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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has torn into Vice President JD Vance's claim that a Franco-British peacekeeping force would be just "20,000 troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years". Speaking to GB News from today's mass farmer protest in Westminster, Farage said the Vice President was "wrong, wrong, wrong" as he hailed how Britain "did our bit" alongside the US in Afghanistan. He told the People's Channel: "JD Vance is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. For 20 years in Afghanistan, pro-rata, our size against America's, we spent the same amount of money, we...

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has cemented its lead in the polls and has begun to pull ahead of the Westminster establishment parties, according to a survey from YouGov. Just over seven months after the leftist Labour Party swept to power in the UK following the collapse of the neo-liberal “Conservatives”, Nigel Farage’s insurgent sovereigntist-populist Reform party has begun to entrench itself as the preferred party of the British voter. According to a poll conducted this week from top survey firm YouGov, Reform UK has increased its lead over other parties and now stands clearly on top at 27 per cent,...

History will judge Boris Johnson as one of the most damaging prime ministers in British history, Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf has said. Yusuf told the BBC's Political Thinking podcast Johnson would not be welcome to join Reform UK. The Reform UK chairman criticised Johnson's record on the Covid pandemic, immigration and public spending when he was prime minister between 2019 and 2022. Yusuf said there was "nothing Conservative" about Johnson and branded the Tories an "extremely left-wing party" in government. The BBC has asked Johnson's spokesperson for comment.

Shamima Begum, who left London when she was 15 to travel to Syria and join Islamic State, has lost a legal case over her British citizenship, meaning she will not be able to return to the UK. Begum had her British citizenship stripped from her in 2019, on national security grounds by then-home secretary Sajid Javid. She was found at a displacement camp in Syria and told the media she wished to return to Britain, the country where she was born. In 2019, she showed no remorse for her role in Islamic State. The Home Office has repeatedly asserted she...

PM says the government will probe the claims and expects intelligence agencies to follow the rules Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood behind the country's top civilian intelligence agency Wednesday in response to an allegation that one of its contractors helped traffic three British teenage girls to Islamic State extremists seven years ago. A new book by U.K. based writer Richrd Kerbaj--"The Secret History of the Five Eyes"--is set to be published on Thursday. It claims that an informant for the Canadian Security and Intelligence Servicw (CSIS) smuggled Shamima Begum, 15 at the time, and her school friends Kadiza Sultana and...

Given how totally obsessed liberal-lefties are with condemning imaginary Nazi behaviour, it’s amazing how squeamish they are about confronting the real thing. Burning people alive in cages? Raping, torturing and crucifying? Slave trading? Destroying and looting priceless ancient artefacts? Blowing up and machine gunning people at pop concerts and restaurants? Chopping prisoners’ heads off? I’d say that all the above are pretty Nazi-level evil. So I’m a bit surprised that liberal-lefties are so keen to welcome back to Britain someone from an organisation which frequently perpetrated such crimes against humanity.

Young boy at refugee camp says he wants to join the Islamic State and kill infidels OCT 5, 2019 5:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER Meanwhile, our young people are choosing their pronouns and learning to twerk and fight global warming and white privilege. What will happen when these two groups meet? “Young boy at Syrian jihadi camp is filmed declaring he wants to join ISIS, kill ‘infidels’ and become a lethal ‘inghimasi’ suicide fighter,” by Tim Stickings, Mailonline, October 3, 2019 (thanks to Henry): A young boy at a Syrian refugee camp told a visitor that he wants to join...

ISIS bride from UK wants to return: “There is more safety in a British prison, more education and access to family” SEP 27, 2019 3:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER Yes, of course, and this will probably work. After all, it shouldn’t be hard to find British officials who will consider her safety, not that of British citizens, to be paramount. “JIHAD IT Shamima Begum moans she was an ISIS ‘baby machine’ during time as jihadi bride and demands to return home as British prisons are cushier,” by Jenny Awford, The Sun, September 26, 2019: ISIS bride Shamima Begum has claimed...

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abdul Momen said Bangladesh had 'nothing to do with' the runaway schoolgirl He warned that his country's policy is to execute 'anyone involved with terrorism' Ms Begum was stripped of British citizenship in February after pleading to return Speaking to ITV News, Mr Momen said: 'We have nothing to do with Shamima Begum. She is not a Bangladeshi citizen. She never applied for Bangladesh citizenship. 'If anyone is found to be involved with terrorism, we have a simple rule, there will be capital punishment. And nothing else.' Describing his country's laws as a 'model in eliminating all...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said the UK government should consider allowing Shamima Begum, who left the country to join the Islamic State group in 2015, to return to the UK. "I've never wanted to. I've instinctively never wanted to. But I'm now thoughtful, I'm thoughtful. I don't classify her as an ISIS, an all out ISIS killer," Farage told ITV News Political Correspondent Harry Horton. "So she's sort of less... She is a lesser part of the equation," he added. Farage made the comments after Donald Trump's terror chief Seb Gorka said on Thursday that ISIS members in...

Shamima Begum could be freed 'within days' from the Syrian detention camp where she has being held. The 25-year-old is currently being held in Al Roj, a filthy, brutal temporary tent city teeming with dangerous ISIS loyalists. But the Isis bride could be set free by the guards holding her there after dictator President Bashar al-Assad 's regime was toppled in Decembe

Nigel Farage has claimed Elon Musk will help Reform UK win over young voters and beat the Conservatives at the next general election. The Reform UK leader said the Tesla tycoon and social media mogul is "an absolute hero figure" for the younger generation. Farage believes Musk would be a "huge help" in connecting youth voters with the party, amid rumours of a potential major donation from the world's richest man. The comments come as Farage remains locked in a heated dispute with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch over Reform UK's membership numbers. The former UKIP leader has hinted at possible...

Mr Musk, the world's richest man, has been critical of Keir Starmer's government and has showed support for Reform. His vocal support of Donald Trump, which he disseminates via Twitter, now known as X, which be bought in 2022, has been credited with helping get the Republican re-elected. He also spent $200 million supporting Mr Trump, including a controversial $1 million per day giveaway lottery in the swing state of Pennsylvania. Now he is said to be directing his attention towards the UK, and rumours are said to be circulating among some Conservative insiders of a possible donation to Reform.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accused the Prime Minister of presiding over a two-tier policing and prisons system in a furious Commons clash. Around 1,750 people were expected to be let out on Tuesday in a bid to ease overcrowding. The Reform leader said at Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs): “Yesterday we witnessed some extraordinary celebratory scenes outside Britain’s prisons, where in some cases serious career criminals were released. This to make way for, yes, rioters, but equally those who have said unpleasant things on Facebook and elsewhere on social media. “Does the Prime Minister understand there is a growing...

Demonstration outside Parliament, especially against genocide against Hindus going on in Bangladesh. Link to transcript below video.

On his first day in office, newly elected Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer reportedly scrapped the plan to send illegal boat migrants to Rwanda rather than putting them up in hotels in Britain. The scheme to send illegals to have their often spurious asylum claims in processing centres in the East African nation of Rwanda first put forward by ex-PM Boris Johnson in 2022 to deal with the migrant crisis in the English Channel has been abandoned by the left-wing Labour government on its first day, a party insider told The Telegraph.

The U.K. Blowout: Mark Steyn’s View [Updated]Mark Steyn comments on yesterday’s U.K. election. His thoughts are consistent with Scott’s, but expressed in Mark’s unique voice:Across the United Kingdom almost every constituency voted for lefties of various stripes – not just victorious Labour lefties, but also Scots nationalist lefties, Irish republican lefties, eco-lefties, Islamo-lefties and, of course, duplicitous pseudo-conservative lefties: you can get it in any colour as long as it’s red. So, if you’re one of those Britons concerned about, say, transformative mass migration or the right to freedom of speech, things are going to spend the next few years...

It's not like they really had a choice the way their system is set up and the almost total lack of appreciable differences between the two main parties. The 'conservative' Tories had held the reins of power for 14 increasingly shaky years, the last two under the inept and effete Rishi Sunak.The final nail in Sunak's projectile-studded political coffin was his tone-deaf early scuttle back to England from the 80th anniversary Normandy ceremonies. Sunak did so as not to miss a friendly - although God knows he needed one - prearranged television interview. It was inconvenient for his flailing camping...

LONDON — Populist lawmaker Nigel Farage on Friday won his first-ever seat in the U.K.'s parliament as he looks to shake up the country's politics with his right-wing Reform UK party. The win by the Brexit proponent follows seven failed attempts to become a member of the British parliament, although he has served as a (pro-Brexit) member of the European Parliament. "My plan is to build a mass national movement over the course of the next few years and hopefully be big enough to challenge the general election properly in 2029," Farage said after the result was announced. The result...

The defeated leader of the Conservative Party, which suffered its worst election result in well over a century overnight, has said he is stepping down from power and will also give up control of what remains of his political faction. “I have heard your anger, disappointment and I take responsibility for this loss,” said Rishi Sunak on Friday morning at the podium in front of Downing Street. The Prime Minister acknowledged the country has given a clear signal that it wants change, and said he would go to King Charles III to tender his resignation. The Prime Minister immediately got...