COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 18.12.25

There were five vacancies to fill in the final round of by-elections this year, with Labour defending a Lancashire seat.  They slumped to third as Reform surged into first place with more than twice the amount of Labour votes.  It was another good night for Reform, who obliterated the defending Conservatives in Suffolk, finishing with almost four times the number of Tory votes.  They also held in Cornwall.

Among the diabolical results for Labour was a tally of just nine votes in Cornwall.  They finished last or second to last in all but one of the five seats.

There are no further council by-elections scheduled until January 15.

Greenlands, Blackpool Council

Ref: 587 (44.4%) +38.4%

Con: 299 (22.6%) -17.2%

Lab: 289 (21.9%) -22.7%

Grn: 79 (6.0%) -2.5%

LDm: 45 (3.4%) New

Ind: 22 (1.7%) New

Ref GAIN from Lab

St Columb Minor & Colan, Cornwall Council

Ref: 408 (31.7%) -4.2%

Ind: 325 (25.3%) New

LDm: 296 (23.0%) +14.6%

Grn: 173 (13.4%) New

Con: 73 (5.7%) -11.2%

Lab: 9 (0.7%) -7.8%

Ind: 3 (0.2%) New

Ref HOLD

Market Harborough-Logan, Harborough District Council

Con: 461 (34.7%) +5.8%

Grn: 358 (26.9%) +18.8%

LDm: 268 (20.2%) -29.6%%

Ref: 195 (14.7%) New

Lab: 43 (3.2%) -9.9%

SDP: 4 (0.3%) New

Con GAIN from LDm

Broad Oak, South Ribble Borough Council

LDm: 810 (65.9%) +0.4%

Ref: 263 (21.4%) New

Con: 95 (7.7%) -9.5%

Lab: 62 (5.0%) -12.2%

LDm HOLD

Pakefield, Suffolk County Council

Ref: 1,286 (49.2%) New

Grn: 508 (19.4%) +9.1%

Con: 357 (13.6%) -43.3% 

Lab: 328 (12.5%) -13.6%

LDm: 137 (5.2%) -1.5%

Ref GAIN from Con

TOON TUESDAY #85

We're saving up some Christmas-themed toons for next week's edition, meanwhile here's a quartet of Labour disasters - including a curious endorsement for Shabana Mahmood from the Devil himself...

Morten Morland for The Times

Peter Brookes for The Times

Andy Davey for The Daily Telegraph

Dave Brown for The Independent

MINISTER HECKLED AT JEWISH VIGIL

An organiser appeals for calm as Labour's Ashley Dalton is heckled

A vigil held in central London in the aftermath of the Bondi Beach massacre was addressed by hapless Labour junior minister Ashley Dalton on Monday evening.  Dalton was asked to step in when senior minister Steve Reed appeared to flunk out of his scheduled appearance, instead opting to attend a meeting of Jewish Labour.  Given the angry reception dealt out to Dalton, it's not difficult to see why Reed chickened out in favour of the much cosier indoor and in-house Labour event.

Reed's failure to attend only added to the anger felt by the Jewish community gathered in Parliament Square and the heckling of Dalton began just seconds after she began to speak.  As Dalton struggled to speak over the insults, organisers repeatedly interjected and appealed for calm, further disrupting her flow.

A Rabbi's appeal for the crowd to show Dalton 'respect' brought calm for a few moments, before the shouting resumed.  "Read the room", "Ban the marches", "Go away", "Liar", "Shame on you", "Rubbish" and "We are being killed" were all audible during her short speech.  The longest video clip, which begins moments after Dalton begins can be seen below.  Not all the heckles can be heard in this clip, but various other angles can be seen here, here and here.

Dalton was previously most notable for her trans advocacy, in particular her call for the abolition of gendered bathrooms and a spat on X in which she declared that even people who identified as llamas deserve 'dignity and respect'.  Labour had repeatedly tried to get her elected to the Commons since 2017, when she fought the Rochford and Southend East constituency.  She fought the same seat two years later, before finally joining the Westminster gravy train through the West Lancashire by-election of 2023.

BOATWATCH #39

An early blast of winter last month helped deter colonists from making the Channel crossing, leading to a three week lull in arrivals.  On Saturday, after 28 days of zero pick-ups, a small armada of migrants was intercepted by Border Farce vessels.  A whopping 737 colonists were picked up in 11 boats, all of whom will be housed and fed over Christmas while our own people freeze on the streets.

Stop the damn boats.  Deport the invaders.

MP TROTS OUT THE USUAL

The Bondi Beach gunmen and Labour MP Lola McEvoy

The massacre at Bondi Beach will come as no surprise to anyone who has long warned about the perils of mass immigration and multi-culturalism.  Such horrors are the direct result of importing millions of people into the West, along with their religious and cultural grievances.  The same establishment ultimately responsible for this insane policy will never admit wrongdoing, so they continue to gaslight their native populace with smoke and mirrors bullshit.

In the aftermath of the slaughter at Bondi, the Labour MP for Darlington appeared on GB News and delivered the now standard establishment response: "Diversity is strength".  Lola McEvoy's rambling assessment of the incident was reminiscent of Gary Neville's infamous evaluation of the Manchester synagogue attack, in which he failed to address the actual perpetrator and instead went on to blame 'middle-aged white men' for creating division.  Likewise, McEvoy spoke of those amplifying a 'narrative of division' and how 'the way we think of people who aren't like us' needs to be 'detoxified' - as if white Western Europeans are the problem, as opposed to the men using guns, knives and vehicles to kill our people.

She then trotted out the 'diversity is our strength' line, before some soundbites about Jo Cox.

Watch below.

Diversity is not strength, it is death - the death of our civilisation.  The traitors who deploy this sickening deception are fooling no-one and if there is any justice in the world they will one day pay for their complicity in the murder, rape and terror they have inflicted on our nations.

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 11.12.25

Nine seats were up for grabs on Thursday, with Labour on the defence in two.  As we predicted, they lost both seats.  In Darlington we saw either the Tories or Reform making the gain, with the SNP the likely winner in West Lothian.  Reform actually took both seats as newcomers, including a groundbreaking victory north of the border in which they took their first Scottish council seat.

Labour were pushed to fourth in Darlington, with more than half the votes cast for Reform.  Labour slid to a distant third in West Lothian, with Reform and the SNP way out in front.  Apparently, the SNP fielded a 'non-binary' candidate in this election, which probably helped Reform no end.  It was a bad night for the SNP, as they fell to the Lib Dems in the other Scottish seat.

It was another crushing set of results for Labour, whose vote tally ducked down into double digits in three seats.  They finished last in four seats and could not finish any higher than third place anywhere.

It wasn't a great night for the Tories either, who lost two of the four seats they were defending.  They slumped to third in Devon and missed out on a hold by just ten votes in Lincolnshire.  Reform were the victors in the latter, also gaining another seat on the same council by an even slimmer margin of two votes.  A win's a win, and with four gains on the night there is no doubt which party will be the happiest.

Penyrheol, Caerphilly County Borough Council

Pld: 956 (60.1%) +6.3%
Ref: 422 (26.5%) New

Lab: 114 (7.2%) -24.4%

Con: 66 (4.3%) -10.4%

LDm: 32 (2.0%) New

Pld HOLD

Red Hall & Lingfield, Darlington Borough Council

Ref: 341 (37.7%) New

Con: 157 (17.3%) -22.5%

LDm: 157 (17.3%) New

Lab: 152 (16.8%) -37.1%

Grn: 89 (9.8%) +3.6%

Ind: 9 (1.0%) New

Ref GAIN from Lab

Seaton, East Devon District Council

LDm: 789 (41.3%) +19.2%

Ref: 565 (29.6%) New

Con: 400 (20.9%) -5.6%

Ind: 156 (8.2%) New

LDm GAIN from Con

Fort William & Ardnamurchan, Highland Council

(first preference votes)

LDm: 925 (40.4%) +3.0%

SNP: 665 (29.1%) -4.4%

Ref: 220 (9.6%) New

Grn: 216 (9.4%) -0.2%

Con: 175 (7.6%) -2.4%

Lab: 87 (3.8%) New

LDm GAIN from SNP (elected at stage 5)

Armitage with Handsacre, Lichfield District Council

Con: 630 (46.7%) -6.2%

Ref: 431 (31.9%) New

Lab: 127 (9.4%) -23.5%

LDm: 99 (7.3%) -6.8%

Grn: 63 (4.7%) New

Con HOLD

Belmont, South Kesteven District Council

Ref: 239 (33.4%) New

Con: 237 (33.1%) +1.5%

Ind: 143 (20.0%) New

Grn: 61 (8.5%) New

Lab: 35 (4.9%) -14.5%

Ref GAIN from Ind

Aveland, South Kesteven District Council

Ref: 290 (41.0%) +26.5%

Con: 280 (39.5%) +19.0%

Grn: 115 (16.2%) New

Lab: 23 (3.2%) New

Ref GAIN from Con

Eaglescliffe West, Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council

Con: 1,194 (60.9%) +4.4%

Ref: 470 (24.0%) +17.6%

Grn: 150 (7.6%) -0.2%

Lab: 147 (7.5%) -21.7%

Con HOLD

Whitburn & Blackburn, West Lothian Council

(first preference votes)

Ref: 1,177 (32.0%) New

SNP: 1,028 (28.0%) -10.7%

Lab: 627 (17.1%) -20.3%

Ind: 484 (13.2%) New

Con 129 (3.5%) -15.0%

LDm: 102 (2.8%) +0.4%

Grn: 101 (2.7%) -0.3%

Ind: 27 (0.7%) New

Ref GAIN from Lab (elected at stage 8)

MORE DOWNTIME

Social media followers will be aware that our output has more or less ground to a halt in the last couple of weeks.  A series of unfortunate events has robbed us of two relatives, while a third remains in hospital.  Both of us have had to spend prolonged periods away from home.

For the first time in ten years, last week no new memes were unveiled on our Facebook pages and so far this week Karl has produced just one.  We are hopeful that fresh content will be released over the weekend and more regular features will return to the website next week.  This will depend on the manifestation of any further adversities in the meantime.

TOON TUESDAY #84

The cancellation of jury trials, cancellation of (more) elections and expansion of facial recognition tech (prep work for the social credit system) - another week in Labour's fascist Britain...

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Morten Morland for The Times

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Stanley McMurtry for The Mail on Sunday

Dave Brown for The Independent

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Rebecca Hendin for The Guardian

Not sure who Rebecca is talking about when she refers to 'struggling political parties', but the polls suggest that Reform, the Greens and the Lib Dems are far from struggling.  Labour and the Tories are clearly in trouble, but on the back of the Fruit and Nut inaugural conference, this could well be a call to arms for the party that currently has no candidates, no leader, no name and no hope!

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 04.12.25

Five seats were being contested on Thursday, following Tuesday's by-election in Derbyshire.  The Derbyshire vacancy arose through the resignation of one of last May's crop of Reform councillors.  Reform held the seat by a wafer thin majority of 23, with the second placed Tories having significantly closed the gap.

Reform took advantage of an even slimmer margin to take a Lib Dem seat in Middlesbrough, pipping the incumbents by just 13 votes.  Labour finished last here and the best they could muster on Thursday was a couple of fourth places.

Labour were on a proxy defence in Nottinghamshire, where the incumbent was elected as a Labour councillor before he left for the local independent group last January.  He passed away in August, sparking a by-election.  The Broxtowe Alliance to which he belonged easily held the seat, which was technically a gain from Labour.  Labour slumped from first to fourth.

We still await any solid evidence of the Green surge, who only managed to contest four of the six seats and couldn't achieve anything better than Labour's fourth place.  Still, that's better than anything achieved by the Fruit and Nuts of Sultana and Corbyn...

Stapleford South East, Broxtowe Borough Council

Ind: 388 (34.6%) New

Ref: 245 (21.9%) New

LDm: 149 (13.3%) -8.2%

Lab: 128 (11.4%) -14.7%

Con: 108 (9.6%) -9.5%

Ind: 102 (9.2%) New

Ind GAIN from Lab

Exmouth Halsdon, East Devon District Council

LDm: 551 (35.9%) -4.0%

Ref: 438 (28.5%) New

Con: 393 (25.6%) -4.1%

Grn: 153 (10.0%) New

LDm HOLD

Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough Borough Council

Ref: 563 (35.8%) New

LDm: 550 (35.0%) -1.3%

Con: 328 (20.9%) -14.2%

Grn: 79 (5.0%) New

Lab: 53 (3.3%) -6.7%

Ref GAIN from LDm

Winkleigh, Torridge District Council

LDm: 325 (42.3%) +8.7%

Ref: 252 (32.8%) New

Con: 191 (24.9%) -23.7%

LDm GAIN from Con

Tudor, Watford Borough Council

LDm: 821 (52.6%) +4.3%

Ref: 433 (27.2%) +17.8%

Con: 148 (9.3%) -10.5%

Lab: 111 (7.0%) -16.4%

Grn: 77 (4.8%) New

LDm HOLD

Long Eaton North, Derbyshire County Council

(held on Tuesday)

Ref: 745 (28.1%) -7.7%

Con: 722 (27.2%) +4.2%

Lab: 579 (21.8%) -2.7%

Grn: 314 (11.8%) +4.5%

LDm: 154 (5.8%) -3.6%

Ind: 141 (5.3%) New

Ref HOLD

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #50

The very deliberate act of social engineering that is the deChristianization of the West is plain to see during our most prominent festivals.  Over many decades Easter has largely been reduced to children pining for chocolate eggs, while Christmas has become a light show that culminates in vulgar displays of expensive gifts having their wrapping paper torn away in animalistic fashion.

Attempts to remove Christ from both festivals dates back many years.  References to Easter have increasingly been airbrushed from the obligatory eggs, which have been rebranded 'chocolate eggs' or 'gesture eggs'.  In 2017 the National Trust renamed its Easter Egg Trail as the 'Great British Egg Hunt'.

The name Christmas has been under attack for much longer, for obvious reasons - it contains the Lord's name.  The oldest and most commonly airbrushed alternative is Xmas, but there are plenty of others such as Crimbo, Yuletide, Noël, the festive season, the generic 'holidays' and who can forget Birmingham City Council's infamous rebrand - 'Winterval'.

The war on Christianity by corporate quasi-communistic elements continues this year with an early example being a viral image of a packaged decorative tree in Tesco.  However, there is no reference to Christmas on the packaging as it has now been rebranded an 'Evergreen Tree'.  To Karl's surprise, when he visited a Tesco store last week he found a further five examples of decorative trees with the reference to Christmas replaced.  His photos from that visit are featured in this week's meme.  Five of the six products are under Tesco's own brand, while the sixth is from a London-based company called Bayswood.  Did they also have to remove the word Christmas in order to get their product stocked in Tesco?

Corporate interests see Christmas as a cash cow that can be repackaged as a non-religious festival that appeals to everyone and therefore maximises their profits.  University educated Marxists would prefer the religious aspect to be removed and rebranded for 'inclusivity' purposes, while globalists require this troublesome custom to be stamped out altogether along with every other localised custom that fosters regional, cultural or national identity.

Last week's pansexual Anne Frank meme generated 20 comments and six shares on Facebook.

This current edition of Woke Wednesday will be the last of 2025, but the feature will return in the new year.

TOON TUESDAY #83

We begin of course with the Budget (for the final week, hopefully).  We have a trio of horror-themed efforts, which gives way to leaks and consequences.  The final pair of cartoons focuses on the increasingly hapless Fruit and Nut Party, the still nameless party which remains locked in bitter infighting.  As their conference descends into absurdity, Zack Polanski's Greens wait in the wings to mop up the remains of Corbyn and Sultana's total car crash...

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

David Simonds for The Big Issue

Guy Venables for Metro

Ben Jennings for The Guardian

Graeme Bandeira for The Northern Agenda

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Morten Morland for The Times

Peter Brookes for The Times

Andy Davey for The Daily Telegraph

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Dave Brown for The Independent

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Ella Baron for The Guardian

Morten Morland for The Sunday Times

MEME MONDAY #63

A very sparse week as Karl's absence looks set to continue for a wee while.  Toon Tuesday and Woke Wednesday will proceed this week, after which the latter will go on leave until the new year.

Mon 24 Nov - 21 shares

Wed 26 Nov - 358 shares

Thu 27 Nov - 11 shares

Thu 27 Nov - 99 shares

Sat 29 Nov - 59 shares

BOATWATCH #38

For the second week in a row, zero boat crossings were detected.  This particularly sharp Autumn lull means that 2025 will be some way off the previous record year of 2022, although it has already beaten the annual totals for all other years of the small boat invasion.

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 27.11.25

A trio of seats were up for grabs on Thursday, including a Labour defence in what would normally be considered solid Labour territory in Sunderland.  We saw this as a likely gain for the returning independent, who finished second last time around.  Instead, Reform surged from a distant third to easily take the seat from Labour with a huge swing from the defending party.  Labour crashed to third with more than half the votes received by the Reform candidate.

Reform also picked up an independent seat in Norfolk and finished runners-up in Lancashire.  Labour, meanwhile, finished last in both elections.

Hunstanton, Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk

Ref: 368 (29.2%) New

LDm: 322 (25.6%) New

Ind: 229 (18.2%) ‑11.0%

Con: 224 (17.8%) ‑23.0%

Ind:77 (6.1%) New

Lab: 40 (3.2%) ‑21.0%

Ref GAIN from Ind

Barnoldswick, Pendle Borough Council

LDm: 1,008 (59.8%) +1.5%

Ref: 441 (26.2%) New

Con: 170 (10.1%) -11.7%

Lab: 66 (3.9%) -11.1%

LDm HOLD

Hetton, Sunderland City Council

Ref: 1,270 (46.3%) +35.4%

Ind: 689 (25.1%) -4.0%

Lab: 611 (22.3%) -24.4%

LDm: 113 (4.1%) +1.6%

Con: 61 (2.2%) -3.6%

Ref GAIN from Lab

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #49

As if we didn't already know from two summers of weekly protests, the left despise the state of Israel.  And sharing a trait with some elements of the far right, it's not enough to simply voice opposition to a state that routinely attacks and occupies neighbouring territories.  All too often, the left take out their frustrations on ordinary Jews, who they perceive to be linked to a hive mind that makes them equally to blame for the criminal actions of Netanyahu.

The same people call other white people 'racist' if they dare generalise other ethnic groups with negative stereotypes.  But it's OK for the left to do that with Jews - they are fair game - as are white people (the 'gammon' and the 'Karens').

It's rank hypocrisy, but of course such things do not apply to the high and mighty of the self-righteous left.

They have no problem at all in taking a Jewish folk hero and turning their life into a public display of ridicule, purely as a means to insult as many Jews as possible.  And that's what has happened in New York of all places.  It's probably no coincidence that in order to maximise the insult, they chose a city that is home to the largest Jewish population of any city in the world - that's including Israeli cities.

Yes, woke playwright progressives have taken Anne Frank - the most iconic of all the Nazis' Jewish victims - and turned this innocent teenager into a pansexual Latino girl in a relationship with a 'non-binary' person.  They have also thrown in a 'neurodiverse' family in just for progressive measure.  The fact that Anne Frank was barely 15 years old when she died doesn't seem to matter to these degenerates.

The play, entitled Slam Frank, has drawn staunch criticism from Jewish groups.  Naturally, they perceive it as 'disrespectful', which is clearly the intention of the writer.  You see, the people who preach the most about hate, are the most hateful people of all...

The previous Woke Wednesday (dog free zones) generated 37 comments and 18 shares on Facebook.

TOON TUESDAY #82

This week's edition kicks off with Shabana Mahmood's proposed adoption of a Danish-style approach to illegal migration, which has upset countless open borders enthusiasts on the Labour backbenches.  They may well scupper any such proposal should it face a Commons vote.

The toons inevitably morph into the most briefed about Budget of all time, which by this time tomorrow will finally be set in stone.  Then next week we'll have some more cartoons about the actual Budget!

Special shout out to Christian Adams for his sterling work in The Telegraph...

Peter Brookes for The Times

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Ben Jennings for The Guardian

Morten Morland for The Times

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Morten Morland for The Times

Steve Bright for The Sun

Andy Davey for The Daily Telegraph

Ben Jennings for The Guardian

Christian Adams for The Sunday Telegraph

Peter Brookes for The Times

Chris Riddell for The Observer

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Matt Pritchett for The Sunday Telegraph

Peter Brookes for The Times

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph