So let’s talk about the UK elections:
But not quite all is lost:
And just for the hell of it, some of the other kind of Brits:
Voting record for the above: unknown.
Category: Politics
Trying not to start the public floggings
Britain Goes Communist
The numbers say it all:
Well, they did ask for it. Now they’re going to get it. Good and hard.
Britishland Election Day
…and I think I can speak for all my Brit Readers, Stout Bulldogs that they are, when I say:
…as opposed to today’s shit show.
Edward Longshanks would have had them all hung, drawn and quartered by now.
Ah, the good old days.
Movin’ On Up
…or rather, out. Reader Brad (who lives there) sends me these headlines from Illinois:
“But where,” you may ask, “is Headline #1?”
Well, you see, it deserves a place all by itself, because #2-5 are just the causes and consequences of #1. So here it is:
More than 87,000 people moved out of Illinois taking with them nearly $10 billion in income, according to the latest Internal Revenue Service data. For the last six years, the total lost adjusted gross income is more than $47.5 billion.
While 14,486 people moved to Illinois from California in 2022, bringing with them $1.5 billion in income, the latest IRS data shows 31,600 of those who left Illinois went to Florida, taking with them $4.1 billion dollars.
Total lost income out of Illinois because of outmigration was $9.8 billion in 2022. Last year’s IRS migration report found 105,000 fewer individuals, taking with them $10.6 billion. The year before that, nearly 101,000 people left Illinois, taking with them $8.5 billion.
That’s the ticket, folks: leave the poxy place and starve the bastards out.
Just remember, when you get to Florida, Texas etc., exactly why you bailed; and don’t vote for the same shit — that would be socialist politicians — in your new place.
Intriguing, But Probably Not
Here’s one explanation as to why the Socialists allowed President Braindead onto the debating stage last week:
It was the debate heard around the world, and it changed the U.S. presidential election overnight. While former President Donald Trump was already looking good in the polls, it was still a tight race, but then frail Joe Biden appeared on the CNN stage in Atlanta Thursday night and proved he is simply not up to the job of commander-in-chief.
But was his disastrous performance an accident? Or were devious insiders setting up the octogenarian to fail so they could replace him with someone a little sharper—say, perhaps California Gov. Gavin Newsom or Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer?
Nah.
Now, if Biden were to be found dangling on a rope in the Oval Office in a “suicide” scenario — now that is more like the Socialists we all know and love.
…but that’s just replacement theory. It’s not like FJB somehow got hold of Jeffrey Epstein’s client list, or anything.
And anyway, if the Democrats’ best replacement hopes are the respective Gauleiters of Michigan and Kalifornia, they may as well stick with Biden.
Round One To The Good Guys
When Charles De Gaulle stated that it was impossible to govern a country which produced 246 types of cheese, he was really talking about politics. So in a country where there are at a rough guess about five political parties per voter, national elections are two-rounders: the first round eliminates most of the outliers, and the thing gets serious in the second round.
Even so, I was surprised at the first round results: National Rally garnered a full third of the votes cast, with FrogPres “Granny-Shagger” Macron’s “globalist” party a distant third (after the Socialists).
Marine Le Pen‘s far-right* National Rally party led France’s snap parliamentary elections on Sunday with 33% of the vote, according to the interior ministry, with the leftist alliance New Popular Front following in second place at almost 28%. President Macron’s ruling coalition trailed in third place with 20%.
Of course, the Left accepted the election results stoically… nah, just kidding, they went all hair on fire and screaming riots, as is their wont when the people don’t vote the way they want them to.
The French people may have spoken at the ballot box, but the result clearly left some feeling very upset. Protests erupted in several French cities overnight, most particularly in Paris, where thousands gathered. The New Popular Front, which represents a spectrum of left wing parties from the pro-European Union centrists to full-blooded communists has earlier threatened they would “resist” the result if the RN won, and the protests may be the firs throes of that, although given there is a week to run until the second round of the election actually allocates the majority of the seats and decides whether Le Pen’s RN can command a majority in the house or not, perhaps expect more violence next week.
Comment of the week: “Every dead cop means one less vote for Le Pen”, thus combining support for lawlessness with political terrorism in one pithy sentence.
On a parallel note: the Greens got no votes at all (being part of the 3.1% “Other”, which encompasses over a dozen parties.
Roll on, Sunday.
*they aren’t, except by the standards of the Howling Left.
