MEME MONDAY #39

Normal service has resumed in the past week, with Karl's memes being shared between both Facebook pages.  If you are a Facebook user, be sure to follow both pages if you want to see our memes live.

Mon 9 Jun - 36 shares on the main Facebook page.  Apologies to the Flumps!

Mon 9 Jun - 12 shares on the Facebook backup page

Tue 10 Jun - 555 shares

Wed 11 Jun - 51 shares

Wed 11 Jun - 1,422 shares

Wed 11 Jun - 164 shares.  Globalists awarding globalists for doing globalist
things.  The awards system is corrupt and meaningless.

Thur 12 Jun - 19 shares

Fri 13 Jun - 158 shares

Fri 13 Jun - 16 shares.  Adapted from an article we published last week

Fri 13 Jun - 131 shares

Sat 14 Jun - 12 shares

Sat 14 Jun - 122 shares.  The misspelling of Tonia's surname is
deliberate and has become the norm whenever Karl addresses her.
One Facebook user criticised the misspelling, saying it damages our
credibility and also questioned the accuracy of the meme. Richey
responded thus: "Her amendment aims to legalise abortion 'at an
stage' of the pregnancy. There's no ambivalence in her objective. As
for her name, we've always called her that. She's a piece of shit. If
102,558 followers don't take us at all seriously, no-one is losing any
sleep about it. As long as your *checks notes* one follower takes
you seriously, best of luck to you."

Sun 15 Jun - 72 shares.  The only people who took exception to this in the
comments were upset that it was not a Cross of St George.  At BTLP we are
staunch Unionists and we value the contributions of our Scots, Welsh, Cornish
and Ulster-Scots supporters just as much as those who happen to be of English
descent.  No-one has suffered more under Labour rule this century than the
Welsh and Scots.  We stand with you, always.

Sun 15 Jun - 27 shares.  Posted as a reminder more than anything, as we
must maintain awareness of these seemingly cold cases and ask questions.
Will he be charged? And if not, why not?

Sun 15 Jun - 9 shares.  Corrupt and meaningless.

Karl has been utilising the Facebook stories tool in recent months and has begun tweaking existing memes in order to showcase them in the correct portrait ratio.  Here are a couple from the past week (click to enlarge).

And finally, here is an meme exclusive to binlabour.com that was never deployed on social media, primarily because the Musk-Trump feud died down quicker than an erection at the sight of Tonia Antoneonazi...

If you enjoy our work, you can buy us a metaphorical pint each here

Thank you!

BOATWATCH #14

The lull in small boat arrivals ended in spectacular fashion last week, with a four day surge that peaked with an astonishing 919 illegals rocking up on Friday alone.  This figure presented the second largest daily contingent for 2025 thus far.  As the criminals disembarked their Border Farce taxi, there was little sign of the 'women, children and babies' that Labour's Darren Jones has absurdly claimed make up the bulk of small boat invaders.

No-one is buying that, Darren.  Most people in this country possess two working eyeballs...

Total = 1,505 (up 1,505 from previous seven day period)

WE LISTENED, PLEASE BUY US A PINT (EACH!)

Our appeal against Meta's demonetisation of the Facebook backup page has failed.  We were informed a few days ago, after which Karl immediately set to work on a new funding avenue.  It is hoped that this new venture will entice new donations that can finally unlock our potential on X.

Following some objections and issues with PayPal, we looked at alternatives and settled on a site called buymeacoffee.com.  As Richey has never sunk a coffee in his life - and Karl rarely does - our tech wizard has managed to customise the page to reflect our love of the humble boozer.  To cut a long story short, you can visit our buymeacoffee page and buy us a metaphorical pint of beer each (at Wetherspoon prices no less!)

It's a metaphorical pint each, because in all seriousness the money will actually be ploughed into X, new editing software and securing our website for another year.  Any surplus is unlikely to be invested in Facebook, so long as they continue their censorious attacks upon our pages and like-minded conservatives.

Richey explains the latest developments in the following video, albeit soaking wet in the pouring rain!  Be sure to watch to the end, as Karl has added a brief montage of his work.

If you can buy us a 'pint' each (£4) or more, it helps secure our campaign going forward and imbues us with renewed confidence following recent difficulties.  Our buymeacoffee page is here or you can copy and paste the following link https://buymeacoffee.com/binlabour

Thank you for everything.

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 12.06.25

Seven council seats are up for grabs this week, with polling day falling on a Wednesday in Gloucestershire.  The other four contests took place on the traditional Thursday, including double vacancies in both Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire.

Labour were defending two seats this week, losing both of them.  They lost to the Greens in Gloucestershire, slumping to a humiliating fourth place with a big swing to Reform.  They also lost a seat to Reform in Nottinghamshire, where two seats had been vacant.

Elsewhere, Reform continued to perform exceptionally well, taking seats from an independent group in Leeds and the other Nottinghamshire seat from the Tories.  They would probably have also won two new seats in Northamptonshire, except for some bizarre reason they fielded too many candidates.  Three Reform candidates appeared on the ballot paper, but there were only two vacancies!

Severn, Stroud District Council

(held on Wednesday)

Grn: 439 (27.8%) +10.0%

Con: 425 (26.9%) -6.6%

Ref: 421 (26.7%) New

Lab: 177 (11.2%) -21.3%

LDm: 112 (7.1%) -9.1%

UKIP: 5 (0.3%) New

Grn GAIN from Lab

Morley South, Leeds City Council

Ref: 2,119 (36.8%) +29.8%

Ind: 1,415  (25.2%) -12.9%

LDm: 1,009 (17,5%) +15.9%

Lab: 634 (11.0%) -20.3%

Grn: 314 (5.4%) -3.5%

Con: 230 (4.0%) -5.6%

Ref GAIN from Ind

Haughley, Stowupland & Wetherden, Mid Suffolk District Council

Grn: 901 (64.1%) -11.4%

Con: 444 (31.6%) +7.1%

LDm: 61 (4.3%) New

Grn HOLD

Higham Ferrers, North Northamptonshire Council

(two seats, new boundaries)

Ref: 656, 556 & 335 (27.5%)

Con: 559 & 511 (23.4%)

Grn: 529 & 449 (22.2%)

Lab: 264 & 256 (11.1%)

Ind: 215 & 187 (9.0%)

LDm: 165 (6.9%)

Ref WIN x 1

Con WIN x 1

Mansfield North, Nottinghamshire County Council

(two seats)

Ref: 3,077 & 2,998 (59.3%) +57.5%

Lab: 1,259 & 1,211 (24.3%) -5.7%

Con: 500 & 426 (9.6%) -37.7%

Grn: 292 (5.6%) +2.8%

TUS: 62 & 39 (1.2%) +0.4%

Ref GAIN x 2 (1 from Con, 1 from Lab)

Abbreviations

Grn = Green

Con = Conservative

Ref = Reform UK

Lab = Labour

LDm = Liberal Democrat

UKIP = United Kingdom Independence Party

TUS = Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

Ind = Independent

DISORDER DISPARITY

This past week has seen immigration-related violence erupt on both sides of the Atlantic.  In Los Angeles, leftist activists teamed up with Mexican invaders, after federal agents removed and detained illegals from sweatshops in the city.  The agents were attacked, roads were blocked, police were attacked, property was vandalised, cars set on fire and shops looted.

In a repeat of the absurd depiction of the 2020 George Floyd riots as 'mostly peaceful protests', legacy media outlets have again chosen to describe the widespread violence as 'protests'.  On the BBC News website the disorder in LA is not referred to as 'violence', 'rioting' or even 'disorder' for that matter...

Three headlines from BBC News, just 'protests'

Meanwhile, in Northern Ireland the town of Ballymena erupted after a local girl was reportedly assaulted by migrants.  Homes were torched, police attacked and violence has since spread to other towns.  The disorder is on a much smaller scale than Los Angeles, but that hasn't stopped the BBC from reporting it in a completely different light...

Three headlines from BBC News, violence and riots

The bias is clear for all to see.  Pro-migration violence is depicted as 'protests'.  Anti-migration violence is depicted as violence.

Defund the BBC.

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #30

It's Alphabet Month, as if you didn't know already.  June is now the month that big brands temporarily change their logos to incorporate rainbow colours or, worse still, the 'progressive' Pride flag.  It is now the month that schools, councils, universities, police forces, rail companies and politicians fall over each other to embrace this insidious agenda.

This is not to say there is anything wrong with gays expressing who they are, but to dedicate an entire month when there are much more important events that barely garner a 24 hour celebration?  It's just way over the top and has become more and more intrusive to the point that it feels like indoctrination.  Gays got their 'marriage' rights and they are subject to equality laws, while their lifestyle is now propagated through mass media and entertainment every single month of the year.  Do they really need a special month?

Of course, it is no longer simply about homosexuals and bisexuals - the L, G and B are the original Alphabet People.  'Pride Month' has morphed into something altogether more sinister in recent years, with the addition of more letters and the sight of drag queens and creepy men on all fours in puppy masks cavorting in front of young children.  Why the need to involve children?  If similar behaviours were exhibited by heterosexuals, it would be called grooming, paedophilia or child sexual exploitation.  There is no simply no place for drag queens in nurseries and classrooms.

This debauchery is equally horrific to many gay and lesbian people, those who hold on to some conservative values and who believe in preserving sex-based rights.  It is also frowned upon to be conflated with and lumped in with the insurgent Alphabet People, who many feel have been added without consent or approval.  The addition of the 'T' is still rejected by some activist groups, while the inclusion of Q, I, A and more has led to mockery and confusion.  The word 'queer' used to be a derogatory term for homosexuals, but now has its own separate identity, and for 'intersex' you may require some kind of cultural Marxist degree to decipher what it actually is.  Meanwhile, the inclusion of asexual people seems to cast the net to absurd lengths.  Since when did people who aren't interested in sex full stop become a distinct group that required accreditation?  And did anyone ask them if they wanted to be assigned to a much larger community that is populated by people who are interested in sex?

Therein lies the problem with the argument put forward by the so-called 'progressives'.  Pride is no longer a celebration of people who have been historically oppressed and marginalised.  It has turned into a freak show of both comedic and sordid proportions.  Men have donned female attire for centuries in the performative arts, without so much as an expression of disgust - let alone 'oppression'.  'Non-binary' people, with their stupid pronouns, have only existed since Marxist academics invented the name and globalists propagated the concept through their vassal media and entertainment outlets.

What is it all to do with being gay?

Anyway, it's a gloriously sunny day for much of the UK, so take a seat and soak up the rays - or defy the rainbow and crouch on the floor like a rebel...

Last week's black Britons meme generated 35 comments and ten shares on Facebook.

TOON TUESDAY #58

Toon Tuesday returns with two themes - the strategic defence review and a strategic mess brewing within the PLP.  Disquiet is reportedly growing within the Cabinet as Red Rachel struggles to balance the books without upsetting frontbench comrades.  Meanwhile, backbench revolts are around the corner as she continues to try and slash benefits.

Starmer has been beating the drum of war once again, as if Putin's Russia is going to rock up to our shores when it cannot even successfully invade a neighbouring state.  Then again, if they sent their forces by small boat...

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Morten Morland for The Times

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Morten Morland for The Times

Andy Davey for The Daily Telegraph

Stanley McMurtry for The Mail on Sunday

Dave Brown for The Independent

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

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STARMER IS A C***

Unfortunately, Starmer wasn't at Saturday's game

On Saturday night around 7,000 England away fans took up a couple of chants that summed up the general mood of the nation.  To the tune of 'Give it Up' by KC and the Sunshine Band, they sang "Na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na-na-na now, Starmer is a c***, is a c***, Starmer is a c***."  They are also reported to have chanted "Keir Starmer is a wanker, is a wanker."

The fans had travelled to Barcelona, but were subjected to one of the most dire performances in living memory as their team struggled to beat that 'mighty' football nation of Andorra - population less than Weston-super-Mare.  Perhaps it was a sign of their frustration beyond the footy, that inspired them to strike up the chant.  Despite ITV's attempts to phase out the chants, they were audible enough to make headlines.

On Sunday morning, Trevor Phillips of Sky News put it to Labour minister Peter Kyle that the obscene chants displayed a 'level of unpopularity' that was perhaps 'a little early' in Labour's term.  Hove MP Kyle tried to laugh off the question by inferring that the England team do not concern him, as he only watches Brighton and Hove Albion.  Not a good response, if you are on a national station trying to win over the nation.

Kyle's floundering response didn't get any better as he added:  "This is football chanting, is it not the spirit of the game?"  Phillips pointed to the England manager's assessment of the chanting, who said it had been 'unacceptable'.  Kyle then embarked on the usual 'we've had to take difficult decisions' line, because Labour inherited such a mess from the terrible Tories.

Watch the clip below.

No, Peter, England fans won't be chanting 'nice things about' Labour next time around.  They won't forget in a hurry that all their bills continue to rise, their disposable income shrinks, crime continues to spiral and the invasion by small boats grows.  These are the consequences of decisions that you say you 'had to make', but which you had previously pledged not to make.

In short, you lied in order to get into office.

MEME MONDAY #38

Our content is sluggishly returning to normal, with a couple of new memes premiering last week.  More are on the way and all our regular website features will return this week, including Toon Tuesday.  Thank you for your patience.

Thur 5 June - 1,846 shares on Facebook

Sun 8 June - 39 shares

Last weekend marked five years since America's 'mostly peaceful protests' reached our own shores.  Far left activists, who had been demanding Covid lockdowns and state tyranny for weeks, hit the streets with more than a whiff of hypocrisy as they pulled down statues, damaged property and attacked police officers for two days running, which to be fair was fairly tame in comparison to the mayhem across the Pond.  The rampant violence across the US that followed the death of George Fentanyl Floyd included 19 dead, thousands of arrests and billions of dollars worth of property damage - but they were 'mostly peaceful' according to legacy media.

We marked the anniversary by sharing some of our memes from that weekend...

EYE ROLLS FOR REEVES

The eye rolls, the glares, the swaying, the fidgeting, the swallowed yawns, the looks of total disgust and dejection - if you haven't seen the Rochdale factory worker who inadvertently stole the limelight from Rachel Reeves, then the compilation video below is for you...

It was a short three minute speech, but clearly three minutes too long for the absolute legend who was positioned to Reeves' right.  Her drivel about 'working people' is falling on deaf ears.

BOATWATCH #13

Border Farce reports zero small boat crossings in the last week.  It's not clear why there is a lull in small boat arrivals as summer arrived, but it's highly unlikely to be related to anything Chairman Starmer has done.  We should also note that these figures do not equate to zero incursions, with multiple other avenues exploited by migrants and people smugglers.

In addition to lorries, they are also being smuggled in on yachts, which evade detection by docking in private marinas far beyond the Kent coast.  In March this year 20 Albanians were found hiding below deck on a luxury yacht bound for Newquay in Cornwall.

Total = 0 (down 1,195 from previous week)

BY-ELECTIONS 05.06.25

It was a busy Thursday this week, with a major by-election north of the border, plus eight council by-elections south of the border.

In Hamilton there was an MSP vacancy following the death of the SNP incumbent.  Usually such elections are a walkover for the defending party, but the declining popularity of the SNP saw the party lose to Labour and narrowly avoid a third place finish.  The SNP had been defending a 4,582 majority.  

Once again, Reform UK came from nowhere to push the main parties in a tight three-way contest.  Reform also enjoyed a significant swing from the SNP, in line with recent polling that suggested even some pro-independence voters were considering a vote for Reform.  We live in interesting times.

Hamilton, Larkhall & Stonehouse, Scottish Parliament

(first past the post)

Lab: 8,559 (31.5%) -2.0%

SNP: 7,957 (29.4%) -16.8%

Ref: 7,088 (26.2%) New

Con: 1,621 (6.0%) -11.5%

Grn: 695 (2.6%) New

LDm: 533 (2.0%) -0.8%

SSP: 278 (1.0%) New

SFP: 219 (0.8%) New

Ind: 109 (0.4%) New

UKIP: 50 (0.2%) New

Lab GAIN from SNP

While Labour will be cock-a-hoop with the Holyrood result, the story further south was dismal.  They lost all three seats they were defending to Reform.  The Labour vote share was down in every single ward, ranging from a marginal 0.2 per cent to a whopping 50.5 per cent.

Reform also gained a seat from the Conservatives, while it was also a good night for the Lib Dems who held two and gained two, both from the Tories.

Somercotes, Amber Valley Borough Council

Ref: 396 (45.3%) New

Lab: 346 (39.6%) -27.0%

Con: 53 (6.1%) -15.1%

LDm: 48 (5.5%) -1.1%

Grn: 20 (2.3%) -3.3%

Ind: 11 (1.3%) New

Ref GAIN from Lab

Fairstead, Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk

Ref: 289 (39.1%) New

LDm: 275 (37.2%) New

Lab: 118 (16.0%) -29.7%

Grn: 36 (4.9%) -16.9%

Ind: 21 (2.8%) New

Ref GAIN from Lab

North Lynn, Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk

Ref: 278 (49.6%) New

LDm: 123 (22.0%) New

Lab: 107 (19.1%) -50.5%

Grn: 52 (9.3%) New

Ref GAIN from Lab

Frinton, Tendring District Council

Ref: 1,222 (57.2%) New

Con: 577 (27.0%) -15.0%

Lab: 168 (7.9%) -7.0%

Grn: 93 (4.3%) -8.0%

LDm: 78 (3.6%) New

Ref GAIN from Con

Burgess Hill North, West Sussex County Council

LDm: 1,088 (40.9%) n/c

Ref: 707 (26.6%) New

Con: 618 (23.3%) -14.9%

Grn: 153 (5.8%) -5.4%

Lab: 92 (4.7%) -5.0%

LDm HOLD

Hassocks & Burgess Hill South, West Sussex County Council

LDm: 1,694 (55.3%) -6.6%

Ref: 762 (24.9%) New

Con: 310 (10.1%) -15.9%

Grn: 175 (5.7%) New

Lab: 123 (4.0%) -8.1%

LDm HOLD

St Leonard's Forest, West Sussex County Council

LDm: 644 (32.5%) +2.2%

Ref: 584 (29.5%) New

Con: 401 (20.2%) -34.3%

Grn: 259 (13.1%) New

Lab: 94 (4.7%) -10.5%

LDm GAIN from Con

Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates, Wokingham Borough Council

LDm: 1,028 (31.2%) +3.2%

Lab: 793 (24.1%) -0.2%

Con: 788 (23.9%) -4.2%

Ref: 486 (14.8%) New

Grn: 189 (5.5%) -6.2%

TUS: 17 (0.5%) New

LDm GAIN from Con

Abbreviations

SNP = Scottish National Party

Lab = Labour

Ref = Reform UK

Con = Conservative

Grn = Green

LDm = Liberal Democrat

SSP = Scottish Socialist Party

SFP = Scottish Family Party

UKIP = United Kingdom Independence Party

TUS = Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

Ind = Independent

DIANEGATE

A viral video is doing the rounds featuring Labour veteran Diane Abbott wandering around confused behind some iron railings in Westminster.  The brief clip shows her meandering trapped and lost, unable to fathom the use of a gate that is right in front of her.  The clip ends when a young lady approaches and frees our intrepid Diane from her internment.

Watch below.

We know Diane likes a drop or two in the afternoon, perhaps she'd had one too many in a House of Commons bar...

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #29

With Karl due back in action some time next week, we are beginning to phase some of the regular features back in this week, beginning with a Woke Wednesday that attempts to distort British history.

Last year a London exhibition made the bizarre claim that the first Britons to inhabit these islands were black and that they lived here for thousands of years before the arrival of white Europeans.  Other exhibits claimed that the population of Roman York was '11 per cent black' and Roman ruler Septimius Severus was black.

The claims were based on the content of a childen's book by controversial author Atinuke, who is originally from Nigeria, but now lives in Wales.  The book, titled Brilliant Black British History, goes even further, asserting to its young impressionable readers that Stonehenge was built by black people.

Such outlandish nonsense is incredibly dangerous, as it ties into Marxist attempts to rewrite British and European history.  This dogma is now finding its way into the curriculum, with pupils to be taught that Vikings were a multi-cultural bunch with many of them black and/or Muslim.  This approach is referred to as 'decolonising history', or in other words 'presenting outright lies as facts'.  So far from being an isolated case of an African immigrant repainting our history to her own racial ends, this is actually a much bigger campaign to subvert history in order to brainwash youngsters.  Popular entertainment, in which historical dramas now feature historically inaccurate multi-ethnic casts, is also part of this Marxist agenda to destroy the West from within.

The intention is to slowly extract all native cultural bonds from the masses, so that they are left with no national, ethnic or religious identity of their own.  With nothing left to fight for, they are expected  to meekly accept communist rule.

If we cannot prevent the far left from indoctrinating our children in school, then we must begin removing our children from school.

The previous Woke Wednesday meme, featuring males in female sports, generated eight comments and ten shares on Facebook.

BOATWATCH #12

Between the 24th and 30th of May there were zero reported small boat arrivals.  This lull came to a spectacular end on Saturday with an astonishing fleet of 19 boats carrying 1,195 invaders.  This broke the previous daily record for 2025, set only the week before.  There is a slight discrepancy between the official Border Farce figures and those reported by legacy media.  News reports are reporting 18 boats carrying 1,194 migrants.  It is not clear why there is one less boat and one less migrant in these news reports..

Total = 1,195 (up 277 from previous week)

GAZA MP BEMOANS 'RACISM'

Adnan Hussain MP, hand outstretched

According to the 2021 census, the white British occupants of the Lancastrian town of Blackburn presented a dwindling majority of just 57 per cent.  The expanding Pakistani-descended population stood at around 35 per cent and it was this latter smaller, but much more powerful demographic that ensured that in 2024 the town elected an MP from outside the Labour party for the first time in 69 years.

That MP was a solicitor from Burnley called Adnan Hussain.

Hussain defeated the Labour incumbent Kate Hollern by the narrow margin of just 132 votes.  He got himself elected, not on the promise of making Britain great again or helping local people with day to day issues, but purely on the back of Muslim anger about events taking place thousands of miles away in Gaza.  He was not alone in that general election, for three Muslim brothers elsewhere around the country got themselves elected on the back of a similar ticket.  Together, alongside Jeremy Corbyn, they went on to form the Independent Alliance in the House of Commons.  Their logo is inspired by the flag of Palestine and is made up of the four colours of that flag.

The logo of The Independent Alliance

These five MPs are more concerned with Gaza than they are about the constituencies that elected them, a consequence of modern multi-cultural Britain and the fractured society that has been imported and imposed on our nation.  Corbyn asides, the four Muslim MPs have their own fifth columnist agenda.

This was evident last week when Hussain posted in defence of ritual halal slaughter on his X account - in between all the posts about Palestine.  The motivation for his post appeared to be a forthcoming Commons debate on banning ritual slaughter, in which livestock are widely killed without pre-stunning.  The petition that triggered this debate was nudged past the required 100,000 signatures largely thanks to BTLP, after we shared it to our Facebook page.  At that time the petition was struggling to reach the threshold and was due to expire on May 21.  Thankfully, the petition enjoyed a late surge and will now be debated in the Commons on June 9.

The problem with Hussain's assertion is that the petition text does not even mention halal and instead refers generically to 'non-stun slaughter'.  The only reference to halal on the petition page is found in the government response, which opens with the following statement:  "The government encourages the highest standards of animal welfare at slaughter and would prefer all animals to be stunned before slaughter, but it respects the rights of Jews and Muslims to eat meat prepared in accordance with their religious beliefs."

The statement goes on to defend halal slaughter with the claim that 'a significant proportion of halal meat comes from animals that are stunned before slaughter'.  Despite the opening reference to 'Jews', it does not mention kosher slaughter, but that is no fault of the person who wrote the petition.

As for Hussain's claim that 'racism' could be motivating detractors of halal slaughter, followers of Islam do not constitute a specific ethnic group, therefore his claim is baseless.  By driving a wedge between the two, it's no stretch to suggest that the only bigotry on show here is from Hussain himself.  His intention is to paint Muslims as a collective victim, while Jews are allowed to proceed with their own stun-free barbarism free of criticism.  However, those of us who wish to see an end to halal slaughter also demand the same for kosher slaughter.

Hussain's post has since been subject to an X community context note, which decrees that the petition calls for a ban on all religious non-stun slaughter, which clearly would apply to both halal and kosher slaughter.  Jog on, chancer.

RENT FREE FARAGE

Keir Starmer is running scared and with good reason.  Reform have led every major opinion poll since the turn of May and despite all of his recent policy shifts and u-turns, Nigel Farage's party have actually extended its national poll lead.  Starmer is rattled and Farage is living rent free in his head.

On Thursday the PM more or less admitted that Farage is now the de facto opposition leader, the primary threat to Labour (sorry, Kemi).  He visited a factory in St Helens and gave a speech entirely dedicated to smearing not Reform, but Farage personally.  The name 'Nigel Farage' dropped out of his mouth 16 times in just under seven minutes.  The thrust of his message was how Farage would handle the economy and he made comparisons with the famed 'disastrous mini-budget' of Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss.  In a tone deaf moment he declared: "The question you have to ask about Nigel Farage is 'Can you trust him?'"

While the answer is probably a resounding 'no', coming from a constantly backpedaling serial liar this is an undeniable case of the pot calling the kettle black.  There must have been some raised eyebrows on the shop floor when he uttered that dumb question.

Whatever Starmer had hoped to achieve with this speech, it unravelled from the very first question posed to him by the assorted media pack.  Within seconds of finishing his short speech, he invited a question from a BBC reporter who delivered this stunning burn: "The speed of the decline in your popularity is historically unprecedented, isn't this speech today an admission that you have failed and Nigel Farage understands voters better than you?"  Starmer was visibly dumbfounded, having seemingly miscalculated that a Beeb hack would probably give him an easier ride.

His response was to blame the 'absolute mess inherited' from the Tories.

The Beeb reporter was followed by several others, each of whom delivered a damaging rebuke to the PM.  His big anti-Farage set piece quickly turned into a car crash and he looked like a deer in the headlights as each damning question was put to him.  A compilation of the onslaught compiled by Alex Armstrong of GB News can be seen below, albeit chopped and edited out of sequence.

The reporters heard in the following video appear in the following order: Peter Walker of The Guardian, Harry Farley of BBC News, Chris Hope of GB News, Amanda Akass of Sky News and Aggie Chambre of LBC.  The final question, regarding national insurance and the child benefit cap, comes from a reporter named 'Nora' who we have been unable to identify.

On Thursday Reform took a council seat from Labour in south Wales with a massive swing.  Senedd elections are taking place next year and Reform are in second place according to the most recent poll, which doesn't sound too disastrous for Labour in itself, except Labour were in third!  However, that poll was carried out at the end of April - before Reform's landslide victories across England - so it is more than likely that Reform are now also ahead of Plaid.

Starmer talks a lot about 'change', but the seismic change currently happening in British politics is seemingly beyond his control.  And if he's losing legacy media entities such as The Guardian and the BBC, there may be a change at the top in Downing Street happening long before the next general election.