No matter what Lucy Connolly said or did, she could never be recalled to prison, because not only would there be riots, but they would be whipped up by the Official Opposition, by the party that was ahead in the polls, by at least one entire Freeview television channel, and by most of the national newspapers. Those papers have not lately gone lawless. Consider their coverage of Hillsborough at least until 2017, and of the Miners' Strike to this day. Not for nothing has Kelvin Mackenzie taken to Twitter and to the airwaves in support of Connolly, even suggesting that she had been singled out for "harsh and violent" treatment in prison on the orders of Keir Starmer.
But no one on The Times has any business criticising The Sun. Its pre-tax losses are 21 times those of its stablemate, and that The Sun would always be there to subsidise The Times has been fundamental to the continued existence of The Times for 44 years and counting. "We pay your wages," Sun hacks used to shout at their public school contemporaries down the corridor on The Times. So they did, and so they do. Connolly looks highly likely to contest Yvette Cooper's seat. If The Sun gave her a column, then who would resign from The Times?
As you have been known to call him, "This dependent of Sun Bingo."
ReplyDeleteHe has to pay UCL somehow.
DeleteAs Reform’s Tim Montgomerie tweets “
ReplyDeleteTim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 @montie “Support for rapid and permanent deportation of people who enter Britain illegally and without cause will be uncontroversial within a year or so of it becoming the law. Any party that fails to support and muscularly resource an uncompromising deportations policy will not win.”
Today it emerges even Sweden is on track for the lowest number of asylum applications in 25 years, due to deportations and integration testing. For the first time since 1960s, more people are leaving Sweden than arriving.
Proof that a country can control who comes in if it actually wants to.
Tim Montgomerie is so far up Boris Johnson's backside that he can see Andrea Jenkyns's shoes.
DeleteYet Starmer isn't suing Mackenzie.
ReplyDeleteHe is waiting for worse, or for it all to blow over, whichever happened first.
Delete“Tim Montgomerie is so far up Boris Johnson's backside that he can see Andrea Jenkyns's shoes.”
ReplyDeleteAnd with that he confirms himself a political illiterate (at least when it comes to rightwing politics). Maybe you’ve been in a coma, but Tim Montgomerie disowned Boris Johnson six long years ago in 2020 back when he was still a Conservative supporter.
Bless your sweet little cotton socks.
DeleteMontgomerie is as hawkish as ever on Ukraine, Jenkyns and Berry have never recanted that, Widdecombe told GB News a Reform government would carrying on funding Ukraine's war, there's a reason Peter Hitchens despises Reform.
DeleteThere are quite a few. See also drug legalisation, and assisted suicide. For a start.
DeleteJenkyns said today she was "determined to push back on solar plans". She opened a solar farm on farmland when she was a Tory, and supports sustainable energy projects.
DeletePar for the course. At the forthcoming by-election at Brighton's Queen's Park, Reform's candidate is to be John Shepherd, until recently Editor-at-Large of Batteries International, "a media and information outlet that covers the battery industry and its crucial role in accelerating the transition to Net Zero emissions by supporting renewable energy integration, electric vehicles, and grid stabilization."
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