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Saturday quiz
Well, an unusual week, in that I was outscored by political journalist John Rentoul, who managed 6/10; I only got 5/10. I nearly guessed the answer to question 1, but could not be sure, and also came close on question 7. As it was, I only knew for sure the answers to questions 2, 3, 6, 8, and 9.
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Exactly so. Labour actually offers nothing (except, possibly, arguably, tighter administration) that is not offered or done by the present “Conservative” misgovernment. Having said that, the voters plainly wish to punish the Government for being so weak and, indeed, hopeless.
It was surprising to see that just over a third of the Kingswood voters who voted, still voted Con, albeit that the turnout was well under 40% (so only about 10% or so of all eligible voters voted Con), but that may indicate that in a general election, the Con vote in that constituency (were it not being abolished) would be nearer to 20% or 25%, on a putative turnout of about 70%. However, that would still be not enough to win (were the seat to still exist at GE 2024).
All speculation, of course…
According to the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] cabal (on its website), “lord” Ian Austin, the notorious Israel-lobby and Jewish-lobby puppet who was once an MP, and who is one of the “Patrons” of the “CAA”, actually wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions in 2022 demanding that I be prosecuted for expressing my views on this blog.
Regular readers of the blog will know that I was tried last November, found guilty on all 5 counts, and will be sentenced next month. Freedom of expression is almost dead, and a large part of the reason for that is the existence of the Jew-Zionist lobby.
Austin is very odd. He once tweeted that pornography involving bestiality should be decriminalized, a view echoed by the Jewish girl at the centre of the campaign against Dr. David Miller of Bristol University. Those tweets were later deleted. At the same time, Austin thinks that “holocaust” “denial” should be criminalized!
Austin’s quite long Wikipedia entry says nothing at all about his personal life.
Austin, as MP, was also a hard-core expenses cheat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Austin#Expenses
You can bet that Austin makes sure to “sign on” at the House of Lords every sitting day, in order to get his c.£350 a day taxfree cash “allowance” and other freebies.
I wonder how many other lucrative part-time jobs (in the argot of today, “side-hustles”) Austin has. That housing chairmanship was almost certainly only one of several.
Austin almost personifies the corrupt pro-Israel political system of the UK today, as well as Starmer-Labour.
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“Tories said they’d lower migration
Then put it on steroids
Tories said control borders
Then lost control Tories say we are sovereign
But won’t leave ECHR
Tories blame Labour
But won’t change New Labour law
Tories promised new economy
Then gave us more of the same
This isn’t hard. People are leaving the Tories because they promised one thing only to do the very opposite.”
https://mattgoodwin.org/p/sunaks-sinking.
Lack of funding is part of that, but I doubt that the tweeter (obviously Indian) would agree that another large part of the problem is the half-million to a million immigrants of various kinds every single year.
Yes, a tiny percentage of the migration influx consists of doctors and nurses, but the other 99.9% are those who will not work in the NHS but will use its services.
Then factor in the disastrous “lockdowns” and/or restricted service throughout 2020, 2021, and 2022.
Then factor in the other recent developments: the strikes in the NHS, and the explosion of part-time working by GPs and the better-paid clinical staff generally, and also the phenomenon of medical students getting trained here in the UK, mainly at UK taxpayers’ expense (despite student loans), then emigrating to countries such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc for more money and a better lifestyle. They should have to work in the NHS for 5-10 years after qualification and training.
“Here’s a chart I tweeted this week which went viral on social media. It shows rates of home ownership in Britain by age, from 1960 through to today. Take a look…“
“Highlighting the fact mass immigration is directly fuelling our housing crisis clashes with the elite’s “luxury beliefs”. Routinely, they demand more and more immigrants, looser and looser borders, to project their liberal beliefs to other elites all the while knowing they and their families will never be the ones to have to compete with immigrants and newcomers for a roof above their heads.”
“As Andrew Neil said in response: “And the Tories wonder why young folks won’t vote for them”. Indeed. At the looming general election just 8% of Zoomers from Generation-Z plan to vote Conservative.
This is why, last weekend, housing secretary Michael Gove went further, touring media in Westminster to warn if young British people and families remain unable to get on the housing ladder ‘they will abandon democracy’.“
Our day in the sun may be nearer than we ourselves, as social nationalists, realize.
Look at recent by-elections. Only a third of voters are even bothering to vote. They despise the System parties and refuse to validate those “elected”, who have no real legitimacy.
By that date (2036), UK society will have either collapsed into civil war or chaos, or be very close to that point.
Only social nationalism can save Britain; and, frankly, even that will be a struggle. Things are very bad and, equally important, getting worse, and rapidly.
“Scholz blocked the candidacy of Ursula von der Leyen for the post of NATO Secretary General, – Welt. According to the publication, there were two reasons for this:
Scholz considers the position of NATO Secretary General too important to give it to a Christian Democrat from Germany (opposition to Scholz’s party).
Scholz considers Ursula von der Leyen’s attitude towards Russia too critical.“
Die Welt is a heavyweight German conservative newspaper. Its business-oriented attitudes make it interesting that, recently, its coverage has mellowed towards Russia. The sanctions on Russia, and the general hostility to Russia from such as Ursula von der Leyen harm, not Russia, but Germany itself (and the rest of the EU).
Ursula von der Leyen always strikes me as —in the American phrase— “nutty”— excessively driven, and even mentally-ill. Another similar specimen is Christine Lagarde. NWO insiders.
It looks like Scholz and other major political players in Germany are waking up to the fact of the inevitable Russian victory in Ukraine, certainly in Eastern Ukraine. Realpolitik.
Unsurprising, given that Milei is a populist. However, this may be shadow boxing.
The UK now has not the power and global reach to defend the islands, certainly not to retake them after an invasion, as happened in 1982.
However, by the same token it may well be that the Argentine government does not today have the ability to launch such an invasion in the first place; I am unsure.
In the unlikely event that Russia starts to be pushed back significantly on the battlefield because of such weapons given to the Kiev regime, the escalation might result in Russia using ever-heavier missiles and bombs, even tactical nuclear weapons. Kiev could be completely flattened
There must be a peace process that leaves Russia with, at minimum, Crimea, the Donetsk region, and the Lugansk region, and at least much of the Azov Sea and Black Sea littoral.
That relates to the Russian victory in the devastated city of Avdeevka (“Avdiivka” in Ukrainian). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avdiivka. Victory was declared by the Russian side only today. The Kiev-regime forces not killed or captured have withdrawn in disarray.
War is hell. Avdeevka in that photo looks (i.e. looked, before the war) reasonably decent for a once-Soviet industrial town.
Interesting, if true. A few thoughts come to my mind. Firstly, what conceivable British interest was being served here? None, in my view. As to the alleged MI6/SIS officer, he seems to be a good listener (which must be part of his job) and is evidently trying to be non-committal yet friendly (also part of his job, I presume). Other than that, hard to say much about him. Maybe privately-educated but trying to flatten the accent (like the present Prince of Wales and his brother)? Maybe, maybe not. A suitably “grey” person…
Navalny and his group were playing for high stakes. They lost.
The msm in the EU, UK, USA etc all show the masses a series of pictures (on TV, in the Press) etc; metaphorical pictures; shadows on the wall of the cave, if you like. “Ukraine”, “Navalny”, “Black Lives Matter”, “Covid”, “far right extremism”, “Russia about to attack Western Europe”. Mostly lies, or the truth bent so far out of shape that it becomes a lie.
If that is so, the withdrawal order was just a figleaf to cover what was really an uncontrolled flight by the Ukrainian front-line forces.
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Ian Robert Millard 
All of these so-called ‘victories’ by the virulently anti-British New Labour reheated Tribute Act 1990’s/Likud Party of the Zionist Entity 2 should be declared null and void since all of them have been ‘achieved’ on derisory turnouts of less than 50% of the electorate participating.
I have a hard time accepting the supposed democratic legitimacy of these ‘victories’.
I believe I am correct in stating that Hungary used to have a requirement for contests in the single member constituency element of its quite strange parallel voting system to be rerun if there was a less than 50% turnout.
Some other countries in Eastern Europe have had similar rules. An idea the Tories could introduce here along with a constitutional court to investigate the Labour Party for running on what is called in Germany the ‘Fuhrer Prinzip’. After Germany’s experience of the National Socialist dictatorship under Hitler any party operating on that principle of organisation is investigated by the Constitutional Court as it is strictly verboten now in Deutschland.
The only by-election victory I will accept as legitimate is that previous record holder in Tiverton and Honiton by the Liberal Democrats in 2022 where the turnout was still poor but at least was over 50%.
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Mind you, saying that, about the only hope the Tories have at the next election would be to dump Sunak as he is a confirmed massive vote loser and always was going to be, get a real Tory to be party leader and PM such as Sir John Hayes, introduce hardline, definitively ‘Right-wing’ policies such as a 90% plus cut in immigration levels, the return of the hangman’s noose (as Sir John favours) and then hold the election in January 2025 and hope there is horrendously poor weather so the turnout collapses to 50% or below and Tories in their Range Rovers and other posh SUVs get to the polling stations whilst Labour voters stay at home.
Simples as the Meerkat would say!
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There must come a point where the turnout goes so low that more Tories will appear within the electorate. I expect though that the turnout would have to go down to less than 50% for that to happen.
All Labour’s ‘victories’ have been ‘achieved’ on differential turnout. That is the problem when turnouts fall ie the supporters of one major party nearly always will be present within the electorate at markedly different rates. The party turnout hardly ever goes down in unison.
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Hello! Several things to comment on today:
Of course, the average Briton (like the average Argentinian) is a moron who believes EVERYTHING the media tells him. All that nonsense about those bloody islands is just a smoke screen to distract the stupid masses.
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Claudius:
Thank you. I was unaware of the state of the Argentine air force. The RAF of the UK is also in a poor state, but not to that extent. What happened to those Super-Etendard fighters used in the 1982 conflict? The British Harrier jump-jet fleet was scrapped by order of David Cameron-Levita in or about 2012, “to save money”…
Seems that, for all the fighting talk in London and (more so?) BA, peace has broken out anyway, because both sides are short of soldiers, aircraft and, in the British case at least, naval fleets.
Ah, just read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault-Breguet_Super_%C3%89tendard#Argentina
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Hello again, I have a bit more information about the sorry state of the almost non-existent Argentinian Armed Forces. The famous and excellent fighter-bombers Mirage Super-Etendart (we had 11) were scrapped in May 2023 due to, listen to this! “lack of spare parts and money for proper maintenance”.
Even more humiliating was the situation in November 2018 when, during the presidency of the useless Mauricio Macri, Argentina hosted the G20. Because Argentina DID NOT HAVE any proper, high-quality fighter jets to guarantee the safety of the world leaders coming, the US Navy provided air cover with their F-18 from an aircraft carrier moored near Buenos Aires!
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Claudius:
Well, then it sounds very much as if Milei’s sabre-rattling about the disputed islands is an empty threat, the islands being 752 miles from the Argentine coast at the nearest point (in Patagonia).
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Hello! Yes, Mileri is a charlatan, like ALL politicians, but, he also is, and this is a bit dangerous, a maniac who really believes he is a man with a “historical mission”; a kind of messiah, therefore is obsession with and reverence for Judaism.
Most Argentinians, depressed and ruined by years of growing poverty, unemployment and inflation, could not give a damn about those stupid islands; and I am one of them. I told you before, that war should NEVER have happened. It was a byproduct of a most extraordinary situation and the incredible stupidity of the Argentinian military government at the time.
OK, rant over! 😁😁😁I wish you and your wife a nice Sunday.
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Claudius:
Thank you. Please present my compliments to Senora Claudius.
As said before, the Falklands/Malvinas war or “conflict” was a matter partly of political convenience, both in Buenos Aires and London.
Both governments were the midwives of the war, if you like. Both drew political support at home before and during the war. Once it ended in the way it did, though, only one side could claim victory. Mrs Thatcher rode to electoral victory (in 1983) off the back of the military one, whereas General Galtieri was blamed for the Argentine defeat. It was ever thus (as seen in the Russo-Japanese war of 1905).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election
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Excellent analysis of yours Ian. Having said that, there are dozens of thousands of cretins, in Argentina and the UK, who think that the 1982 war was “a just war” and many stupid veterans are proud of their role in it. Some people will NEVER learn…
About the fate of winners and losers in the history of warfare, I remember a brilliant sentence attributed to Field Marshal Suvorov. “Victory has dozens of parents but Defeat is always an orphan”
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Claudius:
Thank you.
Very good (Suvorov’s saying).
For me and many in the UK, the issue was largely about the wishes of the islanders themselves. I concede, though, that from the straight money/materialist point of view, had the islanders been offered say USD $1M each to relocate (or even stay, if they wished), with sovereignty over the islands to be either ceded to Argentina or shared somehow with the UK, most of them (I am guessing, of course) would have taken “the Queen’s Shilling”… From the sheer financial point of view, Britain as a state would have been better off. Still, life is rarely that easy or simple; and, obviously, not everything can be reduced to a money level.
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The war was about the self-determination of the Islanders and their wish to remain under British rule. They didn’t want to live under foreign occupation. Mrs Thatcher sent a naval task force to uphold that right of self-determination and the Islanders’ wishes. She was right to do so and had popular backing from ordinary people across virtually the entire political spectrum.
The Falkland Islands in 1982 were occupied by a foreign power and this was only the second time in living memory that had occurred since Nazi Germany invaded the Channel Islands in 1940.
Mrs Thatcher used our armed forces in an appropriate way. I would much rather use them to relieve British origin people from an unwanted foreign occupation than what they are usually used for ie interfering in foreign disputes with little to nothing to do with us such as Bliar’s globalist adventure in Iraq in 2003 with its still not found ‘weapons of mass destruction’.
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Thatcher did gain from the war politically-speaking but then who was the leader of the Labour Party at the time? Michael Foot. Enough said though at least Michael had some principles unlike uninspiring’Tel Aviv Keith’ . The Labour Party as a whole was a bit of a divided rabble as well in the early 1980’s.
The Tories had started to gain ground in the opinion polls before the war started and were on the road to victory. Undoubtedly, the war and its successful result helped that process along.
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