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On December 12, 2019 British voters sent a crystal-clear message that sent shockwaves through the political world: They want freedom (in the form of Brexit) and they do not want socialism (in the form of Jeremy Corbyn). How else can one explain the landslide victory for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s pro-Brexit, anti-socialist Conservative Party, which won 43.6 percent of the vote—the highest percentage by any British political party since 1979?Adding insult to injury, the Conservatives won a net gain of 48 seats in Britain’s House of Commons while Corbyn’s anti-Brexit, pro-socialist Labour Party suffered a humiliating defeat. The Labour Party...

"Blowout" was how one UK newspaper described the decisive victory of Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party in last week's election. How decisive was it? Not only did conservatives win an 80-seat majority in Parliament, a constituency in Blythe Valley in Northeast England elected a conservative member for the first time since its creation 40 years ago. Pundits leading up to the election were wrong, as usual. They predicted a very tight race. What is it about pundits that they are so often wrong, including in the U.S., but they get to keep prognosticating anyway? The election was viewed as...

So there we have it. It turns out that the British working-class was not, in the end, willing to throw its weight behind a London-centric, youth-obsessed, middle-class party that preached the gospels of liberal cosmopolitanism and class war. Who’d have thought it? Well, me for a start. And plenty of others who had been loyal to the party over many years and desperately wanted to see a Labour government, only to be dismissed as ‘reactionaries’ who held a ‘nostalgic’ view of the working-class. It barely needs saying that these election results are an utter catastrophe for Labour. Labour’s meltdown in...

Downing Street is threatening the future of the BBC by insisting it is seriously considering decriminalising non-payment of the licence fee, while boycotting Radio 4’s Today programme over the broadcaster’s supposed anti-Tory bias. No 10 pulled ministers from Saturday’s edition of the Today programme and sources said it intended to “withdraw engagement” from the show in future. ***** During the election campaign, Johnson threatened to take the BBC’s licence fee away as he called into question its status as a publicly funded broadcaster. The prime minister suggested the licence fee, which is guaranteed to continue until at least 2027, was...

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The Tories have taken a string of former Labour strongholds, as an exit poll suggests they are set to win the election with a comfortable majority. Labour have lost seats in the north of England and Wales in areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum. The results point to the BBC/ITV/Sky exit poll suggesting a Tory majority of 86 as being broadly accurate, although most seats have yet to declare. Labour are set to win 71 fewer seats than in 2017, the exit poll suggests. The Scottish National Party have made their first gains of the night, taking...

Live Updates: U.K. Votes in General Election Britain’s voters head to the polls to choose their next government on Thursday in a deeply divided moment for the country that has left the outcome unpredictable. RIGHT NOW Voting has begun in the British general election, the second since the country’s landmark Brexit referendum.

The introduction of a controversial new prenatal screening technique has led to a dramatic drop in the number of babies born with Down’s syndrome. Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) was introduced in some NHS hospitals in England to more accurately test unborn babies for certain conditions. It has been claimed to detect Down’s syndrome with around 99 per cent accuracy. The number of babies born with the condition fell by 30 per cent in hospitals where NIPT is being used, and The Sunday Times reported that more women who have the test go on to have abortions. No assessment The Government...

The Church of England has become embroiled in a row over whether it should publicly oppose Labour and Liberal Democrat plans to liberalize abortion laws. More than 400 members of the clergy wrote an open letter to senior figures complaining that the political shift would see fetuses classed as “no longer human beings” worthy of legal protection. The letter criticized bishops for not standing up for the church’s official teaching on abortion — that terminating pregnancies in most cases is wrong as the unborn child has the potential to “develop relationships, think, pray, choose and love”. It said members had...

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Bystanders reportedly used a whale tusk and a fire extinguisher to subdue the attacker in Friday’s stabbing attack in London. Footage has emerged of three bystanders, including one wielding a fire extinguisher and another with a 5-foot narwhal tusk, tacking 28-year-old Usman Khan, the suspect in the attack. Khan was ultimately shot dead by police. It is believed the tusk was removed from the wall of Fishmongers’ Hall near London Bridge. SNIP Friday’s stabbing attack killed two people and wounded three others before authorities intervened, with three officers seen in footage circulated on social media surrounding Khan as he grappled...

Police shot dead a man wearing a hoax device in central London after a terrorist attack in which a number of people were stabbed, forcing authorities to put an area on the edge of the U.K. capital’s financial district on lockdown.

An Uber Eats driver trying to protect his moped from being stolen was beaten and kicked to death by a gang, the Old Bailey has heard. Iderval Da Silva, 46, rushed over to his vehicle when he saw a 16-year-old boy attempting to steal it outside the Primo cafe in Battersea on 25 May this year, jurors were told. After Mr Da Silva pushed the teenager away, the boy allegedly fought back with Jasire Frazer, 18, Jaden Richards, 19, and three others who cannot be named. Brazilian-born Mr Da Silva, who served in his country’s army and taught martial arts,...

While they’re at it, the Democrats ought to impeach Prince Andrew, too. That way they could at least improve their television ratings even though the prince, like President Trump, has denied any wrongdoing. British television ratings went through the roof when Andrew, the Duke of York, gave his first interview to the BBC last week regarding his relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Even though the interview was considered a bust for Andrew — one critic described it as “a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion” — it was a boom for UK...

PRINCE ANDREW was pulled out from his first official engagement since the “car crash” Newsnight interview on Saturday and attended yesterday a “crisis summit” at Buckingham Palace, a royal source said. The Duke of York was scheduled to visit flood-hit South Yorkshire yesterday, where he would have witnessed the Army operations and a clear-up in Stainforth and Fishlake. But he was terrified of becoming the target of the public’s mockery, according to unnamed friends of Prince Andrew who spoke to The Sun, and his engagement was eventually cancelled. Instead of heading to South Yorkshire, Andrew left his Windsor home, the...

What could possibly go wrong? A National Health Service (NHS) trust in the UK has announced that it will deny treatment to patients it deems are ‘racists’ or ‘sexists’. No, this is not the Onion. The North Bristol NHS Trust said that “threatening and offensive language,” as well as “racist or sexist language, gestures or behaviour” and “malicious allegations” would all be punishable offenses. Patients who commit such an infraction will be subject to a “sports-style disciplinary yellow card and then final red card in which treatment would be withdrawn as soon as is safe.” “We have staff from many...

ENGLAND, November 4, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The Catholic diocese of Salford in north-west England has become the latest of multiple Catholic dioceses around the United Kingdom to begin hosting “LGBT+ Masses.” In Salford, as in the other dioceses, the LGBT+ Masses enjoy the support of their respective local bishops. Advertisements for the Masses have become widely available in churches and on various official parish and diocesan websites. Many of these advertisements are emblazoned with the rainbow flag or popular Catholic images such as crosses or the Sacred Heart filled with the rainbow colours. Several of the groups involved in organizing...

'Mischief Night' has seen vandals trash building sites, smash the windows of family homes and set fire to mattresses in the street. Emergency services in north west England said they were scrambled to 34 deliberate fires and three firework incidents, while three groups of officers were attacked. Police officers and fire crews were also pelted with eggs as they rushed to deal with incidents across Merseyside and Lancashire last night. One video shows the moment masked youths attack a house in Stockbridge Village, Merseyside by hurling stones and eggs. Another attack on a building site in Garston where workers are...

President Trump is no longer the only politician who has been accused of Russian collusion by liberal lawmakers. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is feeling the heat weeks ahead of a snap general election. A series of Thursday reports claimed Johnson’s cabinet withheld an Intelligence report, which details alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 Brexit vote. Russian accounts reportedly shared 24 thousand posts on Twitter at the time. Anti-Brexit MPs are blasting Johnson for his push to deliver Brexit. “The Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament…has been investigating a threat posed to this country by Russia,” stated MP Dominic Grieve....

Prince Harry and his renegade wife, Meghan, threw a tantrum and reportedly threatened to quit the Royal Family during a bitter confrontation with the Queen, insiders said. But if the pair were hoping the 93-year-old monarch would beg them to stay, they were flat-out wrong, RadarOnline.com has learned. “Her Majesty called their bluff. She told them that she was delighted with their decision and couldn’t wait for them to leave,” a high-level palace courtier told Radar. But that wasn’t the Queen’s only payback for the “divisive” couple, who committed the cardinal sin of dissing royal life in public. The source...