BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[icowden]

Times, they are a changin', maybe. Voters quite like not being run over and suffocated, it turns out.

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Full column here:
https://conservativehome.com/2026/09/29/andrew-gilligan-popular-among-activists-scrapping-ulez-doesnt-add-up-either-politically-or-
financially/

Very well written. In essence, most people in London Boroughs don't drive, so removing ULEZ or LTNs doesn't work in terms of winning votes. The TLDR is that in every case where the Tories have campaigned in London Boroughs in favour of drivers they have lost.

 

[briantrumpet]

If stuff like this doesn't move things along re arresting old women with bits of cardboard as terrorists, I don't know what will.

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/09/29/margaret-owen/

 

[C R]

If stuff like this doesn't move things along re arresting old women with bits of cardboard as terrorists, I don't know what will.

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/09/29/margaret-owen/

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But can't you see her virulent anti semitism? Just looking at her would terrify any g*d fearing jewish person.

(BTW and off topic, after all this years I am yet to find any example of the genuine antisemitism that apparently existed in the labour party during Corbyn's tenure).

 

[icowden]

(BTW and off topic, after all this years I am yet to find any example of the genuine antisemitism that apparently existed in the labour party during Corbyn's tenure).

It all seems to boil down to whether criticising the Israeli government is antisemitic or not.

 

[Pblakeney]

It all seems to boil down to whether criticising the Israeli government is antisemitic or not.

It is not. Is criticising Donnie anti-christian? Of course not, that would be as stupid as he is.
Although it suits some people's agendas for it to be.

 

[icowden]

It is not. Is criticising Donnie anti-christian? Of course not, that would be as stupid as he is.
Although it suits some people's agendas for it to be.

This is a good read on the topic:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jews-Dont-Count-David-Baddiel/dp/0008399514

 

[Pblakeney]

This is a good read on the topic:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jews-Dont-Count-David-Baddiel/dp/0008399514

It probably is.

 

[C R]

This is a good read on the topic:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jews-Dont-Count-David-Baddiel/dp/0008399514

I seem to remember that to some extent Baddiel did little to separate antisemitism from criticism of Israel. I think Miriam Margolies in particular pulled him up on it.

 

[briantrumpet]

If you didn't dislike the Tony Blair Institute already...

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/tonys-minor-tantrum-how-blairs-institute

 

[Pblakeney]

If you didn't dislike the Tony Blair Institute already...

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https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/tonys-minor-tantrum-how-blairs-institute

Democracy for sale right enough. He always was a grifter.

 

[Beebo]

Esther Rantzen has died.
Such a brave campaigner on so many levels.

 

[briantrumpet]

Esther Rantzen has died.
Such a brave campaigner on so many levels.

It's a pity she didn't get to see an assisted dying bill make it into the statute books, but at least her suffering has ended.

 

[AuroraSaab]

That's Life was staple viewing during my childhood. It's a shame consumer journalism isn't mainstream tv anymore.

 

[briantrumpet]

Don't know how many times I've watched this, but I always seem to get a bit of dust in my eye when I do.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqqbM1B-mPY

 

[First Aspect]

Not sure where to begin with Tennessee being unable to kill someone, twice.

But its humane, apparently.

If there's anyone MAGA involved, they will claim that operation Epic American Injection was a complete success, and its objectives never included preventing ongoing life.