MEME MONDAY #29

We are still posting to the back up page on Facebook. while we serve out our indeterminate punishment for a meme posted six years ago.  Distribution is increasing, as we have managed to double our following on this page in the last fortnight.

Mon 24 Mar - 113 shares on Facebook

Tue 25 Mar - 3 shares

Wed 26 Mar - 62 shares

Thur 27 Mar - 61 shares

Fri 28 Mar - 79 shares

*** STAR MEME ***

Sun 30 Mar - 273 shares.  The annual pay rise for MPs this year
will be in line with current inflation of 2.8 per cent, giving them a
new basic salary of £93,904.  This is almost double what they were
raking in at the turn of the century, when pay was £47,008.  They
have been given a pay rise every single year of the 21st century, with
the exception of the first two years of the Tory/Lib Dem coalition,
when pay was frozen between 2011 and 2013.

Feel free to download and share our work, many thanks.

BOATWATCH #3

Small boat arrivals surpassed a thousand for the second consecutive week, despite a lull going into this weekend.  Britain looks set for good weather this week, so the invasion is likely to pick up again, aided and abetted by RNLI collaborators of course...

Total = 1,130 (up 13 from previous week).

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 27.03.25

Three council seats were up for grabs on Thursday, with Labour unsuccessfully defending a seat in London.  The Redbridge result was humiliating for Labour, with a pro-Palestinian Muslim independent raking in a huge swing and pushing Labour into second.  Elsewhere, there were holds for both the Tories and an independent group.

Maldon North, Maldon District Council

Con: 462 (41.1%) +18.4%

LDm: 409 (36.4%) -5.4%

Ref: 187 (16.7%) New

Grn: 65 (5.8%) New

Con HOLD

Mayfield, Redbridge London Borough Council

Ind: 1,080 (42.5%) New

Lab: 663 (26.1%) -44.7%

Con: 494 (19.4%) +3.6%

Ref: 121 (4.8%) New

LDm: 100 (3.9%) -3.0%

Grn: 85 (3.3%) New

Ind GAIN from Lab

Penllergaer, Swansea City Council

Ind: 646 (63.9%) -23.9%

LDm: 138 (13.6%) New

Ref: 108 (10.7%) New

Lab: 67 (6.6%) -5.6%

Con: 31 (3.1%) New

Grn: 18 (1.8%) New

Gwd: 3 (0.3%) New

Ind HOLD

Abbreviations

Con = Conservative

LDm = Liberal Democrat

Ref = Reform UK

Grn = Green

Lab = Labour

Gwd = Gwlad

Ind = Independent

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #23

While Eddie Izzard has donned lippy for his stand-up shows for many years, he has increasingly embraced his feminine side in recent years.  We gave him the nickname 'gran' during the Brexit impasse, thanks to his fetching pink beret.  Since then he has somewhat predictably ended up on the trans bandwagon by adopting she/her pronouns and the forename 'Suzy'.  However, unlike many of his trans comrades, Izzard is not that fussed about enforcing his choices on others.

Izzard says people can call him he or she, Eddie or Suzy.

So when Radio 4's Anita Anand referred to him as 'the man', Eddie took no offence.  Unfortunately, in the world of legacy media such an act could not go unpunished, and the BBC presenter offered a public apology for the 'misgendering'.  The apology came on air 25 minutes into the same broadcast: "Now a little earlier in the programme you might have heard me accidentally misgender Eddie Izzard.  I'm very very sorry about that."

It is not clear if she had been told to apologise or whether it was voluntary.  The BBC and the establishment it represents have written this outrageous agenda into their constitution.  BBC guidelines dictate that staff must 'use the term and pronoun preferred by the person in question'.  Please deliver us from this madness!

Last week's Superman meme generated five comments and 26 shares on Facebook.

NOC ROTHERHAM?

Cllr David Sheppard has left the party

The deputy leader of Rotherham Council has become the latest Labour figure to quit the party in protest at the government's proposed benefit cuts.  Cllr David Sheppard said in a statement:  "To me, it is unconscionable that when faced with the financial crisis left to us by the previous Tory government, the Labour Party has chosen to target people who need support the most".

Cllr Sheppard continued:  "I have always held the belief that government should do what it can to equalise the injustices within society.  Sadly, this and other recent announcements have led me to conclude that this is currently not the case."

A lifelong party member, Cllr Sheppard has been an elected member of the council since 2016.  His resignation leaves the Labour group in Rotherham teetering on the brink of losing control of the council for the first time in its 51 year history.  With various resignations already clocking up nationwide and more expected, if three more councillors quit the Labour Rotherham group it will tip the council into no overall control.

TOON TUESDAY #50

Labour's austerity measures have come in for some attention from left-leaning cartoonists, with Reeves and Starmer being likened to the Cameron-Osborne partnership that delivered five years of cuts.  The influence of Elon Musk's DOGE is clear to see from the language on display: "We need to make government more efficient" declared Starmer on Monday.  Civil Service cuts may be one thing, but the Labour leader is whipping up a storm in his own party when it comes to benefit cuts.  A forthcoming rebellion is likely to extend beyond the usual suspects of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs.

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Dave Brown for The Independent

Ben Jennings for The Guardian

Morten Morland for The Times

Nick Newman for The Sunday Times

Ben Jennings for The Guardian

Graeme Bandeira for The Northern Agenda

Morten Morland for The Times

Peter Brookes for The Times

The abolition of NHS England also drew some attention...

Nick Newman for The Sunday Times

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Andy Davey for The Daily Telegraph

MEME MONDAY EXTRA: RAYNER'S PORTRAIT

As promised, we had a little fun with the presentation that took place in Westminster last week.  One of the original images can be seen above.

All the following efforts were posted on Facebook and we asked followers to like and share their favourites.  They are presented below in ascending order of favourability, beginning with three website exclusives that did not make the cut.

binlabour.com exclusive.  We could not possibly risk using this as it contains
one of the images that resulted in a recent Facebook strike

binlabour.com exclusive

binlabour.com exclusive

17 reactions and 2 shares

19 reactions

21 reactions

21 reactions

21 reactions and 1 share

28 reactions and 1 share

30 reactions and 3 shares

33 reactions and 1 share

33 reactions and 2 shares

33 reactions and 3 shares

35 reactions and 3 shares

36 reactions and 3 shares

41 reactions

57 reactions and 8 shares

111 reactions and 40 shares - far and away the most popular.  This one also
found its way onto X in various posts.  Apologies to Tim Healy!

The Facebook album containing these memes can be found here.

MEME MONDAY #28

As regular visitors will know, we have been pushed back onto the backup page on Facebook - not for the first time.  We have a much smaller following on this page and as such, our distribution is much lower.  However, we have added a thousand new followers to this page in our first week back and if it continues to grow we will be able to more confidently mitigate the loss of the main page in future.

We will soon be taking a financial hit when the Facebook money dries up on account of their spiteful censorship, so any contributions to our cause are deeply appreciated at this time.  You can donate via PayPal here.  Anything, however small, is most welcome.

Mon 17 Mar - 77 shares on Facebook

Wed 19 Mar - 23 shares. This one upset members of the Zelenskyy fan
club, who still resort to their conditioned assumption that opposing
globalist warmongers is precisely the same as being 'pro-Putin'

*** STAR MEME ***

Thur 20 March - 832 shares.  Karl is a little disappointed that this
somewhat basic and frivolous effort was this week's star, but
memes are subjective and this one was clearly very popular.

Thur 20 Mar - 8 shares

Fri 21 Mar - 111 shares

Sat 22 Mar - 269 shares.  The chihuahua/bulldog characterisation comes from
none other than George Galloway in a recent X post.

Sat 22 Mar - 125 shares

Sun 23 Mar - 4 shares

Sun 23 Mar - 35 shares

You are welcome to download and share our memes on the understanding that you do not remove or obscure the binlabour.com watermark.  Many thanks!