MEME MONDAY #35

VE Day week was very eventful, commemorations asides.  Karl is delivering the goods once more, on the understanding that we strive to make the campaign more than just pay for itself...

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RAT HAIRS AND MAGGOTS

When Darren Jones appeared on Nick Ferrari's LBC show last week, he was asked multiple times whether the US trade deal was a direct result of Brexit.  The Chief Secretary to the Treasury played dumb and refused to accept a very obvious fact.  Most of his comrades undoubtedly feel the same way about what has become a very awkward situation - they hate Brexit and they hate Trump, yet they are simultaneously portraying the deal as the saviour of British industry.

The truth is that it's not a great deal as it was negotiated by people who care little for the workers and our nation.  Over the weekend we compiled a video exposing the hypocrisies of Labour's celebrated trade deal, presented by Richey in a rare full on gammon headed appearance.

The 17 minute video can be seen below or on YouTube.

BOATWATCH #9

All quiet on the eastern front last week, with just one boat reported.  Light work for the RNLI collaborators, despite the lovely weather...

The 58 arrivals marks a dramatic decrease of 1,573 from the previous week.

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 08.05.25

Just the two seats up for grabs this week, following last week's stunning set of elections for Reform UK.  Reform continued their good form by taking a Yorkshire seat from Labour, again coming from a standing start to push Labour into second.  The swing towards Reform also damaged the Tory candidate, who finished last.

Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, Skircoat

Ref: 1,392 (36.8%) New

Lab: 1,059 (28.0%) -23.1%

Grn: 566 (15.0%) +0.2%

LDm: 411 (10.9%) +2.7%

Con: 355 (9.4%) -15.7%

Ref GAIN from Lab

Eastleigh Borough Council, Eastleigh Central

LDm: 1,020 (46.6%) +9.3%

Ref: 611 (27.9%) +20.0%

Lab: 319 (14.6%) -18.8%

Con: 149 (6.8%) -7.0%

Ind: 90 (4.1%) New

LDm HOLD

Abbreviations

Ref = Reform UK

Lab = Labour

Grn = Green

LDm = Liberal Democrat

Con = Conservative

Ind = Independent

A CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION?

The 80th anniversary of VE Day will soon be over and for the few survivors of that wartime generation it will almost certainly be the last.  The immense sacrifice of those young men should be remembered for all time, but can it still genuinely be celebrated - as opposed to commemorated - given all the devastating acts perpetrated upon our country since 1945?

Richey produced a short monologue earlier today, in which he discussed his feelings about VE Day and what he sees as an ongoing betrayal of those young men.

Watch below and please let us know your thoughts on social media.  The video has also been posted to YouTube and Facebook.

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #26

As nations across Europe commemorate the defeat of Nazi Germany this week, the distortion of European history continues.  In recent years popular entertainment has increasingly tried to dramatise historical events with an injection of diversity, in an effort to distort perceptions of history and denigrate the achievements of our ancestors.  This is merely an extension of the Marxist-derived agenda that has slowly been sinking its roots into every institution across the Western world, up to the point in which our daily lives are now effectively dictated by the left, regardless of which party governs.

Much of this infiltration stems from university campuses, from which the next generation of Marxists graduate and rise through the echelons of society, spreading like a cancer.  When Emily Dawes tried to whip up anti-white vandalism in the run-up to remembrance events in 2018, she did so from her university safe space - an environment in which such vile remarks were apparently acceptable.

Unfortunately for Emily, most of us do not go to university and our minds are not tuned to accept woke nonsense.  After she called for a World War I-era mural on Southampton University to be destroyed, the backlash beyond her uni clique was immense and she was suspended as head of the students' union.  A Change.org petition started by a fellow student called for her resignation and quickly gathered more than 20,000 names.  The row reignated after the students' union reinstated her the day after Remembrance Sunday and she later resigned, issuing a 'sincere' apology.  Of course, this apology was a hollow gesture born from a pushback that she neither expected or could possibly contain.

The mural in question was painted in 1916 to commemorate the lives of Southampton students who had perished on the battlefields of Europe and portrays their spirits collecting posthumous degrees.  While there were numerous black soldiers who fought for Britain in Europe, they formed a tiny fraction of the fighting force and it is highly unlikely that any of them attended Southampton University.  Hence, the mural depicts a bunch of historically accurate white men, which clearley triggered poor Emily.

Following graduation, Miss Dawes returned to her native Virginia where she was raised in a six-bed mansion.  This bourgeois leftist hasn't come to much as yet and according to her LinkedIn profile drifts from job to job, although she did briefly gain access to a group of fragile young minds when she worked as a 'teacher' in a nursery.  However, her teaching progress stunted after eight months and she is currently an admin assistant.

Our most recent Woke Wednesday, which featured Glasgow Rangers, generated 50 comments and 30 shares on Facebook.

THEY NEVER LEARN

Matt Goodwin's clash with Geoff Hoon last Friday showed up the impotency and outright absurdity of the left's renewed attempts to label Reform UK 'far right extremists'.  When the New Labour bigwig smeared Reform in this way, he also tarred hundreds of thousands of voters who had just handed the party a set of stunning election victories.  Worse still, there are millions more British voters prepared to back Reform when bigger elections come around, eminently more than are prepared to put their cross next to the party of Hoon's.

As his conservative opponent alluded to in the GB News clash, these sweeping labels never have the desired effect - quite the opposite in fact.  Prior to the EU referendum in 2016, the British people witnessed countless sneering remarks towards our collective intellect and perceived 'xenophobia'.  When the establishment lost that referendum, the insults ratcheted up even further.  Eventually this led to the 2019 election landslide for Boris Johnson, due in no small part to the fact that the sneering attitude of the bourgeois left had driven millions of Labour voters into the arms of the dreaded Conservatives.

In the age of Brexit, Trump and so-called 'populism', there are endless labels that have been attached to the masses by establishment politicians, media and 'virtuous' celebrities.  However, these can generally be summed up by three categories headed by the words: 'thick', 'far right' and 'racist'.  With Reform now posing a serious threat to the two party state, we can expect to see more of the same.

Watch Matt Goodwin tear Geoff Hoon a new one below...

If the Uniparty system is to collapse at the next general election, it will aid and abet its own downfall by resorting to the sort of extreme name-calling that the Democrats hit the Trump campaign with - just before he demolished Harris and her party with a stunning trifecta victory.  It turned out that Americans, just us we British, do not appreciate being told that our legitimate concerns somehow align with those of a 1930s German political movement.

TOON TUESDAY #55

Reform's stunning election victories were very much the order of the day for British cartoonists in recent days.  Success for Farage's party was largely expected, particularly at the expense of the Conservatives, as half of these toons pre-date the election results...

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Dave Brown for The Independent

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Morten Morland for The Times

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Andy Bunday on Instagram

Morten Morland for The Sunday Times

Christian Adams for The Sunday Telegraph

Graeme Bandeira for The Nothern Agenda

Christian Adams for The Sunday Telegraph

Andy Bunday on Instagram

Peter Brookes for The Times

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

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MEME MONDAY #34

Karl is slowly increasing his output and we are currently engaged in a phased return to the main Facebook page.  Taking his frustrations on board with relation to funding, we are also looking at other avenues to raise funds.  Repeated pleas for donations have falled on deaf ears, despite the fact our Facebook distribution often runs into the tens of thousands.  We are in discussions with a merchandiser and looking at potentially importing a shop into this site, but it's early days.

If you are a Facebook follower, please be sure to have both pages in your likes and follows, as we are currently splitting content on a fairly equal basis in the hope to generate some revenue that way.  We didn't start this thing up ten years ago to make money, but now we have a website to run and we would very much like to start paying for an X subscription this year.

Dig deep behind the sofa if you can and let us hope the pleas will soon subside.  Donations welcome here.

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HEAR THE SNEER

Lucy Powell has quite rightly come under a storm of criticism following her rape gang remarks.  The Manchester Central MP and senior minister clashed with Tim Montgomerie during a Radio 4 debate on Friday night as the Uniparty's humiliating election show was reaching its conclusion.  Underlining how completely out of touch Labour is with ordinary people, Powell's sneering remarks at the very mention of the words 'rape gangs' were symptomatic of a party that abandoned white working class people a long time ago.

The full exchange can be heard below.

Starmer's decision to back and not sack Powell sums up the top-down treachery against our native people, which will only drive more and more people into the arms of the party to which Tim Montgomerie now belongs.  Almost every action taken by Labour politicians appears to cement the demise of the two party trap.

Powell's empty apology was slow in coming and did not materialise for almost 24 hours, basically she left it until the scale of the pushback against her had become overwhelming.

When she says she has 'dealt' with cases, we expect that she has merely acknowledged victim's concerns via a generic letter.  How many times has she raised these concerns on the floor of the Commons?  How many victims has she met with?  Her use of the word 'acting' can also be taken literally - it is only an 'act' when her comrades speak about the victims.

Powell's fake apology was greeted by a swathe of condemnation from prominent blue tick accounts on X.

We can only hope that Powell stays in government beyond this, because it will be yet another nail in Labour's coffin.

BOATWATCH #8

Data was a little late coming through this week, but it was a quiet weekend on the Kent shoreline.  The Farage effect?  Doubtful.  Almost 12,000 illegals have made the crossing so far this year, which is far and above any previous year up to this point.  Smashing the gangs, Sir Keir?

Total = 1,631 (up 1,369 from previous week)

MAYORAL RESULTS

There were six regional and metropolitan mayoral elections held on Thursday, including two new posts - Greater Lincolnshire and Hull & East Yorkshire.  Labour were defending the four existing posts and successfully fought off strong Reform challenges in three of them.  Labour narrowly beat Reform by just a few hundred votes in both Doncaster and North Tyneside.  The Conservatives scored a gain from Labour in Cambridgeshire, which at the time of writing is the only piece of good news for the Tories on a torrid day.

Having wreaked devastating damage on the Tories on county councils across England, Reform UK took both of the new mayoral posts.  Ex-Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns triumphed for Reform in Greater Lincolnshire, while former Team GB boxer Luke Campbell became the first mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire.

Here are the results in full.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough

Paul Bristow (Con) 60,243 (28.4%)

Ryan Coogan (Ref) 49,647 (23.4%)

Anna Smith (Lab) 42,671 (20.1%)

Lorna Dupré (LDm) 41,611 (19.6%)

Bob Ensch (Grn) 18,255 (8.6%)

Con GAIN from Lab

Doncaster

Ros Jones (Lab) 23,805 (32.6%) 

Alexander Jones (Ref) 23,107 (31.6%)

Nick Fletcher (Con) 18,982 (26.0%)

Julie Buckley (Grn) 2,449 (3.4%)

Andrew Walmsley (Yrks) 1,164 (1.6%)

David Bettney (SDP) 929 (1.3%)

Mihai Melenciuc (LDm) 895 (1.2%)

Frank Calladine (BDm) 448 (0.6%)

Ahsan Jamil (WPB) 434 (0.6%)

Andy Hiles (TUS) 393 (0.5%)

Richie Vallance (Ind) 245 (0.3%)

Doug Wright (Ind) 157 (0.2%)

Lab HOLD

Greater Lincolnshire

Andrea Jenkyns (Ref) 104,133 (42.0%)

Rob Waltham (Con) 64,585 (26.1%)

Jason Stockwood (Lab) 30,384 (12.3%)

Marianne Overton (Ind) 19,911 (8.0%)

Sally Horscroft (Grn) 15,040 (6.1%)

Trevor Young (LDm) 13,728 (5.5%)

Ref WIN (new post)

Hull & East Yorkshire

Luke Campbell (Ref) 48,491 (35.8%)

Mike Ross (LDm) 37,510 (27.7%)

Anne Handley (Con) 21,393 (15.8%)

Margaret Pinder (Lab) 18,568 (13.7%)

Kerry Harrison (Grn) 5,049 (3.7%)

Rowan Halstead (Yrks) 4,372 (3.2%)

Ref WIN (new post)

North Tyneside

Karen Clark (Lab) 16,230 (30.2%)

John Falkenstein (Ref) 15,786 (29.4%)

Liam Bones (Con) 11,017 (20.5%)

Chloe-Louise Reilly (Grn) 3,980 (7.4%)

John Appleby (LDm) 3,453 (6.4%)

Cath Davis (Ind) 1,780 (3.3%)

Martin Uren (Ind) 1,460 (2.7%)

Lab HOLD

West of England

Helen Godwin (Lab) 51,197 (25.0%)

Arron Banks (Ref) 45,252 (22.1%)

Mary Page (Grn) 41,094 (20.0%)

Steve Smith (Con) 34,092 (16.6%)

Oli Henman (LDm) 28,711 (14.0%)

Ian Scott (Ind) 4,682 (2.3%)

Lab HOLD

COUNCIL RESULTS

23 council authorities held elections on Thursday, the vast majority of them county councils.  Labour were defending just one - the City of Doncaster - which they lost to Reform with a huge swing.  Ed Miliband and the rest of the local Labour MPs are likely to be toast based on these results, although a lot can change in four years.

The astonishing level of support for Reform meant that zero councils at the start of the day turned into ten by the end of it.  Eight of those gains came from the Conservatives, who had an exceptionally torrid day, losing control of every single council they were defending.  While Reform had an overall net gain of 677 council seats, the Tories had a net loss of 676.  It's no coincidence that these two figures are so close.  Reform are not just a threat to Labour, they are demolishing the Conservatives as well.

The only other party that won control of any councils on Thursday was the Lib Dems, who gained three in total.

The results are as follows.  The figures provided are the total number of council seats won per party and the difference in brackets from previous local elections.

Buckinghamshire County Council

Con: 46 (-31)

LDm: 27 (+19)

Ind: 13 (+6)

Lab: 5 (+1)

Ref: 3 (+3)

Grn: 3 (+2)

NOC GAIN from Con

Cambridgeshire County Council

LDm: 31 (+11)

Ref: 10 (+10)

Con: 10 (-18)

Lab: 5 (-4)

Grn: 3 (+3)

Ind: 2 (-2)

LDm GAIN from NOC

City of Doncaster Council

Ref: 37 (+37)

Lab: 12 (-28)

Con: 6 (-5)

Ind: 0 (-4)

Ref GAIN from Lab

Cornwall Council

Ref: 28 (+28)

LDm: 26 (+13)

Ind: 16 (n/c)

Con: 7 (-40)

Lab: 4 (-1)

Grn: 3 (+2)

MebK: 3 (-2)

NOC HOLD

Derbyshire County Council

Ref: 42 (+42)

Con: 12 (-33)

LDm: 3 (-1)

Lab: 3 (-11)

Ind: 2 (+2)

Grn: 2 (+1)

Ref GAIN from Con

Devon County Council

LDm: 27 (+18)

Ref: 18 (+18)

Con: 7 (-32)

Grn: 6 (+4)

Ind: 2 (-1)

Lab: 0 (-7)

NOC GAIN from Con

Durham County Council

Ref: 65 (+65)

LDm: 14 (+1)

Ind: 12 (-14)

Lab: 4 (-38)

Grn: 2 (+1)

Con: 1 (-15)

Ref GAIN from NOC

Gloucestershire County Council

LDm: 27 (+11)

Ref: 11 (+11)

Grn: 9 (+5)

Con: 6 (-24)

Ind: 1 (+1)

Lab: 1 (-4)

NOC HOLD

Hertfordshire County Council

LDm: 31 (+8)

Con: 22 (-24)

Ref: 14 (+14)

Grn: 5 (+4)

Lab: 5 (-2)

Ind: 1 (n/c)

NOC GAIN from Con

Kent County Council

Ref: 57 (+57)

LDm: 12 (+6)

Grn: 5 (+1)

Con: 5 (-57)

Lab: 2 (-5)

Ind: 0 (-1)

RA: 0 (-1)

Ref GAIN from Con

Lancashire County Council

Ref: 53 (+53)

Ind: 9 (+9)

Con: 8 (-40)

Lab: 5 (-27)

LDm: 5 (+3)

Grn: 4 (+2)

Ref GAIN from Con

Leicestershire County Council

Ref: 25 (+25)

Con: 15 (-27)

LDm: 11 (+2)

Lab: 2 (-2)

Grn: 1 (+1)

Ind: 1 (+1)

NOC GAIN from Con

Lincolnshire County Council

Ref: 44 (+44)

Con: 14 (-40)

LDm: 5 (+2)

Ind: 4 (-5)

Lab: 3 (-1)

Ref GAIN from Con

North Northamptonshire Council

Ref: 39 (+39)

Con: 13 (-37)

Grn: 8 (+5)

Lab: 4 (-8)

Ind: 1 (n/c)

LDm: 1 (+1)

Ref GAIN from Con

Northumberland County Council

Con: 26 (-10)

Ref: 23 (+23)

Lab: 8 (-12)

Ind: 7 (-1)

LDm: 3 (n/c)

Grn 2 (n/c)

NOC HOLD

Nottinghamshire County Council

Ref: 40 (+40)

Con: 17 (-19)

Lab: 4 (-10)

Ind: 2 (-1)

RA: 1 (-9)

LDm: 0 (-1)

Ref GAIN from Con

Oxfordshire County Council

LDm: 36 (+12)

Lab: 12 (-3)

Con: 10 (-15)

Grn: 7 (+4)

Ind: 2 (+1)

Ref: 1 (+1)

RA: 1 (n/c)

LDm GAIN from NOC

Shropshire County Council

LDm: 42 (+29)

Ref: 16 (+16)

Con: 7 (-38)

Grn: 4 (n/c)

Lab: 4 (-5)

Ind: 1 (-2)

LDm GAIN from Con

Staffordshire County Council

Ref: 49 (+49)

Con: 10 (-46)

Grn: 1 (+1)

Ind: 1 (n/c)

Lab: 0 (-4)

Ref GAIN from Con

Warwickshire County Council

Ref: 23 (+23)

LDm: 14 (+9)

Con: 9 (-33)

Grn: 7 (+4)

Lab: 3 (-3)

RA: 1 (n/c)

NOC GAIN from Con

West Northamptonshire Council

Ref: 42 (+42)

Con: 17 (-35)

Lab: 9 (-9)

LDm: 6 (+2)

Ind: 2 (n/c)

Ref GAIN from Con

Wiltshire County Council

LDm: 43 (+16)

Con: 37 (-24)

Ref: 10 (+10)

Ind: 7 (n/c)

Lab: 1 (-2)

NOC GAIN from Con

Worcestershire County Council

Ref: 27 (+27)

Con: 12 (-33)

Grn: 8 (+5)

LDm: 6 (+2)

Ind: 2 (n/c)

Lab: 2 (-1)

NOC GAIN from Con

REFORM GAIN RUNCORN & HELSBY

SIX VOTES: Nigel Farage indicates the narrow margin in Runcorn

A huge swing from Labour to Reform has delivered a very narrow victory for the latter in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election.  Reform's Sarah Pochin triumphed by just six votes, following a recount demanded by Labour.  Reform had led the first count by an even smaller margin of four votes.  The result was the narrowest Westminster by-election since the Liberal candidate unseated the Conservatives by 57 votes in the Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1973.

Labour had been defending a 14,696 majority coming into this by-election, but the swing from Labour to Reform was a huge 17.4 per cent.

The Conservatives remained third, but fell further behind and finished just 27 votes ahead of the fourth placed Green candidate.  Turnout was 46.2 per cent.

Runcorn and Helsby By-Election 2025

Sarah Pochin (Ref) 12,645 (38.7%) +20.5%

Karen Shore (Lab) 12,639 (38.7%) -14.3%

Sean Houlston (Con) 2,341 (7.2%) -8.8%

Chris Copeman (Grn) 2,314 (7.1%) +0.7%

Paul Duffy (LDm) 942 (2.9%) -2.2%

Dan Clarke (Lib) 454 (1.4%) +0.3%

Michael Williams (Ind) 363 (1.1%) New

Alan McKie (Ind) 269 (0.8%) New

Peter Ford (WPB) 164 (0.5%) New

John Stevens (REU) 129 (0.4%) New

Howling Laud Hope (Loon) 128 (0.4%) New

Catherine Blaiklock (EDm) 95 (0.3%) New

Paul Andrew Murphy (SDP) 68 (0.2%) -0.1%

Jason Philip Hughes (Volt) 54 (0.2%) New

Graham Harry Moore (ECP) 50 (0.2%) New

Ref GAIN from Lab

LABOUR'S LITTLE HELPERS

Labour's far left helpers in Runcorn (note the lack of diversity)

If you want an example of how important the Runcorn and Helsby by-election is to Labour, look no further than the deployment of their little helpers from far left third parties who are not standing in the election.  A group calling itself 'Stand Up To Racism' has been posting smear leaflets in the constituency and is currently holding a demonstration outside the count chanting: "Nigel Farage, we know you, you're a racist through and through".

As you can see from the clip below, while the chant is led by a Muslim woman, the rest of the group is almost exclusively white.  So much for diversity!

The homogeneously white make-up of these far left clowns is also plain to see from their group photo outside the Co-op at the top of this article, a 100 per cent white group complaining about a party which has a Sri Lankan Muslim as its chairman.  You couldn't make it up.

Labour has deployed these third party smear groups for decades now, with previous incarnations known as the 'Anti-Nazi League' and 'Unite Against Fascism'.  They are used wherever right-wing parties are seen as a threat to Labour dominance.  There is never an outcry about these explicitly anti-democratic exercises, because they serve the establishment.  Meanwhile, entire elections can be called into question or outright cancelled when the establishment does not get the result it wants - think Brexit, 'Russian interference' in the 2016 Trump victory, cancelled elections in Romania, outlawed candidates in France and elsewhere.

ODDS ON IN RUNCORN

Five of the 15 Runcorn candidates line up for a debate (l-r Chris Copeman (Grn),
Paul Duffy (LDm), Sean Houlston (Con), Sarah Pochin (Ref) and Karen Shore (Lab)

There are various layers of elections taking place on Thursday, but perhaps the one with most eyes upon it will be the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, triggered by the resignation of disgraced Labour MP Mike Amesbury.  Labour will be defending a 14,696 majority going into this by-election, which in normal circumstances would be a relatively easy seat to defend, but this by-election takes place in no such circumstances.

The nature of Amesbury's departure, combined with the wretched Labour government's plummeting approval ratings, has opened up the contest to a possible upset.  The bookies have Reform UK as odds on favourites, albeit their odds are drifting slightly going into election day, with Labour's odds shortening.  There is clearly some late money banking on a narrow Labour hold.

William Hill election day odds

Reform UK 3/10

Labour 12/5

Tories 200/1

Independents 250/1

All other candidates 500/1

Not surprisingly, given Amesbury's violent antics, Labour have opted for a female candidate.  Karen Shore is the former deputy leader of Cheshire West and Chester Council.  Reform have also gone for a female, ex Tory councillor Sarah Pochin.  Pochin's selection will do nothing to dissuade critics that Reform are moving in a Uniparty direction.  Tory connections asides, she is a magistrate who has also worked for major multinational energy companies such as Shell.  She screams 'establishment'.

As per usual for a Westminster by-election, the ballot paper will be a crowded affair, with 15 candidates having coughed up a deposit.  Disaffected Labour voters will be spoiled for choice as to where to place their protest vote.

Runcorn and Helsby candidates

Catherine Blaiklock (English Democrats)

Dan Clarke (Liberal)

Chris Copeman (Green)

Paul Duffy (Liberal Democrat)

Peter Ford (Workers Party of Britain)

Howling Laud Hope (Monster Raving Loony)

Sean Houlston (Conservative)

Jason Philip Hughes (Volt)

Alan McKie (Independent)

Graham Harry Moore (English Constitution)

Paul Andrew Murphy (SDP)

Sarah Pochin (Reform UK)

Karen Shore (Labour)

John Stevens (Rejoin EU)

Michael Williams (Independent)

Reform already secured second place in last year's general election and Kemi Badenoch's somewhat uninspiring start to her Tory leadership will do Reform no harm this time.  The result will come down to just how many of those 22,358 Labour voters switch parties or don't show up at all.  Crucially, the size of the Labour swing to Reform will decide the outcome and we see the result being fairly tight.

Runcorn and Helsby 2024 general election

Mike Amesbury (Lab) 22,358 (52.9%) +4.1%

Jason Moorcroft (Ref) 7,662 (18.1%) +13.3%

Jade Marsden (Con) 6,756 (16.0%) -20.8%

Chris Copeman (Grn) 2,715 (6.4%) +3.5%

Chris Rowe (LDm) 2,149 (5.1%) -1.6%

Danny Clarke (Lib) 479 (1.1%) New

Paul Murphy (SDP) 116 (0.3%) New

VOTE IF YOU HAVE ONE

If you have a vote in today's elections - a small minority of voters in England will - please use it to send Starmer and his vile party a message.  We would never advise you to vote for any particular party, just do what you feel is best placed to send that message.  England and the UK at large need a Labour government like a hole in the head.  Your vote can help put us on a path to freeing ourselves from Labour and with any luck, the Uniparty trap altogether.

MEME MONDAY #33

With Karl continuing to take a back seat, there will be no Toon Tuesday or Woke Wednesday again this week.  Last week we only posted one new meme on social media, alongside some old classics and re-edits.  It is hoped that normal service will resume in May.

Mon 21 Apr - 36 shares on Facebook.  Previously posted and subsequently 
removed by Facebook in 2024

Mon 21 Apr - 242 shares.  Imagine mistaking an Allo Allo reunion for a
'far right' gathering!  An Alibaba-Brown faux pas from 2018

Tue 22 Apr - 124 shares.  A St George's Day re-edit

Wed 23 Apr - 137 shares.  Originally posted in 2022

Fri 25 Apr - 20 shares.  The only original work posted last week

Sat 26 Apr - 107 shares.  Originally posted in 2018

Sun 27 Apr - 247 shares.  A re-edit of a meme originally posted in 2018

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