Makerfield by election

Didn’t he do well. Andy Burnham wins the Makerfield by election with more than half the votes cast. He was twenty points ahead of the Reform candidate despite the pundits claiming that it was a very close contest. So, has the Reform bubble burst now that Labour has got its act together?

Such a conclusion overlooks many of the special factors involved in this by election. Andy Burnham was no ordinary candidate but the sitting Greater Manchester mayor who was tipped to replace the seriously unpopular Keir Starmer as prime minister if elected. The previous Labour MP stood down to allow Burnham an opportunity to acquire a parliamentary seat. It was a risky strategy given the relatively slim majority over Reform at the last election, and the Reform landslide in the council election only a few weeks earlier. Nevertheless, it succeeded spectacularly, thanks to Burnham’s personal popularity in the constituency. So, this was primarily a vote for a personable candidate, rather than for the Labour Party.

Although, the personal vote for Burnham was the main factor there were problems with the Reform campaign. The candidate was pilloried in the media over some crude anti-women comments which may have alienated a chunk of potential female voters. However, there were other difficulties. He was chosen as a local candidate and employed as a plumber, in what looked like an attempt to emulate the recent Green Party by election success in the nearby Gorton & Denton constituency. Unfortunately, his lack of professionalism was exposed in the special BBC Question Time programme when he was outclassed not only by Burnham but also by the politically experienced Conservative candidate. To put it bluntly, he didn’t inspire much confidence that he could argue the Reform case lucidly and convincingly.

There was also the matter of the Restore Party standing in the election which many feared would split the right-wing vote. In the event Burnham outpolled the combined votes of both parties. But it still resulted in too much time and effort wasted attacking one another rather than presenting a united front to the electorate. It should be noted that despite all these problems Reform and Restore combined achieved a creditable 42% of the vote, which in many contests would have been enough to be elected. However, in this election the complete collapse of the Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Green vote resulted in a two-horse race with Labour as the winner.

It looks almost inevitable that Andy Burnham will soon replace Kier Starmer as prime minister. Although Burnham will be a much better communicator, he will still be presenting much the sane cocktail of discredited ideas and policies as before. Thus, it should only be a matter of time before the electorate again becomes disillusioned and they turn to supporting Reform as the only serious and credible alternative.

Woke regime two tier agenda

There has been national outrage in Britain during the past week over the police response to the murder of teenager Henry Nowak in Southampton. The police officers attending the scene of his attack credulously accepted the Sikh killer’s false claim that he had been subject to a ‘racist’ assault by Henry, contrary to the visible reality that his victim was lying on the ground dying from his wounds. The police officers compounded this wilful error by replying to Henry’s pleading that he had been stabbed with the insolent put down ‘I don’t think you have, mate’. They then proceeded to handcuff him despite pleas that he couldn’t breathe, finally notifying the teenager when about to draw his last breath, that he was being charged with a trumped up ‘racist’ offence.

Many commentators have concluded that this is clear evidence of a two-tier justice system, the consequence of a ruling class obsession with the diversity agenda which prioritises the concerns of ethnic minorities over the interests of the white majority. In this case the police attached more importance to a fabricated claim of ‘racism’ over the actual reality of a fatal stabbing. To be fair to the officers caught up in this incident their outlook would have been determined by years of indoctrination over ‘institutional racism’ stemming from the sinister and extremist Macpherson Report.

In fact, this particularly egregious incident is merely the tip of an iceberg in which the DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) agenda is deeply embedded in a raft of policies which are designed to present minorities in a favourable light at the expense of the white majority. For example, it is why positive discrimination in favour of minorities is encouraged in the workplace, particularly in the public sector. It results in social housing intended for the white working class to be now largely occupied by the immigrant community. It explains the wholly disproportionate number of black faces in advertising, their false and historically inaccurate appearances in earlier period dramas and the typecasting on TV of white men as villains, criminals, buffoons or dim-witted subordinates. It demonises blameless individuals for the original sin of ‘white privilege’ and today’s generation for the supposed evils of colonialism. There are plenty more examples which are intended to further this malign objective.

This pernicious agenda has been allowed to take hold thanks to the supine response of previous Conservative administrations who consistently failed to stand up to communist inspired subversion, fearing the accusation of ‘racism’ if they challenged the vocal leftist fanatics intent on destroying the cohesion of British society through mass third world immigration. As accurately observed by US Vice-President Vance these agitators are consumed by ‘self-hatred’, a guilt complex over the achievements and creativity of their own race and people, coupled with a loathing of their country’s incredible culture and history.