The Corbyn / Sultana new party thing is truly contributing to the gaiety of the nation. The only disappointing aspect must be that it surely can't continue for very long, much as we'd all love it to.
The Beeb reports that an initiative of the Sultana has been thwarted by a cabal of Corbyn plus "Ayoub Khan, Adnan Hussain, Iqbal Mohamed and Shockat Adam", causing her to rail thus:
I have been subjected to what can only be described as a sexist boys' club: I have been treated appallingly and excluded completely. They have refused to allow any other women with voting rights on the Working Group
Now forgive me for making generalisations here; but aren't those gentlemen of cultural heritages where the views of women aren't always, errr, held in the highest esteem? Irony or what?
Oh dear.
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"gentlemen of cultural heritages where the views of women aren't always, errr, held in the highest esteem?"
ReplyDeleteThat's a rather roundabout way of referring to the misogynist Left.
A presage of whats coming down the line from the Islamic Community & what Chazza (teh Defender of teh Faith) will welcome
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, the Conservative media chats post-Trump were entertaining too.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/18/farage-boris-feud-reform-tories/
“He betrayed every principle he was elected to uphold, and everyone who gave him that majority,” a senior Reform figure now reflects. “He massively increased the numbers of people coming here, including a lot of people who don’t like this country. And that’s before you start talking about the constant lies, the lockdowns and his obsession with net zero. He is the antithesis of everything Reform stands for – secure borders, low to no net immigration and scrapping net zero. I can’t think of a more absurd suggestion than him joining forces with Reform.” This is not, my source insists, an opinion that is held only by the leadership of Reform. “He elicits a visceral emotion in our members,” the source said. “One of the most consensual opinions among Reform members is that he was a disaster, and has already claimed the title of the man who ended the Conservative Party’s chances of ever regaining power. If we let him join Reform, there would be an exodus of 99.9 per cent of our members.”
I did wonder if Nadine was a Boris Trojan Horse.
Once more the Curse of Corbyn. Can't really see this lot going anywhere - rats in a sack.
ReplyDeleteTGIF, Starmer and Charlie can enjoy a long hot bath and take scrubbing brush to their noses and tongues. Meanwhile at an RAF base somewhere in England planes are being loaded with bombs to blast rubber boats out the water. Steady on old chap, Venezualan drug couriers are one thing, women and children another - think of the optics. Brilliant one Donald.
I know that cockup generally beats conspiracy, but isn't the Corbynite split remarkably convenient - his party, which in the current environment would strip Muslim and leftwing votes from Labour, effectively stillborn?
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'm remembering how the SNP went from bestriding Scottish politics to having all sorts of financial shenanigans, or how the BNP happened to have a disgruntled guy in charge of the membership list...
Yes, remarkably convenient indeed.
ReplyDeleteSignificantly offset, however, by how ready and able the Greens are now, under the "interesting" Mr Polanski, to pick up those votes and probably make better use of them in terms of seats won. If I was Morgan McSweeney, I'd want both the Greens and the Corbynites scrapping over those votes
I read that Mr Polanski's real name is Arsehole Buttercup. Can it be true?
DeletePrivate Eye has some background on Polanski's background. Looks like he's a bog standard party-hopper. Never trust a shape-shifter.
DeleteI can't see the Muslim voters going large on trans rights, which was apparently one of Ms Sultana's big beefs with the Corbynites. She seems to be a true believer - open borders, "trans rights" i.e. blokes in female changing rooms, the lot.
ReplyDeleteI'm a little torn on this one.
ReplyDeleteOn the one hand, the fact she is stupid enough to be surprised that a religion and culture with misogyny baked in to it wouldn't give her a free pass.
On the other, if anyone is so hugely irritating that even the wildest left would find their inner Garnett muttering "silly moo", it's her.
And then we've got Corbyn, who only brooks limelight sharing with terrorists.
1000% OT - but apparently the fraud and gangsterism of the Yeltsin decade extended to 'black realtors' killing lone pensioners for their flats. Of course, it could be sophisticated propaganda - "surely you do not want Jones back?".
ReplyDelete"Many years ago now, back in the first half of the 90s, an ethnic gang chased me—at that time a correspondent for a central newspaper—through the streets of a small Ural town. I had come to write about the cemetery of nameless pensioners growing up around that very place. During that short span of time, just a couple of years since Yeltsin’s sovereignty had been established, as many as 136 lonely pensioners had gone missing without a trace in this classic Stalin-era industrial town, while their apartments were seized by so-called black realtors. All across Russia, lonely old folks, veterans, front-line soldiers who could remember the Great Patriotic War were being forcibly evicted from their own apartments. I’d written so damn many pieces about it that the editorial office where I worked had simply stopped accepting such stories—they’d become something mundane, however ghastly that sounds, just another feature of daily life. Things like this were happening in Moscow, Balashika, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Kazan Vladivostok. But whereas in big cities they at least spared the old folks—forcing them to sign over their cursed apartments and exiling them to languish out their days in godforsaken abandoned villages—well, in small provincial towns they just straight-up slaughtered pensioners."
https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/the-russia-i-dream-of-forgetting
That is indeed 1000% OTT, anon - but by a strange coincidence I am planning a post on related aspects: more next week
ReplyDeleteSemi- related, a comment elsewhere
ReplyDelete"Trump is for the USA what Gorbatchov was for the USSR. Trying to repair an ailing superpower, and inadvertently ending it."
He certainly has a gigantic task - to reverse 40 years of deindustrialisation AND sixty years of post-1965 demographic change. In four years.
Not that a Brit can talk ...
Anon - have you seen this?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/09/russia-ukraine-public-putin/684146/
Just. I wouldn't disagree with a lot of it, but (as I'd expect given the source) there's quite a bit missed out - like who the REALLY big losers are - Ukraine (short of warm bodies) and Europe (short of cheap energy*). The paradox is that it's the US State Department who've got us where we are - NATO expansion, the 2014 Maidan coup - but now they have retreated (to an extent, I assume SIGINT etc are still in operation), Europe are foolishly taking up the cudgels in their stead. A more perfect example of "let's you and him fight" I can't remember seeing.
ReplyDeleteWhy are European leaders stepping into the US' shoes with such enthusiasm? I can only assume because with static or falling living standards, a bogeyman is needed asap and pdq. Who was it who said that no rational man wants war, but they can be led to it by telling them they are under threat?
I could expand, but it's half past ten ...
* note the constant drip of factory closures citing energy bills in the UK
The Atlantic article was interesting and leads into Trump's exploitation of the Russia/Ukraine situation for his own game.
ReplyDeleteTrump may come across as a lump but he has political nous and is backed by bright and rich people. Russia/Ukraine can keep Russia/Europe usefully busy and poor and out of America's hair while the US attempts to hold down China and restore influence in Asia and the Far East and deal with its own troubles.
As for Russia not having any indigenous high tech industry, that does not matter much when Russia has massive energy and mineral resources and can add vast food resources from Ukraine. High tech can be bought anywhere and you need physical assets - ground, sea and space to achieve power plus a bit of high tech. If you have to you can roll your own, it's only physics.
Looking ahead say 50 years. Europe looks like having a hard time if and until it manages to get affordable fusion power and some means of delivery. A big ask and if Europe can do fusion so can everyone else.
You can't eat neutrons, global warming may keep us warm but I reckon food and population migration are the 50+ year worries. Not an handful coming to the UK but multi millions displaced from the sandy hungry places. Those hectares are going to work very hard.
I loved the Guardian yesterday - "German jets scrambled after Russian military plane flies over Baltic Sea". It was in international airspace, just as the literally hundreds of NATO ISR flights over the Black Sea are.
ReplyDelete"The Eurofighters took off from the Rostock-Laage airbase to head off the aircraft as it flew in international airspace." - I assume "head off" is press release hyperbole - obstructing its flight path in international airspace would be provocation at best, causus belli at worst.
Trouble is I could see Starmer thinking a nice little war is just what he needs atm. But would it be nice, or little?