beautiful bonkers Britain. They’re all agog because Nigel Farage has quit the parliament to force a by-election in Clacton where he was elected as an MP in 2024. Since Farage’s Reform Britain party is now seen as real threat to the establishment he must be shut down. Call me a cynic but the same thing happened in France when Marine Le Pen was accused of the same money related “crimes” and sentenced to a three year jail term.
Last year she was found guilty of having played a key part in the embezzlement of more than €2.8m in European parliament funds and funneling the money into her party in Paris between 2004 and 2016. Le Pen came very close to beating Macron in the last election, so of course she had to be neutered. Farage is accused of similar crimes.
The Sunday Times accused him of not properly declaring support from George Cottrell – a long-time ally who was jailed for fraud in the US in 2017, and since May, he has been under investigation by Parliament’s standards commissioner for not declaring a £5m gift he received from Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based British cryptocurrency investor, before his election.
“Protect British Wildlife” vote for the dude in the fox suit
I fully expect Pauline Hanson to be hauled into court under the same dodgy pretenses Down Under. It’s how the elites roll. What did Trump call them? “Scum”. Oh, wait he was talking about the Iranians who attacked a couple of ships in the Strait of Hormuz the other day. We need more ships in there. The USS Liberty would be a good start, but it won’t be ready until later this year. They’re still building it in Boston. We can wait, I’m sure.
Intergalactic Space Warrior Count Binface is one of the candidates in the Clacton by-election.
From the NY Times today, “Federal officials announced a sweeping crackdown on Tuesday against a vast criminal network that preyed on Indian diaspora communities around the world and has been linked to the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia three years ago.
The authorities in Los Angeles said the action, “Operation Hard Ball,” was the result of a broad investigation into a dizzying array of drug smuggling, extortion and other crimes choreographed from India by jailed kingpins using international operatives and smuggled cellphones. It led to more than a dozen new arrests, most occurring in California.” Could somebody tell me again why we need these people in our country? I’d love to know the answer.
Welcome to Alice-In-Wonderland
It’s a Climate crime, and won’t deliver energy security said the Mad Hatter
Finally, there is another heatwave coming for the UK. Surface temperatures in the English Channel and North Sea are averaging 2°C above normal, with local anomalies reaching 4–5°C higher than usual, comparable to late August levels. Cue the screaming madman on the BBC…”Climate Change, Global Warming…run for your lives! We’re all gonna die!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgh.
Good Day
It’s time for another serve of my old mate Ledge’s take on the climate