ADONIS BACKS THE MOB

Anyone who thinks Labour's so-called moderates don't share the hard left's aversion to Britain and her history is sorely mistaken.  We've already seen Starmer and Rayner join their colleagues in kneeling in submission to the Black Lives Matter Brit-hating Marxists.  There doesn't appear to be a single Labour MP - moderate or otherwise - who has called out the violence and vandalism of BLM.  Some of them openly support it.  When the Colston statue was felled by the Bristol mob, Nottingham East MP Nadia Whittome tweeted: "I celebrate these acts of resistance.  We need a movement that will tear down systemic racism and the slave owner statues that symbolise it.  And we need to win a government that will always be on the side of this movement".

Now of course Whittome is one of Corbyn's 2019 hard left intake, but the statue-topplers can find an equally enthusiastic supporter in Blairite peer Lord Adonis.  Adonis has taken a break from his constant remoaning (he still thinks he can stop Brexit) and has gone on a crusade to have all colonial statues removed: "Just remove them all" he said in a tweet earlier this month.

NOTE:  The Rhodes statue has not come down yet, but Oriel College did cave in to the mob last week and agreed to remove it pending planning permission.

This is the same guy who suggested - in all seriousness - that the Colston statue could be replaced by a statue of Tony Blair.  Therefore he advocates the removal of centuries-old figures for waging imperialist crimes around the world and replacing them with a contemporary figure who waged imperialist crimes around the world!  The mind boggles.

Tory MP Lee Anderson directly addressed Adonis's call for Cromwell to fall: "I walk past the Cromwell statue every single day to work and he is a daily reminder to me of our history, good and bad.  I would strongly suggest he stays there and that it should be Lord Adonis who is removed from the House of Lords and put in a museum".

Here here.

ABOLISH BORDERS SAYS WHITTOME

Two days after a Libyan asylum seeker slaughtered three people in a park, this was the disgraceful tweet put out by Labour MP Nadia Whittome on Monday night.

Just look at the picture she dug up to illustrate what she calls "fighting the good fight".  The banner reads: "NO BORDERS - NO NATIONS - STOP DEPORTATIONS".  While the timing of the anniversary of the Notts Refugee Forum was unavoidable, her choice of words and imagery was not.  Needless to say, Whittome was one of the many hard left Labour MPs who has failed to utter a single reference to the Reading attack.  Instead she'd rather let it be known that she wants to abolish our borders altogether and allow more people like the Reading terrorist to come and live among us.  What's more, if her beloved BLM get their way - there won't be any police to come to our rescue.

BULLYING CULTURE CLAIMS ANOTHER

We've heard it time and time again in recent years - 'Labour councillor quits over bullying'.  The rise of the hard left under Corbyn led to a toxic culture in many Constituency Labour Parties that did not tolerate anyone with moderate views.  It wasn't just local councillors that quit, but MPs too.  Frank Field, Luciana Berger, Ian Austin, Louise Ellman and Ivan Lewis are just a few who left the party quoting 'bullying' as one of the key reasons.

The latest party member to quit over Labour's bullying culture is a former councillor in Hyndburn, Lancashire.  Gareth Molineux served as a cabinet member on Hyndburn Borough Council until his defeat in the 2019 local elections.  Last Thursday he published his resignation letter on Facebook and he highlighted not only bullying within the CLP, but also harassment of the newly elected Tory MP for Hyndburn, Sara Britcliffe.  The 25-year-old was elected on December 12, becoming the first Tory to represent the red wall seat since 1992.  She has made no complaints about harassment from Labour activists, but you can bet your bottom dollar if she was a young female Labour MP being harassed by Tories it would have been headline news.

This is Gareth's letter.

Dear Anna, 

I originally joined the Labour Party as a way of being able to contribute positively to my local community (Great Harwood, Hyndburn). I was even fortunate enough to represent the town on both Lancashire County Council and as a cabinet member at Hyndburn Borough Council. 

I thoroughly enjoyed my time as an elected member and with my elected collegues achieved a number of great things, Including the regeneration of the Town Square, providing much needed housing for our residents and also helping our local football team secure monies to have fantastic playing and changing facilities, securing their long-term future, to name a few. 

I have always prided myself on doing what was right for the area over my personal circumstances, no more so than when I supported the building of 215 houses on Public Open space, in an election year, as this would release millions of pounds to the council and the 106 monies involved would directly benefit the youth of the borough. 

I am proud to have been the cabinet member for resources of the Council when it was recognised as one of the best run authorities in the country and when the taxpayer’s allegiance said we was 1 of only 7 Councils in the country that was “Value for Money”. We were also one of the first councils to introduce the National Minimum wage and we achieved all this whilst suffering some of the deepest cuts to local government budgets. The Council has been successful in bringing in jobs and new business’s and paid off all of its short-term debts. As with any area that as a significant amount of deprivation it has its challenges, but If left in its current form Hyndburn Council has a healthy future. 

Therefore, it saddens me that I find myself writing this letter especially as this authority is Labour Controlled and has been for the past 9 years. 

It is fair to say that it is not the running of the Council that I have great concerns with, but it is with the running of the Constituency Labour Party. I joined an Inclusive and democratic labour party, a party that believed it was ok to have differing views and strong debate was encouraged. 

Unfortunately, it seems that democracy as we know it and the right to a differing opinion, is no longer welcome within the Hyndburn CLP. There is a culture of bullying, harassment and victimisation if you do not fall into line with the executive or the former MP. I have obviously been very vocal about their conduct especially towards their treatment of the newly elected Hyndburn and Haslingden MP Miss Sara Britcliffe, which as been personal, harassing and vindictive in its nature. 

I firmly believe that if members disagree with Sara’s stance on an issue then debate that issue and try to prove her wrong in a grown up and mature fashion. not start stalking her facebook looking for pictures of her enjoying the limited down time that she has and trying to embarrass her on Social Media or by constantly trolling her and sending nasty vindictive emails. 

I also disagree with their conduct towards the leader of the Council who has put politics to the side for now in the interest of the residents in Hyndburn. I see no benefit to the local area when a council leader and the MP that represents that area refusing to work together. This is grown up politics, this is what saves and changes lives. 

It seems to me, that the CLP executive are more concerned about settling scores for personal revenge than they are in actually improving our area. 

I am not going to go into detail about the way I have been treated over many years, by people within the party both at a constituency level and at a Lancashire wide level, other than on 2 occasions All woman shortlists where placed on my seats to prevent me from re-standing, resources pulled from my marginal seat into the seat of the MPS’s partner that we had no chance of winning, I have been removed from Labour Facebook pages for disagreeing with members views on their plots to victimise our MP’s and my name being blackened in the membership. I believe all of this bullying was designed to have me leave the party so that I could not hold them to account in the same way they hold others to account. 

Well, after 3 years of this nonsense, they got what they wanted. 

Please accept this letter as formal notification of my immediate resignation from the Labour Party.

Ex-Labour member Gareth Molineux

Further reading

Third Leeds Councillor Walks Out Claiming Bullying, Yorkshire Evening Post, 01.03.17

Haringey Leader To Quit Amid Bullying Claims, BBC 30.01.18

Cornwalll Leader Quits After Bullying. CornwallLive 21.03.18

Two Halifax Councillors Resign Amid Bullying Claims, Halifax Courier 25.07.18

Wirral Councillor Quits Amid Allegations Of Bullying - Wirral Globe 29.08.18

Bury Councillor Quits Amid Bullying Allegations, Bury Times 04.09.18

Cowley Councillor Quits Amid Bullying Allegations, Oxford Mail 21.11.18

Dover Leader Stands Down Over Bullying Claims, KentOnline 26.11.18

Ex-Brighton Council Leader Quits Over Bullying, Argus 22.02.19

Salford Councillor Quits Over Bullying Allegations, Manchester Evening News 27.02.19

Ex-Gloucestershire Councillor Quits Over Alleged Bullying, GloucestershireLive 05.03.19

Nine Carmarthenshire Councillors Quit Over Bullying, BBC 06.03.19

Liverpool Councillor Quits Amid Bullying Claims, BBC 10.08.19

Sandwell Councillor Bullied, Express and Star 11.09.19

Enfield Council Leader Accepts Bullying Ruling, Enfield Independent 19.09.19

Erewash Councillor Quits Claiming He Suffered Bullying, DerbyshireLive 14.10.19

East Staffordshire Councillor Accused Of Bullying, DerbyshireLive 09.01.20

MOST SHARED: WEEK 270

This vile woman has now left the Labour Party, although it's unclear if she jumped or was pushed.  Click here for more info.  The exploits of Linda Meehan were shared 2,457 times via the Facebook page.

SULTANA EMBRACES BLM

Labour MPs who had previously attended Black Lives Matter demos stayed away over the weekend, as did many demonstrators.  Numbers were significantly down in London, despite the likes of Sky News laughably trying to inform viewers that 'tens of thousands' had flooded into Trafalgar Square - as an aerial shot flashed across the screen that showed a tiny crowd of no more than 300 people.  One Labour MP who continued to ignore warnings that the protests were illegal was the member for Coventry South.  Zarah Sultana took part in three events over the weekend and addressed a rally in Coventry city centre on Saturday.  On Friday night she hosted an 'online rally' with her Coventry colleague Taiwo Owatemi, in which Diane Abbott also took part.  On Sunday she took part in an online fundraiser for the movement, an event that was officially endorsed by the party and appeared on the national website.

Sultana has voiced strong support for BLM throughout the insurrection, including an astonishing tweet on June 6 in which she shared legal advice for protesters arrested or stopped by police.  Such anti-police sentiment from a serving MP is abhorrent, especially considering how she will pass police officers on her way into work who are there to keep the likes of her safe.  Sultana has also backed the toppling of statues and has called for the "brutality of British colonialism to be taught in schools".  The people of Coventry South must be wondering who on earth they've elected.

Zarah Sultana addresses a BLM rally in Coventry on Saturday

It should come as no surprise to see a hard left MP like Sultana so enthusiastically embracing BLM.  Where there is a cause that is hostile to Britain you will find the likes of Corbyn and co getting behind it.  The motivation behind BLM is no longer in question for anyone who cares to undertake the simplest research.  It is a Marxist cause dedicated to abolishing the police and dismantling capitalism.  Ironically it has little to do with black lives.  Therefore the sight of Labour's supposedly moderate leaders taking the knee is ultimately going to backfire in the long term.

Sultana and Labour colleagues Charlotte Nichols, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Olivia Blake,
Sam Tarry and Claudia Webbe at a BLM demo on June 3

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?

Labour have been mocked over a strange Father's Day graphic they posted on their social media accounts on Sunday.  The graphic looks far from 'fatherly', in fact it's not very clear who or what it shows...

Obviously it ticks the BAME demographic - vitally important at this time of course - but is that seriously meant to be a man?  Or is this pandering to the trans community also?  Needless to say, the party has been totally rinsed on social media.

These were just some of the responses left on Facebook and Twitter...

"Have you just re-badged the same one you used on Mother's Day?"

"Is that a dad who menstruates?"

"Is that Dawn Butler the single mum?"

"Is this a parody account?"

"Don’t know if Michael Jackson is the parental role model or guardian I would’ve went for".

"I can't imagine why you lost so many seats outside London in the last election. Oh no wait...I can".

"This will win over those white working class folks in the north of England".

"Erm, do I need to go to Specsavers or did Labour really just upload a picture of a daughter and a mother on Father's Day?"

"Virtue signalling on top of virtue signalling.  All you had to do was make sure father was actually a man.  This is why you lose elections".

"Isn't the idea of Father's Day to actually have a strong paternal male figure celebrated?  Whoever this person is, it looks like they just got out the Tavistock clinic".

SHAH'S SEASIDE SOB STORY

Naz Shah has been criticised over her contribution to the school meal vouchers debate.  Last week she gave the Commons a sob story from her childhood in an attempt to educate Tory MPs as to the reality of childhood poverty.  Her example?  She bemoaned the absolutely 'harrowing' experience of having to go away to Scarborough for a summer holiday with social services.  She told how she had to go birdwatching in the cold and had to stay in a dormitory: "That is what poverty is" she told the bemused MPs opposite.  Really?  Because people who live in actual poverty would seize upon the luxury of a summer holiday.

No-one's denying that Naz had a troubled upbringing.  She was raised by a single mother who ended up in prison after murdering her abusive partner.  She could have raised those issues, but instead not only insulted and belittled a Yorkshire town, she insulted every citizen of the world who lives in real poverty.  Has she never seen those TV ads in which viewers are asked to donate £3 to give a child in Africa clean water?  Poverty in the West, particularly in generous welfare states such as ours, is about as catastrophic as all that 'institutional racism' we keep hearing about.

Meanwhile, the Tory MP for Scarborough hit back at Shah, telling the Yorkshire Post: "Many of my friends never went on holiday.  Naz is complaining she had a council funded week in Scarborough.  Many of her constituents from Bradford love to come to Scarborough year after year.  It’s a shame that this wasn’t good enough for her".

Before coronavirus Scarborough was one of the most popular holiday destinations in the UK.  In 2018 it was the most popular holiday destination outside London.  Must have been truly horrific Naz...

WATFORD CHAIR CONFIRMS DEPARTURE

The woman who said she would happily piss on Churchill's grave has confirmed her departure from the Labour Party.  The Watford Observer reported on Thursday that Linda Meehan resigned as the chair of Watford Labour Party on Wednesday and has now left the party altogether.  On Friday Meehan tweeted a photo of her membership card cut up in pieces.

It's not clear whether she jumped or was pushed, but a local Labour activist referenced her departure on Twitter, saying that she'd been "driven out by vile racist abuse and physical threats".  Lester Holloway said the abuse had initially occurred in the comments section of the Watford Observer, but had later spread to Twitter.  He did not provide any further details, but hit out at Churchill in a follow-up tweet, referring to him as a 'genocidal racist'.

It's quite ironic that these people hurl around the word 'racist' so freely.  After leaving the party Meehan shared a YouTube video which she claims shows an "illuminating discussion from genuine anti-racists".  The five-way Zoom discussion features no less than three ex-Labour members expelled from the party amid accusations of anti-Semitism.  Ex-Labour MP Chris Williamson chaired the two-hour discussion in which the five speakers rail against Israel, Zionism, mainstream Jewry, Keir Starmer and anyone else who they perceive to part of the conspiracy out to get them.  Williamson made sure he got his Palestinian flag in frame for the discussion.

Having instantly ingratiated herself with this mob, one might inquire as to whether Meehan's hatred of Churchill was really all about his views on race - or whether it was borne out of his opposition to the Holocaust and his support for a Jewish state.

DEAFENING SILENCE

Ash Sarkar has spent all morning on Twitter defending herself against the absurdly insensitive tweet she put out last night.  She has dedicated more than a dozen tweets to ridiculing the backlash, but has still not passed any comment - let alone condemnation - of the atrocity in Reading.  Is this just rampant narcissism or is it symptomatic of something more sinister?

We know that the left struggles to condemn Islamist terrorism.  Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott famously referred to several Islamist terror attacks as 'incidents', while they instantly condemned attacks on Muslims as 'far right terrorism'.  This was the tweet that Jeremy Corbyn put out two days ago.

Today - nothing.  Nothing from Diane Abbott either.  Nothing from John McDonnell, Richard Burgon, Ian Lavery, Owen Jones or Aaron Boring Bastani.  Nothing from many of the other race-baiting tubthumpers for Black Lives Matter either.  Silence from Lammy, silence from Khan.

The lack of condemnation from the left in the current climate exposes their hypocrisy like never before.  They've been saying for weeks that 'black lives matter' and anyone who says 'all lives matter' is missing the point.  Now we see them for who they really are and what their slogan truly means - only black lives matter, but only those black lives that have been taken by white perpetrators.  You don't hear them speaking out about the much bigger problem of black-on-black violence.  They aren't speaking out about the 23 people who died in the George Floyd riots.  Who are the racists here?

UPDATE

Jeremy Corbyn finally tweeted at 14:40 on Sunday afternoon.  Note how he makes no reference to Reading having been a terror attack.  Contrast and compare with the above tweet from two days ago in which he very explicitly refers to the Finsbury Park terrorist attack.

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.

THE WEEK IN CARTOONS 14-20 JUNE 2020

14.06.20 - Andy Davey, Evening Standard

15.06.20 - Patrick Blower, Daily Telegraph

15.06.20 - Graeme Bandeira, Yorkshire Post

16.06.20 - Matt Pritchett, Daily Telegraph

16.06.20 - Morten Morland, The Times

17.06.20 - Patrick Blower, Daily Telegraph

17.06.20 - Matt Pritchett, Daily Telegraph

17.06.20 - Patrick Blower, Daily Telegraph

17.06.20 - Brian Adcock, Independent

17.06.20 - Christian Adams, Evening Standard

18.06.20 - Andy Davey, Daily Telegraph

18.06.20 - Andy Davey, Evening Standard

18.06.20 - Matt Pritchett, Daily Telegraph

18.06.20 - Paul Thomas, Daily Mail

19.06.20 - Paul Thomas, Daily Mail

19.06.20 - Andy Davey, Evening Standard

20.06.20 - Peter Brookes, The Times

20.06.20 - Matt Pritchett, Daily Telegraph

20.06.20 - Kevin Kallaugher, The Economist

20.06.20 - Grizelda, The Spectator

20.06.20 - Nick Newman, The Spectator

20.06.20 - Richard Jolley, The Spectator

20.06.20 - Paul Thomas, Daily Mail

TAKING THE KNEE NOT FOR KATE

The delightful Kate Hoey spoke to TalkRadio's Mike Graham yesterday about the Black Lives Matter insurrection and the reasons Labour got thumped in the general election.  Kate, who was the Labour MP for Vauxhall for thirty years, said she agreed with Dominic Raab's comments about 'taking the knee' and that she'd not be "taking the knee under any circumstances".  On Labour's election thrashing, Brexiteer Kate said she and others had warned the leadership about the dangers of a second referendum, but the likes of Keir Starmer pushed ahead with the policy anyway.  Listen below.

BLM ACTIVIST CALLS FOR GANG RAPE

Hate is stronger than ever on the left and cancel culture is set to target anyone who doesn't 'take the knee'.  When Dominic Raab said he wouldn't be taking the knee, Labour politicians were quick to denounce him and the mainstream media followed suit.  Then there was the usual outpouring of bile on social media.  One particularly vile comment came from a Twitter user by the name of Tongai Dodo who suggested that Raab's wife should be gang raped.

Dodo followed this up with a further tweet saying Mrs Raab should be raped 'on one knee'.

According to Dodo's Facebook page he is originally from Dublin, but now lives in Chelmsford.  On his Twitter profile he calls himself a 'black panther' and 'African revolutionist'.  Worryingly, his Twitter profile also states that he is a football coach at Galleywood Youth Football Club.  After his tweets were brought to their attention, the club released a number of urgent statements, saying that Dodo is no longer affiliated with the club.

Galleywood Youth also confirmed they had reported Dodo to Essex Police and directly addressed him on Twitter, saying if he didn't remove the club's name from his profile they would take legal action.  Dodo has since removed the reference, deleted the tweets, changed his Twitter name and locked down his account.

Looks like the left have cancelled themselves in this instance.

Tongai Dodo

THIRD WEEKEND OF BLM

London looks set to enjoy a third weekend of violence as Black Lives Matter protests are planned for both Saturday and Sunday in the capital, as well as elsewhere around the country.  As if we didn't know already, the communists of Antifa are heavily involved in organising the protests and have been busy promoting the demos on social media.  The following events have been promoted via both social media and directly through Antifa sites.

Note that in the poster for Sunday's 'peaceful protest' the fist is red and not black, which is more in line with communism than black lives.  A second protest is also being advertised on social media, this one beginning south of the river in Vauxhall before marching to Parliament to meet up with the Hyde Park mob.  Churchill's statue is clearly going to be target number one again.  One of those tweeting the message ominously warned participants to wear "non-identifiable clothing, facemasks and gloves".  Why non-identifiable clothing if it's a 'peaceful march'?

Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police have responded by asking everyone nicely to stay at home and if they must protest, to do so peacefully.  What will be very interesting this weekend is to see how the Met police these protests.  Riot police were out in force last weekend when they went up against counter-protesters - in stark contrast to the week before when poorly equipped bobbies were chased through the streets by BLM thugs.  Will we now return to soft policing and allow the mob to rampage freely again?

At the time of writing the Mayor has said nothing about this weekend's protests.

Other BLM protests are scheduled this weekend for Coventry, Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester.  But remember folks, the Coronavirus Act still applies - to everyone but Black Lives Matter, apparently.

CANCEL CULTURE SPREADS

The cancel culture unleashed by Black Lives Matter and their media backers has now spread beyond statues and TV comedy.  The Rugby Football Union is planning a review on whether to ban the popular terrace anthem Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and Uncle Ben's rice is to remove the black farmer from its famous logo.

Once again the BLM Marxist trend is following a similar pattern to the US.  Earlier this week it was revealed that the US-based Aunt Jemima syrup brand would be removing the black lady from its logo and changing its name.  The brand has maintained its name and logo for 130 years, but now suddenly its origins are deemed too offensive.

Trevor Phillips, the former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, lashed out at the RFU's decision to review Swing Low, Sweet Chariot...

While the mainstream media has ignored such views, and the understandable anger of England rugby fans, they have been very busy this morning talking up a supporter of the review - former England rugby player Martin Offiah.  However, Offiah is not supporting a ban, as the following interview with TalkRadio's Julia Hartley-Brewer shows.

The mainstream media is once again supporting the Marxist culture zealots, but unlike the censorship of TV shows and products such as Uncle Ben's - which is out of the control of consumers - the RFU will be hard pushed to stop tens of thousands of England supporters singing an anthem they have belted out for decades.  We have seen sporting capitulation on football pitches this week with 'taking the knee' before games in scenes reminiscent of Nazi Germany, something that the FA has been able to introduce without embarrassment as there are no fans present to make their feelings known.  However, the re-introduction of fans to the sporting arena could throw a spanner in the works and it will be interesting to see how the authorities will drown out dissenting voices.