Reform Win Runcorn.

Well, as predicted, Reform won the night last night, winning the majority of local councilors, the Runcorn Parliamentary seat and a Mayoralty.

A number of councils are now under Reform control. It's now up to Reform to prove that can govern successfully at a local level, so the public can begin to trust them at a national level. They. Must. Not. Fuck. It. Up.

Reform's internal political shenanigans of the past has to stop and they need to nurture the local party machine as it heads into power in several local councils. 

The closeness of the race to be MP for Runcorn, just six votes in it, gives Labour cold comfort. I believe that if it wasn't for the issue around the sacking of Rupert Lowe and the various revelations about his actual immigration policy in interviews by Farage, Reform would have done a lot better. But some potential Reform voters wavered. 

It's this sort of thing Reform need to stop. They need a clear and concise message with detail to back it up. If as Farage says, they are the true opposition to Labour, they need to put together a shadow cabinet and Farage needs to allow the party to organically agree policy and stick to it, rather than the on-the-hoof laise-faire attitude to policy Farage has. Telling people what they want to hear, or creating soundbites, is not a viable policy and Reform will be ripped to shreds in a General Election.

But a win is a win. Reform have put a shot across the bows of the legacy parties. They have sailed past the Tories and more than square with Labour, they are overhauling them.

Labour has to think long and hard about strategy going forward. Tony Blair (of all people) has opened the door for Labour to pull back on the Net Zero nonsense. Bankrupting the country on the altar of ideology is not the way to win hearts and minds. If we must attempt Net Zero, then we must as I've said before take everyone with us. 

Enough of the sticks, the higher taxes, the directives, we need carrots and we need them now. For Net Zero to succeed, it has to be affordable and viable.

As I've previously blogged, renewable energy has had 15 years of subsidies. You'd think that by now the technology would be mature enough to pay for itself and there would be no need to incentivise companies to invest. After all, renewable energy is free, it's just the set-up cost that is required. Surely if you are getting energy for free and you are charging for it, you can make a bloody profit? If the set-up cost is too high to make a profit from free energy over the lifetime of the generation equipment, then it's not a viable option, is it? Don't get me started on the need to back up every single MegaWatt of energy with reliable fossil-fueled alternatives.

Then there's the clusterfuck of a policy that are the imposed changes on the automotive sector. Directives from on high telling manufacturers how many electric vehicles they must sell, while they can't sell them because people don't want them. Make the fuckers attractive, invest in the charging technology, make them cheap enough, give them enough range and people will buy them. Don't force dealers into underhanded tactics to sell customers vehicles that don't meet even the manufacturers expectations. That's just a dick move.

Anyway, hopefully there are consultants busy in meetings this afternoon as council after council fall to Reform, looking at what the people want and finding a way for the Labour party to deliver it. 

I'll be looking for more direct action against the illegal immigrants. I'll be looking for Border Force to be picking them up mid-channel and taking them right back to France. I'll be looking to the Government to make aiding and abetting people traffickers a criminal offense. I'll be looking to the Navy to then enforce that law by Arresting and impounding the French Navy boats that regularly assist the dinghies, rather than pick them up and take them back to France.

I'll be looking to the Government stopping the ridiculous policy of housing illegals and instead just sending them back to a country of their choice immediately if they turn up without documents to prove their identity. 

I'll be looking to the government to extract itself from any international agreement or body that hamstrings their sovereign right to control the borders of the UK. 

I'll be looking to the Labour Party to at the very least consign the current cabinet and it's ludicrous ideology to history, including Kier Starmer.

Minimum Rents in UK Set to Rise to £5000 Per Month.

 I, like most people in rental properties are bracing ourselves for a massive increase in rents this year.

The Labour government have come up with a cunning plan to reduce the number of immigrants in 4-star hotels and remove the poor optics of immigrants with taxpayer-funded mobile phones being handed taxpayer-funded benefits whilst living in high-end hotels funded by the taxpayer.

Instead, what they are going to do is pay landlords £5000 a month to house the immigrants in rental properties. 

Given that rental prices where I live and most of the places on the list of towns where this is being implemented is around the £1000 a month, you know what is going to happen.

Landlords are going to prefer the guaranteed five grand a month to someone who struggles to pay 1K. 

Instantly, overnight,  all across the country, the median rate for a flat will be £5k a month. 

So if you are on a low wage like most of the country, government policy took away your ability to pay for a mortgage and own a house, so you went into rental property where you could just afford to stay. 

Now government policy is about to take the possibility of renting away from you.

Not only that, but local councils have limits on the price they will pay in rent allowance. So if you are on benefits and suddenly your rent increases to reflect the new status quo of 5K a month, your benefits won't cover it. What will the landlord do if your rent allowance won't keep up with the new median? Yes, you'll be evicted.

So those on low wages and the unemployed become homeless and the immigrants become homed. 

Now tell me if that's not designed to cause tension between the immigrants and those displaced from their homes. 

Not only that, as the low wage employed lose their homes, they will more than likely become unemployed. Which means the burden of this 5K a month payment falls on fewer and fewer people. So taxes go up to pay for it. 

There can only be one conclusion: the government WANT there to be a conflict. They want a civil war and for there to be a war between the indigenous and the immigrant.

I can't see there being any other answer. Government policy is being designed deliberately to take ever more from the people already here and giving it to the people who have newly arrived. The end result can only be conflict. 

But here's the kicker: what sort of wage do you need to earn to get £5000 a month? That's just to pay the rent, no food, no heating, nothing else, but earn £5000 a month in order to pay the rent.

Guess. What sort of salary would you need to service that demand?

Ready?

Somewhere in the region of £90,000 p.a. 

Actually it may be more, because tax rates are higher, so more of your salary is removed to pay for the immigrants. It may actually exceed £100K to be able to guarantee to be able to pay the new 5K a year rate.

That means that property rental will be removed from huge swathes of the population. How many people do you know that earn that sort of money? 

This is going to be an interesting 12 months as the new normal begins to kick in.

Oh, I forgot to mention that the main corporate owner of multiple rental properties in the UK also has a stake in the company managing the payments to landlords. It's so fucking corrupt it's literally unbelievable. You wouldn't believe it if it wasn't an actual, verifiable fact.

Also, if you are homeless, you lose the ability to vote. So the government are displacing people into homelessness to replace them with people who are more guaranteed to vote Labour. Just yet another level of corruption eh?

What has Kier Starmer Ever Done for Us?

I was watching Aaron Bastani/Novara Media's latest video above. Even though he is a Socialist, I like Aaron. He comes to the party without the batshit crazy socialism that infests the left at the moment. 

He went to Runcorn, to view how things are shaping up for the local election for their MP is shaping up.

For a Labour-Supporting Socialist, it wasn't good news. Labour was roundly criticised for for reneging on promises made before the election and cutting the Winter Fuel allowance. I guess it was hard to listen to, but not entirely unexpected. 

A further problem is what has Labour done for Runcorn, both locally and Nationally? How has Labour improved the lives of Runcorn residents. Locally nothing, as Aaron toured areas with boarded up shops and a run-down shopping centre. You'd think that the local Labour controlled council would be able to manage the environment around them. Like many local councils in the North West, Halton Borough Council overseeing Runcorn demands very much in council tax, but delivers very little in return.

Runcorn is a staunch Labour seat, the 16th most secure Labour seat in the country out of 640. It's pretty much voted Labour for decades. But now, the race is very close, with some saying that the Reform party could swing a win. You'd think that would be an immense shock to the Labour machine, but I don't think it would be.

In Aaron's interviews, there were a couple of staunch Labour supporters, that even given the missteps of the past 12 months and the prior lies used to get in power, they still thought that Labour were doing a good job, just not communicating the good work they were doing effectively enough. Hmm, that's a stretch: I can't for the life of me think of anything positive the Labour party have done in the nearly 12 months in power.

That's despite cutting the winter fuel allowance, enanthema to Labour supporters prior to last year's election. That's despite Labour claiming the working class of Southport are all Far-Right and putting them in jail for retweets and X posts. The working class that Labour were formed to champion. That's despite the Labour party aiming to reduce thew welfare bill.

Also don't forget that Runcorn is 30-ish miles away from the Muslim Rape Gangs of Greater Manchester and Southport, where the little girls were killed (and the natives went apeshit about it and were called far right by Starmer). Immigration is a big issue in the North West.

The notes in the Aaron Bastani interview were ones of a Labour party that no longer supports the working class, a Labour Party that lied to get into power, a Labour party that wants to reduce the welfare state. Exactly what the Tories traditionally aim for. The final point being that there isn't any point in the working class voting for Labour or Tory, so why not vote Reform, to shake things up a bit and make people take notice. Every time Starmer opens his mouth, it's not to support the working class, it's to suppress them. It's not to prioritise their needs in the face of oppressive capitalists, instead it prioritises immigrants over the indigenous. 

I think Aaron's interviews sum up the state of UK politics and the Labour party in particular succinctly.

The Labour party have been a net negative for the UK, their message is a huge ball of negativity too. Big black holes, there's absolutely nothing we can do, it's all the Tory's fault, if you disagree with me you are far right, if you complain you will go to prison.

Right now the Labour approval rating has fallen off the ship, has sunk to the bottom of the Marianas Trench and is still down there digging a deeper hole. It can't be worse.

Reform can only gain massive support. Rishi Sunak's Tory party and Kier Starmer's Labour party have both conspired to ablate confidence in the political status quo of the UK. 

People are ready for real change. They will vote for Reform, because they have no other choice. No one is listening, no one is positively making a difference. It's the same-old-same-old.

The migrant issue may not be the cause, but successive government's lack of action and failure to get a grip of the immigrant issue has made it a singular hill that the two-party system will die on. 

You have to ask why? Why have successive governments failed to act. Why have they failed to take the actions necessary to stop the dinghies or allow the removal of illegal immigrants?

If removal of the UK from the ECHR is necessary, why has it not been done? If UK legislation is the issue, why has it not been changed? 

You also have to ask: What has Kier Starmer, or the Labour Party done for the UK in their 12 months of tenure? 

Government Harassment of Dissident Voices.

Over the weekend a number of Tommy Robinson Supporters on YouTube have essentially either relinquished vlogging about politics, or have removed themselves from YouTube altogether.

Prime amongst these is Paul Thorpe, a patriot, TR supporter and supporter of free speech in general. 

He's alluded to the amount of harassment he's had to put up over the past few weeks. Not from other YouTubers, or nasty commenters, but THE STATE, in the form of the Police.

He's a frequent traveller to Spain and back, having family over there and the past few times, he's been detained at the airport. No real valid reason, just harassment. 

But in a Vlog at the weekend, Paul mentioned that he's been stopped by the Police several times. Again, for not real reason, other than that the Police can. 

So he has markers on his passport for entry at ports and airports and it seems he has markers on his vehicles now as well. 

Paul really needs to get a subject access request in play with the Police to find out why those markers have been placed and by whom. 

We all know that the Police is full of far-left activists or Muslim Activists, any one of which could have misused the National Police Computer system to put a marker on Paul and his family.

I get that he must have been under intense pressure from his family to put his head down and shut up, to be quiet on the political subjects he vlogs on. 

But the thing is, it's not just Paul. Two or three more vloggers have gone silent, or released videos saying they are not going to vlog about politics going forward. 

So it's not just one guy being persecuted, it's half a dozen. 

But when does the Police get involved over political opinions? Why should they? Why are MPs not up in arms about this overreach? It's not like they are spewing extremism or hate. 

This stinks to high heaven. We are in a Police State.