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Good environmental news.
Ah, a “two-front war”. I remember that…
I wonder how many are embedded in the UK political parties at Westminster.
…and the Kiev-regime navy is nowhere to be seen (because the Kiev regime no longer has a navy…).
Cheap clowning. It is what “they” do. Look at, eg, Zelensky, or “Boris” Johnson.
Eventually, they will probably flee to the USA, EU, UK etc, presenting themselves yet again as “victims”…
As Enoch Powell said about 55 years ago, “we must be mad, literally mad” [to allow this flood of uselessness].
There are so many silly people who are desperate to justify and even support mass immigration into the UK.
Goodbye, English countryside, goodbye Green Belt, and hello a tsunami of immigrants and/or migrant-invaders…
The very parts of the economy that should be in public ownership. Railways. Water supply. Energy (on the large scale). Royal Mail and post office services.
Rachel Reeves. Labour Friends of Israel member. Expenses and perks freeloader. Failed to pay back her interest-free House of Commons credit card debt for years…
Anyone who thinks that the likely Starmer-Labour government from 2024-25 will be better than the bunch of clowns currently in office is being very very silly.
Having said that, the only way to (“peacefully”) destabilize the failed two-party rigged system in the UK is to destroy at least one major party. The “Conservatives” have volunteered, by their corrupt ineptitude, to be that party. At the upcoming General Election, all that is required is for people to punish the Con Party by not voting for it. Either abstain, or vote anywhere but Con.
Tice, of Reform UK, is scarcely my kind of politician, but he has caught the mood. In a recent interview (a few days ago), Tice made the necessary point: punish (his word) the Con Party, no matter whether voting for Reform UK means more Labour MPs. Labour will almost certainly “win” anyway, and almost certainly with a large majority. Think strategically. Wipe out the Con Party by either abstaining or by voting anywhere but Con.
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Good. Another total waste of space gone. I never liked what I saw about or from him.
“He is also a member of the Free Enterprise Group of MPs, founded by Liz Truss, and along with Truss, Priti Patel, Kwasi Kwarteng and Dominic Raab, he co-authored After the Coalition (2011) and Britannia Unchained (2012). The authors of Britannia Unchained claimed that “Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world.” [Wikipedia].
So wrote a man who has never done a day’s actual or non-political work in his life. He was even useless as an MP and junior minister, getting sacked at least three times from various portfolios (despite having been one of the least rebellious and most toadying of the Conservative MP-cadre).
Skidmore tries to present an “intellectual” front, but not convincingly. He does not have the horsepower, when all is said and done.
Skidmore, though now claiming to have resigned on a matter of principle, had himself earlier said (in 2022) why he would not be continuing as MP:
“On 26 November 2022, Skidmore announced that he would be standing down at the next general election, later stating in Parliament that ‘my constituency of Kingswood is being formally abolished in the boundary changes and there is nowhere for me to go.’[37][38][39]” [Wikipedia].
Translation: he has been both useless and disliked as MP and junior minister, and no other constituency would want him once his present one is abolished. In any case, there may well be few Conservative Party seats left after 2024.
Skidmore has spun getting kicked out of Parliament (by the time of the 2024 General Election) as a principled resignation, no doubt hoping to be given some lucrative and maybe environment-oriented quango appointment later. He might have been better to wait to see whether he would be in line for a peerage. No chance of that now.
Anyway, he’s off. Good.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Skidmore; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingswood_(UK_Parliament_constituency).
It will be interesting to see what happens at the by-election, assuming that there is one before the 2024 General Election.
…and the Zionist Jews in the UK, at least those making public statements on Twitter/X and/or on msm, are following that line; as are political doormats such as Starmer and that little Indian money-juggler currently posing as Prime Minister.
Tell me about it…
“The Tories have been lying —they’ve been gaslighting the British people, promising them one thing while delivering something else altogether.
They promised “lower overall numbers” only to then send net migration soaring to levels that have simply never been seen before in British history.
They promised to “take back control” and restore Britain’s status as a self-governing nation only to then completely lose control of Britain’s borders.
And now –as the latest data shows– we can see that while they promised a high-skill, high-wage, and highly-selective immigration policy that would attract “the best and the brightest” global talent they have instead delivered the very opposite.
They’ve further pushed open the floodgates to a new era of low-skill, low-wage immigration from outside Europe —the very kind of immigration which, as the latest studies show, is a net cost rather than a net benefit to Western economies and welfare states.
They need to stop lying to the British people. They need to level with the British people and admit that what they have delivered since the vote for Brexit is the total opposite of what they promised.
The British people deserve better than this. And it’s high time somebody speaks up and gives it to them. They deserve the truth. And they deserve leaders who will give them nothing but the truth.”
…and they deserve political leaders and parties not in hock to the international Jewish lobby and/or Israel lobby.
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Ian Robert Millard 
Hello Ian: I am subscribed to the newsletter from “Beyond Russia” which I receive every two weeks. Today I read an article entitled “10 Things You Should Not Do in St. Petersburg” and this one struck me as fairly odd.
Between 23.00 and 7.00 is forbidden to play music or an instrument, move furniture, sing, talk or laugh loudly. The same regulation applies to weekends from 7.00 to 12.00. The fines could reach 5.000 rubles (50 euros). I found that hard to believe and even harder to enforce. Have you ever heard of something like that?
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Claudius:
I think that those are quite commonsensical regulations in areas with very dense habitation. Especially the “music” bit. As you say, hard to enforce in Russia (and even more, I imagine, in the Latin countries).
I had not heard of such regulations in Russia, but if you look up on Google or elsewhere, you may find that other countries have even more draconian laws on private nuisance, and on what you can do, and when. The Germanic lands in particular. Switzerland. Germany. Austria perhaps. Not only re. noise, but on when lawns can be (or even *have* to be) mown, or when rubbish can be put out for collection.
Some countries may go too far. The problem, as always, is striking a balance between totalitarian oppression and chaotic licence.
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Thank you very much for your thoughts on this matter. I do agree with what you said. I believe that such a policy would be almost impossible to enforce in South American countries, however, there may be some exceptions.
I was told by friends who visited Chile and Peru, that in those countries the police are respected and feared and you do not see hooligans on the streets.
According to a Russian I know, his countrymen could be very brutal and unruly, therefore, they need to be kept in check. What is your opinion of the Russians at a social level?
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Claudius:
Naturally, there is, among Russians, a spectrum of culture, education, and behaviour. I have formed opinions over the years, having met a wide range of “types” and individuals.
The Marquis de Custine described Russia (under Nikolai I) as “Unhappy nation, nation of slaves! High and low, all are slaves”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Custine
That might have been less true half a century later, arguably, but came back with a vengeance under the Soviet regime. Even the highest-ranking citizens were effectively serfs, though more so under Stalin, of course, than after the Thaw, i.e. in the 1960s and up to the late 1980s.
There is, and always has been a pendulum in Russia— chaos on one side, and tyranny on the other. I found in the 1980s that Russians in a group often found it difficult to decide where to go for a day or an evening without endless discussion. Unless, of course, they were told what to do.
You could see that in the 1990s Russian Duma. Endless discussions, sometimes actual fisticuffs, but nothing much achieved. Then, of course, under Putin, a quasi-dictator, you have enforced order and enforced propriety.
I was in Russia in 1993. Only in Moscow, and not for very long (I was —notionally— invited by the Academy of Sciences), but even in Moscow the atmosphere was… I would describe it as “on the edge of disorder or chaos”.
As for the brutality and callousness mentioned, I think that that had always been part of Russia, probably in part a result of having been ruled for so long by the Mongols. The Soviet regime and its brutalities (often eclipsing anything the Tsars did in recent centuries) has had its long-term effects. Look at the world of business since the fall of socialism, i.e. in the past ~35 years. A mixture of Jewish illicit business chicanery and native Russian brutality. Criminal “business” did not suddenly spring to life in Russia in 1989 or 1991. It came from underground Soviet millionaires of the 1980s, 1970s, even 1960, who were almost all Jews or Georgians; also from straight Russian and Russian/Jew/Caucasus criminality. Look at Prigozhin.
I have seen and met some of those types, though on the whole I have met or known more cultured (and more friendly) Russians, though not from only one milieu.
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Here is another interesting article from “Beyond Russia”. Five of the most important advisers to Peter the Great. Two of them were British (Scottish, to be precise)
https://fr.rbth.com/histoire/89129-etrangers-contribution-creation-etat-russe
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Claudius:
Thank you. Peter the Great was, of course, a Westernizer, and angry (like Stalin) at “backwardness” as well as against Slavophile tendencies.
I knew about Patrick Gordon, and about Lefort. The latter’s name is retained not only (as that article says) in the name of a district of Moscow, but also in that of the infamous prison, Lefortovo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefortovo_Prison
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Here is another Scot who was very influential in Russia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Erskine_(physician)
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Claudius:
Thank you. New to me.
Masonic activities were rife in pre-revolutionary Russia. Prince Lvov, the first figurehead of the first Russian Revolution of 1917, was a freemason.
As you probably know, when the Jesuits (supposedly opposed to freemasonry but allied at the highest levels) were disbanded by the Pope, the recalcitrant leaders fled to the Court of Catherine the Great. She sheltered them.
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