The socialist Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told her endless critics to all “f**k” off in an interview with Le Monde earlier this week, sparking fury over the supposed champion of love and unity’s highly undiplomatic comments. Hidalgo has been under fire for her endless green policies that hit Parisian taxpayers’ wallets and woke agenda. The Olympics opening ceremony mocking the Last Supper along with controversy over boxers with XY chromosomes competing in fights hasn’t helped her popularity either. Her not-very-woke response to the critics:
“F**k reactionaries, f**k the extreme Right, f**k all those who want to shut us in a war of everyone against everyone.”
A classic example of a socialist politician. Where there is criticism, shut it down…
Labour had a tough day yesterday. First, being forced to suspend their “cut their throats” councillor, then one of their new MPs, Lauren Edwards, had to write an apology for tweets she had posted in 2009. If she thought the fallout after this was going to die down anytime soon, she hasn’t checked Elon Musk’s X page…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 9, 2024
It’s a short story that has caught out many public figures in the past: Lauren Edwards MP wrote a series of questionable tweets that have resurfaced, and has had to apologise. Though the tech tycoon, who has nearly 200 million followers isn’t letting the backbencher off the hook that easy. Musk’s prodding of Keir continues, and Guido is behind the tech supremo every tweet of the way…
Numbers of migrants applying for British visas, along with their families, have plummeted by over a third compared to last year, all thanks to the Tories cracking down on social care workers and students bringing relations over. In July last year, 143,000 hopefuls applied to live in the UK as skilled workers, but this July, that number has nosedived to 93,000. Not being able to bring the rest of family along to the UK has put many off from even bothering to apply. Starmer should be grateful to the Tories for this one…
The head of the Migration Advisory Committee has forecasted a drop in net migration by 200,000 this year due to these measures. Yet, Yvette Cooper has already taken the axe to the Tory proposal to hike the income threshold for bringing a foreign partner to the UK from £18,600 to £29,000—a policy that could have curbed the numbers even more so. ‘The plan was working’…
The ever-opinionated Zarah Sultana MP isn’t going to great efforts to be brought back into the Labour fold after her six-month suspension for voting against the two child benefit cap. The bleeding heart liberal pinned this to her profile yesterday:
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
The enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy.
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) August 7, 2024
A double-whammy of an insult to her former bosses. While Labour continue to try to position themselves as the party tough on small boat crossings, Sultana also manages to accidentally (or not) say that Starmer and his Secretaries of States are “the enemy of the working class” for flying on private jets. A hypocrisy from Labour Guido has highlighted already. This may not help her cause in getting the whip back…
Landlords are selling up shop amid fears Labour will whack up capital gains tax and and implement further regulation, according to a survey by The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS). From May to July, landlords instructing estate agents fell by 16% overall, dropping by a whopping 59% in East Anglia and 39% in the East Midlands. Sell now or pay later…
The survey points the blame of the drop of buy-to-lets at Reeves and her clan’s likely tax rises, coupled with the new Renters Rights Bill, which ends fixed-term penalties meaning landlords cannot make renters leave without clear fault-based grounds. Meanwhile, the number of houses to rent has dropped by nearly half since 2019 – and rent is only going up. Yet again the effects of a so-called ‘pro-growth’, planning reform orientated Labour are coming to light. And this is just landlords reacting pre-emptively…
Guido hears the Tory leadership candidates meeting at CCHQ earlier this week got rather heated. Candidates sent in their Rottweiler representatives to whinge about process – in particular, Tom Tugendhat’s lot. Apparently Tom’s team went in all guns blazing, lobbying for a higher spending limit on the campaigns. Seems unlikely to be for any good reason…
The current cap is £400,000 (already £100,000 higher than the last contest) plus a £200,000 ‘entry fee’ for the final two. The suggestion went down like a lead balloon per sources in the room. Otherwise, a dull August of Tory leadership manoeuvring continues…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”