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Battles past
Statement
As regular readers will know, I am now, once again, the target of a malicious and politically-motivated attack, this time a prosecution, instigated by the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, a very small but well-funded group of fanatical Zionist Jews.
I made a statement about this previously; see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2023/05/29/diary-blog-29-may-2023/.
I now see that there have been a couple of tweets inaccurately stating that I am to be tried this month. Not so. Any trial (if one is actually held at all) will be held in November or December 2023, or possibly even in 2024. In the interim period, there will be at least one brief and purely procedural hearing.
A nuisance, of course, but since the latest malicious attempt was publicized (by the “CAA” goblins themselves, on Twitter and on their website), there has been an increase in the readership of this blog. Silver lining?
Nadine Dorries and the Mid-Bedfordshire constituency
I was considering the Nadine Dorries situation.
At present, Nadine Dorries remains MP for the constituency of Mid-Bedfordshire. She most recently, in 2019, was re-elected with nearly 60% of the vote, and had previously usually achieved over 50%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_Bedfordshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s.
A safe Conservative Party seat, which she has represented since 2005, and which has been good to her— good salary, hugely-inflated expenses, time out to appear on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here for a very large fee, and to write about a dozen cheap novels.
She was able to employ at least two of her three daughters on very inflated salaries (via MP expenses) and has been investigated several times by the police. On at least one occasion, the file was passed to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration for prosecution. However, she has wriggled out of trouble every time.
Now, having announced her immediate resignation [see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65910896], Nadine Dorries has not in fact done what is necessary, i.e. to apply, notionally, for “an office of profit under the Crown“, usually either “Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds” or “Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead”.
The delay is plainly because Nadine Dorries was, or so she claims, offered a peerage by the former Prime Minister, Johnson, which offer is now worthless. That she was offered a peerage was apparently the case; her nomination for a peerage was one of those deleted from the list, supposedly by decision of Rishi Sunak.
It seems clear to me that Nadine Dorries announced her “resignation” because she was sure of getting a well-paid sinecure as a “baroness” in the Lords— ~£350 a day without any need even to pretend to do anything for it, plus well-subsidized and palatial surroundings in which to meet people, network etc.
In theory, Nadine Dorries could hang on as MP until the next General Election, getting the salary, the expenses etc, while doing nothing. Perhaps she will.
Nadine Dorries was only too happy to jettison the loyal —and possibly stupid— voters of Mid-Bedfordshire. Unsurprising. As soon as her then-husband and father of her children developed multiple sclerosis, she (in effect) abandoned him, after 23 years of marriage: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Dorries#Personal_life.
I was just comparing Nadine Dorries [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Dorries] with the MP, Stephen Hastings, who held the seat from 1960 to 1983: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hastings.
Hastings’ biography includes Sandhurst, and WW2 action with the Scots Guards, the early SAS, and the shambolic but certainly sometimes courageous SOE, later followed by 12 years with SIS/MI6.
Naturally, Hastings was born with a silver spoon compared to Nadine Dorries. No argument. Eton, Sandhurst, the expectation and inheritance of several large, or arguably even great estates. Financially, and in terms of useful connections, he had it far easier than Nadine Dorries, born into relative poverty in Liverpool.
All the same, which of the two really would be better as MP?
In fact, that sort of decline in standards has happened across the board since about 1989. Compare Jo Grimond, for example, with Jo Swinson. Both Liberal/LibDem leaders, but what a contrast! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Grimond; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Swinson.
Again, one was born into affluence, indeed into riches, and never had to struggle financially, but the point is which of the two was the more fitted to be an MP and political leader.
Incidentally, I noticed that Stephen Hastings wrote an autobiography, Drums of Memory. I have just ordered a used copy, and for the knockdown price of £1.75 plus a couple of pounds postage. Pretty good value for a hardback book in apparently almost new condition. Will look forward to reading that, assuming it actually arrives (my last purchase, Anna Karenina in Russian, has been refunded by Amazon because of some problem with distribution).
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Nadine Dorries is just one symptom of a completely decadent and corrupt political system in the UK.
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Money thrown at the feet of the Kiev regime. Meanwhile, in Britain, people cannot get medical treatment or decent housing, and the roads are falling to pieces.
From the newspapers
“The head of the Army is considering scrapping centuries-old ranks such as Rifleman and Guardsman because they are masculine.
In an attempt to make regiments more inclusive, General Sir Patrick Sanders is poised to break hundreds of years of battlefield tradition.
Historic titles used by world-renowned Guards regiments and even his own regiment, the Rifles, could be ditched in favour of gender-neutral ranks.“
[Daily Mail].
Are we actually supposed to pretend that the British Army still has some kind of useful role?
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If “Jack Monroe” did that, she might trigger an avalanche of similar claims, together with even more negative publicity.
Her pseudo-celebrity supporters are ebbing away. Weak waste of space Alice Beer is the latest. Jay Rayner cut “Jack Monroe” loose nearly a year ago now, and Nigella Lawson later followed suit.
None will denounce her, but will just show her the cold shoulder.
I suppose that “Jack Monroe” will try to leverage whatever she can to stay in the public eye to some extent, as with her unexplained appearance on BBC Question Time recently, and she needs that public exposure, if only to keep onside the hard core of donor-mugs who are each sending her between £3.50 and £44 a month via Patreon— 411 utter mugs as of today.
God. What a loonie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_O%27Reilly.
Britain 2023, where Max Hastings looks like the most principled journalist imaginable…a measure of either how Hastings has grown since he covered the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, or of how far British public life has slid into the mire in more recent decades.
If mortgage rates continue to rise, there will be a rather British non-violent political upheaval. There must be millions of people who do not really “own their own home” as they think they do, because they have a mortgage on the property.
I have just seen a statistic which claims that nearly 28% of the UK population are homeowners without a mortgage or loan against the property, while nearly 38% are “homeowners” but with a mortgage or other loan against the property (I presume that the remaining ~34% are either renters or are too young to take title to real property).
38%. That means, in theory, 38% of the voters, too.
People may not like or trust the Labour Party or the LibDems (or others), but the Conservative Party has been in power since 2010. If mortgage rates continue to rise, there will be a backlash against the Conservative Party not seen even in 1997.
Another, and this time not very inventive “Jack Monroe” lie, that reporters and stray peasants are besieging her home. She must have lifted that from the life of van Gogh.
“Jack Monroe” is so patently fake that it defies belief, and a huge number of stupid mugs still fall for her nonsense.
Venn diagram of “Jack Monroe” mug-supporters: 1. comfortably-off Guardian-reading virtue-signalling naifs (mostly aged 55+); 2. the mentally-unwell; 3. the LGBTQXYZ crowd on Twitter.
“Jack Monroe” works on the —often-true— assumption that the public cannot check up on the veracity of her stories (mostly a pack of lies) and that most “journalists” (scribblers) are too lazy to check.
At least it is not radioactive, yet.
The Americans know that even a limited Russian nuclear strike on the US mainland would send their whole society into freefall. Many of their cities are already powder kegs ready to blow. Racial and social war is just below the surface.
Russia is winning the strategic war.
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Ian Robert Millard 
“Solar panels too hot to work”
The British Government commitment to achieving ‘net-zero’ by 2050 – versus the reality.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/06/12/britain-fires-up-coal-plant-weather-too-hot-solar-panels/
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Usual British government incompetence. Still, that is not unique even to this bunch of cretinous morons but has been present for many, many decades now. Why wouldn’t it be?
The wholly undemocratic farce of stand alone First Past The Post means Tory and Labour have hundreds of safe seats between them where they don’t have to really EARN votes, and single party governments can form without the majority of the votes behind them.
Stand alone FPTP is a perfect recipe for short termist governments who only look ahead to the next five yearly election.
No wonder we can’t plan ahead for climate change, a possible green economy, transport, preparing for new possible pandemics or a myriad of other issues.
Stand alone FPTP is a giant millstone around Britain’s neck and ensures we get calamitous, psychopathic liars as Boris Johnson is as PM and people like Nadine Dorries, Priti Patel ect as MPs.
Britain won’t make any kind of real progress unless it is dumped.
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How can Britain possibly ever achieve net zero when we have a constantly rising population due to no effective immigration control?
An ever increasing population means more people and more people equals a higher carbon footprint.
Britain could do with a conservative-green party like the small Ecological Democratic Party (ODP) in Germany.
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John – green policies seem to me to be just another way of imposing new taxes, that no one voted for.
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Hello Velvet88: You are right. A perfect example of this vile scam was the 2012 Australian “Carbon Tax” pushed by the globalist puppet Julia Gillard who was PM from June 2010 to June 2013. As usual, the lying criminal once said that she will never support such a tax, guess what…
“I’m determined to price carbon,” Ms Gillard told a joint press conference with Greens leader Bob Brown and Senator Christine Milne well as independent MPs Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor.
“History teaches us that the countries and the economies who prosper at times of historic change are those who get in and shape and manage the changes. The time is right and the time is now.
“There are some people that will say we can’t afford to move to a clean energy future, I disagree with that, we can’t afford not to move to a clean energy future,” she added.
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Some people do take advantage of the situation to increase taxes when they shouldn’t but this may be unavoidable if we are to deal with global warming much of which though not all is man made.
Green parties tend to be akin to watermelons ie green on the outside and red on the inside but not all.
You can be a Green-Conservative, a Eco Socialist or even an Eco Fascist. Environmentalism in political parties can take many varied forms
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John:
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Peter Oborne is quite good too. Not surprisingly he also warned us against having the Pound Shop Trump as PM.
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So we have politically correct morons in charge of our very depleted armed forces now! It used to be just the police! Does ANY public service/institution not have legions of these cretins running them into the ground?
Does ANYTHING work here at all?
It isn’t hard to see why those ultra wealthy people who can’t stand it anymore like Phil Collins go and bugger off out of this madhouse and move to less PC and more well run countries like Switzerland, is it?
Wouldn’t we all if we won 100 million pounds on the Euromillions lottery?
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John:
As you say. Nothing really works properly any more in the UK. The wealthy and very wealthy can insulate themselves with money. Private healthcare, private dentistry, security guards and systems, large SUVs etc. In fact, many need not even use the roads, and travel most of the time by helicopter or private jet or other aircraft.
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Indeed and yet we STILL have legions of PC globalist, open borders supporting morons on Twitter with their obligatory Ukrainian flags and Follow Back Pro Europe (FBPE) handles saying we must allow all the boat people from across the Channel to arrive and be put up here at the expense of the British state.
Money is a finite commodity. The government has many things to spend money on and many people think wasting money on refugees and economic migrants should NOT be a priority when so much else needs doing.
Why don’t these idiots put their hands in THEIR pockets and pay for the boat people instead of wanting others to pay for them?
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These people moan about the state of the NHS ect under the ‘evil Tories’ but want the government to spend money on the boat people as well. As I said, money is a finite commodity and being in government requires choices to be made.
You can have a welfare state including an NHS or you can have continual open borders but you can’t have both.
Even if some of the boat people are genuine refugees it still needs to be controlled since there are so many people in the world who could claim to be genuine. We CAN’T take them all.
Neville Chamberlain’s Tory government took in some Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and Austria but there was a strict quota applied.
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Britain should not be held responsible for the continual failure of Third World crapholes. We gave many of them their independence in many cases because of the urging of these ignorant globalist Twitter types and it is clear they are not competent at governing themselves. That isn’t our fault so we have no obligation to continue to take in their desperate masses.
ENOUGH is ENOUGH.
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John:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12198097/Ice-cream-parlour-apologises-blind-woman-ordered-leave-guide-dog-her.html
“Scoops Gelato has now apologised to Ms Godwin and explained there was a ‘miscommunication’ with the staff member, who ‘doesn’t speak the best English’ as she is a *Ukrainian* refugee.”
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So even Ukrainian refugees show virtually no respect to Britons even those who are blind let alone the masses of muslims who have been doing this for many years now. Disgusting wretch! She can eff off back to the Ukraine. We don’t want her sort here. I bet she doesn’t even come from the part of Ukraine that IS affected by the war.
This country is flooded with all the ungrateful flotsam and jetsam of the planet many of whom are crimiminaly inclined as we saw YET AGAIN only yesterday.
We literally are the dumping ground of the world. So much for Brexshit which was supposed to REDUCE immigration not make it even worse.
What a complete waste of time Brexshit is! No wonder the latest polls show most people think it has been an historic mistake and if there were a new referendum on the subject only a small minority of 30% or so would vote to stay out whilst the rest wouldn’t bother to vote or would vote to rejoin.
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John:
I suspect (admittedly without evidence!) that some Ukrainian or other pro-Kiev-regime person working at Amazon sabotaged my Amazon order (Anna Karenina in Russian) so that it had to be discontinued (I did get a refund).
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I expect Mid Bedfordshire will be a huge Lib Dem win. Labour offer zilch and have a severely uninspiring, anti-British, globalist, Blair fan, Metropolitan liberal lawyer as leader who can’t decide whether a woman has a vagina or not and isn’t this country plagued by such people and I don’t suppose the people of a mostly rural, and no doubt quite British constituency still have any liking for the globalist Indian Congress Party tribute act.
Choosing between fake Labour and fake Conservative is rather like the so-called ‘choice’ offered to convicts in some states in the US ie do you wish to die by a lethal injection or do you want to expire by sitting in ‘Old Sparky’ or ‘Gruesome Gertie’?
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The biggest overall winner of the forthcoming by-election will undoubtedly be the ‘party’ that always wins ie the none of the above/ couldn’t give a Castlemain xxxx ‘party’.
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John:
I imagine that, like never so much previously, the next election will be an “anything but Con” election. In fact, I imagine that many former Con voters will sit it out.
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And why not? The fake Conservative Party has basically given those people who naturally gravitate towards the party the middle finger for 13 solid years.
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Probably. The Conservative Party is detested by large sections of the population. This has been the case historically of course but previous Tory governments whilst hated by the usual suspects did have at least some clue as to the sort of people who would vote for them even when at a low ebb.
Mrs Thatcher knew this as did most of her Home Secretaries. This lot, by contrast, seems to think rich electoral pickings are to be found in seats like Southall, Tottenham, Peckham rather than the Mid Bedfordshires or Brentwood and Ongars of this world. In that they couldn’t be more wrong as I am sure we shall see when that by-election happens.
They ought to enjoy the next year in power because the next time they are in office will be a very long time in coming if indeed it ever comes again.
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If and when that by-election in Mid Bedfordshire takes place, it seems almost 100% certain the fake Conservative Party will lose not least for the fact they have chosen an unsuitable candidate.
A person with a name so innately foreign it is hard to spell. Even the candidate they had in North Shropshire was a little bit more suitable for that seat though quite a few voters there thought choosing a barrister from Birmingham rather than a local wasn’t right and therefore abstained from voting Tory or voted Lib Dem or for a minor candidate.
So long as Labour doesn’t markedly split the vote or the Lib Dems choose an inappropriate /rubbish candidate themselves they probably have the seat in the bag already.
Does the CONServative Party actually enjoy losing their safest seats in by-elections? It would seem so when they intentionally handicap whatever remote chances they have of holding them before even the starting gun in a contest is fired.
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John:
I have not looked at the by-election (if there will be one) yet. I may blog about it nearer the time.
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It is interesting that Mid Bedfordshire had a pretty good turnout last time of over 73%. Many seats including quite a few Tory ones as well couldn’t get to that figure.
The turnout in mine in Brentwood and Ongar only just reached 70% which I think was the lowest we have had since the seat was created in 1974. Mind you, this may have been connected to the fact we really are an ultra-safe Tory seat. Nadines’s majority was a mere 24,000 whereas our Tory MP has a 29,165 majority now and a 24,000 one in 2017.
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Yes, jumped-up, posturing idiot, Ben Wallace, is throwing away yet more of our hard earned money at Ukraine whose defeat is almost an inevitability. In the fullness of time, Russia has a 99% chance of winning.
That money could and should be spent on the British people. There are far too many needy Brits who need that cash eg we could spend it on helping drug addicts quit their habit in Scotland which has a very disturbing rate of drug addiction causing numerous overdose deaths and crime problems. Indeed, Scotland supposedly has the highest rate of drug overdose death rates in Europe.
I see that Bernard Jenkin MP believes helping Ukraine is somehow a British national interest and has written words to that effect on his Twitter account.
If helping Ukraine is a vital national interest perhaps he should care to explain HOW it is. I see he doesn’t do this.
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John:
Jenkins, “Boris”, Starmer are just monkeys. The organ-grinders tell them what to say. “Ukraine” is not a British interest, and never has been.
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But that is the non-Conservative Conservative Party for you! Just a bunch of incompetent PC globalists who can’t think for themselves and have to engage in a pathetic competition with Labour for PC globalist brownie point scoring.
Few REAL Tory MPs in the Thirties would have done this. Most of them would have at least attempted to think carefully as to whether to involve Britain in a war was genuinely in our national interest instead of going meekly along with the pro war crowd.
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Lots of annoying/infuriating things today. The news about the Army’s top brass’ disgusting/cowardly behaviour and surrender to the so-called “Social Justice/Equality Warriors” is one. What
shocks me is the shameful lack of reaction/backbone of the people, particularly ex-servicemen.
This is what you get for allowing mentally-ill females into the Armed Forces. Let’s face it, what woman in her right mind would like to be a soldier? Is all crap that has been put into their heads by the f… feminists! (You can tell I am angry)
The veterans of WW1 and WW2 must be vomiting in their graves
And what about that f… loony from the Irish Green Party?
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Claudius:
Many people here are angry at the state of society, but they are atomized, without a social-national party or movement to give structure and collective power.
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Apart from making some rather stupid remarks about poor people that the thick morons at The Scum ‘newspaper ‘ would approve of, Lee Anderson MP is far more in touch with ordinary people than proven vote loser Sunak and company.
He should be PM or Home Secretary.
He is one of the few Tory MPs I would like to re-elected along with Scott Benton in Blackpool South. Sadly, they probably won’t be because they hold marginal seats.
If Lee in particular did so that would mightily annoy the globalist leftie luvvie Twitter mob. Their tears would be something to behold.🤣🤣🤣🤣
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It seems that the end of shameless grifter “Jack Monroe” is very near, don’t you think so? For what I read/understood, she will be forced to provide evidence or proof of where the money she was given went.
Having said that, “Jack Monroe” is a nice little girl compared with the politicians who have crippled the UK and betrayed the British people. If they were to be punished as they deserve, there would not be enough rope in the UK to do the right thing.
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Claudius:
the “Jack Monroe” situation does seem to prove that there are “mugs” out there who really really want to “believe” in something, even when the “something” is completely valueless and indeed fake.
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