Orwell cartoon by Bob Moran

Fri 15 Nov - 23 shares

Sat 16 Nov - 292 shares

Sat 16 Nov - 83 shares

Sun 17 Nov - 157 shares

Sun 17 Nov - 103 shares

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 14.11.24

A dozen seats were up for election on Thursday, with Labour defending nine of them.  Two of those fell - both to the Lib Dems - and in both instances (Edinburgh and Oxfordshire) Labour crashed to third place.  Labour's vote share was down in all the seats it contested, except for two seats in Ayrshire.

Colinton & Fairmilehead, City of Edinburgh Council

(First preference votes)

LDm: 2,683 (36.3%) +23.8%

Con: 1,454 (19.6%) -10.3%

Lab: 1,441 (19.5%) -13.9%

SNP: 800 (10.8%) -6.4%

Grn: 393 (5.3%) -0.1%

Ref: 268 (3.6%) New

Ind: 173 (2.3%) New

Ind: 57 (0.8%) New

SFP: 51 (0.7%) -0.9%

Ind: 50 (0.7%) New

Ind: 22 (0.3%) New

SLP: 9 (0.1%) New

LDm GAIN from Lab (elected stage TBC)

Calver & Longstone, Derbyshire Dales District Council

Con: 290 (47.6%) +2.2%

Grn: 263 (43.2%) -11.4%

Lab: 56 (9.2%) New

Con GAIN from Grn

Doon Valley, East Ayrshire Council

(First preference votes)

Lab: 516 (32.4%) +9.1%

Con: 410 (25.6%) +8.9%

SNP: 379 (23.7%) +2.9%

Ind: 172 (10.7%) New

LDm: 68 (4.2%) New

Grn: 48 (3.0%) New

Ind: 9 (0.6%) New

Lab HOLD (elected stage TBC)

Kilmarnock West & Crosshouse, East Ayrshire Council

(First preference votes)

Lab: 1,213 (39.4%) +11.1%

SNP: 1,025 (33.3%) -5.1%

Con: 623 (20.2%) -1.8%

LDm: 145 (4.7%) New

Ind: 75 (2.4%) New

Lab HOLD (elected stage TBC)

Shooters Hill, Greenwich London Borough Council

Lab: 1,043 (57.9%) -1.6%

Con: 237 (13.2%) -0.8%

Grn: 185 (10.3%) -4.8%

Ref: 179 (9.9%) +7.1%

LDm: 158 (8.8%) +0.1%

Lab HOLD

Bradwell, Milton Keynes City Council

LDm: 1,129 (56.1%) +2.3%

Lab: 329 (16.3%) -8.6%

Ref: 228 (11.3%) New

Con: 226 (11.2%) -2.5%

Grn: 101 (5.0%) -2.5%

LDm HOLD

Broughton, Milton Keynes City Council

LDm: 1,169 (51.5%) +5.6%

Con: 541 (23.8%) -2.2%

Lab: 360 (15.9%) -5.5%

Grn: 138 (6.1%) +1.2%

Hrt: 61 (2.7%) +0.9%

LDm HOLD

Wanstead Park, Redbridge London Borough Council

Lab: 934 (46.9%) -5.5%

Con: 349 (17.5%) -1.5%

Ind: 284 (14.2%) New

Grn: 222 (11.1%) -7.5%

LDm: 109 (5.5%) -4.6%

Ref: 95 (4.8%) New

Lab HOLD

Hadley & Leegomery, Telford and Wrekin Council

Lab: 778 (45.3%) -11.8%

Con: 539 (31.4%) +16.7%

Ref: 274 (15.9%) New

Grn: 75 (4.4%) -3.1%

LDm: 53 (3.1%) New

Lab HOLD

The Nedge, Telford and Wrekin Council

Lab: 636 (33.8%) -20.6%

Con: 620 (33.0%) +7.0%

Ref: 427 (22.7%)  New

Grn: 84 (4.5%) New

Ind: 61 (3.2%) -6.6%

LDm: 53 (2.8%) -7.0%

Lab HOLD

Whitburn & Blackburn, West Lothian Council

(First preference votes)

Lab: 1,093 (30.9%) -6.7%

SNP: 1,022 (28.9%) -9.8%

Ref: 578 (16.3%) New

Ind: 421 (11.9%) New

Con: 239 (6.7%) -11.7%

LDm: 97 (2.7%) +0.3%

Grn: 92 (2.6%) -0.5%

Lab HOLD (elected stage 7)

Chipping Norton, West Oxfordshire District Council

LDm: 403 (31.3%) +24.6%

Con: 383 (29.7%) +9.0%

Lab: 350 (27.2%) -34.2%

Grn: 152 (11.8%) +0.5%

LDm GAIN from Lab

Abbreviations

LDm = Liberal Democrat

Con = Conservative

Lab = Labour

SNP = Scottish National Party

Grn = Green

Ref = Reform UK

SFP = Scottish Family Party

SLP = Scottish Libertarian Party

Hrt = Heritage

Ind = Independents

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #6

The pretty Oxfordshire market town of Abingdon-on-Thames seems like a place you would expect to be free of the cosmopolitan middle class bullshit of PC wokery.  Well, thanks to a middle class cosmopolitan university lecturer who got wind of a 'controversial' pub name, said pub is now changing its name!

Dr Erin Pritchard is a 'disability lecturer' at Liverpool Hope University, which is 180 miles away from sleepy Abingdon.  As a dwarf, Dr Pritchard has made it her life's mission to hunt down 'offensive' terms that she claims are offensive to the wee folk.  In 2022 she successfully managed to persuade Marks and Spencer to rename their 'midget gems' to 'mini gems', because she claimed that the word 'midget' is a form of 'hate speech'.  Tesco, Morrisons, Maynards and other retailers soon followed suit, simply out of fear for not being deemed progressive enough by the cancel mob.

Dr Pritchard's X feed is basically a long list of her attempts to cleanse the English speaking world of the word 'midget'.  So when she found out that there was a pub in Oxfordshire called The Midget, she swung into action and started a petition demanding that the brewery change the name.  That the pub is actually named after a classic sports car that was produced in the town's former MG factory, thereby reflecting a piece of local heritage, is anathema to the frothy-mouthed lunatic from Liverpool.

Despite the fact that her online petition only garnered a somewhat paltry 1,344 signatures after ten months, the brewery caved in and the pub will be renamed The Roaring Raindrop when it reopens next month following refurbishment.  The new name refers to another MG model, made famous in 1957 when it broke the land speed record driven by British racing legend Stirling Moss.

Since the news of the name change broke, angry locals have begun their own online petition in opposition to the change.  This new petition garnered more than twice that of Pritchard's in just a matter of days and at the time of writing is approaching 3,000 signatures.  However, it is unlikely to provoke a change of heart from Greene King, as we know only too well that the communist speech police of cosmopolitan middle class suburbia hold more sway than disgruntled local people who actually live there and use these amenities...

Following her most recent victory, we can surely now expect Pritchard to expand her campaign against Abingdon's motoring heritage by demanding that place names be changed, too.  The Midget pub, for example, is located in Midget Place.

We know that the Marxist left who like to police speech are no different from the book burning Nazi socialists they claim to oppose.  Dr Pritchard's own intolerance is perhaps best exemplified by the image on the front of her book about dwarfism.  It is the depiction of a circus tent in flames.  So, rather like the woke dwarf actor Peter Dinklage - who decried a Hollywood remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Dr Pritchard is only too happy to deprive other dwarves of employment, save that she may be offended on their behalf!

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