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Matthew Steeples analyses how the mess that is Boris Johnson Britain has engulfed any impartiality the right wing press had left

With The Telegraph even suggesting Boris Johnson resigning may be “his best option to deliver Brexit” in spite of the fact that would result in a Jeremy Corbyn led minority government, one realises that the game is finally up.

 

The same paper, this very morning, even turned their knife deeper into a previous favourite of theirs, Rory Stewart (they termed him a “defeatist”), and though what they said of Philip Hammond was to be expected (“treacherous”), one can now see where this purge is going.

 

The Telegraph, a paper that used to be right-wing but fair-minded, has now become nothing other than the mouthpiece for what the far right truly wants – a merger of the Conservative Party and The Brexit Party. It is thus barely worth reading and with the Mail also predictably spouting Nigel Farage nonsense about how he’s going to achieve a pact with the Tories for a free run on 90 seats today also (without a quote from a single Conservative source), it is clear that they believe we’ll soon all trust the loopy premonitions of Katie Hopkins as fact rather than fiction.

 

The British press needs to wake up and smell the coffee. If they don’t, there’ll be not a jot of impartiality in what they write and we’ll find ourselves in a 1984-esque horror. Welcome to the era of importing even the likes of the currently “banned-from-Britain shock jock” Michael Savage. Welcome to the era of Ann Coulter and welcome to the era where the nutters take over the asylum.

 

Watch the following YouTube clips and realise the horror of what Britain is potentially welcoming in.

 

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Matthew Steeples condemns Westminster Council, landowners Grosvenor and others for doing little to nothing to help the homeless in Belgravia

Most days I go to Sainsbury’s in Elizabeth Street, Belgravia. This store, situated at what some might call “the wrong end of one of Britain’s most expensive residential neighbourhoods,” is a shop where genteel locals shop alongside travelers using the frankly grotty disgrace that is the Victoria Coach Station.

 

Each day, I encounter a lovely old man who just happens to be homeless. He is genuinely homeless and sits there come rain or shine and I give him a bar of chocolate and a bottle of lemonade. He is thankful and though his English is poor, I often chat with him. He regularly tells me that sadly what he dislikes most is being ignored.

 

Yesterday, I spotted an altogether different sight on the opposite side of the road. Pictured is an image of a shirtless man sprawled out on the pavement (apparently drunk and drugged according to passerby) and totally off his face. It is a shameful state of affairs that in such a wealthy area the council, the local landowner Grosvenor and others do nothing to help such people. We live in a society which should accept that with rights comes responsibilities and it is time we all stepped up and did more to reduce homelessness.

 

#ShameOnWestminsterCouncil #ShameOnGrosvenor

 

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The royal family needs to wash its hands of its hangers on suggests Matthew Steeples

With even the staunchly royalist Daily Mail condemning Prince Andrew and his on-off ex-wife, Zara Tindall and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, one has to question the need for the royal family.

 

Whilst Prince Charles and his delightful wife and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have morphed into dependable and decent sorts, the tawdry goings on of the paedophile associates and money grabbing appendages has become just too much.

 

It is now, we suggest, time to streamline the royal family and it is time the Queen turfed out the trash. If she doesn’t, 1992 will seem like a positive dream.

 

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That the hypocrite Prince Harry and his tedious twerp of a wife have come to rely on Sir Elton John to defend them about sums up how ghastly they truly are suggests Matthew Steeples

Prince Harry used to be the kind of guy one would enjoy having a pint of beer with. He was fun loving yet dedicated to military service and appeared to be someone with a genuine joy for life.

 

Now, in the wake of marrying the frankly nothing but self-serving pest that was formerly known as Meghan Markle, this royal has morphed into not only an utter bore, but also become a tedious hector. Aside from being banned from going shooting, forced to do yoga and not even allowed tea or alcohol, the Duke of Sussex has started lecturing the populous about how many children they should have and about the consequences environmental damage to the planet.

 

In one post on Instagram last month, Prince Harry and his busybody wife announced:

 

“Only now are we starting to notice and understand the damage that we’ve been causing. With nearly 7.7 billion people inhabiting this Earth, every choice, every footprint, every action makes a difference.”

 

Sadly, however, this mantra plainly does not apply to him or his wife and the fact that they have flown on four private planes in recent days shows them to be utter hypocrites.

 

With news that one of these journeys was funded by Sir Elton John has rightly come criticism and in response the singer pompously tweeted:

 

“I am deeply distressed by today’s distorted and malicious account in the press surrounding the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s private stay at my home in Nice last week… I feel a profound sense of obligation to protect Harry and his family.”

 

“’I’m calling on the press to cease these relentless and untrue assassinations on their character that are spuriously crafted on an almost daily basis.”

 

Sir Elton John is entitled to say and do whatever he wishes, but British citizens are equally entitled to their opinions about the royals given they so freely live off the public purse. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex need to learn one thing and that is that with rights come responsibilities. They need to either accept this and learn to behave appropriately or do the decent thing and do what most of us would prefer: Disappear.

 

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Matthew Steeples suggests Boris Johnson must face up to the fact that his majority is likely to disappear

Last night after the Lib Dems stormed to victory in Brecon & Radnorshire (with 44% of the vote share), Boris Johnson’s majority in parliament was reduced to just one.

 

Hailed as a blow to Johnson’s ridiculous no-deal Brexit stance, the defeat of the elections expenses cheat Chris Davies by Jane Dodds left not only the Tories reeling. That Labour were pushed into fourth (with just 5% of the votes cast) and nearly lost their deposit illustrated how badly Jeremy Corbyn is performing, whilst Nigel Farage can hardly crow after his Brexit Party managed to get just 11% of the vote share.

 

Elsewhere, after Charles Elphicke was charged in relation to allegations of sexual assault, the Conservative Party must face up to the likely fact that they could ultimately lose his seat also, but the big news this morning is that another Tory, Dr Phillip Lee, has declared that “he’ll spend the summer thinking a lot” about crossing the floor to the Liberal Democrats. If Dr Lee does go, the party’s majority will be zero and frankly the chances of Johnson surviving a likely vote of no confidence in September could wipe his government out.

 

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Matthew Steeples suggests the Duchess of Sussex ought to give up any ambition to become a magazine editor

The Duchess of Sussex just cannot help herself. This mendacious meddler, in guest editing an edition of Vogue, has again shown herself to be nothing but ridiculous.

 

In response to this pointless piece of non-journalism, Jan Moir in the Daily Mail mockingly commented: “Baby, she is a firework! There certainly seems to be no end to Meghan’s philanthropy nor her desire to improve the world, raise awareness and brighten the experiences of those less fortunate” whilst The Sun mocked the extraordinary fact that this busybody “had spent the past seven months working on the magazine.”

 

Aside from choosing fifteen women – some of whom, like the privileged wife of the billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault, Salma Hayek, are just self-serving self-promoters (just like ‘Murky Mucky’ herself) – the ‘Modern Day Mrs Simpson’ opted to leave one space on the cover blank. That in this ‘foil mirror’ she suggests “readers can reflect how they can ‘effect change’ too” is not only ridiculous, but it also reflects how pompous this stupid woman truly is.

 

The Duchess of Sussex should learn one thing from this exercise: She’s not destined to become a journalist. Instead, today, we urge this hapless harridan to do what minor royals do best: Stick to opening village fetes.

 

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Apologies for the delay – The Steeple Times returns

You may have noticed we’ve not published anything for quite a while. Our most sincere apologies for this – but now, to misquote Arnold Schwarzenegger: “We’re back.”

 

Given our team have provoked and exposed many dodgy sorts since establishing ourselves in 2012, you can no doubt imagine why we’ve been targeted but rest assure of this. The Steeple Times is not going away and we’re most certainly not caving in to our detractors.

 

Thank you to all our readers, contributors and advertisers for your continued support and expect yet more controversy and much else otherwise from us in the coming times.

 

Matthew Steeples

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In backing Boris Johnson as the candidate best able to “give Britain back its mojo” today, the Evening Standard lets down London suggests Matthew Steeples

London is a city that voted ‘remain’ in 2016 and one that did so incredibly clearly. Across all boroughs, 59.9% (2.26 million people) voted in favour of remaining in the EU and in some areas the percentage was as high as 70%.

 

Now, today, in announcing they are backing Boris Johnson as the best candidate to become the next leader of the Conservative Party, the so-called “Londoner’s paper” that is the Evening Standard, has shown itself as a title that doesn’t represent the views of the city for which it is published.

 

That the Standard’s editor George Osborne – a man who walked away from the chaos the government he served as chancellor in – is now supporting Boris Johnson – a man at the helm of creating the Brexit mess we are now in – is beyond ridiculous. For him to argue that “Mr Johnson is the country who might just get Britain feeling good about itself” and “it’s BoJo who can give Britain back its mojo” is nothing but cringeworthy and today we call out the Evening Standard for what it truly now is: Completely out of touch.

 

To read the paper’s full interview with Boris Johnson, click here.

 

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That Jim Davidson has announced he doesn’t ever want to set foot in London again is something to be celebrated suggests Matthew Steeples

Sadiq Khan is undoubtedly an irritating prick of a man, but that he has annoyed the completely offensive bore and moron that is Jim Davidson makes him go up a little in our estimations.

 

Yesterday, to the delight of an entire city, racist bigot and tax avoider Davidson announced: “I am never coming to London again” and then issued a tirade about congestion and traffic. He attempted to moan about “lefties,” then misspelt the word “racist” as “racsist” and then received the response he truly deserved.

 

Amongst the reactions, the actor Michael Cashman commented: “The same Jim Davidson that celebrated Margaret Thatcher as she tried to crush mining communities & lesbian and gay people. The man who laughed whilst the working-class struggled. By the way your grammar is appalling. Proud of the city in which I was born and where I still live.”

 

Whilst I must suggest that Cashman is equally tedious, I do agree with him about the grammar. Equally, I will say this to the prejudiced prat that is Jim Davidson: Please bog off for once and for all. Everyone will be forever grateful.

 

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The reaction to Jo Brand’s ill-placed ‘joke’ is somewhat overblown suggests Matthew Steeples; that she angered Nigel Farage is just brilliant

Jo Brand certainly put her foot in the proverbial in making jokes about battery acid being a better thing to throw than milkshakes. Her remarks were indeed extremely ill-thought and show her as a childish woman desperate to get a laugh.

 

This comedian is certainly not someone I’d defend and she’s not someone I can admit to even having ever found funny, but that she pissed off that harbinger of angriness Nigel Farage is about the only thing that made me laugh. Equally, subsequently, that the failed-to-ever-win-a-seat-at-Westminster Brexit Party leader then demanded the “police need to act” simply shows him for what he is: A completely ridiculous hypocrite who himself has incited hatred towards foreigners.

 

Elsewhere, another failed politician in the form of the worst Home Secretary in history turned the worst Prime Minister in history, Theresa May, joined the braying mob and demanded the BBC explain why they deemed this “appropriate content for broadcast.” I’d suggest otherwise: Why on earth did they ever allow her to go on about running in wheat fields?

 

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