One of the strongest opponents of Rishi Sunak’s proposed smoking ban is Adam Afriyie, the Conservative MP for Windsor and one-time ‘Tory Barack Obama’. He told the Commons this week: “I don’t know how we got to this position. This is very unnecessary. There are so many more important things to do in the world right now, yet we are in this place now.
“If this bill somehow gets passed with Labor’s support – of course, Labor always likes sanctions; I found it and it’s fine. Forgive me for being political, but it is ridiculous that our Prime Minister, who has enough things to deal with, is bringing in a Bill with the support of the Labor Party. Why do it at this stage?”
Unrelated fact: The House of Commons Register of Members’ Interests records that in September last year, Afriyie received a trip to South Korea worth £8,384.88 for a “speech and panel on the UK legislative environment” at the Global Tobacco and Nicotine Forum. Body for the fag-peddling industry.
Eyebrows were raised this week when Reform UK issued a press release “calling on Sunak to appoint the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps”. Leader Richard Tice added, “Calls on the Prime Minister to deploy the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps following Iran’s missile attacks targeting Israel.
To later clarify that, er, they meant “restricted,” photos of unlikely trips to the pharmacy just for a fix were fabricated.
The finger-pointing Conservative MP Andrea Jenkins was furious this week when officials in Brussels closed down a national Conservatism conference attended by the likes of Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman. “Offensive!” he wrote on Twitter/x. “The leftist woke brigade strikes again, shutting down #NatConBrussels2! True traditionalists are being silenced. This censorship is a slap on the face of democracy. We must stand strong!”
Undoubtedly, Jenkins is a fan of national conservatives. What if it’s a gathering he doesn’t agree with – for example, a march in London last month to protest against Israeli government actions in Gaza?
“We need action, ban hate marches, get them off the streets and shut them down!” she wrote.
GB News presenter, former Conservative deputy chairman and Reform MP for Ashfield Lee Anderson has finally told the unlikely nation which Tory MPs he will not be campaigning against in the general election.
They are Ben Bradley, Brendan Clarke-Smith, Marco Longhi and Nick Fletcher. “These guys are my friends and they’re the ones who met me last month,” Anderson says. “He will always be my friend and because of this I will not campaign against him in his parliamentary seats.”
And what a line-up! Bradley has suggested that those who claim benefits (“a large group of unemployed wasters”) should have vasectomy so that other taxpayers do not have to pay for their children and claimed that free school meal vouchers Effectively funneling cash straight to thieves’ dens and brothels. Clarke-Smith has similarly described food banks as a “political weapon”, saying that it is “absolutely not true” that “people may not be able to buy food on a regular basis”, as well. He has described himself as England. Football players are kneeling.
Longhi is chairman of Turning Point UK, a far-right pressure group that claims to “champion patriotism and British culture” but actually gets strangely angry about acts of drag. He has called for Steve Bray to “stop playing loudspeakers in towers”. land of hope and glory Fletcher, meanwhile, is known to blame the casting of a female Doctor Who for the rise in crime among young men.
God forbid that Parliament does not get the benefit of this mental trust!
Anderson – who has been named as ‘Lee Andersin’ on the Reform leaflet this week – has also been very vocal in his criticism of Nike’s new England football shirts, which feature the England flag ever-so-slightly.
He fumed at GB News, saying: “When I shout about ‘we want our country back’, it’s exactly the same stupid, idiotic, pearl-clutching, hand-wringing nonsense That’s what I’m talking about.”
The MP is also a prominent member of the popular conservatism movement (which remains distinct from national conservatism). Here is the Confederate flag in their logo:
but it was a lot of fun daily starWhich made international headlines when it live-streamed the lettuce that ended Liz Truss’s unqualified tenure in Downing Street, as the short-term Prime Minister blamed “London’s elite” and “people in wine bars in London” for the prank. Held responsible.
“I’m very suspicious of that John [Clark, Star editor] Have you ever stepped into a wine bar in London,” says a newspaper staffer. “He likes mixed grill.”
While Truss’s book has been thoroughly rubbished, at least one voice in Westminster thought it was essential reading.
“Truss has made quite brilliantly clear what the ‘Deep State’ is and the unaccountable institutional, corporate and government obstacles that exist to change the status quo,” he wrote. daily Express‘David Maddox.
“It has exposed how politicians – those we elect to rule the country – have been stripped of power and are subject to the whims of an unelected elite. How democracy itself has been destroyed.
“His warnings make really clear that the ideas and principles that led to Brexit will fail unless they are followed. The 2016 referendum will be futile.”
Yet another reason for this IndependentThe predominantly young, left-leaning staff is waiting for Maddox to join him as political editor once he serves his notice. express,
Fun fact: Maddox was also in South Korea last year for the aforementioned Global Tobacco and Nicotine Forum event, advising fag-peddlers on how they can get better press.
Last week this column mentioned the attendees of Nigel Farage’s 60th birthday party and suggested it might be an attempt at a Guinness World Records for the most terrifying people in a room.
However, Liz Truss’s book launch presented stiff competition. among those present the audienceIn the offices were Tory MPs including Suella Braverman, Jake Berry, Andrea Jenkins and Andrew Rosindale, Reform’s Lee Anderson and Richard Tice, Brexit negotiator David ‘Frosty’ Frost, Dan Wootton and Cllr Hackes, who still insists that she was right about everything, including WireAlistair Heath, Sherrell Jacobs and Camilla Tominey and, of course, Maddox.
Ukip held its leadership election this week, with more than 300 people tuning in to watch Bill Etheridge and Lois Perry debate Bill Etheridge and Lois Perry on YouTube, chaired by talkTV’s bombastic chairman Andre Walker, about Covid conspiracies, the return of executions and various other crackpots. Discussed policies.
Walker used the occasion to rally support for what he admits is his “personal hobby horse”, a new criminal offense of “conspiracy to restrict free speech on university campuses”. , which carries a prison sentence of up to five years.
Both the candidates were excited. Etheridge said: “Free speech is the foundation of our society and I am ready for that and more. The police should be forced to do this and go there and fine people and ensure that they are punished.”
However, Perry was concerned that this might be hindered by Police’s height, weight and gender. “I think the problem with the police is that they’ve all come through the woke education system and so – again, I go back to my childhood – the police that were on the streets, they looked like proper policemen. Now you’ve got four foot thick women. I mean, it’s embarrassing.”
Walker responded, “Four-foot thick women are my only pleasure on a Saturday night.”
With Sadiq Khan criticizing the state of London’s nightlife – 1,100 bars and clubs have closed in the past three years – Labor activist and former deputy council leader Ian Barnes took to Twitter/X to defend the capital’s mayor. took.
He posted, “Tories: Sadiq has ruined nightlife in London!” “Me: Why can’t I get a pint without queuing!”. He then added three pictures of a busy pub.
Except that a lot of people pointed out that they were taken during the, er, day, with brilliant blue skies and a shining sun.
OJ Simpson, who has died aged 76, was a somewhat famous sprinter before turning his attention towards American football, acting and television police activities.
In the 1960s he was beaten in a race by a British athlete described as “the fastest white man on the planet”, who ran the 100 meters in 10.2 seconds and held the British record for seven years. that man? Future Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell. Winning here, as the party likes to say!