The Daily Mongoose

05/01/2025

No government will ever "stop the boats" or stop the "migrants" from coming. Not even Nigel Farage, if he became Prime Minister tomorrow, would put a stop to it, no matter what he promises now. If you remember, he and Boris Johnson promised a lot of outcomes from Brexit too..

Now, I can tell you why, and it's all to do with the money. I mean, you'll never believe me, because it's far easier for you to believe it's all because lefty liberals like me want to kill off English culture and convert Britain to Islam. That, you find credible. That you'll believe.

It's just not the truth, though. The truth, and I don't know why people find this so hard to believe, is that migrants are big business. Companies like Serco, to name just one, make billions of pounds in government contracts for housing migrants. And they DO have to be detained until their asylum applications can be processed. One snag with that: Theresa May stopped all the applications being processed back in 2017. It's resumed since then, but at a greatly reduced pace, leaving thousands of migrants stranded in these "hotels" for months and years at a time...
...which is absolutely bloody brilliant for Serco's business: the more they have to feed and house, and the longer they have to feed and house them, the more they can charge the government: ker-ching! Every penny they make off that, by the way, is money you've paid in taxes. The politicians will happily give it away to their corporate pals: it's not their money after all, and said corporate pals reward them handsomely with "donations". Now that IS their money, and they like it..and lots of it.

Oh, and believe me, companies like that are now rich enough to buy any politician they want, and get the policies they want. Especially the notoriously for-sale Nigel Farage. I mean, you'd happily spread around a few mill in "donations" if it results in a hundred-million-pound contract to add to your collection, wouldn't you? It's sound business.

So either that's what's going on, which you can't believe because it doesn't say so on the telly....or, the much more credible version which you prefer: the entire country is being run for the benefit of woke-leftie-liberals like me so that we can destroy English culture and impose sharia law on you. If you believe that, I've got a bridge I can sell you. Don't talk to me about English culture, I recited some Geoffrey Chaucer over the phone to a friend yesterday, in the original old English, pronounced as correctly as we know how. Yeah, I'm exactly the sort of woke bastard who wants to destroy England.

The pic is of a "meal" served by Serco to an asylum-seeker in one of their "hotels". They're charging the UK taxpayer at beyond-premium rates, and giving the most cheap and crapulent service they can get away with. And that's very, very cheap and crapulent indeed.

So if you fondly imagine that Farage and Reform are going to "stop the boats", oh yeah, they'll SAY they will to get your vote...until they're in power and all those "donations" start rolling in from the companies making billions out of the migrant industry. "Seat on the board when you retire, Nigel?" "Thanks, don't mind if I do." Trust me, companies like that aren't going to stand still for losing billions of pounds in lost business just to please you, the ordinary punter.

So remember that: it IS an industry. Just like the wars that drive all these people out of their countries in the first place...but that's another industry and another story.

03/01/2025

Other Admin here:

I've just been ejected from a film group on Facebook for making a sarcastic remark about Gal Gadot, the actress and former IDF soldier. She was recently diagnosed with a blood clot during her pregnancy. All I said was "the clot has a right to defend itself " and oh boy did the admin team not like it 🤣🤣🤣

24/12/2024

It is, for the moment at least, next to pointless posting on here because we have had our reach absolutely throttled since our first iteration, The Delhi Mail was taken down. We are now on BlueSky, where the atmosphere and reach is far better:

https://bsky.app/profile/thedailymongoose.bsky.social

18/11/2024

Cod-medievalism is is a characteristic of the current breed of neo-Na*is. A mythologised, heroic version of what they think is their history is also typical of extremist ultra-nationalist movements. Of course, there are other things that frequently characterise this sort of slime as well, as here.
What's the relevance? Well, Trump's new Secretary of State for Defence, Pete Hesgeth, has a huge Jerusalem Cross tattooed on his chest and the words, "Deus Vult" on his arm. Ultra-nationalist cod-medievalism writ large.

As someone who loves and pursues the honest study of real history, I can't tell you how loathsome I find these creatures, and their hate-driven history-agenda. It's NOT REAL HISTORY. It's the self-justifying fever-dreams of some very nasty criminals and lunatics indeed.

18/11/2024

17/11/2024

Yesterday in Columbus, Ohio. There were similar scenes, the same masks and flags, in Michigan, outside a theatre showing a production of "The Diary Of Ann Frank".

Remember what I said about a Trump victory emboldening the fascists and how they'd be coming out of the woodwork? Well, here they are, right on cue.

I refuse to believe that any Trump voter is so stupid that they genuinely didn't know they were voting for racist white supremacy. Watch them act horrified in the following months, clutching their pearls as they attract the rightful odium of an entire planet that sees them for the N**i simps and enablers they have proved to be. That can now see them in their true colours.

09/11/2024

Once one of the wealthiest civilizations on the planet, Benin has a rich and fascinating history. This is about how the art of bronze sculpture continues in the region. Historically, western Europe has chosen to label this as "primitive" art, the implication being that it was in some way lesser than western art...which did not stop them stealing as much of it as they could, which they display in their museums to this day.
This, of course, brings to mind Kemi Badenoch's recent assertion that some cultures are less valid than western, european culture. Coming from someone of Nigerian immigrant extraction, this may seem extraordinary, but is in fact a result of her need for what we call "white validation". Which in itself is a phenomenon that results directly from growing up having been brainwashed into believing that your own culture, your own people, are in some way "less than". It's rather saddening to see a potential future leader of our country acting out such an obvious psychological hang-up, and one which a little study and knowledge of her own culture and history could rectify quite easily.

It's an old lie, but one which certain people still wish to hear today: that some cultures are just intrinsically inferior, so that anything you choose to do to them and anything you may have done to them in the past, remain entirely morally justifiable.

I'm not sure which I find sadder: those who perpetuate such lies, or those who seem to have such an urgent need to hear them.

07/11/2024

I have a feeling that if Abe Lincoln himself had been running against Trump, he wouldn't have got in. Not because Trump's the greater man, but because the demographic that elected Trump wouldn't have understood a damned word Lincoln was saying. And if by chance they understood some small part of it, they wouldn't like it one bit. The America of today would choose, "They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats," over the Gettysburg Address.

01/11/2024

It's extraordinary to me that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden can make Trump do anything, just by talking about it. So far, they've had him working at Maccies and driving around in a garbage truck with his name on the side. 🤣

If I were Kamala, I'd be telling a really good sky-diving story next.

25/10/2024

Tucker Carlson's speech yesterday: “If you allow your hormone-addled 15-year-old daughter to slam the door and give you the finger, you’re going to get more of it. There has to be a point at which Dad comes home. Dad comes home and he’s pissed.… and when Dad gets home, you know what he says? You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now. And no, it’s not going to hurt me more than it hurts you. No, it’s not. I’m not going to lie. It’s going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me. And you earned this. You’re getting a vigorous spanking because you’ve been a bad girl, and it has to be this way.”

Well, I'm glad that's clarified Trump's policies: toxic masculinity, and fantasies of violence and wreaking his own personal vengeance on the people of America. Of course, the MAGA-hats loved it and were cheering wildly, because, like the bratty sisters they are, they figure that Abusive Dad will never come for them. He'll just tell them heart-warming stories about the enormity of his golfing buddies' pen*ses. And then Daddy will go off and get spanked himself, by a p**n star, because he's such a classy guy. Naturally. It all makes perfect sense.

24/10/2024

The IDF are now saying that there's a secret underground bunker full of gold beneath a hospital in Beirut. It's extraordinary what those guys imagine lurking under hospitals.

14/10/2024

Potential British casualties in Lebanon:
The Lebanese Army, whom Israel is currently attacking, has British troops embedded within it. You won't see Starmer talking about it, or the mainstream media, but Israel is now attacking our allies, people we've invested in training and organising, as a viable opposition within Lebanon to Hezbollah. They're also attacking UN peacekeeping forces, so far using non-lethal force. Not so their attacks on the LAF, where the Israelis are starting to exert a regular death-toll. And it might only be a matter of time before that means British casualties.
Either that, or the unedifying spectacle of British forces being withdrawn for Israel's convenience, and leaving our allies in the lurch, while we retreat from the Israeli army. There was a time, when if someone attacked our allies, we'd fight alongside them, not slope off to avoid embarrassing their attackers. Which I'm sure will be Starmer's preferred option, seeing as he's Tel Aviv's man in London, and doesn't give a damn about our reputation abroad.

Explainer: As Israel bombards Beirut, we take a look at Britain’s military role in Lebanon.

09/10/2024

Well, well....it turns out Trump's supporters are so gay, they actually managed to crash Grindr. After all, when you've endured a long day of listening to speeches full of anti-LGBTQ bile, what could be better than a nice relaxing bit of man-love in the comfort of your own hotel-room? 🤣🤣🤣

Over 1,000 Grindr users reported an outage in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area while the RNC was underway.

29/09/2024

Here's the full text of Rosie Duffield's resignation letter to Sir Keith Steamer. I hope he sees many more like it.
Dear Sir Keir,
Usually letters like this begin, "It is with a heavy heart..." Mine has been increasingly heavy and conflicted and has longed for a degree of relief.
I can no longer stay a Labour MP under your management of the party, and this letter is my notice that I wish to resign the Labour Party whip with immediate effect.
Although many "last straws" have led to my decision, my reason for leaving now is the programme of policies you seem determined to stick to, however unpopular they are with the electorate and your own MPs.
You repeat often that you will make the "tough decisions" and that the country is "all in this together". But those decisions do not directly affect any one of us in Parliament. They are cruel and unnecessary, and affect hundreds of thousands of our poorest, most vulnerable constituents.
This is not what I was elected to do. It is not even wise politics, and it certainly is not "the politics of service."
I did not vote for you to lead our party for reasons I won't describe in detail here. But, as someone elevated immediately to a shadow cabinet position without following the usual path of honing your political skills on the backbenches, you had very little previous political footprint. It was therefore unclear what your political passions, drive or direction might be as the leader of the Labour Party, a large movement of people united by a desire for social justice and support for those most in need.
You also made the choice not to speak up once about the Labour Party's problems with antisemitism during your time in the shadow cabinet, leaving that to backbenchers, including new MPs such as me.
Since you took office as Leader of the Opposition you have used various heavy-handed management tactics but have never shown what most experienced backbenchers would recognise as true or inspiring leadership.
You have never regularly engaged with your own backbench MPs, many of whom have been in Parliament far longer than you, and some of whom served in the previous Labour government.
You have chosen neither to seek our individual political opinions, nor learn about our constituency experiences, nor our specific or collective areas of political knowledge. We clearly have nothing you deem to be of value.
Your promotion of those with no proven political skills and no previous parliamentary experience but who happen to be related to those close to you, or even each other, is frankly embarrassing.
In particular, the recent treatment of Diane Abbott, now Mother of the House, was deeply shameful and led to comments from voters across the political spectrum. A woman of her political stature and place in history is deserving of respect and support, regardless of political differences.
As Prime Minister, your managerial and technocratic approach, and lack of basic politics and political instincts, have come crashing down on us as a party after we worked so hard, promised so much, and waited a long fourteen years to be mandated by the British public to return to power.
Since the change of government in July, the revelations of hypocrisy have been staggering and increasingly outrageous. I cannot put into words how angry I and my colleagues are at your total lack of understanding about how you have made us all appear.
How dare you take our longed-for victory, the electorate's sacred and precious trust, and throw it back in their individual faces and the faces of dedicated and hardworking Labour MPs?! The sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale. I am so ashamed of what you and your inner circle have done to tarnish and humiliate our once proud party.
Someone with far-above-average wealth choosing to keep the Conservatives' two-child limit to benefit payments which entrenches children in poverty, while inexplicably accepting expensive personal gifts of designer suits and glasses costing more than most of those people can grasp - this is entirely undeserving of holding the title of Labour Prime Minister. Forcing a vote to make many older people iller and colder while you and your favourite colleagues enjoy free family trips to events most people would have to save hard for - why are you not showing even the slightest bit of embarrassment or remorse?
I now have no confidence in your commitment to deliver the so-called "change" you promised during the General Election campaign and the changes we have been striving for as a political party for over a decade.
My values are those of a democratic socialist Labour Party and I have been elected three times to act on those values on behalf of my constituents. Canterbury made history when its voters elected their first woman, and only non-Conservative, MP since the seat was created in the thirteenth century.
My constituents elected an independent-minded MP who vowed to put constituency before party, and to keep tackling the issues that most affect us here - Brexit fallout, funding for our universities, our desperately struggling East Kent NHS, dire housing situation, repeated sewage pollution and protecting our vital green spaces.
I am confident that I can continue to do so as an independent MP guided by my core Labour values.
Sadly, the Labour Party has never shown any interest in my wonderful constituency in the seven years that I have been in Parliament. But I am proud of my community and will continue to serve them to the best of my ability.
My constituents care deeply about social issues such as child poverty and helping those who cannot help themselves. I will continue to uphold those values as I pledged to do when I first stood before them for election in 2017.
As someone who joined a trade union in my first job, at seventeen, Labour has always been my natural political home. I was elected as a single mum, a former teaching assistant in receipt of tax credits. The Labour Party was formed to speak for those of us without a voice, and I stood for election partly because I saw decisions about the lives of those like me being made in Westminster by only the most privileged few. Right now, I cannot look my constituents in the eye and tell them that anything has changed. I hope to be able to return to the party in the future, when it again resembles the party I love, putting the needs of the many before the greed of the few.
Yours sincerely,
Rosie Duffield MP