FACT CHECKERS' HOLIDAY

In the wake of the French presidential election, claims of electoral fraud surfaced and quickly went viral on social media.  Videos appeared to show postal ballots for Marine Le Pen arriving in sealed envelopes pre-torn - potentially invalidating them before they could even be used.  Ballots for Emmanuel Macron in the same envelopes appeared to be intact (see video below).

Other damning posts appeared to show a huge discrepancy in the number of votes received by Ms Le Pen.  In live TV coverage of the election her running vote tally reaches more than 14 million votes as counting takes place across France.  However, in the final tally she received just 13,297,760.

Still images from the coverage also appear to show discrepancies in the tally.  In the following example her tally is shown as 13,899,494 - over half a million more than she later received in total.

With these claims being widely circulated on social media, one would expect the 'fact checkers' to be deployed in order to debunk them.  However, the fact checkers were strangely quiet yesterday and on Twitter the most prominent 'fact check' of the day was bizarrely the state of Bill Gates' chest.  Yes, seriously...

Fact checkers routinely debunk anything that threatens the establishment narrative and yes, that apparently stretches to allegations that Bill Gates has huge manboobs!  Their silence on Monday regarding the French election was somewhat surprising and inevitably leads to speculation that they could not debunk something that was demonstrably true.  Likewise there was also a blanket media silence about claims of electoral fraud.

This is not to say that there was lots of bullshit floating around, including allegations that the controversial Dominion vote counting machines were used in the election.  However, vote counting in France is done almost exclusively by hand.

Whether electoral fraud prevented Le Pen from enacting a critical blow on the globalists will never be known, but the direction of travel is very clear.  This was the second consecutive run-off for Ms Le Pen, both of which were against Macron.

2017 French presidential election

Macron - 20,743,128 (66.1 per cent)

Le Pen - 10,638,475 (33.9 per cent)

2022 French presidential election

Macron - 18,779,641 (58.5 per cent)

Le Pen - 13,297,760 (41.5 per cent)

She has closed the gap significantly in the last five years and crucially her support is strongest among young voters, suggesting she could return triumphantly in five years time.  However, should she reach the run-off a third time she would be up against a new candidate as Macron cannot serve a third consecutive term.

A lot can happen in that time, but it's highly doubtful that French people's lives will get better.  Rising inflation, poverty, migration and state tyranny are on the rise.  The EU grows ever more centralised and authoritarian by the day.  The globalists will try everything in their power to prevent another Trump or Brexit, but can they nail the coffin lid shut on democracy forever?

THE WEEK IN CARTOONS 10-16 APRIL 2022

10.04.22 - Nick Newman, Sunday Times

10.04.22 - Nick Newman, Sunday Times

11.04.22 - Ben Jennings, Guardian

11.04.22 - Brian Adcock, Independent

11.04.22 - Morten Morland, The Times

11.04.22 - Guy Venables, Metro

11.04.22 - Patrick Blower, Daily Telegraph

12.04.22 - Morten Morland, The Times

12.04.22 - Bob Moran, Twitter

12.04.22 - Koh Chin Tong, Cartoon Movement

12.04.22 - Gary Varvel, Counterpoint

13.04.22 - Morten Morland, The Times

13.04.22 - Ron McGeary, Twitter

13.04.22 - Patrick Cross, Twitter

13.04.22 - Ben Jennings, Guardian

13.04.22 - Ben Garrison, Grrr Graphics

13.04.22 - AF Branco, Flag & Cross

13.04.22 - Chip Bok, Twitter

14.04.22 - Dave Brown, Independent

15.04.22 - Kevin Kallaugher, Economist

15.04.22 - Mike Peters, Dayton Daily News

15.04.22 - Ben Garrison, Grrr Graphics

15.04.22 - Bob Moran, Twitter

15.04.22 - Morten Morland, The Times

16.04.22 - Dave Brown, Independent

16.04.22 - Andy Davey, Daily Telegraph

16.04.22 - Robert Thompson, Spectator

16.04.22 - Ruben L. Oppenheimer, Twitter

LABOUR'S POSTAL INSPIRATION

As Keir Starmer and his party trundles on desperately looking for something significant to campaign on, one thing is already in the bag - the postal votes.  Labour began plugging postal votes for the forthcoming elections up to six months ago.  It was a well calculated move.  At that point no-one had any idea how long the second wave of coronavirus would last and how it would affect turnout.  Labour marketed a postal vote as the 'safe' way to vote.  Meanwhile, as per usual, the other parties did next to nothing on appealing for postal votes.

The postal vote is an insidious election weapon deployed by the left at every election, especially in inner city areas with a certain demographic.  It is why they will resist at all costs any notion of clamping down on postal voting or requirements for voter ID.

There is currently a huge row raging in the US over new voting laws in the state of Georgia.  Postal voters there will now have to provide some form of identification - the law was initiated by Republicans and, of course, has been staunchly contested by Democrats.  In last year's US elections the Democrats scored massive victories, securing both the presidency and both legislative houses.  They achieved this largely thanks to postal voting.

No-one will forget the way in which the 2020 US presidential election swung suddenly and inexplicably in favour of Joe Biden once postal votes were dumped overnight in key states - not least Donald Trump.  UK Labour wasted no time in jumping on the back of Biden's success and made no secret of their inspiration...

Sadiq Khan also referenced Trump's defeat in one of his many video pleas for postal votes over the course of the last six months (click below).

Last month another video was released by Khan's campaign, this time featuring a Democrat politician from the state of Georgia.  In a scripted monologue Stacey Abrams urged voters in London to register for a postal vote so that a victory for Khan could deliver a 'more inclusive and equal future'.  One suspects that in this dystopian future some people will be more equal than others...

Khan has been one of Labour's biggest individual proponents of postal votes.  Although opinion polls suggest he is nailed on for victory next week, Khan's huge ego means he will settle for nothing less than a thumping win.  In a further reference to Biden's victory, he even demanded that the controversial Dominion vote counting machines used in the US elections were deployed for the London mayoral election.  It was later confirmed that the result of this election would not be announced until at least Sunday 9 May, due to social distancing measures for counting.  Such a long delay to the result also harks back to the drawn-out conclusion to the US presidential election.

Make no mistake, when the postal ballots are emptied across the UK next week, they will be almost entirely for one party.

ELECTORAL FRAUDSTER AT LARGE (AGAIN)

A man convicted in 2008 of electoral fraud has been pictured alongside Labour activists campaigning for the local elections in Peterborough.  Tariq Mahmood received a 15 month prison term in relation to fraudulent postal votes in the city.  He was convicted alongside another Labour activist and Mohammed Chaudhary, former Labour mayor of Peterborough.

Despite the photographic evidence that emerged over the weekend, Labour has denied that Mahmood is part of their campaign team ahead of the May 6 elections.  A spokesperson told the Peterborough Telegraph: "Mr Mahmood is not a member of the Labour Party.  He does not have a role within our campaign and he is not permitted to have access to Labour Party data or technology.  We have robust systems in place to protect the integrity of the vote".  However, in the photo (see below) he is seen pointing to a piece of paper that may be a copy of the electoral roll.  None of the four men in the photo are holding bundles of leaflets, so the activity in question appears to be a canvassing session, in direct contradiction to Labour's claim of denial.

Tariq Mahmood (circled) pictured on Saturday

As for Mahmood, he told the Telegraph that he merely bumped into the activists as he was on his way to get a hair cut (despite the fact he's bald): "There were people standing there with a couple of boards and I had a picture with them.  I am 100 per cent not part of their campaign".  What is that piece of paper you're holding then Tariq?  A discount flyer for the barbers?

This is not the first time Mahmood has been seen out and about with Labour activists.  He was a prominent figure in the Peterborough by-election of 2019, which Labour narrowly won ahead of an expected gain for the Brexit Party.  Mahmood was photographed several times on Labour's campaign trail and even attended the count, but again the party denied that he was part of their campaign.

Tariq Mahmood pictured with Labour's candidate Lisa Forbes, who would later
win the Peterborough by-election in controversial circumstances

Mahmood pictured shaking hands with then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
during the Peterborough by-election campaign in 2019

Mahmood was present again in this publicity shot

Mahmood took this selfie as Labour activists celebrated Labour's narrow
victory at the election count

The aftermath of the Peterborough by-election was marred by allegations of electoral fraud, although Cambridgeshire Constabularly later dropped their investigation citing a lack of evidence.

Mahmood was also prominent in Labour's local election campaign a couple of months earlier and posted 23 photos from the campaign trail to his Facebook page, writing: "Brilliant day out campaigning for Labour today".  The party's persistent claims that he has nothing to do with them is not simply unbelievable, it's a blatant lie.

Mahmood pictured with disgraced Peterborough MP Fiona Onasanya

'FALSE CLAIMS' AND 'PEACEFUL PROTESTS'

The mainstream media's repeated assertion that claims of electoral fraud in the US election are 'false' have begun to take on a very similar and equally absurd narrative from that which presented the violent Black Lives Matter insurrection as 'mostly peaceful protests'.  You wouldn't hear a BBC reporter dictate the outcome of a court case prior to its conclusion, but somehow there is a unanimous decree across broadcast media that any claim of electoral fraud is false.  They cannot deliver that message as an undeniable fact because they simply cannot know it to be a fact.  That's not reporting news, that's dictating a predetermined agenda.

We know from our own electoral history here in Britain that postal voting is highly susceptible to fraud, particularly in predominantly Asian areas.  This is not in any doubt and has been proven many times in court, with one judge describing the entire system as a 'banana republic'.  The phrase 'even dead Asians vote' is not uncommon in places like Birmingham and Bradford.

It also appears that dead Americans have somehow managed to vote in the recent presidential election, despite what the mainstream media dictate.  The scale of the alleged fraud may or may not have swung the election, but the likelihood of its presence is hard to deny.  Hundreds of thousands of postal ballots for one candidate - every single ballot?  That is verging on impossible.  Why have the media not asked questions about this?

Amid this swamp of subterfuge there is one commentator that Americans can rely on to tell it straight - Tucker Carlson.  For an honest appraisal of what is happening, watch below...

For those who think this is not relevant to us here in the UK, think again.  When we reject the BBC/Sky/ITV/C4 broadcast monopoly where do we go?  Social media is just as corrupt, perhaps even worse.  There is absolutely every possibility that what happened going into the US presidential election will happen going into the 2024 UK general election.  President Trump wanted to put America first and reject globalism and was hammered from every direction for four years.  Boris Johnson was elected on a promise of 'Get Brexit Done' and has been hammered from every direction ever since.

HIGH COURT BID TO STOP VOTER ID FAILS

Earlier this week an important hearing took place in the High Court.  A legal challenge had been mounted against the government's plans to make ID a requirement at the ballot box.  Fortunately the challenge was defeated and trials will go ahead as planned in May's local elections.

This is long overdue.  For too long elections and referenda in this country have been woefully exposed to electoral fraud.  This is particularly true in areas with high concentrations of south Asian people, such as Tower Hamlets (a prime example).  In places like Birmingham and the northern mill towns it is a common assertion that 'even dead Muslims vote'.

When the government announced the ID scheme there were howls from the opposition.  With Labour being the chief beneficiary of such fraud it's not difficult to see why they disapproved.  Of course they couldn't argue on this basis, so they made tenuous accusations of 'discrimination'.  They've even said voter ID would be 'undemocratic' and prevent people voting.  The idea is that it will prevent people voting - twice or more!

Voter ID laws in the United States met with similar opposition from the Democratic party.  Why?  Because like our own Labour party, the Democrats are the main beneficiary of electoral fraud within certain communities.

The British government has said that local authorities would provide ID to those who do not have the required documentation - free of charge.  This has not allayed Labour's resistance, but it was not Labour that brought the legal challenge this week.  Not directly anyway.

Neil Coughlan crowdfunded the challenge and raised over £30,000 to do so.  His campaign has won direct praise from the Labour party and his Twitter account is followed by several Labour MPs including Jeremy Corbyn himself.  Neil also follows the Facebook page of his local Labour party (see below).  Then there is Neil's promo video, a professional job that is hard to imagine he produced himself.

The Facebook pages followed by Neil Coughlan

It's highly unlikely we've heard the last of this story, but one thing is for sure - it's not democracy that Labour are looking to defend.  Far from it.

THAT COUNCIL (AGAIN)

Quite possibly the dodgiest council in Britain is in the spotlight again.  Tower Hamlets (collective sigh) has only just concluded one investigation into corruption, now it is launching another.  Last week the so-called 'Clear Up Project' set up to investigate claims against the previous administration was closed with 'no evidence' of fraud uncovered (a City of London police inquiry is still ongoing).  Now there is an investigation into allegations of housing fraud, with an early casualty in the shape of Cllr Mohammad Harun.

Cllr Harun, who is also a solicitor, quit his post shortly after the investigation was announced.  He also deleted his Twitter account.  The mayor, John Biggs, confirmed that the allegations directly involved Harun, but the Tories claimed other sitting councillors were also implicated.  One of Harun's predecessors - Cllr Shahed Ali - was jailed for housing fraud in 2015.

Labour's Mohammad Harun

Tower Hamlets, a London borough where Bangladeshis are the largest ethnic group, has a history of corruption.  The former mayor - Lutfur Rahman - was found guilty of electoral fraud in 2015.  The current make up of the council is 40 Labour (one member currently suspended for alleged anti-Semitism), 2 Conservative, 1 Lib Dem and now one vacant, thanks to the outgoing Harun.