Firstly, a warning: the following will exercise your laughter muscles. Also, If you hanker for the usual MSM ‘news’ compilation, go here. In the following I’m looking at a report in the Sunday Times which had me howling with laughter. It’s a great piece to start the week with (emphases are all mine):
“Sir Keir Starmer will begin an audacious attempt this week to make Labour the party to stem illegal immigration. He will promise to “smash” the criminal gangs and “bring order to the border”.” (link, paywalled)
How? Well, he’s firstly going to travel to have a chat with Europol, and then to a conference of ‘centre left leaders’ in Montreal where he’ll “argue that they cannot cede the subject of immigration to right-of-centre parties and will call for greater international co-operation to tackle people trafficking.” (link, paywalled).
That’ll surely help because people will gladly accept policies from the Left and never mind that these policies were denounced for decades as being ‘extreme-right wing fascist populists and racist’. After all, as always with the Left, “it’s ok when we do it”. Starmer’s plan which he’ll describe to Europol is simply breathtaking. He will:
“Set up a specialist cross-border cell in the National Crime Agency (NCA). This will be paid for by redirecting funds from the government’s Rwanda deportation scheme, which Labour regards as “unworkable”. – Send elite officers to work with border officials of “upstream” countries to disrupt the entire people-smuggling supply chain. – Fund more caseworkers to clear the backlog of asylum claims, which costs taxpayers £6 million a day in hotel and other accommodation bills.” (link, paywalled)
‘Elite officers’? Where are those going to come from? The Home Office? And where are all those ‘case workers’ going to come from? The truly a-ma-zinggg reason for Starmer going to be the saviour in the ‘poor refugees’ crisis is his experience as Director of Public Prosecutions, a post he held from 2008 to 2013.
I recall that during this time the ‘poor refugees’ arrived via Calais, hiding in lorries. I cannot recall Starmer being prominent in any ‘people trafficking case’ as DPP. But now, according to Labour election strategists, this is going to be his and Labour’s trump card. According to a ’senior Labour source’,
“Keir is going to use his experience as the former top prosecutor in the country to destroy these gangs. We are going to use every tool in the box. Last year the government only prosecuted half the number of people smugglers than when Keir was DPP.” (link, paywalled)
No, yon source didn’t give any numbers regarding those prosecutions. You will believe Labour, won’t you, especially since there’s this:
“[…] Starmer will argue that the left needs to tackle illegal immigration and accuse right-wing parties of deliberately talking about the problem without solving it, in a effort to make electoral gains.” (link, paywalled)
See – when Labour picks up an issue it’s from the goodness of their hearts and never for ‘electoral gains’! No, don’t ask why they never even mentioned this issue when in opposition.
To crown it all, Labour ‘election’ strategists, using focus groups with ‘hero voters’ – yes, that’s what they’re called and no, nothing is written about who or what yon ‘hero voters are’ – have found that people are indeed worried about immigration. The numbers coming from a poll really ought to give Labour a headache:
“68 per cent of voters said 13 years of Conservative government had been bad for Britain, with just 32 per cent thinking it had been good. But only 32 per cent of voters thought Labour would have done a better job while 27 per cent said they would have been worse and 41 per cent thought they would have done much the same.” (link, paywalled)
Does this mean that, in order to get Starmer into No 10, suddenly all those voters won’t be vilified for being racist? Interesting. I wonder though how Starmer and his minions will fare when they’ll meet with what Matt Goddwin described as ‘Charity-Judicial Industrial Complex’. I’m sure as former DPP ‘Keir’ will have a solution ….
That’s all I have for today. I wonder what Saint Tone will have to say to Starmer. After all, it was his infamous policy which opened the floodgates. Have a good day.
A few days ago I saw that Belgium now intercepts and turns back any migrant boats leaving their coast, and the flow has almost dried up. Unlike France which escorts them happily on their way.
Now I see they have said they will take only families seeking asylum and no single, male [economic] migrants. Where is the international outcry? Why is there not a ‘Care for Ostend’? Where is the ECHR? And if they can do it why not we?
Answer: Because Belgium is unimportant but the UK needs to be destroyed and any remaining influence dissipated.
The opening lines of Peter Mair’s 2013 book ‘Ruling the Void’ are: “The age of party democracy has passed. Although the parties themselves remain, they have become so disconnected from the wider society, and pursue a form of competition that is so lacking in meaning, that they no longer seem capable of sustaining democracy in its present form”.
LibLabCon – a competition lacking in meaning alright. Announcements by any of the parties is just smoke and mirrors.
‘Charity-Judicial Industrial Complex’. That would be all the government funded support industry that the tories will not shut down. Immigration lawyers, fake charities and serco like companies sucking billions from public funds into private hands? Expect they all waiting for Starmer to help their profits grow.
Starmer……..he is full of waffle and crap, honestly its bloody laughable what he comes out with. How anyone can take this dolt seriously is beyond me. Meeting with Europol and the need to go to Montreal to have a meeting with other leftie parties in order to shore up doubts in his own mind about whether he would be doing the right thing by taking the English Channel migrant crisis seriously shows to me at least he doesn’t have the courage of his own conviction, assuming of course that he has any in the first place. He has not an ounce of original thought in his bonce which is deeply worrying, considering the idiocy of the present useless bunch in power. To get some idea how the average person in the street thinks about Starmer and his equally laughable shadow cabinet, one has to only look at an article on the BBC online news site today where he and they walking up a street seemingly enjoying their 50 yard stroll, whilst the public in the background are taking absolutely no notice of them whatsoever apart from one or two girls with their hands to their faces giggling. If this was supposed to be a PR stunt it spectacularly backfired. And I sincerely hope that if that clownish Starmer is going to Montreal he will be travelling by rowing boat, which I suspect is not the case and will go by jet instead pushing all that carbon emissions into the atmosphere. His strap line should be ‘don’t do as I do, but do as I say. I wish he would just do us all a favour and go away to Montreal permanently…..
CH- I see you are warming up to your task of slagging off our awfully nice, next Prime Minister (!).
Joking aside, I think GB will be going from the ridiculous to the downright ludicrous, missing out sublime altogether. One non-entity replacing another non-entity – sooper.
Lord Biscotte of Eaton Square……..be assured that I will not be slagging off the prime minister. I have given up on him and he is toast anyway and its just a matter of time now. Besides which I don’t want to upset you because I know you are one of his greatest fans (like Boris was) and that you sit in the other House in all your robes and ermine refinery, a stone’s throw from the House of Peacocks as Vivian might say……
Col. Aitch- Lord Biscotte of St. John’s Wood, please. aka Supreme Commander (for Life).
CH, you have ‘form’. How much time would Dom Cummings need to get a party together for the election next Autumn? Or has that time passed?
If Cummings led UKIP ( But he’ld be mad without pledged constitution changes ), he could easily take balance.. But he isn’t daft. Nobody sane would take it.
ps There’s a lot of talk about bureaucracy lately. Care is needed. Without bureaucrats organisation is almost impossible, and fraud and dishonesty and finance etc becomes almost impossible. Without computers it becomes easy.
Lord Biscotte, Biscuit Towers, Eaton Square……….bearing in mind that Farage and Tice got The Brexit Party up and running after six weeks in 2019 ready to fight the European elections, it shows that providing that one has the all important finance in place, donors, a bank account, a party website set up, a company limited by guarantee with Companies House, party rule book, the party’s governing executive in place and the party registered with the Electoral Commission, it can be done relatively quickly providing everyone pulls their weight. I would have thought it is unlikely that your best mate Sunak will call a general election before September 2024, so Cummings will have plenty of time, but he would also have to select suitable people to be election candidates and that will take time and will not be easy. And more importantly the new party must must have an army of activists at their disposal in each constituency to do all the donkeywork on the street and at the doorstep. My guess is that many present Conservative Constituency Associations the length and breath of the country will transfer over to the new party once formed, but this party will need to appeal to people right across the political spectrum to have any real chance. Me and another chap stood down as Reform UK candidates in 2021 and formed a local Independents Party which was on a much much smaller scale and this was set up within six weeks with much of the above done, except it was all financed out of our own pockets. It is hard graft setting up a party and have a lot of patience and those involved have to be fully committed and dedicated to the cause.
Lord Biscotte of Eaton Square………you’ve mentioned those medal decorations a few times now, and I’ve just looked them up. Both medals were issued to soldiers during Britain’s Second Boer War. So if they were awarded to you personally, that must mean that you are either a Timelord like TG Spokes, are just plain barking mad. If it is the latter, well it would make sense how you came to be in the House of Lords.
Colin H: Good Lord, you’ll have him lined up for Billy Smart’s circus next……
Mary………who do you mean, Lord Biscotte? He’s half way there already by sitting in the House of Lords, with over sized shoes, bowler hat and a supply of cream pies…..
Thanks Viv for more pie in the sky from labour!
If I were a people trafficker or illegal immigrant, I would be really quaking in my shoes at the thought of Starmer.