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Historical note
On this day in 1938, Austria became part of the German Reich, the forces of the Wehrmacht having crossed the border unopposed on the previous day, welcomed enthusiastically by crowds of Austrian people passed en route:
“On the morning of 12 March 1938, the 8th Army of the German Wehrmacht crossed the border into Austria. The troops were greeted by cheering Austrians with Nazi salutes, Nazi flags, and flowers.[57]
For the Wehrmacht, the invasion was the first big test of its machinery. Although the invading forces were badly organized and coordination among the units was poor, it mattered little because the Austrian government had ordered the Austrian Bundesheer not to resist.[58]
That afternoon, Hitler, riding in a car, crossed the border at his birthplace, Braunau am Inn, with a 4,000 man bodyguard.[53] In the evening, he arrived at Linz and was given an enthusiastic welcome.
The enthusiasm displayed toward Hitler and the Germans surprised both Nazis and non-Nazis, as most people had believed that a majority of Austrians opposed Anschluss.[59][60]
Many Germans from both Austria and Germany welcomed the Anschluss as they saw it as completing the complex and long overdue unification of all Germans into one state.”
[Wikipedia]
“Most people...” in the UK etc were no doubt being informed, or misinformed, by newspapers owned by or influenced by “the usual suspects” (the “you-know-who”…). The enthusiasm of Austrians for Anschluss was therefore a shock to them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss
From the newspapers
Sam Melia and Laura Towler
The heroic couple from Yorkshire [see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-68448867; and https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/03/04/the-tyrannical-jailing-of-sam-melia/] continue to stand up for the future of this country’s people.
Their crowdfunder [https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia] has now reached £60,532. The minimum level of donation is a mere £4. Help these people and their cause.
Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch) also has a crowdfunder: https://www.givesendgo.com/SupportSven.
I myself do not, at least as yet, have any crowdfunder, but am due to be sentenced this week (for allegedly having written unwelcome truths on this blog).
Tweets seen
“Russia responded to unprecedented Western sanctions with an “indecent gesture” – CBC.
In early February, Vladimir Putin joked that he wanted to show a “well-known gesture” to the sanctions-imposing West, but would not do so because there were “many girls in the room.”
Instead, the Russian president boasted about the country’s economy and its ability to expand its military-industrial complex in the face of unprecedented sanctions, writes CBC journalist Briar Stewart.
Indeed, over the past two years, the Russian government has managed to circumvent sanctions and limit inflation while investing nearly a third of its budget in defense spending. He also managed to increase trade with China and sell his oil to new markets, in part by using a shadow fleet of tankers to get around a price cap that Western countries hoped would reduce the country’s military budget.
In 2022, Western countries froze Russia’s sovereign assets worth $300 billion. Then more than 16 thousand sanctions were introduced. European airspace was closed to Russian aircraft, and hundreds of Western companies left Russia or curtailed their activities.
But today there are the latest iPhones and MacBooks on Russian shelves because government and business have largely been able to adapt. Russia has relied on Asia, and especially China, as its main economic lifeline. Russia’s ability to produce weapons and use its oil money to finance them is a pressing issue for Ukraine, which is struggling with arms and ammunition shortages, and for its allies.
“However, there are no simple steps left to tighten the sanctions regime. It’s a game of cat and mouse. Any delays in making decisions on additional sanctions give Russia the opportunity to adjust its policies and its economy,” the article says.”
People do not really want Labour, but they do want rid of the present Government. The misnamed Conservative Party is toast.
The “Conservatives” have given up trying to win, or even not badly lose, the 2024 General Election. They are now focussed on giving whatever they can while they can, not to their “core voters” but to the very core of that core, the wealthiest 1% or 2%.
Ukraine has never been famous for great minds, but that quoted remark must take the biscuit for recent comments by members of the Kiev regime. That man is the Chief of their General Staff!
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable” [John F. Kennedy].
That is the level on which much of the police force seems to be, now. Incapable of doing their proper and authorized job(s), and wasting enormous time and money behaving like a poundland KGB or Stasi, spying on tweets and blogs, and “monitoring” what the British people say about the migration invasion, about corrupt and/or useless MPs, and about those “special interest groups” and cabals which hide in the shadows, controlling or influencing events to our detriment.
Ingrained supremacism…
“Senator Ron Johnson: “I think it’s time for politicians in Washington to face reality.
Chuck Schumer came out of a meeting at the White House and said, ‘It’s simple, $60 billion and Ukraine will win. If you don’t give them $60 billion, they’ll lose.'”
How they plan. We’re now in a two-year bloody stalemate, and I think you really need to start asking yourself, is it worth spending another $60 billion to fan the flames of the bloody stalemate? Because every day more and more Ukrainians die, more and more Russian conscripts, more and more Ukraine is destroyed. If you care about the Ukrainian people, you should worry about this too.
We don’t have a winning strategy. The administration does not lay it out. If we are going to support Ukraine, it must be done in a way that forces Putin to come to the negotiating table and end this war. I don’t hear it at all. I hear that President Biden hasn’t even talked to Russia on this issue. And I would be very interested to know what happened in Istanbul shortly after the war began, when Boris Johnson, essentially halfway through the Biden administration, torpedoed the peace agreement.
So we really need to do a complete re-evaluation of this issue. And we should secure our own border before sending $60 billion down the rat hole to secure other countries.”
Quite. In fact, you could give the Zelensky regime USD $60BN or $600BN, and it would make no difference. “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) cannot “win”, even to the extent of “taking back” Crimea, Donetsk, and Lugansk, let alone anything more ambitious.
The present Ukraine is a failed state, and in fact a fake state.
“Russian troops advance even though Zelensky says Moscow’s forces are ‘stopped’ – Newsweek.
“Russia’s offensive has been stopped,” Zelensky told French broadcaster BFM TV on Monday. “Our command, our military stopped Russia’s offensive in eastern Ukraine.”
But Western analysts say Russian troops continue to advance in the Zaporozhye, Donetsk, Kharkov and Luhansk regions. “Russian troops recently achieved confirmed successes in the areas of Bakhmut, Avdeevka and Donetsk amid ongoing positional battles along the entire line of contact on March 12,” Newsweek quotes analysts.
In the Kupyansky direction there is progress in the area of the village of Sinkovka. In the south, Russian troops are regaining positions lost during the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the summer of 2023. Fierce fighting broke out around such settlements as Robotino, Urozhainoye and Staromayorskoye.
To repel the Russian onslaught, Kyiv has mobilized some of its best units, equipped with American-made armored vehicles and tanks, Newsweek notes.“
Quite right. Don’t trigger a Russia-NATO open conflict that would leave Germany devastated for the second time within 80 years.
Late music
Ian Robert Millard 
I think it is very likely the globalist social liberals of the fake Conservative Party will get less than 150 seats in the forthcoming election which would be the least number of MPs since the Liberal Party landslide of 1906 when they got 156 and they might well have less than 120.
This site: http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk is currently predicting 113 MPs which is a slight increase from last month’s 99 MPs.
They have persistently payed lip service to the immigration issue and will now pay a very heavy price for it.
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John:
If they get 150 seats or even 120, that will be a good result for them. The more I see of them in these last few months before the election, the more I read and hear about how even former Con voters regard them, the more I am thinking “below 100 and possibly below 50”.
The one thing that might give the Cons hope is that Labour is not even slightly enthusing most voters, and every time Starmer, Rachel Reeves etc open their mouths, they expose themselves as more tyrannical versions of the present misgovernment.
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The fake Conservatives have few reasons to hope at the next election. Really, this now is out of their hands for the most part. Their only hope now is for the opposition vote to split against them but so far it is pretty much united under the Labour banner or as they may well have so few seats left after the cull which will have implications for being viewed as a credible Opposition introduce Proportional Representation as a last, desperate bid to avoid an utter electoral calamity.
If they think Cruella Da Ville (Suella Braverman) will come to their rescue in defeat they might well need to think again as that site above predicts she will lose her own seat of Fareham and Waterlooville to Labour by the miniscule margin of 0.1%.
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John:
I think that many will vote tactically to remove “Conservative” MPs. Indeed, polls indicate that many who intend to vote Reform UK do not actually think that the Reform UK candidate will win in the areas where those voters live. In other words, voting Reform UK is, in most places, a kind of second-level tactical vote aimed at hitting out at the Con Party.
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Labour doesn’t need to enthuse anyone. All they need to do is broadly maintain their number of voters from last time which is what they are doing. The Tories have lost millions of voters from 2019. As Labour is the second placed party in most seats if enough Tory voters from last time abstain in them ect the seats will automatically fall to Labour.
That is the ‘entitlement culture’ our crazy and profoundly undemocratic electoral system can enable a party to ‘win’ a default ‘victory’ by. In Germany with its Mixed-Member PR system voters get two votes to cast ie one for a single candidate in their own FPTP constituency AND an explicit party vote for a party list in their state hence a party’s overall number of seats in the Bundestag is determined ONLY by how many people explicitly vote for its party list.
There is therefore a direct and explicit link between a party’s popularity and its overall seat numbers. Labour wouldn’t be able to win a ‘victory’ by default it would have to WORK for its vote share rather than relying upon other voters not turning-up.
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All of these by-elections Labour has been winning from the Tories have been won by default. Only one ie Kingswood has shown a real decrease in actual Labour voters from 2019. There they lost 5,000 voters but because the Tory voters abstained there was still a substantial pro-Labour swing of 16% (the seat only needed one of 11% to be won)
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John:
I think you meant to type “increase” not “decrease”, but yes.
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No, I did mean decrease. If you look carefully at the actual number of Labour voters, the new Labour MP with his husband who served in the Israeli Defence Forces LOST 5,000 odd votes from that polled by the Labour candidate in Kingswood in December 2019.
That is why the result was only a good ‘win’ rather than the more spectacular one in the other by-election in Wellingborough with a lower pro-Labour swing of 16% rather than 28%. As the Labour candidate lost those 5,000 odd Labour voters from 2019 the swing was decreased. It would have been more inline with that at Wellingborough otherwise.
Differential turnout by Labour and Tory supporters is costing the Conservative Party very dearly.
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Only the very safest Tory seats with exceptionally high vote shares are likely to survive the forthcoming cull.
Your seat of New Forest West will as will my own constituency of Brentwood and Ongar (Tory numerical majority of 29,165 and a percentage share of the vote at 68%)
Perhaps, your MP, Desmond Swayne, could be the new leader or Alex Burghart?
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Yes, Reform UK could do quite well on that basis. In very safe Tory seats like mine there is little risk of the Conservative Party losing even considering their dire opinion poll ratings so some Tory-inclined voters disillusioned and disgusted with the present administration can use a vote for Reform UK as a fairly low risk way of demonstrating that.
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If I recall correctly, Labour under Corbyn got around 10.3 million actual votes whereas the Tories received 13.9 million (nearly matching John Major’s all time record of 14 million in 1992).
4 million plus Tory voters from 2019 are abstaining, voting Reform UK, very small numbers directly switching to Labour.
Current opinion polling evidence and by-election results suggest the Tory Party will get less than the 9.6 million votes John Major managed in 1997. They may get as low as 7 million.
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In those other by-elections, the Labour candidate has only managed to increase the actual Labour vote from 2019 by miniscule amounts or there has been a slight decrease such as Mid Bedfordshire.
Tory abstention is costing the Conservative Party very dearly.
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I liked Dan Wooton´s words in the tweet you reproduced today. Can you explain to me why was he so cruelly persecuted? I know about the interview with Laurence Fox which was a storm in a teacup, but (apparently) he was also accused by a vindictive ex-boyfriend. I do not know what was the nature of the accusation.
The fellow did not say ANYTHING serious or controversial and yet he was dropped by the cowards running GB NEWS almost immediately in September last year. I wish him well.
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Claudius:
I have not followed the story. I think it was some kind of gay sex assault allegation.
From what I have seen on Twitter/X, GB News seems to be somewhere in the Venn diagram a. controlled opposition; b. hobby politics; c. a political bad joke.
I have never actually seen it as broadcast, and do not know whether my TV will even pick up the signal.
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Claudius This is the clip that got both Lawrence Fox and Dan Wooton suspended from GB News.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY0ZmwYL5R4
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Thank you very much!
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A little update, I discovered the story regarding Wootton´s ex-boyfriend; it was a sordid affair, as to be expected, involving a jilted lover. However, I believe his ex-boyfriend was manipulated by Wootton´s political enemies.
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Claudius:
Ah. Thank you.
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Gerard Rosberg is just displaying the usual Zionist hatred of anyone who is a Palestinian, non-Jewish ‘goy ‘or, indeed, JEWISH non-Zionists.
I wonder if he moans incessantly about ‘anti-semitism’ which in 90% of cases is really anti-Zionism?
https://www.israelversusjudaism.org
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And the moral of that story from Scotland is that people should think very carefully before voting SNP. Vote SNP and get loony leftism on steroids!
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John:
Look to the left of that Police Scotland nonsense piece. It shows the kind of police officers they want to recruit…
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Indeed. Scotsmen and Scotswomen need not apply unless they have impeccable PC viewpoints. Don’t want to apprehend real criminals then why not apply?
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It would be bad enough if this occurred only in loony-left SNP run Scotland but it also happens down here. Essex County Council is controlled by the so-called Conservative Party yet more and more of their adverts/posters and those of Essex Police feature ‘diverse’ representations. It clear that Britons are not wanted in this country and we are being systematically written out of the national story almost completely.
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John:
I could give some egregious examples from Heathrow Airport wall-posters recently, but perhaps I shall not cite them just now…
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So who are the warmongers in Scholz’s ‘Traffic Light Coaltion’ of SPD/Die Grune/Alliance 90/FDP?
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it were the Green Party. They used to be anti-war pacifists at one point in time.
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Hello, Ian.
I was sorry to hear about yesterday’s sentencing. I’m not quite sure what that entails (due to my ignorance in such things).
Are you free to continue with the blog?
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HennyPenny:
Thank you.
Yes, I can and will continue with the blog. The CPS applied for a Criminal Behaviour Order against me to slightly restrict, perhaps more than slightly, my blog, but the district judge (magistrate) refused that, agreeing —in effect— with my submission that the Order was so badly drafted that, if granted, it would have been unenforceable.
The CPS really are a bunch of clowns. They are now tweeting about me (and, on their website, inviting the Press to take an interest), presenting me as a kind of frenzied fanatic, continuously (in their word) spreading “antisemitic hate”. I think that the sentence reflects the reality… This case was purely political.
As I said, the CPS are a bunch of clowns. The police are even worse. Immense amounts of public money and effort wasted.
As for the sentence, the only court order, as such, is that I attend, in the next 9 months, 15 appointments with the Probation Service (called “rehabilitation days”, absurdly), but amounting to a dialogue with the servants of the state. “Days” is (apparently) not usually as “on the tin”; the appointments might last an hour, two hours, a half-day, or a day, as convenient to those talking to me. About one appointment every 6 weeks.
The maximum sentence was 6 months (i.e. 3 months) actual imprisonment, so this was a relatively light sentence (only a small fine, or an absolute or conditional discharge, would have been lighter).
To be fair to Prosecution Counsel (instructed by the CPS), he did concede yesterday, at the sentencing hearing, that the guidelines applicable to the case indicated that an appropriate sentence might be in the lower regions of “seriousness level 2” “community penalties”. I was submitting that the case fell into “seriousness level 1” and might be satisfied by a conditional discharge. The sentencing judge was disinclined to agree with me (obviously).
Both the trial judge (in November 2023) and the sentencing judge (14 March 2024) were courteous almost all of the time, and fair in their general conduct of the case, bearing in mind the essentially political nature of the case.
The sting in the tail (in view of my almost rock-bottom financial situation) was a costs order of £620, and a so-called “victim surcharge” (just a name for a further costs order) of £145. So £765 in all. I am setting up a crowdfunder in the hope of covering that sum and a few incidental costs: https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J .
My public profile being relatively low, I may or may not get donations. If you or anyone else would like to help, sharing the appeal online would make donations more likely; the more visible the crowdfunder, the better. The appeal has only today been active.
I am going to blog in outline about the trial and sentencing. Probably later today.
I should say (and will do, on the blog) that, in view of the increasing repression in the UK (almost all of which comes from “the usual suspects” or their creatures), there will have to be a change of strategy, not only by me but by all in the social-national camp. Free speech has been cut down to almost nothing in the UK, particularly when anyone mentions anything Jewish in less than a completely laudatory way. Running a blog such as mine in the UK of 2024 is not possible unless it is all but neutered.
I am going to moot a few thoughts on that later today.
The news at present about “extremism” being notionally outlawed by Gove and the rest of the Israel-lobby reminds me of my thoughts on the subject from about 6 years ago:
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If there isn’t already, a vigorous campaign of pro tactical voting needs to be started in the Surrey Heath constituency to get rid of the Member for Tel Aviv Central, Michael Gove. He really is a public menace. Surely the good people of that seat can find themselves a decent MP at long last? His Tory predecessor was quite good in that he voted against Bliar’s stupid war in Iraq which had ZILCH to do with essential British national interests.
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Thank you for your very detailed reply. As a daily reader of your blog (usually several times a day to catch up on your latest observations) I am, of course, very glad that you’re continuing on.
As regards the CPS, it doesn’t surprise me one bit that they are so woefully inept. They really are a pathetic and spiteful bunch. As for the police, I read the statement put out from some vile hag, unjustifiably elevated to the massively overpaid rank of Chief Superintendent, stating that the case was “very complex” and that they’d dedicated a great deal of time to it.
I will share the givesendgo link. I’ve made a donation. I hope others will do likewise.
Thanks again, Ian.
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HennyPenny:
Thanks very much.
I am intending to blog today, though I hope not in excruciatingly dull detail, about the sentencing hearing last Thursday.
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Apologies, Ian. I made an error in my previous reply. The woman concerned was not with the police (nor was she a Chief Superintendent), but in the rarified stratospheric position of ‘Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor’ for Wessex CPS.
Just another wannabe psychopath Commissar who zealously persecutes those whom her overlords deem political undesirables.
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HennyPenny:
Thanks again. I believe that I know of whom you speak.
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Come on Labour, Lib Dems or a good independent candidate! We want to see a ‘Were You Up For Gove?’ moment on election night! Gove would deserve losing his seat far more than Michael Portillo did in 1997.
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I have just seen the CPS page about you. If only they devoted as much effort to going after real miscreants such as Jimmy Saville (about the only true thing Boris-Idiot ever said was about how the former director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Keir Starmer, had helped to protect him) or the ever growing legions of drug dealers who cause REAL harm to our communities and get, at best, utterly derisory sentences of ten years imprisonment even when dealing in tens of kilograms of hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin. In a decent, well-run country unlike ‘Tory’ Britain such as Singapore these kind of criminals are hanged or imprisoned for very lengthy periods with caning on top.
The CPS is just one more example of this country’s utter degeneracy.
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John:
Yes. I read it. Huge amounts of time and money spent, just so that the CPS and the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” pressure group can put out a couple of Press releases. I notice, though, that there is rather a lot of *real* news around at present— the intensifying Israeli slaughter of the innocent in Gaza, the Russian elections, and much else. “Ex-barrister gets probation for having blogged a few things” hardly makes the cut…
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Even by the usually very low Tory standards nowadays, Gove is an idiot. He claims that all those people on the regular pro Palestinian marches are Islamists who are ‘anti-semitic’. The fact is though that those marches have attracted a wide range of people. They haven’t been composed of militant muslims exclusively but also leftist Britons and non-Zionist Jews.
Still, Gove along with quite a few others in the ‘zombie’/’Dead Men Walking’ government are loony Zionists even though most of them are not Jewish. Zionists have form for lying continously.
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