HEYWOOD, United Kingdom – As exhausted and jubilant UKIP activists head to bed after two hard fought campaigns, they face a very sobering thought: the party’s strategy over the last few weeks probably cost them a seat. From the outset
HEYWOOD, United Kingdom – Labour’s Liz McInnes held the seat of Heywood and Middleton in tonight’s by-election, after what is likely to be remembered as yet another remarkable UKIP surge. Nigel Farage’s party went from a poor fifth place in the
HEYWOOD, United Kingdom – The Labour Party in Heywood and Middleton is “shocked” by the size and professionalism of the UKIP machine at today’s by-election according to a party spokesman. Nigel Farage’s party had been expected to struggle to run
MIDDLETON, United Kingdom – It is fair to say that the whole British political establishment is watching Clacton today to see if Douglas Carswell’s gamble of defecting to UKIP and resigning will pay off. Less notable is the Heywood and
An American military jet, rumoured to be an F15 Eagle, has crashed in Lincolnshire in the English East Midlands. The plane was on a training mission when it crashed in a field after the pilot ejected. The Grimsby Telegraph has
The European Commission has approved the building of the first nuclear power station in Britain for decades. Hinckley Point in Somerset will now be the home to a vast new power station that will produce 7 percent of energy for
A British father has claimed his arrest and 21-day imprisonment in Morocco was the result of an attempt to blackmail him for being gay. Ray Cole, 69 was arrested with his friend Jamal Jam Wald Nass after police in Morocco
The brother of the latest ISIS hostage to be murdered has called on the British government to send in ground forces to defeat his killers. Reg Henning said that he had been through a “living a nightmare” but had been
The Home Office has ordered an investigation into the police, after it was alleged officers misused their powers to circumvent rules protecting journalistic sources. The law protects journalistic sources, but police officers are accused of accessing confidential information using powers
Feminists are demanding that a statue commemorating the end of World War II be removed from Normandy in Northern France because it depicts a sexual assault. ‘Unconditional surrender’ by J Seward Johnson is based on a photo from VJ day
The Police Royalty Protection Branch are said to be “deeply concerned” that “dating” apps like Grindr and Tinder are putting the security of the Royal Family at risk. Staff at Buckingham Palace and St James’s Palace are believed to be
British drones are said to have located Jihad John, the terrorist responsible for multiple murderers of western hostages, but a kill or capture mission is impossible according to the Daily Mail. Reaper drones have been deployed in the skies above
Nick Clegg has said the Liberal Democrats would block any further plans to bomb ISIS, potentially shattering coalition unity on the subject. He warned that although his party supported attacks in Iraq against ISIS they would oppose any efforts to
Traditionalists took over London Bridge yesterday to exercise their historic right to drive sheep into the city, despite calls for a boycott by animal right activists. Paul O’Grady – who plays the transvestite Lilly Savage – had written to Lord
A scholar has warned that it is un-Islamic to take selfies during Hajj, the traditional Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. Sheikh Abdul Razzaq Al-Badr claimed that the taking of photos might constitute showing off which is against the rules according to Arab
A transsexual who began life as a man, then had a £10,000 operation to become a woman, has now demanded the British taxpayer stump up for yet another operation to become a man again. Chelsea Attonley claims “it’s exhausting being
Senior courtiers are looking at the possibility of Prince Charles taking over HM The Queen’s duties as she approaches her 90th birthday, according to the Daily Telegraph. A legal mechanism known as the Regency allows an elderly or mentally incapacitated monarch
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom – David Cameron used his party conference speech to pledge his party would be the “trade union for the hardworking”. He promised tax cuts, more starter homes and the lowest level of corporation tax in the G20.
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom – There is perhaps no more of a popular Conservative politicians in Britain, and today Boris Johnson confirmed his status as the ultimate conference darling. But today’s speech was further evidence that just below the jokes is
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom – A pressure group founded by Margaret Thatcher has claimed that the former Prime Minister would not have endorsed defections to UKIP if she were alive today. Conservative Way Forward (CWF), which Thatcher headed until her death
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom – George Osborne used a series of media interviews at the Conservative conference to pledge a free vote in parliament on the EU referendum. This will allow backbench MPs to make their own decision on whether to
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom – Conservatives have used the first day of their annual conference in Birmingham to accuse Mark Reckless of “betrayal” for his defection UKIP. The Rochester and Strood MP was the shock final speaker at UKIP’s conference, where
DONCASTER, United Kingdom – Nigel Farage has “parked his tanks on Labour’s lawn” in a speech that threatened the “entire political class”. The Ukip leader took to his feet on the second day of the party’s annual conference in Doncaster.
DONCASTER, United Kingdom – Steven Wolfe, UKIP Euro MP for North-West England, has claimed the party will win six seats at the general election next year. The former solicitor told Breitbart London that the party’s aspiration to take three or
London’s gay community is facing a sexual health crisis as a result of “worsening” awareness of the dangers of unsafe sex. Whilst gay and bisexual men represent less than 4 percent of London’s population they are responsible for 84 percent
