Sadiq Khan on X - "Disinformation about London has become a global industry. The new “outrage economy” is growing - and it’s eating away at the bonds that hold our society together. That's why I'm calling for urgent action from social media companies and government."
Laila Cunningham on X - "“Misinformation” is now just code for censorship. Khan spent a decade making London dangerous. Now he wants to make it illegal to say so. He’s not trying to make London safer he’s trying to make it look safer. He’s asking government to censor what people can post about crime in London. He wants to silence the truth. That is textbook authoritarianism. Free speech is not a problem to be managed. It’s a right to be defended. Any politician who thinks censorship matters more than fixing the reality has no business running this city."
Zipcar leaves the UK, abandoning 650,000 members: Sadiq Khan condemned for ignoring London warnings - "Richard Dilks, of CoMoUK, says London needs to ensure those firms are given full backing to operate in order to prevent the streets being overstuffed with more cars. 'Our research shows that every car club vehicle replaces 31 private cars in London, freeing up space and making the capital's streets less clogged and more pleasant for everyone,' he added... it is thought that City Hall had anxieties that Zipcars and other car club vehicles would actually contribute more unnecessary traffic to London's roads - antithetical to Sadiq Khan's flagship transport strategy. Zipcar's decision, however, could actually fly in the face of his plan to cut car ownership in favour of walking, cycling and taking public transport. A CoMoUK survey commissioned after Zipcar began consulting on its closure found some 80 per cent of those who had been using it are either buying, or considering buying, a car of their own."
Sadiq Khan has maxed out his credibility with Londoners - "Could someone please confiscate Sadiq Khan’s phone? I’m starting to think a nasty case of social media addiction is at least part of the reason why his time as Mayor of London has been so hapless, not to mention miserable, for most Londoners other than him. His bio on X says he has been “Londonmaxxing since 2016” – the year our pint-sized mayor was first elected. We’ve been subjected to his heady mix of cringe and ineptitude ever since... Shoplifting is at a record high. There were nearly 95,000 shoplifting offences recorded by the Metropolitan Police in the year ending June 2025, a rise of 38 per cent on the previous year. Meanwhile, “theft from the person”, such as pickpocketing, has almost tripled since 2016. Khan might call himself a “proud feminist”, but sexual offences have skyrocketed under his watch, too – with more than 27,000 cases recorded, up 11.2 per cent on the previous year, and up 63.2 per cent from June 2016. Then there’s knife crime, which continues to inflict needless tragedy, fear and bloodshed on many of London’s most deprived communities. In the year to June 2025, there were 15,639 instances recorded – an increase of nearly 72 per cent from the 2015-16 data... Khan’s constant gaslighting and obfuscation reveal a brittle leader who refuses to take any responsibility, and refuses to accept that much at all is going wrong... Khan’s deflections have been particularly shameful on the subject of grooming gangs. He once infamously said there was “no indication” of these monsters preying on London’s girls, but that was contradicted by revelations uncovered this year by the BBC of familiar stories of the rape and exploitation of the most vulnerable among us. It seems to me Khan is blinded by two things. The first is ideology. He appears to have absorbed many of the most bizarre delusions of the woke Left, such as better education or “awareness-raising” can tackle serious crime. Remember City Hall’s “Maaate” campaign, encouraging young men to chide their friends for their “sexist jokes and banter”, lest they slide down the slippery slope to sexual violence? Give it time and those rape gangs will soon be a thing of the past. The second factor is Khan’s towering self-regard and victim complex. His opponents couldn’t possibly have a point when they levelled criticism at him. During the last mayoral race, he dubbed Susan Hall, the Tory hopeful, as the “most dangerous candidate I have ever faced”. And when Londoners protested against his ultra-low emission zone expansion, he described them as “part of the far-Right”. Seeing fascists everywhere, thinking in hashtags, talking in Gen Z slang ... Khan, like much of today’s Left, appears to have memed himself into believing ridiculous things, all while ignoring the evidence before his own eyes."
Sadly, there may be enough migrants and left wingers in London to keep re-electing him, even as the city continues to go to shit
Rupert Lowe MP on X - "Britain is a Christian country, and under a Restore Britain Government - it will remain a Christian country."
Join Us - Restore Britain - "If you believe in low tax, small government, secure borders, national pride, traditional Christian principles, free speech, and direct democracy - you’re in the right place."
Talk on X - "“I think viewers at home will understand what I'm getting at.” Campaign Director for Restore Britain Charlie Downes slams Reform UK for “not having a clear idea of who the British people are.” @ThatAlexWoman @cfdownes_"
Charlie Downes on X - "Reform UK believe that anyone from anywhere can become British. Restore Britain believe that Britain is a people defined by indigenous British ancestry and Christian faith."
Reform UK believe that anyone from anywhere can become British. Restore Britain believe that Britain is a people defined by indigenous British ancestry and Christian faith. : r/ukpolitics - "Is this some sort of psyop to make Reform look more palatable to normal people?"
Besides the religious nationalism, if the talk of "somebody whose family has been here for a thousand years" doesn't suffice as ethnonationalism, Restore Britain's campaigns director talking about "indigenous British ancestry" is pretty clear
Andrew J. Willshire on X - "This is Olympic-standard corruption of Parliament. Say you want to abolish the House of Lords but instead appoint more new peers than your four immediate predecessors combined (62) and also kick out a large group (90) of opposition peers. Starmer has tipped the scales in the Lords in favour of Labour by 152 in just two years. It's outrageous."
Has Keir Starmer forgotten that he’s the Prime Minister? - "Future crucial decisions about energy policy were nothing to do with him, Starmer rightly pointed out. Only someone with the authority of Ed Miliband, the Net Zero Secretary, could do so, and he wasn’t around so what did you want me to do about it... Miliband, it turns out, has a “quasi-judicial” role in deciding whether to exploit new oil and gas fields in the North Sea, a role that Starmer dare not even ask about. This is hardly surprising. It is known that at last autumn’s reshuffle, Starmer had tried to move Miliband from his current brief, and Miliband had said “No”. And that was that. Starmer, though nominally Prime Minister, didn’t feel he had the personal authority to be able to have exactly who he wanted running departments. Just as he doesn’t have enough personal authority to decide energy policy. At the despatch box, Starmer held his head in his hands, a visual cue to let us know that he had given up on trying to explain the intricacies of government to Badenoch. Why didn’t she understand that Prime Ministers don’t have any power, responsibility or authority? Surely she doesn’t think that his job is to lead the Government, rather than to wait to be told by his Cabinet colleagues what they’re going to do? Starmer then resorted to the single policy he has alighted on in the last 18 months that has gained favour among his own supporters: his opposition to the war against Iran. “We’re discussing this because of the war. We need to de-escalate – that is why I stuck to my principles not to join the war.” Which resulted in the unfamiliar yet inevitable cheer from some Labour back benchers. “We need to take control of our energy prices and the only way to do that is through renewables,” Starmer said. “The party opposite used to make that argument.” This is true. The party opposite made exactly this argument, right up until the point where they lost two-thirds of their MPs. Then they stopped making that argument. Make of that what you will. Perhaps his background as a lawyer means that Starmer believes what he says about Miliband being allowed to lead and decide government policy without interference from the Prime Minister or the rest of the Government. Perhaps that’s really what Starmer thinks “quasi-judicial” means when it comes to government decisions. That would be a pity because that is not what it means at all. Ministerial decisions are still political, whatever context they’re made in. They are still made in consultation with colleagues, with the aim of achieving government aims, aims that are set by the Prime Minister and agreed by all ministers. Miliband cannot possibly be allowed to act in isolation. If the government as a whole decided we needed to exploit the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil fields, then Miliband would be instructed to deliver that aim and, being a clever and competent type, would doubtless do so. And if he refused, then he could be replaced by someone who would. And let’s face it: if Starmer really were that committed to running a government according to the rule of law, he wouldn’t still be allowing the entire country, including his own government, to flout the Equality Act and its protections for single-sex services. But some laws are more important than others."
Meme - Kemi Bedenoch: "TFW Ed Miliband is running the government. *Keir Starmer with face in hands*"
Starmer under fire for claiming petrol ‘price gouging’ without evidence - "Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of an “irresponsible” attack on petrol stations after claiming they were profiteering from the oil crisis. The Prime Minister said regulators needed to crack down on “price gouging” as the cost of fuel was climbing rapidly. He made the claim to MPs on Monday without presenting evidence to support it. The Conservatives called it “irresponsible” and suggested Sir Keir was simply trying to shift the focus away from a planned increase in fuel duty... It came as the Treasury said regulators will introduce a new “anti-profiteering framework”... In a report into the road fuel industry published in 2023, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said “a large majority of the fluctuation in petrol and diesel pump prices has been due to movements in the crude oil price”, though it did find competition in the market had become weaker."
Elliot Keck on X - "I'm old enough to remember being told that a Starmer government would be dull and non-ideological. Less than two years and we now have a justice secretary using an official channel of the justice department not just to defend the partial abolition of jury trials, but also to discard the principle of innocent until proven guilty"
Cleopatra on X - "When someone says a man can grow a cervix you can't believe anything he says thereafter."
Kiera Diss on X - "PARKING INSANITY IN BIRMINGHAM Days after a Labour MP posted a video highlighting the utter lawlessness of Birmingham drivers with them double parking and parking on paths, a fire engine was filmed attempting to get through a road in the same area. They should be prosecuted."
Paul Joseph Watson on X - "A low trust society which creates petty lawlessness literally doesn't function."
Coach Dale | Fat Loss For Men on X - "And then the people who rightly oppose this collapse in social cohesion and duty get labelled 'divisive'."
Met Police chief thanks Britons for standing up for Golders Green officers amid 'nonsense' Zack Polanski row : r/gbnews - "Some people say Trump is Putin’s friend and a Russian asset. There are arguments that can be made about that but is rather a myth than obvious. Greens on the other hand, is hard to make an argument against it. Get rid of nukes, check. Get out of NATO, check. Have no control over who is coming, check. I swear even Putin himself wouldn’t come with such bold claims in the manifesto."
Zack Polanski falsely claimed to have worked for Ministry of Justice - "The London Assembly member said he worked inside the MoJ doing "actor roleplay work", having said during his successful leadership campaign he was "currently working at the Ministry of Justice on their training & diversity programmes". However, the MoJ said they had no record of Mr Polanski ever working for the department... he conceded that, rather than working for the MoJ directly, he had been hired through an agency that supplied actors for role-play scenarios to a quango responsible for interviewing would-be judges."
Polanski falsely claimed to be Red Cross spokesman - "Zack Polanski falsely claimed to be a spokesman for the British Red Cross while raising funds to stand as deputy leader of the Green Party... The newspaper also claimed Mr Polanski, 43, who worked as a hypnotherapist before moving into politics, was not a full member of the National Council of Hypnotherapy, despite him having apparently made such claims to potential clients... Mr Polanski was criticised when it emerged he had appeared in an article in The Sun in which he claimed his hypnotherapy could help with breast enlargement. He has repeatedly claimed he was misrepresented by the newspaper, but The Telegraph revealed that his archived blogs from 2019 showed he had stood by the breast enlargement claims and “was not misreported” at all."
The Green Party has become a monster - spiked - "Two years ago, the Green Party of England and Wales became the first political party in British history to lose a claim for unlawful discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. My ordeal escalated in 2021, when I was reappointed as a frontbench spokesperson for policing and justice. My gender-critical views precipitated the passive-aggressive resignation of Siân Berry as co-leader of the party and the escalation of an unrelenting, concerted campaign by gender-identity ideologues to have me removed as spokesperson... I took the party to court for unlawful gender-critical discrimination and won in 2024. Going to court was extraordinarily stressful and required my absolute resolve in the justice of the cause and the support of countless concerned campaigners and donors. I was horrified at the idea that a political association could remove a spokesperson from post for expressing not just a legally protected belief but also a sex-realist one at that... In any sane organisation, which had just lost a landmark court case, the next step would not be to do the same thing again. Following my victory, the rational thing to have done would have been to reinstate my spokesperson role. Instead, the party sought to find renewed pretexts for removing me entirely... I also regard it as my duty to expose the monster that the party has become. The almost daily revelations about the anti-Semitic bile, whether historic or recent, perpetrated by a slew of its local-election candidates are testament to how far the Greens have fallen. The hypocrisy of the leadership in seeking to stop a ‘Zionism is racism’ motion from being voted on at conference, when they have fed and facilitated hardline Islamic entryism, is evidence of its further hard-left totalitarian rot. The Green Party has always talked about doing politics differently. That once was the case, in a good way – but now it has become so in a bad way. A political party that acts as an authoritarian law unto itself, and that is seeking to govern the UK, is a menace to society."
Green Party deputy leader blasts 'inherently racist’ claims he was supporting Iran's Supreme Leader at London rally : r/unitedkingdom - "And not just him either, every MSM report I've seen notes that Muslims voted Green and automatically assumed that they were "Conservative Muslims", hinting they were supporters of the worst kinds of sectarian theocracy nonsense who'd somehow been tricked into voting for a diverse progressive party."
"They voted for the Greens because the Greens made Gaza, Modi and Labour’s immigration rhetoric a focus of their campaign. It was speaking to the specific interests of Pakistani Muslims. I’m not sure what you’re implying instead - that they voted Green due to dreams of an LGBT drug fuelled utopia?"
Thread by @ArchRose90 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The Telegraph has obtained WhatsApp messages of Green Party activists have described Jewish people as “an abomination to this planet”. A decade ago I would have assumed this was a far-right chat group. Now the far-left have embraced antisemitism. Sickening but unsurprising.
Don’t you dare call Reform “racist” again @ZackPolanski whilst your party is infested with vehement antisemites. When you overlook antisemitism from certain communities for votes, this is what happens."
Clearly, we know they meant "Zionists"
Scratch an "anti-Zionist", find an anti-Semite
Time to blame The Telegraph
YouGov backs down in row with Nigel Farage - "YouGov defended its methods last week, saying that its polls were more accurate than others because it asked people how they would vote in their constituency in a general election, rather than just which party they favoured. YouGov claimed this produced a more accurate result, as it took into account likely tactical voting. However, Mr Farage took issue with the fact that YouGov did not also publish the underlying data on which party people favoured at a national level. He said it broke rules set out by the British Polling Council (BPC), which state that if people are asked a second question – in this case how they would vote in their constituency – which produced a markedly different answer from a prior question – which party they favoured – then the results of both questions must be published... In recent polls of voting intention YouGov has given Reform an average of 24.8 per cent. Over the same period Opinium had Reform on 30.9 per cent, More in Common 29.5 per cent and Find Out Now 29.3 per cent. Mr Farage accused YouGov of breaking a second BPC rule, which states that pollsters must publish tables showing the exact questions asked in the order in which they were asked."
Police chiefs warn Labour against cancelling mayoral elections - "Labour’s decision to cancel mayoral elections next year will put public safety at risk and result in a surge in knife crime, said policing chiefs. The Government has delayed mayoral elections in Hampshire, Sussex, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk until 2028 after ditching plans to hold them this May."
An evening with Nish Kumar and The Guardian - "Retired primary school teachers, people who worked for the council and childless, sullen couples in their early forties whose life had become a silent downward spiral of Time Out “Things to Do in London”. The topics of conversation this evening would be vegetables, Tim Dowling’s Wife and The Traitors. For the last decade, the idea of “metropolitan liberal elite” has loomed large in the national conversation. This has always been a confusing label, attached to everyone from the Davos Set to Gary Lineker. When everyone from Lee Anderson to Peter Turchin conjures up the overeducated, downwardly mobile, haywire plight of the urban liberal middle classes, they are actually, for the most part, talking about the sort of people who work in marketing, live in Walthamstow and get their thrills from Richard Osman and BBC6 music. Our popular conception of the liberal metropolis is skewed. Britain, unlike the US, even France, doesn’t have anything remotely approaching an intellectual, discerning liberal bourgeoisie. Liberal Americans have the New York Times — a publication that has survived the decline of prestige media to become a global institution read reliably even by the people who despise it. Britain has the BBC, The Guardian and The Rest is Politics. Yet I suspect they’ve been happy, Kumar included, to lean into the “liberal elite” slur over the past decade because it very much flatters to deceive... It’s easy to laugh at Kumar’s fall, much harder to forgive his rise. Over the summer of George Floyd, Nish Kumar and his “anti-racism” went from a tedious and unfunny career bit to the ruling ideology of the British state. As the Kate Clanchy episode has confirmed, this was never an intellectual crusade about “progressivism”, but a jealous, cruel and vindictive romp played out by middle class people who hated each other... For the last confused and uncertain decade, “fighting populism” had been a tedious matter of labouring through the translated fiction of the Guardian’s review pages, pretending to read the latest Thomas Piketty and demanding the local constabulary be abolished in the name of black rights. Now it was possible to believe that Nigel Farage could be prevented from becoming Prime Minister by a deference to the kindness of people like Stephen Fry and Alan Carr. It was all too easy. The room was howling with laughter as Kumar began to lampoon the Daily Mail as the cause of all of our ills. On stage, a faithful Guardian reading couple had appeared to discuss their disagreement over whether it was necessary to iron their tea towels. Never, perhaps since the eve of the First World War, has such a naive, dull, provincial, gentle and misguided view of Britain on the eve of such profound upheaval enchanted so many people. It was time to leave. Outside, across the Kings Cross skyline a new London was being built. The station was fronted by a mixture of lost asylum seekers, seedy tramps and self-confessed demonic mendicants well beyond the wit of Nish Kumar. I had, with some relief, escaped back to reality."
Censored by Britain - by Ed West - Wrong Side of History - "The Online Safety Act is a badly-drafted law with numerous unintended – and perhaps intended – consequences... the law, originally marketed as protecting children from pornography, was hijacked by various groups to counter ‘hate’, by which they mean people with opinions they don’t like... It could be bad news for me, since most people don’t want to hand over their details to the government, who will probably end up leaking it to the Taliban by accident... The British state’s response to unarguable social problems is to stop people noticing them, but people overseas are certainly noticing... of the four big cultural British exports I mentioned, three of them - Harry Potter, James Bond, Tolkien - feel ‘classy’ to Americans, and there is also Downton, which reflects the common American idea that they have money, but the British have class. Indeed, the plot line in which Lady Grantham is the daughter of a Cincinnati-based industrialist, is based on a real-life dynamic - a third of the House of Lords in the late 19th century married American heiresses... Britain’s declining reputation is in large part due to the declining sense of Britain being ‘classy’."
Æthelstan on X - "One thing strikes me as the political class scrambles to capitalise on various crises - particularly with respect to increasing the power of the state. You could make Keir the Lord Emperor of the Economic Zone formerly known as Britain, you could bestow upon him and his friends all the power in the world. You could toss out Magna Carta and every other bulwark the British have against the technocrat class... And yet they STILL could not solve any of the problems facing Britain. The issues Britain faces do not stem from a lack of laws, or persecutory mechanisms for bending the populace to the will of politicians. It's not a lack of School Breakfast Clubs. It's not a lack of funding for the NHS. It's not a lack of "hate speech" laws. It's not even a lack of experience or competency - even if many of their ideas are stupid and doomed to failure. The issue is a disloyal, Londoncentric political class that holds no authentic affection for Britain or its peoples at all. The EU was the canary in the coalmine there. The political class spent decades outsourcing their jobs and their democratic legitimacy to Belgium. When they weren't doing that, they were handing over policymaking to an assortment of shady NGOs and and private corporations who they can blame when everything goes wrong. They have been privatising the benefits of power - money, prestige, property portfolios - while dodging responsibility for how things got this bad. Meanwhile, in election after election, people demand secure borders and a safe society with a reasonable standard of living. Instead they receive inflation, hate speech laws, endless chatter about foreign engagements of no concern to them, and a de haut en bas smugness that openly states they'd trade us away for a decent curry (thank you Piers). Gun laws. Hate speech laws. Sugar taxes. Flim flam. You can have literally anything you want except border controls. The progressive blob will cheerfully self-destruct its electoral chances forever rather than compromise on open borders for 1 nanosecond. So it's not a competency crisis, it's a loyalty crisis. Rupert Lowe stands out not only because he is an exceptional orator and politician, but because he is loyal - and loyalty is what matters."
