Labour is on track for its biggest election victory in history surpassing the number of seats won by Tony Blair in 1997, a poll of more than 50,000 people suggests today.
The YouGov survey suggested that Sir Keir Starmer is on track to win 422 seats, with the Conservatives reduced to 140 MPs.
The Conservative party deserves this.
The Labour Party may have ejected Jeremy Corbyn, but the Green Party is now putting up aggressively Islamist candidates.
For years I’ve been oddly intrigued by those poor souls who somehow manage to run themselves over with their own cars, such as the pop singer Brian Harvey of East 17. I always think of this when I consider the Keystone Kommunism of Komrade Jeremy Corbyn.
He’s the little man who got behind the wheel of a vehicle far too large for him to handle and eventually went under it when, in 2019, he led Labour to its greatest defeat since 1935. Huge swaths of traditional working-class Labour heartlands — the Red Wall — opted for Boris Johnson.
Since it seems inevitable that we will soon have a Labour government it is worth pondering now what manner of monstrosity it might be.
The Conservatives have spent recent days warning about the known knowns of the Labour Party. Which is perhaps inevitable. But to continue with the Rumsfeld-ism, we should spend at least some time dwelling on the known unknowns. The things that we know that we do not yet know.
This year, several articles in mainstream papers have sounded the alarm that the global human fertility rate will soon cross below the point needed to keep the population constant. Anxiety that our species is about to die out seems a bit premature, given that we’re still predicted to add another three billion to the world population before levelling off. Furthermore, these reports always gloss over a key outlier because it undermines the case for our imminent extinction: Africa.
A leading reason that continental Europe is shifting to the political right is popular concern about mass immigration. So I’m putting Europeans and their short-sighted representatives on notice: you folks haven’t seen anything yet.
The PM knew he had no good options left
There is surely only one explanation for Rishi Sunak’s sudden rush to the polls. In stark contrast with the D:Ream anthem that nearly drowned out the Prime Minister’s announcement: things can only get worse.
Regardless of Sunak’s message that the country has turned the corner, and that he can be trusted to finish the job, a prime minister who genuinely believed the country would be noticeably better off in a few months’ time would surely wait until the end of the year to go to the polls. Sunak, by contrast, has got nothing to bank: he is 23 points behind and has calculated that today’s conditions are his best shot at remaining in power.
The cost of renting a home increased by a staggering 30 per cent from mid-2021 to the start of this year, while wages rose by 17 per cent in the same period. Compare that with the record of the preceding decade, when rents rose by 26 per cent, just 1 per cent less than the increase in wages.
According to analysis by Capital Economics, rents in the 2021-24 period climbed 11 per cent higher than they would otherwise have done thanks to the unprecedented levels of immigration over which this government has presided. Andrew Wishart, who runs the housing service at Capital Economics, said: “This means rents are 11 per cent higher than would be explained by the usual relationship between pay and rent. The vast majority of that is because of higher net migration.”
A St George’s Day rally in London descended into chaos today as riot officers clashed with crowds and a police horse was attacked near Downing Street.
Mounted police intervened after a group broke through a cordon formed to stop people moving past the area that had been allocated for the event.
This led to scuffles breaking out, with footage appearing to show one of the horses being struck by a man with an umbrella.
Metropolitan police deployed in full riot gear to stop a march of English people waving English flags as they celebrate St Georges Day. 🏴
Contrastingly, riot police are never seen being deployed for any of the pro-Hamas hate marches.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 23, 2024
Two-Tier policing:
Metropolitan police deploy police horses after deliberately kettling and cornering a group of English patriots waving English flags, attempting to stop their march.
A scuffle then ensues with police labelling those celebrating St Georges Day as “far right… pic.twitter.com/wD3v1QTx1C
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 23, 2024
After Katharine Birbalsingh had her prayer ban upheld, the head accused schools of failing to back UK values. One teacher, writing anonymously, reveals the troubling views of children as young as 11
‘The Taliban do let girls go to school,” boasted the teenage boy. “But they stop them when they turn 11, which is very fair.”
In an after-school detention, a handful of pupils were doing their best to convince me, their teacher, that Afghanistan was much nicer now the Taliban were in control. Nothing I said would convince them. It turned out these children not only supported gender inequality but were fans of executing all manner of criminals too.
Tory MPs plan for migrant crime league tables
The migrant nationalities with the highest rates of crime will be revealed in league tables under plans to be considered by ministers.
The proposal, backed by senior Tory MPs, would require the crime rates of each nation’s migrants in England and Wales to be published annually.
Ministers would present a report to Parliament each year detailing the nationality, visa status and asylum status of every offender convicted in English and Welsh courts in the previous 12 months.
The US government has released images of seven alleged Chinese hackers wanted on charges of infiltrating the communications of targets in Britain and America over a 14-year period.
In a newly unsealed indictment, the Department of Justice (DoJ) accused the men of taking part in a state-sponsored hacking ring, known to US authorities as APT 31 or by the codename “Violet Typhoon”.
The documents lay bare the scale of China’s illicit incursion into Western public life, through the use of malicious emails designed to harvest data on their targets.
David Barron was barely into his teens when he arrived at the Mid-Yorkshire Institution for the Mentally Defective in the late 1930s. He had been taken there by local council officials, having been rescued from a foster home where he was cruelly treated.
‘Goodbye, lad. We hope you’ll soon settle in,’ they said. He was shown into a huge dining room, filled with around 500 people.
It was not the noise that day that would stay in his memory, but the sight of the bars on the windows. The sense that he was in prison, closed in, with the clanging of keys locking and unlocking each room and corridor.
A Palestinian citizen of Israel is to be granted asylum by the Home Office on the basis that he has a “well-founded” fear of persecution if returned to Israel, because of his campaigning activities in the UK.
The 24-year-old, known only as “Hasan”, claimed he faced an increased risk of persecution because of his Palestinian solidarity activism in the UK and his anti-Zionist political opinions.
He alleged Israel maintained an “apartheid” system where Palestinian citizens were oppressed.
The British Army wants to relax security checks for recruits from overseas to boost diversity and inclusion, The Telegraph can reveal.
Britain’s armed forces have consistently failed to hit recruitment targets and are looking overseas to boost ethnic minority representation, which currently stands at 14 per cent of the regular army.
A document leaked to this paper, titled The British Army’s Race Action Plan, notes that the Army “struggles to attract talent from ethnic minority backgrounds into the officer corps”.
