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The Kiev regime cannot defeat Russian forces on the battlefield, and any attempt to bomb Russian cities heavily will result in a response so devastating that, after such response, Kiev, Kharkov and other cities may be completely destroyed. The most the Kiev regime can hope for is to be allowed to withdraw to Lvov and to rule over a rump inland “Ukraine” state from there.
One notices that the 2022 and early 2023 UK TV talking heads and alleged “experts”, ex-British Army officers and newspaper scribblers, all predicting Russian collapse and “Ukrainian” (Kiev regime) victory (in one case, even a Ukrainian advance to Moscow!), have disappeared from the TV screens, or are being very reticent now.
Also absent is thick and lame-duck Secretary of State for Defence, Ben Wallace. He is a waste of space, and has decided to stand down as MP at the next general election. His seat is being abolished anyway, and no other constituency wants him.
From the newspapers
The Monopoly “Get Out Of Jail Free” card is now renamed the Monopoly “Woman With Children Get Out Of Jail Free” card…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12416255/Births-plummet-20-YEAR-low.html
…and relatively few births are to real British (i.e. white) women; fewer yet are to white women made pregnant by white men…
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The Swiss must be going mad.
Only three types of people want the facemask nonsense to return to the UK— the conspirators of “SAGE” etc, the loonies who feed off the hysteria around the “panicdemic”, and the shoplifters!
The NHS— Britain’s flawed religion.
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Russia is favoured by such attrition. It has about 4x or even (now that so many Ukrainians are living beyond the borders) 5x the population.
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Ian Robert Millard 
I bet that the f… monster who murdered those babies will be sent to jail for let’s say 20 years and will be out in 10.
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Claudius:
No, not in this case. As you may know, in the UK a “life” sentence is merely descriptive, and release on licence (“parole”, in effect) *can* happen any time after the prisoner has served his minimum-to-be-served sentence. All life sentences now have minima, set by the trial judge (or, on appeal, by the Court of Appeal); in the past there was no minimum term set in most cases, but now there is.
The difference between that and a non-life sentence is that, in most cases, the person sentenced to, say, 20 years for, say, robbery, will get out in 10 years (1/2 of the sentence) usually, though sometimes in 2/3 or 3/4 of the sentence, if the trial judge determines that the defendant is “dangerous”.
In the situation of a life sentence in the UK, the minimum term set is actually served; all of it. The Parole Board then decides whether the prisoner must stay longer in prison, or can be released.
In a case as appalling as that of Lucy Letby, the judge (next week, I think) will decide whether she can be given a minimum term, or whether the sentence will be a “whole life” sentence. The chances are that it will be the latter. If not, then the minimum term will surely be very long, maybe 30-40 years. Either way, Ms. Letby’s life is effectively over. She is 33. Even a 30-year minimum will make her 63+ years on release.
See the report here:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2023/aug/18/lucy-letby-verdict-nurse-result-trial-latest-updates
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Thank you for your reply and all the information therein. Of course, in an ideal society, she would be put to death (and in a terrible manner). Let’s hope she rots in jail, although (for me) even that is not a proper punishment for such a monster.
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That tweet by Velina Tchakarova is really funny. I know only one way of thinking and that one has not served me well at all! 😆 😆 😆
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My “friend” Hannah Ricketts has uploaded a video about Notting Hill, I was not going to watch it, thinking it would be horrible, depressing place. Well, I was completely wrong. The video is 20 minutes long and most of the streets shown were very nice; to top it I later found that is one of the most expensive suburbs in London with an average property price of £2.165.000.
Having said that, only morons with more money than sense will live in that area, practically surrounded by Untermenschen. In fact, if I was very wealthy, I would not be living in London.
I am sure she did not film the areas where the Africans live, which must be pretty ugly. These savages ruin EVERYTHING they touch.
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Claudius:
Notting Hill was reasonably fashionable in the 19thC, became a very depressed place, gradually, after that, and hit rock-bottom in the 1940s and 1950s. The Jew exploitative landlord and semi-gangster, Peter Rachman, filled his properties with blacks, 5 or 10 to a room, after the proper tenants had been scared away.
However, from about 1970 and then 1980, the area bounced back, and is now rather fashionable (and expensive) again. David Cameron-Levita lived there before he became Prime Minister, and several of the smaller embassies are there.
ps. Rachman died at the early age of 43, you will be glad to hear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rachman
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Thank you Ian! Yes, I am glad to hear of the rather early “departure” of Peter Rachman. (LOL)
Notting Hill is among the 10 most expensive London suburbs. In fact, it occupies the No. 5 (in the descending order) after Kensington where the average price of a property is £2.440.000.
I was surprised to find in the last place (with an average property price of £721.000) a suburb called Hackney. It must have change dramatically recently because I never heard of it as a nice residential area. What can you tell me about it?
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Claudius:
Hackney, and nearby Hackney Wick, are ghastly parts of East London. I have only been there twice. The first time was when I returned from a misadventure in Rhodesia in 1977 and was sent, I think in early 1978, by a temporary-work agency with which I signed up, to work for a few days carrying stuff about at a factory making “Matchbox” toy cars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_(brand)
A typical Britain-in-decline set up: a noisy and dirty 1930s-style factory, totally out of date but, attached to it, a multistorey office building.
The local area was a wasteland. Someone had written, on the sign “Hackney Wick”, the accurate description, “Agony Wick”.
The second time I was in the area was about 1982, when I met a beautiful and rather stylish young woman with whom I went to a few places, such as the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile (then at Emperor’s Gate, South Kensington; she had never been there, I had) and the South Bank Centre (I had never been there, she had). She took me to meet her cousins; they (and she) all lived in a house they or one of them owned in the tiny original Hackney village dating from the 18thC. Really quite nice, but just a few old houses and ancient church. I think that they all belonged to some wealthy family that probably had a stately home somewhere…
Generally, though, an area best avoided.
ps. I may be wrong but this *may* be the church I saw:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Augustine%27s_Tower,_Hackney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackney,_London#Post-medieval
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Hello Ian! Thank you for the information about Hackney; it is as I suspected; the glorified and re-developed very ugly district; and, for what I read, full of 4 x 2s (I have learnt some cockney expressions!)
As I said before, if I had lots of money I would not live in London, nobody is safe there, particularly if you dress smartly (something VERY rare nowadays); that would attract potential muggers/subhumans.
This will make you laugh; according to some idiot or scribbler paid by real estate agents, last year Hackney was voted “the best place to live in London” 😂 😂 😂
As usual, the prices are ridiculous; here is an article that puts it in perspective:
https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/london-property-hackneys-most-expensive-23970141
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Claudius:
Good grief. Inflated far beyond I had imagined.
I admit that I am out of date where London is concerned, having not lived there for 25 years.
I should never want to live in London these days, even had I the money to buy one of those properties in the Nash terraces at Regent’s Park.
Even the late Queen avoided London, and spent most of her time at Windsor, as well as Sandringham and Balmoral.
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