So Many Questions, Very Few Answers

The whole Ann Widdecombe business is looking very dark:

Nigel Farage Did Nothing Wrong

The UK House of Commons Code of Conduct is very clear about what gifts must be disclosed. The gift received by Nigel Farage does NOT require disclosure. The relevant rule is cited below:

42. Members should not register under this category: 

a) Benefits which could not reasonably be thought by others to be related to membership of the House or to the Member’s parliamentary or political activities, for example purely personal gifts or benefits from partners or family members, or loans or mortgage arrangements on commercial terms. However, both the possible motive of the giver and the use to which the gift is to be put should be considered. If there is any doubt, the benefit should be registered;

Nigel Farage at the time he received his gift was not a member of parliament, nor did he intend becoming an MP. Thus, no-one could reasonably think this gift was anything other than personal in nature. Such personal gifts are expressly excluded and SHOULD NOT be reported.

Mr Farage is being pilloried for following the express rules.

Clearly, there is an attempt underway to neuter him politically. With a delegitimised Andy Burnham about to become PM, a General Election may be about to be called and they want Farage pushed under. His move to resign and force a by-election in his constituency is a genius move as he has now been elevated to top of the news cycle, effectively making Burnham look weak and useless.

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmcode/1076/1076.pdf

UK Labour Now Fourth

How long has Keir Starmer got left? Labour in the UK are now below the Greens in the latest public opinion poll.

Pollster: Find Out Now, sample size 2717, 5-6 Nov., 2025 (government bold)

Reform UK 33%

Greens 18%

Conservatives 16% (Opposition)

Labour 15% (Government)

The top two parties are relatively new, while the bottom two are the old-school established parties. That must be significant.

Kemi Badenoch at PMQ's

Kemi Badenoch performs well during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons:

Follow The Petition

This is amusing, there is petition now live within the UK Parliament, calling for a General Election. UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer has upset the people, the man is a complete fool. After a short time, the number of people signing the petition has gone over 1.8 million:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143?s=08

I would like there to be another General Election.

I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election.

Update: now at 2.7 million, what a hoot.

Labour Authoritarianism

Labour politicians simply cannot resist the urge to become completely authoritarian. It took New Zealand's, Jacinda Ardern until 2020, and then the whole country found out what a monster she was. Now, in the UK it has taken only a few weeks for the UK's Keir Starmer to fully reveal himself. 

Panic at Number 10?

Was it blind panic that led Rishi Sunak to announce an election date six weeks away, right in the middle of summer?

Here are a few possibilities:

• A challenge to Sunak's leadership was looming and he wanted to go out on an election loss, not by being unseated the way predecessors were;
• War is coming against Russia, Iran and China and Sunak is running for the exit before it kicks off (this is my favourite piece of speculation);
• He heard Nigel Farage is intending to run for office, representing Reform UK, as per the embedded video below;
• Scandal is brewing, probably surrounding the British Royal Family.

I mean, Sunak made the announcement while being drenched in the rain and music was pounding away from protesters nearby. It was farcical to say the least.

What do you think? Comment in the link below.

General Election UK

Word is, the UK general election will be on the 2nd of May, 2024.

Is this going to be the end of the Conservatives?

Rochdale Result - The Truth

George Galloway Wins Rochdale

The UK just saw what may become a trend when the general election rolls around later this year. Former UK Labour MP, George Galloway won the Rochdale by-election on a platform of reviving the town's fortunes, saving its soccer team, and ending the UK's complicity with the genocide in Gaza. 

Just to put in sharp focus what just happened in Rochdale; the much touted Reform party couldn't even manage third place when all they had to compete with was Galloway, and in second place a bloke who got out of bed the day before candidates had to have their paperwork done, thought why not, let's give it a shot. Then, ahead of Reform, a Labour candidate who wasn't a Labour candidate, or he was kinda sorta; we'll never know. 

And then to cap it off Reform's leader, Richard Tice stood beside his Rochdale candidate who had been thrown out of Labour for sending inappropriate messages to a 17-year-old girl. Yeah, the people of Rochdale gave the Conservatives, Labour, and Reform a huge FU.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/01/george-galloway-wins-rochdale-byelection

Andrew Bridgen Sacked

UK Conservative MP, Andrew Bridgen has had the Conservative whip removed after he questioned the jab. He's factually correct, but that counts for nothing in this reversi world we find ourselves living in:

Side note: maybe he could jump ship to the fast rising Reform UK, giving them a presence in Westminster.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-tory-mp-andrew-bridgen-28926820

Tory MP Andrew Bridgen has lost the whip after he "crossed the line" in his criticism of the Covid-19 vaccine.

On Wednesday morning, the MP tweeted of the Covid vaccine: "As one consultant cardiologist said to me this is the biggest crime against humanity since the holocaust."

Hours later, Conservative Chief Whip Simon Hart said: "Andrew Bridgen has crossed a line, causing great offence in the process. As a nation we should be very proud of what has been achieved through the vaccine programme.