I am at a ‘Turning Point UK’ dinner attended by several hundred people. Nigel Farage, bursting with smiles, handshakes and energy, enters the high ceilinged ballroom with its massive chandeliers, and the crowd parts like the Red Sea. Even though he is physically not particularly large, his presence is electrifying. Everyone wants to shake his hand. Everyone craves a few … [Read on]
Tommy Robinson is being held in solitary confinement, in his own vast isolation block in the heart of Belmarsh Prison. The great names of Islamic terrorism have all been inmates; the Manchester bombers, the 2005 London bombers, Abu Hamza and Anjem Choudary and an assortment of other mass murderers. There were secular criminals Ronnie Biggs, the great train robbers spent … [Read on]
A political party is like a very large, extremely annoying extended family. Active involvement takes over one’s life. One can therefore imagine the emotional wrench Nigel Farage experienced when he left UKIP a couple of weeks ago. His was the face of UKIP. Not only had he given his life to UKIP but as a founding member in 1992, he had … [Read on]
Labour is tying itself in knots. The Conservatives are in an existential crisis. UKIP is in danger of tearing itself apart. It’s all about class again. Labour is really the funniest – nowhere does the British class system rear its ugly head more than in the current day labour party. There you have Corbyn and McDonnell, old Trots, who believe … [Read on]
Many people are naturally conservative. I am sure most of the people in Liverpool are quite clear what is the difference between a man and a woman. They also know that open borders. leads to lower wages. But what the people in Liverpool, Stoke, Mansfield and many other towns do not like, is the feeling that they are being completely … [Read on]
I used to work for the French bank, Banque Nationale de Paris, generally known as BNP. They used to employ about two thousand people in their large, London offices. All their front-line trading staff were in London, not Paris. When I visited Paris, I asked why. I was told very simply, it is because we cannot fire people even if … [Read on]
According to The British Beer and Pub Association, 10,500 pubs have closed since 2000. Just imagine if even a small proportion of these pubs get turned into Mosques. That is what seems to be happening in East Anglia. Disused pubs are generally cheap to buy because they have commercial planning permission and few other uses. They can be found on … [Read on]
In 2012, Charles Murray, the American author, famous for the book, ‘The Bell Curve’, wrote a new and similarly controversial book called, ‘Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010.’ In it, he examined the American, white working class, losing all the traditional values that had previously held them, their families and their society together. At the same time, Murray … [Read on]
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