Yesterday was The Mark Steyn Club's ninth birthday, and I thank profoundly (almost) all our First Day Founding Members who opted to sign on for a tenth year. We hope, as this se'nnight proceeds, that our First Week Founding Members will want to do the same.
I am under Herr Doktor and Frau Doktor today, but they brought me out of my coma to catch up on the English local-election results. Before we get to that, however, a reminder that most "conservatives" can't stand the heat. I have had the pleasure of speaking at Preston Manning's conservative conference in Ottawa a few times over the years, but Preston retired and his successors changed the name to the "Canada Strong & Free" networking conference and, to no one's surprise, this is how strong and free they are:
Canada's largest Conservative networking conference begins with a pathetic land acknowledgement, declaring Ottawa to be the "never surrendered homeland of the Anishinàbe Algonquin Nation."
This is so embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/46R0x5SJZj
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) May 8, 2026
That's not Justin, that's not the cucked King in his throne speech, that's the guys who are supposed to be on your side.
Meanwhile, back in Blighty: The fellows on the scene are covering the obvious features of yesterday's vote - the repudiation of Starmer, the repudiation of the Tories, the repudiation of the Uniparty ...save for its latest Faragian Islamo-Tory iteration. But, if like me you're over on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain, where countries still look like countries used to and where the spring air is heady with the scent of non-diversity, certain perhaps less obvious features stand out.
Such as: why did the Green Party flop out? It's only a few weeks since they came from behind to win the Gorton & Denton by-election, admittedly against a truly atrocious candidate, the increasingly embarrassing Matt Goodwin - or MattGPT, as some wag dubbed him. The Greens did this by putting together a winning coalition of woke liberals and Muslims. Ostensibly, this is a somewhat incoherent mélange: the wokesters dig the LGBTQWERTY and the Muzzies want to throw them off tall buildings, preparatory to a roasting spit in hell.
Yet they agree on what is apparently the core issue for English voters: "Palestine". So a pantomime-horse coalition with two rear ends swept all before it.
But not yesterday. Why is that?
Well, a parliamentary constituency is pretty big, so (for the moment) Islam still needs a few infidels to get them over the line. But council districts are smaller, and, if you pick them carefully, you don't need the Godless sodomites at all.
To put it another way: for two decades now, we have been told - sotto voce - that the reason hundreds of thousands (likely millions now) of schoolgirls have to be gang-sodomised, urinated on and doused in petrol in towns up and down England is because the Labour Party needs the Muslim vote.
Alas for the nominally ruling party, the Muslim vote no longer needs Labour.
Last time round, "independent Muslims" won thirty-one council seats. Yesterday, they won 208. How many next time?
As my former GB News colleague Colin Brazier observed:
'Muslim Independents' projected to win more than 200 council wards. For future historians these elections may be a punctuation mark in our island story, after which the politics of mainland England more closely resemble the sectarian voting of Northern Ireland. https://t.co/jJLkWW13QS
— Colin Brazier (@ColinBrazierTV) May 8, 2026
Ulsterisation? You should be so lucky - although in fairness I too once raised such non-menacing comparisons:
Even in relatively peaceful bicultural societies, politics becomes tribal: loyalists vs nationalists in Northern Ireland, separatists vs federalists in Quebec. Picture a French election circa 2020: the Islamic Republican Coalition wins the most seats in the National Assembly. The Chiraquiste crowd give a fatalistic shrug and M de Villepin starts including crowd-pleasing suras from the Koran at his poetry recitals. But would Jean-Marie Le Pen or (by then) his daughter take it so well?
Colin was one of the best things about GB News, and it was never quite the same after the duplicitous muthableeper Angelos Floppadopulous got rid of him. Unlike me, he presents as very moderate and reasonable, but he takes demography seriously, and, unlike most of the British media, he knows what yesterday's results are telling us about where we're headed.
However, it's going to be far worse than the bogs of Fermanagh and Tyrone. Think Lebanon or South Africa.
Is it possible to vote your way out of this? Increasingly unlikely - as yesterday's results suggest. But you can still vote your way into it. If I understand our pro-war American commenters, Iran can't be trusted with nukes because they're crazy theocratic millenarian Shia twelvers...
Okay. But your fellow Americans in the most iconic city on earth just voted in a millenarian Shia twelver to preside over next year's 9/11 quarter-century observances.
Any plans on that front?
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