TWO AND A HALF WEEKS

On Friday it was reported that Keir Starmer has returned the Beergate questionnaire issued to him by County Durham police.  Problem is, the Labour leader was sent that questionnaire two and a half weeks ago.  Was he given a deadline?  Was that deadline looming?  Is he stringing things out as long as possible in the hope that they'll give up?

We can only assume that this barrister and former public prosecutor has an agenda, because two and a half weeks is a long time to fill out a questionnaire.  Make no mistake, if it had taken Johnson that long then Starmer would be roundly mocking him come the next PMQs.

The ball is now back in the court of Durham Constabulary.  Will they fine Sir Squeaky?  He has pledged to resign if they do...

ACTIONS AND CONSEQUENCES

One of the few saving graces from Boris Johnson's torrid time in office is that a significant chunk of the population know that if Labour had been running things, England would have been locked down longer,  harder and more often.  Last Christmas - despite all the data coming from South Africa about how mild the Omicron variant was - Labour clamoured for a fourth lockdown.  That would have been catastrophic, as all the lockdowns were, but with Covid reduced to cold-type symptoms it would have been the most absurd.

The only part of the UK under a Labour government was also the last part of the UK to end all Covid restrictions.  Mark Drakeford finally lifted the remaining restriction - face masks in health and social care settings - on May 30.  However, in announcing the change he declared that such restrictions had been 'paused', raising the spectre of renewed diktats in the autumn: "We will put all these measures on hold.  However, we aren’t simply abandoning them, we are pausing them in case we see another pandemic wave in the autumn, or the winter." 

As if these socialist policies hadn't done enough harm already.

The cost of living crisis is a cost of lockdown crisis.  Us mere mortals will all be much poorer as a result of the wave of self-defeating, pointless, costly and painful policies meted out across these islands.  None of the governing parties are free of blame.  While the Tories did their best to oppose some measures in Scotland and Wales, they dished them out in Westminster.  For Labour and the SNP, such an opportunity to dictate the lives of the proletariat was a dream come true.

When Keir Starmer stands up in the Commons and attacks the government over the cost of living, NHS waiting lists and tax burden - we must never forget that he voted for all this.  Repeatedly.  In fact he consistently called for lockdowns to come sooner and argued against lifting them.  It is only thanks to Labour support that vaccine mandates were passed in England last year - including the despicable NHS mandate that would have seen up to 100,000 staff sacked had it been carried through.

As if things weren't bad enough for patients already - missed diagnoses, record waiting lists, abysmal ambulance response times.  Ironically, one of those complaining about the state of the NHS is none other than Labour's Jess Phillips, who repeatedly voted for all this.

Imagine complaining about the consequence of your own actions, but not being self aware enough to realise?  Phillips encapsulates the current woeful state of the green benches.

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 16.06.22

Four contests this week - two Labour defences, one Tory defence and a free-for-all in Worcestershire.

Labour held their seats in Sunderland and Warwick, while the Conservatives held in Rother, East Sussex.  The latter was an interesting head-to-head between the Tories and Lib Dems, with three absentees - no candidates from Labour (10.3% last time), UKIP (7.8%) and no independent (34.3%).  While the Lib Dems took more advantage from the missing candidates, it wasn't enough to win the seat.

There were also three absentees in Wyre Forest, Worcestershire.  This vacancy was caused by the resignation of a councillor from local campaign group Health Concern, who did not defend the seat.  They secured 30.1% last time, while UKIP and the Greens won 10.6% and 10.0% respectively.  It was the Conservatives who took the most advantage from their absence and in doing so gained their first council seat in a by-election since April 7.

Brede & Udimore, Rother District Council

Con: 424 (61.4%) +21.5%

LDem: 266 (38.6%) +30.9%

Con HOLD

Copt Hill, Sunderland City Council

Lab: 969 (44.5%) -1.6%

Ind: 606 (27.8%) New

Con: 384 (17.6%) +4.9%

Grn: 158 (7.3%) -3.0%

LDem: 61 (2.8%) New

Lab HOLD

Leamington Clarendon, Warwick District Council

Lab: 1,064 (48.9%) +14.4%

LDem: 612 (28.1%) -1.3%

Con: 365 (16.9%) -0.6%

Grn: 105 (5.0%) -7.2%

UKIP: 24 (1.1%) -5.2%

Lab HOLD

Franche & Habberley North, Wyre Forest District Council

Con: 826 (45.2%) +25.4%

Lab: 656 (35.9%) +16.1%

LDem: 347 (19.0%) +9.2%

Con GAIN from HlthCon

PRIME MINISTER'S QUESTIONS 15.06.22

This could be a tricky encounter for Keir Starmer.  He has so far remained silent about the Rwanda debacle, but could be tempted to deploy the issue at PMQs.  This would be a mistake, as the reason for his silence is calculated.  He must win back Red Wall seats in order to win the next election, but the problem is that beyond the oh-so-virtuous middle classes of Islington and Camden, the Rwanda policy is overwhelmingly popular among the working classes.

How will he play it?  Watch here from noon.

THE WEEK IN CARTOONS 5-11 JUNE 2022

05.06.22 - Nick Newman, Sunday Times

05.06.22 - Morten Morland, Sunday Times

05.06.22 - Andy Davey, Sunday Times

05.06.22 - Chris Riddell, Observer

05.06.22 - Ben Garrison, Grrr Graphics

06.06.22 - Ben Garrison, Grrr Graphics

06.06.22 - Guy Venables, Metro

06.06.22 - Ben Jennings, Twitter

07.06.22 - Morten Morland, The Times

07.06.22 - Christian Adams, Evening Standard

08.06.22 - Guy Venables, Metro

08.06.22 - Bob Moran, Twitter

08.06.22 - Dave Brown, Independent

08.06.22 - Ben Jennings, Guardian

08.06.22 - Patrick Cross, Twitter

09.06.22 - Christian Adams, Evening Standard

09.06.22 - Dick Wright, Cagle Cartoons

09.06.22 - Patrick Blower, Daily Telegraph

09.06.22 - Bob Moran, Twitter

09.06.22 - Patrick Cross, Twitter

09.06.22 - Peter Brookes, The Times

10.06.22 - Andy Davey, Daily Telegraph

10.06.22 - Dave Brown, Independent

10.06.22 - Christian Adams, Evening Standard

10.06.22 - Ben Jennings, Twitter

10.06.22 - Guy Venables, Metro

10.06.22 - Osama Hajjaj, Twitter

11.06.22 - Patrick Chappatte, NZZ am Sonntag

DAVE GOES BACK TO SCHOOL

Dave Lammy has tweeted about the plight of Afghan women under Taliban rule and posted two pictures of his recent visit to the country, including one of himself sitting among students in a classroom.  Of course you might say it looks just like any school in Tottenham, but it would detract from what was a bold visit by Lammy.  After-all, this is a country he voted to bomb 21 years ago, but apparently the Taliban are a more affable regime these days and Dave appeared to wander around Kabul unimpeded.

He saved criticism for the regime until he was safely back in Blighty, although his classroom visit didn't appear to improve his spelling...

Replies to his tweet wondered what Dave wanted to do about the 'Tabilan' and whether the strategy for Afghanistan was discussed at the Bilderberg meeting he attended prior to his Afghan visit.  Would a Labour government push for regime change?  Another invasion perhaps, leading to decades of  costly occupation after which the Taliban come back anyway?  To be fair, the Bilderberg Group probably has bigger Ukrainian fish to fry and in any case, Dave's not going to provide any clues.  He's not mentioned his four days with the elite once, and never will.

NEIL OLIVER'S MONOLOGUE 12.06.22

In his latest monologue Neil Oliver asks: "Are we stupid, or are we just be treated as if we're stupid?"  As vaccine injuries and deaths mount from the Covid jabs, media outlets are pushing more and more absurd explanations for the inexplicable loss of life.  They are indeed treating us like idiots.

With so many young people dropping like flies and fertility rates in stark decline, Neil surmises a dark path ahead, or a road to nowhere...

LABOUR'S FORGOTTEN CHILDREN

An event took place in north London on Saturday entitled 'Conference for the Black Child'.  The title was inspired by 'Child Q', a black schoolgirl reportedly strip-searched by Met officers who were called in after teachers claimed to smell cannabis on her.  The Child Q story forms the basis for much of the event, which claims there is institutional racism 'at the heart of the British establishment', primarily in education.  The conference is chaired by none other than Diane Abbott (quelle surprise?) with contributions from Labour colleagues including Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Apsana Begum and Baroness Chakrabarti.  Presumably Dawn Butler and Dave Lammy were unavailable.

The full itinerary can be found below.

As you can see, there is an obsession with perceived 'institutional racism' against children.  However, there is no mention of child grooming for sex.  Whereas they talk about 'Child Q' - a singular case - there have been tens of thousands of British schoolchildren groomed by gangs, many of whom at the school gates.  We know the reason they don't mention it and it is, ironically, their own institutional racism.  From council authorities and social services to the police, grooming gangs were allowed to operate for years with impunity because the perpetrators were Asian.  Labour politicians, including its current leader, have stonewalled the victims - who are overwhelmingly white.

Racism cuts both ways Diane Abbott and co.

ROSENA ALLIN-KILLJOY

Labour frontbencher Rosena Allin-Khan presents a fine example of why comedy is under pain of death from the intolerant left.  Earlier this week she shared a four second clip with her 206,800 Twitter followers showing part of an exchange between Tory MP Lee Anderson and perennial stalker Steve Bray aka 'Drunk Steve'.  In the clip Bray puts it to Anderson that the nickname '30p Lee' will stick, referring to recent remarks from the MP about the nation's cooking skills, to which Anderson replies: "Haven't you been sectioned yet?"

Of course this is banter, but Allin-Khan takes it upon herself to chastise the MP for his remark and demand an apology...

What Allin-Khan fails to acknowledge is that Bray has been harassing Anderson in the street for months.  She has also edited the clip (her version can be seen here), while the full version shows Bray following Anderson down the street calling him a lying Tory.  After Anderson's section remark, Bray responds likewise: "Why haven't you been sectioned?"

The unedited version can be seen below.

In spite of Bray's theatrics, Lee chooses to make a short video clip himself during this encounter, in which he expresses support for Boris Johnson.  Watch below.

One of the most popular replies to Allin-Khan's daft tweet was from her Labour colleague and GB News regular Paul Embery who wrote: "Don’t be silly.  That guy is a pain in the backside.  He can’t complain at being on the receiving end of a bit of banter".  Bray wasn't the one complaining, in fact after the exchange Bray has a smug grin on his face - he clearly enjoys the banter.  This is not how Allin-Khan wanted to portray events, instead trying to paint Anderson as a bully and claim offence on behalf of the mentally ill.  It's a shame there isn't a sense of humour injection that the MP/NHS doctor can give herself.

Meanwhile, Lee Anderson will continue to be harassed on an almost daily basis by Bray and his remoaner pals.  The Nottinghamshire MP (and former Labour councillor) will undoubtedly continue to give as good as he gets in these exchanges.  Here's a few more clips of the pair in action (there are many more to be found online) ...

It's not just Lee Anderson who gets the Bray treatment every time they leave the confines of Parliament by any means.  In one of the more disturbing incidents, Bray accosts Tory MP Paul Bristow while he is enjoying a pint in a beer garden.  Bristow tries to explain that he is having lunch with his wife and children, while Bray accuses him - without a hint of irony - of 'lounging around in a pub all day'.  As Bristow's wife arrives with a toddler in her arms, Bray agrees to leave the MP alone, but sneers menacingly 'it's a good job they were there'.  That clip can be seen here.

As long as Remainers continue to fund Bray's antics (and his thirst), it's clear that he will never return home to Port Talbot.  He is on too much of a good thing in London.  Why work for a living?

STARMER OMITS SINN FEIN MEETING

Keir Starmer has been passing himself off as some kind of statesman in a visit to Ireland over the past 24 hours.  Accompanied by his shadow Northern Ireland spokesman Peter Kyle, Sir Squeaky was received by the Irish Taoiseach, the President of Ireland, the defence and foreign affairs minister, the finance minister and the Irish Labour Party leader.  He posted a series of tweets from the visit, including a set of photos from some of those aforementioned meetings...

He also tweeted the following...

He also retweeted the Taoiseach, the President, the Irish Foreign Ministry, finance minister, Trinity College Dublin and the Belfast Telegraph.  However, there was another meeting that neither Starmer or Kyle wanted voters to know about.  Unfortunately for both of them, the other party at that meeting was not so shy about it...

That's right folks, Starmer and Kyle had a cosy sit down meeting with Sinn Fein's leader Mary Lou McDonald (and yes, that is a Palestinian flag in her profile picture).

 

Why the secrecy Sir Keir?  Is it perhaps that you realise how damaging such acquaintances can be perceived back home?  At least Jeremy Corbyn was straight up and honest about his relationship with Marxist terrorists.

This is not the first time that Starmer has been embarrassed by a Sinn Fein figure.  When he was elected Labour leader in 2020 one of those who congratulated him was Martina Anderson, a former IRA bomber who was arrested in 1985 alongside Brighton bomber Patrick Magee.  She was sentenced to life the following year for conspiring to cause explosions.  In a Facebook post, she posted the following photograph of the pair together.

Keir Starmer pictured with convicted IRA terrorist Martina Anderson

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 09.06.22

Three council by-elections this week - two Conservative defences and one Labour.  Labour held its seat on Crawley Borough Council, assisted by the absence of the Lib Dems who picked up 185 votes here in May.  The party leaders deny it, but the so-called 'progressive alliance' between Labour, the Lib Dems and Greens is so widespread now it is bleeding obvious.  Partly as a result of this alliance, the Tories lost every seat they were defending in by-elections from the second week of April up until yesterday.

There was no progressive alliance in Mattishall (Breckland) as the seat had been a three-way contest last time and the Tories held the seat on Thursday despite an independent surge.  However, the Tories lost their other seat, for which they had been elected unopposed in 2019.  The Lib Dems put up a candidate this time and pushed out the Tories in Penshurst, Fordcombe and Chiddingstone (Sevenoaks).

Mattishall, Breckland Council

Con: 539 (41.9%) -4.7%

Ind: 486 (37.8%) New

Lab: 260 (20.2%) -5.2%

Con HOLD

Southgate, Crawley Borough Council

Lab: 938 (50.1%) +2.2%

Con: 790 (42.2%) +3.7%

Grn: 144 (7.7%) New

Lab HOLD

Penshurst, Fordcombe & Chiddingstone, Sevenoaks District Council

LDem: 343 (54.4%) New

Con: 288 (45.6%) Previously elected unopposed

LDem GAIN from Con

LET THEM EAT BUGS

Mark Drakeford has tweeted a picture of himself tucking into some 'delightful Welsh produce' less than two weeks after it was revealed a pilot scheme in Welsh primary schools would introduce children to the somewhat less delightful concept of eating insects.

Pupils aged 5-11 at four primary schools will take part in the scheme and will be offered insect protein in the form of mince made from the likes of grasshoppers, locusts and mealworms.  If only we were making this shit up.

Bug-eating and plant-based alternatives to meat are being increasingly pushed by the global establishment as part of their crazed 'net zero' and 'zero carbon' agenda.  One of the motives for pushing insects is that they produce less CO2 than cattle and poultry.  On the same day Drakeford was pretending to indulge Welsh farming, the government in New Zealand announced plans to tax farmers on gases emitted from burping cattle.  If only we were making this shit up.

The long-term intention is that farming as we've known it for centuries will largely go to the wall, while consumers are forced to choose between plants and bugs for dinner.  Of course, not all farmers will go under - a few will be retained in order to provide the global elites with all the finest cuts of meat, while we tuck into our reconstituted mealworm goop.

As with Covid, the bourgeoisie socialists in Wales are prepared to go further and faster in this course of action, while not practicing what they preach.

LAMMY AND GOVE AT BILDERBERG 2022

While much of Britain indulged itself in Jubilee celebrations last weekend, thirteen of our countrymen and women were locked in a hotel under armed guard in Washington DC.  They were joined by more than a hundred others from around the world in highly influential roles including bankers, journalists, politicians, academics and CEOs of major corporations including big tech, big pharma and energy giants.  This was the 67th Bilderberg meeting.

The Bilderberg Group is a group of powerful globalists who meet in secrecy once a year to determine the future of the planet.  They are less transparent than the World Economic Forum, but their goals almost certainly overlap.  The group is run by a steering committee that decides the host country and who is invited.  Each meeting usually lasts four days and an entire hotel is booked for proceedings - no outsiders are allowed anywhere near the venue.  The mainstream media never discusses Bilderberg, despite the world-changing events that are discussed and engineered.

The thirteen British participants this year included three politicians - Michael Gove and Tom Tugendhat of the Conservatives, and Dave Lammy of Labour.  The latter will undoubtedly raise a few eyebrows, but if Labour were to win the next election Lammy would be in the strategically important role of Foreign Secretary.  Politicians with a foreign affairs remit are present at all Bilderberg meetings, as the group looks to influence geo-politics.

The invitation of Tory backbencher Tom Tugendhat was also made with foreign affairs in mind, as he is the chair of the cross-party Foreign Affairs Select Committee, although the group will also have the future of the Conservative leadership in mind also.  Tugendhat has already indicated that he would like to run for leader when Johnson leaves the role.  Tugendhat's invitation is unusual as this was his second consecutive meeting - a rarity - so they clearly see something in him.  He was also name-dropped recently by another globalist activist - ex-Tory MP Rory Stewart.  Stewart was a Bilderberg participant in 2011 and mentioned Tugendhat as a potential successor to Johnson in a recent interview.  Another option he spoke of was Jeremy Hunt, who is a disciple of the World Economic Forum.

Michael Gove, Tom Tugendhat and Dave Lammy

Gove's presence will be of no great surprise to many.  In Cabinet meetings he reportedly argued in favour of tougher Covid restrictions during the pandemic and flat out lied about the introduction of vaccine passports.  Globalists were desperate for the roll-out of vaccine passports in order to further their global digital ID agenda.

Lammy's Twitter account fell completely silent after June 2 for the remaining three days on which he attended the event.  Bilderberg delegates are sworn to secrecy and as such neither Gove, Tugendhat or Lammy have publicly referred to their attendance since landing back in the UK.  Bilderberg minutes, decisions and policies are still shrouded in utmost secrecy, although the group launched a website in 2016.  The guest list is now published each year, as are the topics for discussion.  They have also kindly backdated the topics discussed at previous meetings, none of which has done anything to discourage 'conspiracy theorists'.  For instance, they openly discussed the 'New World Order' at 2007's meeting and also discussed the Middle East at 2002's meeting - a year before the West invaded Iraq.  Also discussed at the 2007 meeting were the 'risks and opportunities of private equity and hedge funds' - a year before the financial crash.

This year's topics were as follows.

1. Geopolitical Realignments

2. NATO Challenges

3. China

4. Indo-Pacific Realignment

5. Sino-US Tech Competition

6. Russia

7. Continuity of Government and the Economy

8. Disruption of the Global Financial System

9. Disinformation

10. Energy Security and Sustainability

11. Post Pandemic Health

12. Fragmentation of Democratic Societies

13. Trade and Deglobalisation

14. Ukraine

Some of these topics - such as Ukraine - are reactive, but bear in mind that there has been no official Bilderberg gathering since 2019, due to the pandemic.  There was nothing in the 2019 agenda to suggest that the pandemic was forthcoming or engineered.

Number nine on this year's agenda will be of great concern to many, with censorship already on the rise.  The Biden administration's 'Ministry of Truth' was widely ridiculed and later 'paused', but closer to home we have similar threats to free speech in the form of Johnson's 'Online Safety Bill'.  The Bilderberg Group will undoubtedly have had censorship in mind by inviting figures from Google and Facebook, the head of GCHQ and pioneers in artificial intelligence such as the UK's Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman.  We must never forget that the biggest purveyors of 'disinformation' over the last two years has been the mainstream media, big tech, paid off scientists and politicians.  Truth has been hard to come by, but truth is what the Bilderbergers and Schwabs of this world refer to as 'disinformation'.

Below is the full list of participants at this year's Bilderberg meeting, courtesy of their website.  British attendees are in bold.

Achleitner, Paul M. (DEU), Former Chairman Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG; Treasurer Bilderberg Meetings

Adeyemo, Adewale (USA), Deputy Secretary, Department of the Treasury

Albares, José Manuel (ESP), Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation

Altman, Roger C. (USA), Founder and Senior Chairman, Evercore Inc.

Altman, Sam (USA), CEO, OpenAI

Applebaum, Anne (USA), Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Arnaut, José Luís (PRT), Managing Partner, CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut

Auken, Ida (DNK), Member of Parliament, The Social Democrat Party

Azoulay, Audrey (INT), Director-General, UNESCO

Baker, James H. (USA), Director, Office of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Barbizet, Patricia (FRA), Chairwoman and CEO, Temaris & Associés SAS

Barroso, José Manuel (PRT), Chairman, Goldman Sachs International LLC

Baudson, Valérie (FRA), CEO, Amundi

Beurden, Ben van (NLD), CEO, Shell plc

Bourla, Albert (USA), Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc.

Buberl, Thomas (FRA), CEO, AXA SA

Burns, William J. (USA), Director, CIA

Byrne, Thomas (IRL), Minister of State for European Affairs

Campbell, Kurt (USA), White House Coordinator for Indo-Pacific, NSC

Carney, Mark J. (CAN), Vice Chair, Brookfield Asset Management

Casado, Pablo (ESP), Former President, Partido Popular

Chhabra, Tarun (USA), Senior Director for Technology and National Security, National Security Council

Donohoe, Paschal (IRL), Minister for Finance; President, Eurogroup

Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), Chairman and CEO, Axel Springer SE

Dudley, William C. (USA), Senior Research Scholar, Princeton University

Easterly, Jen (USA), Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Economy, Elizabeth (USA), Senior Advisor for China, Department of Commerce

Émié, Bernard (FRA), Director General, Ministry of the Armed Forces

Emond, Charles (CAN), CEO, CDPQ

Erdogan, Emre (TUR), Professor Political Science, Istanbul Bilgi University

Eriksen, Øyvind (NOR), President and CEO, Aker ASA

Ermotti, Sergio (CHE), Chairman, Swiss Re

Fanusie, Yaya (USA), Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security

Feltri, Stefano (ITA), Editor-in-Chief, Domani

Fleming, Jeremy (GBR), Director, British Government Communications Headquarters

Freeland, Chrystia (CAN), Deputy Prime Minister

Furtado, Isabel (PRT), CEO, TMG Automotive

Gove, Michael (GBR), Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Cabinet Office

Halberstadt, Victor (NLD), Co-Chair Bilderberg Meetings; Professor of Economics, Leiden University

Hallengren, Lena (SWE), Minister for Health and Social Affairs

Hamers, Ralph (NLD), CEO, UBS Group AG

Hassabis, Demis (GBR), CEO and Founder, DeepMind

Hedegaard, Connie (DNK), Chair, KR Foundation

Henry, Mary Kay (USA), International President, Service Employees International Union

Hobson, Mellody (USA), Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments LLC

Hodges, Ben (USA), Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, Center for European Policy Analysis

Hoekstra, Wopke (NLD), Minister of Foreign Affairs

Hoffman, Reid (USA), Co-Founder, Inflection AI; Partner, Greylock

Huët, Jean Marc (NLD), Chairman, Heineken NV

Joshi, Shashank (GBR), Defence Editor, The Economist

Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies Inc.

Kissinger, Henry A. (USA), Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.

Koç, Ömer (TUR), Chairman, Koç Holding AS

Kofman, Michael (USA), Director, Russia Studies Program, Center for Naval Analysis

Kostrzewa, Wojciech (POL), President, Polish Business Roundtable

Krasnik, Martin (DNK), Editor-in-Chief, Weekendavisen

Kravis, Henry R. (USA), Co-Chairman, KKR & Co. Inc.  

Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), Co-Chair Bilderberg Meetings; Chair, The Museum of Modern Art

Kudelski, André (CHE), Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group SA

Kukies, Jörg (DEU), State Secretary, Chancellery

Lammy, David (GBR), Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, House of Commons

LeCun, Yann (USA), Vice-President and Chief AI Scientist, Facebook, Inc.

Leu, Livia (CHE), State Secretary, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chairman, Umicore and Mediahuis; Chairman DSM N.V.

Liikanen, Erkki (FIN), Chairman, IFRS  Foundation Trustees

Little, Mark (CAN), President and CEO, Suncor Energy Inc.

Looney, Bernard (GBR), CEO, BP plc

Lundstedt, Martin (SWE), CEO and President, Volvo Group

Lütke, Tobias (CAN), CEO, Shopify

Marin, Sanna (FIN), Prime Minister

Markarowa, Oksana (UKR), Ambassador of Ukraine to the US

Meinl-Reisinger, Beate (AUT), Party Leader, NEOS

Michel, Charles (INT), President, European Council

Minton Beddoes, Zanny (GBR), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist

Mullen, Michael (USA), Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Mundie, Craig J. (USA), President, Mundie & Associates LLC

Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD)

Niemi, Kaius (FIN), Senior Editor-in-Chief, Helsingin Sanomat Newspaper

Núñez, Carlos (ESP), Executive Chairman, PRISA Media

O'Leary, Michael (IRL), Group CEO, Ryanair Group

Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), Chairman, TITAN Cement Group

Petraeus, David H. (USA), Chairman, KKR Global Institute

Pierrakakis, Kyriakos (GRC), Minister of Digital Governance

Pinho, Ana (PRT), President and CEO, Serralves Foundation

Pouyanné, Patrick (FRA), Chairman and CEO, TotalEnergies SE

Rachman, Gideon (GBR), Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, The Financial Times

Raimondo, Gina M. (USA), Secretary of Commerce

Reksten Skaugen, Grace (NOR), Board Member, Investor AB

Rende, Mithat (TUR), Member of the Board, TSKB

Reynders, Didier (INT), European Commissioner for Justice

Rutte, Mark (NLD), Prime Minister

Salvi, Diogo (PRT), Co-Founder and CEO, TIMWE

Sawers, John (GBR), Executive Chairman, Newbridge Advisory Ltd.

Schadlow, Nadia (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

Schinas, Margaritis (INT), Vice President, European Commission

Schmidt, Eric E. (USA), Former CEO and Chairman, Google LLC

Scott, Kevin (USA), CTO, Microsoft Corporation

Sebastião, Nuno (PRT), CEO, Feedzai

Sedwill, Mark (GBR), Chairman, Atlantic Futures Forum

Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL), MEP, European Parliament

Sinema, Kyrsten (USA), Senator

Starace, Francesco (ITA), CEO, Enel S.p.A.

Stelzenmüller, Constanze (DEU), Fritz Stern Chair, The Brookings Institution

Stoltenberg, Jens (INT), Secretary General, NATO

Straeten, Tinne Van der (BEL), Minister for Energy

Suleyman, Mustafa (GBR), CEO, Inflection AI

Sullivan, Jake (USA), Director, National Security Council

Tellis, Ashley J. (USA), Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs, Carnegie Endowment

Thiel, Peter (USA), President, Thiel Capital LLC

Treichl, Andreas (AUT), President, Chairman ERSTE Foundation

Tugendhat, Tom (GBR), MP; Chair Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Commons

Veremis, Markos (GRC), Co-Founder and Chairman, Upstream

Vitrenko, Yuriy (UKR), CEO, Naftogaz

Wallander, Celeste (USA), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

Wallenberg, Marcus (SWE), Chair, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB

Walmsley, Emma (GBR), CEO, GlaxoSmithKline plc

Wennink, Peter (NLD), President and CEO, ASML Holding NV

Yetkin, Murat (TUR), Journalist/Writer, YetkinReport

Yurdakul, Afsin (TUR), Journalist, Habertürk News Network

Zeiler, Gerhard (AUS), President Warnermedia International

Two of the British delegates were from The Economist newspaper, the editor of which was attending her second Bilderberg meeting.  Her first appearance was in 2015 and she has also spoken at the World Economic Forum.

Names can be put to the faces of the remaining British contingent below.  That way you will know that when they show up on your TV screen you know that individual is not working in your interest.

Top row: Jeremy Fleming, Demis Hassabis, Shashank Joshi, Bernard Looney
Middle row: Zanny Minton Beddoes, Gideon Rachman, John Sawers, Mark Sedwill
Bottom row: Mustafa Suleyman, Emma Walmsley

Although an Irishman, Bernard Looney is listed as a British delegate as he lives in London and represents a British company, BP.

PRIME MINISTER'S QUESTIONS 08.06.22

Keir Starmer takes on Boris Johnson for the first time since the PM's confidence vote.

Watch below from noon.

THE WEEK IN CARTOONS 29 MAY-4 JUNE

29.05.22 - Nick Newman, Sunday Times

29.05.22 - Morten Morland, Sunday Times

30.05.22 - Ben Garrison, Grrr Graphics

30.05.22 - Bob Moran, Twitter

30.05.22 - Ron McGeary, Twitter

30.05.22 - Ben Jennings, Guardian

30.05.22 - Morten Morland, The Times

30.05.22 - Patrick Blower, Daily Telegraph

31.05.22 - David Simonds, Evening Standard

01.06.22 - Patrick Blower, Daily Telegraph

01.06.22 - Matt Pritchett, Daily Telegraph

01.06.22 - Ben Jennings, Guardian

01.06.22 - Bob Moran, Twitter

01.06.22 - Jimbob, Gab

01.06.22 - Jimbob, Gab

01.06.22 - George Alexopolous, Twitter

02.06.22 - Jimbob, Gab

02.06.22 - Jimbob, Gab

02.06.22 - Matt Pritchett, Daily Telegraph

02.06.22 - Peter Brookes, The Times

03.06.22 - Andy Davey, Daily Telegraph

03.06.22 - Peter Schrank, The Times

03.06.22 - Patrick Cross, Twitter

03.06.22 - Tina Garrison, Grrr Graphics

04.06.22 - Andy Davey, Daily Telegraph