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Saturday quiz
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored, he says, “4.5/10”. I managed 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 4, 6, and 7.
Interesting-sounding new book
https://www.wellspringbookshop.co.uk/books/dennis-kingsley/inversion-the
From the newspapers
“A dispute over a 97-year-old woman feeding birds in her back garden has escalated with the ‘bullying’ council now threatening a £2,500 fine or even court action to force her and her son out of their privately-owned home.
Retired music teacher Anne Seago enjoys the simple pleasure of watching from her conservatory as sparrows and robins feed off seeds on her bird table.
A complaint from a neighbour that she was attracting pigeons and seagulls prompted the council to issue a ‘written warning’ last November and threaten a £100 fine if the ‘anti-social behaviour’ doesn’t cease.
Now, amid claims the birds are still being fed, Fylde Council has issued her son Alan, 77, who lives with her, with another written warning. This time he is being threatened with a Community Protection Notice (CPN) and a potential fine of £2,500 for ‘non-compliance’ if the ‘anti-social behaviour’ doesn’t stop immediately.
And in a further threat the council’s environmental health department has warned it could take legal action for a ‘Civil Injunction and/or a Premises Closure Order’, that if granted by magistrates could ultimately force them out of their house in Staining, near Blackpool, for up to three months.
The officers even instructed the Seagos to take down the ‘I love’ birds notice on their window (above) in case it upset the neighbour.“
[Daily Mail]
Britain in 2024.
“Poland’s Prime Minister, Donald Tusk said: ‘I don’t want to scare anyone, but war is no longer a concept from the past. It’s real and it started over two years ago. We are living in the most critical moment since the end of the Second World War‘.”
[Daily Mail]
Tusk is a brainless drone, a complete puppet of NWO/ZOG. A year ago, he was predicting that Ukraine (the Kiev regime) would “defeat Russia“, and then go on to join both NATO and the EU. How is that going?…
As for war with Russia, certain powerful groups or cabals in the West are really pushing for it; the drift to war is almost entirely being driven by those groups, not by Putin, not by Russia.
An almighty war would be disastrous for Europe and the European peoples. Maybe that is why the “usual suspects” and their puppets keep pushing for one…
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Despite 2 years of false reporting by the UK/US msm, the truth is slowly dawning: Russia must and will win this war. Ukraine (the Kiev regime) is a fake state and a failed state, and is fast running out of arms, ammunition and, most of all, soldiers.
Another System-party clown…
People say that it does not matter what a person’s private life, sexuality, even beliefs etc may be. Only their specific ideas matter. Easy to agree with that, superficially, but it is facile in more ways than one.
Matthew Parris is typical, in a way, of the faux-“caring sharing” “Cameroon” fake “Conservatism” of the past few decades; post-Thatcherite, espousing a neo-Spartanism for the poorer part of society, and a freedom-from-responsibility ethos for the affluent and wealthy, all disguised by the said fake “caring”.
Often, though certainly not always, publicized in newspapers, and in magazines such as the Spectator, and often by affluent metropolitan gays such as Parris himself.
That kind of “Conservatism” is the polar opposite of the paternalism which characterized at least part of the old and now long-gone Conservatism.
Mrs Thatcher may now be thought of as the standard-bearer of the new pseudo-libertarian “Conservatism”, but she herself, in office, was more a product of the old order, and vacillated between the two camps, for all her expressed adherence to Hayek etc.
The tweeter cited above is right. Parris is shown, not for the first time, as someone who basically knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. His notorious column about “left-behind” areas, such as Clacton, set the tone.
Not that I disagree with all that Parris has written, such as when his column opined thus: “In May 2021, Parris called for the removal of ethnic minority status from Gypsy, Roma and Travellers, describing them “not a race, but a doomed mindset” and called for “a gradual but relentless squeeze on anyone who tries without permission to park their home on public property or the property of others” [Wikipedia].
I agree with those words, though the Irish “travellers” are not the same actual group as the various kinds of ethnic “gypsies” in the UK and mainland Europe (etc). “Travellers” of Irish origin are not an ethnic minority; the Roma, Sinta etc are.
I also agree with his view of sinister clown “Boris” Johnson: “In June 2020 Parris wrote an excoriating article on Boris Johnson saying, “He never had any judgment or strategic vision. Mr Johnson was only ever a shallow opportunist with a minor talent to amuse” [Wikipedia].
What I find disturbing about, not only Parris but also that whole strain of post-Thatcherite “Conservatism”, discounting its pseudo-“caring” camouflage, is its un-Christian, un-spiritual “throwing under a bus” of those (the old, sick, and poor) who cannot keep pace with his preferred metro-affluent new order. It reminds me, more than anything, of Stalinism, in terms of its arrogant brutality. There is something dystopian about it all. Parris himself is an atheist.
“This is the ‘racially aggravated’ banner they are trying to lock me away for, potentially for up to 7 years for holding it up outside RAF SCAMPTON The officer in charge has rebailed us while we await a CPS decision listen to her she HASN’T got a clue EVERY FACE on that banner came here as a refugee and went on to commit the most serious sexual offences against women and children You may try lock me up but you will NEVER STOP ME telling the public REFUGEE’S ARE RAPING HERE.”
Talking point
Historical facts not much noted by the general public include the largely Jewish character of the second, Marxist-Leninist, “Russian” Revolution (coup d’etat) of 1917, the largely Jewish nature of the Soviet security apparat from 1917 through to the late 1940s, but also the pushback against that in the Soviet Union itself, starting in the Second World War but particularly from time of the postwar purge of 1948-49 and on to 1953-1956, after the death of Stalin.
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“The rating of the German far right has risen again to 20%.
In January-February, a series of thousands of demonstrations against right-wing radicalism swept across Germany. Against this background, the ratings of the far-right Alternative for Germany fell below 20% for the first time in eight months.
Now it has begun to grow again and for the first time in a month and a half has returned to the 20% mark. These are the results of a survey by the sociological institute INSA.”
Germans, particularly modern Germans, most of them, are conformist. The hostile demonstrations, backed by Germany’s NWO/ZOG state apparat, were enough to dent AfD support, but only temporarily.
I have no idea as to the identity of tweeter “Wren Cobb”, but all donations are gratefully received, as are any shares of the link to my crowdfunder: https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J.
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What goes around comes around, as they say.
Gaza 2024, Tel Aviv 2034, or earlier, possibly/probably.
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Ian Robert Millard 
I think that deep-down Mrs Thatcher knew her libertarian economic policies were not going to be all that popular with the electorate so she ‘sweetened the pill’ somewhat with a dose of social conservatism eg Section 28 in 1988, support for the police, some nationalist/patriotic policies ie her reasonably decent attempt at controlling immigration, some ‘Eurosceptic’ remarks in her latter part of office. I am not saying she was cynical in this. There is no doubt she believed in a lot of it but it also showed some level of political astuteness on her part.
As for later ‘Tory’ leaders they have dumped all real social conservatism overboard and have not had Maggie’s poltical astuteness to realise that the Conservative Party can’t just be an economically liberal party for wealthy people hence their present dire electoral position as a party.
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John:
Many people think that a certain socio-political situation will last forever.
The “Thousand-Year Reich” was always a mixture of hope and hyperbole, and of course only lasted 12 years, only 6 of which were those glorious and sunny years of peace, 1933-1939.
The Soviet regime lasted far longer, officially 1923 (30 December 1922) to 1991, but really from 1918-1989, and in the last decade, the 1980s, was visibly crumbling (I heard some stories myself at the time about just how far it had already crumbled by the time Gorbachev came to power). About 70 years. Neither the KGB nor nuclear weapons could save it.
The same was true, with differences, in the DDR: 1949-1989, a mere 40 years. When I saw it over a few days in 1988, it looked stable, but like a stage set, lacking in reality. Neither the ubiquitous domestic “Stasi” nor the “Aufklarung” (elite foreign intelligence department) could save the Honecker government or the socialist regime.
In domestic politics too. As you have pointed out previously, at one time the Liberal Party seemed likely to last almost indefinitely. It didn’t, not as a party of government. Now we see the likely demise of what Disraeli called “The great Conservative Party, that destroys everything.” Even if (which I frankly doubt) the Cons can retain 50, or 100, or even 150 MPs (and as you know, I am thinking 50 rather than 150), that will probably only delay by 5 years the likely end for it as a party.
“There is a tide in the affairs of men”…
As for fake Labour, it may be riding high this year, but it may also be totally discredited come 2029 (assuming the UK is not an irradiated bombsite by then).
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I am not sure how this site uses opinion polls etc for its predictive model but it is estimating 90 MPs for the globalist, socially liberal Conservative Party:
The other two main sites are predicting 111:
https://electionmaps.uk/nowcast
and 113: https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/
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John:
My wider point, though, is that many seem to assume that, if the Cons get at least (?) 100 MPs, then in time the pendulum will swing back again, and come, say, 2029, the Cons might again have 200/300/400 MPs. I think not.
The Con Party lasted so long, nearly 200 years, by reason of its adaptibility. It changed but still was recognizably the same. Now look at it.
Many non-English (and non-Scot etc) MPs, and a complete Nelsonian eye as far as the real problems of the country are concerned. Then you have the ancient membership. Supposedly the membership is in the 100,000-172,000 range, but I suspect that it is probably far below 100,000, maybe as low as 50,000.
The Cons have already lost almost all people under 30 or even under 40. I just cannot see it having a future.
Labour may go the same way, but not yet.
There is space for a radical social-national party, but one does not exist.
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My own county of Essex will be staying mainly blue according to those sites but then we did have the second highest Tory vote share after Lincolnshire last time. Just another 15,000 or so Labour votes spread across three seats are needed to kick out James Cleverly (Thickerly), Kemi and the ‘wicked witch of Witham’, Priti Patel.
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If the Cons get lower than 120 MPs their future is going to be difficult to put it mildly but if they get less than one hundred then it could well be ‘Goodnight Vienna’. There does come a point when the electorate will just stop looking at you as a viable opposition party especially when you have no idea of what has gone wrong to get you to that point (that process has developed over decades not years) and there are no charismatic, inspiring and credible potential leaders in waiting.
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John:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13255623/Tories-hold-100-seats-Labour-468-new-poll-suggests-blow-Rishi-Sunak-constituency-survey-says-risk.html
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I am quite confident in predicting that New Labour Mark 2/1990’s reheated Tribute Act with added Zionist Israeli Likud Party will be quite unpopular to begin with and it won’t be too long before some pretty deep unpopularity will start to emerge.
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It would be funny if the unelected diminutive despot lost his own seat! That would be the first time it has ever happened to a sitting PM. The nearest we have come before was when Tory leader Arthur Balfour lost Manchester East in the 1906 Liberal Party landslide. He was PM just before the election was called. John Major lost the general election in 1997 by a very large margin but still retained his constituency of Huntingdon easily.
Even though I can’t stand the Labour Party, if I were a voter in Richmond and Northallerton I might consider voting tactically for Labour to kick Rishi out. Then, I would have to give my hands a good scrub with soap and water after doing the deed!
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John:
I was just thinking that, if unseating Sunak is thought possible, people might vote tactically (even if against the grain) to achieve it. The political equivalent of tarring and feathering.
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I think they have got some of that MRP poll wrong. I doubt the Tories will be left with no MPs at all in Scotland simply because the vote in so many seats is ridiculously split which, once again, shows how profoundly stupid this country is to still use this ridiculously archaic, unfit for the 21st century, undemocratic ‘pure’ First Past The Post electoral system. The highly-fragmented vote share in one or two Tory seats up there will enable them to just about hang on. Under FPTP, there is supposed to be only TWO candidates standing in each seat ie one winner and ONLY ONE loser NOT several.
http://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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John:
As you say, FPTP does not work properly when society is as fragmented as Britain now is.
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https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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I am not sure how the Leftie Stats site uses opinion polls in its predictive model but it is estimating 90 Tory MPs will survive the cull:
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The Afd has some radical right elements within it such as Bjorn Hocke but, for the most part, it is a normal national-conservative party. There are many reasons it has grown so large but one of the most important is that the CDU/CSU under Merkel moved too far to the ‘centre’. One of the main groups of voters it attracts are people who would have been staunch CDU voters under Chancellor Kohl. It also has many voters from people who previously abstained.
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John:
As you say, the AfD seems to be far closer to UKIP, Brexit Party, or Reform UK than to the NSDAP (or me). Unfortunately.
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I think that is doing the Afd a disservice. They are further in the direction of being a geuine national-conservative party than Reform UK is and the Afd’s policy agenda is based-upon sincere principles. There is a real, underlying ideology there.
Germany has the CDU in the centre, the CSU which only operates in Bavaria a little further to the ‘Right’, then the Afd and the REAL German ‘far right’ is the NPD nowdays called Die Heimat (The Homeland) and Der Dritte Weg (The Third Path).
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John:
Of course, there is far more state repression in Germany, even now, than in the UK. My one-time Twitter account (pre-2018) was interdicted a year or two before I was expelled from Twitter at the behest of the Jew-Zionists. I presume that “the usual suspects” somehow influenced the BfV (German domestic security) to do that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Office_for_the_Protection_of_the_Constitution
After that interdiction, no-one in Germany could see my Twitter account at all.
Incidentally, look at the size of the BfV HQ in Koln/Cologne:
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They were the more ‘Deutschland Zuerst’ (Germany First) nationalist/patriotic CDU voters so as Merkel made her party more globalist they have moved to the Alternative For Germany party instead.
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Matthew Parris is evil and SICK so it should come as no surprise he endorses the ungodly and sick notion of assisted suicide which is something akin to a classical ‘slippery slope’ and wide open to being abused. Why would anyone be surprised evil Rupert Murdoch employs him as a so-called ‘journalist’ and scribbler for the disgusting rag The Times which used to be a respectable newspaper but certainly is not under Aussie degenerate sicko Rupert Murdoch.
It really is about time Murdoch was deported to Oz. His repulsive ‘newspapers’ have contributed massively towards Britain’s increasing degeneracy and clearly with Parris writing such immoral rubbish the bottom of this hole hasn’t been reached even now.
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John:
The ancient cuckold will probably shuffle off soon, but his media empire will continue, I regret to say.
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Some people believe capital punishment is inherently morally wrong and can never be justified but would Britain really be a worse place if it was brought back and applied to degenerate misfits like Matthew Parris, Rupert Murdoch and fundamentally immoral Labour MPs like Stella Creasey who wants to make abortion of innocent babies even more easy to obtain than at present?
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John:
I think that, in my present gagged position, I had better not comment…
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Yes, we live in a ‘semi’, ‘managed’ and ‘manipulated’ ‘democracy’ at best. Well, we are the only country in Europe to share the same archaic and undemocratic ele toral system of ‘pure’ First Past The Post which will be giving us yet another unearned landslide ‘victory’ on less than 50% of the national vote shortly that Belarus uses (Putin’s only real friend in the world).
Hell, even the tiny microstate of Monaco with its zero income taxes for the ultra-rich uses the more democratic Parallel system!
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Let us hope Donald John Trump of partial British descent wins in November then this tragic war in Ukraine can end soon without yet more people dying on both sides.
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John:
I am hoping that, if/when re-elected, Trump will dump the Kiev regime.
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Mind you, if Trump does win and stops US funding of Ukraine then it won’t be good for us because that useless anti-British cretin, Sir Kneel A Lot, will be PM with a huge unearned majority and no doubt throw extra British money that is much more needed here at home at a war that Russia will surely not lose.
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John:
Britain does not have the means to take over funding the Zelensky regime if Trump takes away Zelensky’s American rice-bowl.
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Simply put, the Afd is occupying some of the political ‘space’ where the CDU (in particular) and the CSU should be. Under Kohl, the so-called ‘far right’ was virtually totally irrelevant.
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Read and digest Matthew Parris and other immoral, degenerate (how I love that wonderfully descriptive English word) sickos at ‘The Times’ and elsewhere:
https://christianconcern.com/ccissues/end-of-life
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The case of the old woman who keeps feeding the birds is horrible and her neighbour deserves an equally horrible end. I cannot believe nobody is helping her. Do you think she may have a case?
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Claudius:
I cannot say. It all depends on what both the general law but also the local by-laws may say on the subject. I cannot believe that the local council drones have the right to have her remove the bird poster from her doors, but as to the main point (feeding the local birds and maybe small wild mammals too), I would not like to say.
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I ses that the dopy lefty mare who is chief executive of that farcically misnamed Best For Britain group which produced the MRP survey showing the Tories will be left with just 98 MPs has said the survey shows the coming inherently rigged ‘election’ will be a ‘change’ election!
I don’t think merely changing the personnel steering Titanic ever closer towards the iceberg represents real change myself. This ‘election’ is more akin to the situation in 1940 if Hitler had stood down and Dr Joseph Goebbels had replaced him. BOTH Tories and Labour have no real interest in doing what is right for this country and BOTH have so little ability at governing well they would mess-up a piss-up in a brewery.
Still, as Best For Britain is a globalist organisation that has been given funds by that ‘rootless cosmopolitan’ George Soros what would you expect her to say?
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John:
Exactly. The British voters are presented with “shadows on the wall of the cave”; no more.
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