Britain’s national shoplifting epidemic is a symptom of much wider social sickness. The post Shoplifters Will Not Be Prosecuted—At Least Not In the UK appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag Shoplifters Will Not Be Prosecuted—At Least Not In the UK Britain’s national shoplifting epidemic is a symptom of much wider social sickness. TakiMag (Photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images) Fort Knox is full of gold bars. Pork Knox is full of sausage rolls. Sausage rolls are tasty British savory snacks, consisting, as the name implies, of a single sausage rolled up inside a layer of pastry. They are extremely inexpensive, often under £1.00. And now they are being placed under lock and key. With shoplifting across the UK having become so endemic, branches of the popular budget bakery chain…Open
In the UK today, questions of identity and culture drive political change. The post The British Turn Their Backs on Labour appeared first on The American Conservative .
The latest local elections confirmed what opinion polls had been suggesting for a good while: the collapse of the Labour Party and the extraordinary unpopularity of its leader, Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Up and down the country, from urban to rural, metropolitan to suburban, or Celtic to Saxon, the British people turned their backs on the Labour Party less than two years after it won a landslide victory at the last general election. Reform UK will be able to claim a victory – though perhaps less dominant than they hoped – the Conservative Party continued to suffer losses throughout the country, and the ascendant Green Party have emerged as a real force on British left, albeit not as strongly as some expected. Since the results,…Open
Local elections show Reform surging and the establishment parties receding. The post The Teal Tide Washes Over Britain appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage The Teal Tide Washes Over Britain Local elections show Reform surging and the establishment parties receding. UK Special Coverage (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) This week’s English local elections are nothing short of revolutionary. The right-populist Reform UK has not simply gained ground in the Labour Party’s former heartlands—it is swallowing them up wholesale. The populist juggernaut is routing the mainstream, establishment parties. In normal times, most people in the UK would pay very little attention to their local-council elections. Turnout tends to be embarrassingly low.…Open
Britons have woken up to a new world, where Nigel Farage's Reform UK is expected to gain THOUSANDS of local council seats, and where the pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to resign will only increase from here on out. Here's what happened...
WESTMINSTER, LONDON — Three weeks ago, Reform UK leader and perpetual thorn-in-the-establishment’s-side, Nigel Farage, told the press he intended to be on the streets of Havering in East London on the morning on Friday, May 8th, celebrating Reform UK’s first capital city breakthrough. Sure enough, the borough is now his, with the once-dominant Conservative Party relegated to ZERO seats in the white-van-and-mortgage belt of London. These results are being replicated up and down the nation, with over 5,000 council seats up for grabs in Thursday’s election, and Reform UK already picking up around 1 in 3 of them. It’s a nightmare scenario for the governing Labour Party, which is still being led by one of the most unpopular political…Open
On Thursday, voters across England, Scotland, and Wales head to the polls in the most fragmented set of British elections in living memory — with projections pointing to the simultaneous collapse of two-party politics across all three nations.
On Thursday, voters across England, Scotland, and Wales head to the polls in the most fragmented set of British elections in living memory — with projections pointing to the simultaneous collapse of two-party politics across all three nations. ■ Pulse Points / Reformation Day England — 5,066 council seats are up across 136 local authorities, including all 32 London boroughs and six directly-elected mayors (Croydon, Hackney, Lewisham, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Watford). A recent prediction from polling group ‘More in Common’ found that Nigel Farage’s Reform UK could win in excess of 1,400 of these seats, with the Greens picking up just shy of 1,000. The historic “two major parties,” the Conservatives and Labour, would lose…Open
Coddling immigrant criminals comes at a cost. The post Two-Tier Justice Comes for British Jews appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Two-Tier Justice Comes for British Jews Coddling immigrant criminals comes at a cost. UK Special Coverage (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images) The response of the British left to the knife attack on two Jews, Moshe Shine, 76, and Shloime Rand, 34, in London’s Golders Green on Wednesday was telling. The leader of the left-wing Green Party, Zack Polanski, retweeted a post on X accusing the police of brutality for “violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head.” Well, a kick in the head is perhaps the least this attacker should have expected after refusing to give up his…Open
Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of its governing Labour Party, is reportedly facing pressure from Labour Members of Parliament to resign, as the party anticipates devastating results in local elections this week.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing internal pressure from his party’s lawmakers, as it heads towards heavy losses in regional and local elections on May 7. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of its governing Labour Party, is reportedly facing pressure from Labour Members of Parliament (MPs) to resign as the party anticipates heavy losses in regional and local elections on May 7. DETAIL: On Tuesday, it was reported that backbench Labour MPs are making a coordinated effort to oust their leader . Some Labour MPs blame the Prime Minister for their party’s widespread unpopularity ahead of English local council elections and elections to the Scottish and Welsh…Open
British Green Party leader Zack Polanski's approval rating has crashed after he attacked police officers for stopping a man accused of stabbing two Jews in an anti-Semitic terror attack too "violently."
British Green Party leader Zack Polanski’s approval rating has crashed after he attacked police officers for stopping a man accused of stabbing two Jews in an anti-Semitic terror attack too “violently.” PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Zack Polanski, leader of Britain’s far-left Green Party, has seen his approval rating fall by 14 points following his response to an apparent anti-Semitic terror attack in Golders Green, according to a poll by More in Common published on Tuesday. His rating now stands at -27 percent, trailing behind Reform Party leader Nigel Farage but ahead of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. DETAIL: Polanski faced backlash after criticizing police actions during the arrest of an armed Somali following the stabbing of…Open
Nigel Farage's Reform Party has announced plans to build immigration detention centers in areas that vote for the Green Party, which advocates for open borders. Reform argues that its proposal ensures migration policy is fair and democratic.
Nigel Farage’s Reform Party has unveiled a plan to build immigration detention centers in areas that support open borders policies, while pledging not to build centers in areas with Reform MPs or Reform-led councils. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: On Sunday, Nigel Farage’s Reform pledged to build immigration detention centers in areas that vote for the Green Party, the far-left party led by Zack Polanski, which supports mass immigration and open borders . Reform argues that its proposal ensures migration policy is fair and democratic. DETAIL: The plan involves constructing facilities capable of simultaneously detaining up to 24,000 migrants, nearly ten times the current capacity of immigration removal centers, within 18 months. This…Open
Zack Polanski, leader of England's far-left Green Party, is facing backlash after sharing a social media post attacking police officers for their use of force while arresting a knife-wielding alleged terrorist.
Zack Polanski, leader of England’s far-left Green Party, is facing backlash after sharing a social media post attacking police officers for their use of force while arresting a knife-wielding alleged terrorist. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Zack Polanski, leader of England’s far-left Green Party, is facing backlash after sharing a social media post criticizing police officers who arrested a knife-wielding alleged terrorist in Golders Green, London. Video footage of the arrest shows officers kicking the suspect, who had been downed by a taser but was still clutching the knife he allegedly used in three attempted murders, in order to incapacitate him. DETAIL: On Thursday, Sir Mark Rowley, Commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police,…Open