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The fakes that roar
I happened to watch an edition of Celebrity Chase quiz show (from about 6 years ago). As usual, I did not know even the names of a couple of the “celebrities”, but “Eddie the Eagle” was there and, also, Michelle Dewberry [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Dewberry].
I believe that Ms. Dewberry is now employed by GB News TV as presenter of a current affairs show.
Sadly, Ms. Dewberry proved herself entirely ignorant about politics, and pretty much everything else. Even worse than I was expecting.
Full of unwarranted self-confidence, but empty of intellectual content. Totemic of the present-day (think “Boris” Johnson, for one…).
The presenter of The Chase, Bradley Walsh, introduced Ms. Dewberry as “businesswoman and TV presenter“, I think. True up to a point. She did have a business, though I think an unsuccessful one, about 15 years ago. She is best known for having won, in 2006, The Apprentice, the TV competition run by Jewish businessman Alan Sugar.
My problem with all that is that she is one of a number of people with considerable public profile, and who opines about politics, Britain’s future etc, and yet is entirely ignorant in almost (?) all areas.
I suppose that I have to be honest and admit that, in the commonly-heard (on TV at least) phrase, “she scrubs up well“, anyway.
I see now from Wikipedia that Ms. Dewberry is now in a personal relationship with a once-successful and still affluent businessman, who is also, inter alia, a TV/radio presenter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Jordan.
Ms. Dewberry seems to be an example of a widespread problem in the UK these days, namely people posing as business successes, political experts etc when they are nothing of the sort; but it suits the msm to present them as such.
Look at Michelle Mone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Mone,_Baroness_Mone.
Most such people are boosted by the msm and/or politicians because it suits an agenda, in Michelle Mone’s case as an example of a *woman from *a deprived or poor background, who *via her own efforts *became “successful” and *wealthy. The David Cameron-Levita, George Osborne, Iain Dunce Duncan Smith (etc) ideology personified— and as fake as those cheats.
In fact, Michelle Mone is a fake through and through, and always has been, as seen even in her Wikipedia entry. That, however, has not stopped her from having been —ludicrously, so be it— elevated to the House of Lords; nor has it stopped her from making hundreds of millions of pounds from useless hospital equipment, sold to the NHS via contacts in the Conservative Party, together with her present husband: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Barrowman.
There is something wrong about a country that seems not to care whether someone prominent, and/or in public life proper, is a fake. Look at Iain Duncan Smith. That man has so many layers of fakery that to examine them all in detail would require a book by someone such as Tom Bower [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bower].
We see now how history is not only misunderstood, but often faked in both its overall purport and in details. I am referring not only to the WW2 “holocaust” farrago, but to, for example, the attempts now made to present a one-sided view of European (including British) colonialism as something entirely bad, with no redeeming features.
When history is faked, how can present-day politics and intellectual life be unaffected?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Benton_(politician).
As in the many previous cases involving corrupt and moneygrubbing MPs, what always amazes me is how easy they are to entrap. They must have very little caution (perhaps as a result of their feeling of “entitlement”).
As Hitler said of the Weimar Republic’s creatures, “dirty democratic politicians“…
Incredible, or perhaps not, that the only penalty the House of Commons itself has imposed on Benton is a 35-day suspension. Of course, the real penalty will be if there is a by-election and he loses his seat, though he would have lost it —or will lose it— at GE 2024 anyway.
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With “them”, it is always all about them…
It may be that, in time, huge fleets of drones will attack Tev Aviv, Jerusalem, and Dimona.
The UK/US extradition treaty is, in practice, a one-way street. Abrogate it.
Incidentally, there was a time, mostly though not entirely in the years 1993-1995, when I appeared as Counsel pretty much weekly at the Royal Courts of Justice (always in the High Court). Seems long ago now, and indeed is. A different time, and a different world.
I blogged briefly about Kate Andrews a year or so ago:
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Well said.
I agree with tweeter “Betty’s Hotpot”/”@BigThickSlices” too. Reform UK is not properly social-national. I do not value it highly, certainly not to the extent of Matt Goodwin. Britain needs a social-national party which, sadly, does not even exist, at least as yet.
“Our wonderful police”…
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-tell-woman-nick-back-32171141
“A woman was left in shock after police allegedly told her to retrieve her stolen £30,000 Lexus car herself.
Alexandra Vlad, 32, woke up on February 6 to find her Lexus UX missing from her driveway in Newham, East London. Using a tracking app on her phone, she found the last known location of her car in Hackney, about six miles away. She called the police and provided all the information but claims she was then instructed to go and get the car herself.
Alexandra, who works in corporate finance, said: “I was more shaken by the experience of dealing with the police than the car being stolen itself. I told them what happened, and that I could see the last location of the engine. They told me they wouldn’t be there for at least an hour. It was a dodgy part of Hackney. I felt unsafe.“
[Daily Mirror]
The police are a prime example of how things generally do not work properly now in Britain, though there are many others— NHS, banks, insurance companies, the whole political and electoral system, repair of the roads, the non-existent border defences etc.
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Ian Robert Millard 
Are education and brilliance connected at all? General knowledge i.e. the ability to remember the answers to questions such as those posed in a game of Trivial Pursuit, are not an indication of success. I.Q. is not measured by the amount of general knowledge one has.
Henry Ford is a good example of someone who was not even high school educated, but went on to design engines and create a hugely successful business.
Ford was also an antisemite who was awarded the Grand Cross of the Golden Eagle by “Nazi Germany”.
Ford “insisted that war was the product of greedy financiers who sought profit in human destruction”. In 1939, he went so far as to claim that the torpedoing of U.S. merchant ships by German submarines was the result of conspiratorial activities undertaken by financier war-makers. The financiers to whom he was referring was Ford’s code for Jews; he had also accused Jews of fomenting the First World War.
Clearly having perception and logic is not based on having good general knowledge.
This is an interesting video about Henry Ford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWK0tG_JWIU&t=4825s
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Very good observations Velvet88. Most people believe that high marks and titles/degrees are clear proof that the person who obtained them is necessarily brilliant. It is not. Of course, some people can be very competent or even brilliant in their field, but they are a minority.
My mother´s brother was almost illiterate but he was very sharp and street-wise. He was also unscrupulous and that helped him to make a small fortune by the time he was 30 years old. I have known many people like him; they were academically useless but extremely clever and successful in business.
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It’s about having focus. Ford was clearly very single minded, he was very focused on what he wanted to achieve. Your brother might actually perform well in I.Q. tests, but not have a great deal of general knowledge. I.Q. is not based on memorisation.
In the video I learned that Ford distributed his own newspaper which pointed out certain characteristics of jews. He really felt it was necessary to warn people. Anyway, he was forced to close it down eventually. Then as now, anything critical of jewish behaviour had to be shut down.
Also interesting is that he was openly accused of being ignorant and was put on the stand in court for eight days of questioning to establish that. In fact he knew very little about history it was true, however, his achievements cannot be denied. When news of his court defeat got around, many people rallied around him, presumably they recognised his contribution to America and valued it more than academic achievement.
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Henry Ford was innacurate in his labelling. He should have referred to Zionist financiers not Jewish financiers as not every Jew is a Zionist and many of the most fanatical and loopy ones are not Jewish at all but clearly mentally ill gentiles such as ‘Tel Aviv Keith’ otherwise known as the Right Dishonourable Member for Tel Aviv Central (formerly Holborn and St Pancras, London)
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A shame about Scott Benton. He is one of the more decent Tory MPs in that he has quite socially traditional/traditionally Tory viewpoints in wanting to see abortion restricted ( he tweeted to that effect when the US Supreme Court allowed individual states to start drawing-up more restrictions than had been the case previously) and he wants to see a long line of applications for the skilled position of hangman! I, of course, fully agree with him on both points.
Why is it that marginal seats like his get semi-decent candidates like him whereas ultra-safe seats like mine in Brentwood and Ongar (Tory majority 29,165 and a percentage share of 68%) get the wet drip, liberal-libertarian globalist ones ie the ones who are the ROOT CAUSE of the Tory Party’s present dire predicament?
There is something deeply wrong with Tory candidate selection procedures!
As an aside, I am not too familiar with our present Tory MP’s exact viewpoints as he seems to be a pretty quiet fellow who isn’t particularly active in this seat.
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Yes, Reform UK is not really what this country needs but they do have one good point in that they wish to see a reform of this country’s utterly archaic, unfit for the 21st Century, profoundly undemocratic lottery of a stand alone First Past The Post electoral system the continuance of which may prove to be the Conservative Party’s death sentence later this year.
http://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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Indeed, Matt Goodwin. That illegal migrant, Abdul Ezedi, was yet another criminal taking advantage of the globalist Tory Party’s abject and totally disgraceful failure to secure our borders.
No wonder they are heading for a cataclysmic defeat in the general election which will be worse than their previous biggest one in 1906 let alone 1997:
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk
That site was predicting an abysmal total of 126 seats last month now it reckons they will have just 99.
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John:
My guess or educated guess (?) was and remains between 50 and 150 seats, probably nearer to 50 than to 150.
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A sophiscated poll using the latest advanced techniques in polling (MRP) and which asked 18,000 people on that site above predicts an even lower total of just 80 Tory MPs surviving the cull.
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