LAMMY'S TRUMP TURNAROUND CONTINUES

Of all the name-calling and online posturing directed towards President Trump during his first term in office, one of the worst offenders was undoubtedly the then backbencher David Lammy.  Now Foreign Secretary, and with Trump set to return to the White House a week today, Lammy is having to bite the bullet and back track in humiliating fashion.  Who'd have thought that calling the President a 'tyrant' and 'a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath' would have come back to haunt daft Dave in such a way?  It sure is a joy to watch him consume a huge slice of humble pie every time he is asked about his previous remarks.

"That's old news" Lammy told ITV's Shehab Khan in a recent interview, before declaring that he found the President-elect 'very gracious' during their meal together last November.  Khan then prods Lammy with the zinger:  "Is that all it takes for you to change your mind, a free meal?"

Lammy tries to laugh it all off, but inside he is dying.  Watch the clip below.

MEME MONDAY #18

The grooming gang scandal resurfaced this month, as Jess Phillips vetoed an inquiry requested by Labour-led Oldham Borough Council.  This set in motion a chain of events driven by Elon Musk, who savaged Phillips on his X platform and guaranteed that the scandal was once again a major talking point across the nation...

Wed 1 Jan - 332 shares on Facebook

Thurs 2 Jan - 1,179 shares

Fri 3 Jan - 242 shares

Sun 5 Jan - 149 shares

Tues 7 Jan - 640 shares
The result was Hearts/Musk = 454 and Wows/Starmer = 3

Fri 10 Jan - 532 shares

Sat 11 Jan - 217 shares

Sun 12 Jan - 141 shares

As always, feel free to download any of our memes and share away - just so long as you keep our watermark!

EX-LABOUR MINISTER ARRESTED

A former minister in Tony Blair's government has been arrested after a sting operation by self-styled 'paedophile hunters'.  Ivor Caplin was the MP for Hove between 1997 and 2005.

Caplin was collared by the activists after he allegedly arranged to meet a 15-year-old boy for sex.  The clip below shows an exchange between the former MP and his captors just moments before Sussex Police officers arrived and apprehended him themselves.

The sting took place in Caplin's home town of Brighton.  The former Veterans' Minister was suspended from Labour in June last year over 'serious allegations'.  Those allegations were not made public.  Caplin is openly gay.

His last prominent role in relation to Labour was as chair of the Labour affiliate group the Jewish Labour Movement.  He spent a year in that role before being voted out in 2019.

Sussex Police have released the following statement:

"We are aware of footage circulating on social media showing a man in Brighton being detained on suspicion of engaging in online sexual communications with a child.  Officers can confirm that a local 66-year-old man was arrested on Saturday January 11 and currently remains in custody.  This is an ongoing and active investigation."

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #12

On Game of Thrones prequel show House of the Dragon, Emma D'Arcy is a picture of regal splendour.  However, the chracter does not reflect the actress, because off screen she is a mess.  She often sports an androgynous cropped haircut, a far cry from the flowing blonde locks of the Targaryen princess she plays on screen.  For Emma D'Arcy is non-binary you see!  She is neither male or female.

Of course that last statement is utter bollocks.

The absurdity was perhaps no more apparent than when Emma rocked up for the recent Golden Globes awards ceremony to find out if she had won an award.  D'Arcy was nominated for her Targaryen performance in the category "Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series".  This was her second Golden Globes nomination in that category (she won neither), and she is also nominated again this year for the Saturn Award of "Best Actress in a Television Series".

So it seems that being non-binary in the entertainment business is a selective emotion, asides from the fact that all the characters she plays are female, because that's exactly what she is in real life.

As the name suggests, D'Arcy had a privileged upbringing.  The middle classes are where the woke non-binary and trans nonsense largely proliferates.  No working class child or teenager would dare utter this trash in the playground or the factory floor, for they would face nothing but ridicule - and worse.  Unfortunately, Miss D'Arcy is no spring chicken and announced her make believe biological status at the age of 30.  It remains to be seen whether 30-year-olds can grow out of such nonsense...

Last month's 'animal rights' pub meme generated 166 comments and 32 shares on Facebook.

LABOUR'S NOTTS WOES

Labour lost control of a borough council last week after 20 of its 26 councillors sensationally ditched the party and set up its own - the Broxtowe Independents.  The party immediately replaced Labour as the largest party on Broxtowe Borough Council, which shifts to no overall control.  Existing council leader Milan Radulovic will continue in his role, but no longer under the Labour banner.  The Conservatives remain the opposition party with 10 councillors.

The Labour councillors quit the party in protest at the national leadership, with particular grievance being felt towards the scrapping of the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners.  This appears to have been the tipping point, with existing tensions already present over candidate selections and a row about access to a bank account that had been used to fund a community hub.  The hub ended up having to close, with the Broxtowe Labour group claiming that their own party had barred them from using funds from the account.

The mass resignation from Labour also had a knock on effect for the county council.  Labour had been the joint opposition on Nottinghamshire County Council, but one of its departing Broxtowe councillors was also a county councillor, meaning that Labour slip into third place there also.  Up to that point they had formed an equal joint opposition alongside the Nottinghamshire County Independence Group.

A statement from the now dramatically reduced Broxtowe Labour group played down the resignations, as if only three or four had quit:  "It is incredibly disappointing that some Broxtowe councillors have decided to leave the Labour Party and sit as independents when they were elected on a Labour ticket just over 18 months ago.  These defections have no effect on the commitment of the remaining Labour councillors in serving our residents."

No effect?  Your party no longer controls the council!

With Labour now third and its national popularity in free fall, the Tories will be eyeing up Broxtowe for a gain.  Labour and the Conservatives have competed for control of the Nottinghamshire authority for decades, with Labour having only regained control in 2023.  For almost half of its 51 years, Broxowe has been held by the Tories, thanks largely to the fact they held it for 21 years from its inception in 1974.  It then passed directly into Labour hands, before spending 12 years in no overall control.  The Tories took it back in 2015 and it fell back into no overall control four years later.

There are no local elections scheduled for Broxtowe until 2027, meaning Labour look set to be the third party for the foreseeable future.

Council leader Milan Radulovic (front) launches the Broxtowe Independents

TOON TUESDAY #39

From New Year we go to darts, before morphing into Musk and a cold snap for which Starmer has made pensioners poorer and colder - speaking of which we end on net zero!

Enjoy this week's selection of toons... 

Andy Davey for The Daily Telegraph

Christian Adams for The Sunday Telegraph

Morten Morland for The Times

Morten Morland for The Times

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Nicola Jennings for The Observer

Dave Brown for The Independent

Patrick Blower for The Sunday Telegraph

12 MEMES OF CHRISTMAS 2024

With Twelfth Night upon us, it's time to get those Christmas decorations down and reveal our favourite BTLP meme of 2024.  Here is the full list from 12 to 1...

12.  Elon Musk's ongoing war of words against the British establishment has
made him a national hero on this side of the Atlantic.

11.  It was a year of mass protest in London, with leftist Palestinian supporters
out en masse, many donning Arabic keffiyeh scarves.  The left can never
perceive their own hypocrisy.

10.  A series of corruption scandals put the brakes on Vaughan Gething's
Senedd reign and he resigned after less than six months, although he
continues to deny any wrongdoing.

9.  Count Dankula's take on Labour's general election victory served
up one of our most viral X posts of the year - and he was spot on.

8.  A month after a £1.25billion government bail out, bankrupt Birmingham City
Council announced a series of desperate cuts including hundreds of lay offs,
reduced bin collections and dimmed street lighting.  Oh, and residents can now look
forward to a 21 per cent rise in council tax to pay for Labour's mismanagement.

7.  Having twice failed to win election to Labour's ruling NEC and a
London mayoral campaign that never got off the ground, Eddie followed
up failure in Sheffield by getting rejected by the Brighton party too.

6.  It's unclear if Starmer's premiership can survive a single term, but one
thing is for certain - we will never let him forget the moment he dropped to
his knee for the people trying to burn America to the ground.

5.  Starmer's 180 degree turn on Corbyn, almost the moment he succeeded him,
was as predictable as it was brutal.  Corbyn's comfortable re-election as an
independent in 2024 will have irked Starmer.

4.  The 'mirage' of Labour's 'landslide' was seized upon by the Daily Mail's
Richard Littlejohn in a swipe at Starmer's three year campaign to reverse
Brexit.

3.  There have been plenty of humiliations for Starmer, but perhaps
none more embarrassing than the moment he called on Hamas to
'return the sausages' during his big conference speech.

2.  Starmer and his Trump-hating comrades were humiliated again in
November when the Donald completed perhaps the greatest political
comeback in history.

1.  The early months of Starmer's government will forever be remembered for
its response to both the murder of three little girls in Southport and the riots that
followed.  The way in which the establishment tried to conceal the identity of
the Muslim attacker must never be forgotten, nor the life of political prisoner
Peter Lynch, who hung himself in prison.  We must do all that we can to ensure
those who attack our nation from within must never return to power.

That's officially the end of Christmas for us here at BTLP, but a happy Epiphany to all our Christian readers.  Here's to a tenth year of BTLP memes, all thanks to Karl.  If you appreciate all that we do and want to see us continue, please consider a small donation here.

HOMES FOR HEROES? PULL THE OTHER ONE...

Three days before Christmas, Keir Starmer released a video praising our Armed Forces and promising them the earth - including 'guaranteed housing for veterans'.  With up to three per cent of homeless people already veterans, we can comfortably assume that this is yet another lie.  The lies have come thick and fast in less than six months of Starmer's reign, with WASPI women the latest to feel the knife in the back.

That Labour - or any governing party for that matter - truly care about the people they send to war, is absurd.  Thankfully, a peacemaker is about to enter the White House and the likelihood of Starmer sending our lads into foreign wars is greatly reduced, barring some major false flag operation by deep state operatives.

There is also something decidedly dodgy about Starmer's video message.  Supposedly filmed aboard a Royal Navy vessel, it has a very surreal green screen feel to it.  While the background is shaded in dark blue, Starmer is lit up in white.  However, the most telltale sign to it having being filmed elsewhere is the wind and lack of corresponding sound.  The huge Royal Navy flag in the background indicates that there is a strong wind blowing across the deck and occasionally Starmer's hair blows slightly as if to confirm he is also outside on deck.  However, he is wearing a small microphone on his lapel, which would not drown out wind noise and is more suited to indoor use.

Starmer was actually aboard HMS Iron Duke the previous week, wearing what appear to be the same clothes seen in the video.  Perhaps the video was an afterthought upon his return to London?

See for yourself below...

TOON TUESDAY #38

Happy New Year and all that shite - let's be honest, in Starmer's Britain, there's not much to shout about going forward.  As for the man himself, a poll released this week suggests that Starmer's Labour could lose up to 200 seats if an election were held today.  Labour would lose their majority, with senior frontbenchers such as Rayner and Streeting toast, while Reform would become the third largest Commons party in a sensational surge...

Andy Davey for The Daily Telegraph

TOON TUESDAY #37

It's (almost) Christmaaaaaaaaaas...

Morten Morland for The Times

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Graeme Bandeira for The Yorkshire Post

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

MEME MONDAY #17

This will be the last Meme Monday of 2024, any new material posted over the Christmas period will feature in the next edition.

Tue 17 Dec - 261 shares on Facebook

Wed 18 Dec - 255 shares

Thurs 19 Dec - 412 shares

Thurs 19 Dec - 910 shares

Have a great Christmas and please look out for vulnerable old people in your neighbourhood.

AN ODE TO SIR KEIR SCROOGE

An Ode to Ebenezer Starmer

(author unknown)

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the land,

Keir Starmer was scheming, with taxes in hand.

The grannies were starving, no heat for their fire,

While Keir and his mates drank champagne to admire.

Two-tier Keir, with his free gear spree,

Gave handouts to cronies but left none for tea.

“Tax the poor harder!” cried Rachel, with glee,

While she filled up her purse with the rich’s decree.

"Farmer Harmer", they whispered, down in the shire,

For Keir’s latest rules set their fields aflame higher.

“And what of the windmills?” Ed Miliband chimed,

“Let’s build them in Africa—on Britain’s last dime!”

David Lammy, meanwhile, with passport in hand,

Flew off to give away some far-off land.

“Where am I going?” he asked with a grin,

“Is this Europe, or Africa, or somewhere in between?”

For Christmas this year, he’ll need quite the look—

A sturdy new map and a thick history book.

Old Rachel Thieves, was next to appear,

“Let’s rob all their pockets, my conscience is clear!”

From the rich she took nothing, they gave her a grin,

While the poor cried, “What happened? We’re skint again!”

And for those who are old, with no heating or stew,

Labour's solution is ready for you.

“Take the assisted jab; we’ll see you out right,

But do it before April, or the tax man will bite!”

Up on the rooftops, they laughed and they plotted,

While the working folk’s savings grew tattered and rotted.

For free gear Keir and his mates so dear,

Were feasting on steaks while the cupboards stayed clear.

But lo, as dawn broke, the people awoke,

And saw through the plans of this laughable bloke.

“Enough of the nonsense, the taxes, the lies,

We’re taking our votes, and we’ll cut you to size!”

So here is the moral, for those who still dream,

Of leaders who promise and then plot and scheme:

Beware of the Starmer, the Lammy, the Band,

Or you’ll find yourself penniless, hand in hand.

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 19.12.24

With councils winding down for Christmas, just the three by-elections took place on Thursday and no more are scheduled now until the 9th of January.

All three seats were Labour defences and once again their vote share plummeted across the board, including the Labour stronghold of Greenwich, where Labour hold 52 of the 55 council seats.  They held on in that seat, despite a Lib Dem surge, but lost both of the others.

Labour were crushed in both the Black Country and Kent, finishing third.  The Tories were the victors in Dudley, while Reform surged into second place from nowhere.  Reform were the victors in Swale, where they again came from nowhere.  Even in the leftist stronghold of Greenwich, Reform picked up almost nine per cent of the vote as newcomers.  They are fast becoming major players...

Brockmoor & Pensnett, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

Con: 571 (35.4%) +7.0%

Ref: 486 (30.1%) New

Lab: 466 (28.9%) -34.7%

Grn: 49 (3.0%) New

LDm: 24 (1.5%) -6.5%

Ind: 16 (1.0%) New

Con GAIN from Lab

West Thamesmead, Royal Borough of Greenwich

Lab: 464 (45.1%) -16.7%

LDm: 336 (32.7%) +24.2%

Ref: 92 (8.9%) New

Con: 82 (8.0%) -6.8%

Grn: 55 (5.3%) -9.6%

Lab HOLD

Milton Regis, Swale Borough Council

Ref: 272 (33.9%) New

Ind: 208 (25.9%) -0.1%

Lab: 200 (24.9%) -33.0%

Con: 99 (12.3%) -3.6%

LDm: 23 (2.9%) New

Ref GAIN from Lab

Abbreviations

Con = Conservative

Ref = Reform UK

Lab = Labour

Grn = Green

LDm = Liberal Democrat

Ind = Independent

KEIR'S FOOTBALL FREEBIES

Keir Starmer and his son at an Arsenal match in August

Keir Starmer is to free gear what Novak Djokovic is to tennis, both continue to break records in their respective fields.  One of Starmer's freeloading records relates to football tickets.

Starmer is the MP with the most declared free tickets this year, worth almost £13,000 to date.  This does not include the two VIP seats that Arsenal provided for him after he became PM (and could no longer sit in the stands now he is the most hated man in Britain).  Starmer has been given free tickets by seven football clubs this year, mostly Arsenal's away opponents, and also from the Premier League itself.

Here is the list of Starmer's declared football tickets so far this year...

West Ham United vs Arsenal (February), two tickets donated by West Ham, worth £2,000

Norwich City vs Sunderland (March), four tickets donated by Norwich, worth £820

Arsenal vs Porto (March), five tickets donated by the Premier League, worth £3,000

Manchester City vs Arsenal (March), two tickets donated by Man City, worth £900

Brighton & Hove Albion vs Arsenal (April), four tickets donated by Brighton, worth £500

Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Arsenal (April), four tickets donated by Wolves, worth £1,488

Tottenham Hotspur vs Arsenal (April), five tickets donated by Spurs, worth £2,500

Manchester United vs Arsenal (May), two tickets donated by Man United, worth £1,790

Total: £12,998

It was also the Premier League that gave Starmer four tickets to see Taylor Swift at Wembley, worth £4,000.  Starmer and his wife also met the pop star backstage and she was also given a police escort to the venue, courtesy of the Metropolitan Police - as requested by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.

The socialist snouts are well and truly in the trough.

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #11

The Sly Old Fox is a historic Victorian pub in central Birmingham.  Now, animal rights campaigners are demanding that the 133-year-old boozer change its name, because its name is 'derogatory' towards foxes.  No, this is not a joke.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have written a public letter to the landlord, requesting that the word 'sly' is removed or replaced, as it has 'negative connotations'.  The dictionary definition of the word is to 'have or show a cunning and deceitful nature'.  However, that is besides the point - foxes can neither read or take offence.  That anyone has to explain that in writing is peak Clown World.

Elisa Allen, the PETA activist behind the letter, wrote:  "We’re sure you’ll agree that language is powerful and can reinforce negative stereotypes.  We hope you agree that these magnificent animals deserve our respect.  You can help reframe how we talk about them, which would go some way towards protecting them from cruel acts like being dug out of their homes, chased across the countryside, and viciously attacked by dogs."

Allen added that she believed the word 'clever' should replace 'sly'.  As per usual, there is no mention of the prey animals that foxes hunt and kill, which they achieve using a large amount of cunning.

Clearly a publicity seeker, Allen has also written to other pubs with equally outlandish demands.  She wants Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans to replace the word 'fighting' with 'clever' and The Old Bulldog in Staffordshire to replace 'bulldog' with 'mutt' to reflect the health issues faced by flat-faced breeds.

This will be our last Woke Wednesday feature of 2024.  It will return in the New Year.

Last week's trans footballer meme generated 85 comments and 50 shares on Facebook.

TOON TUESDAY #36

Labour's proposals to build 1.5million new homes were dealt a killer blow earlier this week when industry leaders told them that there simply aren't enough builders in the UK.  Tens of thousands of extra brickies, sparkies, plumbers, roofers and labourers would be required in order to meet Labour's ambitious, nigh on impossible, pledge.  Where are they going to find them?  On small boats crossing the Channel?  Most of these proposed new homes will be used to house the migrants we already have...

Meanwhile, cartoonists joined in the chorus of mockery for the housing proposals.

Andy Bunday on Instagram

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

It was also noted that the greenbelt would inevitably bear the brunt of any mass building project...

Morten Morland for The Times

Dave Brown for The Independent

Andy Davey for The Daily Telegraph