Author: Miles Donavan

‘Apart from looking for a photo opportunity, the honest answer is he’s done nothing.’ Clacton residents have slammed their MP Nigel Farage for going missing and failing to deal with local issues, as they reflect on a year of the Reform UK leader representing them in Parliament. Farage, who became an MP after seven successive failed attempts, has barely spent any time in his constituency and has been criticised for making repeated trips to the U.S. since being elected in order to meet with Conservatives and also express support for Donald Trump. Meanwhile, he has neglected his constituency duties, a…

‘It shows just how out of touch the Tories are that they believe they have said sorry for their 14 years of failure in government.’ The Tories are being mocked after Kemi Badenoch’s closest aide said that the party is done apologising for the mistakes made during the Conservatives’ 14 years in power.  Badenoch’s director of strategy Baroness Rachel Maclean said in a leaked recording that the Tories have “done the mea culpas, we’ve done the apologies, we’ve done all that”.  Maclean, who lost her seat at the 2024 election but was given a life peerage last December, also said…

So much for being a man of the people, it’s been a bad year for Farage. Just over a year ago, Nigel Farage was elected as an MP, after seven successive failed attempts. The arch Brexiteer was elected as Reform’s Member of Parliament for Clacton, despite repeatedly insisting beforehand that he no longer harboured ambitions for elected office. It quickly became apparent after his election however, that the interests of Clacton’s residents wouldn’t be a priority for him as he repeatedly jetted off to the U.S. In total, he has made at least eight trips to the US – but…

‘London is better than the hate filled Leader of Kent Council’ The Reform UK leader of Kent County Council has been condemned for sending ‘a message of division’ on the 20th anniversary of the 7 July London bombings. Linden Kemkaran, a former BBC journalist and Conservative parliamentary candidate, posted an anti-immigration and anti-Muslim message to mark the anniversary. She wrote: “On the eve of the anniversary of #7/7 if someone had told me 20 years ago that our borders would be utterly broken, Islamism would be on the rise, sectarianism in Parliament would be accepted & blasphemy laws on the…

The number of Reform MPs has gone down from five to four, again Reform UK MP James McMurdock resigned the whip over the weekend, after The Sunday Times revealed details of thousands in business loans he took out under a Covid-19 support scheme.  According to the Times investigation, the Reform MP for South Basildon and East Thurrock took out Covid Bounce Back loans for two businesses in 2020. McMurdock allegedly borrowed £50,000 for one business, JAM Financial Limited, which had no employees and under £5,000 in assets until the pandemic.  To qualify for a loan, the company would have been…

‘The reality is and everybody knows it, a division in the anti-Conservative, anti-right-wing vote can only assist the parties of the right.’ Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has said that any new political party set up by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana would only serve to benefit Nigel Farage, as he warned against a splintering of the left. On Thursday evening, former-Labour MP Sultana announced plans to set up a new left-wing political party alongside Corbyn, as she accused the Labour Party of having ‘failed to improve people’s lives’. It appears that Corbyn was blindsided by Sultana’s announcement at the…

“We cannot ever hope to end rough sleeping if we are not even able to assess the scope of the problem to begin with.” A new study shows that the number of women sleeping rough in England is likely more than ten times higher than official government figures suggest, prompting urgent calls for improved data collection and increased investment in gender-sensitive support services. The Women’s Rough Sleeping Census 2024, conducted by Solace Women’s Aid and the Single Homeless Project, identified 1,014 women who had slept rough in the previous three months across 88 local authority areas during a survey carried…

The former MP offers no consideration that Burnham or Khan might actually hold principled positions and that the idea that resisting attacks on disabled people might be a moral imperative, rather than a political manoeuvre. In yet another head-scratching, ‘look twice’ headline from the Telegraph’s ongoing campaign to sow division on the left, columnist Tom Harris declared that Andy Burnham is doing more damage to Labour than Jeremy Corbyn. Harris, a former Labour MP who lost his seat in 2015 and has since reinvented himself as a mouthpiece for the right-wing press, claims Burnham is “keen to burnish his soft-Left political credentials by jumping…

One might even say the Sun makes a mockery of its own article by ending on such a sensible note. This week, the Sun dug deep into its culture war crusade, publishing an exposé about so-called “woke waste,” taxpayer money allegedly squandered on research into “whiteness” and the protection of women accused of witchcraft.According to its melodramatic article, £16.5 million is being “funnelled” into 21 “woke” projects at UK universities.Among the supposedly scandalous studies singled out was £85,000 spent on a Newcastle University project entitled Combating Witchcraft-Related Violence Through Song, which investigates how music can support elderly women in South Africa who face violence after being…

“The biggest single factor is the level of social security available for families,” Scotland has consistently had lower levels of poverty than the UK average for the past 20 years, new official data shows. The figures were compiled by the National newspaper and are based on UK government-accredited statistics. They show that across all age groups, including children, working-age adults, and pensioners, Scotland has fared better than the rest of the UK since 2005. Child poverty in Scotland has decreased in recent years, falling from 25 percent in 2021 to 23 percent in 2024. In contrast, rates in England and…