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Labour Party rule will be as bad as the present misgovernment, or even worse. The same forces control both.
There are huge numbers of people in the UK who simply refuse to see what is in front of them. For those people, immigration into the UK —and into Europe as a whole— is somehow good (and even if not, “inevitable”), as is the resultant mixed-race society.
Deluded people, in the socio-political sense. As Hitler said of the 1919-1933 Weimar Republic mainstream, “they want not only their daily bread but also their daily illusion“.
Everyone in the UK should be aware of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, even in the dilute Wikipedia version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.
Fictional literature is, famously, often the predictor of later fact; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints.
“The Camp of the Saints (French: Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French dystopian fiction novel by author and explorer Jean Raspail.[1][2][3] A speculative fictional account, it depicts the destruction of Western civilization through Third World mass immigration to France and the Western world. Almost forty years after its initial publication, the novel returned to the bestseller list in 2011.“
[Wikipedia]
Matt Goodwin’s blog
“We will restore democratic control of immigration policy after we leave the EU”, Johnson confidently proclaimed. “We must be much more open to high-skilled immigration, such as scientists, but we must also assure the public we have control over the number of unskilled immigrants coming into the country”.
This promise — that Brexit Britain would be completely reshaped around highly-skilled, highly-selective, and highly-controlled immigration— has been repeated by countless Tories ever since and still guides Spectator-style Toryism today.
The only problem, as new data makes clear, is that it was a lie. A big, fat, barefaced Tory lie. The country, the British people, got no such thing.
Contrary to what Boris Johnson and then Liz Truss and then Rishi Sunak promised, Britain has not been transformed into an oasis of highly-skilled scientists and big tech entrepreneurs who are contributing more than they are taking.
Far from it.
Under the Tories, Britain has become even more a country of mass, uncontrolled, and unassimilated immigration —much of which is not high-skill or selective at all.
Consider just one of many mind-boggling statistics.
Over the last five years, about two million people from outside Europe arrived in Britain through net migration. But how many do you think came for work?
Just 15 per cent. That’s right. 15 per cent.
The rest entered Britain as the relatives of workers, international students, the relatives of these students, or as asylum-seekers and refugees.“
[from Matt Goodwin’s blog].
Few of the migrants are “high-skilled”, few work in “high-skilled” (or any) occupations.
Our society is gradually unravelling.
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I had not heard of that person, so I turned to Google.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugh-bennett-76044910a/?originalSubdomain=uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugh-bennett-76044910a/details/experience
https://policymogul.com/stakeholders/15808/hugh-bennett
https://order-order.com/people/hugh-bennett.
Incidentally, Victoria Derbyshire misspelled the name.
An example of what is so wrong in that interface where public administration meets political propaganda, public relations, and low-level journalistic scribbling.
Look at his background. Five years of higher education at Oxford and Cambridge, studying natural sciences, after which he seems to have spent not far off three years working for Brexit-related pressure group organizations (Vote Leave, and then Brexit Central), followed by a year at the Guido Fawkes news outlet. Then? Straight to government as a Special Adviser (average pay is around £100,000 p.a.) in several posts over three years, culminating at 10, Downing Street.
After the fall of Liz Truss, Bennett left Downing Street (I presume involuntarily) and is now (after what seems to have been a year unemployed, or at any rate not detailed on Linked-In) in the world of politics-related public relations, like so many of such people.
People have to come from somewhere; no-one these days jumps fully-formed from university to government at a high level, but one wonders whose hands the government of this country is in when it is advised by people with so slight-seeming a background.
Odd-looking fellow. Must be about 32-33. Origins not known.
“SpAds” are a creation of the past few decades. Unnecessary,.
In the mid-Victorian era, public administration and much else was reformed: Army and Navy officer recruitment, the Civil Service, the Courts and legal profession etc. May be time to look again at how many parts of the public realm are organized.
Looking at the Liz Truss news, it is absolutely incredible that that silly woman now seems to imagine that she can return to some kind of political prominence. Her pseudo-“libertarian” ideology just does not resonate with the voters, and will not, even if conflated with some kind of anti-“woke”, anti-immigration ballast.
Matt Goodwin (continued)
Incidentally, that Matt Goodwin article reposted here above ends (at least the free-to-read version) with:
“While they’re losing support to Labour and Reform, they’re also now losing an even larger number of their 2019 voters to something else — apathy.
Many people in Britain are simply giving up on politics, no longer convinced any of the big parties can fix the big problems facing the country. And this is especially true for people who voted Conservative at the last election.
Most of the people who have abandoned the Tories in recent months have not gone to Labour or Reform. Instead, they now say they will not vote at all, do not know who to support, or simply refuse to answer the question from pollsters. And the number who now say this is not small. About one in three of them now say this.“
[Matt Goodwin’s blog].
Many many British people now, either consciously or unconsciously, support the kind of social nationalism that I do, but they will not admit to it, by reason of the muffled repression now part of UK society. Look at my blog.
I am going to be sentenced in the magistrates’ court next month for allegedly having published five (5) of the 1,700+ blog posts put on my WordPress blog since the end of 2016. If “the pen is mightier than the sword“, then the Jewish/Zionist lobby, using the police and CPS as proxies, are trying to take away that pen…
There is also the point that no proper social-national party or movement exists in the UK. The one that is most closely akin to such a movement, Patriotic Alternative, is itself now subject to repression. Sam Melia, one of the leading figures, has just been convicted, in the Crown Court, of “incitement”, on evidence that would have shamed the Star Chamber; his personal bank account had already been shut down a couple of years ago, along with that of his wife, Laura Towler.
Britain is not really anything like a “free country” now; it certainly has very little “free speech”.
Looking at the electoral situation politically, it seems that non-voting apathy might now amount to half of the eligible electorate. That might be seen as a positive fact, though. The right movement might energize that half of the population.
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Ha ha! I had better not comment in such terms as I should prefer, in view of my upcoming sentencing hearing but if, as Pollard and Collier claim, “antisemitism” is so embedded in, eg, the courts, how come I have been bothered by the police, then charged and convicted under a “bad” law (Communications Act 2003, s.127, which the Law Commission has recommended for repeal), and now face actual judicial sanction for having allegedly published a few “antisemitic” comments and cartoons during 2020-2022?
I wonder why (not really…).
The @DefundIsraelNow account on Twitter/X is one of the very best on the platform.
Africa? Australia? From the accent, I think the latter.
https://twitter.com/Titus_F_V/status/1755103444883705974
No wonder that hundreds of thousands of young and middle-aged Ukrainian men are hiding out in other countries to avoid the draft.
I blogged during 2023 that September/October 2024 was the most likely time for GE 2024.
The times they are a’changin’…
Ian Robert Millard 
Hello! I wonder why you bother posting statements from Matt Goodwin, a man who says the most obvious things as if they were brilliant discoveries made by him. “Immigration has reached colossal proportions”, “Boris Johnson lied”, (Oh! I did not know! How awful!)
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Claudius:
Hello. Several reasons. Firstly, because it looks better, usually, to repost a tweet from a well-known academic commentator than to make the same point myself (already made by me over the years anyway). Secondly, a tweet is dated, so has topicality. Also, the tweets indicate that immigration is near the top of popular concerns. A few other reasons as well.
I of course agree with you that Goodwin is saying nothing new, but he *is* saying it, whereas (as he himself says) most academics, msm drones etc are not saying it, or are denying it, or saying the opposite.
I do not know what are Goodwin’s origins; he seems very pro-Israel, but it suits me to repost some of his tweets on immigration etc.
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Also, repeating his tweets is good because he appears to have changed his opinions on these kind of subjects. If I recall correctly he wrote a book a few years ago which apparently was a bit of a hatchet job on the BNP.
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John:
I give Goodwin credit for having changed his opinions along with the change in the facts. To put it less politely, he has woken up, unlike most of the mass media and political drones.
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I understand your point; unlike me you are a rational human being who thinks twice before speaking or writing 😁😁😁
Have a nice day…
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Claudius:
You are unfair on yourself. You *are* rational, you just have that Latin enthusiasm and passion which is a lot less evident in me most of the time!
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Why doesn’t silly mare, Liz Truss, bugger off and rejoin the Liberal Democrats where she came from? If Libertarianism belongs anywhere within British politics it belongs in that party as it is fundamentally a LIBERAL philosophy NOT Conservative.
It is precisely because the Tory Party has been infiltrated by so many libertarians since the 1970’s it is utterly clueless about how it has become so unpopular and irrelevant to vast swathes of of the population and faces a landslide defeat this Autumn which could rival their worst previous defeat of 1906 or even worse.
Either they become a Right-wing populist/NATIONAL-Conservative party like Germany’s Afd ect or they will die. It is as brutally simple as that.
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John:
All Truss is doing is reinforcing the now-popular view that the present Government, and therefore the Conservative Party, is disunited, as well as corrupt, self-serving, and incompetent. All factors that the voters hate. Starmer may be as dull as ditchwater, and I doubt that he has a real belief or principle in his head, but GE 2024 is his to lose. He will probably win handsomely, but entirely by default, i.e. in lieu of any other party showing that it has any value whatsoever.
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That is trifle unfair on Starmer. He DOES have two unwavering principles ie he is passionate about his own self-advancement AND, should this even need to be said the man is a devoted servant of the Zionist entity with the evidence for that being his statement that he is, “a Zionist WITHOUT QUALIFICATION”.
So, Mr Flip Flopper as Sunak called him does have a few principles but that character assessment from Sunak, whilst true, carries no weight with the electorate as Sunak is about as popular with most voters as Adolf Hitler turning-up at your average Bar Mitzvah party or someone letting off wind in a crowded lift.
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I bet the Tories wish they could grab a small victory by riding the wave of a Trump re-election in November but for that to happen they would have to find someone that can connect to people most likely to vote Tory and the wider public.
Whatever might be said about Trump he does possess a certain form of charisma and can energise the Republican base and connect with ordinary folk. Sunak simply can’t.
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John:
In any case, it now looks as if my speculation was correct, and the General Election of 2024 likely to be held in September or October, i.e. *before* the US one.
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‘Anti-semitism’ blah, blah, blah! If it were so prevalent as David Collier and Stephen Pollard claim then how comes Ultra-orthodox Jews who are anti-Zionist such as Rabbi Beck of Neturei Karta fame don’t often experience it and after all Orthodox Jews like him are so obviously Jewish they should be prime targets for ‘anti-semites’! It must be that much of it is really anti-Zionist belief and an exasperation with the activities of Zionist pro-Israel zealots and disbelief about how some Jews show no form of understanding or empathy with the suffering and oppression of Palestinians?
If ‘anti-semitism’ is so bad here then why is Maureen Lipman still here? She is always threatening to go but never packs her bags and makes ‘aliyah’ to the Zionist entity on the next El Al flight!
https://twitter.com/NetereiKartaUS
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John:
Quite. “They” always whine about how the UK and mainland Europe are now “unsafe” for Jews, but they do not go to the Israeli state, most of them. Indeed, as I saw yesterday or the day before, 30,000 Jews have *left* Israel in the past few months, scuttling back to the UK, France, USA, Australia etc on their other passports.
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Perhaps, deep-down, they recognise that Jews have it very good here and particularly jn America where their every whim is indulged and that, far from being a safe haven, the Zionist entity is the most unsafe place in the world for a Jew to live as increasingly famous Rabbi Beck of Stamford Hill’s Neturei Karta UK so rightly says.
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