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Saturday quiz
Well, this week I scored 6/10. the same as political journalist John Rentoul (he claims six and a half). I did not know the answers to questions 4, 7, 8, and 9.
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From nearly two months ago.
I missed that poll. Interesting to see where the people are on the migration invasion.
As to Suella Braverman herself, though, she is, just like a more determined Priti Patel, all talk. Also, and also like Priti Patel, she is another Israel-lobby puppet. She is a flash in the pan. When the Conservative Party goes down at the 2024 General Election, she will either become a backbencher again or, possibly, Conservative Party leader but of a Conservative Party with 50-100 seats, and in possibly permanent opposition.
The fakery of Starmer-Labour, but as it stands Labour is pushing at an open door; it would take a miracle to save the Government of Indian money-juggler Sunak.
Gavin Barwell is an idiot. “Net migration” is certainly not “essential for our economy“. In any case, any benefits of economic growth are, at present, going to, at most, 5% of the population; arguably to <1%.
I am more interested in the “occupation” of the West…
Sometimes, I wonder when the oppression imposed on so many people will result in some kind of explosion, or retaliation.
…except that “Far Right” is a meaningless label, along with “left wing”, “right wing”, “centrist” etc.
“NEW. “Some people suggest there should be a temporary 5 year pause on all further immigration into the UK so the country can better absorb the migration of the last few decades. Would you support or oppose such a pause on all further immigration? All British voters
Support 53% Oppose 22% Don’t know 25%
People Polling/Migration Watch November 23 2023.“
I, obviously, support that, but such a pause would not deal with the existing mixing of populations within the UK.
For me, the aim is to create a foundation for a higher-level race-form in the far future. The only basis that can exist for that is an entirely or almost entirely European population, as existed in the UK until quite recently (say 1970s).
Turning off the tap is a start (if it ever happens), but is not enough.
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“Exclusive: Wokeness at the heart of “anti-woke” Kemi Badenoch’s dept:
Civil servants held a diversity meeting discussing the book Why I don’t talk to white people about race, and were encouraged to keep the discussions private. The Department for Business and Trade’s Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage (REACH) Network, a group representing minority staff, held the discussion on 16 November which was advertised as revolving around “topics relating to race, what it means to be anti-racist, and how to be an impactful ally”. An email from REACH to DBT staff said the “discussion groups are a safe space to discuss what allyship of ethnic minorities really means” and “will be based around Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I No longer Talk to White People about Race”.
@GoodwinMJ, told The Telegraph: “For all of Kemi Badenoch’s rhetoric attacking Critical Race Theory, it is now clear that this divisive ideology has captured her own department.
Whilst civil servants should not waste their work time discussing these radical narratives around race, it is up to ministers to put an end to this. The Conservative Party has had thirteen years to clamp down on officials who promote concepts like CRT, yet nothing ever seems to change. Instead of talking the talk, as Kemi and other Conservative MPs sometimes like to do on these issues, it is time for ministers to walk the walk.”
In October 2020 Ms Badenoch gave a speech in the House of Commons in which she described Critical Race Theory as a “dangerous trend in race relations… an ideology that sees my blackness as victimhood and their whiteness as oppression.”
The REACH meeting on 16 November took place between noon and 1pm, and was the first of six sessions set to be held by the group over the next six months. During the online meeting one official claimed that “four or five people in the last year” left DBT “out of pure frustration with the fact that they weren’t advancing and they weren’t growing to the same extent as their white counterparts”.
Another civil servant responded to the comment, saying: “I think it’s met with that defensiveness as well. It’s like the first reaction is to defend the position and state why but there isn’t a defence.”
During the discussion, which focused on racism and diversity, one official said: “I’m a trade advisor… and so often what I have done is connect what I believe in terms of the network with what my day job is… I work a lot to support ethnic minority businesses because I’m a trade advisor and so indirectly, so what I’m urging most people to think about is how can you connect your day job to being an ally and what does that look like?”
At the end of the discussion several civil servants made comments about preventing leaks from the meeting. One mandarin said: “Can I also just stress the importance of keeping the conversations that we’ve had here today to respect the anonymity… because the only way that we can foster these conversations in a safe space [sic] if we protect that.”
They continued: “And the reason why that I’m saying this is to be honest, that there has been articles that’s been posted online and in UK newspapers about what we do in a network, not just our network, but also other networks have been targeted. So it is really important to think about that. I’m not saying you cannot share what we’ve discussed in theory, but just don’t attribute it to a particular person so that we can continue to have these conversations.”
The comment was followed up by another official who said: “Just to add to what [civil servant] said, it’s the reason why we don’t record calls”.”
The “culture war” will probably, eventually, become a real civil war. Not today, and not tomorrow, but somewhere down the line. One triggering factor will be the ever-encroaching tide against free speech and freedom of expression. After all, when ideas are prevented from being expressed, the river takes another course.
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Ian Robert Millard 
INTENTIONALLY EVIL and bigoted arseholes like that awful woman, Isabel Oakeshott, and politicians like Iain Dumbo-Smith who have caused so much misery and social discord/ disharmony will have to be executed when the time comes. When push comes to shove that is the only real solution to these fundamentally immoral ghouls. They have absolutely no clue as to the reality of some people’s daily existences.
Normally, the Left are passionate opponents of capital punishment but even they must find SOME good uses for the hangman’s noose or the electric chair?
Apparently, Iain Dumbo-Smith is a supporter of the death penalty. Then, he won’t mind trying out the trap door, will he?
Seriously, why does this country have so many people and politicians who seemingly spend so much of their lives wishing for greater cruelty to be imposed upon people just because they are poor or vulnerable? That condition of some people should not be viewed as a crime. This way of thinking is just profoundly immoral and sick.
I wouldn’t be surprised if no other country has so many of these societal disharmony promoting ghouls.
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John:
I may be wrong but I do not think that other countries ever had “workhouses” either. What a classic example of the Victorian and pre-Victorian mentality! The supposed benefits of even useless work, and the near-criminalization of the destitute…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workhouse
We still have the ripple effect of those attitudes today in the UK.
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Does this repellent attitude stem from being a Protestant nation? Protestant work ethic and all that? Or are there darker forces at work? Like the persistent classism of a mostly self-serving elitist stratum of society?
Usually I am not in favour of closing private schools but, maybe, in time if that policy was enforced these sort of attitudes might die away.
It is noteworthy that many members of the present cabinet attended elite public schools such as Winchester and Charterhouse.
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John:
I think that the Protestant aspect is material, though that cannot be the entirety of it. As far as I know, the Scandinavian countries never had “workhouses” etc (I may be wrong, but I think not).
Not so sure that privately-paid education has much to do with it. After all, Beveridge, Attlee etc also went to such schools (as did I, though I have also attended State schools; I imagine that Reading Blue Coat School will not be in a hurry to claim me as one of its “Old Blues”, in view of the fact that the Jews always now refer to me as “disbarred”, even “disgraced” and now “convicted”! Ha ha!).
I should add that I know that you have high standards in accepting whether or not a traditional school is suitably pukka, so RBCS may not make the grade for you (despite a history going back to about 1640)…
As a matter of fact, looking at its new website, seems that RBCS now has large numbers of non-Europeans attending. When I was there (early 1970s), there were none, really, except a couple of half-Indian brothers I knew slightly. Alok Sharma was there, but I think about a decade later.
https://rbcs.org.uk/
That school does look much improved generally, though, compared to when I was there.
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Don’t worry about your old school probably not being too enamoured to claim you as an ‘Old Boy’. Winchester College probably doesn’t advertise Sir Oswald Mosley’s attendance there either! The standards of that public school have fallen a great deal!
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A decent, moral, humane and truely civilised society looks after its most vulnerable people whilst also taking hardline measures against criminals. We do it the other way around and that shames this country.
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Gavin Barwell should join the Liberal Democrats as should about 99% of Tory MPs. Mind you, even they do have some standards to uphold.
He makes the mistake that this issue is all about pounds and pence and that Britain is nothing more than an oversized business park/economic space. It isn’t. Every people in the world including ours has a fundamental right to have a viewpoint as to how their society should be shaped.
A well run country which this country certainly isn’t and hasn’t been for many decades operates on the principle that an economy exists to serve the nation rather than the other way around.
That is how successful countries like Japan and South Korea operate and, unlike us, they have vibrant, export-led economies.
By the way, Gavin Barwell, your party promised to END primary immigration as long ago as 1970. Yet another example of Tory lies and duplicity.
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The fake CONServatives deserve to be kicked-out of office for their repellent betrayal of the immigration lowering promises of David Cameron alone besides many other issues.
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Gavin Barwell and silly politicians like him need to realise the British people’s concerns about immigration from day one were never really about economics but much more to do with its impact upon our society.
Immigration is only about economics when it is of a small scale like in Japan.
The present rate of immigration is of disastrous nation wrecking proportions. It MUST END.
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John:
It is getting to the point, perhaps has already arrived there, where the stopping of immigration, even totally, even immediately, will still not prevent the ultimate degradation of UK society, bearing in mind the higher birthrate of what are still, just about, the ethnic minorities.
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When Israel ends and a single Palestinian state is created where Jews, Muslim and the small numbers of Christian Palestinians can live in peace and harmony as they used to do before the Zionist entity came into existence in 1948 then Zionism in the West will end too as there will be no reason for it to exist.
It will be better for Jews in the West too as if Israel doesn’t exist then Jews will probably not be viewed as Israelis by proxy in gentile, host countries. One reason ‘anti-semitism’ exists is because the Zionist entity insists upon calling itself ‘the Jewish state’ and wants the loyalty of Jews worldwide towards it.
https://www.nkusa.org
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Isabel Oakeshott and other Tory extremist nutcases such as Dumbo-Smith think people go onto benefits for a big laugh.
The truth is, of course, totally different. The vast majority of benefit claimants even when it was a humane and civilised system like it was under Thatcher found it be a pretty demoralising and demeaning experience and they wouldn’t want to be anywhere near a social security and now DWP premises.
They certainly don’t now.
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People like Isobel Oakeshott and Dumbo-Smith have no empathy for their fellow human beings and are emotionless psychopaths like that councillor says. They need to be watched intently for such people have the same character traits of which mass murderers like the Yorkshire Ripper are renowned for.
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John:
Quite. Look at how Isabel Oakeshott befriended Vicky Pryce, then “threw her under a bus”…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Huhne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Oakeshott#Journalism_career
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Suella Braverman was wrong to imply that most rough sleepers actively choose to do that as a lifestyle choice. That is only true for a very small percentage of the total.
Too many rough sleepers are the victims of circumstances they don’t control. A lot have fallen through the cracks of a welfare system that is failing to do what its real task should be.
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Yes, the culture war will become a real war as in the ‘Rivers of Blood’ wise, REAL Tory Enoch Powell predicted and as you say restrictions on freedom of speech will be a trigger for that eventuality occurring.
Indeed a lack of freedom of speech is how we have ended up here.
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The last photo of a medieval sculpture in today’s blog looks like Suella Braverman (LOL)
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Claudius:
Poor gargoyle!
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