<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Lee Harris]]></title><description><![CDATA[Political Commentator TV/Radio/Independent media. GB News/BBC Radio/Podcasts and others. conservative.]]></description><link>https://www.leeharrisuk.org</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kx_D!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F845a5a4b-2aaa-4a11-87e7-4b9736bf6c7e_400x400.png</url><title>Lee Harris</title><link>https://www.leeharrisuk.org</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 19:47:34 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.leeharrisuk.org/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Lee Harris]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[leeharrismedia@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[leeharrismedia@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Lee Harris]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Lee Harris]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[leeharrismedia@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[leeharrismedia@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Lee Harris]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Why Donald Trump Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize - And How the Left's Seething Silence Speaks Volumes]]></title><description><![CDATA[This year the Nobel Peace Prize went to Venezuela&#8217;s Mar&#237;a Corina Machado, a true fighter against Maduro&#8217;s grip.]]></description><link>https://www.leeharrisuk.org/p/why-donald-trump-deserves-the-nobel</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.leeharrisuk.org/p/why-donald-trump-deserves-the-nobel</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lee Harris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 01:42:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZljC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F041926e7-674d-43c6-b8ab-9a52a6dafb37_728x400.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZljC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F041926e7-674d-43c6-b8ab-9a52a6dafb37_728x400.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZljC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F041926e7-674d-43c6-b8ab-9a52a6dafb37_728x400.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZljC!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F041926e7-674d-43c6-b8ab-9a52a6dafb37_728x400.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZljC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F041926e7-674d-43c6-b8ab-9a52a6dafb37_728x400.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZljC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F041926e7-674d-43c6-b8ab-9a52a6dafb37_728x400.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZljC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F041926e7-674d-43c6-b8ab-9a52a6dafb37_728x400.jpeg" width="728" height="400" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/041926e7-674d-43c6-b8ab-9a52a6dafb37_728x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:400,&quot;width&quot;:728,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Donald Trump's Nobel Prize Envy - Han Liqun - CHINA US Focus&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Donald Trump's Nobel Prize Envy - Han Liqun - CHINA US Focus" title="Donald Trump's Nobel Prize Envy - Han Liqun - CHINA US Focus" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZljC!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F041926e7-674d-43c6-b8ab-9a52a6dafb37_728x400.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZljC!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F041926e7-674d-43c6-b8ab-9a52a6dafb37_728x400.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZljC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F041926e7-674d-43c6-b8ab-9a52a6dafb37_728x400.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZljC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F041926e7-674d-43c6-b8ab-9a52a6dafb37_728x400.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This year the Nobel Peace Prize went to Venezuela&#8217;s Mar&#237;a Corina Machado, a true fighter against Maduro&#8217;s grip. Well deserved, but her dedication of the gong to Donald Trump on Fox News was the real headline-grabber. &#8220;He deserves it,&#8221; she said, hailing his &#8220;decisive support&#8221; in her struggle and his hand in calming eight global flashpoints in months. Trump, she added, is dismantling threats across the Americas and beyond. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>The irony couldn&#8217;t be more delicious. Trump &#8211; the Left&#8217;s ultimate hate-figure, branded by leftists as a warmonger, a Nazi, a fascist, and worse &#8211; is the one delivering tangible peace, leaving his detractors in a bind they can&#8217;t wriggle out of without looking churlish. It&#8217;s almost as if they&#8217;d rather see him fail, even if it means prolonging the very conflicts they claim to abhor &#8211; much like those pro-Palestine mobs who keep marching despite the ceasefire, their true colours showing through the antisemitic placards.</p><p>His first-term Abraham Accords rewired the Middle East without fanfare, normalising ties between Israel and nations like the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, creating a framework for stability that Biden&#8217;s lot could only dream of. Now, back in the hot seat, Trump&#8217;s overseen a string of triumphs: the 20-point Gaza peace plan, with Israel and Hamas signing off on the first phase, leading to a ceasefire that&#8217;s holding into its third day and hostages finally heading home. He&#8217;s boldly declared &#8220;The war is over&#8221; en route to Israel, and the White House is already eyeing an expansion of the Accords to include Saudi Arabia and beyond, isolating Hamas and hopefully paving the way for a rebuilt Gaza &#8211; deradicalised, demilitarised, and prosperous.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>All this while avoiding new wars &#8211; a record that&#8217;s not just political wins, but genuine global resets. Yet for the Trump-haters, admitting any of this sticks in the craw; better to pretend it&#8217;s all coincidence than concede the &#8220;fascist&#8221; is the peacemaker and not them.</p><p>Yet watch the Left wriggle. They&#8217;re celebrating peace while pretending Trump had nothing to do with it. Barack Obama, in his lofty Gaza statement, banged on about &#8220;unimaginable loss&#8221; and rebuilding &#8211; but Trump&#8217;s name? Nowhere to be seen. Some Democrats flat-out refuse to give Trump any credit, while others offer vague nods without naming him. It&#8217;s peak hypocrisy: the man they demonised is achieving what they only virtue-signalled about while making things worse.</p><p>And then we have the pro-Palestine hate mobs. There is a ceasefire in place, yet thousands still clogged London&#8217;s streets this weekend. The mask has slipped &#8211; It was never about a ceasefire. It was never about releasing the hostages. These vile people just want Israel wiped off the map.</p><p>Which brings us back to the UK and Labour&#8217;s cringe-worthy bid for relevance, ludicrously trying to claim credit for the ceasefire. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson appeared on Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips and boldly asserted that the UK had &#8220;played a key role behind the scenes in shaping&#8221; the Gaza ceasefire. &#8220;We have been involved in complex matters of diplomacy,&#8221; she said, with a straight face. </p><p>This is a blatant lie. All Labour have done is betray our ally and make peace more difficult by rewarding Hamas with statehood.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;28ee7be6-2997-42fd-819b-02de0f6ef645&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Enter Mike Huckabee, Trump&#8217;s Ambassador to Israel, who didn&#8217;t hold back. Reposting the Sky clip on X, he shot back: &#8220;I assure you she&#8217;s delusional. She can thank @realDonaldTrump anytime just to set the record straight.&#8221; And he wasn&#8217;t alone. Israel&#8217;s Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel outright rejected the notion, telling reporters that Britain&#8217;s role was negligible and that our hasty recognition of a Palestinian state had actually &#8220;prolonged the war&#8221; by muddying the waters.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W5oH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1d3d2102-72a0-49dd-9b12-2a76540b596d_930x1066.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W5oH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1d3d2102-72a0-49dd-9b12-2a76540b596d_930x1066.png 424w, 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He warned that such gestures &#8220;embolden Hamas&#8221; and make a ceasefire &#8220;harder&#8221; to achieve, insisting: &#8220;We told them that it would lead to these sorts of reciprocal actions and that it would make a ceasefire [in Gaza] harder.&#8221; Rubio went further, dismissing international efforts to recognise Palestine as ones that &#8220;undermine ceasefire negotiations and will lead to increased Hamas intransigence.&#8221; In other words, Labour&#8217;s virtue-signalling didn&#8217;t help &#8211; it hindered.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;66f39173-5927-417e-8ab1-815d1569301e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>This isn&#8217;t just a diplomatic faux pas; it&#8217;s a betrayal of our closest ally, Israel, and a disgraceful reward for Hamas&#8217;s barbarism. The Labour Party is morally repugnant. By suspending arms sales and rushing to recognise a Palestinian state &#8211; something even Hamas cheered as a win &#8211; Starmer&#8217;s government has prioritised appeasing the pro-Palestine lobby over principled foreign policy and national security. </p><p>They have embarrassed Britain. We are diminished on the world stage and isolated from the real peacemakers.</p><p>What do you think? Trump for Nobel Peace Prize? Comments below, and subscribe for more no-nonsense takes.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working Class Hero, Angela 'Three Pads' Rayner Is Finished!]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's impossible for her to come back from this. Her position is untenable.]]></description><link>https://www.leeharrisuk.org/p/working-class-hero-angela-three-pads</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.leeharrisuk.org/p/working-class-hero-angela-three-pads</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lee Harris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 01:40:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!20B8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F02bf2230-84fe-4fb9-b09d-36cecfef0db4_2051x1170.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!20B8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F02bf2230-84fe-4fb9-b09d-36cecfef0db4_2051x1170.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Let&#8217;s not mince words&#8230; Angela Rayner, Britain&#8217;s Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary, is a walking embodiment of the hypocrisy that&#8217;s rotting Labour from the inside out. For years, she&#8217;s positioned herself as the no-nonsense working-class warrior, railing against Tory sleaze and demanding the highest standards of integrity in politics. </p><p>Remember her thundering calls for resignations over the slightest whiff of impropriety? Well, the tables have turned, and it&#8217;s deliciously ironic that the woman who built her career on holding others to account now finds herself dodging a &#163;40,000 stamp duty bill on her swanky &#163;800,000 seaside flat in Hove. If this were a Tory, the headlines would scream for blood. It would be non-stop wall-to-wall 24/7 rolling coverage. Instead, we get softball sympathy from the usual suspects in the media. But make no mistake, Rayner&#8217;s position is utterly untenable. She must resign, or be sacked. She made the rules with her holier than thou preaching about &#8216;integrity&#8217;. She should be held to her own standards.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qhN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08d13929-5e68-4a7a-abbb-96319fedbb1a_868x353.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qhN!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08d13929-5e68-4a7a-abbb-96319fedbb1a_868x353.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qhN!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08d13929-5e68-4a7a-abbb-96319fedbb1a_868x353.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qhN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08d13929-5e68-4a7a-abbb-96319fedbb1a_868x353.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qhN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08d13929-5e68-4a7a-abbb-96319fedbb1a_868x353.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qhN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08d13929-5e68-4a7a-abbb-96319fedbb1a_868x353.jpeg" width="868" height="353" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/08d13929-5e68-4a7a-abbb-96319fedbb1a_868x353.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:353,&quot;width&quot;:868,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qhN!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08d13929-5e68-4a7a-abbb-96319fedbb1a_868x353.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qhN!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08d13929-5e68-4a7a-abbb-96319fedbb1a_868x353.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qhN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08d13929-5e68-4a7a-abbb-96319fedbb1a_868x353.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qhN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08d13929-5e68-4a7a-abbb-96319fedbb1a_868x353.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Rayner admitted she underpaid stamp duty on her second home in Hove, blaming it on &#8220;inaccurate legal advice.&#8221; Except, in a twist that would make even the most jaded cynic chuckle, her own law firm has come out swinging, insisting they &#8220;did not and never have given tax or trust advice.&#8221; That&#8217;s right, the very solicitors she threw under the bus have publicly declared they were never consulted on such matters, with one stating they&#8217;ve been made &#8220;scapegoats&#8221;. </p><p>Rayner&#8217;s lies are crumbling before our eyes. She claims it was an &#8220;honest mistake,&#8221; but tax experts warn she could face fines from HMRC on top of the outstanding bill, potentially pushing her liability even higher. For the Housing Minister to admit dodging stamp duty is bad enough. But lying about the advice she received? That&#8217;s the final nail in the coffin.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Adding insult to injury, it&#8217;s emerged that Rayner used &#163;160,000 from a trust set up to care for her disabled son - funded by his NHS compensation after an 11-year legal battle - to help purchase that very same Hove flat. She sold a 25% share of her Ashton-under-Lyne home to the trust for &#163;162,500, then dipped into those funds for her luxury seaside pad. While no one begrudges support for a vulnerable child, using compensation meant for his long-term care to bankroll a second property reeks of poor judgement at best and raises serious questions about her tax arrangements.</p><p>This isn&#8217;t Rayner&#8217;s first brush with property scandals, of course. Cast your mind back to her infamous council house saga, where she was accused of dodging capital gains tax by claiming a Stockport property as her main residence while allegedly living elsewhere with her then-husband. Greater Manchester Police initially dismissed it, but after Tory complaints, they reopened the investigation - only for it to drag on inconclusively.</p><p>The hypocrisy is eye-watering, isn&#8217;t it? Rayner and Starmer swept to power on a wave of sanctimonious promises to &#8220;clean up politics&#8221; and restore &#8220;integrity&#8221; after the Tory years. Starmer positioned himself as the anti-sleaze crusader, vowing zero tolerance for rule-breakers. Yet here we are, literally the day after Keir Starmer announces &#8220;Phase Two&#8221; and Labour&#8217;s top brass are mired in yet another scandal. Rayner herself has spent her career demanding resignations. If she&#8217;s to be held to her own standards - and why shouldn&#8217;t she? - then she has to go.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ur6Q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b34ced9-b108-48f7-a7f5-bd2d7ab4f7f5_720x792.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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The rights of illegal migrants are more important than the rights of the British people.]]></description><link>https://www.leeharrisuk.org/p/labour-have-declared-war-on-the-british</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.leeharrisuk.org/p/labour-have-declared-war-on-the-british</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lee Harris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 03:31:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kG9c!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F26ed6764-39c5-4a8c-8ef4-6d8f44c2c911_768x432.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kG9c!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F26ed6764-39c5-4a8c-8ef4-6d8f44c2c911_768x432.jpeg" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Last week, in a High Court showdown that&#8217;ll go down as a low point in British justice, lawyers for Yvette Cooper&#8217;s Home Office stood up and argued that the <em><strong>&#8220;human rights of migrants by putting them in hotels outweighs the safety concerns of local families.&#8221;</strong></em> </p><p>Let that sink in. We&#8217;re talking about a government openly admitting that the rights of *illegal* migrants matters more than the rights wellbeing of tax-paying Brits. It&#8217;s not just tone-deaf; it&#8217;s a slap in the face to every parent in Epping who&#8217;s spent the summer glancing over their shoulder. It&#8217;s vile. I honestly didn&#8217;t think it was possible for Labour to sink any lower, but here we are.</p><p>The Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, has been repurposed as a taxpayer-funded accommodation for around 138 illegal migrants &#8211; mostly young men who crossed the Channel illegally. There have been a string of alleged crimes linked to its residents which understandably sparked off peaceful protests.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>The latest? An Ethiopian illegal migrant, <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/asylum-seeker-accused-of-trying-to-kiss-girl-14-denies-accusations-and-says-im-not-a-wild-animal-13419327">Hadush Kebatu</a>, charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old schoolgirl and other offences, including attempting to kiss her after following her. Then there&#8217;s <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/migrant-charged-assaulting-man-epping-b1242795.html">Mohammed Sharwarq</a>, accused of multiple sexual assaults.</p><p>No wonder the good people of Epping &#8211; mums, dads, kids &#8211; have been protesting peacefully for weeks. They&#8217;re not far-right thugs, as MSM and Labour would have you believe; they&#8217;re decent law abiding, hardworking taxpayers demanding their town back and for the government to keep their children safe. </p><p>Epping Forest District Council won a temporary injunction to shut the hotel down on planning grounds &#8211; the hotel wasn&#8217;t being used as a hotel anymore, after all, but as a de facto asylum centre. The order would&#8217;ve forced the removal of illegal migrants from the hotel by mid-September. But the Home Office appealed, and on Friday, the Court of Appeal sided with them. The full hearing is in October, so Labour are not out of the woods yet. </p><p>If the case wins then, it could unleash a domino effect nationwide, with dozens of local authorities &#8211; reports say at least 22 are gearing up for similar legal action to close down hotels housing illegal migrants. Imagine that: a colossal, nationwide chain reaction dismantling this absurd system where we shell out billions housing people who shouldn&#8217;t be here in the first place. </p><p>No doubt if this happened Labour will put them all in HMOs - like they are already, including <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15052977/asylum-seekers-300k-townhouses-en-suites-Suffolk-village.html">luxury &#163;300k townhouses</a>. Another huge pull factor, just like the hotels.</p><p>But here&#8217;s where it gets truly vile. The Home Office didn&#8217;t just win on technicalities; their lawyers made the argument that <strong><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15051493/migrant-hotels-labour-reform-warning-epping-court-ruling.html">the rights of illegal migrants are more important than the rights of the locals in Epping</a></strong>. </p><p>If that wasn&#8217;t bad enough, on &#8216;Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips&#8217;, Bridget Phillipson unbelievably doubled down. She was asked if she agreed with the Home Office. She replied &#8220;Yes, of course we do&#8221;. </p><p>She felt comfortable enough to say this on national TV. I couldn&#8217;t believe what I was watching. I&#8217;m still in disbelief.</p><p>In my view this was a big moment. Labour have have picked a side, and it&#8217;s not ours. Confirmation we are second-class citizens in our own country.</p><p><a href="https://x.com/addicted2newz/status/1962158763592339546">https://x.com/addicted2newz/status/1962158763592339546</a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;3d4e8c63-42be-4ea5-98b9-e96351d226d6&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Then there&#8217;s the judge, Lord Justice Bean. Where to start?</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Operation Raise The Colours: Why This Patriotic Uprising is Britain's Wake-Up Call]]></title><description><![CDATA[Across Britain&#8217;s streets, from sleepy suburbs to bustling city centres, a sea of red, white, and blue is rising - Union Jacks fluttering from lampposts and bridges, St George&#8217;s Crosses boldly painted on roundabouts.]]></description><link>https://www.leeharrisuk.org/p/why-operation-raise-the-colours-is</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.leeharrisuk.org/p/why-operation-raise-the-colours-is</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lee Harris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 22:00:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Evgr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c26696d-d9a8-47e9-8871-96208dcde5be_1200x630.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div 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It&#8217;s not a football final or a royal jubilee; it&#8217;s Operation Raise The Colours, a grassroots uprising that&#8217;s got the establishment in a spin. But why does it matter? At its core, this movement is a defiant reclamation of national pride, a visual manifesto from the silent majority shouting, &#8220;Enough is enough&#8221; to the chaos of uncontrolled mass immigration and the destruction of our country.</p><p>Operation Raise The Colours emerged from the growing peaceful protests across the country against illegal migrant hotels. It&#8217;s grassroots, spontaneous, and it&#8217;s spreading like wildfire. From Birmingham&#8217;s suburbs to Tower Hamlets in east London, ordinary Brits are hoisting Union Jacks and St George&#8217;s Crosses on lampposts, hanging flags on bridges, painting them on mini roundabouts - it's wonderful to see.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WSEk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2af73e1c-6d4d-4f53-a6bc-112e5393de1b_1341x786.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WSEk!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2af73e1c-6d4d-4f53-a6bc-112e5393de1b_1341x786.png 424w, 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It&#8217;s everywhere, and it&#8217;s the same across the country. The movement is genuinely huge, with activists like the Weoley Warriors in Birmingham raising over &#163;20,000 through <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/flags-for-the-community">GoFundMe</a> to buy more flags and ladders. These heroes have hung around 1,500 already, and are vowing to replace any that get torn down.</p><p>It&#8217;s heartening, isn&#8217;t it? Seeing those red, white, and blue symbols gives you a sense that you&#8217;re not alone in thinking the way this country is run is utterly insane. There are millions of people in this country who think the same.</p><p>The British public have been voting to lower and control immigration for decades and they have been consistently lied to and betrayed. We certainly didn&#8217;t vote for thousands of unvetted illegal migrants to break into our country and put in luxury hotels courtesy of the taxpayer. Raising The Colours is a peaceful but firm pushback, a way for people to reclaim their streets without a single brick thrown.</p><p>Of course, the outraged leftists and local councils are having a meltdown. They&#8217;ve been pulling down flags faster than you can say &#8220;empty my sodding bins&#8221;&#8230;</p>
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It&#8217;s bold, it&#8217;s wonderfully unapologetic, and it&#8217;s exactly the kind of radical shake-up this country needs if we&#8217;re to believe in ourselves again and protect our citizens from the endless tide of unvetted, overwhelmingly young, male, illegal economic immigrants.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>This plan has been a long time coming. Reform have been teasing it for months, and the delay had some of us wondering if the fire in Farage&#8217;s belly was going out, or if the pendulum had swung too far to the left and he was backing off. But now it&#8217;s here, dubbed Operation Restoring Justice - or, more pointedly, the Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill - and it&#8217;s a comprehensive assault on the failed policies of the past.</p><p>Farage himself calls it a response to a &#8220;massive crisis&#8221; that&#8217;s not just a security threat but one that&#8217;s stoking public fury to the point of disorder. And he&#8217;s right - nearly 28,000 have crossed the Channel this year alone, all on their way to a luxury hotel funded by the taxpayer. That&#8217;s a record that&#8217;s left communities seething, with local hotels that were once attracting visitors now closed down to the public and turned into crime hotspots. It&#8217;s sparking protests from Cardiff to Chichester, Bournemouth to Portsmouth, and right up to Aberdeen.</p><p>At its core, the plan is straightforward and ruthless: arrest every small boat arrival on the spot, detain them in repurposed military bases or new centres built to hold 24,000, and deport them. Emergency legislation will be brought in so <strong>no illegal migrant will be able to claim asylum</strong>. Instead, five charter flights a day taking off from UK airports, with an RAF Voyager on standby for good measure. Deals would be struck with origin countries like Afghanistan and Eritrea to take their illegal migrants back, or third nations such as Rwanda (reviving the Tories&#8217; half-baked scheme) or Albania to house them in the interim. As a fallback, British overseas territories like Ascension Island will be given the go ahead.</p><p>Music to my ears. And the details don&#8217;t stop there. New criminal offences for destroying documents or trying to sneak back in, no bail, no appeals - just a statutory duty to deport. There&#8217;s even a six-month voluntary scheme where migrants can &#8220;deport themselves&#8221; via an app, pocketing &#163;2,500 and a free flight out. It&#8217;s a carrot amid the sticks, though one wonders if that&#8217;s not a touch too generous for those who&#8217;ve broken into our country and already cost us billions. </p><p>The whole thing kicks off with ditching the European Convention on Human Rights, scrapping the Human Rights Act, and introducing a proper British Bill of Rights - moves that would finally free us from the legal shackles tying the hands of every government since Blair.</p><p>The funding? &#163;10 billion over five years, broken down as: &#163;2.5 billion to convert disused RAF sites, &#163;2 billion for detention running costs, &#163;1.5 billion each for staff and flights, and another &#163;2 billion in &#8220;diplomatic incentives&#8221; to grease the wheels with reluctant nations. Farage insists it&#8217;ll save taxpayers in the long run by stemming the flow and ending the hotel handouts. Critics, of course, are already howling about logistics - how do you process 50,000 a year with our overstretched police? Or fly out 1,500 daily without a fleet of planes? Fair points, but the same naysayers who decry this as &#8220;fantasy&#8221; have spent years defending a system that has comprehensively failed the British people.</p><p>Reform figures are lining up behind it. Matt Goodwin called it &#8220;Reform&#8217;s plan for ending the illegal migration chaos &#128077;&#8221;, praising the exit from the ECHR, new Bill of Rights, detention centres, and zero-tolerance approach. Zia Yusuf echoed the resolve, noting earlier this year that &#8220;As Prime Minister, Nigel Farage will ensure the deportation of all illegal immigrants in this country within 5 years&#8221;, with a phased rollout, new laws, and international deals to make it happen. And Farage himself has been clear: &#8220;Reform UK&#8217;s policy team has drafted a comprehensive strategy for the deportation of illegal migrants. We will operate a zero tolerance policy for those that enter our country illegally.&#8221;</p><p>I'm glad Reform have finally put this on the table. It taps straight into what the British people want. The country is primed for change and the polls are screaming it. Reform&#8217;s is still dominating and they are poised to sweep the board in 2029 if they keep this momentum.</p><p>They are successfully tapping into a groundswell of disillusionment that&#8217;s leaving Labour and the Tories in the dust. According to the latest poll from Find Out Now, Reform sits at a commanding 33 per cent - a full 15 points ahead of Keir Starmer&#8217;s Labour, which is on 18 per cent, and 16 points ahead of Kemi Badenoch&#8217;s Conservatives, which is on 17 per cent.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KJuI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1e4b609-8289-49c0-8259-e89b129e41b1_1590x958.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KJuI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1e4b609-8289-49c0-8259-e89b129e41b1_1590x958.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KJuI!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1e4b609-8289-49c0-8259-e89b129e41b1_1590x958.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KJuI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1e4b609-8289-49c0-8259-e89b129e41b1_1590x958.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KJuI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1e4b609-8289-49c0-8259-e89b129e41b1_1590x958.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KJuI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1e4b609-8289-49c0-8259-e89b129e41b1_1590x958.jpeg" width="1456" height="877" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d1e4b609-8289-49c0-8259-e89b129e41b1_1590x958.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:877,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KJuI!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1e4b609-8289-49c0-8259-e89b129e41b1_1590x958.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KJuI!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1e4b609-8289-49c0-8259-e89b129e41b1_1590x958.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KJuI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1e4b609-8289-49c0-8259-e89b129e41b1_1590x958.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KJuI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1e4b609-8289-49c0-8259-e89b129e41b1_1590x958.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>And that&#8217;s no outlier; an MRP survey by ElectionMaps - the pollsters who successfully predicted nine in ten seats at the last election - projects a political earthquake. It&#8217;s a massacre in waiting, with heavyweights like <strong>Yvette Cooper, Angela Rayner, Ed Miliband, and James Cleverly</strong> all tipped to lose their seats.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Re52!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa933d076-d7c1-4123-9393-8728f3be7714_2154x4096.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Re52!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa933d076-d7c1-4123-9393-8728f3be7714_2154x4096.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Re52!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa933d076-d7c1-4123-9393-8728f3be7714_2154x4096.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Re52!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa933d076-d7c1-4123-9393-8728f3be7714_2154x4096.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Re52!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa933d076-d7c1-4123-9393-8728f3be7714_2154x4096.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Re52!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa933d076-d7c1-4123-9393-8728f3be7714_2154x4096.jpeg" width="1456" height="2769" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a933d076-d7c1-4123-9393-8728f3be7714_2154x4096.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:2769,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Re52!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa933d076-d7c1-4123-9393-8728f3be7714_2154x4096.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Re52!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa933d076-d7c1-4123-9393-8728f3be7714_2154x4096.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Re52!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa933d076-d7c1-4123-9393-8728f3be7714_2154x4096.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Re52!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa933d076-d7c1-4123-9393-8728f3be7714_2154x4096.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Which is why this announcement was important. Nigel Farage has been noticeably wobbly on mass deportations, so clarity and a plan were definitely needed. I hope that was just a blip, a momentary lapse in the heat of battle, because this country needs a leader like Trump with unyielding guts to pull off mass deportations. It&#8217;s imperative<strong> </strong>he follows through, and you can be sure we will hold him to account. The British public is fed up of being lied to; we&#8217;ve had enough the lies and spineless compromises from politicians without the balls or political will to deliver. Anything less, and we&#8217;re back to square one.</p><p>That said, this plan restores some of my faith in Reform and Nigel Farage. It&#8217;s hopefully the radical change we&#8217;ve been crying out for because it&#8217;s going to be a huge job that demands vision and a backbone. </p><p>The next general election is Reform&#8217;s for the taking. I can see them sweeping the Red Wall, dominating the east, winning big in Wales, and consigning Labour and the Tories to the history books. But if Reform win the next election, they have to deliver on this promise; our country depends on it.</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucy Connolly is a symbol of Starmer's authoritarian, two-tier Britain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lucy Connolly, the Northampton childminder who dared to vent her fury on social media after the horrific Southport stabbings, walked free from HMP Peterborough this morning after serving ten months of a 31-month sentence.]]></description><link>https://www.leeharrisuk.org/p/lucy-connolly-is-a-symbol-of-starmers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.leeharrisuk.org/p/lucy-connolly-is-a-symbol-of-starmers</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lee Harris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:44:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MSxM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3b4fce62-1bde-4fbd-811d-294b685de0d0_1200x675.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MSxM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3b4fce62-1bde-4fbd-811d-294b685de0d0_1200x675.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MSxM!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3b4fce62-1bde-4fbd-811d-294b685de0d0_1200x675.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MSxM!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3b4fce62-1bde-4fbd-811d-294b685de0d0_1200x675.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MSxM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3b4fce62-1bde-4fbd-811d-294b685de0d0_1200x675.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MSxM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3b4fce62-1bde-4fbd-811d-294b685de0d0_1200x675.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MSxM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3b4fce62-1bde-4fbd-811d-294b685de0d0_1200x675.jpeg" width="1200" height="675" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3b4fce62-1bde-4fbd-811d-294b685de0d0_1200x675.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:675,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;White House is monitoring Lucy Connolly case in UK: What is the case that  has sparked free speech row? 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That's right, a shocking 31-month sentence for a single ill-judged tweet that she deleted quickly and deeply regretted.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>No prior convictions, no history of violence, just a heartbroken woman who lost her son due to the NHS, emotionally lashing out amid national outrage over three little girls murdered at a dance class. And for that, they threw the book at her. She was remanded in custody, sent to prison, and they even denied her day release to see her daughter who was struggling at school, while rapists and paedophiles are granted temporary leave. If this doesn't scream political interference and two-tier justice, I don&#8217;t know what does.</p><p>We are all thinking it. Lucy should never have pleaded guilty. She was badly advised, held on remand, scared witless in a system that Starmer himself had primed to &#8220;throw the book&#8221; at anyone even vaguely connected to the riots. Her lawyers argued the judge miscategorised her offence, but the Court of Appeal dismissed it in May, with judges refusing to budge. As Judge Melbourne Inman KC put it at sentencing: &#8220;You were well aware of how volatile the situation was&#8221; after Southport, and her words could stir up hatred. Volatile? Sure, but since when does a deleted tweet in the heat of the moment warrant more jail time than physical violence? </p><p>Contrast that with Ricky Jones, the Labour councillor caught on camera at an &#8216;anti-racism&#8217; rally making a throat-slitting gesture, directly calling for a crowd of thousands to kill right-wing protestors. He pleaded not guilty to encouraging violent disorder and walked free after a jury cleared him in under an hour. No remand for him, no &#8220;full force of the law.&#8221; Funny how that works when you're on the &#8220;right&#8221; side of the political fence.</p><p>Then there is Mike Amesbury. The Labour MP who repeatedly punched a constituent to the ground in a late-night street row, pleaded guilty to assault, and walked away with a suspended sentence after a swift appeal. He was free to head home to his family, while Lucy rotted behind bars for months over a deleted tweet. There are so many other examples of criminals committing more serious physical crimes who get far less prison time than Lucy Connolly. The system is unfair and utterly broken.</p><p>And who do we have to thank for this farce? Step forward, Sir Keir Starmer, the former Director of Public Prosecutions turned Prime Minister. Back in August 2024, as riots flared, Starmer demanded 24-hour courts, insisted that rioters - including those &#8216;whipping up action online&#8217; - be held on remand, and vowed they&#8217;d &#8220;feel the full force of the law.&#8221; He showed no empathy, just labelled them all &#8220;far-right thugs,&#8221; potentially prejudicing trials before they'd even begun. I would argue his heartless, divisive rhetoric made the riots worse. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;675432bd-81eb-4b18-aad8-b2066b79ac43&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>In another interview he said: &#8220;If you&#8217;re involved in disorder, within days you&#8217;ll be in the criminal justice system.&#8221; He openly admitted leaning on the legal system to fast-track prosecutions, drafting in extra police and judges to ensure &#8220;substantive sentencing&#8221; by week&#8217;s end. It's heartless authoritarianism dressed up as law and order, and Lucy was the perfect scapegoat. A working mum with no platform, no power, an easy target.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;ce47cff3-3f24-4465-bf83-5474a816c586&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>But Lucy&#8217;s not alone in this Orwellian nightmare. Look at Wayne O&#8217;Rourke, the &#8220;keyboard warrior&#8221; from Lincoln. He was jailed for three years for posting misinformation about Southport that &#8220;instigated&#8221; unrest. Or Peter Lynch, the 61-year-old grandfather sentenced to two years and eight months for violent disorder outside a Rotherham migrant hotel. He was found hanged in his cell at HMP Moorland just two months in.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>These aren&#8217;t hardened criminals; they&#8217;re ordinary Brits pushed to the edge, now branded political prisoners in Two-Tier Keir&#8217;s Britain. Keir Starmer wanted to make examples of them, alright. He wanted to scare the public into silence. It&#8217;s a shocking and unforgivable abuse of power.</p><p>The implications of a politicised two-tier justice system are incredibly serious. If people lose faith in a justice system because it slaps longer sentences on tweeters than on some murderers or child abusers, then what? We've already seen the riots. Trust erodes, and civil unrest bubbles up. Two-tier policing, two-tier courts. One set of rules for the &#8220;far-right&#8221; (read: anyone questioning mass migration), another for everyone else.</p><p>Britain is waking up. The nationwide outpouring of anger is palpable. Trust between the British public and the state has completely broken down. Mothers, grandmothers and children staged &#8220;Pink Lady Protests&#8221; outside migrant hotels, chanting &#8220;Protect Our Women, Protect Our Girls.&#8221; They're clearly not jackboot-wearing members of the &#8216;far-right&#8217;; they are not &#8216;racists&#8217;. They are concerned families and locals who are peacefully protesting against illegal migrants, in some cases, sexually abusing our kids.</p><p>Nigel Farage posted on X: &#8220;Welcome to freedom, Lucy Connolly. You are now a symbol of Keir Starmer&#8217;s authoritarian, broken, two-tier Britain.&#8221; Robert Jenrick highlighted the hypocrisy: While killers and rapists get early release, Lucy rots in jail for a &#8220;reprehensible, but swiftly deleted tweet.&#8221; Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson has been a fierce advocate: &#8220;They tried to break Lucy Connolly, but the decent people of Britain won&#8217;t let them.&#8221; She interviewed Lucy from prison, where she called the judges &#8220;cruel&#8221; and rightly said they should be &#8220;ashamed of themselves.&#8221; Rupert Lowe has even invited Lucy Connolly to Parliament.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iWmT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6822f97c-8153-4c12-803d-75dc0396aaf3_621x659.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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The sentences dished out for tweets were grotesquely disproportionate and a direct attack on freedom of expression. </p><p>Lucy Connolly has become a powerful symbol of Keir Starmer&#8217;s authoritarian, broken, two-tier Britain. What they did to her and her family was truly evil, and it's got Keir Starmer&#8217;s fingerprints all over it. If the PM thinks he can silence us with fear, he&#8217;s sorely mistaken.</p><p>Change is coming, I can feel it.</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Jenrick Is Not the Answer – He’s Part of the Problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let's be brutally honest from the off: the Conservative Party is in a death spiral, and pinning our hopes on Robert Jenrick as its next leader would be like handing the wheel of a sinking ship to one of the crew who helped drill the holes.]]></description><link>https://www.leeharrisuk.org/p/robert-jenrick-is-not-the-answer</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.leeharrisuk.org/p/robert-jenrick-is-not-the-answer</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lee Harris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 03:35:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O5a9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2c131559-fa1f-4e11-8fce-cb80afc1ec63_1073x602.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O5a9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2c131559-fa1f-4e11-8fce-cb80afc1ec63_1073x602.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O5a9!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2c131559-fa1f-4e11-8fce-cb80afc1ec63_1073x602.png 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I've got nothing personal against the man &#8211; in fact, I quite like him. He's articulate, he's sharpened up his act, and on paper, his tough talk on immigration and borders sounds like music to the ears of anyone fed up with the endless influx of migrants. But here's the rub: Jenrick is inescapably tainted by 14 years of Tory betrayal, lies, and sheer gutlessness. No matter how much he reinvents himself, he's part of the machine that broke Britain. And that machine isn't fixable from within.</p><p>Think about it. Jenrick wasn't always the firebrand he's styling himself as now. Back in the day, he was dubbed "Generic Jenrick" by his own colleagues &#8211; a bland, centrist operator with no discernible political philosophy beyond climbing the greasy pole. He voted Remain and backed Theresa May's Brexit deal not once but three times. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Then, suddenly, like Saul on the road to Damascus, he has this epiphany: mass migration is a disaster, we need to quit the ECHR, and the boats must stop. I&#8217;m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it&#8217;s convenient, isn't it? Especially when the Tory right is scrambling for a saviour after the electoral hammering of 2024.</p><p>Don't get me wrong &#8211; his recent rhetoric hits the spot. Slashing net migration to the tens of thousands, deporting illegal arrivals within days, rebuilding a state that actually works rather than one that fails spectacularly. It's the kind of stuff that makes you nod along vigorously. But here's where the irony kicks in, with a side of hypocrisy for good measure: everything we despise about this country happened on the Tories' watch. The borders thrown wide open, record net migration figures ballooning to over 700,000 a year, the small boats turning the Channel into a ferry service for illegal economic migrants &#8211; all of it unfolded while the Conservatives were in power. They promised to cut immigration time and again, manifesto after manifesto, and what did we get? Lies, excuses, and a civil service they were too gutless to take on - in fact they cheered it on. The Home Office became an ineffective, politicised, black hole of bureaucracy, judges blocked deportations left and right, and the party did sod all about it because the wet liberals in their ranks &#8211; the One Nation brigade &#8211; wouldn't let them.</p><p>Expand that thought, because it bears repeating: everything we despise about this country happened on the Tories' watch. The NHS waiting lists stretching into eternity despite billions poured in, taxes at a 70-year high while public services crumble, energy bills rocketing because of their obsession with Net Zero and dithering on fracking and nuclear.</p><p>And that's not even touching on how they allowed the left to infiltrate our once-trusted institutions. Woke ideology has infected the education system, turning classrooms into indoctrination hubs for gender fluidity and critical race theory, poisoning young minds with division rather than knowledge. Two-tier policing and two-tier justice flourished under their watch &#8211; think of the riots where certain groups got a slap on the wrist while ordinary Brits faced the full weight of the law. The Tories saw this rot setting in and did precisely nothing about it. This is on them.</p><p>And let's not forget the recent crackdown on free speech that started brewing under their noses. The Online Safety Act, rammed through in 2023, handed Ofcom sweeping powers to police online content, all in the name of protecting us from "harm." It was the Tories who set the stage for social media giants to censor dissent, for arrests over tweets, and for a chilling effect on debate. They talked a good game on British values and free expression, but when push came to shove, they bowed to the woke blob and the human rights lawyers. Now, under Labour, it's gone full throttle, but the foundations were laid by the very party Jenrick almost certainly wants to lead. Hypocrisy? You bet. It's like watching an arsonist complain about the fire brigade being late.</p><p>Look at the polling &#8211; it's appalling, and deservedly so. The Conservatives are languishing at around 18-20% on the poll tracker, trailing Labour by single digits even after Starmer's colossal clusterf*ck since taking office. Reform UK is now consistently polling around 30%, siphoning off the disillusioned right-wing vote that the Tories abandoned and now scooping up lots of traditional Labour voters. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YGWg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11acd875-39bf-4581-a19b-06fa987917da_3089x2985.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YGWg!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11acd875-39bf-4581-a19b-06fa987917da_3089x2985.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YGWg!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11acd875-39bf-4581-a19b-06fa987917da_3089x2985.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YGWg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11acd875-39bf-4581-a19b-06fa987917da_3089x2985.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YGWg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11acd875-39bf-4581-a19b-06fa987917da_3089x2985.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YGWg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11acd875-39bf-4581-a19b-06fa987917da_3089x2985.png" width="1456" height="1407" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/11acd875-39bf-4581-a19b-06fa987917da_3089x2985.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1407,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YGWg!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11acd875-39bf-4581-a19b-06fa987917da_3089x2985.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YGWg!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11acd875-39bf-4581-a19b-06fa987917da_3089x2985.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YGWg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11acd875-39bf-4581-a19b-06fa987917da_3089x2985.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YGWg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11acd875-39bf-4581-a19b-06fa987917da_3089x2985.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Why? Because people have had enough of the endless cycle of promise and failure. The 2024 election wipeout wasn't a blip; it was a reckoning. And yet, the party seems hell-bent on repeating the same mistakes.</p><p>Believe it or not, Kemi Badenoch is still the leader of the Conservative Party, but barely worth mentioning because she is practically invisible. Her non-committal, zero policy strategy is a disaster, she wont even commit to leaving the ECHR. So understandably, Robert Jenrick is widely tipped to lead the Conservatives into the next election.</p><p>He's positioned himself as the anti-establishment figure, the one who'll take on the blob and deliver real change. But here's the catch &#8211; he won't. The Tory Party is riddled with wets, centrists, and careerists who'll block him at every turn. We've seen it before: Boris promised the world on Brexit and borders, but as soon he was elected him and Priti Patel lowered the salary threshold and opened the floodgates. Sunak talked tough on migration, then presided over record highs.</p><p>Jenrick might mean well &#8211; and as I say, I do like the bloke &#8211; but the Conservatives have proven time and again they don't have the balls to do what needs to be done. They'll tinker around the edges, cave to the civil service, and leave the boats coming because leaving the ECHR or freezing migration would upset too many of their own. Frankly, the Conservative Party is finished; it's a husk of what it once was, incapable of the radical overhaul Britain desperately needs.</p><p>That's why talents like Jenrick &#8211; and Suella Braverman &#8211; would be far better served jumping ship to Reform UK. She's got the fire, the unapologetic conservatism, and the track record of calling out the failures &#8211; even if it cost her the Home Office job. Imagine her alongside Nigel Farage, or even with Jenrick in tow: a powerhouse team that could potentially galvanise the right and force real reform. They're not afraid to say what needs saying, unlike the mealy-mouthed Tories who tiptoe around the issues.</p><p>Ultimately, this isn't just about personalities; it's about breaking the stranglehold of the two-party system that's dominated Britain for over a century. A century of entitled rule by Labour and the Tories, swapping places while the country slides into mediocrity. We've had enough of the Uniparty &#8211; high taxes, low growth, Net Zero madness, cultural erosion, and a state that serves itself rather than the people. </p><p>If a third party like Reform wins the next election &#8211; and it&#8217;s looking likely &#8211; it could lead to profound change in the UK. Seeing a party other than Labour or Conservative win the next election will fundamentally change how we view politics. It will be the biggest political event of our lifetimes.</p><p>I can&#8217;t stress this enough. We must NOT let the two main parties win the next election. I honestly don&#8217;t think this country can survive any more of this. It&#8217;s a struggle to see how we survive until the next election without this country falling apart, but survive we must.</p><p>It's time for something radical, something that shakes the foundations. Jenrick might seem like the answer to some, but trust me &#8211; he's part of the problem. </p><p>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.leeharrisuk.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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