British members of parliament (MPs) voted against an amendment to launch a national inquiry into Muslim grooming gangs on Wednesday.
A major political row has swelled over the past month, following a refused Freedom of Information request to the Government by Oldham Council. Since then, calls for a national inquiry have grown as further details about child sexual exploitation across parts of Northern England have emerged.
On Wednesday, the scandal dominated the day’s proceedings in Parliament, commencing with a fiery Prime Minister’s Questions. Later in the afternoon, the Conservatives added an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, demanding a national inquiry into grooming gangs.
Labour said the amendment would effectively kill off the bill, arguing that it would delay the Government’s ability to implement crucial safeguarding measures. The Conservatives, meanwhile, echoed calls from Elon Musk to prioritize a national inquiry.
A national inquiry was completed in 2022. However, none of the report’s 20 recommendations have been implemented by either a Labour or Conservative Government.
Shortly after 7pm GMT, MPs voted 364 to 111 against the Tories’ amendment. A three-line whip meant all Labour MPs either voted against the amendment or abstained, while the Conservatives were joined by Reform UK’s 5 MPs, as well as Northern Irish Unionists.
The Labor Party has 402 seats in the House of Commons, while the Conservative Party has 121, and the rest of the 650 seats are held by other parties (seven of which are held by Northern Ireland’s Sinn Fein, which doesn’t take their 7 seats in protest).
🚨 BREAKING: MPs have voted against Kemi Badenoch's amendment for a national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal
Please, please, PLEASE read this thread to understand why this amendment was a complete political stunt by the Conservative Party. They had absolutely no intention of seeing it pass, they just wanted a headline. This a well known trick in British Politics that both sides use…
Ellen DeGeneres home in England has reportedly flooded just weeks after moving abroad following the presidential election.
The former television personality moved to the U.K. in November after Donald Trump’s landslide victory over Kamala Harris. Both DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi were reportedly “very disillusioned” with American politics by Trump’s win, and immediately decided “to get the hell out.”
If only more Hollywood liberals would follow her lead.
Since moving to the Cotswolds, the couple had to bare the brunt of Storm Bert, which saw much of England subject to heavy rain and 80mph winds. The River Thames, upon which the couple’s 43-acre property is situated on, burst its banks as a result, causing their home to be flooded right after their move.
BREAKING: Ellen DeGeneres, who left the U.S. after Trump’s election win, is now dealing with her new UK mansion being underwater. pic.twitter.com/mohBf53hp7
More concerned about thousands of survivors in NC and Tennessee without government aid surviving than I am with entertainers that can afford to recover
Has no one learned anything from the Bud Lite debacle?
British car manufacturer Jaguar has announced an enormous rebrand in a video… which doesn’t feature any cars in it.
Instead, the colorful video features flamboyant actors and a clunky new logo. It was so popular, in fact, that more than 40,000 people have replied to it so far… nearly all of which are negative.
Captioned “Copy nothing”, the video encourages viewers to “create exuberant,” “live vivid”, “delete ordinary” and “break moulds”. It concludes with the company’s new logo, which no longer features a jaguar.
Give it a watch below – but be warned, you’re going to be wondering what exactly the hell you just watched.
Without the Jaguar brand being mentioned, who in the world would imagine this was a car ad?
Ironically, Jaguar, which says to “copy nothing,” is simply coping the same exact kind of bizarre woke marketing that’s been done a hundred times over (and is seeing blowback). Even something as simple as them removing the jaguar from their (previously) iconic logo and making it simply text is a corporate fad they’re copying:
And so common has woke marketing become that this type of marketing strategy was brilliantly satirized by the cartoonist “Stonetoss” years ago – and is seemingly still applicable on a daily basis. How many corporate ads nowadays leave us wondering who exactly the target demo is?
The lack of a car in the video bemused Tesla Motors owner Elon Musk.
Family bands can go one of two ways. Generally, they’re very, very good, or they’re very, very embarrassing.
Take the Von Trapp family made famous in The Sound of Music. The film has loomed so large that many people, especially younger ones, have forgotten, or never knew, that this was a real family. They did escape from Austria to evade the Nazis, and they came to America where they performed as a touring music group until 1957. As your faithful correspondent writes this, many of them are making their living just up the road from this writer’s house in Vermont. In fact, I sold my last house through the Von Trapp realty firm.
Or take the Petersen family, a modern American family musical group. They’re not only technically good (skilled vocals, sweet and close harmonies) enough to sell out Branson, Missouri, for years, but they’re generally well-liked. Why? First, because they’re good, but second, because they sing songs with universal themes. They cover well-known hits that speak of love, despair, disappointment and triumph. In a word, they don’t beat listeners over the head with partisan politics.
But then there are family singing groups like the Marsh Family from the UK. It’s not that they’re technically bad, although the track you’re going to hear below has a corny synthesized musical accompaniment. They can sing well enough.
It’s what they sing. Here’s a sample, sung by Matriarch Marsh:
♫He’s got convictions-he did the nasty
And undermined the cons-ti-too-shee-un
Yes. Really. When you have to add an extra syllable to “constitution” to make it fit the melodic meter, you may be too focused on partisan politics and not enough making good music.
There’s more. These very white Brits sound like they’re trying to get a favored spot under Kam Kam’s coconut tree by singing in a faux-Jamaican accent and style. Here’s another line, but you really have to hear it to take in the full horror.
♫Give me hope Kamala
Hope Kamala
Gimme hope Kamala for the election
Listen and weep:
What motivates a British family to be-clown itself this way over an American presidential candidate? One wonders if the Marshes are enjoying their illegal alien invasion, too, and all the cultural enrichment happening at knifepoint on England’s streets.
Let’s see what Twitter has to say.
Well, if they’re like American liberals, they could tour hurricane-ravaged North Carolina and they’d probably just make fun of the dumb, starving hicks like American leftists are doing.
For the first time in 14 years, the United Kingdom is governed by a Labour government.
In-fighting within the Conservative Party along with a resurgent Reform UK under Nigel Farage led to a split vote across the U.K.’s 650 constituencies. The result? A Labour majority not seen since 2001.
Labour are often seen as socialists by those on the right. While perhaps true for the party under “Comrade” Jeremy Corbyn, Sir Keir Starmer has brought Labour to a more moderate standing with left-wingers comprising a minority.
As with any new government, the honeymoon period fades away sooner or later. More popular governments may enjoy months or even years before current voters turn into ex-supporters.
For Prime Minister Keir Starmer, it’s been a matter of weeks.
His response to the civil unrest across the U.K. at the start of August prompted many critics to call out what they saw as “two-tier policing”, where far-left extremists were seemingly subject to less harsher disciplinary action for their involvement than their right-wing counterparts.
And now he’s really outdone himself.
An annual summer break has, for now, reduced political scrutiny. However, as the kids prepare to return to school – and the MPs to parliament – Sir Keir has announced a new target for his center-left attack: smokers.
The U.K. already has some of the strictest rules against smokers. Taxation has seen a pack of cigarettes rise to as much as $20, while flavored cigs such as menthols have been banned for years. Those now old enough to purchase cigarettes will never have seen smoking inside buildings, while the more swankier pubs now segregate outdoor areas for smokers and non-smokers.
Not content with these strict regulations, Sir Keir is now pledging to restrict where you can light up in public. Beers gardens and nightclubs are among more of the ludicrous bans proposed, with smokers now forced elsewhere. Furthermore, if your sports team is struggling in a must-win fixture, don’t expect to be allowed outside for a stress-relieving cigarette under Starmer’s new rules.
I myself am a former smoker. A switch to IQOS has helped cut down the inhaled toxins when the thought of a Kamala Harris presidency becomes too much to bear. As a Brit who likes a beer or three in the pub garden on a weekend, I am perhaps set to benefit most from the enforced removal of a tempting cigarette on a sunny afternoon.
Yet, I can’t help but feel there are so many ludicrous aspects to the proposed bans. Hospitality received a battering during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the new rules are unlikely to encourage social smokers to take a trip to their local pub.
We also know that the war on drugs simply isn’t working. Where there’s demand, there’s supply, and effectively criminalizing smokers in certain areas will no doubt be yet another step towards an unregulated tobacco industry.
It is, of course, worth remembering that police resources are unable to catch hardened criminals, so there’s also a question of whether this absurd idea will ever actually be enforced. Nevertheless, given that social media posts now lead to jail time in the U.K., it’s likely that the local bobby on the beat will be more than eager to arrest a criminal smoker.
The Prime Minister’s falling approval rating shows many are discontent with his two-month-old premiership thus far. He was elected on a platform as an alternative to a chaotic Conservative Party with many believing he would not invoke left-wing, liberty-crushing policies under his restructured Labour Party.
Yet, in what can only be a warning to the United States, abandoning conservatism has seen little improvement in the country.
Just take one recent example; in California, one town, Carlsbad, California, recently banned smoking and vaping of both cannabis and nicotine products will be banned in private residences, including apartments, condos, and other shared buildings.
What’s going on in the United Kingdom should have any American at full alert. While we overthrew the crown and broke away hundreds of years ago, the U.S. and the UK are cousins. What happens in one country often gets duplicated in another.
Alarmingly, despite breaking from the European Union, Britain is going down the European route of ever more restrictive policing and draconian punishment against its own population while foreigners commit crimes with seeming abandon.
The stabbing of 13 children—three of them died—at a dance class in Southport was the spark that set the tinder pile ablaze this week as riots broke out in several English towns and cities. This time, it was mostly native English people who were fed up. Their unheard frustrations about economic decline, foreigner crime, and the government’s generosity to “migrants” and stinginess to Brits boiled over.
Police have arrested more than 1,000 people in connection with the riots, which the mainstream media characterizes—like the British government does—as “far right.” This report makes sure to get the phrase “racist attacks” right into the first few paragraphs.
But it’s not just vandals and rioters getting put in handcuffs. It’s Brits engaging in wrongthink and wrongspeak. Take a look at these two glazed-eyed coppers walking into a man’s living room and putting him under arrest for something he posted on Facebook. We don’t know what it is, and we’re as confused as he is.
And what is this?
It appears to be exactly what it looks like: persecution of a native Brit by the police. How in the world does the question, “who the f*** is Allah” get an 18-month prison sentence? It’s no surprise, considering the creepy and dystopian “public service announcement” by the Crown Prosecution Service, which warns Internet users to “think before you post.”
If you’re in the mood for gaslight, be sure to watch it:
Twitter/X users are asking questions about the jailing of a man for asking an “impertinent” question that might offend delicate Muslim sensibilities.
Americans are doing their best to warn our British cousins, and our own countrymen.
Some are pointing directly at Islamism, which the UK government is terrified to do.
We hope this guy isn’t right, but it’s looking like he might be:
What say you readers? Can the English make Britain great again?
X CEO Elon Musk is embroiled in a major racism row with former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf.
The bizarre feud between the world’s richest man and Scotland’s former commander-in-chief stretches back to the Black Lives Matter riots in 2020. However, the spat was reignited during the recent U.K. riots after a clip of Yousaf as then-Justice Secretary was reshared on social media.
Yousaf, who was the first ethnic minority leader of a devolved government in the United Kingdom, listed a number of high-ranking professions in a speech in Scottish parliament, noting the skin color (“white”) of each position. You can see his racism for yourself below:
In October 2023, Musk declared Yousaf to be a “blatant racist,” while the then-First Minister said racists were “foaming at the mouth” at his existence, before calling on the X CEO to “tackle racism and hatred that goes unchecked on the social media platform he owns.”
Amid the recent riots, the rivalry flared again. Yousaf described Musk as “one of the most dangerous men on the planet” after he suggested that civil war in the U.K. was “inevitable”.
“Elon Musk is a dangerous race baiter who must be held to account for his actions,” he wrote on X. “I can’t think what it is that upsets him so much about a Brown, Muslim, progressive politician? But his billions won’t stop me calling out his support for the far right.”
Musk responded by stating Yousaf was “obviously super racist against white people”. Describing the Scot as a “scumbag”, Musk “dared” Yousaf to sue him.
Many on social media offered their support for the entrepreneur.
Another user likened the dispute to the rumored fight between Musk and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
The kingdom that brought us George Orwell is on its knees to the very forces he predicted in the novel 1984. Riots have broken out in towns across the UK, and unusually, they’re mainly being done by white, native English people. We’re used to seeing Muslim-instigated street demonstrations and violence, which go largely unchecked by the police – but all of a sudden, the police care now.
Native Brits have had more than enough of the influx of illegal “migrants” who are transforming once classically English hamlets and cities into no-go zones for the native born (or, to borrow some language from the left, “the indigenous English”). The proximate cause of the violence is the recent fatal stabbing of three girls (and the critical wounding of 10 other children) at a dance class in Southport.
In fact, the alleged murderer is a 17-year-old who was born in Wales. But while the mainstream media likes to describe him simply as a Welshman, and a “boy,” the suspect was born to Rwandan immigrants. Whether this has anything to do with his motivations for the crime he is charged with is unclear, but it has brought out long repressed resentment among native Brits who believe their government cares more about pleasing foreigners than it does about protecting British subjects.
Even more than the U.S., the UK government is utterly crazed about “equity” and “inclusion.” It has become impossible for any native Brit—most especially any white native Brit—to even express affection for towns that look and sound English without being accused of murderous “racism.” Brown people may honor and be proud of their culture. But white people cannot.
Now the government has gone mad from the prime minister on down. Newly elected Labour PM Keir Starmer has made two addresses excoriating what he calls “thugs” and vandals, promising the harshest treatment. Starmer says nothing, of course, when Islamists knife Brits in the streets.
With the imprimatur of Parliament, local police forces are salivating on television as they contemplate locking up English people for “online violence.” That’s right. The Crown Prosecution Service is filling its twitter feed with pictures of white Brits they’ve arrested in a way they would never do if the suspects were non-white.
Now the chief of the Metropolitan Police in London, Sir Mark Rowley is threatening to extradite people from other countries into Britain to face prosecution if they say the wrong things online.
Rowley said to Sky News “We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you.”
And apparently no one is safe – including Americans, and even Elon Musk. He added that “Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law,” and named “the likes of Elon Musk” as potential investigation targets for people to potentially charge for their social media comments outside the UK.
You can watch him say it himself below:
We’re happy to see that Americans on social media are reacting appropriately….
Speaking from experience, the United Kingdom is a desperate place at the moment.
The hope and optimism after the election of a new Labour government on July 4 has quickly faded away. Just one month after the polls closed, the country has witnessed riots not seen on British streets for 13 years.
It’s sad, more than anything else. Few people watch the news to become so infuriated that they decide to take their anger out on a pastry shop. Instead, they are saddened that the actions of politicians and the mainstream media has fueled the fan of frustrations among vocal minorities on either side of the political spectrum.
Just days after his electoral victory, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced plans to release prisoners 40% of the way through their sentence (assuming, of course, they were eligible for parole). He deemed this to be a necessary step given “overcrowding” within the British prison system.
Yet, as the political elite have changed to a “tough on crime” stance to bring an end to the protests against mass immigration and migrant crime, prison spaces are suddenly becoming available.
On social media, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood shared a Guadian article stating an extra 500 prison places would become available to accommodate convicted rioters.
The political approach of finding solutions only in times of exceptional – or selective demand is incredibly frustrating. It only raises questions as to why reducing minimum prison sentences, thus potentially releasing murderers, rapists, and pedophiles early, was initially prioritized over creating additional prison spaces.
Of course, threats from politicians can only infuriate further. It’s a dangerous route…
The riots in the United Kingdom have brought the concept of two-tier policing into the limelight once again as the government seems more concerned in targeting those protesting against the consequences of mass immigration than actual criminals.
As we reported earlier, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has promised a crackdown on rioters with “standing armies” of police officers and 24-hour turnarounds in the courts. His focus, however, on right-wing rioters has leant itself to the nickname “two-tier Keir.”
When it was Brits rioting over the death of George Floyd, a man who didn’t even live on the same continent as them, Starmer said “Like you, I was shocked and angered at the killing of George Floyd, and the response of President Trump and the US authorities to the peaceful protesters, to people rightly demanding justice, has been an affront to humanity. This week has shined a spotlight on the racism, discrimination and the injustice experienced by those from black and minority ethnic communities in the US, the UK, and across the world. Martin Luther King said ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Yet when it was Brits protesting the violent consequences of mass migration, he sung a completely different tune, stating; “I utterly condemn the far-right thuggery we’ve seen this weekend. Be in no doubt, those that have participated in this violence will face the full force of the law. The police will be making arrests. Individuals will be held on remand, charges will follow, and convictions will follow. I guarantee you will regret taking part in this disorder, whether directly, or those whipping up this action online and then running away themselves. This is not a protest, it is organized, violent thuggery, and it has no place on our streets or online.
One of the U.K.’s most left-wing newspapers, the Guardian, recently published an article in which claimed this “two-tier policing” against right-wing protesters was a “myth.” Thanks to the power of X, the article was soon “community noted” with articles from their own publication arguing that there’s two-tiered policing in the world.
“The Guardian have [sic] been telling people about two-tier policing based on race and sexuality for decades,” the note said.
One article included in the note, from January 2024, reported claims by a senior figure that policing was “institutionally racist” in the UK.
Another article from a month prior noted a study which “supports the idea that the patterns of ethnic disproportionality evident in the UK Home Office statistics cannot be explained solely or even primarily at the level of individual officer behavior or psychology because they are an outcome of an interaction between structural and institutional racism.”
A third article discusses a 300-page report claiming to find institutional misogyny, racism and homophobia persist within the London Metropolitan police.
In other words, they’re fine with the concept of two-tiered policing, but only when they can try to claim it’s in a way that serves their political ideology.
Others questioned the reliability of using the Guardian as a source.
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