Farron: “The People Have Spoken, As a Democrat I Accept the Result”
Tim Farron, (remember him?), is giving a speech at the IPPR think tank today. He’ll be making the case that the referendum result should be ignored and that Britain should stay in the EU regardless....
View ArticleFlynn’s Expenses Plan Would Have Covered Up Own Troughing
Paul Flynn’s crackpot plan to abolish MPs’ expenses receipts has been met with the contempt it deserves. He is one of Corbyn’s top allies but even the Labour leader’s team are slapping down his...
View ArticleTheresa’s Copy and Paste Job
Theresa May tells us that “obviously over the summer – over the last few weeks – quite a lot of work has been done”. Which is good to know. So does the new government have any further detail on their...
View ArticleClinton Aide Claims Kremlin Funding UKIP
Team Clinton have continued their attacks on the Breitbart-UKIP nexus, with a top Hillary adviser boldly claiming: “the Russians are openly funding UKIP”. Neera Tanden made the extraordinary...
View ArticleTories Lead by 14 Points
The Tories’ lead over Labour is holding strong, as a gold standard survey from ICM for the Guardian reveals a 14 point gap between the parties. When these figures are plugged into Electoral Calculus’s...
View ArticleWhite Sniffs of Dover
Dover’s Mayor, Neil Rix, has been caught on video snorting an unknown white powder off a toilet cistern. Kent’s wannabe Rob Ford claimed he’d been drugged and coerced into making the tape and...
View ArticleProgressive Majority Update
The noisy progressives in our public life are forever claiming there is a “progressive majority” in Britain. More evidence from YouGov today that they are wrong. The progressive majority is a...
View ArticleTrump Goes to Mexico
Trump discussed the wall, though not who is getting the bill for it. The liberal US media has flipped out; accusing the Donald of selling out by not causing a row at his first meeting with the Mexican...
View ArticleMilne Likes Tweet Claiming “New World Order Created ISIS”
Corbyn strategy chief Seumas Milne must have pressed the wrong button by accident, because he has “liked” a tweet claiming ISIS was created by the “New World Order”. It must surely be an innocent case...
View ArticleBurgon Impressing Shadow Cabinet Colleagues in New Brief
There was much snobbery from Labour moderates when Richard Burgon landed the role of Shadow Justice Secretary, but he has quickly forged a reputation as one of the Shadow Cabinet’s top thinkers. Each...
View ArticleRemainers Split Over Freedom of Movement
The remnants of the Remain campaign have descended into an almighty squabble over their future direction. Britain Stronger In Europe has rebranded as Open Britain, a new lobbying group which has...
View Article71% of Economists Will Be Proved Wrong About Brexit
The above survey by Bloomberg was published on June 29, 2016, just 6 days after Britain voted for Brexit. It is a survey of the City’s leading economists, some of the highest paid brains in Britain....
View ArticlePiers Morgan Refuses to Deny Affair
Charlotte Edwardes interrogates Piers Morgan in the Times: Would he still hold celebrities to account? “Where there’s blatant hypocrisy, yes, of course. If you sell your wedding to OK! magazine for £1...
View ArticleKippers For Corbyn
Here’s some Labour entryism of a different kind. A number of UKIP members are getting a vote in the Labour leadership election through their trade unions. As you can see above, lifelong ‘Kippers have...
View ArticleKay Burley Tells Owen Smith: “You’re Toast”
Kay Burley gave Owen Smith some home truths on Sky News, but Oily was in denial: Kay: “You’re toast, aren’t you? I mean, you’ve got no chance of being Labour leader.” Owen: “I don’t agree with that at...
View ArticleMacShelved Pound Shop Europhile
It is a continuous struggle for Denis MacShame, the ex-convict fraudster, to make an honest living. He must look at Paul Flynn’s plans for receipt free expenses and think “if only”… Picture courtesy...
View ArticlePMI Data Shows UK Brexit Fear Has Receded
Today we saw surprising PMI data released in the US and UK. The UK surprised on the upside with a 53.3 reading, the US surprised on the downside with a 49.4 reading. The €urozone average is 51.7. That...
View ArticleSky Cut Off Trump Poster Girl Over Migrant “Bronzer” Rant
Kay Burley shut down Trump-supporting alt-righter Lauren Southern on Sky News after the Rebel Media journalist said she could “put on some bronzer, get on a dinghy boat and show up on the border of...
View ArticleLe FT: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
The financial pages seem full of good news for Brexit Britain, City AM splashes with “Bounceback“, the Wall Street Journal contemplates a Brexit boom for manufacturers and the pound recovering. Over at...
View ArticleMail Retracts “Escort” Story After Trump Hires Gawker-Bankrupting Lawyer
The Daily Mail has issued a lengthy, grovelling retraction after Melania Trump filed a lawsuit against them in a Maryland court for publishing claims she was once an escort. Trump’s attorney Charles...
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