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Free speech— by Rowan Atkinson, in 2012
Rowan Atkinson was and remains right, but what he neglected to add, or perhaps did not foresee, speaking as he did in 2012, was that, in the succeeding decade or so, the Israel lobby, aka “Jewish lobby” or “Zionist lobby”, would carry on a relentless “lawfare” campaign to repress free speech in the host country (in this case, the UK). The instances cited above illustrate the point.
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All too typical. I have a similar complaint. A few months ago, some feral untermensch stole one of the wheels of my car while it was parked overnight. The police were useless, and indeed not even responsive in any but the most superficial way, despite a certain amount of evidence having been given to them.
My insurers were at first also useless, almost impossible to contact and, when contacted, unwilling to make the calls back that they promised. I had to threaten them with either a small claim or the Insurance Ombudsman before they usefully responded (once energized by a kick in the rear, they did pay up).
Then, a month or so later, and adding insult to injury, it turned out that not only the same police force but the very same policeman whose team should have been investigating the theft from me as well as other similar incidents in the same neighbourhood, was actually spending at least some of his time snooping on the content of this blog! I can say no more at present (please refer to my statement published in the blog post dated 29 May 2023).
Why does nothing work properly in the UK anymore? Police, insurers, the legal system, the NHS, Parliament, banks, the educational system, you name it.
At some level, I think that it is deliberate; getting British people used to lower standards in all areas. “None dare call it conspiracy”…
Incidentally, I was out in the car rather early today, around 0600 hrs. Just noticing the state of the roads, including a rural A-road. Appalling. Potholes, deep ridges in the tarmac, generally poor surfacing. Jesus Christ! This country is throwing away billions on the Jewish regime in Ukraine, on sheltering and feeding unwanted migrant-invaders, on all manner of stupid and pointless schemes, yet cannot maintain even the road system for the British people. We really do need a social-national revolution.
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Yes, maybe, but there is no real alternative. At present, and since at least 2005, the unemployed, disabled, sick etc have been forced to jump through more and more hoops in order to get a tiny amount of income as well as other help (housing etc). I have been advocating “UBI” or Basic Income for years, and have been thinking about it for decades.
AI, robotics etc mean that (as Marx predicted), eventually the mass of people will have no jobs and so (in most cases) no income tied to those jobs. The result will be that the people without jobs will be unable to buy even necessities. The only solution to that situation will be to free income from being tied to work. Basic Income.
There are dangers associated with Basic Income, as Icke says, but to my mind there is no alternative to such a scheme.
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Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan
Blinken is, of course, himself a Jew, like almost everyone else of significance in the Biden administration.
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Ian Robert Millard 
Good morning Ian! You are 100% right about the need for a SN revolution in the UK, of course. Talking about that, this morning I found the full article written by Lloyd George for the DAILY MAIL in 1936 where he describes his opinion about Hitler and the new Germany. Every time I read this, I become very bitter. The two most advanced nations and racially healthiest peoples in the world could/should have been friends had not been by the f… Jews and their English lackeys! (Churchill & Co.)
https://alphahistory.com/nazigermany/lloyd-george-meets-hitler-1936/
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Claudius:
Hello. You are right, of course, and in every respect, about those matters.
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A little bit of historical gossip about London in the 1750s. I bet Miss Trusler cakes were delicious!
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Claudius:
Thank you. Interesting. Hard to believe for those of us born in the 20thC, I mean how near-rural Marylebone was 300+ years ago.
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I have just read the news about the Basic Income and I agree with what you said; it is inevitable, either we like it or not. Talking about the disappearance of many jobs by the AI and/or sheer greed, I will give you an example of the latter. Yesterday I was chatting with a friend who lives in Adelaide, South Australia; he told me that one of the local supermarkets (Coles) got rid of the cashiers at the check-out by replacing them with “self-service” points; basically, the people scan the products they bought and then pay for them. Wow! That is “progress” for you!
What infuriates me is that these bastards (Coles) make hundreds of millions in profit and yet it seems it is not enough. How much money will they “save” by getting rid of those poor 8 girls? This is what happens when profit is the ruling principle in a society.
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Claudius:
Quite. That is why supermarkets accept that losses via shoplifting are much higher from self-service tills, because the supermarket has x-number of self-service tills overseen by one or two staff, thus saving (in your example) at least 6 staff. In the UK, I think that 6 staff would cost, combined, at least £180,000 a year in pay, pension contributions and other costs. About £600 or so a day. They would have to lose a lot of cans of tuna etc to shoplifters to exceed that sum.
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Claudius, I read an account today where a man was using the self-service checkout at the supermarket when a staff member told him off for ‘double-bagging’ his goods. He told her that the items were heavy and he didn’t want the bags to break when he is carrying them. But she insisted he was taking too many bags, almost accusing him of stealing. So he took out the container of milk and put it in one bag and the container of orange juice in the other, then she was happy.
I don’t know if this story is true, but it sounds reasonable.
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Good observation. It sounds very possible. There are several possibilities, perhaps the man knew or suspected the bags were too flimsy and there was a risk that they would break (it happened to me a few times over the years, once of them involving a fairly expensive bottle of wine😭 😭 😭 ). Having said that, the reaction of the woman seems ridiculous to me, as if two extra bags would have made a dent on the shop’s budget or as if she was paying for the bags.
Changing the subject, as I am not a Brit and therefore, I do not know the value of money with regards to the cost of living, can you tell me if those 1.600 pounds per month that will be given to some people would be enough? I have the impression that a single person will be OK, but a small family (4) will not manage at all.
Thank you and have good day.
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