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Susie AH's avatar

We must not allow what happened to Lucy Connolly to make as self censor. After all, that’s why she has been incarcerated, kept in the press, to frighten us. It’s all a sham.

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Bettina's avatar

I'm beginning to think that the News of the World was actually a useful democratic weapon.

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Stuffysays's avatar

Jeremy Thorpe

Remember him?

Tried on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder his ex-boyfriend who was a "former model". Didn't the dog get killed instead? Ruined Thorpe's career.

Obviously, that was back in the day when the press enjoyed bringing down politicians!

You're right - something definitely smells a bit off about Starmer and the Ukrainian Boys (good title for a future book!)

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The Plucky Welshman's avatar

And a good title for a pop group!

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Frederick Edward's avatar

I think I remember that group. Wasn't 'You're My Sexy Slavic Secret' one of their hits?

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Patrick  Clarke's avatar

Whatever is happening, something is just not adding up. When only Dan Wootton and George Galloway are prepared to ask the sort of questions which until a few years ago the entirety of the British media would be asking, and not a single MP, under the protection of parliamentary privilege, is prepared to ask, something deeply sinister has happened to the British media. Its probably an even bigger question than what is going on regarding why properties said to be connected to the PM are being targeted in this way by people with this background. Well might someone say, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark".

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Saint Jimmy's avatar

Just like media in the US, YouKay media has been shitty propaganda for 25 years.

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Paul's avatar

The car I think is the smoking gun. It would be possible to find properties that belonged to the PM without too much difficulty. How easy is it to track a car that has been sold to someone else using resources in the public domain? And if it had been sold to someone else why would it then be a target? That suggests to me that the men arrested must have had a personal connection to the PM before the car was sold.

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The Drift's avatar

The car is the key imo. How would those pretty boys have known it once belonged to Sir Kneel of Der Stürmer?

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Paul's avatar

It’s odd right?

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The Drift's avatar

It’s really odd. I’m not one for celebrity tittle-tattle but this is the imposed Dear Leader with his rabbit-in-the-headlights. I couldn’t care less if The Kneeler is gay; I care if he’s dishonest and therefore subject to kompromat.

What a strange event. Will we ever know what’s behind this? I suppose there will be a trial but will it have a D-Notice/DSMA slapped on it? No matter; if the Mockingbird media won’t report then we will.

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Paul's avatar

Then again there was that bunch of comically incompetent Bulgarians hired by Russian intelligence to harass the Kazakh embassy and possibly conduct honey traps. That said I still keep coming back to the car - the only other plausible explanation is that they surveilled it when it belonged to 2TK and didn’t realised it had been sold. Then were told to conduct an attack on him - and that’s what they settled for?

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The Drift's avatar

Well, the Russians invented or, at least, refined Kompromat! The car. Someone told me on our Regular Sunday meet ups that one of the alleged arsonists was supposed to have given the reason that “it’s because we weren’t paid”. I can’t find the source of that. Maybe one of them noted the number when it was owned by Lord Kier. If it was an attack rather than some sort of personal revenge or vendetta it was pretty weak.

I wonder if we’ll ever know?

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Paul's avatar

Probably not. I’d say 10% chance it blows up bigger/90% chance of being memory holed.

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Sine Nomine's avatar

"So, why are a gang of young, strapping Ukrainian models probing so deeply into Sir Keir's affairs?"

I see what you did there!

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Vivian Evans's avatar

Oh Frederick, how could you! 'Tis not only rocking the boat, it's also taking away the claim of 'first' from some journalist writing for the Sun who is doing his own, diligent investigations!

Anyway, it's something 'we', being properly brought up, don't talk about - and certainly not in this PM's Britain where we soon all will need a bathrobe (freshly laundered) next to the entrance, in case our protectors come and take us away to be 'investigated'. The Germans are already doing this (keeping clean bathrobes next to the door ...).

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Lola the Foreigner 송 로 라's avatar

Maybe that is the reason why 2TK doesn’t know a woman is? 🤔

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The Plucky Welshman's avatar

I think the press are terrified of winding up in Jail like Lucy Connolly for even so much as hinting that they may be a deeper story behind the mysterious arson attacks. I'm not a journalist but even I can sense a story here, or at least the hint of a story worth investigating. It might turn out to be a damp squib, a nothing burger but in the meantime the whole situation does point an accusatory finger at the prime minister that adds to all of the other rumours and reports about his private life and by extension his character and fitness to lead that are swarming around the social media networks.

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Jennifer Hargreaves's avatar

Your humorous writing is hilarious. I love the term 'Shitus-Touch'. Thanks for laugh - can we still laugh at someone?

That reminds me of something my sister told me recently.

She is a Business Communication lecturer at a college in South Africa. Mainly staffed by black South Africans (they're trying to get rid of the white teachers).

They are not allowed to:

Use the word DUUHH

Shake their head in despair

Use sarcasm

Use the word 'Eishh'(which is used to denote 'the height if stupidity').

She has a natural sarcasm and wit, so has to hold her tongue on an hourly basis, but is full of funny stories. Like yours.

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The Plucky Welshman's avatar

She needs to leave South Africa before she gets killed.

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Jennifer Hargreaves's avatar

Fortunately her students love her. Also she is the only competent teacher there who can organise exams and moderation of results. She does 3 people's jobs while they skive off.

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Miff's avatar

I wouldn't count on that, one if my oldest friends left SA very quickly with her doctor father. They literally left their home in the middle of the night with nothing after being tipped off that the people he had ministered to for decades were coming to kill them.

I also read somewhere of young Chinese students killing their beloved music teacher in the people's revolution.

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pete clark's avatar

There's a theory that Stinker is being blackmailed. Perhaps this is some kind of 'reminder' campaign?

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The Drift's avatar

Vanishingly small numbers of folk care if two blokes shag each other or form a couple and live together. So be it. There is something else going on here. That these Ukie male models decide to turn arsonist suggests another motive. A grudge perhaps? Did Sir Kier underpay them?

Has anyone heard of Kompromat?

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Toffeepud's avatar

No way is Stoma straight, and the press are depriving us of myriad opportunities for entertainment and piss taking of the highest order (apart from the more serious considerations of having such a duplicitous character running the country).

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TrentonUK's avatar

I said elsewhere I think the slime known by the name of Peter Mandleson will shortly be oozing into this murky picture...

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Kevin Robinson's avatar

Excellent article, written with the slightest element of humour, which is a prerequisite when talking about the antics of Sneer Starmer.

Love the reference to the Midas touch 😂.

On a serious note, this incumbent prat must surely be reaching the point where all confidence is lost in his decision making, or lack of it.

He is an embarrassment on the world stage and try as he might to perform that role it is difficult when he is ‘dead behind the eyes’. 🫶🇬🇧

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Jeremy Stewardson's avatar

As has been said by many others , it is Starmers inability to tell the truth more than his corruption incompetence degeneracy and communist sympathies that is the main reason he must go . He cannot be trusted . The Ukrainian rent boy saga is an obvious clue to his total unsuitability for public or judicial office . This is before we get to Peter Mandelson and the other Blair hangovers .

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