The imminent election on the Channel Island of Jersey on 7 June is becoming an unusually significant political story. The ballot will see 28 deputies, 12 constables and nine senators chosen for the States Assembly. As Guido revealed for the first time, Labour’s key donor the Unite union has a weirdly strong hand in the process as the key backer of the Reform Jersey party…
Reform Jersey is a total basket case on all the usual lefty issues including Palestine. Unite should also be troubled by the party’s history on Russia. Just one candidate example: Reform Jersey’s Lee Carpenter. In November 2025 Carpenter quoted Putin’s justification for invading Ukraine in an interview with Tucker Carlson and added: “can’t argue with that”. He has also posted claims that the war was “clearly provoked by the US”. He also wrote: “I see no evidence invasion is what Putin wanted“. This is all at odds with Unite’s own position on Ukraine: the union has repeatedly passed motions of solidarity with Kyiv at its conferences. Why is Unite – and by extension Labour – in bed with the weird world of hard left politics on Jersey?
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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.”
