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Battles past
From the newspapers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12181993/Father-jailed-fraud-drugs-deported-Jamaica.html
The UK as world dustbin.
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The use of press-gangs by the Kiev regime show that it is running out of soldiers willing to become sacrificial chess pieces.
Even discounting the obvious propagandistic element (in which all the main parties of WW2 indulged), the film is interesting. I was always struck by how healthy most of those released from German camps looked, as seen in Allied, not in German, films. For example, there are photographs of women released from concentration camps into the custody of the Swedish Red Cross in 1945. They all look healthy, not starved, and in fact quite normal physically.
He had a point, looking at the symbiotic relationship between technical innovation, industrial change, and social change in, say, the 19th Century. Not for nothing did Engels go to the rapidly expanding industries of Manchester and other parts of the North of England in order to study both the new industrial working classes and the parallel socio-political ferment of the early Victorian period.
Migration invasion.
There is another way…
She must have been fun…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Owen.
A student until 2015/2016. An unpaid “gopher” “intern” for a year or two after that. Finally, a “Special Adviser” from 2017 or 2018. Five years of political gophering and toadying now crowned by elevation to the House of Lords. The beginning of the end for our fake “democracy”, in a single appointment.
My take? That the appointment is one of “Boris” Johnson’s fingers stuck up to his party, his critics, his now-former constituents, and to the country as a whole. Several of the others on the “honours” list may also have been “Boris”-idiot’s way of saying to the world, “F…U.”.
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Greta Nut is yesterday’s news, of course; the System has other puppets, other fake “causes” now.
Remember “the men behind the wire”.
As of today, a hard core of 411 utter mugs are still sending “Jack Monroe” between £3.50 and £44 a month via Patreon. For (literally) jack s**t.
Even at the lowest level of “patronage”, that comes to £1438.50 a month, in cash. If all the mugs are giving £5 a month, the total would be £2,055 a month; at £10 each, £4,110 a month. In the admittedly unlikely case that all the mugs are giving £44 each, that would add up to over £18,000 a month. My guess? She is getting about £5,000 a month in cash from her mug-base.
I blogged years ago about how, when I was at the old Warsaw airport in December 1988 (quite nice— white marble floors and oriental-style carpets in the cafe), waiting for a late flight to London, I got talking to the only other person there, a youngish American (I suspect, Jew) wearing an overcoat and hat (there was snow on the ground outside the terminal). It turned out that he was the Newsweek correspondent for Eastern Europe, which meant everywhere from the West German frontier to the Soviet one, and south/southeast as far as the Black Sea and Adriatic.
That young or youngish person, maybe late twenties, covered the waterfront of Central and Eastern Europe from Bonn, of all places. I quickly established that I, myself only an occasional visitor to places such as Poland, nonetheless knew far more about the situation there than he did, yet his magazine (and so all its readers) relied on him for accurate reportage. Enlightening.
American news magazines are pretty poor; the best was probably the one to which I used to subscribe when in the USA in the early 1990s, U.S. News and World Report. That magazine ceased print publication long ago.
More from the newspapers
“The engineer battalions of the 33rd Mechanized and 47th Assault Brigades, the lead formations in Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive, suffered heavy equipment losses in their assault just south of Mala Tokmachka last week.
The losses include at least five of the battalions’ specialized engineering vehicles. Fitted with mineplows and minerollers, these vehicles lead tanks and infantry fighting vehicles through minefields, plowing and rolling a path so the tanks and IFVs can break through enemy defenses.
The Russian air force moreover has control of the air over the southern front line and has been able to fly back-to-back sorties with attack helicopters and fighter-bombers—a critical advantage that Ukraine’s ground-based air-defenses haven’t been able to blunt.“
[Forbes magazine].
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No-one, of course, suggests that Johnson simply be shot. Everyone these days is running too scared of the UK’s emerging toytown police state dystopia, its poundland-KGB police, and its risible “anti-terror” snoopers and prosecutors. I cannot, however, think of a suitable punishment for Johnson. In any case, while he is far less honest, honourable and worthy even than his former colleagues in the Westminster monkeyhouse, from the straight political point of view he is no worse than many of them.
Looks as if Carol Vorderman has come to the same conclusion as me, i.e. that the elevation is a giant “F.U.” to Parliament and public alike.
Ha ha! Cruel gibe…(“I’m lovin’ it“…)
At first, I thought, “no, Charlotte Owen must be just another “Boris”-idiot roll in the hay“, but I am now wondering whether she really might be one of the idiot’s illegitimate offspring.
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Ian Robert Millard 
The actual state of Free Speech in general and the Hampshire police in particular.
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All caused by the idiotic PC laws put into place by the cretinous globalist, profoundly anti-British, vile, evil, warmongering wanker creature that was Bliar and what have the so-called Conservatives done about reforming the situation?
Yes, you guessed it, sweet FA. So-called Cruella has been found wanting- AGAIN! She sometimes talks a good game but where is the ACTION?
Oh for a decent Home Secretary that doesn’t just talk the talk but walks the walk as well. Yes, he is a foreigner as well but can we import Singaporean Home Secretary, Mr K Shanmugam, who is a minister who DOES take his responsibilities seriously.
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Meanwhile in ‘war-torn’ Kiev. https://twitter.com/johnsweeneyroar/status/1667619101529735174?s=20
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Kiev is not really affected by NATO’s and the USA’s proxy war against Russia. The conflict is only raging in the East of the country at the moment yet if NATO and the moronic, puffed-up, ignorant idiot that is Ben Wallace keep on pushing it then it will spread and might embroil this country and Europe in a wider conflict which quite possibly go nuclear.
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Enabling Priti Useless to be made a Dame in the House of Lords was the worst example of Boris Idiot’s utter contempt for the British people.
The British political system is TOTALLY SICK and profoundly ROTTEN to its very core and that is an excellent example. The system needs to be ripped-up and reformed in a very fundamental way.
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John:
A dame does not sit in the House of Lords, and is a purely honorific title, like “Sir”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dame
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Well, he has still given her an honour she ie completely unworthy of. Mind you, if she had gone to the Lords she would only have kept company with arrogant, old, tossers and general anti-British has beens like Lord Hesetine.
I think it is high time the entire honors system was scrapped along with the House of Lords as it is presently comprised. Both long ago lost credibility. Honours in this country only go to anti-British morons or any old stray that washes- up on our shores.
Ie Look who was made a Sir by the late Monarch ie Tony Blair! Evil globalist anti-British wanker and effective murderer of British troops on a blatant lie and that was the Monarch who done that!
Why wasn’t British patriot Enoch Powell given a place in the Lords?
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Patel is a proven traitor, but was was allowed to resign for her treachery, instead of being sacked, as she should have been. Then she was back in Cabinet soon after.
Time to bring Traitors Gate back into use.
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Awful as Patel undoubtedly is you can’t really call her a traitor when she isn’t really British.
The traitor title goes to OUR scumbags like Bliar.
Treason was the last remaining offence for which one could still be executed by the hangman’s noose. How typical of the Blair creature that he saw fit to abolish it in 1998.
Either the death penalty should be restored for that offence or we sentence those guilty of it to 99 year prison terms.
We could build an austere prison for such people like America’s Alcatraz on the Falkland Islands, St Helena or on one of the Western Isles off Scotland’s coast.
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Yes, she tried to do a talk with an Israeli government representative behind the government’s back. Even Teresa May found that unacceptable which just goes to show how bad it was.
Of course, that should have meant she was barred from ever being a government minister again of ANY sort so what did Boris Idiot do? Make her Home Secretary in charge of the police, MI5/MI6, our borders, national security where she performed utterly abysmally.
These liberal globalist, self-serving Tory spivs are so totally irresponsible.
It is a great shame we don’t have a decent Opposition. We have Starmer’s useless Labour Party instead of a decent party like the governing Singaporean People’s Action Party, Germany’s Afd, France’s National Rally or Japan’s nationalist/national-conservative but very misnamed to our eyes Liberal Democratic Party who are not anything like our own Liberal Democrats.
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You should never trust a man who can’t even be bothered to remember how many children they have fathered ie Boris Johnson.
Boris is and always was a scumbag as anyone with a functioning brain should know but that being said he isn’t unique in that regard. We have seen his like before ie that vile, lying warmonger and anti-British nation wrecker Tony Blair who should be hanged for his crimes against Britain.
I don’t like to blow my own trumpet but I knew Blair would be an almighty anti-British bastard and general tosser as soon as he became Labour leader.
Sadly, too many voters have no conception of character in this country.
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Max Hasting’s article in THE TIMES is a brilliant analysis and description of Boris “the clown” Johnson; the worst PM Great Britain ever had, leaving aside that pathetic and ugly creature known as Liz Truss.
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No, I am afraid I disagree with you there. Boris was a globalist liberal idiot who was completely incompetent and unsuitable to be PM but he didn’t do quite so much damage to us as that foul Blair creature.
Deliberately lying to the House of Commons, the nation, his own party and to our armed forces in order to deceive us to go to war against Iraq which posed no real threat to my country and to play a pathetic poodle role to the Texan cowboy US President thereby effectively murdering our troops on a lie was utterly despicable behaviour. Then, to that charge sheet, we have to add his globalist open borders so as to “rub the Right’s noses in diversity’.
Blair was and remains a Grade A #### to Britain.
Blair was Britain’s worst ever PM.
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Hello John; I have just read your comment and I believe you are right. Boris was/is an imbecile and a clown but Blair was far worse, he was 100% evil and rotten to the core, he knew VERY well what he was doing.
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The Clown Johnson is definitely in the top ten worst ever British PMs and more like in the top five but Bliar is no 1.
I think he takes the title of worst ever Tory leader for many reasons ie his incompetent handling of Covid but also for NOT ‘getting Brexit done’.
How can it be ‘done’ when NI is still firmly wedged inside the EU thanks to the NI Protocol and the utter farce of the Windsor Framework?
By NOT getting Brexit done properly on a UK WIDE basis he put a ticking time bomb under the continued existence of this supposedly United Kingdom.
NEITHER Remainers or Leavers who voted in that damm referendum in 2016 voted for his bungled, half completed Brexit.
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Yes, Liz wasn’t much good but remember there isn’t much of a record to judge her for as her most famous contribution to British public life was to last a mere 49 days as PM!
She did, after all, comprehensively SMASH the long standing British record held by George Canning! Her place in history is assured for breaking that and for being a future pub quiz/
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire question!🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅😅
Or at least her place is safe until someone breaks it though at 49 days it is going to be very hard to beat!
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One more thing about Max Hastings’ article. He is absolutely right on the fact that a lot of people lost the respect they had for the UK. Some friends of mine who were not pro-British but respected enormously Great Britain used to ask me: “Claudio, how is it possible that a clown like that is the PM of Great Britain?” or “What’s wrong with the British people?” Very sad…
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Claudius:
Yes. I should say that Britain “lost its mojo” finally in 1989. Not directly to do with the end of Thatcherism. Co-incidental. Thatcherism was the last hurrah of a kind of finance-capital “Conservative” Britishness albeit mixed with a large amount of statism, just as Corbynism was the last hurrah of Labour as a quasi-socialist party, but Corbynism was always going to fall flat electorally, with its hatred of the British Empire, much of our history etc (and with the Jew/Zionist lobby fanatically against Corbyn and effectively ruling the mass media).
Britain may not be far from complete socio-political collapse. People generally think not, but I remember how quickly socialism in Eastern Europe and Soviet Union fell in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Yes, in 1985/1986/1987/1988 people had the feeling that Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union was there to stay for decades more or perhaps centuries to come but within the next three years it had collapsed. The anti-human nature philosophy fell with alarming speed.
It is time for anti human nature globalist liberalism to follow it.
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Ha, ha, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake! It was famously used as part of the beginning to the classic US horror film Dracula staring Bela Lugosi in 1931 and is one of my favourite pieces of classical music along with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Who says Russia is devoid of culture?
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John:
The only people who have the cheek to claim that Russia is devoid of culture are those supportive of, or part of, the current Kiev regime in Ukraine.
Music alone: Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Stravinsky, Shostakovitch, Prokofiev, Borodin, Balakirev, Rachmaninov, Myaskovsky, Glinka, Scriabin, Glazunov, Gretchaninov, Lyapunov, Kabalevsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Sviridov etc. That is only to mention the most prominent, and even leaving out those of other backgrounds but who were basically Russified composers such as Lyatoshinsky (Ukrainian), Khachaturian (Armenian), Parsadanian (Armenian) etc.
Apart from Lyatoshinsky, whose works I like very much, I cannot think of another Ukrainian composer of note.
Literature: Russian writers Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, and many many others.
There were writers who were born in Ukraine, but they were mostly Russian by family origin (Bulgakov) or at least half-Russian (Gogol) and thoroughly Russified.
The Ukraine was of course almost entirely agricultural until the 20thC, so there were few cities and towns able to incubate cultural leaders in music or literature, and of course the Ukrainian language was not encouraged either under the Tsars or Soviet rule, but the facts speak for themselves.
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Yes, Russia has contributed quite a lot to world culture whereas Ukraine is certainly not noteworthy in that regard.
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A regime which is barely Ukrainian in any real sense anyway. Britain is supposed to be ‘anti-nazi’ so why are we supporting a country which has REAL Nazis in its armed forces TODAY and one which had many of them in the 1940’s where the fanaticism of their anti-semitism was so extreme that even invading Nazis from Germany were embarrassed at how anti Jewish they were! 🤔🤔🙄🙄🙄🙄
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I see that gormless moron Richard Littlejohn has attempted to write a half arsed defence of Boris Johnson at that ghastly, hypocritical rag called the Daily Mail.
Richard Little John is a Grade A PRICK and has been for the entirety of his pathetic existence as a so-called journalist (well he was employed by The Scum) but saying Boris is a victim of a conspiracy really takes the biscuit.
Boris has NO ONE to blame for his downfall but himself.
Oh, Mr Little John, your hero DID NOT get Brexit done either. Can’t you understand that a basic constitutional principle of constitutional integrity is undermined ie that if you take a country out of a pan national organisation such as the EU then you have to take the ENTIRETY of it out at the same time rather than leaving one part ie NI behind as Boris Moron Idiot done.
I don’t know why he is bothered anyway. That moronic prick now lives in Florida.
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