It’s been all over the news but This Writer can’t let the quick thinking of taxi driver David Perry go unremarked here.
Mr Perry picked up 32-year-old Emad Al Swealmeen from an address in Rutland Avenue, Liverpool, shortly before 11am on Remembrance Sunday (November 14).
The passenger asked to be delivered to Liverpool Women’s Hospital, about 10 minutes’ drive away.
But it seems Mr Perry realised the man had brought what appeared to be a home-made bomb into the cab, so he locked the doors as the device was triggered.
It was after the explosion happened that the driver escaped from the vehicle.
🚨 | WATCH: Shocking moment David Perry’s taxi explodes, and he escapes leaving bomber to die
He’s lucky to be alive – but more importantly, it seems he prevented what could have been a terrorist atrocity.
The UK’s terror threat level has been raised to “severe” – the second most serious level – because of the attack, and the murder of MP Sir David Amess a few weeks ago.
And three men, aged 21, 26 and 29, have been arrested under the Terrorism Act.
Mr Perry was treated in hospital and has since been discharged.
His wife Rachel has posted a message of thanks on the social media to everybody who has expressed concern about her husband’s well-being:
Message from the wife of the taxi driver who miraculously survived the explosion at Liverpool Women's Hospital yesterday.
Why on earth would corporate media hacks doorstep a family in such circumstances? pic.twitter.com/QcG8hxKNtC
In fairness to the reporters who went on the knock at her address: I’ve had to do this after people have died, and it isn’t pleasant. Editors demand it because they think a comment from the family will sell their papers.
But they probably got what they deserved; I always hated doing that job, always apologised for imposing on people who I was sure wanted to be alone – and this consideration often led to an (exclusive) interview – ahead of the pushy types demanding a paragraph before their deadline.
Nowadays, the simple fact is that people involved in events like this are likely to tell us all about it on the social media – so why go around upsetting them?
Instead, This Site can simply agree with the sentiments expressed by the writer of the London Underground service information board, above. Do you?
Prophetic: I made this infographic in December 2020 – almost a year ago.
Remember when David Cameron – the architect of the EU membership referendum – said his Conservative-led government would ‘slash red tape’?
It’s almost funny, with hindsight.
Today we learned that the departure from the European Union that his referendum triggered has resulted in a loss of £17 billion in revenue to UK businesses, while they have been swamped in a quagmire of red tape that Brexit has created.
According to The London Economic:
Despite promises from the Leave campaign that red tape would fade after Britain quit the EU, UK companies have had to fill in an astonishing 48 million customs declarations and 140,000 export health certificates in the eight months since the UK quit the single market and customs union , according to the National Audit Office (NAO).
The NAO blamed Brexit for a sharp decline in trade between the UK and EU this year. “Total trade in goods between the UK and EU was 15 per cent (£17bn) less in Quarter 2 when compared with the equivalent quarter in 2018,” the watchdog’s report said.
An additional £600 million in costs has hit British importers since January according to HMRC data seen by The Guardian. The cause has been identified as Brexit, because the taxes were not required for EU imports when the Britain was in the single market.
But isn’t that the exact opposite of what Boris Johnson promised? Didn’t he say there would be no barriers to trade after Brexit?
Why, yes – yes he did:
Today we learn Brexit red tape has slashed £17 billion from UK trade with the EU in just three months as businesses struggle to keep up with new costs
Here is Boris Johnson selling his “oven ready” deal on the absolute promise there would be NO non-tariff barriers to trade! https://t.co/d9wVWHlZRF
It turned out that these rules and regulations were necessary to keep us safe and secure in our workplaces and financial transactions. I’m sure you can think of your own examples.
Their loss has endangered us.
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Another day, another car-crash interview for Boris Johnson.
Today he was challenged over his decision not to wear a mask while sitting next to “national treasure” David Attenborough, who is 95 years old and therefore highly vulnerable to Covid-19.
Just because Johnson has been vaccinated, it doesn’t mean he cannot pass the virus on to other people and his masklessness has attracted huge criticism on the social media.
But just look at his face when an interviewer raised the matter. It seems he did not have the self-awareness to realise people would talk about it, and he quite clearly panics at the thought of the harm he has done to his own public image.
His answer, when it eventually came, was infantile:
The instant a reporter diverts from the script, he flails, eyes darting, desperately searching for help, like a toddler lost in a supermarket.
Has anyone told Johnson what M. Macron did while he was enjoying his hangover nap (still maskless) next to Mr Attenborough while the speeches droned on? This could not have happened if he had only put a piece of cloth over his face:*
*Amazingly, to avoid criticism from the hard-of-thinking, I have to make it clear that this image is satirical.
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David Attenborough at COP26: at 95, he knows he doesn’t have much time left – and he’ll die in despair for the future of the world if COP26 turns out to be just another gust of hot air.
This Writer opened Twitter today to be met by this from the acceptable face of Countdown femininity:
Word of the day is ‘bloviation’ (19th century): empty rhetoric and a good deal of blah.
I bet she’s been monitoring the progress of COP26 – or lack of it.
Here’s the problem:
100 corporate giants are responsible for over 70% of the global emissions. It is not ordinary people who need lectured about their climate responsibilities, it is greedy corporate elites & the Governments they control.
Sadly, it was the governments controlled by the corporates who were on display at COP26 – with predictable results:
Come to Glasgow to see deckchairs being rearranged on the Titanic, just don't mention the iceberg.
— 🇵🇸Sir Norman of Potemkin Island, KBE💚🏴☠️ (@Normanjam671) November 1, 2021
Leading the parade of meaningless speeches was the UK’s prime minister Boris Johnson, a personality vacuum who could do most good for the planet by sucking all the harmful CO2 emissions into the gaping hole where his soul should be.
So far the PM has made a speech about James Bond, done a car crash interview about cutting tax on domestic flights and new coal, fallen asleep, and announced he’s flying back to London tomorrow.
Oh! So tackling climate change is a matter for local planning authorities, is it? Then why did all those world leaders create so many more greenhouse gas emissions by flying and driving to Glasgow so they could drink all that Scottish booze and wag their chins at each other?
As for taking a plane back to London, Downing Street has claimed that he needs to be mobile in order to be where he needs to be at all times, that the plane uses a mixture of 35 per cent renewable fuel and 65 per cent regular (meaning it’s greener) and that the remaining carbon footprint is offset in other ways.
But this is just one flight among many. How many forests are being planted by the government in order to offset them all?
Boris Johnson has taken more luxury private plane flights per day in office than any previous UK prime Minister.https://t.co/k8OuoKZw5E
I'm getting fed up now watching Johnson stumble about, talk absolute gibberish and fall asleep p*ssed at COP26…Why are his fellow Tories accepting this like its normal? He's destroying this country single handedly and Tory Ministers/MP's are just as bad for letting it happen 😡
I see Richard Madeley was salivating at Joe Biden resting his eyes at #COP26 yet no mention of Boris Johnson having a full on hangover kip, yet again @GMB following @BBCNews in protecting this embarrassment of a PM, would they be so protective if it were a Labour PM? No way..
If they were all so great at cutting CO2 emissions – the greenhouse gas mostly responsible for the Earth’s increasing atmospheric temperature that is threatening us all – then COP26 would not have been called.
US President Joe Biden turned out to be another weapons-grade hypocrite (as I suggested yesterday). Look at how he turned up to a conference on reducing greenhouse gas emissions:
(Mind you, he wasn’t the only one who turned up to a conference about saving the environment in a gas guzzling mechanical monster. Hypocrites all…)
Side streets around #COP26 are choked up with chauffeur-driven cars and vans, many with their engines idling. Interesting look for a climate conference. pic.twitter.com/9NO83ydN0w
Exactly. If there was a “market-based solution” to the climate crisis, it would have been implemented long ago and there would have been no need for a summit.
The most sense was spoken by someone who wasn’t even invited…
David Attenborough speaks at Cop26 but they would not allow Greta Thunburg to speak. They are ok with an old man but are shit scared of a young girl.
— Dicky Sparks, Reluctant Citizen of Plague Island (@Dickysparks) November 2, 2021
“My expectation is that we will hear many, many nice speeches, we will hear many pledges that – if you really look into the details – are more or less meaningless but they just say them in order to have something to say, in order for media to have something to report about, and then I expect things to continue to remain the same.
“The COPs as they are now will not lead to anything unless there is big, massive pressure from the outside.”
Wise words – especially when coupled with the big announcement about saving the world’s forests, and the reaction to it.
The headlines today are about a "landmark" pledge to stop deforestation by 2030. The only problem? World governments made *exactly* the same pledge in 2014 and deforestation increased by 40% pic.twitter.com/Pmz5wA5XMC
And check out this dialogue between Labour’s Clive Lewis and Tory Zac Goldsmith on the relative responsibilities of the haves and have-nots:
. It’s not party political Clive. This is an alliance of countries around the world from left to right. It is a turning point for the planet that you and I and everyone else shares.
But it is political. Inequality is hardwired into the global & domestic economic system your party champions. & is clearly a driver for the #climatecrisis. The poor cant give up what they dont consume. Asking capitalism to save the planet is akin to asking a tiger to go vegan. https://t.co/pTu6sQwJd7
Goldsmith was trying to dodge responsibility for the problem, on behalf of his rich buddies – but Lewis is right: the poor can’t give up something they don’t consume.
There were good speeches – but they were made by people with absolutely no power.
David Attenborough’s was a barnstormer…
… but he was speaking to a hostile audience. Look at those faces. They really couldn’t care less.
Maori activist India Logan-Riley also made strong points, having been asked to speak at the last minute:
“In the US and Canada alone Indigenous resistance has stopped or delayed greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one quarter of annual emissions. What we do works.”
Logan-Riley was not overstating the actions of Indigenous people in fighting for the environment. A recent report by Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and Oil Change International (OCI) found that an amount of greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one-quarter of annual US and Canadian emissions had been stopped or delayed due to Indigenous-led resistance to 21 fossil fuel projects in the two countries over the last decade.
The report found that about 1.587 billion metric tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions have been halted. That is the equivalent pollution of approximately 345 million passenger vehicles — more than all vehicles on the road in these countries, or 400 new coal-fired power plants — more than are still operating in the United States and Canada.
Needless to say, she doesn’t have any political power at all.
All in all, COP26 has turned out to be exactly the copOUT we all feared.
This Writer is left in agreement with Tom London:
If the world fails to stop catastrophic climate change it will be for one reason
That reason is GREED
The world has an abundance of resources of every kind right now but a small GREEDY elite has control of a huge amount and will not share any and wants to get more&more&more
They are in control – because we stupidly allowed it.
And they will make us suffer.
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Hate: it was naked on Priti Patel’s face during her Tory conference speech, yet she talks about closing anonymous social media accounts to end it. She speaks with a forked tongue.
The hypocrisy is bald and blatant:
The government is considering removing anonymity from social media accounts, said a source who asked not to be named
In fact, we know who wants to remove social media anonymity – it’s Priti Patel. But government sources of stories to news media would keep their anonymity, meaning huge opportunities to mislead the public will still be available to them. Remember the false claim that three Labour MPs were going to defect to the Conservatives during conference season?
Patel made her claim during an interview on Sky News, in response to the stabbing of David Amess.
She said there had been a “coarsening” of the public debate (without acknowledging the role that recent Tory governments have played in it) and added:
We can’t carry on like this. I spend too much time with communities who have been under attack, basically who have had all sorts of postings online and it is a struggle to get those posts taken down.
We want to make some big changes on that.
And she said:
This is about wider public discourse and I would also go as far to say social media, anonymity on social media, where we’re members of parliament are subjects of some of the most cruel comments attacks.
And they are relentless, many of them are relentless.
My colleagues go through just some of the most appalling attacks I’ve seen online and I have as well.
Off the top of my head, This Writer doesn’t recall Patel ever showing any concern about the enormous volume of hate sent to Diane Abbott on a regular basis. But then, Ms Abbott is a black female Labour MP and not a white male Tory knight – so it seems other rules apply.
And there’s an elephant in this room. Why is Patel suggesting a crackdown on anonymous social media accounts when the suspect in the Amess murder, Ali Harbi Ali, has not used one?
The suspect in the David Amiss murder used his own name on his social media accounts.
So why is Priti Patel using the killing as an excuse to attack online anonymity?
She's so depraved that she'll piggyback her pre-existing agenda onto the death of one of her own colleagues!
… and This Writer is not a fan of unmonitored anonymity, having been a victim of online hate myself.
But I would not seek to ban online anonymity. I would suggest that those who wanted to be anonymous registered for it, and if social media platforms received verifiable complaints about their activities – in other words, if they were caught abusing others, that privilege may be removed.
The reason for this should be clear to everybody but if it isn’t, read the following:
Removing social media anonymity concerns me. I have to use a pseudonym, hide my location, because men have threatened to rape me, chop me up and bury me in the woods. The police do nothing until they act on a threat.
And of course removing online anonymity will only increase the imbalance between the privileged and the rest of us:
The truth of the matter is this: many of us here know that it makes no difference if someone is anonymous or not; the bile that can come from those with blue ticks can be just as bad as it is from others.
Again: I have certainly been a victim of online abuse organised by people on Twitter with blue ticks next to their name. I am not aware of any instance when that organisation has acted on complaints against these “celebrities”.
So it seems that, rather than acting to end online abuse, Ms Patel is trying to increase the ability of the rich and privileged to cause such abuse, while ending any chance for ordinary people to defend themselves.
And let’s not forget that this is coming from the minister who wants to “turn back the boats” of refugees coming to the UK, exposing children to the possibility of drowning at sea, while granting her employees who cause such deaths immunity from prosecution:
Priti Patel: “We come into public life to be a force for good”
Question – is drowning children in the sea a force for good?#marr
Hate – whether online or in real life – has always been a tool of the Tories and Patel’s words stand on their heads. She may say she wants to shut it down but in fact it seems clear that she wants to increase it.
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Lord Frost: he has turned his back on ‘Building Back Better’ and he isn’t ‘Getting On’ with anything – particularly the EU and Northern Ireland.
Both the UK and EU are putting forward ideas to change the Northern Ireland Protocol that aims to prevent a hard border being set up between the province and the Republic of Ireland. The problem is obvious: they don’t agree.
Worse still is the admission by Brexit Secretary Lord Frost that the UK only signed up to the protocol, back in 2019, because Boris Johnson was in a hurry to “Get Brexit Done”.
Johnson has only ever seen Brexit as an electoral tool – to fool voters into electing a Conservative government. He never really supported its agreements.
Let’s remind ourselves of what Johnson said about the deal in 2019, and what he has said about it since:
As Boris Johnson prepares to break his own Brexit deal, the one he agreed, signed & sold to the public & Parliament as a negotiating triumph less than a year ago, every UK News Channel should be playing this compilation. But just in case they don’t you know what to do.. pic.twitter.com/MaSjnjr972
So it was a “great new deal”, but only up to the point at which it was implemented, after which it was a barrier to trade. A barrier that Johnson and Frost created!
Frost has now turned on the deal that he himself, personally, negotiated, saying that it is no good. It seems the whole world has responded with incredulity at the sheer cheek of this man, many agreeing with Neale Richmond’s analysis of him, below:
Frost reckons the NI Protocol is unworkable and blames the EU for imposing rules that restrict the flow of UK goods across the artificial border that Johnson put in the middle of the Irish Sea after lying that he’d do no such thing.
He has devised an entirely new protocol that strips the European Court of Justice of its governance role and proposes international arbitration of the way provisions in the protocol are implemented.
But the EU has said it would be very hard to see the Protocol surviving without ECJ oversight and was set, today, to propose its own changes:
The proposals are understood to include a unique deal around agri-food – which includes agriculture, horticulture, and food and drink processing – aimed at sharply reducing the checks on products moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
There will also be an arrangement to allow the continued sale of chilled meats from Great Britain in Northern Ireland; these products were facing a ban.
Clearly there are huge differences between the two sides and these are likely to lead to weeks of negotiation, with the future of peace in Northern Ireland – as provided under the Good Friday Agreement that many signatories have already abandoned – in the balance.
For Johnson and his government, the damage has already been done. Their contradictory behaviour has been universally condemned by opponents and former allies alike, both within and outside the Conservative Party:
They signed the NI protocol to postpone the admission that Brexit is damaging & daft. And they’re trying to renege on the NI protocol to postpone the admission that Brexit is damaging & daft. No matter that trust is a moderately important diplomatic currency…
I don't say this lightly. But UK's destructive downward spiral is only accelerating. Johnson Government is consciously endangering peace process in my NI homeland. I hope EU, US & Ireland's many other friends fully grasp seriousness of threat & recalibrate behaviour accordingly.
The absolute state of David Frost trashing the deal he negotiated + hailed as a triumph – despite many, yours truly included, warning it was a dud – *and worse* now using it to further undermine our relationship with some of our closest friends in an increasingly dangerous world https://t.co/tuswxzh8Sn
Clearly there was no good faith and the plan was always to cause trouble in Northern Ireland and to rip up the agreement later.
And what about Bernard Jenkin’s appearance on the BBC’s Newsnight?
Bernard Jenkin on Newsnight last night admitted that the Northern Ireland Protocol is a badly negotiated agreement that was only acceptable at the time to get Brexit done because Britain was in a weak position viz the EU. What? I thought we held all the cards!
— Richard Thompson #FBPE #facciamorete #FBPPR (@RichardPTh) October 12, 2021
Bernard Jenkin #Newsnight “Brexit Deal was signed at a time when Gov was weak & gripped by a constitutional crisis, the EU took advantage”
EU trade agreement was signed *year* after his party won a maj 80 seats in election to *get Brexit done* Shamelesspic.twitter.com/czfAkqpZ9B
Notice the faux pas at the end when he said, “We tried to make it worse – work.”
But Jenkin wasn’t convincing. Too many of us have had our eyes opened to the harm these lying clowns have caused, and we’re not going to believe any more.
Some of us have been proved to have been right all along:
Those who predicted austerity would do irreparable harm to this country's social fabric have been vindicated;
Those who voted Remain in 2016 EU referendum have been vindicated;
Those who predicted a UK public health disaster because of lack of preparedness are vindicated…
— Professor Christopher Painter (@PrfChrisPainter) October 12, 2021
We are realising what Johnson has been able to do, simply by lying repeatedly to us – not only about Brexit but about everything else he was planning to do:
We're being mugged in broad daylight 1) our loved ones dying 2) our pensions stolen 3) our NHS privatised 3) our children unprotected 4) Our elderly & vulnerable abandoned 5) The UK diminished & traduced in every way possible How much longer do we sit back & accept this?
Since waking and putting on #r4today I’ve heard that Frost is about to tear up his own Brexit agreement, Sunak has no money left and Johnson has presided over the worst public health disaster in UK history…
The trouble now is those tribal members of the public who simply won’t accept the evidence that is now in front of them.
I'm running out of steam. The evidence is there that Johnson failed in his handling of the pandemic, yet people still say he did his best. The evidence that Brexit is a disaster is clear, yet people are still supportive of it. What will it take? It's demoralising and exhausting.
And some will carry on supporting it, even when their own standard of living plummets.
All we can hope – those of us who seriously want a better future for our bitterly divided and misled island nation – is that enough people have realised the depth of Johnson’s – and Frost’s – betrayal to make a difference before it is too late for us all.
But the clock is ticking…
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I wrote, a few days ago, that after Wayne Couzens was jailed for life for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard, a culture of fear would settle on women in the UK.
I stated that “women will be left in greater fear of violence against them than ever – not because of men, as some in politics and the media are signalling, but because of the police.”
I continued: “You can bet the Met won’t do anything to change that. If you want proof, all you have to do is wait for the reports of the next crimes committed by officers of the Metropolitan Police.”
Well, we didn’t have to wait long, did we?
David Carrick, 46, of Stevenage, Hertfordshire, was arrested on Saturday over an alleged offence in St Albans on 4 September last year.
Mr Carrick, who is based within the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, was charged with rape by Hertfordshire Constabulary on Sunday.
I am legally bound to stress that the new allegations against David Carrick, a Met police officer from the same unit as Couzens, are only allegations at this time; he has been accused but any guilt or innocence must be established after a trial.
An initial court hearing was set to take place today (October 4).
Met Commissioner Cressida Dick has put out the usual circular that she releases when claims are made that harm her organisation:
“I am deeply concerned to hear the news today that an officer from the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command has been arrested and now charged with this serious offence.
“I fully recognise the public will be very concerned too. Criminal proceedings must now take their course so I am unable to comment any further at this stage.”
But we have to wonder how long she can stay in her post. The Met’s reputation has been dragged through the mud since she has been in charge and she has made no visible attempt to change its culture of abuse.
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There are many reasons to be hopeful after the first two days of the Labour conference.
Yes, you read that right: hopeful.
Okay, Keir Starmer and David Evans have gerrymandered votes so that Evans remains general secretary and only white men can get elected party leader.
But in the process they have demonstrated to the whole world that they are liars and that they are corrupt. And we’re not going to forget.
Grassroots Labour members across the UK know that David Evans is not their general secretary, because David Evans excluded and expelled members in his own interest, not that of the party.
They know that Keir Starmer is not their leader, because Keir Starmer betrayed them by stealing their voting rights.
But neither Starmer nor Evans will benefit because they forgot one important thing: Labour is a voluntary organisation.
The members they have betrayed won’t necessarily leave, and they don’t need to actively undermine the current leadership in a way that would allow Evans to give them the boot; they simply don’t need to help the current regime, either.
It is clear that, with Starmer positioning Labour significantly to the right of the Conservatives, left-wing activism has moved elsewhere – so left-wing activists will follow suit.
There are lots of interesting people playing much more interesting games than Starmer. And Labour can’t be the party of working people when it is being run by an upper-class, rich, knighted liar.
Without the activists who give Labour its credibility, the party won’t win any elections.
Starmer and his entitled cronies won’t stick around once they realise which way the wind is blowing. They won’t be able to; their backers won’t tolerate failure.
So his own choices at this year’s conference will probably lead to the end of Keir Starmer’s career. We’re watching him write his own political suicide note.
And then we’ll be able to take the party back.
It’s a long game that could have been avoided if certain people of the left had taken the required steps to excise the party of its right-wing entryists when they had the chance, but there’s no use regretting what is now history.
We can still influence politics in a big way – outside Labour. And the experience will probably make us all stronger.
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Corrupt: Labour members who voted to keep David Evans as Keir Starmer’s general secretary won’t care that he’s as bent as a nine-bob note, but for those of us who prize honesty and integrity, this recording of him explaining that he deliberately worked to restrict the rights of left-wing, Corbyn-supporting members is reason enough to quit Labour forever and let it sink in its own corruption.
Funny how these things turn up after corrupt creeps like Evans get confirmed in their rotten jobs, isn’t it?
Still, it’s unlikely that it would have changed the result of the vote, which was carried, apparently, by Starmer and Evans’s right-wing robots.
It does show that Evans is corrupt, though – and indicates that Starmer is corrupt, by extension.
EXCLUSIVE:
A deeply damning audio interview has emerged, from July 2021, in which acting @UKLabour General Secretary David Evans seems to admit he personally decided to strip Party members of their "rights", also indicating he specifically targeted those loyal to @jeremycorbyn. pic.twitter.com/HTqhA9TTST
By rights, it’s enough evidence to force him to resign, making him the shortest-serving Labour general secretary ever. But these corrupt types never do the decent thing.
But it is more evidence to support a mass exodus from the party of Keir Starmer’s friends.
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Rigging the vote? Keir Starmer (left) retains the services of his hitman David Evans (right) – but how many delegates to Labour conference were denied their vote by foul means in order to achieve the outcome? And will any of the votes in this year’s conference be honest?
David Evans has survived a vote on whether he will be allowed to continue as Labour Party general secretary.
Evans’s boss, Keir Starmer, had been pushing for the vote to be by ‘show of hands’ – an inaccurate method which right-wingers have allegedly used to rig vote results in the past.
But Evans himself announced that the vote would be by the more accurate ‘card’ system, in which every vote is counted.
It seems clear that Evans – and Starmer – had become confident of the result, and claims are circulating that they had eliminated enough anti-Evans delegates to make the vote go their way.
It was still a relatively close-run thing, with 59 per cent for Evans and 41 against. I wonder how many votes that translates into – and expect that we’ll all be surprised at how low the number are.
Stories of delegates’ party memberships being suspended before they could attend conference, being refused admittance for “security” reasons, or being denied the chance to vote when they did, are rife.
And who actually counted the votes?
But the result did not prevent humiliation for the hated general secretary. During his report, Evans told the assembled delegates, “Everybody remembers why they joined Labour,” and asked: “What was it for you?”
The response? Delegates broke into a chant of “Oh Jeremy Corbyn!”
The vote result does not bode well for the rest of the conference – or, indeed, for the future of the Labour Party under these two Tory cuckoos. Expect a mass exodus as Starmer and Evans steer a once-great party of the people into obscurity and ignominy.
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