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As noted on yesterday’s blog, what you get with Matthew Parris is the logical but spiritually-empty argument of the culturally-unattached, atheistic, metro-affluent gay, which Parris is.
If you had to characterize Matthew Parris symbolically, it would be a minimalist painting of an empty room. Something like this:
Very logical, very clear, but not very comfortable or pleasant.
Parris is not always wrong in what he writes, but often is, as in his assisted-dying comment.
Having said that, the ageing of the population is a challenge. We see that the birth-rate in Europe and across Eurasia is dropping to, has already dropped to, below replacement level.
The birth-rate is falling in the European-populated countries (my main concern), but also in almost every other part of the world, except Africa and a few parts of the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate
The facile, pro-immigration argument is that “Europe is not having enough children to continue its life and economy— bring in immigrants from… [wherever, but Africa and parts of Asia are usually mentioned]”.
That is like saying “the pilot and co-pilot have both had fatal heart attacks— get the cabin crew to fly the plane.” It just does not work, and cannot work.
It may be that via a concatenation of circumstances, the European peoples will quite soon have to start again, to build a new foundation for social and economic life.
It comes to mind that the ultimate reason for the falling birth-rate almost worldwide may be because so many human spirits were, in the past century or more, rushing into incarnation in order to experience the high-water mark of the industrial culture of the 20th/21st centuries. That rush is now at an end. The fact that it is mainly the Africans who are still being born in large numbers may reflect the fact (if it is a fact) that they were last in incarnation very long ago. Speculative, admittedly.
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No wonder, then, that the new breed of “Labour” political drones and freeloaders think first of all about how to increase their own physical security. They are afraid of the people they claim to represent. Rachel Reeves. Liz Kendall. Others. All the Labour Friends of Israel MPs.
Good point. Matthew Parris: useless as a Foreign Office trainee, useless as a Conservative Party office bod, useless as Mrs Thatcher’s correspondence secretary, useless as an MP…
“I have had the misfortune to meet many men within the prison system, like the suspected Beckenham attacker, Rakeem Thomas. Young black or ethnic men who have no respect for British values, the police, or white people in general, especially women. They do not fear arrest or prison. While in prison, many continue their criminal activities by selling smuggled drugs, particularly spice.
These men pose a threat to our society, and in London, Mayor Sadiq Khan, a weak and ineffectual man, allows them to wreak havoc, destroying lives and terrorising communities. In 2018, he wanted to reduce stop and search measures. David Lammy often criticises this approach as disproportionately targeting black people, despite higher rates of violent crime committed by Afro-Caribbean and other ethnic groups in London.
Rakeem Thomas pulled a Rambo-style knife on a ticket inspector in December last year, was sentenced to 6 months, and was back on the streets only 12 weeks later. Did he learn? Did the system work for him? Was probation effective in monitoring and protecting those around him? No, shortly after his release, he is arrested for allegedly trying to kill someone. What did they do, ask him the time or look at him in the wrong way?
There are hundreds like him are in prison, awaiting release to resume their destructive behaviour.
Hundreds more free and prowling our streets. Labour proposes leniency for such individuals, avoiding even basic searches. Having lived amongst these people, I can tell you that they are vile, ruthless and dangerous individuals. They are beyond rehabilitation and should be locked up for life. Yet, under Labour’s policies, they seem to be heading, unchecked and protected, to a town near you.
The United Kingdom is turning into a Ununited Hell!“
That is why the old South Africa had “pass laws”, to stop what they called “skollies” from wandering around and committing crimes and trouble generally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_law.
“Iain Duncan Smith says if we vote for Reform, it’s like giving Labour a big win. I like IDS, but he’s telling us something we already know.
The truth is, the Conservatives have left us no choice. They didn’t fight for us or Brexit. They barely got us through COVID in one piece and just gave up on everything we fought for. They should have replaced Sunak with someone who’d really battle for our country. Now, we’re stuck.
If we vote for Reform, it helps Labour destroy Brexit and the country. But staying with the Tories feels like they’ve already given up, and with the rabble we have running it now, we won’t see the UK we all want anyway.
This country is falling apart, the streets are like the wild west, and it’s open season for illegals to come here and bleed the country dry and commit the most horrific crimes.
We know that under Labour, this is just going to get worse; they will pander to them and welcome them with open arms. You may as well burn every Union Jack because the country will be finished. Starmer may be the leader but the hard Left are waiting in the wings, ready to take over.
So, what do we do? It’s a horrible feeling, an unbelievable nightmare that seems absurd given the majority that Boris won. Yes, a vote for Reform is a vote for hope and what we believe in, but it’s giving us Labour.
They cannot win, the Tories, in the state they are in, cannot win. WE cannot win, whatever we do. We will be stuck with a huge majority Labour government for 10-15 years, the UK won’t survive the absurd wokery, anti Britishness and open arms to the masses.
What kind of hell are we subjecting our children and grandchildren to? The simple matter is the Tories have let us down, and now it seems like our Brexit dreams are just slipping away because they didn’t stand strong when it mattered.
There’s still time; there could be a plot twist coming just around the corner, but it will need the true right of the Conservatives to look themselves in the mirror and remember the people of the United Kingdom, who and what we are, what we fought for, and what we expected of them. It will need a handful of actual patriots to stand tall and reunite the whole right of UK politics before it’s too late. If that doesn’t happen, then Brexit and all the freedoms and hope we fought for are dead, regardless of who we vote for. How did they let this happen to our once beautiful country?“
Well, I agree with much of that. Not all. For one thing, Dunce Duncan Smith should be put on trial and receive the just measure of his deeds. Also, Starmer is just a puppet of the Israel lobby; at best useless, at worst a soon-to-be “elected” tyrant.
I now see quite a few tweets from people whose guess is closer to my own, i.e. as few as 50 MPS.
I doubt that most of that relates to the Gaza slaughter as such; probably more to do with the high Israeli (Jewish) losses in the field, and the fact that much of the world now thoroughly despises Israel and its population. That, and the fact that, after nearly six months, the Israelis have still not achieved anything that looks like “victory”, despite their overwhelming firepower, their devastation of urban and residential areas, and the death toll visited upon tens of thousands of Gazan civilians.
“The population of the Gaza Strip has lost more than 97% of its daily average water consumption, which previously did not meet the WHO recommended minimum. Now the average resident of the Gaza Strip no longer consumes 3 liters of water per day, as it was in November last year, but just under a liter, which is more than 7 times lower.”
The Kiev regime can mount attacks on bridges, railway lines, or even concert venues (using proxy terrorists) but, on the other side, Russian forces are destroying what is left of the Ukraine’s electricity generation and supply system, as well as slowly but surely grinding down the ever more sparse Kiev-regime forces in the field.
“Russian forces continue to advance on the Ukrainian battlefield despite muddy roads , former CIA analyst Larry Johnson said in an interview with the YouTube channel “Dialogue Works”.
If you look at what is happening right now, I think the offensive has already started. They are making progress, he said. Russian forces continue offensive operations, even despite muddy roads, while Western tanks in Ukraine get stuck in the mud. Ukrainian troops are constantly withdrawing, Johnson concluded.“
“Hundreds of kilometers of fortifications and several defense rings were built around Kyiv.
“In a year this is about 1000 km of fortifications, three rings of defense of Kyiv. The Chernobyl direction has been greatly strengthened. Long-term concrete fortifications are already being built. We did everything to ensure that there were no options for a sudden enemy entry,” said Ground Forces Commander Alexander Pavlyuk.“
If Kiev becomes a bastion, almost impenetrable, the advancing Russian forces may either bypass the region, or simply reduce Kiev by means of air power.
Whatever the outcome of that, it seems clear that the Kiev-regime forces are expecting a large-scale Russian advance in 2024-2025, an advance which they have, and will have, no means of countering.
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Dunce Dumbo-Smith apparently approves of capital punishment. He can be first in line to test the new gallows! All in the name of research of course!:
https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org
https://www.mha.gov.sg/home-team-real-deal/detail-detail/the-death-penalty-in-singapore
http://www.mha.gov.sg
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/why-i-support-capital-punishment
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https://www.mha.gov.sg/home-team-real-deal/detail/detail/the-death-penalty-in-singapore
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Some of those protests might do. Some of the more intelligent (after all, Jews are supposed to have one of the world’s highest average IQs) and rational Jews might well be thinking constant oppression of the Palestinians will only bring forth more and more resistance and violence and produce more tragic events like 7th October 2023. The Zionist state has had few real days of genuine peace since May 1948. It is the most dangerous place in the world for a Jew to live. The state should be peacefully dismantled and turned into a independent Palestinian state where Jews, Christian and Muslim Palestinians can live in peace and harmony as they used to do before the Zionist supremacist philosophy took hold. The Zionist dream is a living nightmare. Eventually, more will cotton on to these facts.
Bibi Netanhayu is said to be notably corrupt. That might well be an explanation for some of the protests as well.
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John:
Netanyahu was pushed to be Israeli leader from the start. I recall a very partisan New York Times feature about him from when I lived in New Jersey in 1990. I always bought the NY Times, together with a Jersey Lotto ticket and either a small bar of chocolate or a couple of poppyseed bagels…almost like the Jews, or the Sopranos (I suppose, though, as I understand them, that the Sopranos would leave the NY Times, and buy the NY Post, though…).
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I will say one thing in favour of the Zionist entity. At least in regard to the Jewish population it is a genuine, modern democracy unlike this country. In Israel, you only have to get 3.25% of the national vote ie the threshold or more to get seats in the parliament, the Knesset.
There are few ‘wasted’ votes as compared to the 14,000,000 odd votes our ludicrously undemocratic and severely out of date ‘pure’ FPTP system wasted here last time and put into the nearest bin electing no MPs.
If you want a landslide victory in Israel you can have one but you must EARN it instead of getting an archaic electoral system to do your dirty work for you.
https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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Ah, the old Apartheid South Africa. A great country which had a decent economy thereby providing a good standard of living for whites and many blacks unlike now. It is a little known fact that Apartheid SA had a very bad illegal immigration problem from the black-ruled countries to its North which saw thousands upon thousands of blacks illegally migrating to the pariah, internationally boycotted state so white rule and Apartheid was tolerable for them!
Apartheid SA was not just Africa’s economic powerhouse but its military one too. Law and order was a real lived experience for whites AND blacks. SA had the word’s highest per capita capital punishment rate and did a nice line in judicial corporal punishment as well. It is true that Apartheid had its more stupid and petty aspects but the basics had some reasoning to them. It was hypocritical for us to criticise SA for Apartheid as the fundamentals of it were put into place by us well before the National Party came to power in 1948.
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John:
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One of the world’s most stirring national anthems and still partially used today alongside the ANC one.
The way this economic zone ‘country’ is going we will soon need the Apartheid era pass laws or some means of controlling violent black hoodlums like that character above.
Perhaps, we will have good reasons to copy Southern US states like Louisiana and South Carolina:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Louisiana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_South_Carolina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruesome_Gertie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Sparky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair
It isn’t all that hard to understand why some Republican Party-leaning states in the South of the USA cling so tenaciously to capital punishment.
For the record, I prefer my executions to be conducted using the classically British and relatively humane and civilised method of long-drop hangings but I suppose there is a case to be made that if you are going to use the ‘ultimate punishment’ then you should seek to produce as much deterrent value from it as you can without resorting to excessive cruelty hence ghastly contraptions such as the Yankee eletric chair.
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Under the unelected extra from ‘It Ain’t Half Hot Mum’/’Mind Your Language’/that superb 1980’s drama serial ‘The Jewel In The Crown’ the Tories have NO HOPE whatsoever of avoiding a devastating and perhaps existential defeat. He simply doesn’t have a clue as to why they are so unpopular and shows no willingness to learn.
The hour is very late and now not much will budge the polls. Personally, I think the only course of action that has any prospect of moving those polls is to put Penny Mordaunt in without a leadership election and to drop the Tory Party’s fanatical opposition to Proportional Representation and change the electoral system. It is either that or stay with Sunak and get crushed so badly by the farcical ‘pure’ FPTP system the party will have so few MPs it can’t operate as a credible opposition. At least under PR, the country will not be a one party state in all but name.
The Tories really are in last chance saloon territory now so radical actions are unavoidable. They need to remember the Labour Party plan to rig elections in their favour by importing yet more immigrants like they did from 1997 to 2010 and giving 16 year olds the right to vote.
https://www.nickhunn.com/pr-not-pm-the-uk-has-a-golden-opportunity-for-electoral-reform
https://conservativeelectoralreform.org.uk
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I see that the ever moronic Daily Moron/Mail has had some instructions from Tory Central Office and is following them faithfully. They are attacking Reform UK because some of their candidates have said some controversial and sometimes silly things.
Pathetic. Whilst I am not a huge admirer of Reform UK (it is not in the league of Germany’s excellent national-conservative/nationalist Afd party) I can see why a lot of very frustrated people intend to vote for them. Perhaps, if the Daily Moron’s beloved Conservative Party had not betrayed so many conservstive minded voters over the last 14 years by acting as the rich man’s more undemocratic and posher version of the Liberal Democrats then the Tory Party would not be losing by-elections so easily and the very rough and ready Reform UK party would be a virtual total irrelevance.
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John:
I think that you will know my view from having read the blog. Reform UK is “controlled opposition”, is slavishly pro-Israel and pro the Jewish/Zionist lobby, and is also pseudo-“libertarian”, in favour of unrestricted finance-capitalism. So a thumbs-down from me in respect of all of that. Good aspects are that it helps to move the “Overton window”, and also helps to tread the “Con Party” into the mire.
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Reform UK should move to a more national-conservative direction and so become more akin to Germany’s Alternative For Germany party. That will give it a more sure ideological basis and distinct identity.
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And yet despite being slavishly pro the Zionist state it hasn’t rendered them immune from criticism by the lunatic Zionist fanatics of the Daily Moron (why they don’t just call themselves the Jerusalem Post is beyond me). That gormless rag attacked a Reform UK candidate (a former Tory) just because she had the temerity to point out some home truths about the Zionist entity.
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Yes, Richard Tice seems to be too concerned about Islamism but only when it affects Israel and Zionist fanatics. What about us? We should be the primary concern.
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John:
As far as I can see, Tice is merely the monkey, the organ-grinder being Farage.
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Reform UK have some interesting proposals to modernise our archaic political system including getting rid of our very out of date, undemocratic and unfit for the 21st century electoral system of ‘pure’ FPTP- a system we share ONLY with Putin’s sole real friend, Belarus, in Europe.
That is a good stance and has the potential to attract many.
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Yes, having economic policies too far orientated towards libertarianism will put a definite cap on their vote share. In most countries, the majority of voters are centrist or even slightly towards the ‘Left’ as regards economics.
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The Tories only have themselves to blame for the truely dire electoral predicament they are in. Over the last fourteen years they have elected wrong leader after wrong leader and should not have given the Labour Party and Lib Dems so much credibility by acting as they have done. It is not Reform UK’s fault most Tory MPs are bloody thick, have no real sense of political astuteness and need to get out amongst the plebs.
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I would suggest Tory MPs listen to Matt Goodwin but then it is all rather late now, isn’t it? Sunak should never have got the job in the first place and certainly should have been dumped after losing a Tory seat with a 24,000 majority to Labour through mass Tory abstention.
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John:
If the “Lugenpresse” or msm scribblers are correct, there may be a general election as early as June. I cannot really see delay now helping the Con Party, beyond giving its MPs another 6-7 months of pay, parks, and expenses. It may be as trivial and venal as that, though, i.e. the turkeys not wishing to see an early Christmas.
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If they go in June they really will be utterly smashed. No doubt they will lose many councillors in May. The ‘big mo’ or momentum is important in politics. A few months is needed for the shock waves of large opposition gains to subside a bit.
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John:
In my view, this is not the typical such situation.
I think that the longer Sunak waits, the worse the Con Party electoral position will become. That is because people are not [wanting to] vote *for* Labour but *against* this hopeless government, so however many stories emerge about the badness of the Labour bigwigs, or Labour’s policy similarity to that of the present clowns, the hit will be very limited. Many know that Labour is really as hopeless as the Con Party, but they have had enough, and a big target roundel is round the neck of this Government.
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Yes, this government of clowns, budding dictators, Zionist pro-Israel loons (Gove) and globalist ethnic aliens will get smashed whenever they pluck up the courage to go to the country. Never in history has a government disenchanted people so much and certainly that is the case for a so-called Tory government with regard to their voters. That latter point in particular points to a devastating defeat. If their thick MPs had some brains they would be positively dangerous. If they were politically astute they would realise it is pointless trying to win seats like Slough or Tottenham and not hold constituencies like Wellingborough, Mid Bedfordshire etc. They should have worked out by now that seats like Slough slipped beyond the grasp of their party in the 1980’s and aren’t going to elect Tory MPs anytime soon.
Southall has never elected a Tory and it is a very remote possibility it ever will.
The political maxim is that governments lose elections oppositions don’t win them but this administration has put a whole new meaning on that.
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David Lammy as His Majesty’s Foreign Secretary! God Almighty! Lord Halifax, Anthony Eden, Dr David Owen, Lord Carrington, Robin Cook, Jeremy Hunt, your boys took one hell of a beating!
Mind you, the globalist, socially liberal Tories paved the way for him with the ineffectual joke that was James Cleverly (Thickerly). I saw him on a TV interview once and he appeared to have very little understanding of the Palestine-Israel issue. No wonder Lord Cameron had to replace him
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I reckon the Tories will get between 50 to 120 MPs with around 65 to 110 my central guess. If this election is not the end for them the next one will be. No main party in history has gone below 100 seats and eventually recovered enough to govern again on its own. Tory MPs should get out their British electoral history books and see what happened to the old Liberal Party in the 1920’s a century ago. It looks increasingly likely the 2020’s will be to the Conservative Party what the 1920’s were to the Liberals.
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https://traditionalbritain.org
https://www.facebook.com/TheTraditionalBritainGroup
A good traditional Tory organisation. As recently as the 1980’s and 1990’s you would have had quite a few Tory MPs like the former MPs for constituencies very near me in Billericay (Harvey Proctor) and Timothy Janman (Thurrock) expressing their traditionally Tory pro-hanging and anti-immigration viewpoints but now, with few exceptions, too many of their MPs are PC, globalist, socially liberal drones.
One exception is Sir John Hayes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hayes (British_politician)
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Sir John Hayes has some good ideas with respect to economics too. Limited and carefully targeted protectionism should not be dismissed out of hand. Previous generations of Tories wouldn’t. Indeed, protectionism was once a Tory creed and its main opponents were in the Liberal Party.
Japan was helped to become an economic superpower by its government imposing tariffs on foreign competitors to Honda, Toyota, Suzuki, Sony etc whilst those companies had quality control issues etc and were young and weak in the marketplace.
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Sir John Hayes is one of the few Tory MPs I would like to see re-elected. I think he will since he holds the most safe Tory seat in the country. South Holland and The Deepings won’t be lost even in the forthcoming utter calamity.
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