MEME MONDAY #46

A whopping twenty memes from Karl last week helped chronicle a week packed full of disturbing revelations about the rise of Starmer's police state.  The week had begun with a demolition of Starmer by President Trump, during which the PM repeated his claim that: "We've had free speech in the United Kingdom for a very long time".  These were the same words he uttered during his brief spat with JD Vance in the Oval Office earlier this year.  The word 'had' - past tense - makes for clever gaslighting, but Starmer is fooling no-one.

The cat is well and truly out of the bag now and with a digital ID on the way, our descent into tyranny is well on track...

Mon 28 Jul - 162 shares on Facebook

Mon 28 Jul - 1,111 shares

Tue 29 Jul - 161 shares.  Kyle's post on X, which was a direct attack on Nigel
Farage, was quickly littered with pictures of the MP alongside one of his Hove
predecessors - the disgraced pervert Ivor Caplin.  Oops!

Tue 29 Jul - 13 shares.  Starmer has decided to go in
hard on the side of Palestine, in a desperate attempt to fend
off the looming threat of Corbyn's Fruit and Nut party

Tue 29 Jul - 121 shares

Wed 30 Jul - 10 shares

Wed 30 Jul - 287 shares

Wed 30 Jul - 1,310 shares.  Although the most popular meme of
the week, it also led to huge constitutional debate in the
comments about whether or not London is 'the capital city of
Mrs Trump's homeland'.   Mary Anne MacLeod was born on the
Isle of Lewis in Scotland in 1912, which would have made her a
British subject - not a British citizen as argued by Richey.  The
two are similar, but not the same.  Whether Mrs Trump
considered herself Scottish, British or both is not clear, but
regardless of her feelings on nationality, she was both.  The
question of London being the capital city is complicated by the
constitutional nature of the United Kingdom, but where Richey
argued that London is the capital of Great  Britain he is
technically incorrect.  London was the capital of Great Britain
from 1707 to 1801, but then became the capital of the newly
formed United Kingdom and has remained since.  Great Britain
ceased to exist as a sovereign state in 1801, therefore Richey is
mistaken.  The meme itself can still be regarded factually correct
if Mrs Trump's homeland refers to the United Kingdom and not
Great Britain or Scotland.  In any case, the meme was still
very popular!

Thu 31 Jul - 90 shares

Thu 31 Jul - 510 shares

Thu 31 Jul - 18 shares.  This could have easily been a Woke Wednesday feature.
The rabid reaction to a pretty white girl modelling some jeans and a clever play
on words by the manufacturer - American Eagle - exposed the left and the
establishment to counter claims of why it is acceptable to say a mixed race
person has good 'jeans' (genes), but not a white person.  The biggest racists
are the left, never forget it!

Thu 31 Jul - 71 shares

Fri 1 Aug - 54 shares.  BTLP still has a Gab account, but it never really took off
and Gab wasn't helped by Elon's acquisition and transformation of Twitter.  Sadly,
Andrew Torba's venture has now pulled the site from the UK, on the back of
increasing censorship of social media.  It can still be accessed by VPN - although
there are various voices in Labour now calling for a ban on VPNs (Virtual Private
Networks)

Fri 1 Aug - 87 shares

Sat 2 Aug - 17 shares

Sat 2 Aug - 72 shares

Sat 2 Aug - 14 shares.  Always a risky business to show a depiction
of the Prophet Muhammad, but in all fairness Karl obtained this image
from a Google search!

Sat 2 Aug - 148 shares.  One of the best comments on this was: "Is that
Thangam Debbonaire without the syrup?"

Sun 3 Aug - 224 shares

Sun 3 Aug - 6 shares

In addition to a busy week of meming, Karl also found time to post five Facebook Stories, including news of a very good couple of days on the backup page.  The strange thing is that despite adding more than 30,000 followers to the backup page this year, the net gain in following on the main page remains zero.  Distribution of the main page is much greater than the backup page, so this does not make any sense.  If anyone has found themselves being mysteriously removed from following us, be sure to let us know.  You can contact us directly via X.

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NEVER LABOUR, NEVER GREEN

In decades past, a vote for the Green Party was often seen as a harmless protest vote.  Voters saw it as both rejecting the status quo, but doing their bit for the environment in the process.  That was back in the days when the Greens couldn't win and some of their policies were bordering on sensible.

Fast forward to the 21st century and the Greens are now a far left outfit with extremist policies, many of which do nothing for the environment and undermine our green and pleasant land.  They are very much like Labour, except they are straight up and honest about their ill intent.  They are advocating for abolishing our borders altogether at this election.  And as we see with the left as a whole, they are so blinded by ideology that they cannot perceive a conflict in simultaneously embracing both Islamists and the Alphabet People.

Satirical website The Upper Lip has produced a hilarious video mocking the Greens (see below), complete with smug middle class commentator.

The Greens have also now entered the House of Commons, with Caroline Lucas having been the MP for Brighton Pavilion since 2010.  They are also odds on favourites to win Bristol Central at this election, doubling their number of Westminster seats in the process (this would actually unseat the Brit-hating Labour incumbent Thangam Debbonaire, so not all bad!)

A Green victory in Bristol Central would be an impressive result, with Debbonaire defending an otherwise comfortable majority of 28,219.  She has been the MP for the seat's predecessor Bristol West since 2015, prior to which it spent ten years as a Lib Dem seat.  The boundary changes favour the Greens, who earlier this year won every available council in this newly formed constituency.  They are now the largest party on Bristol City Council and the city is fast becoming one of Britain's premier far left strongholds.

But can hideous lesbian midget Carla Denyer triumph over Debbonaire?  This is one of the most difficult seats to call, a very tight two-horse race in which the Greens have thrown everything at.  Will it be enough?  We are going to buck all polling and betting odds to suggest that Debbonaire will cling on here.  Six candidates are standing, including the awesome Kellie-Jay Keen for the Party of Women (that is, actual biological females, and not the make believe women that Labour and the Greens advocate for).

Robert Clarke (RefUK)

Nicholas Coombes (LDem)

Thangam Debbonaire (Lab)

Carla Denyer (Grn)

Kellie-Jay Keen (Wom)

Samuel Williams (Con)

BTLP seat prediction: Lab WIN (new seat)

MOB RULE IN BRISTOL

The mainstream media has chosen to ignore last night's rioting in London in favour of a 'debate' aimed at justifying the toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol.  Anyone who disagrees will be hounded and called the usual names, but no-one is justifying slavery.  What happened yesterday was mob rule and it has sinister implications going forward.  It immediately led to calls for other statues to be toppled and Bristolians will now see a concerted effort to erase the name Colston from Bristol altogether.  This is book-burning stuff.  The mob claim to speak for the majority and yet the most recent petition to remove the statue could muster only 11,000 signatures from a city of almost half a million.  It's not clear how many of those signatures were actually from local people, but clearly the statue is not as 'offensive' as the mob, their media backers and the local police chief made out.

Speaking of that police chief, you may have seen his interview yesterday in which he says his force "did the right thing" in standing off and allowing the statue felling to happen.  In a video that appeared online yesterday the same officer speaks to a protester about what happened.  It's an astonishing piece in which he makes numerous political statements and praises the "amazing conduct" of the Bristol protesters.  Remember that this is after the statue has been pulled down and dumped in the harbour.  Watch out for his wink at the very end, making it very clear whose side he is on.

While most people were expecting trouble to continue in London yesterday, events in Bristol surprised many.  However, this city of two universities has become entrenched in the hands of the left in recent years.  Ten years ago Bristol City Council was controlled by the Lib Dems who also held one of the four Parliamentary seats here.  One of the other seats was held by the Tories until the 2017 general election in which Labour won all four seats.  Labour has been in control of the council since 2016, the same year the party's candidate became the directly elected mayor.  It's that mayor - Marvin Rees - who has been doing the media rounds over the last two days justifying the toppling of the statue, calling it an 'historic moment'.

The City Council also did its bit to empower the mob on Sunday by tweeting the hashtag #BristolTakeTheKnee, an act of virtue signalling that Marvin Rees and all four Bristol Labour MPs were only too keen to engage in...

All this is based on the lie that black people are disproportionately killed by police officers.  It has nothing to do with black lives, this is political opportunism that will set back race relations years.  Division is their game, destruction is their aim.

Further reading

In Focus: Bristol

IN FOCUS: BRISTOL

The city of Bristol contains four Parliamentary constituencies, all of which returned a Labour candidate in 2017 - the first time it has done so since 2001.

Population (2018 est):  463,400
City Council:  Labour, since 2016
Composition:  Labour (36 cllrs), Conservative (15), Green (11), Lib Dem (8)
Ethnic make-up (2011):  white 84.0%, black 6,0%, Asian 5.5%, mixed 3.6%, Arab 0.3%, other 0.6%
EU referendum:  62% Remain
Largest Parliamentary majority:  Bristol West (Thangam Debbonaire, Lab) majority 37,336
Smallest Parliamentary majority:  Bristol North West (Darren Jones, Lab) majority 4,761

Bristol South and Bristol East have been held by Labour for decades, while Bristol North West is a marginal that has regularly changed hands between blue and red since its creation in 1950.  Bristol West has been held by all three main parties, but threw a curve ball in the 2017 election.  Having been recaptured by Labour in 2015 from the Lib Dems, the party inexplicably increased its majority from a mere 5,673 to more than 37,000 - the biggest swing to Labour in the entire country.  The result was totally unexpected and raised a few eyebrows.

Bristol City Council has been controlled by Labour for most of its history, except for two years of Lib Dem control (2009-2011) and several periods of no overall control.  After being punished by voters for their part in the coalition government, the Lib Dems have gradually fallen behind the Conservatives and the Greens.

Following a referendum in 2012, Bristol chose to elect its mayor.  A local campaigner won the first contest on behalf of 'Bristol 1st', beating Labour into second place.  Labour turned the tables in the second mayoral election and since 2016 the post has been held by Marvin Rees.

Bristol returned a big Remain vote in 2016 and does not have any Leave-voting seats.  All of its MPs are Remainers, two of whom ignored party whips to vote against the triggering of Article 50.  Only one of the four MPs was born in Bristol.  Jeremy Corbyn found no support among Bristol's Labour MPs during the leadership challenge of 2016 as they all backed Owen Smith.

Bristol East

Incumbent:  Kerry McCarthy (Lab), majority 13,394

Born:  Luton, 1965

First elected:  2005

Leave/Remain:  Remain, voted against triggering Article 50

Notes:  Briefly a member of Corbyn's shadow cabinet for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, despite being a vegan and a vocal critic of meat-eating.  Endorsed Owen Smith in the 2016 leadership challenge.
Scandals:  Expenses scandal, electoral fraud, Twitter train outburst

Bristol East has been held by Labour since 1992

EU referendum:  53% Remain

General election 2017

Kerry McCarthy (Lab) 30,847 (60.7%) +21.5%
Theodora Clarke (Con) 17,453 (34.4%) +3.7%
Chris Lucas (Lib Dem) 1,389 (2.7%) -3.1%
Lorraine Francis (Green) 1,110 (2.2%) -6.1%

General election candidates 2019

Kerry McCarthy (Lab)

Sarah Codling (Con)

Nick Coombes (Lib Dem)
Conan Connolly (Green)
Tim Page (Brexit)

BTLP general election prediction:  Lab HOLD

Bristol North West

Incumbent:  Darren Jones (Lab), majority 4,761
Born:  Bristol, 1986
First elected:  2017
Leave/Remain:  Remain
Notes:  An ardent Remainer, following his surprise election in 2017 he stated that stopping Brexit was his number one priority.  Jones is also a solicitor and leads the Future Britain Group, a gathering of Labour moderates established by Tom Watson.

Bristol North West has been held by Labour since 2017, but has regularly changed hands between Labour and the Tories since its creation in 1950.

EU referendum:  61% Remain

General election 2017

Darren Jones (Lab) 27,400 (50.7%) +16.2%
Charlotte Leslie (Con) 22,639 (41.8%) -2.1%
Celia Downie (Lib Dem) 2,814 (5.2%) -1.0%
Sharmila Bousa (Green) 1,243 (2.3%) -3.4%

General election candidates 2019

Darren Jones (Lab)

Mark Weston (Con)

Chris Coleman (Lib Dem)
Heather Mack (Green)

BTLP general election prediction:  Lab HOLD

Bristol South

Incumbent:  Karin Smyth (Lab), majority 15,987
Born:  London, 1964
First elected:  2015
Leave/Remain:  Remain, but voted to trigger Article 50
Notes:  The daughter of Irish immigrants.  Endorsed Owen Smith in the 2016 leadership contest.

Bristol South has been held by Labour since 1935

EU referendum:  52% Remain

General election 2017

Karin Smyth (Lab) 32,666 (60.1%) +21.7%
Mark Weston (Con) 16,679 (30.7%) +6.3%
Ben Nutland (Lib Dem) 1,821 (3.3%) -5.3%
Ian Kealey (UKIP) 1,672 (3.1%) -13.4%
Tony Dyer (Green) 1,428 (2.6%) -8.9%
John Langley (Ind) 116 (0.2%) New

General election candidates 2019

Karin Smyth (Lab)

Rick Morgan (Con)

Andrew Brown (Lib Dem)
Tony Dyer (Green)
Robert Boutin (Brexit)

BTLP general election prediction:  Lab HOLD

Bristol West

Incumbent:  Thangam Debbonaire (Lab), majority 37,336
Born:  Peterborough, 1966
First elected:  2015
Leave/Remain:  Remain, voted against triggering Article 50
Notes:  Privately educated.  Endorsed Owen Smith in the 2016 leadership challenge.  She holds the fourth highest majority of any MP in the country.

Bristol West has been held by Labour since 2015, before which it was held by the Lib Dems from 2005

EU referendum:  79% Remain, the third strongest Remain vote in the UK

General election 2017

Thangam Debbonaire (Lab) 47,213 (65.9%) +30.3%
Annabel Tall (Con) 9,877 (13.8%) -1.4%
Molly Scott Cato (Green) 9,216 (12.9%) -14.0%
Stephen Williams (Lib Dem) 5,201 (7.3%) -11.6%
Jodian Rodgers (Money Free) 101 (0.1%) New

General election candidates 2019

Thangam Debbonaire (Lab)
Suria Aujla (Con)
Carla Denyer (Green)
Neil Hipkiss (Brexit)

Note:  This is a Remain Alliance seat, where the Liberal Democrats have stood down in order to give the Green Party a free run.

BTLP general election prediction:  Lab HOLD

NEXT WEEK:  Cardiff

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