Boxes for people, hutches for migrant-invaders https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8542703/Government-tears-planning-red-tape-allow-shops-converted-homes.html
If I were to write what I really think should be done to Boris-idiot and his equally stupid “ministers”, I should probably have the toytown police at my door.
Tweets seen
https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/disordered-and-infantile-people/
Urban rats. “Load up, load up“…
Social nationalism and care for the environment, wildlife and animal welfare, go together naturally: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2016/11/17/social-nationalism-and-green-politics/
Amusing and telling incident in Waitrose
About a third of the shoppers were silly rabbits (facemask-wearers). Not many people there anyway. The little town nearby has had an influx of Chinese in the past decade, God knows why. Because it is a minor port? Seems unlikely. Well, there it is. Anyway, a few Chinese have latched onto the fact that Waitrose (at that branch) marks down stuff to about 10% of the usual price (sometime 5%) not long before closing
Some little old Waitrose female employee was agitato because a few Chinese had gathered around the wheeled trolley or shopping cart containing the marked-down items, mostly mushrooms and green vegetables. I picked up a pack of mushrooms (19p instead of about £1,50 or so, in case anyone is curious) just before the cart was wheeled away, the employee muttering something to me (the Chinese having departed) about how people were not practising “social distancing”.
Ha ha! This fear propaganda has really taken hold! Someone (“hello? Boris-idiot? Hello?”) should tell the public that the “virus” has basically come and gone and that, now more than ever, people shopping in a supermarket are unlikely to get it or transmit it. But no. What Boris-idiot has actually done is force everyone to wear a muzzle or facemask when they shop, as of Friday. Goodnight, retail sector. Goodnight Vienna! Or rather, Goodnight London…
Already I have seen a few discarded disposable masks on the ground of the Waitrose car park. A big pollution problem is being created, though I doubt that that will worry a (supposed) “Prime Minister” who has just announced that house-owners will be able to add 2 storeys to their houses almost at will. Hello slums of the future. Hello migration-invasion on a massive scale. Hong Kong Chinese will not be the half of it. Where will it end? An urbanized landscape across much of the UK, inhabited by various species of urban scavenger…
Tweets seen this evening
Having been a fairly frequent visitor (not patient) to 4 or 5 NHS hospitals over the past decade, I can see the main problem. Administration or, rather, maladministration.
We see advanced surgery and other techniques of art, some very decent staff (not all, but most) undone or damaged by the most basic flaws in running of hospitals: basic cleanliness, basic intra-hospital organization (eg supply of wheelchairs), sometimes very poor food (but sometimes, I am told, very good food), and the perennial car parking nonsense: no-one should have to pay to park at a hospital.
Also, why do hospital wards still exist? They did away with them in France 30+ years ago, and I doubt whether many if any American or Canadian or even Australasian hospitals have them now.
More tweets
Well, I don’t know whether this below is a gauntlet thrown before me, but fortunately I do not care! I include it as a gesture to free speech.
Note the “Zionist” vocabulary, though: “vile“, “anti-semitic“…people in the Anglophone world have been, at root, brainwashed for decades about “them”, indeed by “them”…Note also the perceived need of even this —more open than average— tweeter to signal his “virtue” to the Twit-pack by saying that I (whom he knows not at all, whose blog posts he knows scarcely at all) write that which is “vile”… It’s sad, really.
Mike Stuchbery, the subject of a couple of blog post by me, https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/a-few-words-about-mike-stuchbery/ and https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/11/27/mike-stuchbery-and-tommy-robinson-legal-dispute/ self-describes as “historian”, “journalist” and (at least with some slight accuracy) “former teacher”. If only we could all just self-describe, regardless of actual knowledge, experience, expertise or formal qualification. On the other hand, that might be rather dystopian. Oh, wait…we’re on that road right now…
I would not usually bother to reference the ignorant type of tweet(er), one James Hornby, shown below, but as an exception:
The “he” who is “vile” (note the “Zionist” vocab again) is me, apparently! Seems that “James Hornby”/@scartyke is not only pretty idiotic (and possibly another mentally-challenged type) but also not too well-educated (“your” instead of “you’re“). Not atypical of some Twit-tweeters.
A few more tweets
Ian Robert Millard 
Yes, Peter Hitchens, Covid 19, is truly a non dangerous disease and that is why MILLIONS of people around the world have been infected, HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS are DEAD and even those lucky enough to survive a disease WITH NO KNOWN VACCINE or cure are at increased risk of long term lung damage, heart problems etc.🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄😡😡😡😡
Why doesn’t this stupid libertarian *on this issue* twit get himself a brain at long last and stop peddling his nonsensical and frankly callous viewpoints?🙄😡🤬
Containment measures ARE necessary until the threat this disease poses genuinely recedes into the past. We ARE not going to just ignore the disease and let things rip as he so obviously wants as that is the way of callous libertarians who have done enough damage in this country in the last forty years or more.
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Go away, Mr Hitchens, and live in the libertarian barmy land called the USA which is not now the ‘land of the free’ but more the ‘land of the DEAD’ because libertarian Republicans just like you have dismissed the seriousness of the disease from day one and they now have the death rate to prove it.
Is there ANY measure which inherently requires the state’s power to make it work you ARE in favour of, Mr Hitchens? If there is I have yet to see your support for it! You are not in favour of using the state’s possible reach and power during this crisis at all, are you, Mr Hitchens? That IS a classical libertarian and irresponsible position.
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Mr Hitchens, please wake-up for god’s sake, thanks to Tory twits like you in many ways, Britain has a large proportion of ‘I want to do what I WANT to do WHEN I WANT to do it and sod anyone else’ people living in it so ‘persuasion’ in a free society will SPREAD the disease not reduce it but perhaps you, like libertarians generally, are in all favour of that kind of selfishness because, well, libery has been preserved and that is more important than the health of others, isn’t it?🙄🙄🙄
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If this country was as well run and as decent as Singapore is, Tory scum like Mr Gove with his immoral drug taking habits would be dead. I am sure he has imbibed drugs in the sort of quantities they would regard possession of as ‘trafficking’ in and that earns you a capital sentence there normally.
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M’Lord of Essex,
The idea of Jews’ doormat, drug abuser, drunk and expenses cheat/fraudster, Gove, getting a —literal— caning is not unpleasant…
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Yes, Michael Gove, would face an unpleasant time if he lived in Singapore and didn’t amend his disgusting and morally repellent drug abusing ways. The authorities in that former colony of ours treat drug abuse and drug possession with the utmost seriousness let alone those who are stupid enough to traffic in drugs!
Indeed, ANY form of law breaking is severely frowned upon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_law_of_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_Code_(Singapore)
https://www.corpun.com/singfeat.htm
https://www.dw.com/en/the-invisible-scars-left-by-strikes-of-the-cane/a-18298970
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_(Singapore)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore
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Step this way, Michael Gove, you immoral drug abuser, you have an appointment with Singapore’s hangman, Albert Pierrepoint, for being in possession of controlled drugs over the small legal limits there and was therefore presumed to be trafficking in them and got sentenced to the mandatory death sentence:
The Law MUST take its course, I’m afraid, Mr Gove:
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Ha ha. A nice idea, m’Lord of Essex.
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Yes, those flogging sentences via the use of a rattan cane ARE definitely painful but then they are meant to serve as a deterrent to anyone considering committing serious offences in Singapore.
They make a contribution, along with long prison sentences in austere prisons, towards making Singapore a country relatively free from crime in general and violent crimes in particular.👌😎😄
A young American in the early 1990’s, Michael P Fay, thought he could commit vandalism there and get away with it! 😂😂😂😂🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
That would probably have been possible in the USA but NOT in Singapore!😂😂😂😂😂😎😎😎😎😎👌👌👌👌
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Fay
Ouch!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4a4st2yaPM
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Do you recall, m’Lord of Essex, that young American who decided that it would be fun to vandalize some cars in Singapore? Received a caning, but not before the Jew mass media in [J]USA demanded that he be repatriated; even Clinton as President got in on it! Never mind the horribly barbaric American prisons…
In the end, the little bastard *was* caned, I think, though it may be that he got less and softer than originally decided upon.
ps. Found it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Fay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Fay#Caning
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4a4St2yaPM
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Yes, I remember the case of Michael Fay well. Clinton and a lot of the US media took the arrogant attitude of thinking how dare this tiny former British colony stand-up to the mighty USA and sentence a young American teenager to a flogging for committing vandalism!🙄🙄🙄🙄
Mind you, to their credit, a few US journalists and quite a lot of ordinary Americans took a different line, didn’t whinge about it and indeed said Singapore was right to cane him and wanted to introduce rattan cane floggings to the USA!
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M’Lord of Essex:
When I was a (belated) student at the Inns of Court School of Law in 1987-88, we had to visit various courts as observers. One was Marylebone Mags.There was a young American, a Jew and tourist, charged with vandalizing numerous cars in London. He was asked why he did it. Drunk and “for fun”, apparently.
The funny thing was that he was asked about his immediate intentions. Return to USA from Gatwick in a few days. Magistrate asked him if he had anything else to say *and he answered* “Oh, this is all really interesting for me, because I am going to study law and become an attorney”!
The magistrate took this insouciance badly…ordered his passport to be confiscated and that the vandal return to court at a later date, at which time custody might be an option. Exit of chastened Jew student…
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Yes, after Clinton whinged about it, the Singaporean authorities relented a bit and reduced the sentence from six strokes to four.
It certainly looks painful and is no doubt a good deterrent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4a4St2yaPM
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A point to bear in mind with these rattan cane floggings in Singapore is that they are NEVER used on their own and therefore someone sentenced to a caning ALWAYS has to serve a prison sentence as well which in that country is usually a lengthy one even for offences we in Britain and in other Western countries would consider to be fairly minor ones.
Some countries would use them instead of prison sentences to save on the often considerable cost of having enough prison capacity but not highly authoritarian Singapore!😁😄😂
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7 reasons why Singapore has a low crime rate:
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