Guido’s Adam Cherry headed up to Makerfield ahead of this Thursday’s historic by-election. What do voters really think? Will Andy Burnham win? Will Restore Britain cost Reform the victory? Watch the video above to find out…
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Kemi Badenoch has hit back in strong terms at claims – including by some of her MPs – that the seizure of a Russian shadow fleet tanker amounts to a PR stunt. Oh dear…
There was speculation and attack over the weekend after the tanker was seized. Tory MP Ben Obese-Jecty jumped on it and said:
“There are serious and legitimate questions about the authenticity of the footage released by the MOD of the interdiction of the Russian Shadow Fleet vessel this morning. How is the cameraman ahead of the Marines clearing the stairwell to be able to film them coming towards him. How has the cameraman gone past the open doors of rooms that haven’t yet been cleared?
How much of this has been staged for the cameras? I don’t doubt that a Russian tanker was seized and that the operation carried significant risk. I do question the PR and the desperate need for a win by the Government at the Royal Marines’ expense.”
Badenoch is having none of it. She said today:
“I’m not going to be disdainful of our military and call something extraordinary that they did a PR stunt. I think that that is extremely disrespectful. I think that if we start playing around with actions of the military in this way, we’re actually doing down our brave soldiers. So I will not even entertain that.
I think that the fact that they boarded a Russian vessel would only have been done for operational reasons which they decided. And I don’t think that we should be dragging the military into politics in this way…
We need to stop this conspiracy theory nonsense where we look at every action that’s been done by the military as some kind of you know false flag operation… I think it is quite right that we allow them to do their job without dragging them into politics.”
As the saying goes – If a Russian tanker is seized in an ocean and no one is there to film it…
Guido’s rowing days are behind him but a subtle change to the system of recording competitive racing at Britain’s foremost university has not gone unnoticed. Traditionally at college level men’s boats are called ‘M1, M2′ and so on, and womens’ are ‘W1, W2’…
Now the men’s category has been deleted entirely and replaced with ‘O1’ – meaning ‘open’. This new division was created, as university paper Varsity whined, as: “trans women are now barred from competing in the Women’s Division and forced into the newly-established “Open” Division, racing alongside those defined as male at birth.”
Men have rowed in eights for 199 years (since 1827) – so it’s almost 200 years of men’s only divisions deleted by a quiet vote last year with almost no coverage or scrutiny. Go woke go broke…
Ukrainian Roman Lavrynovych, 22, and Romanian Stanislav Carpiuc, 27, have been found guilty at the Old Bailey of plotting to damage property linked to Keir Starmer. Petro Pochynok, 35, a Ukrainian national from Holloway, north London, was cleared of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life…
The Old Bailey heard that the two men were offered money to commit the attacks by a Russian-speaking contact called “El Money.” Who could have guessed…
The government has not worked out how its social media ban will work. Quelle surprise…
At the Lobby briefing of political journalists Starmer’s spokesman said the UK is pursuing the “same model as Australia” when it comes to selecting which websites to ban – it’s user to user platforms.
Messaging services are not included, neither will be ‘educational tools’ and news and music. the spokesman said: “We will be setting out exemptions and keeping these under review.“ The state will decide which content counts as safe enough for teenagers to consume…
The government is promising more detail next month, with full measures coming in Spring next year after regulations are drafted by the end of this year. The spokesman said “there are still some details to be worked through” but the government as set out its “broad range of intentions.” It cannot say how age verification will work…
Soviet controls will be required for this to come close to working. Welcome to Labour’s Britain…
Guido’s Editorial Director Adam Cherry asked Robert Jenrick if he was concerned that Reform is expanding the tax code with its new ‘Employers’ Migrant Labour Levy’. Read more on the policy here…
Jenrick insisted Reform will simplify the tax code (although there’s a new ‘smart’ tax proposal today), and said “millions and millions of working Brits” would get behind it. Watch the video above to see the full answer…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”