MEME MONDAY #78

A quiet week by Karl's standards, but then he does have a day job.  Starmer's ban on Kanye West is a double feature, a tyrannical act which led to the cancellation of an entire music festival and the loss of income for over two thousand Brits.  The man hours otherwise generated by the Wireless Festival is equivalent to 52 full time jobs, that's in addition to the economic impact of thousands of fans and tourists flocking to the area, but which is now lost income for swathes of hostelries, stall-holders and local businesses.  Organisers have yet to confirm if the festival will even return next year.

All in the name of barring someone who may potentially say something that the regime doesn't endorse.  So much for free speech, well done Keir!

Mon 6 Apr - 76 shares

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Sat 11 Apr - 46 shares

Sat 11 Apr - 65 shares.  Cartoon by Christian Adams

Sun 12 Apr - 45 shares

Sun 12 Apr - 171 shares

Four Facebook Stories were published last week, the very latest featuring the outgoing Prime Minister of Hungary with one of his trademark rails against mass migration...

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CAPLIN'S POWERFUL FOLLOWERS

Just a few of the prominent faces who follow Caplin's sordid X account

*** UPDATE *** Caplin deleted his X account on Thursday afternoon

Earlier this week we exposed the sickening debauchery of Ivor Caplin's X feed.  It was a small microcosm of something that would take Caplin hours, if not days, to delete now that he has been released from custody.  While it's not yet clear if he has been charged or released on bail, we know that he began using his X account again on Wednesday, because he retweeted several (non-pornographic) posts.  If no charges are brought against Caplin it would be an outrage, as the self-styled 'paedophile hunters' who snared him will have supplied police with all the proof they need.  Furthermore, police officers are known to have raided Caplin's Hove flat while he was in custody and according to neighbours the search 'took several hours'.

However, we also know that Caplin has powerful friends.  As soon as news broke of his arrest, X users began to make notes of who followed his account and the names were huge...

The official Labour party X account was following Caplin's account at the time of his arrest, although it was quickly unfollowed after the news broke.  Many other high profile Labour figures also followed Caplin on X, some of whom have since unfollowed him - including the likes of Yvette Cooper and Wes Streeting - but not before eagle-eyed X users screenshot their names.

At the time of his arrest, serving Labour MPs who followed Caplin's X account included Luke Akehurst (North Durham), Phil Brickell (Bolton West), Liam Byrne (Birmingham Hodge Hill), Jim Dickson (Dartford), Clive Efford (Eltham & Chislehurst), Fabian Hamilton (Leeds East), Sharon Hodgson (Washington & Gateshead South), Dan Jarvis (Barnsley North), Gerald Jones (Merthyr & Aberdare), Alison McGovern (Birkenhead), Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North), Fred Thomas (Plymouth Moor View), Gareth Thomas (Harrow West), Matt Turmaine (Watford), Paul Waugh (Rochdale) and Catherine West (Hornsey & Friern Barnet).

Serving Labour ministers who follow or followed his account include Janet Daby (Lewisham East), Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South & Penarth), Nia Griffith (Llanelli), Andrew Gwynne (Gorton & Denton), Peter Kyle (Hove & Portslade), Luke Pollard (Plymouth Sutton & Devonport), Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge & Hyde) and last, but not least - Yvette Cooper, Dave Lammy, Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves and Wes Streeting.

A fairly recent photo of Caplin with his local MP and current frontbencher Peter Kyle

At the time of writing, Caplin's account is also followed by Lord (Michael) Cashman, Baroness (Janet) Royall, Baroness (Jacqui) Smith, former MPs Wayne David and Julie Elliot, former PM Gordon Brown and the despicable Alastair Campbell.  However, the name of most interest is that of the deceased former MP Jack Dromey, who - along with Patricia Hewitt and his wife Harriet Harman - were involved in the PIE scandal of the 1970s.  P.I.E stands for the Paedophile Information Exchange, which campaigned for the abolition of the age of consent and was linked to a libertarian group of which the trio were prominent members.

For those who suspect that the total lack of media coverage over the weekend from the major news channels is perhaps indicative of some kind of conspiracy, it will surely be of interest to note that many journalists follow Caplin too - including the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, the senior editor of Newsnight, the i newspaper's Benjamin Butterworth, Dan Hodges of The Daily Mail and many more.  If they were able and/or willing to report freely, why did none of them expose the disgusting content of Caplin's X feed?

Finally, to cap it all off, Caplin's account is followed by the official X account of the Crown Prosecution Service.  It will be of no great surprise to anyone if no charges are brought...

DIG FOR VICTORY

Labour's Luke Pollard

While most Britons would be all for closing our borders right now, one Labour MP is calling for an influx of people to fill fruit picking vacancies.  Luke Pollard (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) is the Shadow Environment Secretary and says that tens of thousands of Europeans are required to pick fruit and veg in British fields.  Appearing on BBC Radio Devon and Sky News on Monday he urged the government to maintain the supply of workers from eastern Europe.

Asides from the obvious imminent threat of Covid-19, many have argued that instead of persistently looking to migrant workers we should be looking to homegrown workers to fill the vacancies.  After all who did all these jobs before 2004?  It's a valid point and if, as Pollard suggests, our shelves will be empty later this year it's an absolute must that farmers begin recruiting Brits.  What better time to do so?  Most Brits are currently stuck at home, earning little if anything while they wait for government handouts.  Many are climbing the walls with boredom and would surely relish the opportunity to get outside and earn some dough in the process.  And to those who all too easily write off our own people - we have just witnessed more than half a million people volunteer to assist the NHS in their hour of need.  Such commitment totally eclipses the 70,000 figure Pollard is talking about.

Is there any great surprise that Labour looks to migration to fix a problem we could and should be solving ourselves?  In any case, with most of Europe currently locked down, Pollard is also missing one crucial point - Romanians and Poles couldn't get here even if they wanted to.

COWARDS IN THE COMMONS

Some Labour MPs spent the first day of prorogation hanging around the Commons like a bunch of bored schoolchildren in the summer holidays.  Rather than return to their constituencies and do some proper work these sulky brats tweeted pictures of themselves skulking around Parliament.  They are handsomely paid to be MPs and their jobs entail much more than just attending Parliament, but here they are taking selfies to presumably score some cheap political points.  Furthermore, they could have been actively campaigning for their re-election right now if it weren't for their own cowardice.

11.30 Wednesday - it should be #pmqs but Parliament illegally prorogued - I’ve come to the chamber but no sign of the Prime Minister pic.twitter.com/gl118cs7YQ

— Kevin Brennan MP (@KevinBrennanMP) September 11, 2019

Quietly and peacefully I have gone back to sit in my usual spot in the House of Commons. No shouting or scuffles - just a quiet statement about our democracy. Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament is unlawful. MPs should be here debating the national crisis. #recallparliament pic.twitter.com/nEFMIad5vr

— Luke Pollard MP (@LukePollard) September 11, 2019

Reporting for duty pic.twitter.com/2YN6oa46BI

— Jonathan Reynolds (@jreynoldsMP) September 11, 2019

Around 30 MPs also gathered outside Parliament and addressed reporters, including Labour's Hilary Benn, Bambos Charalambous, Neil Coyle, Stephen Doughty, Rosie Duffield, Ian Murray, Stephen Pound and Rachel Reeves.  Change UK's Mike Gapes also spoke, as did Luciana Berger who has this year served alongside Mike as both a Labour and Change MP, but is now a Lib Dem.  Speaking of which, Chuka was there too!

Meanwhile, another bunch of losers travelled to Brussels at the invitation of Labour MEPs, primarily their odious leader Richard Corbett.  Clive Lewis, Rachael Maskell, Chi Onwurah, Lloyd Russell-Wotsit and Alex Sobel were among the honoured guests.  Bet their constituents were well impressed with this use of their time - visiting an institution that will soon become irrelevant.

Great to receive Westminster #Labour MP colleagues from @LoveSocialism at the European Parliamentary Labour Party today to discuss how best to stop the #BrexitShambles pic.twitter.com/p4x3iIWhvx

— Richard Corbett (@RCorbettMEP) September 11, 2019