James Delingpole - Page 17

There was one clear winner of last night’s BBC leadership debate: Nigel Farage’s campaign to abolish the TV licence fee.

Police are investigating five allegations of electoral fraud during the Peterborough by-election, which The Brexit Party lost to Labour by a narrow margin of fewer than 700 votes.

Boris Johnson is serious about delivering Brexit but he’ll probably only be able to do this by calling an early General Election in October and by reaching an accommodation with The Brexit Party’s leader Nigel Farage.

Stubborn, thick, petulant Theresa May has decided what her legacy is going to be: she’s going to poison the wells, salt the earth, and make damn sure that her name lives on through all eternity as the stroppy cow who cost the UK economy £1 trillion.

Boris Johnson is looking more and more like Britain’s next prime minister. This has nothing to do with the uncharacteristically stiff, dreary, workmanlike campaign launch speech he gave this morning – and everything to do with how he handled the questions afterwards.

Every credulous pillock in the world is jumping on the Extinction Rebellion bandwagon, the latest being Labour’s Marxist shadow chancellor John McDonnell and, unfortunately, my favourite band Radiohead.

The Brexit Party may have lost the Peterborough by-election but it’s winning the battle of ideas. Just look at the effect it is having on the Conservative leadership contest. You could call it the Farage Effect.

Vote Conservative, get Labour. This was one of the salutary lessons of the Peterborough by-election in which Nigel Farage’s insurgent Brexit Party was narrowly beaten — by just under 700 votes — by Labour.

Boris Johnson, it is generally agreed, is the candidate most likely to rescue the Conservative Party from the doldrums and deliver meaningful Brexit.

British politics so badly needed a shake up. But I still can’t quite believe that it’s actually happening now. That’s the thing about revolutions: you spend years and years thinking that they’re inevitable, amazed that they haven’t happened yet. Then when they come, they’re a massive surprise.

Here is a Donald Trump supporter being attacked with a milkshake, jostled, and shrieked at by an angry leftist mob perpetrating violence with impunity outside London’s Houses of Parliament. https://twitter.com/mattuthompson/status/1135910079889399808 It’s a vignette that illustrates perfectly the state of modern

The Brexit Party has announced its “common sense”, long term plan to rescue ailing British Steel, what they call a strategic national industry.

Dear President Trump,

We’re so looking forward to your state visit to the UK next week: it will annoy all the right people and delight all the right people – a win/win, and I know you like winning…

This is the anniversary of the greatest moment in the history of the BBC: the heroic ascent of Nelson’s Column in London’s Trafalgar Square by Blue Peter presenter John Noakes.

Monty Python star John Cleese is under fire from the left for daringly, controversially pointing out that multicultural London no longer feels very English.

The Brexit Party is threatening to sue a Scottish Nationalist MEP for defamation after he accused it of being a “money laundering front”.

It’s Brexit party all the way for me. I could never trust a Conservative leader who gets his climate facts from a 16-year-old autistic kid who in turn got her climate facts from Ice Age II.

Now that Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party has cleaned up in the EU elections, its 29-seat victory making it the joint largest party in the entire European Parliament, the message about the political mood in Britain could not be clearer: Britain MUST remain in the EU.

I’m keeping a completely open mind on the Tory leadership contest. So long as it’s either Priti Patel or Steve Baker, I really don’t mind who wins…

Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore has testified to Congress on the imminent Sixth Great Extinction predicted in a recent UN report. His verdict could hardly be more devastating to the cause of environmental alarmism: he says there is no evidence to support these doomsday predictions whatsoever.

At the final London rally of the Brexit Party I made a short film, which I hope captures the atmosphere of a political movement taking the world by storm.

Here are the three things which have most shocked and disgusted (though not surprised) me about the European Elections.

Once Britain is an independent sovereign nation again, such decisions can be taken by our own government and not by a bunch of unelected technocrats at the European Commission.

Rees-Mogg is clear-sighted, articulate and devastatingly frank about the problems facing the Conservatives as a result of their disastrous mishandling of Brexit.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has just been assaulted with a milkshake. There is nothing funny or clever about these milkshake attacks which so far have been directed solely at campaigners who believe in Brexit, never at campaigners agitating for Remain.

Did Burger King appear to endorse political violence by hinting to its Twitter followers that it is perfectly OK to assault with milkshakes campaigners whose politics you don’t like?

This week I caught up with the Brexit Party on the EU elections campaign trail and was hugely impressed by the Blitzkrieg operation I saw.

The Guardian newspaper has decided to change the name ‘global warming’ because it doesn’t sound scary enough. From now on, the Guardian‘s editor-in-chief Kath Viner has ordered, ‘global warming’ is to be called ‘global heating.’ This, apparently, will more closely reflect

“Wouldn’t it be worth five years of Labour lunacy just to give British conservatism the kick up the arse it needs?” a correspondent asks me.

Tommy Robinson is to stand trial again for contempt of court. This is the same offence for which he has already spent a considerable amount of time in prison, most of it in solitary confinement for his own safety.

The Conservatives are now so utterly discredited that only the most radical action can now possibly deliver them from oblivion.

It’s time our politicians came clean on climate change. We need to know exactly where they stand.

“You are not prepared to talk about what is going on this country today. You’re in denial. The BBC’s in denial. The Tory party’s in denial. The Labour party’s in denial. I think you’re in  for a bigger surprise on Thursday week [European elections day] than you can even imagine.”

Cambridge University, formerly a respected seat of learning, has booted out a young scholar for daring to champion the cause of free inquiry.

I’m just having a quick whip-round to which I know many readers will be eager to contribute: it’s to raise money to help Olly Robbins begin a new life in Belgium.

Whoever wins the next general election I hope Jacob Rees-Mogg writes their manifesto. His definition of conservative values seems to me an excellent guide as to the direction Britain should head post-Brexit.