Global News Round-up - Offbeat News
"Only dictators cancel elections" - Reform UK
LONDON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK party overtook Britain's governing Labour Party to become the country's most popular political party in a new poll, reflecting public discontent in Prime Minister Keir Starmer less than seven months into his term.
The poll, conducted by YouGov for the Times newspaper and published on Monday, showed that if a general election were held tomorrow 25% of British voters would choose Reform, 24% would pick Labour, and 21% would vote for the Conservatives.
Reform's narrow lead over Labour in the poll - which surveyed 2,465 people over Feb. 2-3 - is within the margin of error, YouGov said.
So what is the Labour Party to do?
Well… what about postponing local elections in Britain for a year!
Yep, it is true.
Angela Rayner, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has called off elections to stop Reform UK from winning elections- her exact words:
"I've agreed to postpone local elections in East Sussex, and West Sussex, Essex, and Thurrock, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight, and Norfolk, and Suffolk.
"I've also agreed for the postponementin Surrey, given the urgency of creating sustainable new unitary structures and to unlock devolution for this area… "We are postponing elections for one year - from May 2025 to May 2026."
Angela Rayner, Deputy Prime Minister, UK
Can you imagine?
This “devolution” - deprives 5.5 million British citizens of their right to vote for the next year. Yeh, this is how democracies work (not).
Nigel Farage and Reform UK are smoldering mad.
It is not only Nigel and the reform party who is angry, the Tories have accused the Deputy Prime Minister of creating "Orwellian-sounding" structures which are "closer to her and closer to Whitehall".
How is this even legal?
The cancerous tumor of totalitarianism that works in conjunction with censorship and electoral cancelations in Europe and the UK seems to double in size on a regular basis.
Polish survey shows decreased support for the Russian/Ukrainian war
Poland shares a border with Ukraine and has taken has taken in approximately 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees since the start of Russia's invasion in February 2022.
A recent survey conducted in Poland indicates that over the past year, there is cooling support from Polish citizens for the Ukrainian war.
The percentage of Poles against providing military assistance to Kyiv has risen from just above a quarter to more than one third.
Additionally, there has been a noticeable increase in negative sentiments towards Ukrainians in Poland, especially among the youth. Ukrainian media highlighted that the opposition to military aid for Ukraine has climbed from 26 percent to 35 percent.
Meanwhile, support for military assistance has dropped by five percentage points to 49 percent.
Ukrainska Pravda also reported that negative attitudes towards Ukrainians in Poland have grown from 27 percent to 30 percent, while positive perceptions have declined from 25 percent to 23 percent, along with "growing fatigue" about Poland's Ukrainian community.
Among Poles aged 45 and older, favorable opinions of Ukrainians outweighed negative ones. However, the opposite is true among young people: only 16 percent viewed Ukrainians favorably compared with 37 percent who had an unfavorable opinion (from the polling firm ARC Rynek).
Last week, while in Brussels, the home of the European Union, it was clear that reduced support for the war was evident everywhere.
No longer did every Belgium street sport multiple Ukrainian flags, and the banners proclaiming unending support for Ukraine at the European Parliament had been removed. There was a general feeling from the many people spoken to, that the war would be negotiated to a settlement soon.
Battle fatigue has set into the hearts and minds of Europe and now, Russia has the winning hand - and everyone knows it.
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Scottish official confirms: Cats won’t be banned in Scotland
The Scottish government initially said it would "fully consider the recommendations" made by SAWC, as it urged all cat owners to consider microchipping their pets.
In a statement later on Monday, a spokesperson said:
"Banning cats is not a recommendation of the report and we will, under no circumstances, be banning cats."
Well, THAT was a tempest in a teapot! Scottish bureaucracy 0, Scottish cat owners for the win.
Over in Kenya, things are getting downright weird.
(NDTV World): A Nigerian woman, Gloria Omisore, caused a disturbance at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport after being denied boarding. The New York Post reported that Omisore, who was travelling from Lagos to Manchester (via Paris), threw used sanitary napkins at ground staff after learning she didn't have the required French visa for her layover. This led to a heated argument with airline personnel…
In a shocking incident, Omisore, who was menstruating at the time, allegedly removed and threw three used sanitary pads at the check-in counter, with one landing on the floor. A video of the altercation shows her angrily confronting airline staff, demanding a sanitary towel and insisting on keeping her phone.
No more words needed.
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You used a word in your MEGA speech you posted, adhominem, defined; in an argument, a reaction directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining. What a perfect word to describe the lefts war against not only Donald Trump, but against all of us. It to me could be defined as whatever lies you can come up with to scare the unknowing into taking part in the destruction of what you wish to destroy, in this case the lefts wish to destroy America and the freedoms its constitution provides. The reason Trump succeeded in the election was mainly because people are becoming aware of this performance the left puts on.
I think we are beginning to see a piece of why the deep state was fighting to keep Trump from becoming president. USAID has been used as a front funding group for the CIA to fund opposition NGO’s around the world and most countries realize when USAID money flows into their countries 90% of the money goes to promote woke, globalist policies to create anti government uprisings throughout the world, they are doing the same thing here in America. Through the CIA to the USAID, 53 million dollars was sent to eco health alliance and from there it went to the Wuhan institute of Virology. This money went to fund bio weapons, gain of function research, which killed millions around the world. We were funding Covid! Here’s another fact. It has come to light that Pfizer is the second leading money grabber through the USAID. Why would we be giving tax money through the USAID to a company, Pfizer, worth billions of of dollars? Are they now a Foreign country. It’s also come out that every 2 months 600 million dollars was illegally funneled to NGO’s to fly and bus illegal aliens throughout the U.S.. This money was allocated through congress for poor needy American families that were struggling. All said and done it amounted to upwards of 2 1/2 billion dollars taken from needy Americans and given to non citizens. We are funding our own destruction.
When Musk said they are shutting down USAID the moon bats all came out to attack Musk. You see it’s about the person not the illegal funding of bioweapons the USAID was handing out that killed millions, it’s again their adhominem. This is just the tip of the iceberg with the USAID. Heres a question I saw in a meme yesterday; How many countries collect their citizens hard earned taxes and send it to America? Can you say zero, no countries send aid to the United States. BTW it’s come out that we not only fund the WEF but that money pays for their meetings in Davos and we also pay for the billionaires private jets to come and go there, unfucking believable!!!!!!!!!!!!!J.Goodrich
02/05/25: The feature is an excellent idea.
Coincidence: The NY Post --- the paper that's trying to commit suicide by Being Boring --- today junked it's usual lead metal-prose / unreadable media news summary format (usually on the page before the editorial page, today it's page 33) --- and in its place created an attractive feature, "The Week's Best of The Babylon Bee."