Nigel Farage Reveals 1 Unexpected Element Of Life In Parliament – And It’s To Do With Brexit

Posted on 23/07/2024 by Boris Clair

Nigel Farage expressed surprise that this was a “Remainer” parliament in his maiden Commons speech today.

The Reform UK leader, who was elected to the Commons for the first time earlier this month after seven failed attempts, revived some old EU tensions.

The famous Eurosceptic said: “I spent nearly 21 years as a member of the European Parliament in Brussels.

“I have to say, this place is very different indeed.

“It’s smaller, there is no chauffeur driven Mercedes available for each member, no large lump sums of money which you don’t have to spend on anything or show receipts for, and I wonder, perhaps that is why so many in the British political system love the European Union so much – it is a rather wonderful place to work.”

But, he added: “What I perhaps didn’t expect was to come here and find I am more outnumbered here with my Reform team than we were in the European Parliament.

“There are more supporters of Brexit in the European Parliament than I sense there are in this parliament of 2024.

“This is very much a Remainers’ parliament, I suspect in many cases, it’s really a Rejoiners’ parliament.”

There are five Reform MPs in this parliament, having had just one before the election – Tory defector, Lee Anderson, moved to Farage’s party earlier this year.

Reform was previously known as the Brexit Party, and used to advocate for no-deal with the EU – the harshest version of Brexit possible.

The Brexit Party also won the most seats at the 2019 European Parliament election in the UK, but won no seats at the general election that year.

And now, eight years after the referendum and four years since the UK officially left the trade bloc of the EU, it seems more people would like to return to the European fold.

A Techne survey for Independent Media from June showed 43% of voters are in favour of rejoining the bloc, compared with 40% who want to stay out.

Meanwhile, Farage has come under criticism for going to the US days after he was elected to support his friend Donald Trump.

Farage said “it was the right thing that I came” after Trump faced a failed assassination attempt.

Controversial Bibby Stockholm Barge Meant To House Asylum Seekers To Be Closed Down

Posted on 23/07/2024 by Boris Clair

The government is officially scrapping the Bibby Stockholm barge after it was repurposed to house asylum seekers.

The barge, moored in Dorset right now, was meant to cut hotel bills by accommodating up to 500 adult men who came to the UK via small boat crossings as they waited for their cases to be heard.

The Home Office confirmed today the contract – first announced by the Conservatives in March 2023 – will end from January 2025.

The new Labour government said it would cost more than £20m to renew the deal.

Scrapping the barge is part of the “government’s commitment to clear the backlog and fix the asylum system”, the Home Office said today.

The government has also claimed it is going to save £7.7bn of savings in asylum costs over the next decade by bringing in its own ideas to address the migrant crisis.

There are 400 people currently onboard the barge, which is one of three major asylum accommodation sites set up by the Tory government.

Dame Angela Eagle, minister for border security and asylum, said: “We are determined to restore order to the asylum system, so that it operates swiftly, firmly and fairly; and ensures the rules are properly enforced.

“The home secretary has set out plans to start clearing the asylum backlog and making savings on accommodation which is running up vast bills for the taxpayer.

“The Bibby Stockholm will continue to be in use until the contract expires in January 2025.”

The barge has been controversial, with campaigners, MPs and local communities pushing back on using it and protests even popping up in Portland.

The first group of asylum seekers boarded it in August 2023. Within four days, there was an outbreak of Legionella bacteria in its water system, meaning migrants had to be moved off the boat.

The migrants returned in October.

In December, an asylum seeker died on board, thought to have taken his own life.

Labour has also overhauled the Tories’ Rwanda deportation scheme and instead wants to set up a new Border Security Command to stop people-smuggling gangs.

The government is looking at deepening ties with European allies, too, and funding health and education projects abroad to prevent migrants leaving their home countries in the first place.

Dorset Council leader Nick Ireland said they had always opposed the barge being at Portland Port, and said the news was “welcome”.

The Green Party was also happy with news, saying: “The conditions there are as cruel as they are ineffective. it’s entirely inappropriate for people to be held in such vile conditions.

“Seeking asylum is a right that the UK should ensure is undertaken with dignity and appropriate levels of support.”

It also called for the government to close other detention centres like Yarl’s Wood.

Tories Planned To Spent £10bn On Rwanda Scheme, Yvette Cooper Claims

Posted on 22/07/2024 by Boris Clair

The home secretary has claimed the Tories intended on spending £10 billion on the now-scrapped Rwanda deportation scheme.

In the Commons on Monday, Yvette Cooper said the full expense of the plan to send asylum seekers who arrive to the UK in small boats to Rwanda was not fully disclosed to parliament.

The policy, which Labour dropped when it got into power earlier this month, has already cost the British taxpayer £700m over the last two and a half years, according to Cooper.

In that time, only four volunteers were deported to the African country, she said.

Cooper continued: “Those costs include £290m payments to Rwanda, chartering flights that never took off, detaining hundreds of people and then releasing them, and paying for more 1,000 civil servants to work on the scheme.

“A scheme which sent four people. It is the most shocking waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen.”

Cooper also said if the scheme had ever “got going” it would only cover a “minority” of arrivals and the taxpayer would still have to pay out “no matter how many people were relocated”.

The cabinet minister added: “Over the six years of the migration and economic development partnership forecast, the previous government had planned to spend over £10bn of taxpayers money on the scheme – they did not tell parliament that.”

Cooper dubbed it a “costly con” which has been paid for by the taxpayer.

Even before Labour were elected, the Rwanda scheme was blocked repeatedly with legal challenges which stopped any flights with forced deportations from ever getting off the ground.

The Conservatives ended up suggesting the UK leave the European Convention on Human Rights to prevent European judges blocking any flights.

But on Monday, new PM Keir Starmer said: “Let me be clear, there is no need to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights.”

A “hear, hear” rang out around the chamber at that.

Starmer continued: “That is not consistent with the values with that blood bond, so we won’t withdraw – not now, not ever.

“Because, Mr Speaker, the basic fact of the priorities of the British people do require us to work across borders with our partners.

“And a government of service at home requires a government of strength abroad.

“That is our role, it’s always been our role – Britain belongs on the world stage.”

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Conservative Mayor Pleads For ‘Civility’ In Tory Leadership Contest After Suella Braverman’s Remarks

Posted on 21/07/2024 by Boris Clair

Conservative mayor Lord Houchen called for “civility” in the upcoming Tory leadership contest, shortly after Suella Braverman’s made some eyebrow-raising comments about the party’s direction.

The former home secretary and current backbencher – who is expected to run as Conservative leader – criticised people who lean further to centre over the weekend.

She told The Telegraph: “If we don’t recover the votes we deliberately, and arrogantly, spurned, we will turn the Conservative Party into the 21st Century version of the 20th Century Liberal Party.

“We can do better than being a collection of fanatical, irrelevant, centrist cranks, who make it our business to insult our should-be voters for not being as smug and self-righteous as we are.”

Asked what he made of these comments on Sky News on Sunday, Houchen said the Tory party leadership should not be based on the past, but the future.

He also there should not be any “blue-on-blue attacks”.

Houchen added: “If we want to spend the next two, three, four, five months fighting with each other that goes to the cause of the election defeat just two weeks ago.

“And I would implore Suella, as well as every other leadership contender, to conduct this leadership contest with civility. Let’s come together and let’s offer a positive option to the country.”

Houchen, the only Conservative metro mayor left in the north of England, said it’s clear from the election results “we did let people down”.

He said voters “want a party that isn’t going to fight like cats in a sack”, adding that the electorate thought the Tories cared more about “in-fighting and positioning within the Conservative Party and within the government than caring about our country”.

The mayor suggested any future Tory leader needs to rule out working with Reform too, as they are a “symptom not a cause” of the problem.

But Braverman called for a deal with the populist party only a few weeks ago.

Speaking to GB News earlier this month, she said there was “only room for one Conservative Party on the right of British politics”.

The backbencher said: “There’s very little I disagree with when it comes to Nigel Farage and I met thousands of people throughout this campaign, and many, many people said to me, I’m a lifelong Tory voter, but I’m going to vote Reform.”

“They are feeling betrayed. They feel let down. They feel politically homeless because of our failures,” she added.

“So we have to address the issue of Reform. I’m not really interested in the form of what that takes, but we need to find an accommodation with Reform, with Nigel Farage, so that we can take the fight to Labour and win the next election.”

Sky News Presenter Questions Minister Over Past Anti-Donald Trump Stunt

Posted on 21/07/2024 by Boris Clair

A new Labour minister was questioned by Trevor Phillips on Sunday over a previous anti-Donald Trump stunt in London.

Before the exchequer’s secretary James Murray was elected to parliament, he was the deputy mayor of London under Sadiq Khan.

He held this role from 2016 to 2019 – meaning he was in office when his boss Khan allowed a six-metre high cartoon baby blimp of the then-US president to float across the capital.

It was part of a wider protest against the divisive politician’s first formal visit to the UK in 2018.

Six years later and Trump, now the official Republican Party nominee, has a chance of returning to the White House.

Phillips recalled the famous blimp on his programme this morning, asking Murray: “Do you now wish you hadn’t chosen to insult him in this way?”

The minister replied: “Look there’s been a lot of history between the mayor and President Trump but what’s important for me is being a minister in the government is that we have a relationship with the US, which is an incredibly strong one, and one that’s in our national interests and good for our national security.”

Phillips hit back: “It’s quite tricky to have a good relationship with somebody when one of your colleague has described him as a neo-Nazi and your former boss called him literally a few weeks, a racist, a sexist and a homophobe.”

The foreign secretary David Lammy called Trump a neo-Nazi in 2018, when he was a backbencher.

Meanwhile, Labour mayor Sadiq Khan criticised Trump and said his party should “call him out” in May this year.

The ex-president previously called the mayor a “stone cold loser” after saying Trump should not visit the UK back in 2019.

“Is that the way diplomacy these days under Labour?” Phillip asked.

Murray said: “In the past there have been comments on all sides of this relationship, but what it’s important for me is the strength of a relationship –”

Phillips cut him off, saying: “The strength of a relationship with someone who called you a neo-Nazi is not going to be very strong, is it?”

He said the UK-US “transcends any individuals”, and “it’s in our interests in terms of national security and economy” to get along well.

Phillips pushed: “You understand why this is an issue, don’t you?”

He noted that Lammy is now calling Trump’s running mate JD Vance is his friend and that chancellor Rachel Reeves is talking about a trade deal with the US.

He said: “You’re all going to have change your tune aren’t you?”

Murray said Labour have “never” changed their tune in their approach to the US, and that it is up to American voters to choose their president.

Top Tory Victoria Atkins Slammed For ‘Shameful’ Behaviour In The Commons

Posted on 21/07/2024 by Boris Clair

Surreal and reprehensible

First Kemi Badenoch tries to interrupt Steve Reed

Then what looks like Victoria Atkins (apologies if its someone else) stands and argues are the despatch box while Steve Reed is speaking

Utterly disgraceful behaviour pic.twitter.com/yLlFsBV85a

— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) July 19, 2024

A top Tory has been called out for interrupting a cabinet minister and heckling jim from the dispatch box.

Shadow health secretary Victoria Atkins, who is expected to run for the party leadership, had to be rebuked by the deputy speaker for her “abominable” behaviour in the Commons.

On Friday afternoon, the new environment, food and rural affairs secretary Steve Reed began his first speech as a member of government by talking about the Labour’s plan to “get Britain building again”.

It was part of the parliamentary debate on the King’s Speech.

But, he was interrupted repeatedly by Tories – first by Tory backbencher and former party chair Richard Holden, who stood up to indicate he wanted to speak.

But Reed refused to give way, saying there was not enough time for Holden’s speech and that other “members should have spoken for less time” earlier in the three-hour debate.

Reed then attacked the Conservatives for neglected parts of the country.

The shadow housing, communities and local government secretary, Kemi Badenoch, who is also expected to try out for Tory leader, then attempted to cut in.

But Reed said: “I am very sorry but there are only three minutes left and I need to cover the points that have been raised. They had their time.”

He resumed by talking about how Labour plans to increase the number of mental health professionals.

Atkins then jumped up and leant across the despatch box while shouting at Reed, seemingly irate.

The deputy speaker Sir Christopher Chope had to shout: “Order. The right honourable member for Louth and Horncastle [Atkins] has behaved abominably.”

According to The Guardian, a spokesperson for Atkins’ office said: “Conservative MPs were trying to get answers about their budgets for farming, flood defences and food security, which the minister ignored.

“She will always stand up fearlessly for farmers and our rural area in Westminster, even if that means a rare admonishment from the Chair.”

Reed wrapped up his speech by reeling off the “Tories’ failure”, calling his opponents “the party of broken dreams”.

Closing the debate, Reed said: “After 14 years of chaos, there is once again hope for our environment, hope for our countryside and hope for our rural communities. I welcome the king’s speech, I recommend it to this house.”

Over the weekend, clips of this exchange were picked up by other MPs….

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This is shameful behaviour and cannot be tolerated

Change means higher standards of behaviour within the Commons and the opposition needs to quickly catch up with the new agenda https://t.co/Xx4kgdeWaD

— Jo White MP (@JoWhite_MP) July 20, 2024

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This happened during my first experience of a debate in the chamber. The behaviour of several Conservative MPs was appalling. After the debate, I asked a group of them why they behaved that way. I was accused of rudeness myself for having the temerity to ask. Absolutely shocking. https://t.co/PuS57iyTqI

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This happened during my first experience of a debate in the chamber. The behaviour of several Conservative MPs was appalling. After the debate, I asked a group of them why they behaved that way. I was accused of rudeness myself for having the temerity to ask. Absolutely shocking. https://t.co/PuS57iyTqI

— Max Wilkinson MP (@mpmwilko) July 20, 2024

The United Nations’ top court on Friday said Israel is illegally occupying the Palestinian regions it has controlled since 1967 and must end its presence in them — a landmark statement that boosts momentum for a change in Israeli policy.

The court found that Israel is committing major violations of international law, including “de facto annexation” of occupied land and breaking the global prohibition against racial discrimination and apartheid. It concluded that Israel should take steps like evacuating settlers and making reparations to affected Palestinians. It also emphasised Palestinians’ right to self-determination, and said other countries are obliged to cease support for Israel’s occupation and to help end the policy “as rapidly as possible.”

The advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice covers Israeli practices in the occupied West Bank, in East Jerusalem (which Israel claims as its own territory) and in the Gaza Strip.

The opinion from the panel of 15 judges from around the world, selected by the UN General Assembly, is non-binding and has no immediate consequences.

The ICJ previously issued an opinion in 2004 saying Israel’s construction of a “separation wall” in the West Bank was illegal, yet the wall is still standing 20 years later.

Still, the assessment from the court will likely increase pressure on Israel and its allies, including the US, for progress in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Opponents of the status quo ― in which little movement is occurring toward a settlement, while America and other Western states provide Israel with military and diplomatic support regardless of its treatment of Palestinians ― now have a new basis to say these conditions are illegitimate.

Meanwhile, the ICJ has found that various ongoing Israeli practices, from demolishing Palestinian homes to imposing “a regime of comprehensive restriction” on Palestinian movement, hinder the chances of Palestinian statehood ― which could bolster the argument that the longer the current situation persists, the less likely peace becomes.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boosted that impression in a reaction to the ICJ opinion that rejected any idea of reconsidering the occupation.

“The Jewish people are not occupiers in our own land, neither in our eternal capital Jerusalem nor in the land of our ancestors in Judea and Samaria,” he argued, using a religiously tinged term for the West Bank that is popular among far-right Israelis. “No fraudulent decision from The Hague can distort this historical truth.”

Israel declined to participate in the ICJ’s proceedings around the advisory opinion, though more than 50 other nations did present their views.

“The United Nations’ top court said that other countries are obliged to cease support for Israel’s occupation.”

On Thursday, Israel’s parliament voted against the eventual establishment of a Palestinian state, backing a resolution that called the prospect “an existential danger to the State of Israel.”

Many members of Israel’s security establishment and supporters of the country abroad argue the opposite: that reaching an agreement is the only way to lower tensions and respect Israel’s stated identity as a Jewish and democratic state.

Experts in international law described Friday’s opinion as more significant and far-reaching than what they had expected from the court.

The court affirmed Palestinian rights in the regions they see as the heart of the future state that they and most countries believe is key to peace.

It also took on Israel’s claim that it no longer has international responsibilities as an “occupying power” in Gaza, despite almost fully controlling access to the territory.

The Friday opinion directly challenged that claim, arguing: “The court is of the view that Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip has not entirely released it of its obligations under the law of occupation.”

In another striking move, the court pushed back on an argument from the US that it should not consider Israel’s treatment of Palestinians for fear of jeopardising potential negotiations between the two sides, calling that idea a “matter of conjecture.”

The court did not consider Israel’s actions in its current military operation in Gaza because it crafted its opinion based on a request submitted by the UN General Assembly in December 2022, before that offensive began.

The court’s consideration of the Israeli occupation is separate from the case it is considering between South Africa and Israel, in which the former argues the latter may be committing genocide against Palestinians through its ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip. The court has said there is a “plausible” risk of genocide, and issued three orders requiring Israel to change its conduct to do more to shield civilians. Those orders, known as provisional measures, are meant to be binding, but Israel has largely maintained the policies the court criticised, such as limits on the provision of aid to Gaza.

The Friday opinion is also distinct from the action that another body, the International Criminal Court, is considering in relation to Israel-Palestine. The ICC’s top prosecutor is seeking arrest warrants against Israel’s prime minister and defence minister and three leaders of the Palestinian militant faction Hamas for alleged war crimes during the October 7 attack and Israel’s military response in Gaza since.

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