COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 02.04.26

It's a real mixed bag this week, with a defence each for Labour, the Conservatives and Lib Dems.  There's also a free-for-all in Devon, which is by far the most difficult to predict.  The Fremington ward of North Devon DC overwhelmingly backed independent candidates in its last election, with the closest political party (the Conservatives) trailing by more than a thousand votes.  There are no independent candidates this time, making a forecast very tricky.  Any party could win here and we expect the Greens to do reasonably well, but we'll plump for a Conservative gain.

Up in Bury it's a notional Conservative defence, with the incumbent having left the party last year following an acrimonious split in the local party.  This is another tricky seat to predict, with Reform likely to poll well here.  Reform's presence could potentially help Labour overtake the Tories, but we think the Conservatives will hold and Labour will end up no better than third (they were second last time round).  The independent will also poll well.

Down to Luton next, where we have a very strong Lib Dem ward.  Their biggest problem in defending the seat will be the nature of the incumbent's departure - he was kicked off the council for not attending a single meeting in six months.  The main threat to them here will probably be the independent candidate, but we expect their electioneering machine to overcome all challengers and hold the seat.

Finally, we're back up to Lancashire for a Labour seat vacated by an incumbent who upped sticks and left Labour Britain to set up home in Sicily.  We can see Labour plummeting to at least third here as this will come down to a straight fight between the insurgent parties - Reform versus the Greens.  We expect the latter to triumph, largely thanks to the collapsing Labour vote.

Results will appear below.

Tottington, Bury Metropolitian Borough Council

(Con defence)

Wigmore, Luton Borough Council

(LDm defence)

Fremington, North Devon District Council

(free-for-all, was Ind)

Hareholme & Waterfoot, Rossendale Borough Council

(Lab defence)

RED CARPET FOR AL-SHARAA

Ahmed al-Sharaa and Keir Starmer in 10 Downing Street

On Tuesday, Downing Street rolled out the red carpet for one of the Middle East's most prolific, cunning and enduring Islamic terrorists of all time.  Ahmed al-Sharaa has spent the last 23 years in violent struggle across multiple countries, somehow managing to survive while all the other jihadist leaders around him perished.  Despite being captured in Iraq in 2006 while planting explosives, he was conveniently released on a technicality just days before the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War - the conflict that would eventually deliver him the keys to Damascus as his band of Western-backed jihadists dislodged Bashar al-Assad from power.

Of course Keir Starmer and his globalist predecessors made their bed with al-Sharaa, so they now have to smile for the cameras and gloss over the stench of their own hypocrisy and blood-soaked history of the man who now wears a nice suit.  The West is ultimately responsible for the rise of al-Sharaa and all the corpses that litter his back catalogue of bombings, kidnappings, beheadings and civilian massacres.  Without the 2003 invasion of Iraq none of the chaos that ensued would have been possible and al-Sharaa's rise to power would be consigned to an alternative history.

The new President of Syria has yet to hold an election, but has promised one 'within five years'.  Will it ever happen and if so, will it be free and fair?  Will al-Sharaa turn out to be any more democratically legitimate than al-Assad, the man vilified by the West and who was ultimately removed from power because he was beyond globalist control?

A short introduction to Ahmed al-Sharaa can be viewed on our YouTube channel or watch below (three minute watch).