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Foreign Secretary David Lammy appeared on James O’Brien’s LBC show this morning despite calls for O’Brien to resign over an antisemitism row. On Tuesday, O’Brien uncritically read out a claim alleging Jewish children in the UK are taught that “one Jewish life is worth thousands of Arab lives” and that “Arabs are cockroaches to be crushed.” He added he’d read the comments in “good faith”…
The Board of Deputies of British Jews branded the remarks “unacceptable and highly offensive,” and demanded LBC take O’Brien off the air. Despite the furore, Lammy has gone ahead with his appearance. He told O’Brien he was “reassured” the UK isn’t complicit in Israel’s actions in Gaza, insisting “we aren’t sending anything the IDF could use.” Probably not the wisest media choice for the Foreign Secretary…
Guido News Editor Max Young appeared on GB News’ Patrick Christys Tonight to discuss the website’s recent coverage freebies handed out to asylum seekers on a wide basis across the country. This scandal is only growing…
In a grim sign of the times for Kemi, the Tories were beaten by Reform in the Bromley Common & Holwood council by-election last night – handing the party their first ever elected London council seat. Reform took 34% of the vote, while the Tories collapsed by 11.8 points to 29.4%. That’s a brutal 22.9% swing…
Despite Kemi herself campaigning for the Tory candidate yesterday, Reform’s Alan Cook is now the newly elected ward councillor. A Reform source told Guido:
“Kalamity Kemi and CCHQ threw the kitchen at this campaign and still lost. We look forward to seeing the results next May across London.”
No sign of the reshuffle shifting Tory fortunes yet…
Corbyn and Sultana’s new party website is branded with an image from a violent 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in London. Must be the inspiration for the project…
The one image on the site is of a series of fists held aloft in a crowd – which it turns out is taken from a series of photographs from the 2020 London BLM protests. The BBC reported at the time: “A total of 27 police officers were hurt during anti-racism protests in London.. Protests on Saturday – sparked by the death of George Floyd – were largely peaceful, but were marred later by disturbances outside Downing Street.” Subsequent photos in the gallery show protesters clashing with the Met…
Guido isn’t sure the British public are that keen to return to the bizarre lockdown-fuelled violence of the imported US protests from five years ago. The launch of ‘Your Party’ – which isn’t registered with the Electoral Commission – was rocked yesterday by the fact that its name is apparently only temporary. Couldn’t organise a…
Birmingham Council is on its 136th day of the bin strikes, so far costing the council £8 million. It also has £3.9 billion in debt -declaring itself effectively bankrupt in September 2023 by issuing a Section 114 notice. No concern to asylum seekers…
As part of Guido’s Asylum Freebiegate series it can be revealed that at the same time the council is offering up to 25% discounts for asylum seekers for leisure activities in its jurisdiction through a ‘Passport for Leisure Scheme’. Freebies include:
- 20% discount for swimmers during general swimming sessions all day, every day
- 25% discount on some instructed courses, including swimming, gymnastics, golf, football, trampolining and martial arts.
- 10% discount at most leisure sites
- ‘Varying’ discounts at some museums, theatres and other attractions in Birmingham.
The scheme can only be accessed by:
- People in receipt of benefits
- Asylum seekers/refugees
- Looked after children/care leavers
- Aged 60 or over
- A full-time student
Birmingham taxpayers have waited 20 weeks to have their bins collected. They may wonder why their council continues to spend cash on trampolining for asylum seekers…
UPDATE: Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said:
“This is a bankrupt Labour council, in the middle of a bin strike, racking up billions in debt, hiking council tax by 21 per cent, and their priority is trampolining perks for illegal immigrants.
It is a slap in the face to hard-pressed taxpayers that are being forced by a Labour council to subsidise perks for illegal immigrants crossing the channel who then claim asylum. Families are struggling to make ends meet thanks to Labour’s tax rises and working families in Birmingham can’t even get their bins collected, yet Birmingham Council can still find money for freebies for illegal immigrants.”
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”
