REFORM SURPRISE FOR BASTANI

The dullest man on the left was in the Tory stronghold of Chichester this week for his communist media outlet Novara Media.  Aaron Bastani was voxpopping residents in the Sussex town and asking them various questions about the looming election.  After speaking to various older residents who voiced a variety of opinions, Bastani appears to be dumbfounded when he speaks to some younger people who all give Reform UK the thumbs up.

Two lads who appear to be unknown to each other both express support for Reform.  One of them vents about getting 'rid of Rishi Sunak', while the other lad - who is mixed race - refers to the PM as 'a mug'.  Bastani is particularly intrigued by the latter, given his racial background (the left, as ever, fascinated by race).  He says that Reform would give 'actual English citizens a voice in what happens in this country'.  Bastani then speaks to two young girls, one of which says 'everyone around [Chichester] is very into it [Reform UK]'.  She puts the apparent fervour down to TikTok videos, which have featured teens from other areas talking up Reform.

Watch the clip below.

In the full 22 minute video on YouTube, Bastani uncovers support for the Lib Dems, Tories and Reform UK - not so much for Labour in this seat.  A Scottish couple who said they had always voted Conservative, said they were both thinking about voting for Reform.  Another lifelong Tory said he was so fed up that he was not going to bother voting at all.  An old lefty expressed delusion with our entire system of democracy and said he wasn't voting either.

During the remainder of the campaign we'll be lending our predictions for various seats and where better to begin than Chichester itself...

The constituency is so old that it predates the creation of both Great Britain and the United Kingdom by several hundred years, having first been established in 1295.  The Conservatives have held the seat for the entire 20th and 21st centuries, aside from 1923 when it was briefly gained by the Liberals, but held for just ten months.  Prior to that the seat had been represented by a Conservative MP since 1837.

It's an impressive record and Gillian Keegan goes into this election defending a 21,490 majority.  The Tory majority has decreased over the last two elections, from a peak in 2015 of 24,413.  We expect it to crumble at this forthcoming election and the seat will change hands.  The Lib Dems, who pushed Labour into third in 2019, appear to be the main challengers.  Reform are starting from scratch, having not fielded a candidate here previously.

There are six candidates in Chichester this time around, as follows.

Jess Brown-Fuller (LDem)

Tom Collinge (Lab)

Teresa De Santis (Ref UK)

Andrew Emerson (Ind)

Gillian Keegan (Con)

Tim Young (Grn)

BTLP seat prediction: LDem GAIN from Con

NOVARA'S CENSORSHIP HYPOCRISY

Marxist media outlet Novara Media had its YouTube channel temporarily deleted on Tuesday.  A statement put out by Novara at 11:40 said the action had been carried out by YouTube without 'warning or explanation'.  Less than three hours later Novara reported that the channel had been reinstated 'following a deluge of support from across the political spectrum'.

Novara's Michael Walker

Novara has an impressive following on YouTube with almost 170,000 subscribers.  It has a similar number of followers on its Twitter account, with smaller followings on Facebook and Instagram.  Novara's impressive social media counter-campaign against YouTube's ban attracted support from far and wide - not just from far left Labour MPs such as Richard Burgon, John McDonnell and Nadia Whittome, but also from opponents such as Conservative MP David Davis, Reclaim's Laurence Fox and broadcasters Julia Hartley-Brewer and Maajid Nawaz.  The latter had previously sought legal action against Novara's co-founder, but still found it within himself to condemn YouTube's action.  Even The Spectator's Turnpike column expressed 'solidarity'.

However, while the centre and right appeared to unite with the left against big tech censorship, it had been duly noted that Novara itself did not express feelings of solidarity when big tech came for their opponents.  The bulk of the criticism was levelled at Novara's head of video, Gary McQuiggin, who deplored YouTube's action in the following tweet.

Critics then deluged McQuiggin and his comrades Ash Sarkar, Michael Walker and Bastani with a screenshot of something he had tweeted last year...

McQuiggin has since deleted this tweet, but fortunately the internet doesn't forget.

Novara's double standards can also be applied to Ash Sarkar who has previously defended cancel culture and was also one of the main organisers of the protests against President Trump's visit to the UK in 2018.  She also welcomed his ban from Twitter, telling Unherd: "It’s a good thing that Twitter is able to just kick him off".

It appears that censorship is perfectly acceptable for the left when it's the right that is on the receiving end or things they simply don't like or agree with.

Click below for a clip in which Sarkar is asked about cancel culture for an Australian TV show.

Author Douglas Murray was among those who took exception to Novara's double standard, writing on Twitter: "These communists didn’t seem to have a problem when Big Tech came for Milo Yiannopolous, Katie Hopkins etc.  Because the hate-mongers at barely-known ‘Novara media’ thought Big Tech only came for their counterparts.  Now it’s their turn.  Funny old world".

Aaron Bastani responded directly to Murray with the following astonishing tweet.

That is quite a statement coming from a communist and one which appears to be ignore established history altogether.  Even his quote from Rosa Luxemburg is a misnomer.  The Polish Marxist made a number of quotes relating to freedom and democracy, but that apparently did not stop her from supporting the 1918 November Revolution which sought to overthrow the German government.

Like Bastani, Luxemburg never got a taste of state power.  We all know what happens when communists take power, regardless of how they get there or what they said prior to the event.  Freedom becomes mute, democracy dies.

That is the reality of communism.  The history of one-party communist states such as the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, Vietnam and North Korea does not lie.  The same cannot be said for Bastani.

NOVARA NARCISSISTS IN MALTA

The Marxists at Novara Media got together over the weekend for fun and frolics to celebrate the nuptials of Aaron Boring Bastani.  Bastani married Portsmouth Labour councillor Charlotte Gerada on Saturday in a very lush Maltese setting - one can only assume that Cllr Gerada suffers from chronic insomnia and she has finally found a cure in Bastani.

The social media accounts of Bastani, Owen Jones and friends were awash with photos of their exploits, including topless group photos from the beach.  The hideous narcissism on display was something to behold.  "Socialism has never been sexier" declared little Owen as he retweeted Grace Blakeley's photo of mostly white metropolitan Marxists on the beach.  "Strike a pose for Moët Marxism" wrote Matt Cole as he posted a photo of Blakeley and a female comrade.  Blakeley posted a photo of herself laying next to a rooftop pool with the 'hilarious' caption: "Novara Media Annual Conference 2021 - Luxury Communism".

"The hunk left" wrote Bastani as he shared little Owen's Instagram photo (pictured above) of four topless twats trying to look dashing, including the usually bespectacled Michael Walker (far right).  In another Instagram post, little Owen proclaimed his love for Ash Sarkar, while in yet another he poses with a book on trans issues while Ash looks on in the background.

From the one photo of the ceremony itself we are provided another dose of hypocrisy as the Bastanis appear to have been married in a religious service.  The century of terror endured by faith leaders and worshippers under communist rule is well documented.

Also, we couldn't help but notice the almost universally white bourgeoisie demographic on show - with the obvious exception of Sarkar.  Does this London-based media outlet only employ one brown face?  The hypocrisy is staggering.

George Galloway, no fan of the wee lad Owen, chipped in with a cryptic dig at the self-adulation...

It is clear from this photo that Owen's love for Ash is eclipsed only by the love she has for herself!

REACTION FROM THE HARD LEFT

The hard left of the Labour Party may smell blood as Keir Starmer's woes mount.  This is how some of Corbyn's loyal followers reacted on Twitter.

The hard left Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown let rip at Starmer's embrace of patriotism in a series of tweets.

BASTANI'S BORED OFF

The most boring man on the hard left has quit the Labour Party, not that many people will notice.  Aaron Bastani claims that his decision was 'nothing to do with policy or politics', despite having spent the last few months laying into Starmer's leadership.  It was merely a 'professional choice' says the co-founder of commie news outlet Novara Media.  However, the Jewish Chronicle claims that Bastani quit after being alerted to a party probe into his conduct.  In a quote attributed to him by the JC, Bastani appears to suggest that he had either already been suspended or that such action was imminent: "The idea that a journalist and member of the Labour Party would be suspended at the drop of a hat suggests deep seated problems inside the party in bringing together the kind of coalition that won Joe Biden the presidency last year".

Bastani pre-empted the newspaper report by tweeting that claims of his suspension were 'complete nonsense' and attached his resignation email to back up his side of the story.  The email had been sent 'a while back' he added.  Not saying that Aaron is technologically retarded, but he appears to have printed off his email, redacted the recipient's name in marker pen and then scanned it back into his computer before uploading to Twitter!  Surely a senior editor at Novara Media has access to image editing software, no?

Bastani is perhaps best known for lashing out at the Poppy Appeal and promoting his concept of 'fully automated luxury communism'.  His dream may not be far off becoming a reality if the Great Reset comes to fruition.  That will only happen if ordinary people continue to slumber their way into it by embracing reset propaganda such as Covid lockdowns and the 'climate change emergency' to follow.

SARKAR'S NEW LOW?

It was perhaps no great surprise that the left suddenly fell into a collective silence last night as news spread of a potential Islamist terror attack in Reading.  The serial tweeters who have been so busy whipping people up into a frenzy in recent weeks had precisely nothing to say.  Or did they?

This was the very disturbing photo that Novara Media's Ash Sarkar posted at 22:05, well after the news had broke.

The image of Sarkar smirking as she relaxed in a park setting turned a lot of stomachs, coming as it did at a time when most people were taking in the horror of what was unfolding in a park in Reading.  There's no way she couldn't have known about the attack - the news was all over Twitter at the time and she is, after all, supposed to be a journalist.  Some Twitter users even suggested that the three emojis that accompanied her odd tweet may have been intended to represent the three suspected fatalities of the attack, but surely this would be too callous - even for a hateful communist like Ash, surely?

Meanwhile, her pal Little Owen couldn't even muster a cryptic reference to the attack.  His only post on Twitter last night was a complaint about a new parody account in his name.

The left have no shame.

ASH COMES UNDONE

Ash Sarkar was featured in a video clip tweeted out by Novara Media on Monday in which she poured her little heart out about the perceived double standards surrounding the Cummings affair.  Speaking to comrades Michael Walker and Aaron 'Boring' Bastani, Ash tugged on the heart strings claiming that there were no lockdown exceptions for sick parents.  However, as the video below shows, this very issue was raised at the daily press briefing on March 24.

It goes without saying that driving 260 miles to seek childcare is not a great idea (for anyone), but the phoney emotive opportunism displayed by Sarkar is clearly misplaced.  Any parent would act to safeguard their child regardless of what they perceived the lockdown rules to be.  Then again, Ash is no parent.

MAAJID HUMILIATES BASTANI

Aaron Bastani and Maajid Nawaz

Commie journalist Aaron Bastani was forced into a humiliating apology last weekend over a tweet in which he labelled radio presenter Maajid Nawaz a 'former terrorist'.  Last December Bastani had responded to Nawaz's criticism of Jeremy Corbyn by tweeting that Nawaz was "literally a former terrorist".  Nawaz was once a member of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir and served time in an Egyptian prison for his membership.  However, while the group is banned in many countries it is not considered a terrorist group in the UK and is not proscribed here.
Nawaz took legal action following Bastani's tweet and sued for defamation.  Last Friday Bastani issued the following public apology, including a commitment to donate to Nawaz's counter-extremism group Quilliam.

Bastani is the co-founder of hard left media outlet Novara Media, the same organisation that employs Ash Sarkar.  He espouses his own brand of communism, something he calls 'fully automated luxury communism'.  It is as daft as it sounds.

You may be familiar with Maajid Nawaz from his weekend slot on LBC Radio or regular appearances on Sky's The Pledge.  Having turned his back on Islamism he went on to form Quilliam, a think tank opposed to Islamist ideology.  In recent years Nawaz has become highly critical of the hard left and has called for a national inquiry into Muslim grooming gangs.  Much of his Twitter activity on Friday and Saturday was dedicated to rubbing Bastani's nose in it.  Glorious.

Further reading

Nawaz Calls For Grooming Gang Inquiry

Novara Editor Insults Our Troops

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VINE DEFENDS SARKAR

Corbynista and unabashed commie Ash Sarkar has been taking some flak this weekend over a video clip in which she appears to mock the ethnic replacement of Londoners.  The clip was taken from an old Novara Media video from 2016 in which Sarkar argues that the views of Professor Ted Cantle are racist.  Cantle is opposed to identity politics and the failed and divisive multi-culturalism favoured by the left, so naturally having expressed views that differ from the left he must therefore be a racist.

The crucial "yes lads, we're winning" point in the video can be seen below.

Her attempt at flippancy is cringeworthy at best, naive and inflammatory at worst.  Taken out of context it has created a storm on Twitter and 'poor Ash' has been fending off criticism all day.  One of her many defensive tweets bemoaned her predicament and reaffirmed her belief that anyone who expresses concern at the rapidly changing demographics in our towns and cities is a racist.  Cue an unlikely ally...

"Just banter" says the TV and radio presenter.  Note also that Vine's tweet is 'liked' by that other race-baiting lefty Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.  Sarkar later responds to Vine directly saying: "Really appreciate this, thank you!"  Next time you're wondering about where Jeremy's political loyalties lie, remember his defence of the race-baiting communist Ash Sarkar.

#RESIGNFORCHRIS

Yes, this is actually trending on Twitter right now.  It appears that some mischief makers have taken advantage of Chris Williamson's plea for help in fighting for his Labour membership.  The suspended MP claims that he is being lined up for expulsion and says "legal action against the party machine is underway".  The obligatory crowdfunder is "coming soon".  Isn't it just amazing how quickly wealthy socialists start begging for other people's money when there is a lost cause to fight?

Chris's plea for solidarity has led to so much ridicule that the hashtag #ResignForChris is now trending.  One of the first to mock him was one of his own Parliamentary colleagues, Labour MP Neil Coyle.  Coyle suggested that Williamson should "get in the sea" after which a spat began (see below).

The handbags at dawn ended with Coyle blocking Williamson's account.  Williamson screencapped Coyle's block calling it "tragic".  Is that so Chris?  You were one of the first MPs to block our Twitter account.  Now that's tragic sunshine.

Another Labour MP also joined in the condemnation of Chris the Shit.  Rachel Reeves tweeted her disgust and said that he was "no colleague of mine".  It seems that poor Chris is about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit on the Common's benches, but alas he is getting plenty of support from outside the Parliamentary party.  The Jew-baiting hard left just adore him and he is getting vocal support from commie media outlets such as Novara Media and the Canary, plus a handful of celebrities including film director Ken Loach.

However, support for Williamson has been somewhat undermined and overshadowed by the hilarious hashtag.  It's not difficult to spot the mischief that's been carried out.  The same picture of a cut up Labour membership card has been tweeted countless times by different people all claiming to have genuinely resigned in disgust.  There will almost certainly be some Labour activists and members who'll have fallen for it, but most have cottoned on quickly and are trying desperately to rumble the plotters and disrupt their antics by getting #JoinForChris trending.  Here's a quick selection featuring the #ResignForChris hashtag...

Like many supporters of @derbychrisw I am disgusted with the latest attempt to have him expelled from the party.

I have cancelled my Labour party membership and destroyed my card.

I urge all other supporters of Chris to resign from the party in protest too.#ResignForChris pic.twitter.com/WZuOTTjLY7

— Clare Quilty (@cquilty52) July 31, 2019

🥀I too am disgusted by the treatment by @UKLabour of a genuine socialist of national significance @DerbyChrisW and hereby #resignforChris #IStandWithChrisWilliamson #Chrisferatu #Jewbaitferatu. Time to cut up my card and stare at a hook-nosed mural for solace X pic.twitter.com/fxmSEVmPjR

— Yankele Harari (@Charlie66174695) July 31, 2019

It’s the right and just thing to do for all true socialists #ResignForChris pic.twitter.com/EhQrWPVafY

— Little Grey Dog (@littlegreydog1) July 31, 2019

Daddy, did you #resignforChris ? pic.twitter.com/5HYRmvCiXZ

— David Tyler (@DavidTylerPozz) July 31, 2019

#ResignForChris how can so many people cut the same card in exactly the same way and place the cut strips on the same table with identical arrangement??? 😁..... There is so much talent on twitter!

— A Quack (@aq_quacks) July 31, 2019

Whoever started the bullshit #ResignForChris, is no member of the Labour party and no friend of Labour. Don't fall for the bullshit of right wing trolls and manipulative pricks.

— Keith Ordinary Guy #NHSLove (@KeithCameron5) July 31, 2019

"I think I might make a stand and #ResignForChris , What do you think Brother Seamus??"

"Well Messiah, You'll lose wages, expenses ,free perks, Gold plated pension and a seat in the Lord's"

"Er , Erm well let's not be hastey maybe I'll have a #SitDownForChris instead!" pic.twitter.com/6hh0DTOYqt

— Labour Trumpton (@labour_trumpton) July 31, 2019

Loving that #ResignForChris is still trending. Naturally the Corbyn cranks are all over it now, screeching about it being a 'right wing plot'. It hasn't occurred to their tiny little minds that they're just keeping the hashtag going. Too good.

— rustinpeace (@rustinpeace00) July 31, 2019

PS.  If you go on Twitter today don't forget to use the hash #ResignForChris and spread the word!

SARKAR VS STARKEY

Corbynista and self-confessed commie Ash Sarkar appeared on Politics Live today alongside historian David Starkey or - as her media outlet Novara Media described him - a "stuffy dinosaur".  Very professional.  Why not go the whole hog (pun intended) and call him a gammon-headed old Brexit-voting rich boy bourgeoisie?  He must have hit a red nerve to draw such vitriol.  Ash was certainly quick to jump in and defend the Great Leader when the discussion turned to Julian Assange and Corbs...

NOVARA EDITOR INSULTS OUR TROOPS

You may not have heard of Novara Media, but you've probably encountered their 'journalists'.  The most prominent ones are Ash 'literally a communist' Sarkar and Aaron 'automated communism' Bastani.  Please don't watch the last video through to the end, unless you're a chronic insomniac.  We posted Sarkar's astonishing "Free money for everyone" video yesterday.

Despite Novara Media's unashamedly communist agenda, they don't support one of the miniscule loony left parties such as the Communist Party of Britain or Socialist Party of Great Britain.  No, they support the most mainstream communist party currently registered - Jeremy Corbyn's Labour.  And like Jeremy, they espouse the usual anti-British sentiment associated with the far left.

One of their co-editors is a guy called James Butler.  He keeps a low profile and goes by the name of 'James B' on Twitter.  Yesterday he denounced a statement by Gavin Williamson, the Defence Secretary.

The first sentence alone is stomach-turning. Shameful. Shameful. https://t.co/7zTFoMO6cc

— James B (@piercepenniless) March 14, 2019

Only a Brit-hating commie could find such a sentence stomach-turning, but then the far left is a natural ally of the Marxist IRA.  That is why Jamesie's heroes in red red Labour were fawning all over Adams and McGuinness throughout the 1980s.

Who were the real cowards of the Troubles?  The uniformed men who patrolled in the open and risked their lives every single day, in the full knowledge that it could be the day they were struck down by a sniper's bullet or car bomb - or the faceless men who placed those bombs and ran away, hid in bushes or attacked from the safety of the Irish Republic?

James Butler despises British soldiers

Just one more thing to note wee man.  It was a Labour government that put those troops on the streets.