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Showing posts with label Deceptions. Show all posts

Wednesday, 29 July 2026

The Case for EVs Has Failed

 The pantomime scene called 'CO2 Is Innocent But Let's Blame It For A Non-Existent Crisis" is in full swing but people have woken up and have seen through the deception

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UK Net Zero policy aims at balancing the production and removal of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide by 2050. The primary greenhouse gas from transport is CO2 produced by burning fuels containing carbon such as petrol and diesel in conventional internal combustion vehicles. The entire Vehicle Excise Duty regime pivots on this single metric. Current Government transport policy is aimed at reducing CO2 emissions to help meet Net Zero targets. In addition, Government documents also mention as objectives reducing local pollution from transport, improving connectivity across Britain, growing the economy by enhancing the transport network and increasing the global impact of the UK to boost influence and maximise trade. However, these other objectives are not clearly prioritised, the costs and challenges of implementation are not specified and flagrant contradictions between these different aims are simply ignored.

The scale of the challenge of ‘decarbonising’ transport is very large. Transport accounts for 26% of total UK emissions, which is 0.27% of total global emissions. As a rough guide from Government statistics, the major contributing sectors to transport emissions are road transport (70%), aviation (20%) and marine (8%). In Great Britain, there are around 42 million registered road vehicles – 34 million cars, five million vans and 0.8 million heavy goods vehicles and buses. Of these vehicles, as of March 2025 only 1.5 million were pure battery electric vehicles. Cars and vans account for about half while heavy goods vehicles and buses account for 15% of total transport CO2....<<<Read More>>>...

Sunday, 26 July 2026

The hidden power of infrared light to charge your brain and heal from within

The captured medical establishment, controlled by Big Pharma and globalists, has falsely taught that energy comes only from food. In reality, sunlight and infrared light split water inside our cells, creating H3O2—a charged form of water that acts as a biological battery, proving we are solar-powered beings.

Understanding that sunlight charges our cells directly liberates individuals from dependence on the corrupt food system, pharmaceutical cartels and globalist control grids. This knowledge directly threatens the power of those who push chemtrails, lockdowns and digital IDs.

Infrared non-invasive light therapy can penetrate deep into the brain and charge mitochondria—the inner batteries the COVID jab was designed to destroy. This allows healing from within, bypassing the entire sick-care system and mocks the CDC's fear campaigns and FDA bans on natural healing.

Modern civilization engineered by the WEF and Big Tech keeps people indoors, weak and dependent on toxic pharmaceuticals and mRNA bioweapons. Sunlight exposure is a radical reclamation of vitality that allows one to escape polypharmacy, virology lies and the depopulation agenda.

The episode offers a practical, one-hour streaming download combining chemical knowledge, behavior modification and nutrition to quit smoking—breaking another chain from the death merchants of the medical industrial complex. The truth is free, but the war on human energy is real.

For decades, the captured medical establishment—bought and paid for by Big Pharma—has peddled the lie that human energy comes exclusively from food. That we are nothing more than biological machines that require chemical inputs, toxic pharmaceuticals and endless processed calories to function. But the truth, long suppressed by globalists who profit from our sickness and dependence, is far more radical: we are living solar batteries...<<<Read More>>>...

The International Court of Justice Climate Liability Ruling Sets a Worrying Precedent for Pandemics and Public Health

 Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the US will dismantle the International Criminal Court and restore the rights of “sovereign states over globalism”. The think tank Policy Exchange, in a new report that contradicts much of its earlier approach to climate policy, warns that a 2025 International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling requires the UK to “arrest” the “trend of abuse of the ICJ’s advisory jurisdiction”.

Unfortunately, that ruling can easily be extrapolated to the domain of global health. Yet, resources devoted to flagship green causes and to pandemic preparedness alike would save more lives if redirected to basic health, nutrition and economic development.

In response to a 2023 UN General Assembly request, the court published its Advisory Opinion a year ago. It concluded that states have legally binding duties to prevent significant environmental harm. Failure to do so leaves a country exposed to claims for restitution from those who have been harmed.

In many countries the Covid response mimicked the climate change playbook. The catastrophism of both agendas was based on models. Claims of scientific authority and existential crisis escalated the agendas into moral crusades and people were asked to bear sacrifices for the good of the collective humanity and the planet.

State power expanded under that rubric to replace people’s and business’s freedom of choice with policy diktats. The same moralism and risks were used to launch personal attacks on critics and ridicule and censor dissenting opinions, even from experts in the field, by claiming a monopoly on truth and the best policies to manage the crises. The costs of the policies, risks of collateral harms and resulting need for policy trade-offs were dismissed....<<<Read More>>>...

Thursday, 23 July 2026

The Far-Right Terror ‘Plot’ That Didn’t Exist – Until the Government and Media Just Said it Did

 Did you see that huge Muslim gathering held in Suffolk recently, which had to be called off early due to a major far-Right terror plot being hatched against it? You may well have done, as the news was all over the media and referenced in alarmist tones by leading politicians, up to and including the Prime Minister (both the ones we’ve had this week).

But did you also see that the ‘plot’ didn’t even exist? Quite possibly not, because the subsequent release of everyone concerned (bar one aberrant and misleading exception, who we’ll come to later) didn’t get anything like as much space in the media, and no mention at all from any of the politicians who had so eagerly jumped the imaginary gun to condemn it.

Bodies like the Muslim Council of Britain expressly want to use such purely imagined ‘events’ as a basis for implementing concrete polices. As the MCB said in its post-Barham statement, “The MCB calls on ministers to match the language of condemnation with actual action and policy, not another round of statements that change nothing.” If you want “actual action”, rather than mere abstract words, isn’t that a kind of eventism in itself?...<<<Read More>>>... 

Tuesday, 21 July 2026

Of Course Heat Pump Use is Going to Be Rationed – What Did You Think a ‘Smart Meter’ was For?

 As the heatwave hysteria somewhat subsided, the Telegraph revealed that in the future, use of heat pumps might be rationed at times of energy shortages. 

The Guardian, meanwhile, reported that the Prime Minister’s replacement, Andy Burnham is considering proposals to “make heat pumps cheaper to run than boilers”. The occupier of Number 10 may have changed but a profound unreality is still driving the policy agenda.

The main problem afflicting the green agenda was always physics. The second was economics. And the third was democracy. Heat pumps capture this sequence of problems perfectly. Green technology attempts to convert diffuse, ambient energy into useful energy – heat, in the case of heat pumps. And it does this in place of using a dense energy resource such as gas. But the relative density of these energy sources means that the machine that collects ambient energy must be so much larger, plus its capacities do not fully overlap with what it purportedly replaces. 

Consequently, a heat pump is at least six times as expensive as a gas combi boiler, occupies a much larger part of a home, responds less effectively to a household’s needs and requires the making of substantial alterations to the home and the behaviour of the occupants in order to function as expected. For those many reasons, most people have rejected them. 

And for that reason, successive governments have said that homes will have heat pumps whether they’re wanted or not, because the superior product that they replace will be ‘phased out’....<<<Read More>>>...

Saturday, 11 July 2026

“The Human Shutdown”: Why your tap water, doctor and government are making you sick

 Tap water in the United States is a primary delivery system for a "chemical cocktail" of hundreds of industrial chemicals, including chlorine, chloroform and pharmaceuticals, representing a systemic poisoning of the population by the very infrastructure meant to protect us.

 Modern medicine was deliberately co-opted by the Rockefeller family to suppress natural healing, creating a system that prioritizes synthetic, patentable drugs over effective natural remedies, thereby profiting from chronic illness rather than curing it.

Heavy metals like lead and mercury literally displace essential minerals like calcium, zinc and selenium in the body, causing a functional replacement of vital components with poison, leading to "cellular collapse" and a generation that may die younger than its parents.

The average person is exposed to 85,000 regulated toxins while needing only 180 nutrients, creating a state of being "drowning in poison while starving for the essential building blocks of life," with sources including tap water, household plastics and mattresses.

The investigation is not meant to induce panic but to awaken people to the systemic contamination, offering a "comprehensive protocol to safely detoxify from heavy metals, mold and parasites" as a roadmap to reclaiming health from the systemic poisoning....<<<inten>>>...

Thursday, 25 June 2026

Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism: Making his wife rich at the expense of the public

 Marie-France van Heel is a director of Be.EV.

Be.EV holds a £5.4 million contract with Transport for Greater Manchester to supply EV infrastructure and energy. 

Marie-France “Frankie” van Heel is Andy Burnham’s wife.

We frequently hear Andy Burnham’s supporters talk about what a great success Burnham has been as Greater Manchester’s Mayor. This has led to titles such as “King of the North” and pundits proclaiming Manchester’s rapid economic rise as “Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism,” which they hope he will roll out to the rest of the UK should he become the UK’s Prime Minister.

However, as The Spectator observed, “The idea that Burnham has almost single-handedly turned Greater Manchester into an economic powerhouse against the backdrop of a stagnant Britain is based on numbers that don’t quite add up … a lot of the economic success Burnham now takes credit for were set in motion long before he’d even finished his first term as a minister in the Blair government … But his claims really start to come off the rails when you look at productivity. Burnham’s supporters talk up a Manchester ‘productivity miracle’ but the data underpinning that claim looks a tad dodgy.”

“If Manchester’s growth story is really one of a Potemkin city, then the danger is [if Manchesterism is expanded to wider Britain] we’ll all pay the price for that,” The Spectator concludes....<<<Read More>>>...

Wednesday, 24 June 2026

The Middle Ages, "enlightenment," and propaganda

History is rewritten and dictated by the victors. The history we have been force fed concerning the middle ages is nothing more than a series of fables. There is the problem with 1000 years been added into the dates of history, 1000 years that means 2026 is really 1026; 1650 for example was really 650. There is no way to ever know what really took place in the middle ages.  

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It's often seemingly hopeless to try to convince people that the Middle Ages was anything other than the caricature often found in popular culture and eighteenth-century commentary. 

As historian Ralph Raico has noted, other than the Industrial Revolution, there is probably no historical topic in which the general public is more propagandized and more generally wrong than the topic of the Middle Ages. 

Raico has described how no matter how often he told his students that medieval princes and kings were subject to the law, and constrained in their powers by a variety of religious and political institutions, his students overwhelmingly stated in exams that medieval lords ruled as autocrats.

Although the general public still thinks of the Middle Ages in terms of images from popular culture, actual historians have long since moved on. This is partly why historians virtually never use the term "the Dark Ages" anymore. And if the term is used, it refers only to the early Middle Ages, due to the fact that there is a dearth of documentary and textual evidence from that time period. The High Middle Ages — the time of the great cathedrals and urbanization in Europe — was hardly a Dark Age, of course, and the idea that the Middle Ages was a time of unchanging stagnation was jettisoned long ago....<<<Read More>>>... 

Natural Abundance: Why Engineered Scarcity Is a Lie and How to Tap Into the Universe’s Unlimited Gifts

 Scarcity is not a natural condition. Rain falls freely, sunlight pours down without a bill, and the soil regenerates life year after year. Yet we are taught to believe that energy, food, and health are perpetually limited. I have spent decades exposing this deception, and I can say with certainty: scarcity is a manufactured hoax used to control us.

The universe actually operates on automatic abundance, and that abundance can be tapped by anyone, without permission and in many cases without cost. This matters because once you see through the illusion, you can break free from the cycle of fear and dependency. 

The falsehood of scarcity is rooted in a worldview that treats money as wealth and nature as worthless. But this is exactly the opposite of reality. As I have written before, the entire global economic system is built on artificial scarcity and control. But nature itself disproves this every day. A single seed can produce a plant that yields hundreds of seeds, each of which can sprout again. That is the law of abundance written into the fabric of life, and it can be accessed by everyone...<<<Read More>>>...

Thursday, 11 June 2026

"They Don’t Drag You… They Make You Run Into The Fake Light”

 

 

This video explores the concept of the "false light" and its role in what some describe as a reincarnation trap. It delves into the idea of a matrix reality, where individuals are encouraged to escape the matrix through spiritual awakening. The narrative suggests that understanding the afterlife theory is crucial for those seeking to exit the matrix and remember who they truly are. Watch until the end.

Friday, 29 May 2026

The Art of Deception

 The man sitting across the table from you is known for trickery. He is a stage magician. You know he employs trickery, so he tells you he is going to do a card trick in which he can't possibly manipulate the cards. In this trick, you will do all of the card handling. He won't touch the cards at all.

He instructs you to cut the deck into four piles. You do so. He then tells you that you are going to randomize the order of the cards by shuffling them around and moving cards from one pile to another. Pointing to a pile of cards, he instructs you to take the top three cards and place them at the bottom of that pile. Then, take the next three cards and place them, one each, on top of the three piles remaining on the table. You repeat the procedure with all four piles of cards. The cards should now be very well mixed.

The man then begins his patter in earnest. He asks you to confirm the fact that he has not touched the cards. You agree. In no way could he have manipulated how you would cut the cards or handle them. Again, you agree. With a smile, he asks you to turn over the top card from each pile. You are amazed. The four aces sit at the top of each of the four piles of cards. For a moment, your mind might actually entertain the possibility that real magic has been performed, though you "know" you've been duped.

The fact is, this trick can be taught in a couple of minutes to any child capable of understanding the instructions. It requires no fine motor skills for clever card handling since the performer does not even handle the deck. The only thing required is setting up the deck before the trick is performed and being able to do a little sales patter in which you get the audience to agree to a statement that is blatantly false.

Take a moment and see if you can identify the lie that makes the trick believable. Everything the magician says is true with one exception. The trick is based completely on a facet of human psychology that most people--stage magicians, salesmen and politicians aside--don't understand. When a person is given a number of facts that are demonstrably true, they will tend to group all statements in that group together, agreeing to everything said, including an embedded lie....<<<Read More>>>...

Friday, 22 May 2026

The Scarcity Deception: How to Break Free from Engineered Scarcity and Reclaim an Abundance Mindset

 Scarcity is not a natural condition for things like energy, water, food and health. The scarcity we experience in our modern world is engineered by a small cabal of globalists who control the flow of energy, water, food, and health in order to keep people trapped in a cycle of dependence and learned helplessness.

I have watched this system operate for decades, and I can tell you with certainty: abundance is our birthright. The universe operates on a principle of automatic abundance -- sunlight is free, water cycles perpetually, and biodiversity regenerates itself. As I wrote in an earlier analysis, the current global economic system is rooted in artificial scarcity and control, and it is self-destructing because it is based on endless debt creation rather than productivity. Recognizing this lie is the first step to transcending it.

The sun pours 173,000 terawatts of energy onto Earth every second -- more than 10,000 times our global consumption. The soil, when treated with respect, yields harvests without synthetic fertilizers. Our own bodies generate healing through natural processes. Yet we are told there is not enough. Not enough fuel, not enough food, not enough medicine. This is a lie designed to keep you dependent. David Icke correctly observed that dependency equals control, and that we see manufactured dependency everywhere through engineered scarcity when we could have abundance....<<<Read More>>>... 

Thursday, 21 May 2026

Hantavirus: News hype does not reflect reality

The “news-to-death ratio” is a concept introduced by Hans Rosling during the early days of the 2009 swine flu “pandemic.”

The ratio highlights the disproportionate media coverage of certain diseases, such as swine flu, while others barely get a mention, such as tuberculosis (“TB”).

For example, in the first 13 days of the 2009 swine flu “pandemic,” Rosling calculated that there were 8,176 news stories for every swine flu death compared to 0.1 news stories for every TB death.

Fast forward to today and, as far as the news-to-death ratio is concerned, nothing has changed.

There is a peculiar arithmetic that governs modern health reporting, one that has very little to do with actual risk. Hans Rosling captured it neatly during the 2009 swine flu episode, when he calculated a “news-to-death ratio” of 8,176-to-1. In other words, for every death attributed to swine flu, there were over eight thousand news stories. Tuberculosis, by contrast, received less than 0.1 news stories per death over the same period....<<<Read More>>>....

Sunday, 10 May 2026

Hantavirus: The fear machine is starting again; this time, you should recognise it, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny says

Corporate media is creating fear around a hantavirus outbreak, following a familiar pattern of creating fear before providing context, similar to previous “outbreaks” like covid, monkeypox (MPOX) and bird flu.

Hantaviruses are a class of viruses that can infect humans, typically through inhalation of aerosolised rodent urine, faeces or saliva, with human-to-human spread being very rare.

Despite the low number of cases and deaths worldwide over decades, there are already 13 documented hantavirus vaccines and gene therapy programmes in active development.

Once again, it’s the Hegelian dialectic: problem, reaction, solution....<<<Read More>>>...

Friday, 8 May 2026

Is This Part 2?

 Here we are again, potentially at the start of another fake psyops which has classic signs of BS written all over it. 

How many people will fall for this again? Believing the media report and insurgence of fear narratives relating to a supposed virus caught from rats?

Last time it was from bats. Funny first bats and now rats ... it has the total identity of a blatant lie and deception to scaremonger the frightened human sheeples.

So many will currently be believing this 'developing' crisis that the WHO states will not be a pandemic. You know damn well as the snowball begins to roll it won't stop. Crisis actors galore will appear in photos and video footage in the coming days and weeks to fortify the fear that those behind this BS are trying to generate. They are eager to have ANOTHER fakedemic ... another chance to get their poisons pumped into people's systems in order to maim, injure and kill to aid their depopulation agenda.

Quoting from a Facebook page by Guy Anderson (Author of Rise of The Clones, Tesla and The Cabbage Patch Kids and Conspiracy Theories), his assessment of this developing situation is spot on!

"The latest psyop appears to be the “alleged” hantavirus outbreak, aboard the MV Hondius. In my opinion, it’s the perfect example of how modern society is now being flooded with constant warnings about outbreaks and potential health emergencies.
 
Medical authorities claim that the illness involves the Andes strain of hantavirus, which can allegedly cause severe respiratory complications (where have we heard this before) and has a fatality rates approaching 50%. Despite the apparent seriousness of the illness, the World Health Organisation (Bill Gates) continues to state that the wider public risk remains low and that there’s “currently” no reason for panic.
 
However, this certainly hasn’t stopped the story from dominating headlines across television, newspapers and social media platforms around the world, who now treat every “virus” as a major international event. Whether it’s bird flu, monkeypox, C0V1D variants or hantavirus, the public is being constantly subjected to an endless cycle of fear-driven coverage, specifically designed to keep people anxious and constantly expecting another pandemic.
 
Yet, there’s very little evidence to suggest that viruses are transmitted in the way we’ve been told, or that they actually exist at all? Not so long ago we were told to trust our bodies own immunity and would often hear doctors telling us not to worry, it’s just a virus. But in 2020 everything changed…
 
This constant bombardment is causing growing distrust, because people increasingly feel that fear itself has become part of the system, rather than simply a by-product of reporting. The pattern now appears predictable, with every new “virus” story quickly leading to discussions about restrictions, medical responses, pharmaceutical solutions and eventually the possibility of yet another vaccine!
 
I strongly believe that the public is being psychologically prepared for a future where outbreaks, emergency warnings and mass vaccination campaigns become a permanent feature of everyday life. Many people no longer see these stories as isolated health incidents, specifically because the governments, media organisations and pharmaceutical companies all benefit from maintaining a climate of continuous fear and dependency upon medical intervention."

Very well said and described much better than we could of! 

It is likely that this post, due to its 'controversial' content, will be taken down, especially as it is odds on the the Hantavirus is destined to become another world wide scaremongering tool by the likes of WHO and its controllers. 

On a final note, the theory of viruses spinning around everywhere is BS in our opinion. NO virus has ever been isolated in a laboratory. Its mere theory. There are dangerous pathogens that can enter the human body, and the resultant immune defence response creates a defence mechanism that can be deemed a virus ... but it is only an immune reponse. It is this immune response that we are being conditioned to be scared of. Not only that, they are trying to condition people to accept their vaccines and other life threatening medicines in lieu of the human bodies immune system. Sadly, after the last fakedemic, there are literally billions of people who are permanently damaged with little or no immune defence left in their bodies. It is said and also horrific ... and sadly, if it did come to the forced vaccines like last time, they will willingly roll up their sleeves and accept the jabs again and again.

We need to somehow find a collective backbone and the ability to shake off the horrendous brainwashing being inflicted on the 'useless eaters' and we need to do it quick. A final message .... do not fall for the latest round of BS.  

Thursday, 7 May 2026

Political Betting: Will it be ‘Starmageddon’ for Labour in the Local Elections?

 The polls and the pundits are broadly agreed on the outcome of today’s elections – the only issue in doubt is exactly how great the earthquake will be. 

If we map the Richter scale onto our domestic politics, a rating of around five would be expected to “cause some damage to well-designed structures” and a number higher than eight to lead to “total destruction in communities near the epicentre”. Applying such descriptions to the established political parties (as opposed to the voters themselves), I am firmly in the camp that we will be rather closer to eight than to five.

Looking first at the English local elections, the Conservatives and Labour could find themselves battling it out for the wooden spoon, with one of the grand old parties finishing fourth and the other fifth in terms of council seats won.

Reform will comfortably win the day both in terms of NEV (the national equivalent vote share, which maps the results onto a putative General Election) and in terms of councillors. With regard to the latter, the party is currently defending just 78 of the approximately 5,000 seats up for grabs and will likely emerge with more than 1,500. You might still just find odds of 1/50 on Farage’s teal army taking first place if you fancy a 2% return on investment over just a few days.

The scale of the apocalypse facing Labour is almost unimaginable. Last year the party lost two thirds of the seats it was defending and it may fare even worse this time. In absolute rather than relative terms, the position is bleaker still. In 2025, it had fewer than 300 councillors up for re-election as the areas voting were largely the Tory shires. This time, over 2,000 seats start in the Labour column and it could be reduced to 600 or even fewer. Swathes of the party’s campaigning infrastructure will be overwhelmed as a turquoise tsunami engulfs the Red Wall. Outside London it may struggle to maintain majority control in any area at all with ‘all out’ elections – although it has sufficiently impregnable majorities to remain in power in a good number of places which elect in ‘thirds’.

 You can still just about get 1/2 on the betting exchanges that Starmer will be replaced as Labour leader this year, and I believe that represents good value – as does the 5/2 that a new leader will be in position at some point between July and September. (I see the biggest danger to this latter bet being that the thus-far-hapless coup leaders get their act together and somehow manage to manufacture a coronation before the end of next month.)...<<<Read More>>>...

Wednesday, 6 May 2026

The Pandemic Treaty Fails Again: It’s Time to Talk About Replacing the WHO

 Finalisation of the much-heralded Pandemic Agreement, the flagship of the World Health Organisation’s pandemic agenda, has just been postponed again after another failure to resolve disagreements. Despite heavy pressure from the WHO and European Union in yet another meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, a large bloc of African states is refusing to sign on to what the states consider a clear colonialist agenda. Which of course it is, aimed at putting Covid-era wealth transfers on a more permanent footing.

The WHO, for reasons explained below, is doing what it is paid to do. Major financial sponsors of the WHO have much to gain from getting this agreement through. It has fallen on African leaders, attuned to the model of rich countries and their corporations imposing rules designed for wealth extraction, to protect the rest of us from the farce that the current public health approach to pandemics has become.

The fact that the agency tasked with building capacity and promoting sustainability of low-income health systems is instead doing the opposite now needs to become the central issue of this whole shabby episode. It is time for the international public health community to face itself and decide on which side – people or profit – it should stand....<<<Read More>>>....

Tuesday, 5 May 2026

The dementia myth: One of the biggest medical scandals in history

 Dementia is not a normal part of the ageing process. Dementia is neither a natural nor an inevitable consequence of ageing.

And dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are not synonymous. Dr. Vernon Coleman believes that the “dementia and Alzheimer’s are the same” narrative is one of the biggest medical scandals in history.

Dementia itself is not a disease and in most cases, the causes of the symptoms described as dementia can be cured.

“To claim that dementia is incurable is as absurd as saying that all people with broken legs will never walk again or that all patients with chest infections will die. It is cruel, manipulative scaremongering, and those who repeat this nonsense should be ashamed of themselves and their ignorance,” Dr. Coleman says....<<<Read More>>>...


Tuesday, 28 April 2026

There’s Nothing ‘Decent’ or ‘Competent’ About Keir Starmer

 If there was once thing we were always supposed to believe about Keir Starmer, it’s that he is a technocrat. Boring, sure. Lawyerly, undoubtedly. A man of the system – yes, Mr Speaker. But at least that he was competent and vaguely ‘decent’. All of this, in Starmer’s telling and much of the commentariat’s, placed him in stark contrast to Boris Johnson, the chaotic, devil-may-care populist whose ego meant the rules didn’t apply to him, and the Tories of partygate more generally. Starmer was Mr Rules, Mr Process, who in opposition in 2022, as the very first clause of his “contract with the British people”, pledged a “binding commitment” to “decency and standards in public life”.

Today, with the Mandelson albatross weighing heavier than ever on Starmer’s neck, and his Cabinet debating throwing him overboard in not-so-hushed tones, the twists and turns of this sorry saga have shown that Starmer is anything but. In the latest, Sir Keir is planning to force Labour MPs to vote down any attempt to refer him to a parliamentary sleaze inquiry over the appointment of the Prince of Darkness. This is the same committee which Starmer won great advantage in referring Boris Johnson to in April 2022, shortly before his felling (and which eventually decided that the PM had lied). From the point of view of Keir’s survival this is probably the right move – albeit it sets up an extraordinary test of Labour backbenchers’ careers versus their consciences. But clearly, it is nothing close to allowing “process” to go forward unhindered by political concerns. Like when he banned Manchester mayor and potential leadership rival Andy Burnham from standing in the Gorton and Denton by-election, this is a move of naked political self-interest from a shameless bruiser....<<<Read More>>>....