Tuesday, 4 February 2025

TOON TUESDAY #43

The government's decision to run with long-standing proposals for Heathrow expansion appear to fly (no pun intended) in the face of net zero policies it otherwise promotes with relentless zealotry.  What is their game?  Can it really be an action designed to drive the economic growth that Rachel from Accounts claims?  Is it meant as a distraction from the frequent scandals?  Is it a folly that will never come to fruition (but one which will line the pockets of ministers)?  Has Starmer tired of his puppet status and picked a fight with his masters, giving himself an easy out?  Does he secretly hate Ed Miliband?

Whatever the motivation, it will come as no surprise to find that London-centric cartoonists continue to be fascinated by the conundrum...

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph
Dave Brown for The Independent
Dave Brown for The Independent
Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph
Andy Bunday for The Cartoon Movement
Graeme Bandeira for The Northern Agenda
Morten Morland for The Times
Andy Davey for The Daily Telegraph

ED'S CHEESE SPRINKLED WITH LIES

Starmer's net zero supremo is a cringe politician and always has been.  From bacon sandwiches and fumbling cuppas to excruciating video clips promoting the climate scam, Ed Miliband remains a huge threat to our way of life.  A now deleted clip from 2023 in which he plays a ukulele and sings the alleged virtues of wind turbines was apparently too much even for Ed and he later deleted it, but not before the Independent embedded it on the internet for all to endure...


Ed's claim that a lack of wind farms under the Tories added '£160' to our energy bills is demonstrable nonsense.  The 3.5mW monstrosities that Miliband wants to plant across our green belt cost millions to install and do not offset that initial cost for years.  Of course that length of time is dependent on multiple factors, including the setting and the weather itself - both vital components if these eyesores are to work efficiently.

As for Ed's reposte to claims that they are eyesores (they are, no argument) - does he live near a wind farm?  Would he?  Despite claims to the contrary, he wouldn't - no-one would.  They are a blot on the landscape, a threat to birds, their persistent low-frequency operating noise is damaging to human health, while your house price is going to take a major hit.

Ed's lies are not limited to wind turbines.

In a more recent video he boosts his ego by going back to the year 2008 and comparing himself to Batman (yes, seriously).  Naturally, he doesn't mention the biggest event of that year - the financial crash - but instead embarks on yet another energy-related yarn.  Watch below.


Instead of trotting out the oft-repeated lie that the energy crisis of 2021 was due to the war in Ukraine (despite it pre-dating Russia's invasion), Ed puts his own twist on it.  "The cost of living crisis was caused by our exposure to fossil fuels", he says, with a straight face.  No, Ed, what happened in 2021 was a cost of lockdown crisis driven by the sudden reopening of industry and the resulting spike in energy demand exacerbated by poor energy storage infrastructure.  Without the crazed lockdown policies that people like Ed supported, there would have been no such crisis.  A prevalence of wind and solar energy - combined with adequate storage - may have negated the severity, but would not have averted a crisis caused by excessive and spontaneous demand.

Ed knows all this, but he has to lie in order to sell the scam.  And the biggest lie of all is Ed's claim that there is a 'climate crisis', which most critical thinkers of a certain age know to be a decades-old myth that can be compared to the fable of the boy who cried 'wolf'.  The scam was originally known as 'global warming' and contained a series of threats that the end of the world was nigh, the ice caps would melt and the seas would rise etc.  When none of that came true, globalists embarked on a 21st century rebrand, now calling it 'climate change', which is largely built on a lie that imminent disaster will be brought about by a 1.5C degree change.  The scam is designed to impoverish humanity, erase our liberty and depopulate.

While Miliband's cheesy video clips may endear him to no-one but slow-learning infants, it doesn't make this apparent buffoon any less dangerous.  Powerful net zero climate scammers like Ed will leave every one of us poorer, colder, hungrier and less free.

Monday, 3 February 2025

MEME MONDAY #21

A real mixed bag this week...

Mon 27 Jan - 455 shares on Facebook
Tue 28 Jan - 323 shares.  Since publishing this meme, claims have
surfaced which lay the blame for the woke name change at the gates
of Buckingham Palace.  The King himself reportedly initiated the
change, although this has not been confirmed.
Wed 29 Jan - 103 shares
Thurs 30 Jan - 86 shares
Thurs 30 Jan - 130 shares
Fri 31 Jan - 833 shares
Sat 1 Feb - 209 shares
Sun 2 Feb - 287 shares
Sun 2 Feb - 63 shares

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Wednesday, 29 January 2025

TRUMP & MILIER TRASH DAVOS


It was Klaus Schwab's tough luck that his annual get together in the Swiss Alps followed so swiftly behind the recent presidential inauguration in Washington DC.  It meant that instead of nodding off to a speech from one of his globalist puppets like Biden or Obama, he would have to take some seldom heard insolence.  Step forward a man who is no stranger to socking it to Davos globalists, albeit this time it was via a video link from the White House.

As 45th President, Donald Trump was a little more nuanced in his debunking of Schwab's globalist dream, but as 47th he was resurgent with all subtlety jettisoned.  For here was a man who believes in the nation state and all that Davos aims to crush - national pride, sovereignty, liberty and free speech.

A few days later his speech was followed by that of a very similar outspoken conservative leader - the President of Argentina, Javier Milei.

Milei and Trump share many characteristics and objectives and their political success in their respective countries is undoubtedly tied to the fact that neither are career politicians.  Milei was an economist who, like Trump, rose to prominence very quickly with a plain-spoken agenda.  And that is putting it mildly!  Milei's pledges to slash government spending and shrink the state were often characterised by campaign appearances wielding a chainsaw no less.  His achievement in creating a government surplus in his first year as president was something he was keen to tell the Davos attendees about in person.

While Trump probably spent a little too much of his speech blowing his own trumpet, Milei quickly got down to the premise of his, and just wow.  What followed was a defence of Western civilisation and a direct attack on the woke communism promoted by the WEF.  Whatever Trump had said previously, Milei dialled up to eleven with a direct attack on the globalist agenda espoused by those seated in front and to the side of him.

Both speeches can be seen below.  The Trump address is shorter, but it is followed by a question and answers session with leading bankers...


WOKE WEDNESDAYS #15

Since 2013 the BBC has compiled an annual list of 100 'inspiring and influential' women from around the world.  The list is extremely diverse and features a wide range of professions, from poets and politicians to athletes and surgeons.  Kemi Badenoch made this year's list, as did Angela Rayner, while other politicians hailed from Taiwan, New Zealand and the United States.

There is no male version of the 100 Women list as it was initially intended as a purely feminist venture, but now...


The individual pictured above is listed in the category 'climate pioneers', which in itself suggests an establishment political slant that one would expect from the BBC.  His real name is Luis Guillermo Baptiste, but he now calls himself 'Brigitte'.  'Brigitte' is a Colombian biologist, which is quite ironic, seeing as he doesn't know that an adult male human being can never ever become an adult female human being.  And that is why he should never ever be on a list of 'inspiring women', but that's the Clown World we live in right now and the BBC and every other media and entertainment outlet captured by globalists will continue to spew such nonsense.

The full BBC list can be found here, and note the Beeb's attempt to legitimise his selection by highlighting a South American tree that can 'change sex' - a phenomenon that is so rare that it was only discovered for the first time in 2018!

Last week's Queers for Palestine meme generated 209 comments and 195 shares on Facebook.

Tuesday, 28 January 2025

TOON TUESDAY #42

This week the theme is very much Ed Miliband and net zero versus economic growth and Heathrow expansion...

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph
Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph
Matt Pritchett for The Sunday Telegraph
Morten Morland for The Sunday Times
Robert Thompson for The Spectator
Graeme Bandeira for The Northern Agenda
Peter Brookes for The Times
Christian Adams for The Sunday Telegraph
Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Monday, 27 January 2025

SAME OLD FROM NEW MP JESS

Labour's Jess Asato and just three of the rape gangs she would rather we ignore

One of Labour's new intake of MPs recently debated the scourge of Pakistani grooming gangs with prominent Brexiteer Ben Habib.  Jess Asato, elected last July for Lowestoft in Suffolk, flatly denied there is a problem and used some vague and selective police statistics to divert attention.

It's the go-to argument for establishment lefties when it comes to the rape gangs - deflect from the issue and blame whitey.  We hear it time and again from politically correct journalists and Labour politicians - 'most child abusers and paedophiles in this country are actually white'.  No shit.  We still live in a majority white country (although it may not feel like it).  The same daft displacement tactic could be applied to most criminal acts, but in this case it is specifically designed to excuse rape gangs of an overwhelmingly Pakistani background.

In any case, these men are not simply 'child abusers' or paedophiles, for whom the term can apply to someone looking at child porn on their laptop (eh, Huw Edwards?).  This word play is used to deflect from and lessen the seriousness of the rape gangs, who we have become conditioned to refer to by that deliberately vague and gentler sounding term 'grooming gangs'.  These men are not merely combing the hair of their victims.

They are child rapists.

Furthermore, they are rapists who target children based on skin colour.  Imagine if the reverse were happening, and gangs of white men were picking up young Muslim girls for their sexual gratification?  The practice would be exposed to 24/7 rolling media coverage, universally condemned and those responsible locked up for decades.  Not to mention, our towns and cities would be in flames and there would be blood in the streets.

However, it is not simply fear of Muslims that motivates our media, police and politicians when covering for mass rape.  It is ideology.

Jess Asato is not an MP who relies on Muslim votes.  Ethnic Pakistanis make up barely 0.1 per cent of Lowestoft's overall population.  And yet when faced with the question of Pakistani rape gangs she falls over herself to defend them.  In doing so, she contradicts her ideological motive.  The core purpose of the left's argument is to detract from identifying Pakistani rape gangs based on ethnicity, as it is potentially deemed 'racist', but they nearly always point the finger at white sex offenders to achieve this.  In their leftist mindset it is acceptable to identify criminals based on skin colour, so long as they are white and it is being used to excuse and lessen the actions of others.

Of course the ultimate goal of covering for Pakistani rape gangs is to continue to perpetuate the myth that mass immigration and multi-culturalism have provided nothing but good for this country.  'Diversity is strength' is the mantra they repeat to themselves, and anything that contradicts it must be hidden from sight.  In essence, the establishment routinely sacrifices ethnic Brits on the altar of diversity, it simply doesn't matter whether they are white girls being raped over and over again by Pakistani gangs or white girls being blown to pieces at an Ariana Grande concert.

Listen to the following clip where Asato is asked whether we should 'face up' to the problem of Pakistani grooming gangs...


From the moment she is asked the question, there is instant denial and she points to a police statistic she claims represents the 'first three quarters of 2024' and shows that 85 per cent of 'group-based child abusers' were white.  Again, we are not talking about 'child abusers', we are talking about gang rape of minors.  It is also duly noted that she conveniently reeled off a statistic confined to last year, as opposed to previous years when hundreds of men of Pakistani heritage were being convicted from Bradford in the north to Oxford in the south and countless towns and cities in between.

Asato's response is symptomatic of the far left ideology that has taken over the British establishment.  Her party will never accept there is a problem, less so do anything about it.

MEME MONDAY #20

It is now one week since President Trump re-entered the White House and it was the first time many Brits had took in such a powerful and radical speech.  It inadvertently drew their attention to the treachery of our own leaders...

Tue 21 Jan - 487 shares on Facebook
Tue 21 Jan - 1,848 shares
Thurs 23 Jan - 153 shares
Thurs 23 Jan - 722 shares
Fri 24 Jan - 207 shares
Fri 24 Jan - 664 shares
Sat 25 Jan - 234 shares
Sun 26 Jan - 26 shares
Sun 26 Jan - 228 shares

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Friday, 24 January 2025

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 23.01.25


Six seats were up for grabs on Thursday, four of which were north of the border and two of those were a double header in Edinburgh.

The Lib Dems and SNP were defending a seat each in Edinburgh, but lost to the Tories and Labour.  The Conservative vote did particularly well in this by election.  Elsewhere in Scotland, Labour lost to the SNP in Stirling, while the party did not even bother defending their Shetland seat.

South of the border it was a Lib Dem hold in Liverpool and a Labour hold in the Potteries.  The latter saw a very strong swing to Reform UK who had not previously contested the seat.

Colinton/Fairmilehead, City of Edinburgh Council

(two seats, first preference votes)

Con: 2,027 (32.6%) +12.9%
Lab: 1,146 (18.4%) -1.1%
LDm: 1,009 (16.2%) -20.0%
SNP: 840 (13.5%) +2.7%
Grn: 426 (6.8%) +1.5%
Ref: 345 (5.5%) +1.9%
Ind: 256 (4.1%) +1.8%
SFP: 65 (1.0%) +0.4%
Ind: 38 (0.6%) -0.2%
Ind: 30 (0.5%) +0.2%
Ind: 23 (0.4%) -0.3%
Ind: 13 (0.2%) New
Ind: 5 (0.1%) New

Con GAIN from LDm (elected at stage 8)
Lab GAIN from SNP (elected at stage 13)

Much Woolton & Hunts Cross, Liverpool City Council

LDm: 1,011 (51.1%) -2.4%
Lab: 537 (27.1%) -4.2%
Ref: 218 (11.0%) New
Grn: 170 (8.6%) -2.0%
Con: 42 (2.1%) -2.3%

LDm HOLD

Bannockburn, Stirling Council

(first preference votes)

SNP: 565 (35.9%) +7.2%
Lab: 376 (23.9%) +3.1%
Ref: 358 (22.7%) New
Con: 169 (10.7%) -8.4%
LDm: 55 (3.5%) +1.4%
Grn: 53 (3.4%) +1.0%

SNP GAIN from Lab (elected at stage 6)

Town, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council

Lab: 309 (39.9%) -28.4%
Con: 226 (29.2%) -2.5%
Ref: 168 (21.7%) New
LDm: 78 (9.2%) New

Lab HOLD

Shetland North, Shetland Islands Council

(first preference votes)

Ind: 887 (90.4%) New
Ind: 94 (9.5%) New

Ind GAIN from Lab

Abbreviations

Con = Conservative
Lab = Labour
LDm = Liberal Democrat
SNP = Scottish National Party
Grn = Green
Ref = Reform UK
SFP = Scottish Family Party
Ind = Independents

Wednesday, 22 January 2025

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #14

There may be a ceasefire - for now - but that hasn't stopped the left parading through the streets of wintry London with their Palestinian flags.  Of all the hypocrisy and nonsense that springs forth from the mind of woke leftists is the movement within a movement that variously calls itself 'Gays for Gaza' or 'Queers for Palestine'.

Only Allah knows what Islamists on these marches think of their dumb comrades, but it surely isn't complimentary.

There is little point going over the irony in the Alphabet People's embrace of the Palestinian cause, a simple meme does the trick just fine - even if the example provided is from a football match in Glasgow!


Last week's fire hydrant meme generated 71 comments and 86 shares on Facebook.

Tuesday, 21 January 2025

CUT THROAT RICKY'S TRIAL DELAY


The trial of a Labour councillor that was due to begin this week has been pushed back by almost seven months.  Cllr Ricky Jones was filmed during last summer's riots making a cut throat gesture as he told a left-wing rally: "They are disgusting Nazi fascists and we need to cut all their throats and get rid of them all".  Jones was later arrested and charged with encouraging violent disorder.  He spent several weeks in custody before being released on bail.

Cllr Jones denies the charges and had been due to stand trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London on Monday.  However, the trial has been delayed until August 11 following an application to which the judge agreed.  The reason for the application has not been made public.

Jones represents the Princes ward on Dartford Borough Council in Kent, but remains suspended from Labour pending trial - if it ever takes place...

TOON TUESDAY #41

It's been a wee while since we had a US-themed Tuesday and what better week to run with it...

Tom Stiglich on X
AF Branco on X
Gary Varvel on X
Pedro Molina for Counterpoint
SKS Cartoon on X
Jimbob on X
Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph
Ben Garrison on X