THEY NEVER LEARN

Matt Goodwin's clash with Geoff Hoon last Friday showed up the impotency and outright absurdity of the left's renewed attempts to label Reform UK 'far right extremists'.  When the New Labour bigwig smeared Reform in this way, he also tarred hundreds of thousands of voters who had just handed the party a set of stunning election victories.  Worse still, there are millions more British voters prepared to back Reform when bigger elections come around, eminently more than are prepared to put their cross next to the party of Hoon's.

As his conservative opponent alluded to in the GB News clash, these sweeping labels never have the desired effect - quite the opposite in fact.  Prior to the EU referendum in 2016, the British people witnessed countless sneering remarks towards our collective intellect and perceived 'xenophobia'.  When the establishment lost that referendum, the insults ratcheted up even further.  Eventually this led to the 2019 election landslide for Boris Johnson, due in no small part to the fact that the sneering attitude of the bourgeois left had driven millions of Labour voters into the arms of the dreaded Conservatives.

In the age of Brexit, Trump and so-called 'populism', there are endless labels that have been attached to the masses by establishment politicians, media and 'virtuous' celebrities.  However, these can generally be summed up by three categories headed by the words: 'thick', 'far right' and 'racist'.  With Reform now posing a serious threat to the two party state, we can expect to see more of the same.

Watch Matt Goodwin tear Geoff Hoon a new one below...

If the Uniparty system is to collapse at the next general election, it will aid and abet its own downfall by resorting to the sort of extreme name-calling that the Democrats hit the Trump campaign with - just before he demolished Harris and her party with a stunning trifecta victory.  It turned out that Americans, just us we British, do not appreciate being told that our legitimate concerns somehow align with those of a 1930s German political movement.

THE BLAIRITES BEHIND VACCINE PASSPORTS

Sir Christopher Evans, Lord Drayson and Tony Blair

On Tuesday the multi-millionaire businessman Sir Christopher Evans wrote two articles in national newspapers promoting what he refers to as a 'freedom pass' aka vaccine passport.  This dystopian notion is currently being considered by the UK government, despite Boris Johnson and various ministers having previously ruled it out.  However, Evans and some of the people involved in the push for domestic passports are not Tory backers - they're steeped in the globalist Blairite tradition of total state control over the individual.

Evans was knighted in 2001 thanks to Blair and four years later loaned £1million to the Labour Party.  One of the most recent retweets on his Twitter page came from none other than the Tony Blair Institute.  The company he runs - Excalibur Health Services - developed its so-called 'freedom pass' system in conjunction with Sensyne Health, which specialises in artificial intelligence technology.  Sensyne Health is run by Lord Drayson, a Labour peer appointed by Blair in 2004.

Tony Blair has repeatedly called for the introduction of a vaccine passport, for both domestic use and international travel.  Also enthusiastic about vaccine passports is the World Economic Forum - host of the annual gathering of globalists in Davos and architects of the 'Great Reset'.  Blair is listed as an 'agenda contributor' on the WEF website and he even name-checked them in an article he wrote for the Daily Mail last month.

It's clear that these individuals and groups follow the same path and it has nothing to do with health or freedom, but everything to do with control and surveillance.

The 'freedom pass' being touted by Evans requires a mobile phone app and is intended to give recipients access to pubs, restaurants, cinemas, theatres, sports stadiums and other leisure venues.  It would also mean that the government (and Evans's company) would have a record of your movements and habits - incidentally something that Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos are also very keen on.

Having taken out thousands of small retailers, now Bezos is taking on the supermarkets.  The first Amazon Fresh store opened in London earlier this month.  Everything is automated and customers are billed for their groceries automatically via an app, so there are no tills and no checkout staff.  However, what has alarmed libertarians is the way in which a customer's every move is tracked around the store by hundreds of cameras, sensors and artificial intelligence software.  That information could then be used by Amazon to create a digital profile of each customer in order to bombard them with selective advertising.

There is no guarantee that the freedom pass being proposed by Blair and his cronies won't morph into something equally sinister.  If Boris Johnson buys into this, as expected, we will surely begin to move into the surveillance society of total control that Blair has always envisaged - including the tax by mile black boxes he proposed in 2007 - an idea now being considered by Rishi Sunak.

The pandemic has given governments around the world a prime opportunity to dispense with our liberties.  Once they have been surrendered - especially so meekly - they will be very difficult to restore and provide a slippery slope to ever greater erosion of freedom.  A vaccine passport today is the bodily barcode of tomorrow.

40 YEARS OF THATCHERISM...

One of Labour's new MPs caused a bit of a stir with this speech yesterday.  By slamming "40 years of Thatcherism" in her maiden speech, Zarah Sultana painted 13 years of Labour rule with the same brush.  However, her hatred for Blairism was already common knowledge before she entered Parliament.  During the election campaign she was forced to apologise for a tweet in which she said she would celebrate Blair's death.

Regardless of the divisive message in her speech, senior Labour figures were falling over each other to complement the young MP.  She was lauded on Twitter by leading frontbenchers including John McDonnell, Diane Abbott and Angela Rayner.  Further evidence that even if a moderate leader is elected on April 4, the party is painfully divided.  On the other hand, if the woefully unelectable hard left manage to keep Corbynism going, Sultana's place on the gravy train may be short-lived.  She has a wafer thin majority, despite coming into the election defending a 7,947 majority from the previous Labour MP.  As long as the Tories don't make a pig's ear of post-Brexit Britain she should be gone in five years.

Coventry South 2019 general election

Zarah Sultana (Lab) 19,544 (43.4%) -11.7%
Mattie Heaven (Con) 19,143 (42.5%) +4.4%
Stephen Richmond (Lib Dem) 3,398 (7.5%) +4.7%
James Crocker (Brexit) 1,432 (3.2%) New
Becky Finlayson (Green) 1,092 (2.4%) +1.1%
Ed Manning (Ind) 435 (1.0%) New

PIGS AT THE TROUGH: JACQUI SMITH

Born:  Malvern, 1962
First elected to Parliament:  1997, for Redditch
Left Parliament:  2010, lost her seat in general election
Expenses fame:  Home flipping and pornos

Jacqui Smith was a member of the Labour government for almost ten years and rose to the position of Home Secretary under Gordon Brown.  Before entering Parliament she was a schoolteacher, as were her parents before her.  She was selected for the newly created seat of Redditch via an all-woman shortlist and won it in the Labour landslide of 1997.

Smith's involvement in the expenses scandal first came to light in February 2009.  She was accused of 'flipping' her primary home designation in order to maximise allowances for her second home.  At that time MPs were allowed to claim for a second home, so they could perform their duties both in Westminster and their constituency.  Smith's decision to name her sister's house as her 'main home' allowed her to claim a whopping £116,000 towards her 'second home' back in Redditch.  The designation directly contradicted her own website which stated that the MP "lived in Redditch".

The controversy came to light when her neighbours told journalists that she only spent 2-3 nights at the London property each week.  Smith denied these claims and said that she had done nothing wrong.  The following month it was revealed that among the expenses claimed for her Redditch home were two adult films.  These were among five pay-per-view films that had been claimed for, despite the fact she was in London at that time.  This time Smith apologised, as did her husband, who said sorry for 'embarrassing his wife'.  She said the claim was a 'mistake' and agreed to pay it back, but that she had no intention of resigning.  The Sunday Sport responded to the latest revelations by sending a glamour model around to the property with a stash of porno mags and DVDs as a 'donation' for Smith's husband.

In relation to her 'second home' Smith claimed for everything from a £1,000 fireplace and a £550 kitchen sink to an 88p bathplug.

Despite the embarrassment, Smith was defended by Gordon Brown at the time.  However, less than three months later it was announced that she would be leaving the Cabinet and returning to the back benches.  That was where she remained until 2010 when she lost her seat to the Conservatives.  The expenses scandal may well have contributed to the result.  Seven months before the election she was found to be in breach of the rules on second home allowances.  The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner accepted her defence that she had spent more time in London, but decided that this should still have been regarded as her second home and not Redditch as she had designated.

She was not asked to repay any money, but ordered to make an apology to the House of Commons.  When Smith made her 'apology' she only said sorry for the pay-per-view expenses and went on to proclaim herself innocent of home flipping.

Smith later claimed that she was unfairly targeted during the expenses scandal because she was "a woman" and that she became the "poster girl" for the scandal.  She maintains that she did nothing wrong in the designation of her homes.