A FRUIT & NUT REVENGE

Jeremy Corbyn was reportedly not best pleased when brash young MP Zarah Sultana blurted out the news about a new hard left party on the horizon.  The official announcement came some weeks later and was distinctly underwhelming.  There was no party name, with an interim title given as 'Your Party'.  Therefore, those of us who have been referring to it simply as 'Fruit and Nut' (Sultana the fruit and you know the rest) have no choice but to continue doing so for the foreseeable future.

Hence, in the YouTube video below, Richey refers to Fruit and Nut throughout.  This is our shared analysis of the dire threat that - combined with the rise of Reform UK - Corbyn's new venture poses to Keir Starmer and his odious party...

Further to the video, you may have seen bold claims that despite its embryonic stage, Fruit and Nut have surged past Reform UK and every other party in terms of membership.  This is simply not true, as technically the new party has zero members.  People have been invited to 'sign up' on a web page, but this is not the same as membership.  No fees are paid, no cards are handed out, those who 'sign up' merely join a mailing list.  The party has not even been registered with the Electoral Commission.

Those on the left getting excited by the media buzz will be sorely disappointed in the short term.  They are not going to enjoy the same surge in support that Reform UK has recently.  Fruit and Nut will only appeal to certain demographics as discussed in the above video.  They will not be winning council by-elections all over the place any time soon, but combined with the rise of Reform they absolutely will present a major threat to Labour's parliamentary majority when it comes to a general election.

There is a political shift happening.  We live in interesting times.

MEME MONDAY #45

Karl enjoyed a long weekend break with the family last week, so the memes were a little slow in coming and there were no Facebook Stories uploaded.  Normal service will resume this week, including the return of Woke Wednesday.

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Sun 27 Jul - 11 shares.  We simply cannot let Starmer discuss the Middle
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TOON TUESDAY #62

Cartoonists had a field day with Zarah Sultana's news last week.  Jeremy Corbyn was reportedly not too impressed with the impetuous youngster's timing, as the potential new party appeared to be at the discussion stage only.  Still, it was news that would have made Keir Starmer's first anniversary in office even more grim.  A new party on the left, led by an experienced household name like Corbyn and appealing to both trendy bourgeois leftists and Muslim voters, could be catastrophic for Labour.  

Nigel Farage will be more than happy with the news...

Dave Brown for The Independent

Stanley McMurtry for The Mail on Sunday

Peter Brookes for The Times

Martin Rowson for The Guardian

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

On the cabinet frontbench there was an incredibly drawn and haggard looking Rachel Reeves, who looked like she had not slept for several days.  As her bottom lip quivered, a faint tear could be seen rolling down her cheek.  An earlier row with the Speaker was initially mooted as the cause of upset, 'a personal matter' declared the PM later.  Perhaps it was simply the strain of the job and the dawning reality that she is not up to it...

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

RENT FREE FARAGE

Keir Starmer is running scared and with good reason.  Reform have led every major opinion poll since the turn of May and despite all of his recent policy shifts and u-turns, Nigel Farage's party have actually extended its national poll lead.  Starmer is rattled and Farage is living rent free in his head.

On Thursday the PM more or less admitted that Farage is now the de facto opposition leader, the primary threat to Labour (sorry, Kemi).  He visited a factory in St Helens and gave a speech entirely dedicated to smearing not Reform, but Farage personally.  The name 'Nigel Farage' dropped out of his mouth 16 times in just under seven minutes.  The thrust of his message was how Farage would handle the economy and he made comparisons with the famed 'disastrous mini-budget' of Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss.  In a tone deaf moment he declared: "The question you have to ask about Nigel Farage is 'Can you trust him?'"

While the answer is probably a resounding 'no', coming from a constantly backpedaling serial liar this is an undeniable case of the pot calling the kettle black.  There must have been some raised eyebrows on the shop floor when he uttered that dumb question.

Whatever Starmer had hoped to achieve with this speech, it unravelled from the very first question posed to him by the assorted media pack.  Within seconds of finishing his short speech, he invited a question from a BBC reporter who delivered this stunning burn: "The speed of the decline in your popularity is historically unprecedented, isn't this speech today an admission that you have failed and Nigel Farage understands voters better than you?"  Starmer was visibly dumbfounded, having seemingly miscalculated that a Beeb hack would probably give him an easier ride.

His response was to blame the 'absolute mess inherited' from the Tories.

The Beeb reporter was followed by several others, each of whom delivered a damaging rebuke to the PM.  His big anti-Farage set piece quickly turned into a car crash and he looked like a deer in the headlights as each damning question was put to him.  A compilation of the onslaught compiled by Alex Armstrong of GB News can be seen below, albeit chopped and edited out of sequence.

The reporters heard in the following video appear in the following order: Peter Walker of The Guardian, Harry Farley of BBC News, Chris Hope of GB News, Amanda Akass of Sky News and Aggie Chambre of LBC.  The final question, regarding national insurance and the child benefit cap, comes from a reporter named 'Nora' who we have been unable to identify.

On Thursday Reform took a council seat from Labour in south Wales with a massive swing.  Senedd elections are taking place next year and Reform are in second place according to the most recent poll, which doesn't sound too disastrous for Labour in itself, except Labour were in third!  However, that poll was carried out at the end of April - before Reform's landslide victories across England - so it is more than likely that Reform are now also ahead of Plaid.

Starmer talks a lot about 'change', but the seismic change currently happening in British politics is seemingly beyond his control.  And if he's losing legacy media entities such as The Guardian and the BBC, there may be a change at the top in Downing Street happening long before the next general election.

CORBYN CAN'T TAKE IT

Last week we reported on the tit for tat exchange between Jeremy Corbyn and Lee Anderson in the House of Commons.  Labour's Angela Eagle didn't see the funny side of Anderson's deportation quip and neither did Corbyn.  A few days later he complained to the deputy speaker, accusing Anderson (who was not present at the time) of 'innuendo, abuse, fundamental inaccuracies and conjecture'.

Corbyn did not address his own initial stab at the Reform group, which appears to suggest it's ok for him to give it, but not take it.  The deputy speaker - Labour's Judith Cummins - declared in response to Corbyn that nothing 'unparliamentary' had taken place.

Corbyn's exchange with Cummins, preceded by the original exchange can be seen below.

Corbyn's support for mass uncontrolled immigration is not disputed.  He took issue with Anderson's remarks that 'more than 600 illegal migrants' arrived that day and they 'could' get up to mischief, including crimes and 'maybe' even acts of terrorism.  We know from official government figures that 601 migrants landed that day - a fact Jez - and the suggestion that these people could commit crimes is not 'conjecture'.  They have already entered the country illegally and we know from countless acts of terrorism across the continent that Islamist migrants pose a significant and deadly threat to our security.

For Lee Anderson, Corbyn's embarrassing lack of humility presented another opportunity for what ordinary people might refer to as 'banter'.  The Reform MP posted an 'apology' to his social media accounts, ending with another funny dig at Corbyn...

Never stop, Lee!

TOON TUESDAY #56

Starmer's desperate attempts to portray his US trade deal as a success has been largely rubbished by cartoonists, while his new 'hard line' on immigration saw him compared to Nigel Farage in some rags.  With VE Day commemorations taking place last week, there is a wartime theme running through some of these efforts.

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Josh on X

Bob Moran on X

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Peter Brookes for The Times

 Matt Pritchett for The Sunday Telegraph

Chris Riddell for The Observer

Tom Stiglich on X

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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.

MEME MONDAY #34

Karl is slowly increasing his output and we are currently engaged in a phased return to the main Facebook page.  Taking his frustrations on board with relation to funding, we are also looking at other avenues to raise funds.  Repeated pleas for donations have falled on deaf ears, despite the fact our Facebook distribution often runs into the tens of thousands.  We are in discussions with a merchandiser and looking at potentially importing a shop into this site, but it's early days.

If you are a Facebook follower, please be sure to have both pages in your likes and follows, as we are currently splitting content on a fairly equal basis in the hope to generate some revenue that way.  We didn't start this thing up ten years ago to make money, but now we have a website to run and we would very much like to start paying for an X subscription this year.

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HEAR THE SNEER

Lucy Powell has quite rightly come under a storm of criticism following her rape gang remarks.  The Manchester Central MP and senior minister clashed with Tim Montgomerie during a Radio 4 debate on Friday night as the Uniparty's humiliating election show was reaching its conclusion.  Underlining how completely out of touch Labour is with ordinary people, Powell's sneering remarks at the very mention of the words 'rape gangs' were symptomatic of a party that abandoned white working class people a long time ago.

The full exchange can be heard below.

Starmer's decision to back and not sack Powell sums up the top-down treachery against our native people, which will only drive more and more people into the arms of the party to which Tim Montgomerie now belongs.  Almost every action taken by Labour politicians appears to cement the demise of the two party trap.

Powell's empty apology was slow in coming and did not materialise for almost 24 hours, basically she left it until the scale of the pushback against her had become overwhelming.

When she says she has 'dealt' with cases, we expect that she has merely acknowledged victim's concerns via a generic letter.  How many times has she raised these concerns on the floor of the Commons?  How many victims has she met with?  Her use of the word 'acting' can also be taken literally - it is only an 'act' when her comrades speak about the victims.

Powell's fake apology was greeted by a swathe of condemnation from prominent blue tick accounts on X.

We can only hope that Powell stays in government beyond this, because it will be yet another nail in Labour's coffin.

REFORM GAIN RUNCORN & HELSBY

SIX VOTES: Nigel Farage indicates the narrow margin in Runcorn

A huge swing from Labour to Reform has delivered a very narrow victory for the latter in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election.  Reform's Sarah Pochin triumphed by just six votes, following a recount demanded by Labour.  Reform had led the first count by an even smaller margin of four votes.  The result was the narrowest Westminster by-election since the Liberal candidate unseated the Conservatives by 57 votes in the Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1973.

Labour had been defending a 14,696 majority coming into this by-election, but the swing from Labour to Reform was a huge 17.4 per cent.

The Conservatives remained third, but fell further behind and finished just 27 votes ahead of the fourth placed Green candidate.  Turnout was 46.2 per cent.

Runcorn and Helsby By-Election 2025

Sarah Pochin (Ref) 12,645 (38.7%) +20.5%

Karen Shore (Lab) 12,639 (38.7%) -14.3%

Sean Houlston (Con) 2,341 (7.2%) -8.8%

Chris Copeman (Grn) 2,314 (7.1%) +0.7%

Paul Duffy (LDm) 942 (2.9%) -2.2%

Dan Clarke (Lib) 454 (1.4%) +0.3%

Michael Williams (Ind) 363 (1.1%) New

Alan McKie (Ind) 269 (0.8%) New

Peter Ford (WPB) 164 (0.5%) New

John Stevens (REU) 129 (0.4%) New

Howling Laud Hope (Loon) 128 (0.4%) New

Catherine Blaiklock (EDm) 95 (0.3%) New

Paul Andrew Murphy (SDP) 68 (0.2%) -0.1%

Jason Philip Hughes (Volt) 54 (0.2%) New

Graham Harry Moore (ECP) 50 (0.2%) New

Ref GAIN from Lab

LABOUR'S LITTLE HELPERS

Labour's far left helpers in Runcorn (note the lack of diversity)

If you want an example of how important the Runcorn and Helsby by-election is to Labour, look no further than the deployment of their little helpers from far left third parties who are not standing in the election.  A group calling itself 'Stand Up To Racism' has been posting smear leaflets in the constituency and is currently holding a demonstration outside the count chanting: "Nigel Farage, we know you, you're a racist through and through".

As you can see from the clip below, while the chant is led by a Muslim woman, the rest of the group is almost exclusively white.  So much for diversity!

The homogeneously white make-up of these far left clowns is also plain to see from their group photo outside the Co-op at the top of this article, a 100 per cent white group complaining about a party which has a Sri Lankan Muslim as its chairman.  You couldn't make it up.

Labour has deployed these third party smear groups for decades now, with previous incarnations known as the 'Anti-Nazi League' and 'Unite Against Fascism'.  They are used wherever right-wing parties are seen as a threat to Labour dominance.  There is never an outcry about these explicitly anti-democratic exercises, because they serve the establishment.  Meanwhile, entire elections can be called into question or outright cancelled when the establishment does not get the result it wants - think Brexit, 'Russian interference' in the 2016 Trump victory, cancelled elections in Romania, outlawed candidates in France and elsewhere.

ODDS ON IN RUNCORN

Five of the 15 Runcorn candidates line up for a debate (l-r Chris Copeman (Grn),
Paul Duffy (LDm), Sean Houlston (Con), Sarah Pochin (Ref) and Karen Shore (Lab)

There are various layers of elections taking place on Thursday, but perhaps the one with most eyes upon it will be the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, triggered by the resignation of disgraced Labour MP Mike Amesbury.  Labour will be defending a 14,696 majority going into this by-election, which in normal circumstances would be a relatively easy seat to defend, but this by-election takes place in no such circumstances.

The nature of Amesbury's departure, combined with the wretched Labour government's plummeting approval ratings, has opened up the contest to a possible upset.  The bookies have Reform UK as odds on favourites, albeit their odds are drifting slightly going into election day, with Labour's odds shortening.  There is clearly some late money banking on a narrow Labour hold.

William Hill election day odds

Reform UK 3/10

Labour 12/5

Tories 200/1

Independents 250/1

All other candidates 500/1

Not surprisingly, given Amesbury's violent antics, Labour have opted for a female candidate.  Karen Shore is the former deputy leader of Cheshire West and Chester Council.  Reform have also gone for a female, ex Tory councillor Sarah Pochin.  Pochin's selection will do nothing to dissuade critics that Reform are moving in a Uniparty direction.  Tory connections asides, she is a magistrate who has also worked for major multinational energy companies such as Shell.  She screams 'establishment'.

As per usual for a Westminster by-election, the ballot paper will be a crowded affair, with 15 candidates having coughed up a deposit.  Disaffected Labour voters will be spoiled for choice as to where to place their protest vote.

Runcorn and Helsby candidates

Catherine Blaiklock (English Democrats)

Dan Clarke (Liberal)

Chris Copeman (Green)

Paul Duffy (Liberal Democrat)

Peter Ford (Workers Party of Britain)

Howling Laud Hope (Monster Raving Loony)

Sean Houlston (Conservative)

Jason Philip Hughes (Volt)

Alan McKie (Independent)

Graham Harry Moore (English Constitution)

Paul Andrew Murphy (SDP)

Sarah Pochin (Reform UK)

Karen Shore (Labour)

John Stevens (Rejoin EU)

Michael Williams (Independent)

Reform already secured second place in last year's general election and Kemi Badenoch's somewhat uninspiring start to her Tory leadership will do Reform no harm this time.  The result will come down to just how many of those 22,358 Labour voters switch parties or don't show up at all.  Crucially, the size of the Labour swing to Reform will decide the outcome and we see the result being fairly tight.

Runcorn and Helsby 2024 general election

Mike Amesbury (Lab) 22,358 (52.9%) +4.1%

Jason Moorcroft (Ref) 7,662 (18.1%) +13.3%

Jade Marsden (Con) 6,756 (16.0%) -20.8%

Chris Copeman (Grn) 2,715 (6.4%) +3.5%

Chris Rowe (LDm) 2,149 (5.1%) -1.6%

Danny Clarke (Lib) 479 (1.1%) New

Paul Murphy (SDP) 116 (0.3%) New

RESPITE FOR REFORM?

Farage and Yusuf unveil almost 30 new councillors

The very public mudslinging that has wracked Reform UK in recent weeks won't go away, but Nigel Farage and chairman Zia Yusuf hoped to get the fledgling party back on track with a major announcement on Monday.  The pair announced 29 council defections to Reform from other parties or having previously been independents or members of local residents' groups.  26 of the new members were in attendance at the press conference.

Some of the defections actually occurred up to a month ago, such as the defections of Conservatives Kirk Harrison, Joanne Monk and Stephen Reed, who announced their defections weeks ago.  Clearly, Monday's event was intended as a distraction from the rumblings within.

Of the defections, 15 were Conservatives, 12 were independents or from local residents' groups (two of which had previously been Conservatives) and one each came from Labour and the Lib Dems.  Most of the new Reformers are county councillors.

These are the new Reform councillors that Farage named...

• Cllr Heather Asker, Uttlesford District Council (was independent)
• Cllr Stephen Atkinson, Ribble Valley Borough Council (was Conservative and leader of the council)
• Cllr Bill Barrett, Ashford Borough Council (was independent, previously Conservative)
• Cllr Felix Bloomfield, Oxfordshire County Council (was Conservative)
• Cllr Mandy Clare, Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council (was Labour, reportedly left in opposition to trans ideology)
• Cllr Stuart Davies, North Somerset Council (was independent)
• Cllr Emma Ellison, Blackpool Council (was Conservative)
• Cllr Paul Ellison, Wyre Council (was Conservative)
• Cllr Robert Gibson, Lincolnshire County Council (was independent)
• Cllr Kirk Harrison, North Northamptonshire Council (was Conservative)
• Cllr Manzur Hasan, Lincolnshire County Council (was independent)
• Cllr Cathy Hunt, Durham County Council (was independent)
• Cllr Paul Irwin, Buckinghamshire District Council (was Conservative)
• Cllr Claire Jonson-Wood, Powys County Council (was independent)
• Cllr Reg Kain, Cheshire East Council (was Liberal Democrat)
• Cllr Edward Kirk, Wiltshire Council (was Conservative)
• Cllr Karl Lewis, Powys County Council (was Conservative)
• Cllr Graham McAndrew, Hertfordshire County Council (was Conservative)
• Cllr Iain McIntosh, Powys County Council (was Conservative)
• Cllr Joanne Monk, Worcestershire County Council (was Conservative)
• Cllr Geoff Morgan, Powys County Council (was independent)
• Cllr Jan O'Hara, North Northamptonshire Council (was Conservative)
• Cllr Christine Palmer, Swale Borough Council (was independent)
• Cllr Richard Palmer, Swale Borough Council (was independent)
• Cllr Stephen Reed, North East Derbyshire District Council (was Conservative)
• Cllr Dirk Ross, Kent County Council (was independent, previously Conservative)
• Cllr Matthew Salter, Lancashire County Council (was Conservative)
• Cllr Vernon Smith, Gloucestershire County Council (was Conservative)
• Cllr Thomas Sneath, South Holland District Council (was independent)

A further defection was announced in the form of Julian Kirk, who has resigned his seat on Kings Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council in protest at delayed local elections.  He was an independent, having previously been a Conservative councillor.

These announcements came just as another existing Reform councillor quit the party, a member of East Riding Yorkshire Council.  Still, a big net gain for Farage with the news of such a large influx.

There was quite possibly more important news for Reform on Monday.  Convict MP Mike Amesbury has officially stood down as the member for Runcorn and Helsby, triggering the by-election we've all been waiting for.  This will be a huge indicator of Reform's electoral prowess and ability to shake off its recent troubles.  They remain odds on favourites with the bookies to win the Cheshire seat and those odds have now stabilised, having previously been drifting a little in response to the infighting.

There is no date for the Runcorn by-election as yet.

ZARAH NO COMMENT

Zarah Sultana is whipping up a mob against Reform UK

Zarah Sultana is not normally shy.  Her almost screeching tones can be heard regularly on the floor of the Commons, usually involving rhetoric around Palestine and immigrants.  However, it seems that Coventry's finest can dish it out, but she cannot take return fire.

Zarah is presently involved in organising a demonstration in Birmingham at the end of this month.  Her protest appears to be aimed at silencing Labour's political opponents in Reform UK.  In various social media posts and an official event page hosted by a far left group, Zarah declares that Reform's 'division' must be rejected.  'Join the fightback', she wrote in multiple posts on both Facebook and X, while she compared Reform to the BNP and National Front in a post on Instagram.  The venue for this event is less than two miles away from what is billed as Reform's largest conference yet.  Zarah's get together - which will include speeches from her fellow currently suspended Labour comrades Apsana Begum and John McDonnell - takes place in the evening, presumably after the Reform event has been picketed by the mob.

While Zarah is not a Birmingham MP, it is her home town, and she appears dead set on organising as big a crowd as possible to intimidate and disrupt Reform's conference.  Her Coventry constituency includes the university and a large Muslim population, so she will undoubtedly be bringing a significant number of her constituents along for the short journey between the two Midland cities.  Then of course there is Birmingham's own student population, in addition to its much larger Muslim population, from which Ms Sultana hails.  She is clearly hoping to emulate the mob that turned up at a Reform conference in Cornwall last month, in which attendees had to run the gauntlet of masked thugs who were screaming insults and fighting with police.  Many Reform members turned back, fearing for their safety, essentially giving in to the primary aim of the mob.

Sultana's post on Instagram

Shortly after announcing her vanity project last month, Zarah saw fit to extinguish even more voices.  She joined a long list of Labour politicians and activists to have disabled comments on their social media.  There is only one reason they take such draconian action, and that is pushback received.  If she had expected Reform activists and voters to sit back and merely accept her fascistic approach towards them, she was clearly mistaken.  Prominent X users waded in on her anti-democratic posts, including then Reform MP Rupert Lowe.

Instead of ignoring or perhaps engaging with her detractors, many of whom drew on traditional working class concerns such as rape gangs, mass immigration and Islamism, Zarah decided to pull the plug altogether on X user comments.  Her block remains in place at the time of the writing, although her Facebook and Instagram pages remain open to comments (for now).

Poor Zarah, she can hand out insults to millions of voters, but she cannot take it when they answer back!