Interesting factoid

The Chair of the Labour Party has repeatedly refused to rule out delaying the next General Election, following the decision to scrap council elections next year....

https://x.com/i/status/2002699267513958699

Correct, but he still went along with it (2022).

Can't blame a man for trying

Source: UK Parliament https://share.google/y2Qd2FI1KD4OCOSnX

The MoJ doesn't know - or won't say - how many of our magistrates are foreign nationals, sitting in judgement on Britons.

Chris Best, the co-founder and CEO of online publishing platform Substack.

https://dailysceptic.org/2025/12/21/the-online-safety-act-is-bad-for-free-speech-says-substack-ceo/

Life under the progressive matriarchy

https://archive.ph/n9uKb

Leftists are reporting Robinson to the UAE for anti-Islam statements as he's on a visit there.

DAVID BETZ: This is an amazing post........There's a line in a democracy that, once crossed, changes everything: when elections cease to be an obligation and become a variable. That line has now been crossed in Britain, and it's the state's own elections watchdog saying so.

The Electoral Commission has been explicit: Labour's justification for delaying local elections is not legitimate. Not unwise. Not clumsy. Illegitimate. Extending mandates damages public confidence, undermines local legitimacy, and creates a clear conflict of interest by letting councils decide how long they can avoid voters. In any functioning democracy, that would end the matter. Here, the government presses on regardless.

That's the scandal. This is no longer a party political dispute or a row between Reform and Labour. The referee has intervened and said the game is being rigged, and the players have decided to ignore the whistle. When a government continues with election delays after being told by the independent authority charged with protecting electoral integrity that its reasoning does not hold, the issue stops being reform and becomes power protecting itself.

The language Labour uses is revealing. Elections are framed as an inconvenience. Voters are framed as an administrative burden. Democracy is reduced to a cost-saving exercise, something to be postponed if the spreadsheets look untidy or the reorganisation plans are mid-flow. Ministers speak of "capacity constraints" as if the right to vote is a luxury item that must wait until the filing cabinets are rearranged. In a democracy, administration exists to serve elections. Elections do not exist to suit administration.

The conflict of interest identified by the Electoral Commission should alarm anyone who still believes in democratic norms. Councils are being asked whether they would like to delay the moment they must answer to voters. That's not consultation. It's self-dealing. No serious system allows those in power to decide how long they may remain there without consent. Yet this is now presented as a "locally led approach," as though outsourcing democratic suspension makes it virtuous.

Worse still is the uncertainty. Candidates have been selected. Campaigns have begun. Money has been spent. And with months to go before polling day, the government is still dangling the possibility of cancellation. The watchdog describes this uncertainty as unprecedented. That word matters. Democracies rely on predictability. Once elections become provisional, subject to last-minute ministerial approval, the entire process is degraded.

When challenged, ministers retreat into condescension. Chris Bryant waves away concerns as conspiracy and insists that "ordinary people" would think elections are "a bit daft." This is a familiar trick: speak for the public while denying them a voice. Redefine democratic rights as common-sense nuisances that sensible adults should stop fussing over. It's the rhetoric of managed democracy, where participation is tolerated only when it produces the correct outcome.

None of this is happening in isolation. Mayoral elections have already been postponed. Now council elections are being pushed back again. The pattern is clear. When the polls turn hostile, the timetable moves. When voters become unpredictable, the vote is delayed. Governments confident in their mandate do not need to buy time. They face the electorate and take their chances. Labour is not doing that because it knows what the numbers say.

The danger is not just that millions of people may be denied a vote next year. It's the precedent now being set. Once a government learns it can delay elections after the watchdog objects, after campaigns have begun and candidates are in place, the principle is broken. Elections become conditional. Democracy becomes something you are granted when those in power feel safe enough to allow it......... https://x.com/JChimirie66677/status/2002153292034433231

The System That Creates Nick Fuentes | Carl Benjamin Explains. Young men aren’t radicalising because of ideology, they’re reacting to a world that no longer works for them. In this conversation with Carl Benjamin, we break down why the post-war consensus has collapsed, why politics feels illegitimate and why a generation feels pushed to the edge.

In this episode we discuss:
– Why young men feel shut out of the system
– The collapse of the post-WWII consensus
– Piers Morgan, Nick Fuentes and generational revolt
– Identity politics vs material reality
– Legitimacy, consent and non-compliance
– Why politics no longer fixes anything
– What happens when power has no limits
– Why discomfort is unavoidable....... https://youtu.be/W0YD38rUBDY?si=RL

Shots fired (why after Franco did Spain quickly spiral into a hard-lefttard society when the ex-Communist states in central and eastern Europe are more resilient?)

https://open.substack.com/pub/arthurpowell/p/yes-franco-was-the-good-guy-who-won

Haven't read Horus's latest ... but he is usually reliably good ...

Defend Europe.

Not the sort of show I'd normally choose, but I was looking for something on the fly whilst cooking. Some interesting elements.

https://rumble.com/v731ez0-nick-griffin.html

LOL!!!

I'm in two minds on this. Politically, I'm opposed. Parentally, I support. Yes, parents should have final say, but there's often a split in households. It's very negative for their intellectual pursuits.

https://archive.ph/bW0VB