I'm Back.

You probably haven't noticed, but I am now back in the UK, after a bit of a break. 

Well, what a few weeks the UK has had. Starmer has been given a bloody nose in the local elections and refuses to accept the reality that the people reject his policies.

A bloody nose that was so predictable, Starmer tried to stop it by withholding local elections for swathes of the UK. It was only down to Reform taking the government to court that we were allowed to have the elections, a year later than originally planned.

Since that arsekicking last week, the Government have carried on with their unpopular policies. 

We had the Kings speech. Digital ID is still going ahead at huge expense, but it's not mandatory, except that you won't be able to do anything without it, so it will become defacto mandatory to have in order to drive a car, get benefits, etc. Also in the Kings speech is the scrapping of Jury trials. Hugely unpopular. 

Basically the message of the King's speech is less freedom, more government intervention and more money required in taxes to fund it all.

Then we had Starmer's speeches. The one regarding the loss of council seats in the local elections, and the one at the end of last week regarding the protests in London. 

I can't believe I'm agreeing with Labour MP Barry Gardiner, but Starmer is deaf. Deaf to the clamouring from the people for him to reverse course on pretty much all of his policies. 

Deaf to the fact the the Unite the Kingdom movement is not Far-Right, or anti-immigration, or racist. There were plenty of immigrants at the march, who love the UK and want it to stay the way it is. 

As opposed to the Pro-Palestinian march, that was again calling for the eradication of the Jewish state and by definition, the eradication of Jews. 

Anyone looking at Starmer doesn't see a leader. They see a puppet. A puppet controlled from somewhere else. He is not listening to the people. He is not dealing with their grievances ion the way a true leader would, instead he continues with policies the public didn't ask for. So who asked for them? 

That's the biggest question now of Starmer: who is pulling his strings, or the strings of the Labour party? 

Coming up, we have the bye election created specially to get Andy Burnham into Parliament. 

Let that sink in: a Labour MP, elected by his constituency to represent his constituents, has basically stuck two fingers up to them and said, "You MUST to elect Andy Burnham". Not because it benefits the voters in Makerfield, but because it benefits the Labour party. That's not democracy. 

That's the Lords and Nobles of the land telling the peasants to fall into line and elect the person they are being told to elect. 

That's almost the modern equivalent of the Rotten boroughs, expecting the voters to vote for you. Good luck with that. Anti-Labour sentiment is high, and I guess in a constituency that voted 65% for leaving the EU, it's a bit presumptuous to just expect Labour voters to cast their vote for a Remainer. 

Prevent ain't Preventing

So, the perpetrator of the latest violent act against the Jewish community (finally recognised as a terror attack), was yet another person referred to prevent. 

How many times do we have to hear the phrase "known to the authorities" or "Referred to Prevent".

Prevent, as an organisation is supposed to de-radicalise the people referred to it. Now, I'm not sure how many have been successfully de-radicalised, but it seems there are a great many failures of the prevent strategy.

I just have to ask, what happens to prevent's failures? Are they just left to enter society and be ticking time bombs? 

I would like someone to be asking teh question, because it seems quite clear there is a whole raft of radicalised people out in the community that pose a risk to that community. 

There must be a further step for anyone that is referred to prevent and who fails to be de-radicalised. What that step is for the authorities to decide, because it's only them who have the power to remove the liberty of people. Because is that the next step incarceration? It seems it should be, given the risk these people pose. 

Oh Mandy,

The Mandleson affair continues to fester, giving more drama than a week of Eastenders episodes. 

It's quite clear that he's lost the confidence of not only opposition MPs, but MPs on his own benches. 

It's become so bad that four MPs were ejected from the commons by the speaker for openly calling Starmer a liar.

The L-word is verboten in Parliament, you can call an MP "economical with the truth", "misleading", but never, ever call them a liar.

The Parliamentary Circus convenes for a debate on the Mandelson affair today.

Olly Robbins already dropped bombshells in a meeting with the Foreign Office Select committee this morning. Letting slip that Starmer was pushing for another one of his chums to get a cushy job in the Foreign Office. But just don't tell David Lammy the Froreign Secretary about it...

Hmm. Quite the duplicitous schemer, our Kier.

Anyway, I'm sure the MPs in teh commons today will have popcorn at the ready, to enjoy the show.