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Battles past
From the newspapers
“As a child aged just nine, I endured the longest and most terrifying night of my life, fleeing with my family from our home.
Nearly 70 years later, every detail of that escape is still burned into my memory. All my life I have had the deepest sympathy for fellow refugees: those who leave behind everything they own and everyone they know to reach safety.
It was at the beginning of winter in 1956 that the Furedi family fled Hungary. My father was one of the leaders of the workers’ councils in Budapest organising resistance to Soviet Union control. That culminated in an uprising, which was mercilessly crushed by Red Army tanks and troops.
Many of these peers inhabit a fantasy world. The soaring numbers of illegal migrants entering Britain don’t lose them any sleep at night. In their ermined world, any attempt to find a practical solution to the problem is dismissed as ‘isolationist’, ‘morally unacceptable’ and ‘impractical’.
The BBC is equally detached from reality.
As a university sociologist, listening to the whining in the Lords, I cannot help but draw the conclusion that the very existence of this narcissistic, unelected, unaccountable chamber is a political corruption of democracy.“
[Daily Mail]
Completely correct.
One of the worst abusers of the House of Lords system is “Lord” Alf Dubs, a half-Jew whose (Jewish) father fled from Prague in 1938, leaving behind his (Austrian) wife and his son (they arrived in London a year later).
Alf Dubs, Labour MP for 8 years before later joining the misnamed “Lords”, was (maybe still is) a cheeky freeloader and expenses cheat (by any other name):
“Dubs lists his main home as a cottage in the Lake District in Cumbria, which enabled him to claim over £26,000 of overnight subsistence expenses in 2007–08,[15][16] although he has lived in Notting Hill, London, since 1964. In May 2009, he argued in justification that Lords regard the overnight allowance as a payment in lieu of salary. “We are the only legislators in the world that don’t get paid,” he said. “The overnight thing is quite generous because it compensates for not having a salary. In practice that’s how it works.“
[Wikipedia]
That was 15+ years ago. I wonder how much the old fraud drags down these days while trying to import as many migrant-invaders as possible to batten upon the British people who, generously but wrongheadedly, gave him and his parents refuge in 1938 and 1939?
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf_Dubs,_Baron_Dubs.
Also, how many other such cuckoos in the nest are there?
“TV supremo Simon Cowell has sold his £45 million mansion in Holland Park and quit London, after living in the capital for most of his life.
Cowell, 63, has told friends that he no longer feels safe in Central London and quietly sold his house, with the deal being completed a few days ago.”
[Daily Mail].
A straw in the wind. London is now not worth living in, even for those with great wealth.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23654056.world-war-two-veteran-made-homeless-eviction/
“A 98-YEAR-OLD war veteran who is battling cancer has been evicted from his bungalow and is now homeless.
Alfred Guenigault, who served in World War Two as a paratrooper, was issued with a no-fault eviction notice two months ago by the landlord of the Ferndown bungalow he has lived in for the past seven years.
He is now living in St Gabriels hostel in Verwood with his daughter Deb Dean and her husband Bert and says he feels “terrible” about the situation..
The great-grandfather-of-six-fears he will not be able to see his grandchildren from his new residence.
The family was forced to pack up their belongings and leave Ferndown on Thursday afternoon.
They turned to the council for help, which told them to go to First Point, a Dorset-based support service.
Deb said: “They were amazing and helped us so much with the forms and explaining things and told us we were eligible for a bungalow.
“They said there is a duty to house us temporarily, which we understand, but we didn’t think it would be in a hostel.”
Deb said the one room provided for them is empty, with no beds, apart from one provided by the hospital for the veteran, and has a shared kitchen and bathroom.
He also won’t be able to see any of his church friends who come over to see him or the vicar as well; his life is here in Ferndown.
Deb, a pensioner herself, lives with her father as his full-time carer while he battles cancer and severe kidney disease and said the situation is “very unfair” on her dad in his final years.
She added: “Dad has his carers in three to four times a day and I have to be with him 24 hours a day but because I recently became a pensioner, they have stopped my carer’s allowance which is about £700.
“We are told we will be in a hostel for six to eight months and it’s very unfair on him.
“My concern is that in six months, he may not even be here anymore.”
Mr Guenigault, who has been awarded the National Order of the Legion of Honour by the French government, said: “None of my grandchildren will be able to stay in the hostel. I feel terrible, but mostly for Deb.
“I also have to change my doctor, who is brilliant, as it is outside the area, but I don’t want to do that.”
A spokesman for Dorset Council said the authority will work with the family to find suitable accommodation in “as short a timescale as possible” but that they “need to be realistic about what is achievable in the current climate”.
“The council takes the Military Covenant very seriously and has a former veteran working within the team so really do appreciate the sacrifice our veterans make.”
[Bournemouth Echo].
Britain 2023…
Several points come to mind.
First of all, the sheer injustice of the whole “no fault eviction” laws. I know that such “no-fault evictions” are going to be banned [see https://www.blandy.co.uk/about/news-and-insights/insights/the-end-of-no-fault-evictions-what-does-this-mean-for-landlords-and-tenants] but that new law has yet to be passed.
Secondly, that landlord (a buy-to-let parasite?) is a prime subject for “naming and shaming”, if there ever was one.
Thirdly, how unjust that the old man’s daughter is now deprived of her Carer’s Allowance just because she has now become eligible for a slightly higher weekly amount by way of State Pension.
Fourthly, there would at least be decent alternative accommodation available for people like this were Britain not flooded with millions of black and brown migrant-invaders and other immigrants (“other” including about 150,000 bloody Ukrainians alone since last year).
Lastly, note the meaningless weaselling by the local council about the “Military Covenant” brought in by the government of David Cameron-Levita. Just lip-service. Useless.
At some point, Britain will explode, one way or another. This whole situation is unsustainable, and insupportable.
A final thought on this: is there no ex-members’ welfare organization attached to the Parachute Regiment that might help?
Tweets seen
The BBC is an in-club, where conformity rules. They all support or believe in “Ukraine” (the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev), “climate change” (via “emissions”) and the “necessity” for the UK to become much poorer (by going “net-zero”), “Black Lives Matter” or similar, “Covid” and all the stupid or crazy “measures taken”, the EU as something wonderful, the supposed “duty” to import, feed, and house millions of fake “refugees”, and of course the “holocaust” farrago in all details accepted by the Jewish lobby…
Press-gangs at work, but the Kiev regime is running out of cannon-fodder.
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More from the newspapers
“An environmental charity is bidding to create an “M25 for nature” that would encircle London in woodland, hedgerows and street trees to boost biodiversity, carbon capture and wellbeing.
The countryside charity CPRE London hopes to weave together existing areas of green belt in the city’s 18 outer boroughs to create an uninterrupted ring of trees around the capital.“
[The Guardian]
Not all news is bad.
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Local/personal/individual before either “grifters” such as “Jack Monroe”, “Supertanskiii” etc, and also before the sort of big charities where chancers such as, at least in the past, sex pest Brendan Cox (the widower of assassinated MP, Jo Cox) get a couple of hundred thousand a year as “executives”.
Of the well-known charities, Cats Protection is a good one, usually (the local branches are run semi-autonomously, I believe). The Cats Protection branch near Exeter was, probably still is, very good.
Also, GoFundMe has numerous appeals from UK, USA etc, mostly very genuine.
Late thought
Watched a couple of episodes of the detective series, Vera. As previously, very well put together, but why oh why is every second major character a black? In the North East of England, where there are relatively few non-whites. This “blacks with everything” agenda is now more than tiresome.
Late tweets
Tucker Carlson: “Sorry, sir, but are you sad that the Ukrainians don’t have enough American tanks? Every city in the United States has gotten a lot worse over the past few years. Go and tour the cities yourself and you will see that not a single city in our country has improved, the economy is in decline, suicides are on the rise, our streets are full of filth, and yet you only think of Ukraine? That country that most Americans can’t even locate on a map!“
Mike Pence: “All of the things you mentioned don’t worry me.”
Pence’s loyalty is to NWO/ZOG, not the USA and/or the American people.
We are rather close to World War Three, which approaches us rather rapidly…
The Jew-Zionist dictatorship in Kiev…
Surprising that Sunak and Macron are even that high.
Late music
Ian Robert Millard 
Marine Le Pen is another pathetic puppet serving as “controlled opposition”. Last week, during the awful riots she called the French people and her followers to support and defend the government/democracy. Can you imagine Mussolini or Hitler doing something like that? She is a POS at the service of ZOG (like ALL politicians across the Western world)
Rant over! 😁 😁 😁
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Claudius:
That is, of course, correct, but we are at a time when we are trying to move the “Overton window”, politically and socially. A System/dissenting politician such as Marine le Pen can obviously only be a transitional step, but may yet be of use in “radicalizing” (awakening) the public both in her own country and elsewhere.
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Marine Le Pen and her Rassemblement National (National Rally) party are far better than any politician in Britain. Labour, Lib Dems, and the ‘Watermelon party’ the Greens are outright, easily discerned by anyone with a brain, enemies of Britain and the British people whilst the Tories are just posh Lib Dem Lite globalist FRAUDS who take-up valuable political space where a genuine national-conservative/nationalist party such as Germany’s Afd should be.
Neither the Afd or the RN are perfect and some of their views wouldn’t translate perfectly here but at least those parties do show some interest and concern for the longterm welfare of their respective countries and peoples.
We have no one. The Conservative Party gave-up on our nation a longtime ago.
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She is quite a clever and able politician eg she moderated her party’s previous hardline rejection of LGBT rights so they now, to my knowledge, accept the reasonable position of gay civil unions but aren’t keen on gay marriage.
In the Western world in general and in Western Europe in particular that is the most an electable party can get away with now.
Mussollini and Hitler were products of their time. They were dictators hence they had no need to respect the principles of democracy. Hitler would never have been in power if it had not been for Germany’s utterly deplorable state after WW1, backstairs intrigue by conservative/ German ‘Tory’/big business elements, a weak and unstable democracy unable to provide solutions for the people etc.
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London could do with that strengthening of its Green Belt but what we in towns in the Green Belt on the outskirts of the city like mine in the ultra-Tory stronghold of Brentwood could do with is a ‘Ring of Steel’ around the city to keep the capital’s numerous legions of stabbers, rapists, drug dealers and other criminally-inclined riff-raff firmly IN it and prevent them from going on ‘awaydays’ for crime in Brentwood especially as the self-proclaimed ‘party of law and order’ saw fit to close this loyal Tory town’s police station.🙄🙄🙄
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I thought the figure given for Simon Cowell’s home was a ridiculous one and I was right. The property is worth £ 15.000.000 and not 45.000.000 as quoted. Incidentally, he is married to Lauren Silverman, sister of the disgusting “comedian” Sarah Silverman. Another good reason to hate him (LOL)
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Claudius:
The key is in the word “worth”. Yes, the £45M figure is ridiculous; so is £15M, really.
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Very good observation Ian! Yes, £15.000.000 is ridiculous and obscene considering what the property is: A pathetic (and ugly) 6-bedroom house devoid of beauty and/or historical and architectural importance.
Look what I found for £1.900.000 in the heart of London!
https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/detail/180-l-691-p7w6hr/flat-b-32-argyle-street-london-en-wc1h-8en
If you are looking for fine properties at a good price, I am your man! 😁 😁 😁 😁
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Claudius:
I have to say that that would not be my first choice as an area in which to live (*if* I wanted to live in London again *and* had nearly £2M).
If I wanted to live again in London and had *£22M to spend, I would aim at the Nash terraces on the edge of Regent’s Park.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/128099366#/?channel=RES_BUY
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You are a man of taste, there is no doubt about it! I fully appreciate and agree with your choice. However, my point was to show that Cowell, driven by his stupidity and shallowness, bought an ugly house at an obscene price, when he could have bought something nicer at a far lower price.
You also know that you can easily get a gorgeous property in the countryside for £3.000.000. Like you, if I was a millionaire and live in England and I would not live in London even if you pay me. I would have a nice home in the countryside (like this one):
https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/detail/180-l-691-hbk3hc/ascot-en
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Claudius:
Thank you. I agree with you about Cowell’s house.
I need [a great deal of money and] a suitable headquarters, but in view of the quite likely nuclear destruction about to be visited on this country, somewhere in the *west* or *southwest* of the UK. The prevailing winds in the UK come from the Atlantic, just like many of the prevailing political winds.
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Yes, that is still fairly nice. One place in London I like is Chelsea. The part situated immediately near the River Thames/Royal Hospital has some very posh, ultra-expensive properties many of which are listed I believe and a nice ambience. I once had an extensive and pleasant walk around that area. Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, is where Gordon Ramsay’s very expensive first restaurant is located which is tiny so if you want a meal there not only do you need a deep wallet you also have to book months ahead since the seating capacity is very limited.
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John:
Well, if Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant is booked-up or closed, I can always make myself some cabbage soup and buckwheat kasha in my palatial £22M house…
“It do de job”
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I would choose to live in very few areas of London. Some areas on the outermost edge such as Upminster are still fairly respectable places in which to reside along with a few ultra-rich/posh places such as Chelsea, Mayfair, Knightsbridge, Belgravia but the rest of it is a sad, crime ridden dump. It is not known as ‘Stab City Upon The Thames’ for nothing.😢😢😢🙄🙄🙄
Labour and fake, globalist ‘Tory’ alike are utter CRIMINAL BASTARDS for what they have done to what was once one of the most law abiding, civilised and beautiful capital cities on the planet.
Frankly, Kaiser Wilhelm and even Adolf Hitler himself did far less, collective damage to London that what the Labour and ‘Tory’ scumbags have done.
One day, I hope to see Labour and ‘Tory’ politicians put on trial for this extreme damage and given either the death penalty or ultra-long prison sentences of fifty years plus.
The punishment, you see, MUST fit the crime.
Perhaps, sad though it would be, it is time to cut London loose and make it into an independent city-state. London’s politics are so far in the direction of utter leftwing insanity it represents a cancer eating away at the bit more healthy politics of Britain as a whole.
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Yes, Lord Dubs, is an ancient old man now but his sinister aspirations for this country are as undimmed as they have always been.
Globalist, open borders supporting New Labour Mark Two (just as utterly crap as it was was first time around) is full of these virulently anti-British types. Lord Dubs is a powerfull illustration why no one with genuine, pro-British feelings should vote for Starmer’s rabble.
Don’t like the Tories? Fine! They aren’t a lovable bunch, especially at the moment, I will grant you but you DON’T have to vote Labour instead.
Abstaining from voting isn’t illegal.
I wonder how many first preference votes Lord Dubs would get if the House of Lords were elected and that rather weird, Irish system of Proportional Representation the Lib Dems favour called the Single Transferable Vote (STV) was used?
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