Dominic Cummings
I repost my main blog posts about Cummings: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2020/01/03/dominic-cummings-a-government-of-dystopia-and-lunacy-posing-as-genius/; https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/les-eminences-grises-of-dystopia/
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What has been so extraordinary about the “resistible rise” of Cummings is that (ref. my blog posts about him) he actually has no track record of measurable achievement at all. Left university with a so-so degree, somehow got into Russian business (but nothing solid), tried to set up an airline in the 1990s using bits of decrepit Soviet property (the airline made one flight only). Then Cummings gets a job with the Conservative Party and somehow acquires a reputation for maverick brilliance. A mirage. In the old Soviet joke, “we hear that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs. Well, we see the eggshells, but where’s the breakfast?”
I always believe in the Biblical injunction to “judge the tree by its fruits”. I judge an ideology by its effects and by the behaviour of its adherents. I judge a government by its acts, omissions and achievements. Look at the chaos of the present government, in every way!
Cummings is not entirely to blame for the present chaos, which is soon going to get worse, with mismanaged Brexit about to come down the line. Boris-idiot, posing as Prime Minister, is the main culprit. Others, such as Johnson’s “ho”, are mere extras in the drama, but have, in the absence of proper government, taken on the role of active players.
In fact, the “eminence” of Cummings is symptomatic of Britain at the present time. It is a situation that has developed over the past decade or so. The “not what you know but who you know” scenario. We have seen the emergence of the no-salary “intern”, able to work unpaid for a year or more (and so create the foundation for a career) because the affluent parents or a family trust pay for everything. We have seen the unworthy but well-connected, the privileged trustafarians etc, become MPs, ministers, Cabinet ministers, even Prime Ministers and members of the House of Lords. A few names? David Cameron-Levita, Ed Vaizey, Dido Harding.
In fact, the above is the flip-side of the likewise prevalent “identity” appointments: persons appointed to positions in government and/or as (very well-paid) TV talking heads because they are black, brown, female etc.
Every journey starts with one step…
I agree with that, but it has to be confined to bona fide and truly British citizens as recipients to be sustainable.
Life’s circus…
The Underground was better then (c.1950?), it seems…
The succinct reply sums up my own cynical view: Boris-idiot…
That reply, too…
…and that one.
Well, this week I again beat John Rentoul, I having scored 7/10 as against his 6/10; my score would have been 8/10, but the name of the German theologian of Question 7, though on the tip of my mental tongue, escapes me for the moment. In case anyone is interested, the other questions I cannot answer are numbers 2 and 9.
[update, 2 hours later: I remembered the answer to the “German theologian” question, but too late…Pastor Niemoller. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller].
Memory is a strange thing. I wonder how much research is done into it.
Google “The Great Reset” and you will discover why, “suddenly”, “reset” is seen everywhere! Google “conspiracy” at the same time…
BRINO (Brexit In Name Only) was always the most likely option for the international conspiracy.
Trump
“Don’t get mad; get even” [American saying]
Trump should extend Presidential pardon to all social-national and allied prisoners held in U.S. Federal prisons. He should proclaim his intention as soon as possible, and pardon as many prisoners as he can while he can. It would be a good way of sticking it to the “antifa” swine.
“British” Christmas TV ads
I see growing discontent at the race-mixing propaganda posing as “just ordinary TV ads”. Christmas ads are just part of it. According to latest statistics, about 80% of the UK population still identify as “White British” and actual “blacks” (not including recent mixed-race) are supposedly “only” somewhere around 3%. Yet almost every TV ad now contains mainly blacks, or a mixed couple and “their” mixed-race children.
Sacked temporary teacher, serial grifter, “antifa” cheerleader (from a safe distance) and would-be (self-describing) “historian” and “journalist” Mike Stuchbery supports the propaganda:
Of course, Stuchbery sees nothing wrong in TV ads pretending that 90% of the UK population is black, mixed-race etc… This was my blog post about Stuchbery, which thousands have found interesting: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/a-few-words-about-mike-stuchbery/
This is not mere happenstance. It is a deliberate and planned campaign. I have blogged about it in the past and it is getting worse. Google “Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan” for more. Alternatively, “the Great Replacement” and/or “White Genocide”.
My blog from a couple of years ago: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2018/12/10/tv-ads-and-soaps-are-the-propaganda-preferred-by-the-system-in-the-uk/
I wondered whether the police would at some point take an interest in the GoFundMe appeal set up for Stuchbery by his associate “@antifashwitch”, Roanna Carleton Taylor of Derbyshire (it gathered in nearly £12,000 from gullible people who wanted Stuchbery to sue Tommy Robinson using it, but there never was a case brought). I now see that the Twitter tweets, going back years, of both “@antifashwitch” and her misnamed organization “@Resisting_Hate_”, have almost all been deleted.
I have no idea whether the two facts are connected, or whether she has been trying to delete potential evidence of fraud, but it has caught my attention today.
I expect the ~700 people who gave money to that GoFundMe [https://www.gofundme.com/f/sue-tommy-robinson] are wondering what happened…
I believe that “antifashwitch” has a rather “dodgy” background generally. Her personal connections have, if the Internet is to be believed, been investigated by the police in the past, and not just for political matters.
Incidentally, the Pakistani named in the GoFundMe appeal is or was, supposedly, the solicitor (a one-man-band “firm”) who was going to act for Stuchbery. All very odd.
More tweets seen
Slava! Something has to be done directly about the Boris-idiot toytown police state which is inexorably becoming a real police state.
Not a new tweet, but worth reposting.
Are you still proudly self-congratulatory for having clapped, idiots?…
Quite. As for the UK, the rural/suburban area of coastal Southern England where I live has 180,000 inhabitants within the District Council area. In the last week, 3 (three) deaths “from” (or “with“?) “the virus” have been notified. One death for every 60,000 people! Statistical zero. Yet for this, the population has been forced to comply with the facemask nonsense, shops and pubs and restaurants (a large part of the local economy) have been shut, and any medical services from GPs are telephone-consultation only.
Madness.
Slava!
Was that connected with “antifashwitch” too? I have no idea.
Non-white Christmas TV ads
Further to my comments earlier in today’s blog, I received this comment from a reader:
“I’ve noticed that the race mixing Christmas ads don’t mind showing an idealised England via small rural villages complete with a church in the centre, the catch is they don’t allow us to see a white family living there, it has to be mixed.
The problem is though, who do these multinationals think this nostalgia and yearning for an older England actually caters to? Is it the Indian wife in the ad? or the inevitable black husband of the white woman in another ad?
On the one hand they pander to the cultural identity of an ethnic group, while at the same time endorsing the erasure of that ethnic group via the mixing in the ads.
Note once again that the nature of the multinational is essentially parasitic, those images of England aren’t of them…” [a reader of this blog].
Well said, Blog Reader…If it were the other way around, it would be called “cultural appropriation” and so “wrong” (because white European people are always wrong…). Such TV ads (propaganda masquerading as ads…) are much more an “appropriation” (if not an expropriation!) than, say, The Black and White Minstrel Show etc, who were copying a longstanding American and European tradition of “blacking up”.
Late tweets seen
That’s assuming that you are going down the Parliamentary road…
Map of cronyism
Late music
Ian Robert Millard 
Well done for Laure and her brave husband. That is the stuff national-socialists are made of. Typical of “Antifa” and all Marxist thugs, cowards who cover their disgusting faces (actually they make us a favour, LOL) and run away as soon as they face serious opposition.
Talking about Marxist scumbags, that waste of space named Stuchbery is still breathing (unfortunately) and tweeting the usual nonsense. I could understand if that hateful anti-white rubbish came from a coloured person, but when is uttered by white people it drives me mad. They are really self-hating traitors who deserve the most awful end.
I am glad Cummings is gone, but his departure doesn’t mean anything. Is business as usual in Downing Street. What we need is a V-1 impacting that building. What about a kamikaze? LOL
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Claudius:
Stuchbery is very disturbed mentally. He only retains a facade of mental equilibrium via medication, I believe. I only discovered recently that he was sacked as temporary teacher not only in the UK but in his native Melbourne, Australia. He loves the idea of extreme violence being visited on anyone labelled “fascist” (so, in his crazed mind, making that person a legitimate target even if very young, very old, unable to defend themselves etc).
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Hello Ian: I have just come across of two great quotes by two great bastards.
The first one is from Stalin: “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”
The second one is from Churchill: “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
Wonderful!
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Claudius:
Stalin, the great cynic. One of those so keen to avoid naive idealism and optimism that he falls into the trap of practical nihilism, where nothing has real value (in Stalin’s case, nothing beyond the immediately material).
Churchill, the great exponent of romantic folly in policy.
ps: Khrushchev recounts in his memoirs a Politburo discussion (over dinner and drink, I think) from about 1944, re. “what is the definition of Socialism?” Various definitions were suggested but the discussion was brought to an end when Stalin said “Socialism? It’s wherever the Red Army stops its trucks!…”
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Hello Ian: Thank you for your comments and the anecdote about Kruschev and Stalin. Churchill’s quote is the best definition ever! He must have said it in one of his moments of drunkenness (LOL) which were very frequent. It is said and known that alcohol loosens your tongue by destroying your self-awareness and your instinctive reserve. Therefore you are more likely than ever to reveal your deepest feelings when under the influence.
I read and heard that Stalin held Churchill in total contempt, something that does not surprise me. In fact, I think that Stalin despised everyone except Hitler, and as far as I know, the feeling was mutual. According to several witnesses, Hitler spoke of Stalin with admiration in a couple of occasions.
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Claudius:
Re. alcohol, I must be the exception, because I say the same when “in drink” as I do when sober!
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