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Exactly. Numbers of people, not whether (as such) they run cars, or burn coal. The primary fact is the overall number.
The most interesting secondary fact is that the two main System parties are only supported by two-thirds of the voters. However, that is almost irrelevant from an electoral point of view, thanks to the UK’s First Past The Post electoral system. Those two parties will probably take not merely most of the seats in England, or even two-thirds, but almost all of them.
1956, the year of my birth (as well as the year of Khrushchev’s Secret Speech, the Suez Crisis, and the Hungarian Uprising). That scene now looks like a very long time ago indeed.
As I have blogged previously, Ukraine as a state has no future. In the past year, 350,000 (almost all men) killed or injured on the battlefield, while 20% of the population (mostly women and under-18s) is living outside Ukraine, and on top of a very low birthrate even before 2022.
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I do not claim to know much about cars; is that a Corvette?
“In 1995, the twins, Kyrie and Brielle Jackson, were born 12 weeks premature, each weighing only about 2 pounds. They were placed in separate incubators. One twin was not expected to survive. She went into critical condition. Her heart rate was rising while her oxygen level was dropping significantly. They were about to lose her. It was then that one nurse, Gale Kasparian, went against the hospital rules and standard procedure, putting the healthy twin next to her struggling sister in the same incubator. This decision turned out to be life-saving. Once the twins were close to each other, the struggling sister (Brielle) snuggled up to the healthy sister (Kyrie) who put her arms around Brielle. Almost immediately after, Brielle’s vital signs started stabilizing. Her heart rate and oxygen levels normalized. Both twin sisters eventually survived and grew into strong young women. The picture below came to be known as the rescuing hug and would change a part of our understanding of medicine. Hugging that is coming from the heart is proven to have calming and healing effects. Maybe there is someone in your life that can use a warm and heartfelt hug right now.”
https://twitter.com/redordead182/status/1687377568826011648?s=20
https://twitter.com/redordead182/status/1687458551512375296?s=20
When it rains in England, I rejoice, because it keeps several kinds of untermenschen off the streets. Looks like it has the same effect in Sweden.
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“Caring sharing” Britain, 2023…
I wonder how many more shantytowns of the same sort will be built under the expected “Labour” government after 2024, in order to shelter the million unwanted immigrants (migrant invaders) arriving here every single year. Mostly useless parasites.
Interesting, as are a few of the readers’ comments.
Argos was started by a man who “invented” Green Shield stamps, a ubiquitous thing in 1960s/1970s Britain. In fact, he “borrowed” the idea of those stamps from the USA, where they had been around for about half a century.
When that man, Richard Tompkins, started Argos, almost all the “experts” in the newspaper financial and business columns of the Press thought that it would not work. The “experts” were wrong, as usual (the same columnists and other scribblers also thought, in the 1980s and 1990s, that Sky TV and Amazon respectively would not succeed).
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argos_(retailer); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argos_(retailer)#History; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Shield_Stamps#History; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tompkins.
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“A warm heart, a cool head, [and] clean hands“…Had the KGB and other organs stayed true to that, the Soviet system might not have fallen, or might have transitioned to a better system, rather than to Jew-exploitative fake “democracy” under puppets such as Yeltsin and the others of his sort, which led on to the “crony capitalism” now operative in Russia.
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So, “as soon as possible“, the Labour government of (?) 2024/2025 will move migrant invader hordes out of hotels and camps and barges, and put them…where? In millions of new ugly housing estates covering the countryside? Into council housing that should be reserved for ENGLISH/BRITISH people only? Into private rentals (and paid for how?), thus pricing out British people? Where?
Well, the girl, er, fronting that demonstration is very noticeable…
Ian Robert Millard 
For the umpteenth time, global warming, or, as the UN Secretary General now calls it, global boiling, is caused, MAINLY, by the burning of fossil fuels which obviously includes OIL.
Cars using internal combustion engines contribute a great deal to rising greenhouse gas emissions.
The only people who dispute the consensus of most of the world’s scientists are braindead grifters like Lawrence Fox and corrupt, libertarian extremist, Indian crank PMs like Rishi Sunak.
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To be frank, you have to be a real moron like Sunak or Lawrence Fox are to continue to deny the scientific facts.
The latest pieces of REAL evidence global warming/global boiling is happening is the earth has just recorded its warmest ever temperatures in its oceans and coral reefs are dying.
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Sunak should listen to today’s scientists instead of being a corrupt, ignorant pig. He might also take a look at and understand a rather good speech on this very topic by, wait for it, a former Tory PM called Margaret Thatcher she made as long ago as 1989 to the UN General Assembly. This has recently been uploaded to YouTube.
Maggie though had done a real job, unlike Sunak, before she became PM and was a SCIENCE graduate of Oxford University.
She was a stateswoman. Sunak is very far from being a statesman and his pathetic attempt at trying to grasp some cheap votes from the gutter from those who deny climate change demeans him, his party, the British people and our country on the world stage.
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Yes, of course, electric cars have an environmental cost to producing them in the same way as ALL manufactured goods do.
No one denies that fact but, overall, electric cars are better for the environment than cars which have internal combustion engines.
Soon, the environmental cost of the batteries in electric cars will be lessened because new battery technologies that don’t use rare materials such as cobalt and lithium will be produced.
Literally, huge sums of money are being invested in battery research and it is starting to produce results. Toyota, for instance, will soon sell electric cars with solid state batteries which will be safer, have longer ranges thus lessening range anxiety and faster recharging times.
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Good point about our ludicrously out of date and very unfair electoral system.
It is a system deliberately designed to effectively put into the nearest bin as many votes as possible (at the last election in 2019 about 14,000,000 or roughly HALF the total votes were ‘wasted’ in the sense they were cast for losing candidates in the single MP per seat constituencies) in the supposed interest of producing a ‘strong’ single-party government but then you could also argue a ‘strong’ government can be obtained via a dictatorship.
This very large wastage of votes is NOT as some people may think an occasional quirk of the system it happens EVERYTIME.
The system also rewards the ‘winner’ by giving that party a disproportionate number of seats relative to its vote share. Sometimes, this reward can be to an utterly ridiculous extent as it was in 1997 when Labour only got 43% of the national vote but obtained 60% plus of the seats in the House of Commons
https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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John:
The reason both main System parties go along with it even when it is not working well for one or other party is because those *behind* both parties want to exclude genuinely new parties that are not (yet) enmeshed by the ties of the System (NWO/ZOG).
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Yes, that is one of the main reasons they think it is OK to deny this country a genuine, modern democracy.
To me, it indicates they lack any real belief in the rightness of their ideologies and policies. If they did, they would have no fear in them being subjected to the greater scrutiny and competition from new entrants to the political arena that a PR electoral system would enable.
Of the two main parties, the Labour Party’s objection to PR is, by far, the worse and is utterly hypocritical. How that party with a straight face can seriously claim to be a ‘the party of equality and fairness’ when it wishes to deny us equality in the voting system is beyond my comprehension
At least the Conservative Party can make a half-arsed defence of the status quo and, after all, they have never claimed to be ‘the people’s party’ or a ‘party for equality’ and their role, historically, has been to preserve the country’s traditional institutions of Parliament (including the House of Lords) the Monarchy etc so maintaining an archaic electoral system can be viewed as being consistent with their traditions.
Labour, on the other hand, has no such plausible reasoning to try and defend the system with.
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Another massive fault of the system is that there is no direct and explicit link between a party’s popularity or unpopularity in the election and its seat share hence results such as the Liberal Democrats getting 4% more votes at the last election over 2017 yet LOSING seats to take just one example.
The system can also lead to ‘wrong’ winners eg in 1951 the Tories ‘won’ the election even though Labour polled more votes in the country and, conversely, the Tories, under Edward Heath, polled more votes than Labour did but Labour ‘won’ in February 1974.
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Hello Ia: How is the weather treating you over there. Here we are having a beautiful, mild winter with an average maximum temperature of 15 degrees.
The Swedes deserve everything they get. I cannot believe their lack of backbone and dignity. I am sick and tired of those whingers. (LOL)
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Claudius:
a quite wet and/or cloudy English summer, though June was very hot (20C-30C in the daytime), and there is forecast a week or two of hot weather later this month. Today, where I am (South/Southwest Coast), max temp 18C, wind about 11 mph.
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Indeed, Sweden with its eminently fair electoral system of party list Proportional Representation and its threshold of just 4% of the national vote to achieve representation has not one but two national-conservative/nationalist parties to vote for ie the Swedish Democrats and the more hardline Alternative For Sweden party.
Swedes should vote in greater numbers for them.
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Apart from June, Summer is yet to arrive here this year. I would prefer it be a bit warmer but not to the ridiculous extent of last year’s global warming-induced heatwave with its all time British high temperatures.
I can’t stand it when it is too hot. When the temperatures rise to 90 degrees plus or even , as they did last year, top 100 I try and stay indoors. I am not going out in that unless I really have to.
We British are simply not made for extreme high temperatures. It is a relief we are not getting those highs this year. Yippee!😃😀😀👍👍👍
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I wonder why climate change deniers/action delayers and Covid 19 deniers ect are very often the same people and they often believe in libertarian values NOT genuine Tory values?
Also, the Daily Telegraph provides these people like Matt Ridley space in their formerly respectable newspaper to write.
If there were fewer people like Matt Ridley in the Conservative Party and more like John Selwyn Gummer/Lord Deden the party might not be so loathed, distrusted and be such a long way behind Labour in the opinion polls.
If the Conservative Party is unwise enough to give too much succur to climate change deniers/climate change action delayers it might well find it loses crucial marginal seats to the Liberal Democrats or the intervention of Climate Party candidates will lose others to Labour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Party
https://theclimate.party
I have said it before and I will say it again. A concern for the environment and what sort of country and planet we bequeath to our children and grandchildren is compatible with a conservative frame of mind and with conservative values.
Green Conservatism is a perfectly valid form of conservatism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_conservatism
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John:
As you know, I myself “doubt” (question) the major *causation* of “climate change”, as it is in the short period usually taken, i.e. the past 150 years. I also realized quite early on that much of the “Covid” stuff being put out by the System and its msm was either not true or being hugely exaggerated, from death rates to the supposed “vaccines”; exaggerated for a *reason*, an agenda… I do not consider myself “libertarian”, and I doubt that even my worst enemies would call me that, though I do have at least some respect for the rights of the public both as individuals and as a collective.
There is only one reason the Conservative Party is sliding to destruction with the public, and that is because the governments of the past 13 years have been *useless*, especially on the economy, living standards, health services, mass immigration (migration invasion) and finance-capitalist exploitation, e.g. in the rail, water, energy sectors.
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Being perceived as climate change deniers/overly sceptical of the science or wishing to renege upon Net Zero commitments or not taking real action to deal with climate change won’t help the party either.
There are votes in environmentalism and you don’t have to be a tofu-eating reader of The Guardian in North London to be willing to change your vote to show your concern over the issue.
The Conservative Party needs to realise that being disdainful of environmental and climate change concerns can cost it votes and add to its current electoral woes which, as you indicate, are very significant already.
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That is an interesting poll above. The Labour share is 40% which is the lowest they have had for many months. Is this just a blip or part of a longer term trend?
The Conservative Party’s only hope is to improve its own poll standing quite markedly or, alternatively, hope that the non Tory vote fractures more between the Labour Party, Lib Dems and Greens.
As the former is looking very difficult to achieve, they had better hope the opposition vote splinters. I bet the Tories now wish they hadn’t destroyed the Lib Dems so effectively as a result of their coalition with them and that farcical AV (NON PR ) referendum in 2011.
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Decoded that means Labour will “as soon as possible” give the migrant-invaders British citizenship , lower the voting age to 16 and then these people can add to the Labour voting block imported from abroad during their last period of misrule.
Yes, New Labour Mark 2 has this evil plan all worked-out. NEVER trust a Labour Party that won’t give us PR and THIS is why they will not as it would get in the way of their plans to ensure the Conservatives can’t ever recover from what looks like being a heavy defeat.
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John:
In the end, I doubt that elections and electioneering can ever produce what I want to see. The enemy learned from the demise of the Weimar Republic. They “fixed” things better, or so “they” think.
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