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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geirr_Tveitt
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Well, that pretty much puts the cap on the expected “Conservative” Party debacle at the upcoming General Election.
The Con Party is presently running at between 19% and 27% in various opinion polls, with most closer to the lower level. Call it 23%. Of those 23 points, about 20 points consist of the votes of persons over 65. If that demographic were all to vote elsewhere or abstain, the Con Party would be looking at a vote of about 3%, the same sort of level as that typically achieved nationwide by the Greens (2.7% in 2019).
Of course, that will not happen. Many middle-aged and elderly people are people of habit. Many have habitually voted Con for decades. Many say “so if I don’t vote Conservative, for what can I vote?” Brainwashed by the “two main parties” scam.
Having said that, I now think that many people even of advanced years are now angry enough to either abstain or vote elsewhere as a protest.
I do not think it totally impossible now for the Conservative Party to go one or two points below 20% at GE 2024. That would mean only a few Conservative Party MPs left— between 20 and 50, depending on all the other factors in play.
Sam Melia and Laura Towler
I see that their crowdfunder is now at (as of time of writing) £56,350, a magnificent sum, and still increasing, though more slowly than in the days since Melia’s sentencing hearing (last Friday, 1 March 2024; he was sent down for 2 years, meaning that he will probably not emerge for 12 months, maybe 8 months).
The money will support Laura Towler (who has a young child, with another expected within weeks), will make Melia’s time in prison more tolerable, and will support the couple and their socio-political struggle in 2025 and thereafter.
https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia
[Update posted on that crowdfunder site:
“UPDATE: Firstly, we would like to thank everyone who has donated so generously to this campaign, from the bottom of our hearts we are thankful for such a wonderful outpouring of support.
Secondly, as most of you will now be aware, Sam has been sentenced to two years custodial sentence.
Sam is now incarcerated in a British prison for the ‘crime’ of producing messages the prosecution admitted were ‘totally lawful’. What’s more, under this particular law, the Judge reminded that the jury that the ‘truth was no defence’.
This campaign will remain live for the duration of Sam’s imprisonment and the money raised will support Sam’s pregnant wife Laura and their child Catherine.“]
A modest donation (the minimum amount is only £4) not only supports a young family (and particularly a young mother who is also a staunch social-nationalist and who is imminently expecting a baby while her husband is —unjustly— in prison), but also sticks it to the System.
[Update, same day: the following message is believed to have originated from Laura Towler:
“We can now write letters to Sam
I’ve just spoken to Sam. He is in HMP Leeds. He won’t be staying there for the whole of his sentence but it might take a while for him to move. He’s safe and has made friends. He’s been exercising and reading a lot. He says the worst thing (other than missing us) is that it’s quite boring, although the library is pretty good. He said he would appreciate letters from people to help pass the time. Please don’t get too political or the letter won’t get through.
Samuel Melia A3370FCHMP Leeds 2 Gloucester Terrace Stanningley Road Leeds West Yorkshire LS12 2TJ
You can include a stamped address envelope in the first letter if you want him to write back. We can also send him books from their preferred suppliers and also email him. I’ll provide some more information on this shortly.“].
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Rachel Reeves. Evil. A Labour Friends of Israel member, in fact “vice-Chair”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Reeves#Political_positions_and_views.
Rachel Reeves was also caught trying to defraud the Parliamentary expenses system in various ways.
Now Rachel Reeves is intending to increase the existing harassment and bullying of the sick and disabled, and unemployed, in the UK, a theme she has supported previously.
The present Government has to be removed, but anyone who imagines that “the party formerly known as Labour” will be better is deluding himself.
Labour’s main problem in getting to its GE 2024 “victory by default” is its own MPs, and especially its own front bench. Every time they open their mouths, they seem less pleasant, and indeed less competent. I suppose that is why Starmer keeps them gagged whenever possible.
Liz Kendall, yet another “Labour Friend of Israel”…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Kendall#Defence_and_foreign_policy
Ha. Very true. Without the TV fear-propaganda, the System could never have got away with, for example, the 2020-2022 “Covid” panicdemic or scamdemic.
That tweet reminded me of a scene from this film:
A rather odd film, which (as has often happened with me when I encounter experimental-style films, like those of Tarkovsky) grew on me when I saw it for the second and third time (on video).
I first saw Alice in the Cities in the early 1980s, at some art-house cinema, as the Americans say, in Hampstead. I was rather reluctantly dragged there by someone I knew, “Major Tillman” (a nom de guerre), and his French girlfriend. His girlfriend apparently later complained that I had “fidgeted...like a little child“. Probably. I do not have a lot of patience with films. I believe that I heard that they eventually married, and now live in Paris.
On seeing the film again, I think twice more, so three times altogether over 20 years, the film grew on me, though I still think it not entirely a success, artistically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_the_Cities.
BlackRock also “owns”, now, much of the rich farmland (“black soil” or chernozem) of Ukraine, bought for a song, of course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock
…and guess who is the chief? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Fink
“Laurence Douglas Fink (born November 2, 1952) is an American billionaire businessman. He is a co-founder, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, an American multinational investment management corporation.[1]
BlackRock is the largest money-management firm in the world with more than US$10 trillion in assets under management.[2][3]
In April 2022, Fink’s net worth was estimated at US$1 billion according to Forbes.[4] He sits on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations and World Economic Forum.[5]
Fink was born on November 2, 1952.[6][7] He grew up as one of three children in a Jewish family[8][9] in Van Nuys, California.“
[Wikipedia].
https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia.
In reality, the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan is being implemented by cabals of evil persons embedded in the Government, Parliament, msm, and Civil Service. They scarcely even try to conceal the agenda any more.
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In fact, that person’s opinion is legally incorrect.
“1)A person is guilty of theft if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it; and “thief” and “steal” shall be construed accordingly.“
[Theft Act 1968, s.1]
It is a long time since I practised at the Bar (2008) and even longer (nearly 30 years, early/mid 1990s) since I did any ordinary criminal law, but my clear recollection is that someone can be convicted of shoplifting (theft) without having left the store. That is because the immediately-relevant component of the offence is that the person has “appropriated the rights of the owner” to the goods taken (with a dishonest intent) and with the intent of permanently depriving the owner.
Assuming that the foodbank basket is (as the one in Waitrose is, and I think at Tesco etc) under the name and control of [name]-Foodbank, then anyone taking food from the shelves, with the appropriate intent, and then “giving” that food to the foodbank by placing it in the foodbank basket or bin has committed the offence, even if the shoplifter does not get any (material) benefit.
In fact, I doubt whether it would be any different even were the foodbank basket or bin to be labelled with the name of the supermarket, because the shoplifter has still “appropriated the rights of the owner” to the goods, and intending to permanently deprive. I have no idea whether that exact situation has ever been tested in court, or in appellate court, though.
The same is true of a shoplifter who places items in a shopping bag or pocket (assuming that the “mental element” of dishonesty is present). It is not necessary, to ground the offence, for the shoplifter to have left the store with the goods taken. This is a common misconception.
It is true that store detectives and the like usually do wait until the suspected shoplifter has exited the building before stopping the suspect. That is because the shoplifter can hardly then claim to have intended to pay (as he or she might be able to say if stopped somewhere inside the store); there have, though, been appeal cases reported (often in the 1970s, the Theft Act 1968 still then being quite new) where convictions were upheld under such circumstances.
It is just easier for store detectives to stop suspects outside.
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Public libraries are vital even though most people, most of the time, do not use them. A component of a civilized society.
Quite right.
Because the German Government 1933-45 has to be demonized…
The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, or a large part of it.
Nice.
God. This whole invasion is like a skin condition, a spreading rash of some sort.
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Ian Robert Millard 
I think the Conservative Party’s absolute rock solid base of support is about 18-20%. As you say, a large proportion of that is well to do elderly people living in detached properties in Southern England such as in your seat of New Forest West and the richest 10% or so of the electorate.
Ordinary people of average means even those with Right-wing viewpoints have abandoned them wholesale and are now voting Reform UK or abstaining in large numbers.
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25% support or below is below is where the ‘tipping point’ occurs in our crude, archaic, profoundly undemocratic, unfit for the 21st Century, sick joke of an electoral system which will lose you many seats to an alarming degree even if they won’t be lost by much eg 500 votes in one seat, 200 votes in another, 100 in another.
With under 25% national support their vote share across the country is likely to be spread too thinly and will result in many seat losses even by narrow margins in a lot of cases.
The most fanatical and staunch defenders of this crazy electoral system might soon live to regret their support for it.
http://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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As you correctly say, Rachel Reeves is evil, anti-British Labour scum. When push comes to shove, there is only one way to deal adequately with poor people harassing vermin like her and that is the [REDACTED] as in the great state of Arizona:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Arizona
Where on earth does the so-called ‘people’s party’ get such verminous, anti-British pondlife like her from?
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John:
South-East London, apparently.
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Labour dumped socialism a long time ago and now even real social democratic values have been thrown overboard.
Why don’t they just rename themselves Likud and be honest for once?
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My ultra-safe seat of Brentwood and Ongar will assuredly stay ‘true blue’ and have Alex Burghart as its MP and your MP will still be Desmond Swayne but not many more seats will be in the blue column after the forthcoming cull.
A Canadian 1993 general election total wipe out is not likely to occur but they will still lose many, many seats.
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Re that video featuring Adolf above, why do Austrians like him think only English people are members of the British armed forces and not Scotsmen, Welshmen and Ulster-Scotsmen as well? I would expect that sort of ignorance from your average Yankee president and too many ordinary Americans but not from Austrians and Germans.
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John:
For many non-Brits, “English” is the same as “British”, really. Not quite accurate, of course, just as many Brits think that anyone who lives in the Russian Federation is “Russian”.
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Boycott Sainsbury’s! Don’t shop at a store whose owners gave, according to a report published three hours ago on BBC News’s website, £4,000,000 to ‘Tel Aviv Keith’s party’
Also, it is no surprise they are extremely reluctant to criticise the Zionist entity/state when a wealthy South African Zionist Jew gives them a £1,000,000 donation.
Party funding needs significant reform in this country.
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Hey, Iceland don’t destroy yourselves with so-called ‘cultural enrichment’ before I come to visit you! That country is one I have always had on my bucket list along with Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan and a few others.
Iceland supposedly has one of the world’s lowest crime rates. If they are as foolish to follow us and allow continual mass immigration that will soon change and their capital will end-up like crime infested London which was once one of the world’s most law abiding and beautiful capitals but sadly isn’t now.
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John:
Import the blacks and browns, import also their politics and their behaviours…
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Iceland is not free. Remember what happened when they sought to ban male infant circumcision?
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That gorgeous Dutch girl, Eva Vlandingerbroek, is very brave and honourable. Of course, the f… politicians across the Western world do not give a damn about the murder and rape of thousands of boys and girls of their own kind, because they sold their souls and betrayed their race in exchange for a f… penthouse or a f… villa in some expensive and “fashionable” district, plus a bank account in some “tax haven” where they can stash their ill-gotten gains.
I hope I shall live to see the day when they will be hunted down and k… has they deserve.
PS: Sorry for the swearing but sometimes I cannot be “nice”.
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Claudius:
Perhaps some of us are too polite at times…
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Dear Ian: You are right. My father was like that, “a perfect gentleman of the old school”, to use the clichée. He was too nice and polite and it enraged me to see how some scumbags took advantage of him. It took me a long time but I managed to curb that attitude that I inherited from him. Nowadays I reserve my courtesy and politeness for people who show me they deserve it.
Regarding John´s observation about the ignorance of the Germans and Austrians about the subtle difference between English and British. He should know that in many countries (like Argentina, for example) most people say “Inglaterra” (England) and refer to the British as “los ingleses” (the English). I remember that at school we were taught the official or “correct” name (i.e.: Gran Bretaña = Great Britain or Reino Unido = United Kingdom) However, even the teachers would usually say “Inglaterra” y “los ingleses”. In fact, the two failed British expeditions against Buenos Aires in 1806 and 1807 are remembered in our history books as “Las invasiones inglesas” (The English Invasions)
Talking about that there is a funny detail which proves how misleading or inappropriate is the word “English” when applied to the first expedition led by William Carr Beresford. The British force consisted of 1.640 men of which the bulk (nearly 800 men) was provided by the 71st “Highland” Regiment of Foot, that is a Scottish regiment! I bet more than one Scot would be offended to hear that the Scottish soldiers were considered and called “English” by the people of Buenos Aires! (LOL)
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Claudius:
In his memoirs, Khrushchev recalls that, on visiting Britain in 1956, he was treated to an honour guard of Scottish soldiers blowing on strange wailing musical instruments (bagpipes) and wearing “a very unusual uniform— steel-grey skirts” (kilts)!
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It is disgraceful what has happened to Sam Melia. Maggie Thatcher first introduced these anti free speech laws in 1986 with her Public Order Act and by doing so she planted the seeds of political correctness which has progressively worsened with each passing year. An unwise policy for Maggie to enact and the stifling PC culture created has now come back to bite the Conservative Party in an electoral and political sense.
I wonder how many people in Britain know we also have political prisoners and they don’t just exist in countries like North Korea or, indeed, Putin’s Russian Federation?
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John:
The best thing that people can do in the Sam Melia case is to donate a few pounds to the crowdfunder. It can be done anonymously, and the minimum is only £4. Such a donation really sticks it to the System, the unthinking rubberstamp jury, and the politically-motivated judge in that case. It also helps a brave lady who deserves support (Laura Towler) and her children. The large amount collected in effect renders the conviction and sentence nugatory.
https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia
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