BURGON'S ISRAELI OWN GOAL

Dickie Burgon travelled to Cuba last week alongside former Labour comrade Jeremy Corbyn and those cheeky Gaelic rappers from Kneecap.  The band of Brit-hating commies were ostensibly delivering medical aid to the communist state, which has endured a US embargo since 1960.  Presumably they were not bold enough to try and crack the Israeli embargo of Gaza, as that would actually physical danger.  It seems that the Kneecap boys are not as tough as they make out, despite banging on about Palestine 365 days a year.

Anyway, speaking of Israel...

Not for the first time, community notes on X has brutally rinsed a politician.  Poor Dickie was not simply delivering medical aid, he was delivering medical aid sourced from the hated Israel!

Burgon was also corrected on his assertion that the embargo is somehow Trump's fault, despite the fact he was barely in high school when the US imposed sanctions against Cuba.  Furthermore, Cuba cut diplomatic ties with Israel in 1973, so any restrictions on Israeli goods predated the first Trump presidency by more than 40 years.

Leeds' finest is not the brightest!

BRASS NECK BABY KILLERS

Labour's Andy MacNae and Michelle Welsh

Last week was 'Baby Loss Awareness Week', which has been held in the UK for more than 20 years.  To coincide with the event, a debate on baby loss was held in the House of Commons last Monday.

Opening the debate was its co-sponsor, the member for Rossendale and Darwen - Andy MacNae.  During his almost 15 minute speech, the Labour MP detailed the tragic death of his own baby daughter who passed away just five days into her life.

MacNae was followed later by another co-sponsor of the debate, the Labour member for Sherwood Forest.  Michelle Welsh launched into a tirade against healthcare professionals who she accused of treating her with 'utter contempt' during the birth of her son.  A verbal assault on the saintly NHS is not something one would normally associate with the socialists, but Michelle clearly wanted to show she had skin in the game.

Welsh was followed by her Labour comrade Luke Charters (York Outer), who described her as an 'inspirational mum'.  Various MPs joined the debate, including Labour's Fleur Anderson (Putney), Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Gateshead South), Jess Asato (Lowestoft), Olivia Blake (Sheffield Hallam), Richard Burgon (Leeds East), Nadia Whittome (Nottingham East), Samantha Niblett (South Derbyshire), Lizzi Collinge (Morecambe and Lunesdale), Sarah Smith (Hyndburn), Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Clapham and Brixton Hill), Amanda Hack (North West Leicestershire), Jo White (Bassetlaw), Adam Thompson (Erewash), Amanda Martin (Portsmouth North), Dave Robertson (Lichfield) and Sean Woodcock (Banbury).

Now all these MPs have something in common - asides from the despicable party to which they belong - they all voted in favour of a certain amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill four months ago.  Yes, that's right, despite all their posturing and hand-wringing about the lost lives of babies - each and every one of them voted FOR the decriminalisation of abortion up to birth.

The two Labour co-sponsors of this three hour debate voted to kill babies.  Their 17 party comrades who spoke during the debate voted to kill babies.  MacNae voted to legalise the murder of children five days younger than his own departed child.  Please spare us your crocodile tears.

'COLIN CUMFACE' ANOTHER LABOUR PERV

Andrew Gwynne, Colin 'Cumface' Bailey and one of the posts from his X feed

In addition to taking swipes at Labour bigwigs such as Angela Rayner and Diane Abbott, the Andrew Gwynne WhatsApp group also mocked a local activist who they referred to as 'Colin Cumface'.  Mr Cumface has been identified as 61-year-old Colin Bailey, who is the vice chair of Labour's Audenshaw branch in Tameside.  Bailey, who had previously campaigned for Gwynne, told the Mail on Sunday: "I am angry about this, Andrew has never said anything like this before."

The exact reason for the nickname is not clear at first, but after we looked into Bailey's social media accounts it became a little too obvious.  While his Facebook account is dominated by pictures of Bailey alongside prominent Labour figures - including Andy Burnham, Rachel Reeves, John McDonnell and the ex-dear leader Jeremy Corbyn - his X account is crammed with pictures of scantily clad ladies.  The pictures, some of which are possibly AI-generated, are accompanied by Colin's creepy comments.

These are just a handful of examples of the kind of content that dominates Bailey's X account...

 

We can only assume that Colin has been single for a while.  Wonder how his comrades feel about his fascination with young well endowed ladies...

Red Rachel's nervous smile suggests that she has more of an inkling for creepy perverts than she does for economic growth.

WHIP RESTORED TO FOUR REBELS

Ian Byrne, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Richard Burgon and Imran Hussain

Four of the seven hard left MPs suspended from Labour have now been readmitted.  The seven members of the Socialist Campaign Group had the party whip removed last July as Keir Starmer sought to take a hard line against backbench rebels at the first opportunity.  That chance arose when the seven voted in favour of an SNP proposal to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

The four restored are Ian Byrne (Liverpool West Derby), Rebecca Long-Bailey (Salford), Richard Burgon (Leeds East) and Imran Hussain (Bradford East).  The hierarchy was clearly in no rush to readmit the rebels as the initial six month suspension had already overrun, while it remains unclear when or if the remaining three will regain the party whip.

Those not readmitted at this stage are Apsana Begum (Poplar & Limehouse), John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington) and Zarah Sultana (Coventry South).  The trio are particularly vocal on the question of Palestine, alluded to in a post by Sultana on X.  Begum and McDonnell also responded to their continued suspensions on X.

Sultana had posted twice leading up to the news, both of which were attacks on the UK in relation to Gaza.  On Wednesday morning she accused the UK and other Western nations of being complicit in 'genocide'.  Late on Tuesday she challenged the UK government to condemn President Trump's proposals to resettle Palestinians outside of Gaza, which she quite correctly described as 'ethnic cleansing'.

It's a shame Zarah cannot represent the majority of her constituents, who are more concerned with what's in their wage packets and being able to walk the streets safely - than events taking place thousands of miles away.

Her comrade Apsana Begum chose to dial down the Palestine cause in her response.  She repeated her opposition to the two-child benefit cap, but her post garnered a strong backlash with many users critical of benefits culture: "Have fewer children so you can afford to feed them" was one such comment.

Begum was the focus of a protracted effort to remove her as a Labour candidate in the years prior to the last election.  The precise motives for specifically wanting her out were never clear, but in the end it came to nothing as she was re-selected and then re-elected in July, albeit with a majority slashed by more than half.  For whatever reason, the Labour leadership want Begum out.

The case for McDonnell's continued suspension is more cut and dried, as he (and his pal Corbyn) were recently interviewed by Met Police in light of a police confrontation with pro-Palestine protesters.  The pair were accused of being part of a group that allegedly pushed through police lines during a demonstration in the capital last month.  Both men deny that version of events, but McDonnell appears to be content with his extended suspension as he awaits news of potential police charges.

McDonnell will be well aware that as a close friend and comrade of Jeremy Corbyn, he does not have to step too far outside of the line for Starmer to expel him permanently.  McDonnell would find it much harder to get re-elected as an independent, a feat achieved with relative ease by Corbyn last year.

STARMER CRACKS THE WHIP

Top: Rebecca Long-Bailey, John McDonnell, Zarah Sultana and Richard Burgon
Bottom: Imran Hussain, Apsana Begum and Ian Byrne

Keir Starmer sent a clear message on Tuesday that he will not tolerate dissidents, suspending the party whip from seven hard left MPs following a minor rebellion in the Commons.  The seven were all from the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs.  Of course, when you have a 174 seat majority, one can afford to suspend a fair number - in fact Starmer could have suspended the entire Socialist Campaign Group of 24 MPs if they had all voted accordingly.  The seven, who include the likes of John McDonnell and Rebecca Long-Bailey, will remain suspended for six months and sit as independents during that time.

It was an SNP-backed amendment that led to the first rebellion of Starmer's premiership.  The amendment demanded an end to the two child benefit cap, introduced by the Tories in 2017.  Naturally, those on the left favour a never-ending flow of state handouts to families, regardless of the size and ability to earn a living.

The government won the vote 363-103.  The Lib Dems, Greens, Plaid and all the Northern Ireland parties supported the SNP motion.  The Conservatives abstained, while 41 Labour MPs abstained or were absent, including eight members of the Socialist Campaign Group - Diane Abbott, Mary Foy, Kim Johnson, Ian Lavery, Andy McDonald, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Jon Trickett and Nadia Whittome.  The remainder of the SCG voted with the government, one of whom tried to con her way out of her 'scabby' vote...

Dawn Butler declared on X that she supported an end to the two child benefit cap, publishing a letter she had written to Liz Kendall, who is now Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.  The BBC even erroneously reported that Butler had abstained on the vote.  She didn't, her vote is recorded with the noes, alongside SCG comrades (or scabs, as the left might say) Tahir Ali, Olivia Blake, Marsha de Cordova, Clive Lewis, Rachael Maskell, Grahame Morris, Kate Osamor and Kate Osborne.  None of these others tried to weasel their way out like Butler tried (and failed, judging by the comments on her post).

This significant three-way split for Labour's hard left will no doubt please centrists like Starmer.

When Starmer won the Labour leadership in 2020, it soon became clear that the hard left - under which he had served as a shadow minister - were going to feel the squeeze.  Former front bench comrades such as Corbyn, Abbott, McDonnell and co were going to the sword at the first opportunity.  Corbyn was felled, but got his revenge earlier this month by robbing Starmer of Islington North.  Abbott was felled, then she was readmitted.  McDonnell kept his head down and kept his seat.  Others who were suspended, expelled and/or deselected were Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Sam Tarry and Claudia Webbe.

TOON TUESDAY #5

This week it's the turn of Times cartoonist Peter Brookes and a selection of toons satirising Keir Starmer and his party.  Over the years Brookes has been fairly inconsistent with his depictions of Starmer, who many cartoonists struggle to get right...

McDONNELL & CORBYN LEAD MARCH

Jeremy Corbyn was joined by John McDonnell for the controversial Armistice Day march in support of Palestine.  Both MPs were at the head of the march and both addressed crowds upon its conclusion outside the US Embassy - as did hard left comrades Richard Burgon and Zarah Sultana.  Diane Abbott was also present at the march, but did not speak as organisers thought a comedian was in poor taste.  Corbyn was also joined at the head of the march by his wife Laura, while son Tommy could be seen in the background.

Several poppies could be seen in the above photo shared by Corbyn, but none of them red.  A middle aged couple wore white poppies, meant to signify peace and a rejection of military action - ironically they were standing next to the IRA and Hamas sympathiser McDonnell.  An Asian man third to Corbyn's left wore a poppy emblazoned with the Palestinian flag, another slight to Britain's Armed Forces.

Predictably, the media ignored various acts of criminality during the latest hate march - instead choosing to cover the presence of groups of predominantly white lads who had gathered to 'protect the Cenotaph'.  These lads were labelled 'far right' while the PM referred to them as belonging to the 'English Defence League', an organisation that has been defunct for almost a decade.  Whoever they were, it was clear that the influence of EDL founder Tommy Robinson was instrumental in their presence.

The reinstatement of Robinson's Twitter account in the run-up to the controversial Palestine march can now be seen in its full context and the timing was surely no coincidence.  The media had been baiting the British public for days and as soon as Robinson addressed his new found platform of 380,000 followers, the trap was set.  Now, the 'far right' were in town and their scapegoat was assured.

While the two minute silence thankfully passed off peacefully, the lads soon got rowdy with police and arrests were swift.  The media made no reference to the detention of 150 Palestinian marchers, instead giving all their attention to the 'far right' who they claimed accounted for all arrests made on the day.  Sky News even falsely claimed that Laurence Fox of the Reclaim Party was part of the counter protest, despite, according to his colleague Calvin Robinson - being out of the country!

Tommy Robinson had conveniently provided the media with their narrative for the day.  Too conveniently, it seemed.

Outside of the media bubble, the stark reality was going viral on social media.  Videos showing the true intent of many Palestine marchers clocked up millions of views.  One video showed a man referring to the 'slaughter of Zionists', telling an interviewer: "Hitler knew how to deal with these people".  In another a woman screams: "Death to all the Jews".  Other videos showed violent incidents and young men goading police on Saturday evening while the police stood by and simply took the abuse, in stark contrast to their heavy-handed approach to Tommy's lads earlier in the day.

While the media calls for the head of Suella Braverman, most people watching Saturday's events through social media will now know beyond doubt that the Metropolitan Police do treat certain groups favourably - in this case the Palestine mob.  Suella was spot on.

The Met showed that Suella Braverman is right about their two-tier policing

With the game now up for the Met, they are deploying damage limitation by way of retrospectively appealing for information related to criminal acts during the Palestine march.  Among those being 'sought' for a slap on the wrist are three men who dressed up as Hamas terrorists (see photo below).  Others include an Asian woman who held a racist placard depicting Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts.  Another was widely identified on social media as a Labour activist from Hastings in East Sussex. albeit this was denied by the chair in a neighbouring Constituency Labour Party.  The chair added that the identity of the individual had been passed to the Met, suggesting that she was indeed known to the party.  The activist in question held a placard which incorporated a swastika into the Star of David.

Palestine protesters dressed as their Hamas heroes (left) and (right) a suspected
Labour activist holds a placard incorporating a swastika into the Star of David

These weekly protests will die off as winter approaches, but the numerous vile incidents that have arisen from them should not be forgotten so quickly.  The Palestine marches have shown many British people just how low our country has sunk into multi-cultural Hell.  How can we possibly save it when our governing parties are committed to furthering its existence?  And even if the two party protection racket is somehow dismantled, is it already too late to pull our nation back from the brink of chaos?

LABOUR ON THE PICKET LINE

Keir Starmer is between a rock and a hard place at the moment.  He does not want to discuss the rail strikes - as he wants to remain firmly seated on the fence.  He neither wants to upset the trade unions that bankroll his party, or the millions of workers who will be adversely affected by the strikes.  As the strikes commenced on Tuesday his social media accounts fell silent.  24 hours earlier he banned his frontbenchers from joining the RMT picket lines.  He didn't slap a ban on his backbenchers, because he knew that would be pointless...

Labour backbenchers on the RMT picket line on Tuesday - Beth Winter, Kim Johnson,
Rachael Maskell, Richard Burgon, Zarah Sultana, Ian Byrne, Rebecca Long-Bailey,
Dan Carden and Paula Barker

Diane Abbott and several other MPs were on separate picket lines and the former shadow home secretary tweeted a defiant message to her party leader...

Other Labour MPs on the picket line included Tahir Ali, Ian Lavery, Andy McDonald, John McDonnell, Kate Osborne, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Mick Whitley and Nadia Whittome.  Sam Tarry was on the picket line with a loudspeaker on Tuesday, but his lover Angela Rayner was nowhere to be seen, clearly adhering to her leader's ban.  Clive Lewis hilariously tweeted apologies that he couldn't be on the picket line - as there were no trains running!

THE LEFT'S CAMBO CHEER

by Richey Edwards

Labour MPs have been among the green advocates celebrating Shell's decision to pull out of the Cambo oil field development in the North Sea.  Ed Miliband was among the first to applaud the decision, just a few days into his new front bench role as 'Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero'.

Ed's trumped up title was created as part of Keir Starmer's recent reshuffle and is intended to be a clear statement of Sir Squeaky's green credentials.  Last month Starmer urged Boris Johnson to veto the Cambo development.  This is one area where the Labour leader appears to share common ground with the far left.  Members of Labour's Socialist Campaign Group were particularly vocal about Shell's decision.

The delight of Burgon and co is clear to see, but make no mistake - they will all spend this winter in warm cosy homes courtesy of fossil fuels.  They can prove us wrong when they ditch their gas boilers and rely on a heat pump.  Let them be the ones who freeze when the weather turns, but no - it will be the poorest in society who suffer.  Either these MPs can't see that or they simply don't care.

Wind and solar are great sources of renewable energy, but this is Britain and the weather here is far from predictable.  There are days in which neither the sun shines or the wind blows.  That is not a reliable alternative by itself, but as always there is a political agenda being driven that does not necessarily have the best interests of the environment at heart.

The left and the green agenda go hand in hand.  It's no coincidence that all the major green parties around the world follow socialist ideologies.  Why else would Greta Thunberg and friends be so reluctant to criticise the world's biggest polluter - China?  It's almost as if communist CO2 is an acceptable evil in their parallel quest of overthrowing the capitalist West.

The green agenda is the new media-driven left-wing cult that follows on from Black Lives Matter.  Anyone who refuses to follow the new narrative is ostracised and tarred with names like 'denier' or even 'far right'.  Patrick Harvie of the pro-independence Scottish Greens recently labelled such people 'hard right'.

For decades it has been said that the success of an independent Scotland would hinge on its access to North Sea oil.  No more.  Nicola Sturgeon recently declared her support for the anti-Cambo campaign in a crushing blow to an industry that has become synonymous with Scotland.  It appears that the green bug trumps jobs and economic prosperity.  Good luck winning IndyRef2 with policies like that.

One of the most prominent campaigners against the Cambo oil field is Lauren MacDonald.  Here she is pictured alongside Owen Jones at a rally earlier this week, during which Jones ranted about the implementation of the 'Green New Deal', a byword for socialist environmental policy.

Here's Lauren again, pictured with Ed Miliband last month (indoors and huddled up - absence of face masks duly noted).

A cursory scroll through Lauren's Twitter feed reveals the kind of mindset behind the green revolution.  Last month she retweeted the details for an open borders march in Glasgow.  The tweet declared: "There is no climate justice without migrant justice".  Come again?  What has immigration got to do with the environment?  In any case, wouldn't a borderless world encourage more people to travel and therefore increase their carbon footprint?  Plus, if the green new deal is the global utopia these people envisage, why would anyone want to leave their country of origin in the first place?

In response to the recent jailing of several Insulate Britain protesters, Lauren tweeted the following.

Talk of abolishing prisons and police is a prime example that BLM, the far left and the green agenda are all sides of the same coin.

The footsoldiers of these tentative Marxist revolutions are overwhelmingly young university-educated middle class types like Lauren.  They have little in common with the proletariat, in fact all that they do in life is rooted in avoiding manual work.  It is why they will always fail, because they do not speak the language of the masses.

When news of the Shell pull-out from Cambo broke, Lauren tweeted a picture of herself giving a picture of Shell CEO Ben van Beurden the finger (see below).

It was a puerile gesture that would inspire only puerile minds.  And these people want to be taken seriously?

Lauren's finger gesture follows her recent verbal assault on Mr van Beurden, after she somehow managed to share a stage with him.  She was invited to ask him a question, but instead went on a hysterical rant, accusing him of being 'one of the most evil people in the world'.  When she finally got around to asking him a question, she would not let him speak and resumed her rant before finally declaring that she would not 'share a platform' with van Beurden.  The Shell CEO was therefore summarily cancelled and 'no platformed' - a customary practice on university campuses for people who do not share Marxist ideology.  The footage can be seen here.

During her verbal onslaught, MacDonald deplored the 'death and suffering' that Shell was supposedly responsible for.  Well, dear, that is nothing compared the death and suffering at the hands of the communist ideology you follow.  You turn a blind eye to human rights abuses in China, to slave labour and massacres.  You and your ilk are in no position to lecture anybody about suffering.

DICKIE BURGON: APOLOGIST FOR THE CCP

In a debate earlier this week Labour's Richard Burgon repeatedly refused to condemn the Chinese Communist Party, even suggesting that Western critics of the regime were 'fuelling anti-Chinese racism'.  The member for Leeds East and hard left Corbyn loyalist was taking part in a debate on Iain Dale's Cross Question show on LBC Radio.  Burgon also attacked the United States for dropping atomic bombs on Japan, name-dropped Bahrain and Saudi Arabia for human rights criticism and claimed that the average Brit's carbon footprint is greater than those of Chinese citizens.  He couldn't have done more to avoid and divert criticism from the CCP.

Burgon's spin exasperated Dale and the rest of the panel, notably Tory MP Tim Loughton.  At one point Burgon declared: "We need to have a sensible discussion about these things".  Well, Dickie, this was far from sensible on your part.

Watch the clip below.

It appears that Iain Dale and co were not the only ones bemused by Burgon's rhetoric this week.  On Thursday the hapless MP tweeted a screenshot from a debate in support of striking university lecturers.  He might have selected a better frame.  Just look at some of the faces of the other Zoom callers - three of them looking down and one of them appearing to be talking to someone off camera...

Dickie Burgon, long may he continue to invite ridicule upon his party and his socialist cause.

DAFT DICKIE'S BOOK RINSING

One of the loony left's daftest MPs has left himself wide open to ridicule with the following post on his social media accounts...

It didn't take long for the mockery to begin...

Many others commenting on Dick's post thought his temporary exile related to his recent comments about reparations to Afghanistan ie. the Taliban.  However, the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs rarely act on 'Keith's' orders.

CALL FOR AFGHAN 'REPARATIONS'

Labour's Socialist Campaign Group has backed a call from the far left Stop the War Coalition for 'reparations' to Afghanistan.  A statement from the SCG was signed by 19 of the groups 35 members, plus six Labour peers (see below).

The statement mirrors that published by the Stop the War Coalition on its website two days earlier.  The statement includes the following: "The British government should take a lead in offering a refugee programme and reparations to rebuild Afghanistan, an act which would go a great deal further in advancing the rights of the Afghan people, women in particular, than continued military or economic intervention in the fate of the Afghanistan".

Now that the Taliban is back in power, how on earth do these buffons expect reparations to be used to 'advance the rights of Afghan women'?  Furthermore, what reparations did their beloved Soviet Union pay after they left Afghanistan?  How about those communist invaders cough up first, as a gesture to the West?

The Stop the War Coalition was founded ten days after the September 11 attacks by Lindsey German, a far left activist who was at that time a member of the Socialist Workers Party.  Among the early sponsors of the group were Labour MPs Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn and George Galloway.  Rallies organised by the group have been addressed by many hard left MPs over the years, including Diane Abbott, Richard Burgon, John McDonnell and Caroline Lucas of the Greens.  During its twenty-year existence the group has also been backed by the SNP and Plaid Cymru, as well as the Communist Party of Britain.

On its website the group boasts how it was "one of the main organisers of the massive protests against Donald Trump".  Funny that, considering that during his presidency Trump did not embark on a single foreign conflict.  Further proof that Stop the War is just another front for communist agitators, for whom revolutionary uprisings are much higher on their agenda than 'peace'.

BURGON VS BLUNKETT

Richard Burgon has clashed with Lord Blunkett over the party's attitude to working class voters and the merits of wokery.  Burgon was asked about recent comments by his party colleague Khalid Mahmood, who said that the party had been captured by 'university graduates with woke politics'.  Burgon's response pretty much summed up why Labour continue to fail, as he leapt to the defence of woke students and sneered at voters for failing to understand the benefits of woke politics.  Dear oh dear.

Blunkett disagreed with his fellow Yorkshireman's assessment of what wokery meant and linked the word instead to political extremists attacking statues, something that was being used to tar the Labour 

Party.  Clearly this was a reference to the Labour left's embrace of BLM violence.  Burgon then hit back at his Blairite opponent with a fierce rebuke of Keir Starmer's leadership, referring to 'shallow flag-waving' and posing for photos 'eating fish and chips and drinking beer'.  Burgon looked very pleased with himself having got the final word in.

This is a prime example of how Labour is going to tear itself apart in the months and, potentially, years to come.

BURGON WARNING FOR STARMER

Richard Burgon was the unofficial spokesperson for the left on Politics Live this afternoon and sounded the alarm bell over the forthcoming Batley and Spen by-election.  Burgon struck a conciliatory tone as he urged the leadership  to learn 'the lessons from the failures from the last week' and ensure they win that by-election.  However, he also had this warning for Starmer: "Obviously, if Labour doesn't win in Batley and Spen, then Keir will have real problems because he'd be losing again and losing again, and eventually politics takes its course".

There is currently no date for the Batley and Spen by-election.

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.