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Sunday, 9 August 2020

THE WEEK IN CARTOONS 2-8 AUG 2020

02.08.20 - Nick Newman, Sunday Times

03.08.20 - Patrick Blower, Daily Telegraph

04.08.20 - Graeme Bandeira, Yorkshire Post

04.08.20 - Morten Morland, The Times

04.08.20 - Paul Thomas, Daily Mail

05.08.20 - Christian Adams, Evening Standard

05.08.20 - Graeme Bandeira, Yorkshire Post

05.08.20 - Paul Thomas, Daily Mail

05.08.20 - Stephen Hutchinson, The Spectator

06.08.20 - Andy Davey, Daily Telegraph

06.08.20 - Dave Brown, The Independent

06.08.20 - Matt Pritchett, Daily Telegraph

06.08.20 - Paul Thomas, Daily Mail

07.08.20 - Andy Davey, Daily Telegraph

07.08.20 - Matt Pritchett, Daily Telegraph

08.08.20 - Andy Davey, Daily Telegraph

Saturday, 8 August 2020

JULIA'S MIGRANT MONOLOGUE

Intercepted migrant boats stored in Dover

TalkRadio's Julia Hartley-Brewer has joined the chorus of anger over the daily influx of migrants across the English Channel. She used her show to deliver a devastating monologue attacking a Tory government apparently unable or unwilling to stem the flow.

Priti Patel met with French officials recently to discuss the crisis. There were photos, smiles and an agreement was signed on greater co-operation in tackling the problem. Since then the number of migrants making the crossing has increased. Now that the mainstream media is all over this Priti is being boxed in. The number of crossings are 'appalling and unacceptably high' she says, but as Hartley-Brewer says - this has now been going on for years, except it's getting worse. The number said to have crossed this year is already double the number for the whole of 2019 and new estimates suggest a total of 7,500 could make it across by the end of the year. Priti now warns that she may deploy the Royal Navy to 'turn back the boats', but making threats during a heatwave and calm waters will only encourage larger numbers to cross if they think warships are going to be deployed in the near future. The time for rhetoric has long passed and words must be superceded by actions. Don't tell us what you may do - actually do it.

Sadly, this increasingly limp-wristed government would probably dare not deploy any measures that would potentially threaten the safety of the migrants. There is already outrage on the left at such a proposal and, if the last few months have taught us anything, this government will pander to their concerns instead of the voters who elected them.

Watch Julia's monologue below.

As Julia alludes to in her piece, there is one man who has tirelessly fought to expose this madness all summer, while the mainstream media said nothing. Nigel Farage has spent much of his time monitoring the Kent coastline, on land and sea. His videos have amassed millions of views on social media and arguably the current news frenzy is down to him. However, while the news cameras point out to sea and the BBC desperately sails around trying to find a boat that contains women and children, Nigel is exposing much more about this scandal.

While the government is legally obliged for migrants once they are in British waters, they are certainly not obliged to put them on coaches and take them off to swanky hotels at great expense to the taxpayer. As Farage recently exposed in one of his videos, entire premises are being commandeered by the government for the exclusive use of illegals. Is it any wonder they come? Furthermore, this lavish treatment is only going to encourage more to leave their countries of origin and make the journey. The migrants have access to wi-fi and telephones and will undoubtedly be informing their family and friends back home that all the rumours are true - Britain really is the land of milk and honey.

The scandal of hotels being used to house migrants inadvertently make it onto the news channels a couple of months ago when a migrant went berserk in a hotel in Glasgow. The knifeman was shot dead by police, but the cat was temporarily out of the bag. A Sky News reporter angered many by expressing the view that migrants had not been happy with their accommodation. The Park Inn in Glasgow is a three star hotel run by Radisson no less!

In Farage's latest video he also discovers that some migrants are receiving special treats in the form of leisure trips around the country. One group was even given a guided tour of Anfield Stadium in Liverpool, thought to have been paid for by a migrant charity.

Watch below.

Whatever people voted for on December the 12th, they didn't vote for this.

Friday, 7 August 2020

EX-MP ESCAPES PRISON SENTENCE (AGAIN)

Eric Joyce

Former Labour MP and Shadow Cabinet member Eric Joyce has received a suspended prison sentence for making indecent images of young children. Police discovered a video on one of his devices that featured a number of children aged between 12 months to 7 years old. The video was ranked 'category A', in order words the most depraved. Despite this he escaped a custodial sentence and was handed an eight month sentence suspended for two years. He also received a 'sexual harm prevention order' and ordered to pay costs of £1,800.

Joyce may well end up serving those eight months if his track record is anything to go by. Between 2010 and 2014, whilst he was still an MP, he was arrested five times. In November 2010 he was arrested and charged with drink driving, after which he was forced to resign as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. In February 2012 he was arrested at the House of Commons after going berserk and assaulting several politicians including five Conservatives and also one of his own Labour colleagues. Following this incident he was suspended from the party and later resigned, serving the remainder of his term as an independent.

Having escaped a custodial sentence Joyce was back in court less than six months later after having removed the electronic tag he'd been fitted with after his Commons rampage. Having received a further fine his next arrest was in March 2013 when he assaulted two police officers outside a House of Commons bar. He was not prosecuted for this incident, but was in court for the next one just two months later. Police were called after Joyce was involved in an altercation with Edinburgh Airport staff. He was accused of resisting arrest and later fined in court.

In October 2014 Joyce was arrested after assaulting a teenager in a shop in Camden. Once again he escaped a prison term and received a suspended sentence. No wonder so many criminals re-offend if this is what amounts to 'British justice' these days!

Before becoming an MP Joyce had a long and impressive military career, enlisting in the Black Watch at the age of 18 and moving through the ranks to Major 14 years later. However, he didn't progress any further, possibly due to his public criticism of the British Army, which he described as "racist, sexist and discriminatory". He was forced out in 1999 after being given an ultimatum either to leave or be discharged.

Less than eighteen months later he became an MP after being selected as Labour's candidate for the Falkirk West by-election. He retained the seat three times, but chose not to contest the 2015 general election, in which he would have had to stand as an independent. His replacement as Labour candidate was crushed in that election by the SNP and Labour have subsequently failed to win back the seat.

In addition to his many criminal exploits, Joyce was implicated in the expenses scandal. He was twice Britain's most expensive MP, topping the list of expenses in 2006 and 2008. In 2007 he claimed £180 of taxpayers money to pay for three oil paintings.

Eric Joyce pictured with his wife after being elected as an MP in 2000

CAMDEN REDS HAVE GOT THE BLUES

The balloon heads of Momentum's Camden branch

The Camden branch of Momentum are calling on Labour's National Executive Committee to hold a vote of no confidence in Keir Starmer. Camden is Starmer's local branch, but he won't be losing any sleep over such a pitiful gesture. It's barely four months since he was elected on a huge mandate - having received more than twice the vote received by Momentum's preferred candidate Long-Bailey - and since then the hard left's influence at the top of the Labour Party has fallen away. In resigning from her role as General Secretary, Jennie Formby effectively handed control of the NEC to Starmer's moderates. What we are witnessing now are the death throes of the hard left - within the party anyway.

Their final hurrah will be upon release of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's report into Labour's anti-Semitism, a draft of which has already been seen by the party leadership. The notion of removing the party whip from Corbyn has already been floated and it could yet come to fruition before the Commons resumes next month. Such a move could see a small exodus of MPs and potentially lead to a new party, but this would do Starmer little harm. The Parliamentary Labour Party is already marginalised thanks to a large Tory majority and Starmer can't necessarily rely on the support of these backbenchers anyway. For them to leave by their own accord would save him a lot of grief come re-selection of candidates for 2024.

As for Camden Momentum's pathetic motion, it is largely based on grievances that wouldn't look out of place on the Black Lives Matter website. The text of the motion lashes out at Starmer for having worked 'closely with the police', accuses him of racism and repeats as 'fact' the bizarre suggestion that Israel was somehow responsible for the death of George Floyd. It's batshit crazy stuff and provides another example - if one was needed - that the hard left and Black Lives Matter are indistinguishable.

The full text of the Camden motion can be seen below, courtesy of their blog.

As the Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer worked closely with the police in prosecuting and convicting people who were overwhelmingly working class and disproportionately people of colour. As he said recently, “Nobody should be saying anything about defunding the police… I’ve worked with police forces across England and Wales bringing thousands of people to court, so my support for the police is very strong.” While failing to hold the police accountable for deaths in police custody, he did little against corporate corruption but encouraged longer and tougher sentences for “benefit fraud”, and ordered the fast-tracking of extradition of Julian Assange. Assange, who is an award-winning journalist and publisher, is being persecuted for revealing US war crimes overwhelmingly against people of colour.

As leader of the Labour Party, Starmer:

1. Took no immediate action against those former staff members whose racism, sexism, and ableism was exposed in the leaked report on antisemitism in the Labour Party.

2. Reversed the overwhelming vote at Conference against the occupation of Kashmir, giving free reign to Prime Minister Modi’s imposition of martial law and spreading persecution of Muslims in India.

3. Downplayed the international Black Lives Matter movement as “a moment”, and labelled as “nonsense” the demand to defund the police in favour of greater community investment.

4. Kept in his Cabinet Rachel Reeves who joined Boris Johnson and other Tories in praising Lady Astor, a well-known Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite, while firing Rebecca Long-Bailey for retweeting a reference to Israeli training of US police – a fact which he described as an “antisemitic conspiracy theory”.

5. Said he “supports Zionism without qualification” and called attacks on Apartheid Israel “antisemitic”. In so doing he links all Jewish people with the crimes of a particular state – the very essence of antisemitism.

6. Refused to hold this Tory government accountable for its handling of the pandemic, making Labour complicit in a per capita death rate which is the second highest in the world and which has disproportionately affected people of colour.

Starmer’s statement that he needs “unconscious bias” training, is both an admission and misdirection: His racism has been conscious and consistent and has no place in an antiracist party. In the process he makes racism a personal psychological problem and not a systemic social disaster. He has brought the Labour Party into disrepute with some of its most loyal supporters, BAME communities.

Therefore Momentum Camden calls on the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party to pass a motion of “No Confidence” in Keir Starmer.

We also call on Momentum’s National Coordinating Group to support this demand and publicise its support to all local Momentum groups.

Thursday, 6 August 2020

BBC'S IDENTITY POLITICS FOR KIDS

The BBC has produced a video about 'white privilege' directed at schoolchildren. The video appeared on its Bitesize online service, a resource whose remit is to assist school pupils with their schoolwork. How exactly does a lecture about so-called white privilege help pupils with their schooling? It doesn't, but it fits the divisive hard left narrative that is prevailing in popular culture across the West right now.

Telling white kids they automatically have a leg-up the moment they're born while others are held back because of the colour of their skin is not helping anyone. It creates resentment on all sides and entrenches a victimhood mentality in minority communities. Imagine being a black kid and being constantly told you can't achieve anything in life because of something beyond your control. It's not a positive message at all.

Watch below and ask yourself if you're really comfortable paying to fund propaganda like this...

This barrage of constant race baiting is doing eminently more harm to race relations than 'systemic racism' ever could. It's not education, it's indoctrination, and surely now is the time to cancel that TV licence?

Incidentally, the Director of Radio and Education at the BBC is one James Purnell, one time Islington councillor and MP. He has held the position since 2016, in addition to his role as Director of Digital and Strategy. He served as a minister in both the Blair and Brown governments, but stood down at the 2010 general election. A year earlier he was one of many MPs embroiled in the expenses scandal.

James Purnell

ON THIS DAY IN 1985, CORBYN'S MATES...

The Provisional IRA tried to fire a home-made grenade launcher at a police Land Rover in Londonderry. The attempted attack took place at around 10am as the RUC vehicle turned into William Street. The device jammed and then exploded, killing one terrorist and badly injuring the second. Two passers-by reportedly took the injured terrorists to hospital, but were stopped at the entrance by police who then escorted them to the emergency department. 21-year-old Charles English was dead on arrival.

The wounded terrorist was Eddie McSheffrey. He survived, but was killed two years later in another explosion. He and an accomplice were blown up by their own bomb as they were transporting it to an unidentified target in Londonderry.

Charles English came from the republican Bogside area of the city and had joined the IRA following the death of his brother in 1981. Gary English and another man had been struck and killed by an army Land Rover during rioting.

The funeral of Charles English was preceded by rioting in which soldiers and police were attacked with stones and petrol bombs near 'Free Derry Corner'. Three masked gunman fired dozens of shots over English's coffin which had been carried into City Cemetary by, among others, Martin McGuinness and his brother William. A senior figure from the US based Irish Northern Aid Committee (NORAID) also attended the funeral despite being banned from entering the country. Martin Galvin slipped into Northern Ireland from the Republic reportedly disguised in a cap and glasses. NORAID was primarily involved in fundraising for the Provisional IRA.

Martin McGuinness and his brother William (right) carry the coffin of Charles English

Wednesday, 5 August 2020

PERKINS' SPITTING IMAGE GAFFE

Toby Perkins

Labour frontbencher Toby Perkins has lashed out at Darren Grimes over a tweet in which the Brexit activist criticised the BBC. Grimes's tweet referred to the upcoming Spitting Image reboot and the BBC's publicity coverage ahead of its broadcast. Perkins confidently lashed Grimes stating that the programme was commissioned by ITV - not the BBC - and accused him of being 'factually incorrect', spreading 'misinformation' and of killing truth itself. Hilariously, the Chesterfield MP has actually got it all wrong himself.

Historically, Spitting Image has been an ITV production, but if Perkins had only checked beforehand he would have discovered that this has now changed. The upcoming Spitting Image show has been produced for the BritBox subscription service as a joint venture by both ITV and the BBC. There is in fact nothing ''factually incorrect' about Grimes's tweet.

Given Perkins' concern over the numbers involved in Grimes's tweet, perhaps we can surmise that the Remainer is a little aggrieved that while he himself has 25,000 followers on Twitter, the young Leave activist has a whopping 124,000 followers. Clearly that hurts and his woeful attempt at smearing Grimes will hurt more once it dawns on that he's got his Spitting Image 'facts' completely wrong.

SHEERMAN'S ALL APOLOGIES

Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman is to take a break from Twitter following his controversial tweets on Sunday. In addition to his online apologies, the backbencher also expressed remorse in a letter to local members, a copy of which was also sent to Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, chief whip Nick Brown and the Board of Deputies of British Jews (see below).

Dear member,

I want to offer you my heartfelt apology.

You may have heard that there has been a great deal of criticism of my recent tweets regarding my strong reaction to Boris Johnson’s list of people who he might place in the House of Lords.

Some of these people hold partial responsibility for our decision to leave the EU, and our subsequent heavy losses in the General Election. They included people whose elevation to the Lords would not be our country’s best interest, but would instead be a reward for loyalty and support for the Conservative Party.

I was so angry I was intending to liken the places in the Lords as a “thirty pieces of silver' type of reward.

This alone is an unpleasant thing to say but I tried to be too clever and looked up the currency that might have been used 2,000 years ago, and found information suggesting it was the shekel.

I used this in my comment.

In a separate comment, I also chose two rich businessmen who have received negative press attention as examples of the types of people being raised to the Lords by the Government.

It never entered my head when I was making that comment that the two people I mentioned were Jewish.

I can see how offensive my comments have been, given this, and I am profoundly sorry. It was never my intention to make any implication about Jewish people, and I am horrified that I inadvertently did so.

I spoke at our CLP’s online meeting on Friday about how the Party needs to be strong on anti-Semitism, and I have always greatly valued the Jewish community who I have worked alongside since I joined Labour Friends of Israel at university.

I am ashamed that my remarks were ill thought through, and that I have subsequently hurt people.

I am going to give Twitter a rest for a period to reflect on my thoughtlessness and how I can do better.

I want to assure you that I pledge to continue to work with all members in our common struggle for a more equal, just and sustainable society.

Yours,

Barry

The letter was reportedly sent after Barry was contacted by the chair of the Huddersfield Constituency Labour Party. Paul Cooney told the Huddersfield Examiner that he recommended that the letter be written and that the MP also withdraws from Twitter. Referring to the Twitter suspension, Cooney said it was "something which we had previously suggested to him on other occasions recently". Sheerman is known for his blunt language on Twitter and apparent inability to think before he tweets. Last month the ardent Remainer demanded another EU referendum, despite the fact the UK left six months ago.

Sadly for Barry, his letter and apology was still not quite enough for the CLP as they are still writing a formal complaint about his alleged anti-Semitism to head office. It appears that Labour's longest serving MP is not universally popular in his local branch. The 79-year-old has represented Huddersfield since 1979, but has avoided deselection processes ahead of the last two elections. A local party member told the Huddersfield Examiner last year: "There's a cohort of members who are absolutely pissed off as [him continuing to 2024] will take him to 84 years old. Members want someone younger who's more approachable and there's also a lot of union pressure on him".

It's unlikely that Sheerman will face disciplinary action and he will be thankful for that. He has previously expressed a wish to become the 'Father of the House', a title bestowed on the Commons' longest serving member. Prior to the 2019 election the title was held by Ken Clarke and would have passed to Labour's Dennis Skinner had he not lost his Bolsover seat. The title has now passed to Sir Peter Bottomley, the Tory MP for Worthing West. Sheerman is next in line. In any other profession people tend to retire by the age of 70, but this is the Westminster gravy train...

Tuesday, 4 August 2020

DUFFIELD FALLS FOUL OF TRANSFASCISTS

Labour's Rosie Duffield has been targeted by the trans hate mob for daring to voice the fact that "only women have a cervix". The MP for Canterbury first attracted their attention when one of her party activists noticed that she had liked a tweet by Piers Morgan in which he hit out at a daft CNN headline which described 'individuals with a cervix'. Sarah Cundy - who is also a Momentum activist - tweeted that Duffield needed 'booting'.

Duffield spotted the tweet and doubled down in her reply.

This tweet sent the trans mob into a frenzy and she was inundated with abuse that led to her locking down her Twitter account. The Labour Campaign for Trans Rights called on party whips to take disciplinary action against the MP describing Duffield as 'partaking in a right wing campaign to marginalise, exclude and oppress trans people'. The group is not an official party affiliate, but rose to prominence earlier this year during the Labour leadership contest, during which it tried to blackmail candidates into signing up to a series of pledges that including expelling members who expressed 'transphobic' views. In other words, facts.

Other transfascists voiced their disapproval and agreed that Duffield should be kicked out of the party. The tolerant left in action...

Monday, 3 August 2020

MORE HYPOCRISY FROM JESS PHILLIPS

Labour frontbencher Jess Phillips has got on her high horse over the Tory MP reportedly arrested on suspicion of rape. The anonymous MP has not been charged with any offence, but she wants him suspended, named and shamed anyway. Sadly for Jess it transpires that in 2016 she backed a Commons rule change safeguarding the anonymity of arrested MPs. The only MP who opposed the motion was Labour's John Mann (now ex-Labour). Prior to that vote it was the Speaker's duty to inform the House of an arrest, therefore making the news public. The change was proposed by Chris Grayling (then Leader of the House) and brought MPs into line with members of the public who are not normally named by the police unless they are charged with a crime.

Phillips appeared on Good Morning Britain on Monday to promote her new book and used the opportunity to denounce the Tories for failing to act in the current situation (see below).

Once again this fake feminist selectively calls out (alleged) abuse of women, but strangely when it comes to grooming gangs she says nothing, and who can forget her belittling of the mass rape and sexual assaults that occurred in German cities on New Years' Eve 2015 by predominantly Arab migrants. Phillips responded to an audience question about the attacks by comparing them to 'heckling' that occurred on 'Broad Street in Birmingham every week'. In Cologne and Hamburg that night more than a thousand women reported sexual assaults, 24 of which involved rape. Phillips is no feminist.

MOST SHARED: WEEK 276

Last week's most shared was inspired by the Save Our Statues campaign that sprang up in response to the wave of attacks on British statues. The campaigners recently left a wreath beneath statues of Churchill, Nelson and Clive of India, eminently more pleasing on the eye than the hideous graffii left behind by the rabid left and their stooges.

With thanks to Save Our Statues the following meme was shared 1,559 times via the Facebook page.

Save Our Statues has amassed an impressive following on Twitter in barely a month. You can follow them here.

A TWEET TOO FAR FOR BARRY

Avid tweeter Barry Sheerman often lets rip without putting a great deal of thought into his posts. On Sunday the Huddersfield MP strayed into the realms of anti-Semitism with a tweet about 'silver shekels'. Asked to elaborate on what he was referring to, Barry doubled down by naming two prominent Jewish businessmen who he joked had been rejected for peerages.

Hapless Barry quickly deleted the tweets and embarked on an evening of grovelling apologies, issuing three tweets around 45 minutes apart. Looks like daft Barry put more thought into these...

Barry's inability to put his brain into gear before he spouts off is something that he exercises beyond social media. Despite his constituency backing Leave in 2016, Barry told the Beeb in 2017 that 'better educated people voted Remain'. Watch below.

No wonder Barry's majority crashed from more than 12,000 to less than 5,000 on December 12th.