Another protester interrupts a Labour conference speech. They must have wanted Starmer’s speech to finally come to an end as well…
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Starmer is making his keynote speech at Labour conference where he’s expected to try and lighten the doom-and-gloom mood, promising that there is “light at the end of this tunnel”. Just as Savanta drops a poll showing his popularity ratings have plummeted by 21 points since the election, and by 28 points among those that voted Labour in July…
Change begins. Watch my conference speech here. https://t.co/W17KP6QDwV
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) September 24, 2024
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A familiar face was spotted on the train from Liverpool today. A co-conspirator snapped Labour’s very own Lord Mandelson, comfortably perched in a first-class seat, rolling into Euston at 1 p.m. He clearly wasn’t interested in sticking around for Starmer’s 2 p.m. speech with the rest of the party faithful…
The co-conspirator shared another rather amusing tale from a taxi driver who picked up other conference attendees last night:
“I had four of them and it was an eight pound fare. They asked for a a receipt for £2 each so they could claim it on expenses. I wrote out one receipt, tore it into four pieces and gave them one each.”
Who can blame the dark lord for shooting off early…
Yvette Cooper delivered her conference speech, lauding the triumph of Labour’s Border Security Command, scrapping the Rwanda scheme and harking on about her “serious government” knowing “that immigration is important”. So far, Labour’s “tough” stance on migration hasn’t exactly been a roaring success…
This weekend, 1,424 migrants crossed the English Channel, bringing the total this year so far to over 25,000 – at this pace, figures will soon soar past last year’s tally. Meanwhile, Asylum minister Angela Eagle admitted to Labour conference that one in five small boat migrants are claiming they are children, meaning border control are much more lenient and migrants “get a better deal”. This comes as a leading EU asylum expert, Gerald Knaus, has said the Rwanda scheme “would have worked”. Not something the Home Secretary should be touting as a successful scrap just yet then. No wonder Cooper kept her speech rather short today…
As Labour continues back-patting in the Liverpool Exhibition Centre, over at local socialist haunt The Casa Bar the Cuba Solidarity Campaign gathered for a fundraiser to help bypass the US’ sanctions regime against the communist country. Apart from receiving supportive speeches from Labour MPs and the Cuban Ambassador, numerous union representatives pledged their support to the totalitarian state…
Prison Officers Association general secretary Steve Gillan turned up to announce his union, the largest of prison officers in the UK, would fund the campaign to the tune of £10,000. He added that the funding wasn’t discretionary: “We’re not going to specify how that’s spent… Viva Cuba.” Union dues well spent then…
No one picked up the irony of someone representing prison officers pledging funding for a country which is currently starving and torturing over 1,020 political prisoners. They were too busy getting raffle tickets with a prize of a Che Guevara mug or flights to Cuba to notice…
