Idly perusing Wikipedia, I saw that the Danish Army now consists of about 25,000 men (and women), 63,000 reserves, and about 600 tracked and wheeled armoured vehicles.
Modest on the world scale, of course, but I now see that the British Army, once mighty, now has only 82,000 active personnel, little more than three times the Danish equivalent, and only 30,000 reserves.
In fact, proportionately, Denmark has far more troops than does the UK, because the population of Denmark is less than a tenth of that of the UK.
Of course, mere numbers are only part of the story in the contemporary era, where technology plays such a big part. All the same, numbers are still part of the story.
At the end of the Second World War, the total strength of the British Army was over 3 million, and even in 1980, just before the Falklands campaign, 159,000 active and 63,000 reserves.
The notional 82,000 active troops in 2021 would be the lowest muster since 1780. Of course the population was then a fraction of what it now is: even in 1801, when the first British census was taken, England and Wales had only 10.5 million inhabitants (and Ireland about 5 million, interestingly).
As said, numbers are only one factor. As said, technology is also key. So, however, are factors such as morale, motivation etc. Those, at least, have not changed since the time of Napoleon, and indeed of Clausewitz. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz.
One hears of and sees, in the cheaper newspapers, stories of how drug abuse is rife in the British armed forces, not to mention drunkenness (that, of course, is scarcely a new problem!).
The British armed forces overall have about 10% of their numbers women. How effective they are is a question for others to answer.
As to the Army generally, one sees reports that of the 82,000 active soldiers claimed, only about 50,000 are actually fit for duty. In any case, very many are what the Americans call “rear echelon” forces, not frontline fighting men. Not that that means that those rear forces are useless. Napoleon himself pointed out that “an army marches on its stomach“, and in the modern era a fighting spearhead needs a very broad rear support, everything from supply and logistics to pensions and banking.
Still, at a time when the clownish political leadership of the UK seems intent on provoking Russia, I wonder how our forces would, if push came to shove, stack up against at least the more elite Russian contingents.
[members of the elite Air Descent Contingent march in Red Square]
Britain and all Europe should be standing with Russia at this time. Contra Zionism. Contra Islamism. Spiritual Eurasia, contra mundum, if necessary.
Sadly misguided. The places where the “hundreds of thousands” need to go, suitably prepared, are not the beaches of Kent and Sussex, but the TV studios, radio stations, the “newspaper” propaganda offices, the Westminster monkeyhouse, and other System installations of importance.
The ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people through the eyes of a child. This was their Jerusalem home.
I’ll ask you again @Keir_Starmer – what is the Labour Party position on ethnic cleansing and the actions of the apartheid state of Israel? pic.twitter.com/G4KD5yX5Jz
Wherever Jews have power, non-Jews eventually become victims or slaves. Look at history. The ridiculous thing is that, in the UK, many of those who oppose Jewish supremacism in Israel or occupied Palestine, effectively support the Jewish lobby in Europe, eg in the UK itself; they pay lip-service to the “holocaust” farrago, in particular, and applaud the Zionist efforts to destroy free speech.
Controlled-opposition kingpin Farage. Was he paid millions, or tens of millions, offshore, as a reward for stabbing his own Brexit Party in the back in 2019, thus ensuring a Boris-idiot “Conservative” government (and ensuring, also, the binning of Corbyn, so that the Jewish lobby could retake control over the Labour Party)? Maybe (I do not know). Will he get a “peerage” (absurd and almost valueless though they now are)? Maybe (I do not know). Farage’s crony, Claire Fox, is already elevated to the Lords…
So if you still need a booster after been fully vaccinated, testing after been fully vaccinated, and hospitalisation after been fully vaccinated, and masks, social distancing and lockdowns all after been fully vaccinated?
Then it’s time to admit that you’ve been FULLY CONNED.
Griffin is right. He must be— he is in agreement with me!
Good to see resistance in Rotterdam and Vienna.
Wien! Not a government window in Vienna should remain intact until the Covid police state is stood down! Kristalltag jetzt!
Keep our beautiful culture alive, listen to and enjoy classical music and especially teach your children to love it. Arthur Sullivan : Victoria and Merrie England, Suite No. 1 from the ball… https://t.co/Sid3cIfrHx via @YouTube
I have not been to the Imperial War Museum since the mid-1980s when I was frequently in the vicinity. Since then, the IWM has, I believe, given over a large area to a permanent “holocaust” propaganda display. Once you start purveying that kind of ahistorical fakery, there is no going back, and you end up inviting a taxpayer-funded (why?) bunch of cretins to shout out “anti-racist” (in reality, anti-White and anti-British) black “rap”-crap on Remembrance Day.
The Daily Mail, of course, completely tied in with the Jewish lobby, would never make the connection…
In fact, the nonsense reported on is but part of the frenzied racemixing and anti-European agenda now being promoted everywhere— in TV drama, TV ads, across all msm platforms. The very significant year 2022 is fast approaching, the next key year in the 33-year cycle, and with it the agenda of the transnational conspiracy usually abbreviated to NWO/ZOG.
Not that I favour Churchill’s misconceived and evil war against the German Reich, of course, but I doubt that the rap-crap mentioned that.
Incidentally, imagine the (much greater) furore if a “rap” or other group had launched, at that museum, a satirical or other attack on the baleful influence of Jews or, indeed, blacks, at some point in history. That’s right, neither of those would happen. Then ask yourself why…
Ehrentempel
[“Feierlichkeiten zum 9. November in München. Ehrentempel auf dem Königsplatz”]
I cannot read the names on the U.S. military document below, but some persons without military rank are suggesting destruction of the structure. Probably Jews; who else, arguably, would make such a vandalistic suggestion? “…most offensive” and “dangerous“? Typical language, also arguably. We see the same terms used by the Zionists in 2021 Britain.
In the UK, Jews are at the forefront of the free speech battle, constantly trying to use “lawfare” and undue influence to shut down free speech, in particular any mention of Jews that is not laudatory, as well as any critical examination of their history and behaviour.
I have already blogged to the effect that only a massive window-breaking event (“Kristalltag“?) in Vienna, and soon, might wake up the Austrian people before the biosecurity police state’s grip tightens yet again.
Do you remember the Wuhan videos of people dropping dead? Same strategy to scare and demoralise. Austria is a psyops.
The System will say anything, and apparently do anything, to get enmeshed in Eastern Europe. Remember 1939 (or at least remember reading about it)? The governments of Britain and France gave the government of Poland a worthless guarantee, that is that Britain and France would come to the aid of Poland were it to be attacked.
Well, we know what happened. Germany did attack, and that triggered declarations of war against Germany by Britain and France, but —crucially— no troops or ships were sent to aid Poland. None.
The British and French governments used Germany’s invasion as an excuse to declare war, but Poland was left to sink or swim. It sank, partly because the Soviet Union also invaded, scarcely opposed, from the East. Britain and France did not declare war against the Soviet Union. Poland had no chance. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland; and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland.
The upshot of the above is that Britain did not help Poland and —again crucially— never could have done. Neither Britain nor France could have opposed the massive forces of the German Reich and the Soviet Union, yet it was the worthless joint guarantee which (together with the refusal by Churchill to conclude armistice in 1940, after the Fall of France) condemned much of Europe to years of war.
Surely the “British” government is not about to repeat in some farcical form its mistakes of 1938 and 1939? NATO is becoming aggressive in the East.
War with Russia could trigger a massive conflagration in which, inter alia, the UK might be almost entirely destroyed.
Trading standards in Wales shut down Cinema & Co @cinemacoswansea because they wouldn’t comply with vaccine passports. Meanwhile, here’s First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford dancing indoors without a mask. #IStandWithCinemaCoSwansea@cinemacoswansea
The Austrian government on Friday announced that the country will go into its fourth nationwide lockdown and will make Covid-19 vaccines compulsory. The Local is following the press conference announcing the measures and will bring you updates. https://t.co/mkkAvJXlNJ
After a bitter standoff between the outgoing conservatives and the incoming government, Germany has signed off on a reform of infection protection laws which will introduce sweeping measures to combat the Covid fourth wave, such as 3G on public transport… https://t.co/2lb1tDerjQ
Eventually, the problem (and similar problems) will only be solved one way, but that is something that cannot (in the new unfree UK) be expressed publicly.
Yes, and ‘The Last Battle’ as well. Lewis often links evil with the unnecessary murder of trees. https://t.co/E28cqTvDzz
Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two men and wounded another, was found not guilty of intentional homicide and four other felony charges in a deeply divisive case that fed a national debate over vigilantism, gun rights and the definition of self-defense. https://t.co/5MDh8OyguOpic.twitter.com/8kz9duMhyQ
Kyle Rittenhouse stood before the jury as the verdict was read. He was found not guilty of all charges against him including intentional homicide. https://t.co/tKTlXtpmpdpic.twitter.com/kOSQ2kiRx1
Three very violent assailants attacked Kyle Rittenhouse during the 2020 riots. One was permanently maimed. Two paid for that assault with their lives. Kyle gets to go on with his. #Justice
I have only one problem with the young man who was on trial, which is that he should have shown more of a stiff upper lip at that trial.
As for Paul Mason, and as I have blogged previously, some of his writings on economics have been interesting, but from the political point of view he is a complete idiot.
Incidentally, I often wondered, when Mason was on TV regularly, and when he posted on Twitter, why he is so venomously against social-nationalism. I discovered that he is part-Jew. That may account for it.
I noticed that my early 2019 blog post about civilization and its renewal from the ashes has had a number of hits already today. I therefore repost it below. It covers the all-important or overarching issues that should concern us.
Re-reading it now, I note that I “predicted” (examined as a distinct possibility) a “pandemic”, as well as a possible NATO-Russia war in Europe.
Well, so far no such war, thank God, though there are “rumours of wars”. As to “pandemic”, we have a sort-of pandemic, though not one that, so far, poses an existential threat to civilization (because in the world generally, it has —even on the alarmist statistics— killed only about one in every four thousand people in the world (about one in a thousand in the UK).
What I did not, perhaps could not, predict was the weaponization of that “pandemic” (the Covid-19 virus, as it turned out) as a means for a transnational conspiratorial “Great Reset” of the world’s societies and economies, together with the installation of a biosecurity police state in many countries.
We approach 2022, the most significant year since 1989 (and before 1989, 1956 and 1923). Society will look even more different in 2055 than our present 2021 looks when compared to the Europe of 1956-1989.
Lol Rachel Johnson…reminds me of a story a friend told me where he was having dinner on holiday in France & RJ & friends were there at another table & so loud & obnoxious they cleared the room. Perfect for the Spectator.
There is no real official Opposition, just a pathetic facade of one, fronted by Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer and thick-as-two-short-planks Angela Rayner.
Incidentally, it is good to see that tweeter “@eternalenglish” is back from Twitter prison after a week or two. One of the best Twitter accounts at present, which is why (((they))) make malicious complaints about him, in the attempt to deplatform him.
Those who put out such efforts “deplatforming” English social-national Twitter accounts have obviously never considered what might be the ultimate result of removing even the very limited freedom of expression that now exists in the UK. The end result might be rather unpleasant for the “deplatformers”.
Britain has had poor Cabinet ministers in past history, both recent and not so recent, but has it ever had a Cabinet comprising such a collection of clowns, idiots, and ridiculous little monkeys (few of whom are even English) as over the past decade? I think not.
Idiotic people such as tweeter “@Corazzz” have been so brainwashed that all one can do is laugh at them. As a matter of fact, I saw an old woman filling up her car a couple of days ago, alone in the car yet wearing a disposable facemask (which is not only all but useless but also, having been —probably— used multiple times, must be replete with bacteria of all sorts).
The old woman slowly filled up her car, still wearing that mask, then went into the kiosk to pay! You would think that, if she were that afraid of picking up the dreaded virus, she would have (as was possible) paid at the pump. “Against stupidity, the Gods themselves struggle in vain” [Schiller, die Jungfrau von Orleans].
The old woman then drove away, still alone in her car, and still wearing her miniature security blanket…I mean facemask.
The transnational conspiracy is now hysterically pulling out all the stops to destroy European race and culture, as the year 2022 approaches. Every TV ad in the UK now has blacks and browns and the mixed-race in it, often outnumbering white actors; the same is true of every TV drama.
In fact, I happened to see an ad on TV today for toys. No actors, just animated puppets or cartoons of some kind, and there were more non-whites than whites. This is not “reflecting the diversity of the UK”, as the weasels are wont to claim. The UK is still over 80% white, and even England is about 80% white. No, these ads and dramas are no reflection of reality, but are social engineering aimed at creating a new or different reality… propaganda aimed mainly at young children, so that they accept as normal a UK where the majority will be non-white (black, or brown, or mixed-race). Evil. All part of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
[Jeremy Lee was born as Jeremy William Dominic Lee. He died on April 28, 2012 in Ravensbourne, Queensland, Australia].
Explanatory word
I should add a word as to why I repost rather many things, mostly from Twitter. The reason is that I post what I can while I can. “One human soul is a big audience”.
It is clear that Twitter and other online fora are being slowly squeezed. First the most influential Twitter accounts (I mean of significance, not those of “One Direction”, or this or that System comedian) are removed (as mine was, in 2018, after the usual pack of Jews cobbled together a faked-up complaint). David Icke, Katie Hopkins, Alison Chabloz, to name only a few, have already been removed. Nick Kollerstrom was removed only last week, after a complaint from the Jewish “CST” strongarm and snooping org.
After the most prominent are removed, any others supporting European race, culture, and values.
How long can blogs such as mine survive? Maybe a year or two. The “usual suspects” are already bearing down on the Online Harms Bill (eg the recent CST demand for, in effect, in reality, anonymity for Jew Zionist trolls but not for anyone else).
I do not expect a blog such as mine to be available for more than a few years. 2023, perhaps 2024. Not much longer.
Once all (meaningful) freedom of expression is shut down, there is effectively a ZOG/NWO police state in existence; in existence and openly at war with us.
Late tweets
JUST IN — Greece announces unvaccinated will be banned from all indoor venues, such as cinemas, theatres, and gyms They will no longer be able to access indoor venues by presenting a negative Covid test result.
A key part of the antiwhite agenda is normalising white women being with black men. Here's a tiny but very creepy sample of the propaganda. pic.twitter.com/CISh6yGKO9
One of the lessons of the past 18 months or so is that public health is not something that can be left to the public health “professionals” and “experts”…there are wider questions of policy and of public safety involved.
The domiciliary care sector, which looks after people within their own homes, is headed towards catastrophe if staff do not sign up for the Covid-19 jab, leading figures in the sector have warned.https://t.co/9MJYzGm8kK
Don’t blame the care workers! It is the Government of idiots, and Cabinet of clowns, that must take any blame. Why should poorly-paid care workers take the risk of an experimental supposed vaccine, which in any case seems to be of little efficacy? Down with this biosecurity police-state-ism!
Over the last 2 years everything to do with Covid that was called a conspiracy theory has come to pass. Now that everyone needs a "booster" there is no one who will be fully vaxxed. The totalitarian state of Britain is a frightening place to be at the moment.
Well…thus we see how it was that once-mighty Deutsche Bank ran into the sand— because ridiculous little monkeys like Sajid Javid were (incredibly) promoted to board level.
Looks as though Javid is well out of his depth (again).
It's very important that we find out what these people are dying from, as it's not covid. You'll find this interesting @OwenJones84 👍 https://t.co/gceUmf1WCV
It's a script. Look at the WEF global leaders alumni and you'll find they're in the positions of royalty, govt, media, tech, Hollywood and medical establishment. Even down to TV medical "experts". https://t.co/b6faIjfT7U
…and how long before other, non-medical criteria come in as reasons to be forbidden from going out of the house, or accessing goods and services? How long before “racism”, “anti-Semitism” etc are given as reasons to be effectively stripped of the most basic civil rights? At that point, we shall not be far from an actual civil or social war— a real one.
Already we see even well-known people expelled from Twitter and other fora for the reasons given above, or “cancelled” and so unable to appear on TV or radio, in newspapers, or to be on the faculties of universities. The Jews or, perhaps more accurately, Jewish lobby, are behind much, though not all, of the repression now taking place.
Afternoon music
[David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps]
[Levitan, the Vladimirka (road)]
[Cloisters, New York]
More tweets
Released from a French prison after serving 5 years. Jumps into a dinghy yesterday morning, living in an English hotel same day. Along with the other 1,000 that arrived at lunchtime.@pritipatelpic.twitter.com/e1GgXHtc0A
Controlled-opposition kingpin Farage is right, but agonizing about it leads nowhere. Only a social-national movement, going far beyond UKIP, Brexit Party, Reform Party etc, can even start to deal with what needs to be done.
That was the angriest exchange I've ever seen between a PM and a Speaker. When Cameron was slapped down by Bercow Cameron accepted the ruling but Johnson respects no rules or authority whatsoever. #PMQs#PoliticsLive
The House of Commons shows itself incapable of controlling an illegitimate Prime Minister.
More music
A rarely-seen piece of Stalinist propaganda from the 1940s. Of course, in black-and-white terms, “the wrong side” (or sides) won the war against the German Reich (though there were rights and wrongs on both sides), but we have to accept history for what it is, then move on from there…
[Berlin 1945, outside Reichskanzlei]
Late tweets
Transgender athletes should not have to lower testosterone to compete, IOC says as it changes guidelines https://t.co/kyFkmPkuM8
This is truly absurd, and over time will make it difficult, or impossible, for (real) women to compete successfully. Not that I am very interested in sports anyway, but I oppose the social absurdity, a social tsunami, which is starting to knock flat our society and destroy it.
Maybe the answer to the above nonsense is to abolish all categories based on sex; everyone competes together. Then both women and “transpeople” will say it unfair, because most competitions would then be won by men…
After negotiations with officials our petition for the govt to take decisive action to stop illegal immigration & to protect the British people has finally been published
We must get it to 100k signatures to make it count so please sign it & share it https://t.co/vfG3iBqPr6
— LittleBoats 🇬🇧NI🏴🏴En (@LittleBoats2020) November 16, 2021
Petitions are all very well, writing to MPs is OK (I suppose), same with writing letters to msm or other news outlets, or tweeting, or (yes) blogging, but at the end of the day, only boots on the ground will make any significant, let alone decisive, difference.
Controlled-opposition kingpin Farage is OK having a go at minor (if violent) anti-British (indeed, anti-European) Islamists and other nuisances, who have little influence or power, but I have never seen him criticize the Jew-Zionists who effectively control the UK’s msm. Many of them hate us, our history, our people, with a passion…
A Covid test firm plans to sell swabs containing customers' DNA.
Julia: "This company has my daughter's DNA because she was legally required to get this test. They didn't ask my permission and now they are going to sell her DNA. It's an outrage."@JuliaHB1 | @madeleine_st0nepic.twitter.com/ir0iMUiiEr
Note how the transnational conspiracy (NWO/ZOG) tends to promote those who have little loyalty or real connection to any tradition or heritage. Sajid Javid, Pakistani by origin, though born in the UK. A kind of ex-Muslim apostate, who had so little cultural “anchoring” that he espoused (and still does) the self-seeking nonsense written by the Jewess who called herself Ayn Rand. Javid is not Muslim, not Christian, and of course not Jewish, despite his near-worship of the Jews and Israel.
Take another case: David Cameron-Levita, his forbears a mixture of wealthy and notionally “aristocratic” persons, and Jewish bankers who were keen to apply British “upper class” camouflage by sending their offspring to Eton and Oxford, and by joining White’s (club). Where is his real racial-cultural heritage? Another part-Jew is “George” Osborne. In fact the Cameron-Levita government was full of similar examples.
Take yet another case: Priti Patel. Another worshipper of the Jews and Israel (and, it goes without saying, money). Her Indian heritage seems to mean little to her (in any case, her parents were remote from India itself, having been born in or living in Uganda before coming to the UK). What are her beliefs, her culture? Like Javid, vague, almost non-existent.
Again, Priti Patel worships the Jews and Israel, and meets secretly with their representatives, though also sometimes openly. Indeed, only today she was at a lunch hosted by the sinister Jewish strongarm and snooping organization called “Community Security Trust” or “CST”:
CST hosts first in-person Business Lunch with the Rt Hon Priti Patel MPhttps://t.co/vvElm0RdqM
The “CST” is engaged in a continual battle against free speech. Only a week or so ago, they were crowing about having “deplatformed” (from Twitter) the thinker Nick Kollerstrom [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Kollerstrom].
CST welcomes @Twitter’s decision to suspend Holocaust denier and conspiracist Nick Kollerstrom’s account following our complaint. There should be no place for antisemitic conspiracies and Holocaust denial online.
The present evil and yet (?) chaotic government is full of similar types as noted.
Look at “Boris” himself. Even his name is a self-invention. A part-Jew, but also part-Levantine by origin, born in New York City, and brought up largely in the USA and Belgium, despite attending Eton and then Oxford.
“Boris” had an American upbringing, in part, and was described in his Oxford college’s yearbook as “American”; he even had a U.S. passport until 2019!
This all fits in with the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: destruction of the white European race and culture, and its replacement by a bastardized —and basically negrified, or black/brown— mixture of peoples (and a correspondingly-similar cultural mix); and the whole lot to be ruled by Jews and part-Jews.
The above is yet another “conspiracy theory” which just happens to be happening all around us. You only have to open your eyes to see it.
I guess it's just the same sort of coincidence as the heart problems in so many young men. Completely inexplicable, after all, it's not like they've all had some sort of experimental medical technology or anything like that.https://t.co/Nazx7W5uvv
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ― George Washington #FreeSpeechpic.twitter.com/1sdN4AebMA
“The charity that employs Carrie Johnson paid more than £150,000 to its chairman’s wife for interior design services last year.
The figure paid by the Aspinall Foundation equates to ten per cent of all donations received from public and corporate donors in 2020.
The organisation and its sister charity the Howletts Wild Animal Trust are already being investigated by the Charity Commission over their spending and financial management.”
The Daily Mail report triggers thoughts about several different areas: the present rotten government, headed by part-Jew, part-Levantine chancer, “Boris” Johnson and his Cabinet of clowns; the whole area of charities and “good causes”; and a few personal reminiscences.
Aspinall’s mother was later married to Sir George Osborne [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Francis_Osborne,_16th_Baronet], one of their 3 children being Sir Peter Osborne, who married a Hungarian-Jewish woman, that couple then having 4 children, one of whom is Gideon “George” Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer under David Cameron-Levita.
In other words, George Osborne is related to the present head of the Aspinall Foundation, Damian Aspinall (son of John Aspinall).
Around 1995, when I still lived in Little Venice, West London, I was acquainted with a lady of middle age called…well, let’s just call her by my nickname for her, “Mouse” (probably now-deceased). That lady had known John Aspinall’s brother or rather (I think) half-brother, rather well, and had stayed at the country house in Kent which also houses the zoo:
Over drinks at “the Bunker”, our name for the cellar bar at the Colonnade Hotel in Little Venice, I was told Mouse’s assessment of John Aspinall: ruthless, someone who much preferred animals to people, and who regarded the death of keepers at the zoo (five of whom were killed by the animals) as not very important; collateral damage, if you like.
[Colonnade Hotel, London W.9. “The Bunker” was under the garden area shown]
Apparently, in his early days as an illegal or near-legal gaming operator, in the 1950s, Aspinall had more than once had to ask his wife for her jewellery, to cover outstanding gaming debts.
By 1960, though, Aspinall’s activities had brought fortune, if not always a good name.
The present Aspinall, Damian Aspinall, son of John, is extremely wealthy, and his wealth is said to have come from real estate operations unconnected, originally, with gambling as such: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Aspinall.
Whatever may be said about the way in which the Aspinall Foundation is said to be run, the work it has done with wild animals is said to have been very good, and in some respects pioneering.
Judging from what I have both read and been told, it seems that both Aspinall father and Aspinall son could say, “I did it my way“…
What about charities generally? There has been much criticism over the years of the loose oversight exercised by the Charity Commission.
Charity was originally a matter for the individual or the (Roman Catholic) Church. Taxation scarcely came into the matter. Once England started to become a more secular society, in Tudor times, legislation had to regulate what was or was not a “charitable” activity. The Statute of Elizabeth [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_Uses_Act_1601] set down a list of “charitable” activities.
The Statute of Elizabeth was repealed in the 19thC, but the list of what is considered charitable still largely stands, clarified (or not) by case law precedent.
That is why, for example, the National Lottery of the UK has a fund not for “charity” but for “good causes”, a far wider ambit.
Many of the public concerns around charities have been caused by the way in which the larger charities soliciting money from the public pay their top-level employees. For many, it was shocking to learn that the husband of assassinated MP, Jo Cox, one Brendan Cox, was not only a sex pest and rapist or near-rapist [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5404241/Jo-Coxs-husband-admits-sex-pest-resigns.html] but was being paid something like £200,000 by the charity Save the Children, which churns out tearjerk TV ads and so on, which ads solicit donations and bequests from kind-hearted members of the public.
There seems to be no good reason why such high salaries are paid. Brendan Cox, for example, had a rather modest academic and work background: see https://uk.linkedin.com/in/brendan-cox-433b364.
I was myself shocked to learn, many years ago, that the (effectively) fraudulent MP and expenses cheat, Derek Conway [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Conway], after he was first removed from Parliament in 1997, had not only been appointed as Chief Executive of the Cats’ Protection League [now Cats’ Protection], but also been paid, if memory serves, something like £150,000 a year, a not inconsiderable sum in the 1990s. I favour that charity, which like many others has collecting tins here and there, but some of these executives, in the British Army phrase, really “tear the arse out of” their appointments.
This is very negative to the image of all charities, and leads to public distrust, thus hampering the valuable work that so many charities do.
No-one expects executives of large charitable organizations to work for nothing, or for peanuts, but there is a case, as elsewhere in our society, for decent measure.
It may be time to look again at what should constitute a charity, and to regulate the big charities, especially, more closely.
Surprised this morning when watching a few minutes of BBC TV News (something I rarely bother with these days), and to hear the BBC reporter say that the (presumed) terrorist bomber in Liverpool had “sadly” died. What?!
No need, I think, for me to expand on my point.
Covid nonsense
While watching some news on TV briefly, also saw and heard that absurd van Tam person talking (seemingly endlessly) about “Covid” statistics. Something about how one group of people in one area had extremely high rates of hospitalization, “7.1% per 100,000 people“!
[7.1 or 7.1%?]
So, in a town such as Reading, of over 200,000 inhabitants, about 15 people might be hospitalized over the period mentioned (and almost all recover after a few days or a week or so).
[So either 15 people or 15,000 people! The latter would surely be absurd, nicht wahr?].
This is a public health problem that is nowhere near existential. Scrap all “measures”, fake laws, “rules” and all but mild advice.
The bigger the lies the bigger the desperation and in the last few days we've had some whoppers.
In a week that saw doctors caught lying on numerous occasions we also saw 60,000 NHS workers given until April 2022 to get jabbed or get to the job centre. pic.twitter.com/EVGkB4fQPr
By the way if you are one of the people who willfully misinterprets critics of vaccine mandates or Covid passes as “antivaxxers” – ie traitors to a broader cause – you’re doing what every passive enabler of totalitarianism has done before you and it won’t end well.
This will only end when people, in numbers, not only start to say “NO!” but also start to punish the “authorities”, i.e. the System, and the “facilitators” of tyranny.
If even 10,000 Austrians were to go to the centre of Vienna, each armed with a mallet or hammer, and then were to break as many shop windows, and windows of government and police offices, as possible before being captured, that would make history. 10,000 freedom fighters, each breaking (say) 20 windows. 200,000 windows! Wien— Freiheit! Wien— das ist’s!!
Not that Austrians breaking windows will be sufficient, but it would be a start…
Late tweets
The change of blue of the flags adorning the Elysée Palace was first made a year ago but went largely unnoticed.
Previously, the shade was lighter to match the blue of the EU flag as decided by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1976.
I think that I have only read one or two of his books, long ago, in the 1970s. He sold 140 million copies altogether. When I visited Rhodesia in 1977, I found that the only large (perhaps even, the only) bookshop in Salisbury (now Harare) sold few books from Europe or North America (because of the anti-Rhodesia sanctions imposed, and because of shortage of foreign currency). South African or locally-published books about how to look after your horse, dog, even tropical fish, seemed to be the main stock-in-trade. Those, and Wilbur Smith.
Smith’s huge success as author did not translate well onto film, judging by the two films seen by me (Gold, and Shout at the Devil). Some have thought that the film The Wild Geese was based on a book by Smith, but that is not so [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Geese].
Some writers, some characters, do not translate well onto film, or are hard to film credibly. In my opinion, Raffles has never been brought to life successfully. The same could be said of Chesterton’s Father Brown stories.
One writer usually poorly-represented in the films of his books was Alistair Maclean; at least eleven of whose books were filmed. The best I have seen is probably Where Eagles Dare, though Ice Station Zebra is also not too bad. Some of the films based on Alistair Maclean books are very poor indeed, though, e.g. When Eight Bells Toll [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Eight_Bells_Toll_(film)].
Even much-filmed John le Carre has often not translated well onto screen. The BBC series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was incomparable, its sequel, Smiley’s People, also very good (and another mini-series, A Perfect Spy, was not bad, lifted by the stellar performance of Peter Egan); le Carre’s stuff is better in such series format, hard to squeeze into the couple of hours of a feature film.
It may be that the best feature film adaptation of le Carre was the black and white The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, with Richard Burton:
I myself rarely read any kind of fiction now; when young, I did. In the adventure genre, my favourite was Hammond Innes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammond_Innes]; rather forgotten now, I suppose. Four of his books were filmed, but (in my view) only one quite well, The White South, which was filmed as Hell Below Zero; the film contains historically-valuable, though unpleasant, footage of actual Antarctic whaling.
My favourite Hammond Innes book is The Strange Land, but it was never filmed.
Some writers’ books, which you would think would have made exciting films, never were filmed. Desmond Bagley [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Bagley] comes to mind. Adventure in tropical or other wild parts of the world: espionage, crime, treasure-hunting. I have only read a couple of his books. I recall reading The Vivero Letter about 50 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vivero_Letter_(novel).
[Update, 14 November 2022: since writing the above, I have become aware that The Vivero Letterwas later, much later, filmed— in 1998, thirty years after the publication of the book. It seems that two of Bagley’s other books were also filmed, in all three cases unsuccessfully as far as fame is concerned— I had never heard of the films].
Desmond Bagley, like Hammond Innes, can create a credible and quite gripping world out of strange and unusual events.
Another author whose work went largely but not entirely unfilmed was Elleston Trevor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elleston_Trevor. His spy story The Berlin Memorandum, written under the nom de plume “Adam Hall”, was filmed as The Quiller Memorandum, though not very credibly, in my opinion. Somewhat in the Len Deighton area [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Deighton].
Trevor is arguably better known as the writer of the book The Flight of the Phoenix, filmed twice. As usual, the earlier film was the better by far.
Len Deighton himself (he is still around, presently aged 92) has had a number (I think three) of his early books filmed, and quite successfully, perhaps (?) because they are not as reflective and “psychological” as those of le Carre and some others. The IPCRESS File,Funeral in Berlin, Billion Dollar Brain. Indeed, his own later work is more complex.
[title sequence from Billion Dollar Brain; directed by Ken Russell; music by Richard Rodney Bennett]
Come on you 77 trolls keep going I’ve only blocked 100 so far & I’m enjoying sorting wheat from chaff on my posts. Respectfully yours, the stupid old ugly hag with bad teeth, bad hair, fake profile & absolutely no sense of humour 🤷♀️
More charming DMs lol 😂. Anyone might have thought I’d criticised Remembrance Day or something rather than Tesco! These personal hate messages are contrary to @Twitter policies but it’s up to them if they want to do something about it; I’ve not got the time for them tbh 😂 pic.twitter.com/64rhU3kZZc
This kind of “pile-on” is typical of Twitter, of course. Not that Twitter is of any real importance now. Most of the really interesting accounts have been “suspended” (expelled), including mine!
My own Twitter account was removed in 2018 after a big effort by a pack of Jew extremists. Now we see almost any “dissident” account worth looking at removed. The better-known names include David Icke, Mark Collett, Laura Towler, Alison Chabloz, Katie Hopkins, the London Forum. Many others.
The purge on Twitter continues: only a week ago, the account of thinker Nick Kollerstrom was removed. Why? Usual (((suspects))), of course…
I repost tweets on the blog as a quick and easy way of making points or illustrating matters, but in fact Twitter has little real political influence. I have blogged in the past about this. I am always seeing accounts with, supposedly, thousands of “followers” yet only a handful of “likes” or retweets on any given tweet. Some accounts do get hundreds and even thousands of likes/retweets, but then you look at the profile and find that those accounts (mostly of the “famous”) have hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of Twitter followers.
As I have blogged previously, it says much about the self-describing “Left” that their big idea is to “deplatform” this or that person or organization. Nothing to say about society or how to form a better one; just negativity. That is why such people rarely get anywhere politically. Their lives revolve around Twitter. Many of the Zionist Jew cabal on Twitter are like that. They even have a word for themselves, “J-Twitter”.
As for the campaign of propaganda (not only “Covid” passports etc but the whole racemixing campaign), I was alerting the people to that years ago. Now, many are waking up.
However, that propaganda campaign is not aimed at people like me (65-y-o), nor indeed at those in their fifties or forties, nor even at those in their thirties and twenties. This is propaganda, and subliminal propaganda, aimed mainly at children, whose critical faculties are at an early stage of development.
The idea is to normalize the multikulti society, the society composed of various and very different races and ethnic groups, which society will then form the mixed-race mass promoted by Coudenhove-Kalergi.
The ignorance of the police about the very laws they are supposed to enforce is one of the most alarming things today. They often seem to have a completely wrong idea about what the law actually is. This became apparent during the stupid “lockdown” shutdown.
After the earlier discussion of writers, books, films, and film music, here is the full suite from Billion Dollar Brain, music written by Richard Rodney Bennett [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rodney_Bennett]
Actually, I love donkeys, but not those carrying the rank of general officer.
Imagine a real war between NATO (i.e. the USA, i.e., in reality, NWO/ZOG) and Russia. It would quite likely turn nuclear. Britain is still the USA’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier” in the words, I believe of Roosevelt. You could say goodbye to the UK and most of the British people, were the UK to be attacked; we are just too small, geographically, and have too many people (and too many key targets) in far too small a space. Britain could do a lot of damage to Russia, but not destroy Russia. Russia, however, could destroy the UK, in effect.
Why is Britain still being the poodle of the American NWO cabals? It’s madness. Better to join with Russia, against both NWO/ZOG and, if necessary, China, and certainly against both Zionism and Islamism.
More tweets
Andrew Marr glossing over the Jennifer Arcuri story just now as "salacious" and "nothing really substantial."
It's a first-person account of how Boris Johnson used his office to financially benefit his lover, against official advice. It's corruption #marrhttps://t.co/MfDOFR5v9f
These veterans overwhelmingly report the same things – not getting the level of payment they need and then facing lengthy and complex battles to get an increase
Payments to injured veterans fall into two camps – war pensions and the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) pic.twitter.com/8TVSCA4EMN
The royal helicopter has just gone over Kensington Gardens twice, to collect Prince Charles and take him off to Highgrove, or wherever he skulks gibbering about carbon dioxide. Powered by unicorn farts, no doubt.
— Sozzinski (Person without a cervix) (@Sozzinski) November 14, 2021
Denison’s Island. I have been there, in 1967, aged 10, with my school class. There was no-one else there at the time except the custodians. Strange place, quite small inside (the walls are over 12 ft thick in places), with a small area of lawn and a few old cannon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Denison. 54 years ago. Hard to believe.
The same attitudes appeared in The Times which said the UK was a Christian country not a vengeful one – implying that hoping that perhaps there might be some form of justice for genocide is basically a kind of distasteful Old Testament thing.
The constant and seemingly neverending push for vengeance (not “justice”) against Germany and German people by the international Jew-Zionist lobby is, quite exactly, “a kind of distasteful Old Testament thing“, akin to the behaviour exhibited by the Israelites thousands of years ago.
For true European people, the idea of carrying on persecution of individuals, or a state, or country, for decades or even hundreds of years (will the Zionists stop whining and/or bullying in 2045?), for alleged crimes which are not continuing, is indeed distasteful.
The Japanese, or many of them, treated Allied prisoners abominably during WW2. We, meaning the British, after the war ended, hanged or shot a relatively few and clearly proven war criminals, persons who had cruelly or brutally transgressed the accepted rules of war. The rest were released.
Now, nearly 80 years later, we do not seek out Japanese who were 18-y-o typists or even sentries, and put them on trial in a grotesque parody of courtroom “justice”, which is actually (in the case of of 90 or 100 year old SS men or German female ex-typists) a deliberately-contrived ordeal because of the defendants’ age and medical condition.
Likewise, no-one has suggested that those who, at age 18 or 16 were typists or security guards at, say, Los Alamos, should be tried for “facilitating” mass murder of Japanese civilians at Hiroshima. That would be not only unjust but, as said, grotesque.
The same could be said of British people who worked as typists or teenage Home Guard personnel etc at RAF bases from where bombers left to devastate the cities of the Reich in 1941-45, killing between 600,000-800,000 people, mostly civilians, mostly women and children.
The German bombings of the UK killed far fewer, 60,000 or so, but that was still devastation on a wide scale; yet the British do not constantly whine about it now, and did not at the time, or immediately after 1945.
The attitude of many Jews, particularly the hardcore Zionists, is at odds with the culture of Europeans, including British. So why the trials? Because the present German state is still, in a sense, “occupied”…
1,000 one day, 700 the next, even 1,200 on one day last week. This is an invasion. The fact that it consists of migrant-invaders in rubber boats, mostly unarmed, is irrelevant.
It will be recalled by some, perhaps older readers, that, when King Hassan of Morocco decided to take over the mineral-rich region of Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara), he was opposed by Spain, then still ruled by Franco, who however was then at death’s door (d. 20 November 1975).
Hassan cunningly decided that, rather than invade Spanish Sahara in the conventional way, where his troops would be up against the very tough Spanish Foreign Legion [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Legion] and other military elements, he would use what is now sometimes called “soft power”, a “people’s march”, thus pressuring Spain via the UN.
What we now see in the English Channel, as well as elsewhere, both around the UK and in other parts of Europe, is an invasion, presented otherwise by a transnational political and msm conspiracy.
The UK is the target destination for the migrant-invaders. Part of that is the relatively easy help available as soon as they get here (hotel accommodation, food, pocket money of about £50 a week); part of it is because the UK cities are becoming black/brown and are not fully European any more, thus perhaps seeming more welcoming. There again, unofficial (and untaxed) work is widely available for those that want it; for those that don’t, the social welfare system, though cut back in recent years, still provides plenty for people used to living in backward societies.
Whatever.
21 years ago, I went over to Calais for the day, with car, and on a free ticket, to buy booze and cheese, mainly. It was at about that time that concerns about the illegal immigrants started to become louder.
In early evening, I had a drink in a little bar not far from the hotel de ville. I mentioned the immigrants, who even then were becoming apparent in Calais. The bar owner told me, “we are not troubled so much by them. They stay for a few days, a week, then they move on to England“. Need one say more about the French attitude?
A reminder: that was in the year 2000, 21 years ago. The UK authorities were not effectively barring entry then and, 21 years later, still are not…
The key question is how to stop the migration invasion of the UK. Harsh though it is, I can see no choice left but to use brute force, and if that means sinking the invasion fleet in the Channel, so be it.
“In his 1925 book Practical Idealism, Coudenhove-Kalergi envisioned an all-encompassing race of the future made up of “Eurasian–Negroid[s],” replacing “the diversity of peoples” and “[t]oday’s races and classes” with a “diversity of individuals.”[42]
In an interview in the first Pan-European Congress in 1926, he expressed the support of Jews by the Pan-European movement and the benefits to Jews with the elimination of racial hatred...” [Wikipedia].
Well, there you have it, right from the horse’s mouth. European peoples wiped out, replaced by “Eurasian Negroids”, and real diversity of European peoples replaced by a meaningless “diversity” of individuals, all of which individuals to be, ultimately, mixed-race “Eurasian Negroids”. That, and society ruled by the Jewish element.
You could not describe more succinctly what is now developing in the UK, France, and elsewhere. Not only in Europe, but also in the former offshoots of Europe: Australia, USA, even New Zealand.
I would urge as many readers as can to send this blog post, or the information above, to those unaware of the true situation. Enlightenment as to all of the above is still eluding the broad mass of people in the UK, though the number understanding what is going on is slowly growing.
As for dealing with the conspirators themselves, I hold my peace for now, in view of Britain’s now very repressive curbs on free speech.
Incidentally, the “readers’ comments” appended to that Daily Mail report are telling: many of those commenting plainly despise both/all System parties, and want to vote for a party which does not yet exist.
“The van was found in Park Royal“, according to other reports. I believe that there is a large (so-called) “traveller” encampment or fixed site in that area.
One opinion poll now puts pathetic Starmer-“Labour” ahead of Boris-idiot’s misnamed “Conservatives”, and by several points. Is that an outlier? We shall see. I have blogged for some time that it comes down to whether the sheer ineptitude and lack of ability of “Boris” and his truly absurd Cabinet of clowns, together with their corruption, can outpace the equally unfit for office “Labour” label.
They call it “democratic choice”, but it is nothing more than a scam, really. Oh, and guess which element is embedded in both System parties? Yes, that’s right— “them” (((them))).
A reference both to the present Israeli Ambassador’s spoken and written view that marriage between Jews and non-Jews is “a problem” that should be addressed, and to the fact that Keir Starmer is married to a Jewish woman (and their offspring are being brought up as if full-Jew, complete with Jewish religious holidays etc).
The fact is that the puppets of Jewish and Israeli power, people such as Keir Starmer, Boris Johnson etc, have to take any insults that the Jews throw at them, because they are slaves or curs of that Jewish-Israel lobby. “Boris” did it after Shai Masot, from the Israeli Embassy, called him “an idiot”. “Boris”, in Parliament, later, just laughed off the Jew’s insult, or tried to…
Jonathan Djanogly MP 'is paid nearly £1,000 an hour by firm that benefits from NHS Covid contracts' | Daily Mail https://t.co/bErWWUIqNg
Well, this week I well and truly trounced political journalist John Rentoul. Perhaps, in the popular expression, he should get out more! I scored 10/10, the best I have done in these quizzes (I may have scored 10/10 once or twice before; cannot remember).
Very true. Francis Bacon (the Tudor/Stuart philosopher, not the painter) examined this question in one of his works, I seem to recall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon.
The number of new daily cases reported in England has been lower than a week earlier for 18 successive days, the longest sequence of week-on-week declines since February when the tight lockdown restrictions contributed to a decline for 42 days in a row https://t.co/puT64Bu3Ilpic.twitter.com/e1su4y0SG2
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ― George Washington #FreeSpeechpic.twitter.com/1sdN4AebMA
London. Pre mass immigration, Sadiq Khan, bad architecture, the Ulez zone, congestion charges, terrorism and the complete erosion of National pride. We need to go back. https://t.co/yrTYQe5yGT
“Hampshire Afghan refugees will be offered private rentals and new laptops and smartphones
Southampton City Council said housing stock is drying up.
Hampshire charity Community First is also asking for laptop, smartphone, and tablet donations for evacuated Afghan families….The charity asked for donations to be “new, nearly new, or used devices that are in good condition” (!). [HampshireLive]
Words fail me.
Meanwhile, many British people are homeless, and now more will be, because traitors in central and local government have given away limited housing stock to unwanted and backward invaders.
Yes, the Conservative Party (particularly part-Jap sadist Iain Dunce Duncan Smith) made a bad social welfare system far more cruel, but never forget that it was the Labour Party under Blair and (especially) Gordon Brown that introduced lying “assessments”, “sanction” regimes, ATOS etc— and some of those responsible are still “Labour” MPs; Stephen Timms, for one.
Anyone wanting to get rid of the present “Conservative” regime, and thinking that the “Labour” Party is the answer, think again.
🏡 The average U.S. home was 1,700 square feet in 1980, by 2015 it was 2,000 square feet, even though the number of people in the average household shrank https://t.co/mfT9ZI9sgzpic.twitter.com/M1DnsOSDAo
[Churchill, toting an “iconic” Thompson submachinegun with 50-round drum magazine while visiting coastal defences at Hartlepool in 1940]
“Stay behind” units in 1940: an historical note
The Second World War, with its complexities, nuances, twists and turns, and ideological subtleties, is endlessly fascinating. I happened to see a local newspaper story about part of Churchill’s idea of how to “fight on the beaches, fight on the landing-grounds” etc.
Churchill, though a genuinely world-historical figure, unlike Boris Johnson (who tries to ape his style and manner), does have a few characteristics in common with his latter-day copier. One is that he was largely ineffective as head of government when given his head; also, he was a person with, often, very silly ideas. Churchill was no good as a strategist; as for tactics, his ideas were really straight out of boys’ comic books.
The Norway operation in 1940; the British Expeditionary Force in France, also in 1940 (my own grandfather was on the Dunkirk beaches), the idea of invading France via the Cote-d’Azur in 1944, the Fall of France, the Fall of Greece (including Crete), and so on, give some idea of Churchill’s lack of strategic nous.
Stay-behind units were organized, with the idea that they might not last more than 12 days after any German “reverse D-Day”.
It was presumed that German invasion forces would strike initially at the London area:
“Operation Sealion, Hitler’s plan to invade across the Channel, almost saw the German 6th Army land at Lyme Regis in 1940 and push inland to Bristol and Gloucester.
Meanwhile the 9th and 16th Armies were to attack from Portsmouth to Dover, sweeping northwards to capture London and East Anglia, Britain’s breadbasket.” [DorsetLive].
Despite the chilling ruthlessness of their remit, the “Auxiliary Units” had a delightfully Wodehousian aspect:
“Grouped into “operational patrols” of four to eight men, AU members needed excellent local knowledge – making gamekeepers and poachers ideal candidates.
But known members of local patrols include bakers, carpenters, car salesmen, dairy farmers, electricians, fishmongers, miners and train drivers.
“The staff of Charborough Park – a country house estate now belonging to South Dorset MP Richard Drax – were also formed into an AU patrol.
The chauffeurs, foresters, gamekeeper and gardener of Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, Mr Drax’s grandfather, moonlighted as would-be saboteurs and assassins.” [DorsetLive].
One almost expects Sir Roderick Spode (a parody of Sir Oswald Mosley) to make an appearance, with a slight ideological twist, perhaps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_Spode.
There were, it seems, about 6,500 volunteers in such “stay behind” units, most of whom were organized around the southern and eastern coasts of England.
As for the conventional forces defending, “The Germans put the British defences at 320,000 men, with machine gun nests positioned 300 yards from the coastline, artillery guns 1,000 yards inland and another line of artillery and machine gun nests 3,000 yards back.
A line of more than 600 armoured cars and tanks were said to have been positioned two miles inland and a reserve of 50,000 men a further two miles back.” [The Argus].
In fact, Operation Sealion was not a ready to roll plan such as had been Fall Gelb, “Case Yellow” (or “Operation Yellow”), the plan for the invasion of France [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manstein_Plan]. Sealion was called Unternehmen Seelöwe, not “Fall Seelöwe“.
My German is poorer than it should be (bearing in mind that I did take German at school, and I did also have a couple of crash courses later, when I was in my twenties), but the difference in designation seems to be that one plan was ready-to-go, while the other was somewhere between that and a contingency plan.
It is known that Hitler wanted Britain, and the British Empire, as an ally against the expansionism of both the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. His preference in 1940 was for an armistice, not for conquest by invasion.
Apart from Hitler’s preference for alliance, there were operational reasons why Sealion never proceeded: lack of total air superiority was one, but another perhaps more important was the lack of carrying capacity by sea of the German navy. There were not enough barges to carry the armies required, and not enough defence for those barges.
If, however, the invasion had happened, “[the Auxiliary Units]…would disappear to their OB, wait for the Germans to go over the top of them and attack the rear...”
“Patrols would attack bridges, convoys, fuel dumps and so on, breaking the supply chain and holding up the advance of the blitzkrieg, giving the regular army time to regroup and counterattack.”
“Equipped with suppressed sniper’s rifles, the fighters would also be expected to assassinate anyone who might expose their underground operations.
“Patrols would take out collaborators as well as local policemen and intelligence officers – innocent men, killed just for knowing their identities…”
“Anyone who stumbled across their OB would also be killed. And if a patrol member was injured and couldn’t get back the OB, they were obligated to shoot him...”
“Their life expectancy was just 12 short days – with orders to kill each other and themselves if capture by the enemy seemed imminent.” [DorsetLive]
There were, then, two underlying assumptions or, better said, hopes, on the part of the Auxiliary Units: the first was that the units would survive for 12-14 days; the second was that the main British forces would be able to mount a successful counterattack.
As to whether the stay-behind fighters could survive for 14 days, my assessment is that they could do so easily if they did nothing or very little; once they started to shoot people and blow things up, it would be a different story.
The Germans might not have been able to do much to repress any stay-behind activity in the first confused days following invasion, but once those early days had passed, the Feldgendarmerie and SS would rather rapidly have started to arrest or kill suspects.
It is remarkable that the British plans included the assassination, on a default basis, of British police and Army personnel, or local residents, who knew of their existence! That might soon have backfired, with other such people helping the Germans to eliminate such ruthless persons hiding in their neighbourhoods. We shall never know. What we can be fairly sure about is that the Auxiliary Units would have had little impact on the eventual result, in big-picture terms.
As for the Auxiliary Units as the basis for a possible “British Resistance”, impossible. Limited stocks of weaponry and ammunition, no help from external sources, and the German security grip tightening steadily.
Could British home forces have defeated a German invasion force, had it landed in the numbers suggested? Doubtful. For one thing, the projected German force was to have been 600,000 after a few days; the defending forces would have numbered under 400,000.
Secondly, the quality of German tanks, light weapons etc outmatched the British; the same was true of the fitness of German troops. Red Cross reports of the period (from France) noted that British soldiers captured were often undernourished, stunted, with poor teeth and poor fitness, a result of the social conditions prevalent in the UK in the 1920s and 1930s. The German prisoners taken by the British were found to be, almost universally, in a good state of health and fitness, the result of, mainly, 7 years of National Socialist government.
Another point is that the German forces will mostly have seen action in Poland or France, whereas the British home forces were mostly without recent battle experience.
It is true that large wargames (a major one took place at Sandhurst in 1974) have generally resulted in German defeat following a 1940 invasion of Britain, but those results were based on destruction of much of the invasion force at sea, and failure to execute the invasion plan with sufficient boldness. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion_(wargame).
History is full of examples of invasions that should have failed, but did not. Alexander’s invasion of the Persian Empire, and William of Normandy’s 1066 invasion of England, are but two. Indeed, Hitler’s own experiences in 1939-41 (Norway, France, Poland, the Soviet Union, Greece, Yugoslavia etc show that boldness can bring victory even in unlikely circumstances. Rommel’s victories in North Africa were usually achieved against the odds.
It can certainly be argued that Hitler should have pressed on in 1940, even in circumstances of high risk. Britain would have quickly folded, and then, under new political leadership, found a new role, with the Empire, as a “dual-rulership” of much of the Earth, in collaboration with the German Reich.
On those premises, huge destruction and misery would have been avoided, both in the 1940s and thereafter. The world would have been a far better place now, had that happened.
As to the results further down the line, had a German invasion succeeded, one has to say that, in some ways, perhaps most ways, Britain itself might have been —80 years on— better for it. There would have been no migration-invasion by blacks and browns, and no Jewish-Zionist exploitation. Services such as the NHS would have been available earlier and better.
Incidentally, a German victory in 1940 would not have meant long-term German occupation, certainly not after a few years, and not necessarily a harsh one. The main aim, for Hitler, would have been disarmament or control of the British Army, navy and air force.
Hitler’s preferred ruler of Britain, we now know, was none other than Lloyd George! The Security Service, MI5, was well aware of this, and monitored him closely.
“Lloyd George was consistently pro-German after 1923,[169] in part due to his growing conviction that Germany had been treated unfairly at Versailles. He supported German demands for territorial concessions and recognition of its “great power” status; he paid much less attention to the security concerns of France, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Belgium.
[170]In a speech in 1933, he warned that if Adolf Hitler were overthrown Communism would replace him in Germany.[171] In August 1934, he insisted Germany could not wage war, and assured European nations that there would be no risk of war during the next ten years.[172]
In September 1936, he visited Germany to talk with Hitler. Hitler said he was pleased to have met “the man who won the war”; Lloyd George was moved, and called Hitler “the greatest living German”.[166]: 247 Lloyd George also visited Germany’s public works programmes and was impressed. On his return to Britain, he wrote an article for the Daily Express praising Hitler and stating: “The Germans have definitely made up their minds never to quarrel with us again.“[166]: 248
He believed Hitler was “the George Washington of Germany”; that he was rearming Germany for defence and not for offensive war; that a war between Germany and the Soviet Union would not happen for at least ten years; that Hitler admired the British and wanted their friendship but that there was no British leadership to exploit this.” [Wikipedia].
Well, in the trite but true expression, “man proposes but God disposes”…
Strange. My memory tells me precisely the reverse, as far as the years up to 2010 are concerned. It is a complex picture, but I recall a country where things were OK (speaking very very generally) until 1997 (I was mostly out of the UK that exact year, though), one where a gradual “communitarian” police statism started to develop under Blair and Brown, and one in which (and here I do agree with the tweeter) there was a catastrophic decline in standards from…well, the tweeter says 2010 (i.e. when Cameron-Levita and his clique became the Government), but I think earlier, maybe from 2005 or so (under Gordon Brown).
I recall returning to the UK from France in 2009, having not been here for a year (I had been spending half my time in France since 2005, and was also in a number of other countries during 2005-2010), and noticing the social darkness that had already descended, a year before David Cameron-Levita became Prime Minister.
The (Pakistani?) tweeter is obviously a simplistic Labour Party partisan, who thinks in unsophisticated ways: Labour government 1997— good, Conservative government 2010— bad. If only life were that simple.
Ah. Just looked him up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahir_Shah. Not Pakistani, but Indian Muslim (born in the UK), and a comedian. Britain may be short of housing, energy, water, good jobs, a decent and working society generally, and good government, but we shall never, it seems, run out of comedians. Sometimes there seem to be thousands of them, though few I have seen or heard (on TV or radio) are actually very comic.
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💷 As much as £2.5m of taxpayer money will be used to pay the salaries of MPs’ family members this year.https://t.co/9WZrV4m7QL
£50,000 p.a. for being “office manager” of an office with few if any other employees? Bob Blackman is the Jewish-lobby puppet always acting as mouthpiece for Israel. One of such puppets, anyway.
The journalist, author and social commentator @toadmeister Young, who has championed the importance of freedom of speech has won the 2021 Contrarian Prize #cprizepic.twitter.com/en3cg401kJ
“…championed the importance of freedom of speech“? Not one word from Young about how I was disbarred (wrongfully and actually unlawfully) at the instigation of a certain pack of Jews, some of whom still try (though vainly) to persecute me. Not a word about the persecution and prosecution, by the same pack of Jews, of the singer-satirist Alison Chabloz, who has now actually done time in prison for mocking “holocaust” fakery and hoaxes (fakery almost all done by Jews). Not a word about the fact that Jez Turner, of the now-defunct London Forum, was imprisoned for simply making a speech in Whitehall urging the removal of Jews from the UK.
Now I wonder whether there is a common theme about those cases when Toby Young and the “Free Speech Union” stayed guiltily silent?…
In 2004-2005, for nearly two years, I lived in a farmhouse in the constituency, near Milton Abbot (6 miles NW of Tavistock), having moved out of Polapit Tamar House, 8 miles away across the Tamar in Cornwall (a lovely place then, though since I lived there split up into numerous dwelling units, and currently on sale for £7M).
Geoffrey Cox became MP for Torridge and West Devon in 2005, but at that time I was too busy trying to make a living at the Bar to take any notice of System politics, certainly did not vote, and was unaware, I think, even of the bastard’s name.
We do not have to consider the almost-ubiquitous “holocaust” fakery, hoaxes, or “memories” which simply could not have happened, to understand that human memory often cannot be relied upon. Ignorance of fact can also play a role.
I have just seen a tweet in which the tweeter reminisces about his school trip to the Soviet Union in 1984 or 1985. The trip apparently consisted of a week in Leningrad and a week in Moscow.
Inter alia, the tweeter concerned tweets that he visited the Hermitage (in Leningrad), and walked on the surface of the frozen Volga…
Well, I suppose that the above memory could be accurate, but probably is not. Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) is on the river Neva; Moscow is on the Moscow river or Moskva.
The Volga has a quite convoluted course, and at its nearest to Moscow is only about 85 miles away, at the meeting-place of the Volga with the Moskva-Volga Canal (aka Moscow Canal): https://factsanddetails.com/russia/Places/sub9_9a/entry-7029.html. It goes nowhere very near St. Petersburg.
[Neva river at St. Petersburg (former Leningrad); photo by A. Savin]
[Moscow river in central Moscow]
[Moskva-Volga Canal. Photograph by Ilya Timin]
[river Volga, near Yaroslavl]
[river Oka at Nizhny-Novgorod; photograph by Aleksei Trefilov]
The Moscow river is a tributary of the river Oka, which is in turn a tributary of the river Volga.
The upshot of the above is that the tweet I saw could be accurate but quite likely is not. The tweeter probably walked on the frozen Neva, or perhaps the Moskva, or the Moskva-Volga Canal.
Memory cannot always be relied upon. My own memory is (I have found) better than that of almost anyone else I have ever met, but is still occasionally inaccurate.
Talking of memories of Russia, I saw another tweet today, which contained a picture of the interior of the GUM complex near Red Square. Marble floors, clean, redolent of luxury.
I first saw GUM in 1993, when most of the shop units were empty, the (then white) marble floors containing wide cracks in places, and a snack bar in the area on the ground floor was doing a good trade in open sandwiches (red caviar on buttered white bread); I had one myself, I think.
When I returned to Moscow in 2007, all changed. Tan marble, everything clean and tidy, and the shops were all occupied; they included Thomas Pink, Armani etc. Not very busy, perhaps because it was a weekday and early evening, or perhaps because of the high prices. In 1993, it was also not busy, though then because there was rather little to buy. I believe that, in Soviet days, GUM was always packed, as was the toy shop Detsky Mir (“Children’s World”) next door (with access then from GUM as well as from the street). In 1993, I wandered in from GUM, out of curiosity. The few outsized soft toys were charged at extortionate prices. Oddly, or perhaps not, no children and few adults there.
For a moment, I thought that he must have done something really bad, like identifying a Jew as Jewish, but on reflection, that would have required the participation of the “Anti-Terrorist Command”, I suppose…
Armistice Day (as my maternal grandmother always called it, in the old way), or Remembrance Day (as it is now termed), comes around again. Remembrance not only of the tragedies of war, but also of the sad realization that, at least on the Western Front in Europe, the two world wars need never have happened at all.
Those two wars destroyed the British Empire, which is now, like those wars, merely (and only just) a memory and a legacy.
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The Gov't has no need to attack the Opposition – because it's not an opposition… it actually keeps them in power – & has the same ideology…
In fact, the same (very small) group of sleazy Jew-Zionists are still fairly frequently making malicious complaints about me and/or my blog, but we are still here, still trucking…
The appalling treatment of Israeli Ambassador @TzipiHotovely is completely unacceptable. There is no excuse for this kind of behaviour.
Freedom of speech is a fundamental right and any attempt to silence or intimidate those we disagree with should never be tolerated.
Look at the Israel lobby hypocrites lining up to defend the Israeli Jewess’s “free speech”, when the same MPs (etc) not only failed to defend my free speech rights but lined up to attack me, many of them.
As for the present Israeli Ambassador in London, this is her ideology— Jewish racial supremacy, aka “Zionist supremacism”:
In Israel and elsewhere, Jews see marriage to non-Jews as “a problem“, but in countries like the UK, Jews are in the very forefront of the msm propaganda promoting race-mixing between British people and the blacks and browns etc; also the production of mixed-race children. Strange dichotomy…
“Hotovely defended her decision at the time, saying, “it is important to me to check systems to prevent mixed marriages“…[Wikipedia]
She spoke for 90 minutes, how much more freedom does she need?
Starmer & Evans have banned freedom of speech in CLPs. Mention the ‘Israeli lobby’ or ‘Apartheid state of Israel’ and the ‘Starmeroid stasi’ police report to HQ and ‘You are Warned’. HYPOCRISY by Nancy Starmer Evans.
Menachem Begin, a good example of the type often referred to as “the simulacrum of the human“…
Israel was created partly from those who were terrorists and the sweepings of the gutters of Europe. That might not be the whole story, but it is a significant part of it.
The seed grows into the plant. Israel is a centre for not only state terrorism but also large-scale criminal activity. The seed eventually grows into the plant, and the characteristics of the plant are already there in the seed, in germinal form…
Incidentally, and I cannot state it as a fact, having only seen it on Twitter etc, but if what I have seen online (in the past) is correct, the present Israeli Ambassador once said that Palestinian mothers and babies should be eliminated, in order to prevent Israel (Jews) being outnumbered over time by Arab births.
‘We’re tired, we’re worn out, we’ve just come through a pandemic – give us a break Boris.’
Care home manager Theresa who had to sack six members of staff yesterday calls on Government for extra help as ‘no jab no job’ policy adds more pressure on her team. More @GMBpic.twitter.com/im5xDnnUYg
The Boris-idiot government of clowns is beyond belief. 60,000 care home staff sacked overnight, against a background of existing staff shortages. Many of those employees will go straight onto the dole. Madness. Boris-idiot, Sajid Javid, and the ridiculous “advisers” have much to answer for.
"They are using it as another nudge tactic. They are asking people to take a medical intervention. It's terrifying. The idea in the beginning was just to vaccinate the vulnerable."
If anyone thinks it's just care home staff or NHS workers getting pressurised to get the jab its starting to creep into my industry too, Oil and Gas, a job offer I received last month, double jab required… obviously I declined. pic.twitter.com/GiHAXIuHRR
Spring 2020: Clap for carers! Spring 2022: Sack for carers
Vaccine mandates are wrong in principle. Compounding an NHS and care home staffing crisis when capacity is already shamefully low is downright moronic.https://t.co/0dKhLMD46W
2/. These problems have arisen not because of Covid but because of the institutional response to Covid. Other countries are not suffering the same health system difficulties. But remember the NHS is the envy of the world.
Ian Robert Millard 