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  • Two Bit Tice – ‘Monster’ Fearing Richard Tice Rages In Support Of ‘#LockdownFiles Leaker Lover’ Isabel Oakeshott

    Two Bit Tice – ‘Monster’ Fearing Richard Tice Rages In Support Of ‘#LockdownFiles Leaker Lover’ Isabel Oakeshott

    After Matthew Steeples called out ‘leaky #lockdownfiles sieve’ Isabel Oakeshott, her ‘chlorinated chicken chap’ Reform UK leader and TalkTV host Richard Tice bizarrely enquired of him: “What kind of monster are you?”

    “Let’s Make Britain Great” is the predictably and very clearly ‘borrowed’ strapline used by Reform UK, a ‘political party’ – which actually is just an entity registered in England and Wales as company number 11694875. The Donald Trump-esque mantra is used as part of an attempt to attract swivel-eyed right wingers to an ‘operation’ that didn’t win a single seat in the 2021 London Assembly elections; at that poll, Reform UK laughably finished in tenth position – behind the Women’s Equality, Rejoin EU, UKIP and Animal Welfare parties even.

     

    Now, in the wake of The Steeple Times having covered the scandal of Isabel Oakeshott – whom we branded “a woman who is best known not (as she claims) as a ‘journalist’ but instead as a ‘lobbyist who carries a poison pen’” back in September 2019 – having broken an NDA and released the WhatsApp messages of the equally unctuous Matt Hancock as part of a campaign named #lockdownfiles on Saturday, the ‘chlorinated chicken chap’ that is her current squeeze, Reform UK leader Richard Tice, decided to bat back directly and defend his grubby gym gear wearing lady-love.

     

    Tweeting Matthew Steeples, in several rambling rants likely written after a boozy lunch in Belgravia yesterday, ‘considerably richer than yow’ businessman and TalkTV tittle-tattler Tice very generously shared our article (“thanks, Dicky”) and remarked:

     

    “So @M_Steeples is clearly just jealous of Isabel’s success because he is a 2 bit journo of a 2 bit rag that no-one has heard of. Keep going Matthew!”

     

    Turning to COVID-19 itself, the father of three and regular yellow stickered shopper at ‘Celebrity Waitrose’ Belgavia raged:

     

    “So you do not care about the damage to children, the inhumane CareHome restrictions, the awful funeral constraints, the suicides? What sort of monster are you?”

     

    The response to his tweets has been overwhelming, but likely not quite what Tice was anticipating. Aside from being told: “Save your faux outrage, you hypocrite!” one social media observed: “Right back at ya. Stop spreading misleading information” of his ‘monster’ related question. Now Dicky dear, please do go and pour yourself a British beer and please ease your and grubby gym gear-clad Issie’s “jealousy” with that.

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    Pictured Top – Richard Tice decided to give Matthew Steeples a “Sunday sermon” about monsters yesterday; he did so late afternoon and likely after a few (British beer only) shandies and perhaps a boozy lunch (with non-European wines only) in Belgravia.

     

    This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Yesterday, Richard Tice of the Reform Party asked: ‘What sort of monster are you?’ of me after I called out his leaky squeeze Isabel Oakeshott. Who is actual monster in story of #lockdownfiles leaking of MattHancock’s WhatsApp missives?” He gave the options of a) Isabel Oakeshott (32.6%), b) Richard Tice, (8.7%) c) himself (6.5%) and d) Matt Hancock (52.5%). As of 11.30am on Monday 6th March the results were as listed.
    Tweet 1
    58-year-old Richard Tice ‘bigs himself up’ as some kind of man of the people in spite of having a clearly very privileged past and present. Often spotted in the tony taverns of Belgravia, this former Conservative donor has been involved in amongst other things property development and investment. He was privately educated at Uppingham and is the son the late horse trainer Joan Tice DL OBE. That he claims Matthew Steeples “jealous” of his gossipy girlfriend – a woman who falsely acted as a muckspreader when she falsely shared fake news that David Cameron had performed a sexual act on a dead pig – is proof permanent that he’s the one who is actually off his merry rocker. “Keep going Dicky!”
    Tweet 2
    Called out by Steeples after he suggested him a “2 bit journo of a 2 bit rag,” Tice responded: “What sort of monster are you?” He didn’t find a very positive response to his idiotic question from the majority of social media users.

    Social media responds to Richard Tice’s rambling rants and questions about monsters…

    Responding on Twitter and Facebook to the missives to Matthew Steeples, social media users observed of Tice and Oakeshott:

     

    “Two-bit? Do you mean The Steeple Times? I read it all the time as do all in the know; distinguished and principled journalism – especially compared to the dross trotted out by your squeeze.”

     

    “You’re a professional troll and so is Oakeshott. Who is paying you?”

     

    “[Oakeshott] had these messages two years ago. Why is she only concerned about those issues now? What sort of monster is she?”

     

    “The problem you have is that you are even more wrong than the government were!”

     

    “Don’t try to kid us you care. You’ve tried to exploit the release of that information with your partner in an attempt to inflict political damage & now you pretend you care? You’re a 2 bit crappy grifter like Farage. I wouldn’t trust you with a lettuce, let alone our rights.”

     

    “Save your faux outrage, you hypocrite! What about the damage to children currently suffering from Long Covid? I don’t hear you utter a bloody word about them!”

     

    “If Isabel had been a decent person, i.e. concerned about what is in the public interest, she would have released ALL the information to ALL media without payment. We see you two for what you really are!”

     

    “You are using those examples of wrongdoing and other peoples’ real human suffering to promote your own ends. What’s worse is that you are gaslighting people by cynically pretending that you are doing it ‘because you care,’ when self-interest is always your real motive. Shyster!”

     

    “What we know is that Oakeshott released these messages at a time that was politically convenient but chose to hide the fact that Banks lied until she was exposed.”

     

    “Disgusting you are trying to manipulate peoples’ suicides for your own benefit and agenda.”

     

    “Serialised in the telegraph to maximise the news cycle/exposure. How is this about any more than @IsabelOakeshott and her personal & political agenda? It’s a massive scoop, dripping with tabloid subterfuge, but why dress it up as a crusade?

     

    “She felt it was in public interest, was disgusted… But not before the book was out. And no doubt her leakage has been handsomely rewarded, possibly even legal protection should MH sue her. She’s the reason journalists will be less trusted with confidential matters.”

     

    “They’re insulting your credibility, I thought you’d recognise that given how often it must occur.”

     

    “You are a charlatan… Trying to make political gain out of peoples’ suffering. What sort of monster are you?”

     

    “[You] didn’t care until you and [Oakeshott] could make political hay and a boatload of cash.”

     

    “None of [the things Tice supposedly ‘cares’ about] are remotely true or relevant. File them under ‘things which ill-informed fight-wingers bleat about but never actually happened. No wonder the ‘UK’ is a global pariah and laughing stock.”

     

    “It’s genuinely painful when dead-eyed sociopaths obsessed with political power no matter the cost lecture others about ‘caring.’ Your entire platform exists and feeds only on negative emotion, reactionary populism with power for its own sake as the final and only goal.”

     

    “You would happily send [sic] asylum seekers drown. F**k off with the faux humanitarianism.”

     

    “You do not care about so-called ordinary people. Stop pretending. I suspect you want an authoritarian far right tax haven complete with subservient work force.”

     

    “You can care about all of this and still think your significant other is a wrong’un. Hope this helps, Dicky.”

     

    “Like your partner, you care when it suits your agenda [Richard].”

     

    “It’s you that’s the monster… A Tory monster. The worst kind.”

     

    “Stop using peoples’ deaths for your own financial gain, you ghoul.”

     

    “[‘What sort of monster are you?’]… That last line, have you ever considered looking in the mirror and pausing to think, [Richard]?”

     

    “Right back at ya. Stop spreading misleading information.”

     

    “Nice one… Brilliant… Keep up the good work, Matthew.”

     

    “Oooh, you’ve got your knickers in a twist… Grow up Tice… You should be the leader of the Whataboutery Party.”

     

    Waitrose Belgravia chlorinate chicken yellow sticker Bollocks to Brexit
    In August 2019, ‘The Steeple Times’ shared an image of Brexiteer Richard Tice buying yellow stickered salmon at Waitrose in Belgravia. We asked: “What next? Chlorinated American chicken?” and suggested he find another yellow sticker… That yellow sticker? ‘Bollocks to Brexit.’
    John Whittingdale Isabel Oakeshott
    In September 2019, ‘The Steeple Times’ condemned Isabel Oakeshott as a “fake news creator” and shared a reader submitted photograph of her next to the “lapdance loving MP” John Whittingdale. For once, she wasn’t wearing her grubby gym gear.
    Reform UK Make Britain Again
    Reform UK bases its message most clearly on 45th POTUS Donald Trump’s message: “Let’s Make America Great Again.” It’s a message that has yet to resonate at the ballot box with the great British public. Perhaps Richard Tice should focus on that problem before worrying about ‘monsters’ that simply don’t exist.
    Grifter bike
    On Twitter, amongst much mockery, this image of a ‘Grifter’ bicycle simply shone out and had to be shared. As Norman Tebbit once argued, it might be time ‘Dicky Boy’ got on it.
  • Moron of the Moment 2022 – Deranged, Delusional Dimwit Darren Grimes Launches New ‘Voice of Britain’ Channel

    Moron of the Moment 2022 – Deranged, Delusional Dimwit Darren Grimes Launches New ‘Voice of Britain’ Channel

    As deranged dimwit Darren Grimes announces he’s launching a new channel called ‘Voice of Britain,’ this tedious twerp rightly gets labelled “the voice of a very small racist minority”

    “I’ve just put the heating on. Feels naughty, a bit decadent. Like buying Lurpak instead of Aldi’s own brand” tattled sacked from GB News ‘presenter’ Darren Grimes this morning.

     

    ‘Grim Grimes’ or ‘Gobby Grimes’ – whose other nicknames number ‘Crafty W*nk’ (the less said about the alleged episode that led to that, the better) – was fresh from having announced he’s “taking on the media” at the weekend and will be launching a new channel which he seems to be calling the ‘Voice of Britain.’

     

    No doubt, with the press quivering in their boots at the prospect of this mouthy moron took to YouTube at the weekend and in a 3:20-minute diatribe declared:

     

    “Throughout my life I’ve been told things can’t be done, that I should know my place and that someone from a working class, County Durham background shouldn’t be getting ideas above their station by seeking to influence British politics.”

     

    Whilst he is undoubtedly right that his “influence” amounts to zilch-zero-nothing, Grimes continued:

     

    “I’m told that because I voted and campaigned for Brexit, like millions of you, 17.4 million of you to be precise, you must be an uneducated, chippy little oik for having done so.”

     

    He was most certainly correct in his latter assessment, but then he had to play victim and after showing a clip from Channel 4 News where he was deservedly berated, he played victim next and added:

     

    “I think the sneering, calling me ‘unintelligent’ is absolutely why [Remain] lost this campaign. Your arrogance and your snobbishness is disgusting and that is why you lost.”

     

    “I experienced that to such an extent that the establishment class in this country threw the total weight of the state against me for having the audacity to campaign for leave.”

     

    “I faced bankruptcy in my early twenties, but thanks to kind quiet patriots, I managed to crowdfund and fight back. I won against a biased Electoral Commission that had stacked itself against our vote for British independence.”

     

    “I then faced off the Metropolitan Police when I was threatened with arrest for daring to air an interview with the historian Dr David Starkey on the Marxist outfit Black Lives Matter.”

     

    “Alongside the Free Speech Union, I fought against this attempt to silence online speech and online debate and that fight is one that continues.”

     

    “But now, I really am facing a ‘Darren Versus Goliath’ struggle in this next challenge that I want to bring about. I want to take on the established media in this country; a media class that thinks that anyone that voted Brexit is racist, that anyone concerned about the migrant crisis running rampant at the British border is xenophobic or anyone that who believes in biological is a swivel eyed transphobe.”

     

    Laughably, this deranged dunce then raged:

     

    “I want to be the voice of common sense, the voice of the silent majority, decent, hardworking people, patriotic people and thoroughly fed-up people I think it’s safe to say, thoroughly fed-up men and women like you that have had enough of being hectored and spoken down to by our political class for their views.”

     

    “I want to use my channel and my platform, my voice, to speak up for you, to champion the issues that you care about in real Britain, to say the things that need to be said, to hear the views that need to be heard and to refuse to kowtow to mobs on Twitter and elsewhere; the ‘cancel culture vultures.’”

     

    Elevating his never-sorry-self definitely far-above his station, Grimes concluded:


    “In short, I want to be Britain’s voice and you can support me in this latest venture by subscribing to my channel, by subscribing, by sharing and liking content you enjoy and by supporting this independent journalism with as little as the price of a cup of coffee because always, from the bottom of my heart, many of you have been with us on this journey for years now.”

     

    “I want to thank you once again for hopefully joining us on this next chapter because boy, oh boy, I cannot wait to get started.”

     

    Pictured Top (left to right) – A suitably “milk bottle white” – like his monosyllabic mate Michael Heaver – Darren Grimes harassing a camel in Dubai in ill-fitting swimwear with a caption of “coming soon” above him and a person of colour seemingly on his arm; sporting one white and one black shoe ‘Diane Abbott-style’ at Newcastle Football Club and trying to appeal to the masses with a pint of Heineken.

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=n0yEQPQnyx0
    The reasoning for Darren Grimes’s best-known nickname explained.
    Voice of Reason 2
    Voice of Reason 3
  • From Loser To Lord – Should Shameless Shaun Bailey Be Elevated To House of Lords?

    From Loser To Lord – Should Shameless Shaun Bailey Be Elevated To House of Lords?

    Though Tory twerp Shaun Bailey got away with partying with billionaire Nick Candy during the 2020 lockdowns, that this ludicrous loser and electoral disaster area might now get a seat in the House of Lords courtesy of his chum Boris Johnson is utterly outrageous

    Whilst the dimwitted dunce Emma Dent-Coad was shown to be an abhorrent bigot when she described Shaun Bailey, the subsequently trounced and utterly inept Conservative London mayoral candidate in May 2021, as a “token ghetto boy,” that he might now make it to the House of Lords is frankly ludicrous.

     

    Beyond batshit bonkers Bailey, who partied with the billionaire property tycoon Nick Candy in December 2020 at Conservative Central Office in spite of strict lockdown rules being in place at the time, it was yesterday revealed was subject to no action. In a statement, the Metropolitan Police shared that “there was not enough to ‘disprove the version of events provided by attendees,’” The Guardian’s political correspondent Peter Walker yesterday reported.

     

    Whilst countless ordinary folk were fined and named and shamed, that the hapless police force then headed by the disastrous dimwit Dame Cressida Dick opted to let off the pontificating pillock Bailey is an utter outrage, but what is worse is that it has also been suggested that Boris Johnson has nominated him for a seat in the House of Lords in his resignation honours list.

     

    A self-declared “different dude” who has branded himself “gobby and dangerous,” Bailey not only lost to Sadiq Khan but also offered idiotic policies such as giving free burglar alarms to pensioners. He once also suggested that the 60,000 plus “homeless people in the capital would be able to save up for a £5,000 deposit to buy a share in a newly-built affordable home.”

     

    Going further, in 2005, Bailey made a berk of himself by claiming “accommodating Muslims and Hindus” in the UK was “robbing Britain of its community.” His nonsense was clearly shown to be such given the 2011 census revealed that 40.2% of London’s population to be non-white.

     

    Another blunder came in since quite rightly removed comments he left on the Conservative Women’s Organisation website. There, he observed: “If you could get girls to accept less of men’s rubbish then men would have to change because ultimately men are after a girl.”

     

    Is this moronic man fit for elevation to the House of Lords? The answer is unequivocally: “NO!”

     

    Pictured top – This likely future Lord claimed to offer “a fresh start for London” yet the electorate simply thought he was selling washing powder. They didn’t like the quality of his powder and they universally rejected this gobby goon and sent him packing; why then is he suitable for the House of Lords?

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party.

     

    Who’s more stupid and who is ghastlier: Shaun Bailey or Owen Jones? During a 16:29 minute YouTube feature in May 2019, Bailey declared: “Nobody has a monopoly on common sense,” but then went on to prove he’s totally lacking in even an ounce of such.
    Party at CCHQ with Nick Candy
    Shaun Bailey pictured with Nick Candy and others at a Christmas party during lockdown 2020 at Conservative Central Office at 4 Matthew Parker Street, London, SW1H 9HQ.
    Shaun Bailey with Boris Johnson. The fact that the pair “get on well” was proof enough that the loopy wannabe Mayor of London was unfit for high office.
    Priti Patel
    That Shaun Bailey was also snapped “minglin’” with Priti Patel illustrated the low qualities of those he chose to associate with him. That a woman voted a “snitch” and a “neighbour from hell” was someone he opted to be snapped with on the campaign trail was proof enough that he simply didn’t have his finger on the pulse.
    The now former London mayoral candidate with former Prime Minister David Cameron. The smug look on this duo’s faces sums up the “f**k the rest of you” attitude of these opportunists; here is a pair whose involvement in politics has caused nothing but disaster for everyone whilst their own pockets get deeper.

    Paradise Papers
    In January 2019, ‘The Red Roar’ reported Bailey was forced to return donations to his campaign from an “impermissible donor” linked to the Paradise Papers scandal. His judgment is so piss poor that quite rightly now the public are quite rightly outraged that he could be elevated to the House of Lords.
  • Grim, Gobby Grimes Gone – Bombastic Brexit Bore Darren Grimes Axed By GB News

    Grim, Gobby Grimes Gone – Bombastic Brexit Bore Darren Grimes Axed By GB News

    As ghastly, gobby and grim Darren Grimes gets axed by GB News, we call for the complete cancellation of a bombastic Brexit bore known best for pulling a Diane Abbott in wearing mismatching footwear

    Self-declared “Northerner that says it how it is” Darren Grimes fits into the same category as Tom Harwood, Owen Jones and Omid Scobie in terms of being considered utterly irksome. With his nasty nasal twang and a Priti Patel-like use of language when he’s “scramblin’,” “wavin’” and “invadin’,” here is a tedious twerp who made even right-wing viewers of GB News turn off.

     

    Now “abruptly cancelled” – according to Wikipedia – by GB News, Liberal Democrat turned right-wing Brexiteer Grimes took to Twitter on 4th November and declared:

     

    “Sadly, my GB News show, Real Britain, is ending in a few weeks. I want to make its last few episodes on air the best of all. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to those who have loyally tuned in and supported me and the channel – it has been the greatest ride of my life!”

     

    Responding on the social media network, most were unsympathetic of the plight of this County Durham born 29-year-old. One observed that GB News had “caused distress to his one viewer” whilst another added: “Good riddance to @Darren_Grimes: A vile racist and sh*t stirrer. May they all tumble, one after the other.”

     

    Whilst Christine Hamilton proved herself a lone voice of support in stating: “You will be much missed” and adding “you will succeed whatever,” the cancellation of the founder of the since disgraced BeLeave campaign is something that has unsurprisingly been widely celebrated. It is now simply time for something else and that is to banish dimwitted Darren Grimes to Siberia for once and for all.

     

    Pictured top – Darren Grimes (left) on a beach with what appears to be a small man running up his arm and a “coming soon” sign behind him; mockery of this “half-witted t***er” is unsurprisingly widespread on social media (right).

     

    Rather like Diane Abbott, here is a tedious twerp who doesn’t appear able to match his footwear. Pictured at his beloved Newcastle United Football Club in a white shoe and a black shoe, Grimes has also been repeatedly subjected to widescale discussion of what he used to get upto whilst in the classroom as a child in year nine. “I’m not messing about,” he whimpered before not doing anything about his accusers.
    Mocked widely on social media channels, the now axed GB News presenter is nothing but a disaster and a joke.
    The diatribe of drivel that came from the mouth of ‘Grim Grimes’ clearly made viewers of even the right-wing news channel GB News turn off. His “I’m English and I’m damn well proud to be so” message didn’t even resonate with Brexiteers and BNP and EDL fanatics and now it is time that he was simply cancelled permanently.

    Darren Grimes on Twitter…

    Twitter 1
    Though he thought his time presenting ‘Real Britain’ the “greatest ride of my life!” the viewing public clearly felt otherwise and hence GB News unsurprisingly axed this very boring berk.
    Twitter 2
    His Twitter handle speaks volumes… “Media personality” is hardly the way someone with a viewing audience of just the “mam” he bangs on about so much would be described by anyone with half-a-brain.
    Twitter 3
    Though ‘Dim Dazzer’ seems to find most of his ‘fans’ on Twitter, he slammed it on the 6th November with the remark: “You virtue signaling cesspit.”
    On the 5th November also, one of his videos was unsurprisingly removed from TikTok after it was deemed to be “hate speech.”
    Twitter 5
    Trying to make out he’d actually had messages offering him “support and encouragement,” on the 5th November ‘Dopey Darren’ declared: “Don’t worry, I’m not going to stop making videos! I’ll be on your screens in some format!” God help the viewing public if that proves true.
    Twitter 6
    Returning to type a day later, the opinionated oaf took his fury out on those calling him out and childishly branded someone who’d condemned him as “Mr Britain-loathing Liberal Democrat.”
    This morning, very predictably, the now axed presenter got very, very, very upset over the cancellation of Boris Johnson’s pet project ‘royal yacht’ replacement by Rishi Sunak’s government. “Could it be that the left just doesn’t like anything associated with Britain?” he whined.

    Reaction to ‘Crafty W*nk’ being cancelled and removed from television screens…

  • Moron of the Moment 2022 – Immigrant Hater Natalie Elphicke OBE MP

    Moron of the Moment 2022 – Immigrant Hater Natalie Elphicke OBE MP

    Immigrant hater Natalie Elphicke OBE MP should be reminded that she, the wife of a convicted sex offender, is the noxious nasty who actually deserves to be hated

    In March this year, The Steeple Times slammed the “total plonker” Conservative Member of Parliament for Dover, Natalie Elphicke, over her pathetic handling of the sacking of 800 P&O ferry workers by Zoom after she deservedly got heckled at a protest in support of their rights.

     

    Unsurprisingly called out then also as a “stunningly stupid woman who once ludicrously suggested “border issues at Dover were not a problem created by Brexit, but were Brussels’ fault,” this 51-year-old first took her seat in December 2019 and now, this morning, she showed herself up when she penned yet another of her regular rants for The Mail on Sunday.

     

    Previously, Dover had been the domain of her husband, Charlie – a cretinous creep known for running around the marital home yelling: “I’m a naughty Tory” as he went about groping horrified visiting ladies. Mr Elphicke was subsequently thrown in the slammer in July 2020 after being convicted of three counts of sexual assault against two women.

     

    In today’s column, which was titled: “When will The Left admit this is no refugee crisis… but simply illegal immigration,” Mrs Elphicke blamed everyone but her own party for refugees landing daily on British shores. “They are not fleeing wars,” she raged, before adding: “The injustice affects everyone… Not that you’d know it from the handwringing rights industry, the charity sector and the skewed reporting of the issue from the Left-wing media and the BBC.”

     

    Instead of seeking a solution on British shores, this heartless multi-millionaire mother-of-two simply offered: “It is undoubtedly the case that more can be done in France” before demanding “an immediate solution.” Idealistic, yes, realistic no and achievable, most definitely not.

     

    Frankly, all this latest column does is to provide further indication that here is an impractical woman unfit to represent the 72,000 people of her constituency. It is now jolly well time for ‘Nasty Nat’ to finally do the decent thing – resign and make way for someone who might actually help work towards a solution to this very real problem; a very real problem that affects both those arriving in Britain and those already living in Dover and beyond.

     

    Immigrant hater Natalie Elphicke OBE MP turned up to court regularly with her husband during his trial for sexual assault. She openly supported him and smiled for the cameras willingly alongside him, but as soon as he was convicted she took £25,000 from ‘The Sun’ for a negative story about him. Just days later, she changed her mind yet again and claimed her criminal hubby had been punished for being “charming, wealthy and successful – attractive, and attracted to, women.” She dismissed the claims of his accusers as nonsense and then, along with four other MPs (Sir Roger Gale, Theresa Villiers, Adam Holloway and Bob Stewart), were censored for using parliamentary notepaper to improperly pestering the judiciary with “naughty notes” trying to get the rotten sex offender off in November 2020. Here is a woman incapable of making up her mind and sticking to a single belief; here is a woman wholeheartedly unfit to be a Member of Parliament.
    Yesterday, the MP shared a video in a tweet caption: “I came across a discarded small boat on the beach in Dover earlier. Many more illegal arrivals again today.  We must get a grip on the small boats crisis and stop boats like this arriving on our shores.” Instead of telling those poor souls seeking asylum to “get a grip,” she ought first to “get a grip” and deal with the continuing fallout from her husband’s convictions and her efforts to clear this filthy pervert’s rotten name.

    Twitter reacts to the Member of Parliament for Dover’s latest antics…

  • Review – Bloody Difficult Women

    Review – Bloody Difficult Women

    Matthew Steeples reviews ‘Bloody Difficult Women’ – a play about Brexit, Theresa May, Gina Miller and struggle and sacrifice– and finds it relevant as we face the ongoing fallout from Britain’s decision to leave the EU and as Putin’s tanks roll into Ukraine

    Bloody Difficult Women by former Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail columnist Tim Walker was, like so many things, inevitably delayed by coronavirus. In spite of having meant to have been brought to the stage in early 2020, it now comes at the right time as Russian intervention in Brexit is once again revisited as the tyrant Putin sends tanks into Ukraine and Britain continues to face the consequences of what Vote Leave ‘achieved’ in 2016.

     

    Starring Jessica Turner – Midsomer Murders, Heartbeat – and Amara Karan – The Bill, The Darjeeling Limited – as the two “bloody difficult women,” this is not only a story of the implications of the 2016 referendum, but also one of the uphill struggle of the financier turned crusading campaigner Gina Miller and the then Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May.

     

    Inspired by his friendship with Miller and his having witnessed her “David and Goliath type battles with the governments of Theresa May and later Boris Johnson,” Walker commented: “I think she showed remarkable courage and I think it was a story that needed to be told.”

     

    Going further, The New European columnist added:

     

    “I hope, above all things, it will simply make people think and I also want them to understand that it was fundamentally a human drama and that everybody involved with that, to an extent, made sacrifices – and that I’d argue that Mrs Miller made the biggest sacrifice because it was her against the full might of the establishment, the full might of the state.”

     

    “Nobody is completely bad, nobody is completely good and that I think is what the play gets across in very realistic and I think humane terms. I think the drama behind the play is almost as great actually as the drama in the play.”

     

    “I think the story of May and Miller is a microcosm of what is happening in our country. Two perfectly normal women having a fight in the courts when in any other circumstances, they would be friends. I think that the message of the play is that we need to reunite.”

     

    Speaking of the performance in his typically direct fashion, former Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow remarked: “It was an outstanding performance of an outstanding story by some fascinating characters… A captivating representation of historically important historic events” whilst the broadcaster and Dead Sheep playwright Jonathan Maitland added: “I thought it was incredibly brave and hugely funny in parts.”

     

    A fictional civil servant Sir Hugh Rosen is played by the brilliantly witty Graham Seed – The Archers, The Pargetter Triptych. He is pitted against Paul Dacre, played by Andrew Woodall – Kavanagh QC, Des – and in the course of the rambunctious then editor of the Daily Mail’s cursing rants, the power of the media versus the politicos is played out. Just as occurred in 2016, the might of that paper is portrayed and now as we face war in Europe and the influence of oligarchs such as Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev comes back to the fore, it is a reminder that there is once again a need for yet more bloody difficult women and perhaps some less bloody difficult men.

     

    Ninety minutes long and without an interval, the play runs at Riverside Studios, 101 Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London, W6 9BN until the 26th March with matinees and evening performances also. Tickets are priced at £35 per person.

     

    Pictured top – Edmund Kingsley as Alan Miller with the ‘Daily Mail’s’ notorious ‘Enemies of The People’ headline behind him; Jessica Turner as Theresa May and Amara Karan as Gina Miller.

     

    Paul Dacre Daily Mail
    Andrew Woodall as Paul Dacre, the then editor of the ‘Daily Mail’ and the editor-in-chief of DMG Media, the publisher of the ‘Daily Mail,’ ‘The Mail on Sunday,’ the ‘MailOnline’ and ‘Metro.’
    Gina Miller Sir Hugh Rosen
    Edmund Kingsley as business titan Alan Miller, Jessica Turner as the then Prime Minister Theresa May, Graham Seed as the fictional civil servant Sir Hugh Rosen with Andrew Woodall as Paul Dacre in the background.
    Twitter review
    The ‘Mirror’s’ Kevin Maguire described ‘Bloody Difficult Women’ as “bloody brilliant.” He commented that he “particularly enjoyed the cursing Paul Dacre whio made life hell for both” Theresa May and Gina Miller.
    The play gets its title from Ken Clarke – now The Right Honourable The Lord Clarke of Nottingham CH QC PC –  having described Theresa May as a “bloody difficult woman” and added of her, in conversation with Sir Malcolm Rifkind on Sky News, “but you and I have worked for Margaret Thatcher.”
    Evgeny Lebdev Boris Johnson
    ‘Evening Standard’ proprietor Evgeny Lebedev – now The Right Honourable Baron Lebedev of Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames and Siberia in the Russian Federation – with Boris Johnson. The successor of Theresa May’s chum and son of Alexander Lebedev – a man who describes himself as an “ex-oligarch” – tellingly hosted Johnson at a party on the day he became Prime Minister and also keeps a wolf of the same name (though that is named after Boris Yeltsin) as an “exotic pet.”
    Putin Brexit
    As the tyrant President Vladimir Putin continues his war in Ukraine, it must also be remembered that he and his deviant oligarch cronies are amongst of the biggest beneficiaries of Brexit.
  • A Ridiculous Rant From Reform UK

    A Ridiculous Rant From Reform UK

    Nikolay Kalinin on Metro Bank closing down the bank account of the Reform UK party and loopy leader Richard Tice’s ridiculous reaction

    As I have previously argued, Richard Tice is nothing but an incompetent piffle-spitter whilst his Reform UK party is nothing more than a circus dedicated to spreading misinformation.

     

    It seems, however that Tice and his circus have finally got what they deserved, because recently Metro Bank has made the decision to close down his party’s accounts, with their justification being that the account was “no longer commercially viable.”

     

    In a letter to the party, Metro Bank continued: “After careful consideration, we are unable to continue to act as your bankers,” whilst later in a statement the bank added:

     

    “We regularly review our customer accounts and close those which are no longer commercially viable. The decision to close the Brexit Party account was made for commercial reasons only as a business as usual decision. Metro Bank is and will remain politically neutral.”

     

    Unsurprisingly, Tice launched into a rant, stating that the bank’s decision was “based on politics,” and generally attempting to paint the party as an honest group being hunted down by the establishment. He stated: “We are fifth in the polls. It’s not like we’re some extremist zealots. We got 300,000 votes in the May elections.”

     

    Tice’s comments about his party not being well to the right of Genghis Khan is clearly inaccurate. In the last month alone, they have campaigned against vaccines and vaccine passports, a rhetoric that has also been used by extremists like Kate Shemirani and Piers Corbyn and previously they’ve supported policy changes that would bring clearly dangerous chlorinated chicken into Britain.

     

    In regards to their account being targeted for political reasons, that statement is also inccorect, because the truth is that when it comes to commercial activities, the party hasn’t had much success.

     

    If you go to the profile of the party on the Companies House and see the report of financial statements, it’s visible that throughout the entire 2019, Reform UK – or the Brexit Party, as it was known back then – made only £12,156 from commercial activities such as merchandise sales and events.

     

    The party may have received millions of pounds worth of donations, but their lack of commercial success illustrates that they truly aren’t economically viable and therefore deservedly had their bank accounts closed.

     

    My advice to Mr Tice is that he stop behaving like Tucker Carlson and that he ceases whining about how oppressed he is. Such behaviour will not get him much support, as, equally, in this year’s London Assembly elections the party pathetically achieved just 1% of the regional vote and just 2.4% of the constituency vote.

     

    Richard Tice Nigel Farage
    Richard Tice succeeded Nigel Farage as leader of Reform UK in March 2021 and now has every reason to look glum. Aside from the party’s electoral failure, it shortly won’t even have a bank account.
  • A Sticker Not A Solution

    A Sticker Not A Solution

    Nikolay Kalinin calls out Grant Shapps’ decision to replace ‘GB’ car stickers with ‘UK’ ones as utterly ludicrous

    There are so many things that Conservative MPs could focus on right now.

     

    They could work on reviving British business – if they truly care about Brexit – or strengthening links between the different regions in order to prevent them from declaring independence, but instead they decided to instead obsess about car stickers. Yes, you heard it right, car stickers.

     

    Transport secretary Grant Shapps recently announced that production of traditional ‘GB‘ motifs used by British drivers abroad will be discontinued in favour of a legal emblem stating ‘UK.’ Their reasoning? The Daily Mail reports it is being done “as an attempt to win over unionists amid heightened tensions over post-Brexit border checks” and in order to “send a clear message about Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom.” Exactly how the new rule will “win over unionists,” however, was not explained by the minister.

     

    Tory MP Ian Liddell-Grainger responded to the announcement by stating: “I can’t see the point. It seems to me to be a complete waste of money when we don’t need to be wasting money. It also seems to be a slap in the face for people who are proud to be GB.”

     

    However, another Tory MP told the Mail: “The United Kingdom is stronger because it has the link with Northern Ireland because if you say Great Britain you are excluding Northern Ireland. I think it strengthen the ties at a time when we have got a problem.”

     

    If the transport secretary really cared about “including” Northern Ireland within the country, he would by this point get on with the construction of a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland that Boris Johnson pledged to build a few months ago, which would benefit national trade and establish an easier connection between Northern Ireland and the rest of UK.

     

    Policy like this affirms what many online satirists and journalists have been saying: The Conservatives care about anything but the people they’re supposed to represent. Instead of passing legislation designed to help people, they introduce initiatives that are either pointless, such as One Britain One Nation Day, or do things that make life worse for people, for example by not closing the country in time when the Delta variant began to spread.

     

    COVID has exposed even more how these people absolutely don’t care about the public’s wellbeing, because while Boris Johnson has pledged to remove the rule of compulsory mask-wearing in shops and public transport, a recent poll by YouGov has concluded that 71% of people in England, Wales and Scotland want mask-wearing to be compulsory after July 19th, with 66% saying that the rules should remain in shops and enclosed public spaces.

     

    If you need more evidence, just look at the Conservatives trying to suppress the right to protest with the Policing and Crime Bill, which Labour proposed to amend by introducing a minimum sentence for rape. Unsurprisingly, the Conservatives voted against the amendment. They don’t care about the people who suffered violence in their households during lockdown, because as Labour MP Angela Rayner stated, the Conservatives are “more interested in protecting statues than protecting women.”

     

    The Conservatives need to realise that even though they have a 363-seat majority, that does not grant them immunity from public scrutiny and accountability. They still have a job of representing the people, and it’s about time that they started doing that, instead of passing laws that are unnecessary and pointless.

     

    Pictured top: Aside from being “beguiled” by the e-scooter lobby, as we reported on Sunday, Grant Shapps is now set to inflict his plain personal obsession with ‘UK’ stickers over ‘GB’ stickers on the British public.

     

    Grant Shapps UK GB car stickers 2
    Shapps’ decision has been ridiculed on all sides of the political divide. It will not only anger Brexiteers, but also those whose loyalties still are to the European Union.
    GB plate UK
    Of the move, Ian Liddell-Grainger MP remarked: “That is a bit bloody rum. I can’t see the point. It seems to me to be a complete waste of money when we don’t need to be wasting money. It also seems to be a slap in the face for people who are proud to be GB. It is a waste of time, a waste of money. I don’t know why we are bothering.” Going further, ‘The Sun’ added: “The AA described the move, which was settled on in May but not announced, leaving them feeling left ‘in the lurch’ as stocks of some 50,000 ‘GB’ motifs are now completely worthless.”
    Previous advice, such as shown in this video shared on YouTube in February, is now out of date. Those that don’t follow the new rules, ‘The Sun’ concludes: “It will be a legal requirement to slap the ‘UK’ one on your car, and rule flouters could face fines. These will be down to the individual countries.”
  • The Return of the Yellow Card 2021

    The Return of the Yellow Card 2021

    Nikolay Kalinin analyses the reasons behind the Liberal Democrats’ success in the 2021 Chesham and Amersham by-election; is Boris Johnson about to suffer further at the hands of the ‘yellow peril’?

    A month after the Conservatives obliterated Labour in Hartlepool, the Liberal Democrats have struck back by winning Chesham and Amersham, a Conservative stronghold since its creation in 1974.

     

    The Liberal Democrat candidate Sarah Green won 56.7% of the vote, compared to the Conservatives 35.5% of the vote; this is not surprising, considering the fact that 55% of the constituency’s voters supported remaining in the EU in 2016, which reflects the region’s more liberal, middle-class electorate.

     

    Although Brexit was still a prevalent issue during the campaign, the HS2 was a more major concern in the lead-up to the election, as many individuals within the constituency were concerned that the government’s plans to remove the locals’ rights to decide on developments would lead to the railway system being built in the Chilterns. Home County areas like Chesham and Amersham were the place where Reform UK was able to make gains back in 2019 due to their promise to scrap the HS2, and it’s clear that the Lib Dems capitalised on that ‘NIMBY’ attitude.

     

    The demographics have also been influential in determining the outcome, since many within the area are young, middle-class liberal voters who have moved out of London and who were more likely to vote Remain in 2016.

     

    Not only is this the greatest thing to happen to Lib Dems in a long time, but also the victory has shown that the “blue wall” in Southern England is not unbreakable, a fact that was teased back in May when the party lost several councillors in strongholds such as Tunbridge Wells, Surrey and Chipping Norton, and also when they lost the Oxfordshire council.

     

    The Lib Dems ability to appeal to the locals’ concerns regarding HS2 should show Labour MPs the importance of appealing to the needs of the people in their constituency; at the same time, it also should be of serious concern to Boris Johnson, because even though he can bring down the red wall, the opposition parties can do the same.

     

    Much of this is because according to Ed Davey, the people in traditionally-Conservative constituencies “feel they’re being ignored by the Conservatives, taken for granted.” One southern Conservative MP further elaborated by stating: “There’s an element that our party is trying too hard to be Brexiteers”.

     

    The defeat of the Conservatives in the by-election should be taken seriously by the public and by the politicians, because this could be a foreshadowing to further defeats of Conservatives in the south of England – especially the Home Counties – as the party tries to appeal to more Northern working-class voters, which will definitely alienate the more traditional base of the Conservative party in the South who are more liberal.

     

    Ed Davey Chesham and Amersham blue wall
    Sir Ed Davey celebrated his party’s win in Chesham and Amersham – where his party’s candidate Sarah Green got 21,517 votes (56.7% vote share) as opposed to the Conservative Party’s Peter Fleet’s 13,489 (35.5% vote share) – by hammering at a wall of blue bricks in the style of Timmy Mallett. Overturning a 16,000 Conservative majority with 8,028 more votes than her rival, Green increased her party’s percentage share by 30.4%.
    In the by-election, Labour came off even worse than the Tories with just 622 votes and of her win Sarah Green remarked: “Tonight the voice of Chesham and Amersham is unmistakable. Together we have said, ‘enough is enough, we will be heard and this government will listen.’” The by-election was caused by the death in April of former Welsh Secretary Dame Cheryl Gillan. In 2019, she retained the seat with more than half of the vote. But the Conservative majority has been steadily decreasing since the 2015 General Election, when it was 23,920, with UKIP coming second.
  • Anything But GB News

    Anything But GB News

    Nikolay Kalinin watched GB News’ launch night and found it to be anything but “doing the news differently”

    GB News is finally here and I have to admit it’s not as much of a hub of “fruitcakes and looneys and closet racists” as present on Fox News. It surprisingly has a large diversity in terms of the racial origins of its presenters, but some on the channel, such as Neil Oliver – who will be analysing “what it means to be British” – make me concerned, as a few days ago he made the unfortunate decision to deliver a bunch of tosh about coronavirus lockdowns being utterly unneeded.

     

    In an interview with the newspaper The Herald, Oliver stated: “I think it is the biggest single mistake in world history and I’m just horrified by the damage that has been done. People who have had no support, no help, lost businesses, lost livelihoods and all the rest of it.”

     

    In a tone that sounds hilariously dystopian, Oliver claimed that people come up to him on the streets and “lower their voices, because they want to say that they think things are wrong.”

     

    The channel’s lack of awareness can also evidenced in the fact that chairman Andrew Neil has delivered a ridiculous message that GB News is a channel that it proud to be British, despite the fact that most of its backers are from abroad. Neil has also mentioned that GB News aims to cover the “people’s agenda,” which sounds like something that Nigel Farge would say if he launched his own TV channel.

     

    During the introductory broadcast, Neil also stated that the channel aims to provide debate, and don’t get me wrong, I believe in the principle of debate, because without debate we cannot come to an understanding and work together in order to improve society. The idea of allowing presenters to have their own opinions is also fine by me, because if that principle was not allowed on British television, we wouldn’t have amazing shows such as Top Gear and Mock the Week.

     

    During the introductory broadcast, Neil also mentioned that GB News will aim to not solely look at Westminster, but also analyse how the government’s decisions influence Britain’s communities, which is important if the people want to feel represented and avoid putting their trust the likes of Reform UK’s Richard Tice.

     

    However, the problem is that there are lots of people – especially people like Neil Oliver – who don’t want debate and rather seek to divide. This became evident on GB News’ opening night when Neil asked Oliver about how he feels oppressed in Scotland for identifying with the British identity. He did not offer an alternative view in his line of questioning.

     

    It’s concerning to me that GB News will be a safe haven for the likes of Oliver to give the likes of Laurence Fox and Darren Grimes a platform to spread their harmful messages. This is especially evidenced by the fact that a large amount of people on the channel’s roster are ‘beyond-right-wing’ – such as ex-Guido Fawkes contributor and ‘condom campaigner’ Tom Harwood, ex-Brexit Party MEP Alex Phillips and ex-Brexit Party candidate Michelle Dewberry.

     

    The introductory broadcast has given us hints that this is exactly what is going to happen. During Dan Wootton’s interview with Nigel Farage, for example, the ex-politician described Black Lives Matters as a “Marxist organisation… that wants to bring down Western civilisation,” yet the host didn’t bother to even question this suggestion. How is this providing debate and how is this impartial coverage?

     

    Still, GB News has only been just launched, so we cannot tell fully if this is going to be the British Fox News that no one asked for, or if it’s actually going to offer an alternative and revolutionary coverage of news. Let’s wait and see how the whole operation proceeds, and then let’s make our judgement. After all, cancel culture is not really effective and for the most part, it’s pretty daft.

     

    Mic Wright on Andrew Neil
    Mic Wright, the man behind ‘Conquest of the Useless,’ observed: “Live from the Pratcave: GB News is Britain’s least-silenced people saying ‘unsayable’ things they’ve said before.”
    Stuart Jefferies on Andrew Neil
    Elsewhere in ‘The Guardian,’ Stuart Jefferies reviewed the launch night of the channel and gave it just one out of five stars. He observed: “The ‘anti-woke’ news channel had Andrew Neil and Alan Sugar, but no Piers Morgan – and the opening night felt like the furthest thing from appointment TV imaginable. I give it a year.”