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“Tim Montgomerie, “Conservative councillors out there on the front door doorstep at the moment, trying to get their campaigns in shape” “And probably the most unpopular prime minister we’ve had in living memory – Liz Truss – is there, two weeks before campaign day, reminding everyone of that dreadful six week period when the conservative party got a reputation for wrecking the economy” “I really have no time for Liz Truss. Anyone with any sense of dignity would have absented themselves from the political” “She should have gone and run a hotel in the Outer Hebrides or something” “You know, to actually still be at the forefront of politics without any real apology for what she did, I really think she’s a disgrace, actually.”
In Soviet times, degraded high-ranking people, such as Malenkov, were made directors of remote hydro-electric stations in Siberia, or some such. In the case of Liz Truss, impossible, because she would be unable to run competently anything at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Malenkov#Downfall_and_final_years.
Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng), though, is not seeking re-election. He evidently hopes to be able to live down, in time, his complete failure as one of the shortest-serving, and least-competent Chancellors in history.
I look forward to Israel-puppet and Jewish-lobby puppet Largan being removed as MP on 4 July 2024, after which he can return to Marks & Spencer, counting beans.
Whatever your view about WW2 (for me it was avoidable, on the Western Front at least, in 1939, or in 1940, or even later), it is something that concerns mainly European people: English/British, German, French etc, and that applies even more to the Normandy Landings, aka “D-Day”.
Sunak is a cosmopolitan Indian money-juggler, whose parents came from India via East Africa to the UK in the 1960s, about 15 years before his birth in 1980.
I do not criticize Sunak for not being terribly interested in what was happening in Normandy or France generally in 1944. It is of course alien to him, despite his having been born in Hampshire. I do not even criticize Sunak for being PM of the UK, despite his being hopeless at it. I criticize those who have imported large and growing non-European populations, and those who think it is OK for the UK to have an Indian as Prime Minister.
Sunak is the kind of wealthy cosmopolitan Indian you see now forming, en masse, a kind of detached international class. The same applies to his wife.
I met an Indian girl like that in London once, about 1983, a colleague of one of my brothers. I think she was from Bombay (now “Mumbai”, for some reason).
That girl was about to get married. An arranged marriage, but she had been allowed to set her own parameters: the prospective husband, though Indian (the family had parameters too) had to be Westernized, educated at tertiary level in the West, and living in the UK or USA; and the couple would live in the West, preferably USA, after the wedding.
That girl’s family was wealthy, connected to the former Prime Minister of India, Desai [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morarji_Desai], and organized the wedding, again in or near Bombay. I think that my brother was invited but was unable to attend. The guest list numbered some 2,000 people, which I found incredible, but apparently it was only constraint of time which prevented the celebrations having a guest list numbering 6,000!
The girl married, as requested, a youngish Indian who worked in some professional capacity (maybe architect, I think) in the New York City area.
Those sort of Indians are to be found in place like Palo Alto (California), Silicon Valley (CA), Westchester (NY), the Raleigh-Durham scientific area (NC) etc.
I doubt that Sunak will stay in the UK. California, probably.
I recall a conversation with another such Indian, travelling with his little son in the First Class cabin of a Qatar Airways flight between Doha and London 23 years ago. We exchanged views while standing by the viewing window.
Such Indians are a kind of transilient international community, not British (even if they have a UK passport), not American, not even Indian in terms of having much in common with India itself.
That’s Sunak. He is out of place here, and out of place as Prime Minister.
[Update, two days later:
Damning.]
The whole “a vote for Reform UK is a vote for Labour” thing is a good example of how totally out of touch the main System parties are, and particularly the Conservative Party.
People voting for Farage and/or Reform UK do not care that Labour will benefit from those votes. In fact, many want, not Labour as such, but to kick and kick this Sunak/Liz Truss/Boris-“idiot” government until it expires; voting Reform UK will do that, and will also register a protest, as in the Brexit Referendum.
(A vote for) Brexit meant more than just support for Brexit, and a vote for Reform UK means a very great deal more than support for Farage etc, and greatly more than any hope that Reform UK will actually get any MPs elected (though in fact it now seems that a few Reform candidates may actually break through here and there).
A campaign clip tweeted by the Labour candidate for the High Peak constituency, Jon Pearce [https://www.jon4highpeak.com/] who is apparently local, unlike pro-Israel puppet Robert Largan, the dishonest and carpetbagging Con candidate (who tweeted on behalf of the “you know who” lobby against both me and local satirical singer Alison Chabloz —and others— some years ago).
Robert Largan is one of the (former) MPs who really put the “con” into “Conservative”.
I don’t care whether High Peak voters vote Labour or Reform UK, so long as Largan is booted out.
Late tweets
May victory attend you.
Myerson should be removed from his position as Recorder (p/t judge). Both the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office and the Bar Standards Board should be looking into his conduct.
The reference is to the Zionist defendant, Newbon, having killed himself.
So much for sanctions against Russia. They have mainly damaged the countries whose incompetent governments imposed them. The UK, for one.
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Ian Robert Millard 
The fake Conservative Party is heading for an almighty defeat and one which they have largely brought upon themselves. This is what happens when you move totally away from your electoral base and implement policies your natural supporters don’t want such as insane and grotesquely irresponsible levels of mass immigration despite promising to get it down to the ‘low tens of thousands’ as Cameron said he wanted to do, building over the Green Belt, legalising gay ‘marriage’ which even some Labour MPs opposed etc, etc.
Being a globalist, libertarian party for very wealthy people ie a kind of rich man’s Liberal Democrats but not being as democratic as they are by being fanatical opponents of Proportional Representation/fair votes will NEVER pay electoral dividends.
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The whole ‘a vote for Reform UK is a vote for Labour’ thing is a form of electoral blackmail and illustrates, ONCE AGAIN, that Britain is NOT a genuine democracy.
People should be able to feel they can vote with their hearts and not have to worry about ‘letting the other side in’.
It really is about time Britain became a modern, genuine democracy at long last by dumping the archaic, unfit for purpose, unfair and thus undemocratic fraud of ‘pure’ First Past The Post and implemented some form of Proportional Representation/fair votes then we could all vote for the parties we believe in with our hearts instead of engaging in tactical voting to avoid electing those we disagree with the most.
https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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Let us finally dump the archaic, undemocratic crap of stand alone, ‘pure’ First Past The Post – an electoral system that only we and BELARUS (Putin’s only real friend in the world) have for their lower house of Parliament in Europe.
Iceland uses it too but only for the SINGLE POSITION of the President/Head of State whilst using party list Proportional Representation for its parliament.
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Sunak is an elitist, ‘rootless cosmopolitan’ who has absolutely nothing in common with 99% of people in Britain. If you were to come-up with a figure guaranteed to lose the Conservative Party many votes even in the best of electoral times he would be the person you would have. God only knows what could have gone through Tory MPs’ heads when they chose him instead of Penny Mordaunt. I hope those who inflicted him upon us lose their seats whilst those who voted for Penny hold onto theirs. Tory MPs really need to venture out into the real world occasionally.
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John:
I suspect that the “hidden hand” (((you know who…))) chose Sunak.
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No, Tory MPs are, for the most part, thick enough to vote for him themselves and don’t need any guidance from others.
It was a silly PC game to look ‘modern’ and ‘in touch with the youth’ but will, as the polls indicate, backfire massively not least through totally disillusioning the kind of voters most liable to vote Conservative.
The PC globalist, leftwing lot in this country still hate the Tories so it has achieved NOTHING in an electoral sense.
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John:
The latest opinion poll apparently has Reform UK on close to 19%, very close to the Cons, also now around 19%. If that is anywhere near reality, the General Election really could be existential for the Conservative Party. Also, it may mean (we shall see) that Reform UK ends up with a few seats, maybe several seats, in places where they can achieve votes of 25% or 30% or more, if there are such places.
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Well, Reform UK may have a chance of winning in Rotherham now that the Tories have vacated the field there.
The Conservatives did select a candidate but she withdrew and they couldn’t find an alternative candidate before nominations closed. Apparently, this will be the first general election where the Tories haven’t had a candidate there since the 1930’s. Sign of the times?
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John:
Very interesting.
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I would rather the electorate of High Peak vote for the Reform UK candidate than Labour. Reform UK is far better than Labour is on immigration and it also has another good point in that it wishes the UK got rid of the highly undemocratic, sick farce of stand alone, ‘pure’ First Past The Post and the warped and highly unproductive politics that archaic electoral system helps to produce.
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It isn’t surprising the ‘System’ parties are totally out of touch with people when only about 30% of all votes cast in general elections actually count towards electing MPs and therefore the overall election result. Frankly, they have no electoral incentive to listen to us and so they don’t!
About 50% of the total which in 2019 amounted to around 14,000,000 votes went straight into the nearest dustbin as they were cast for unsuccessful candidates in an electoral system made-up of exclusively single MP per seat constituencies.
The other 20% of total votes were ‘wasted’ by MPs winning by more than one vote since under our system you only have to poll one more vote than your nearest opponent to win in one of the single MP per seat constituencies.
Having an electoral system like ours made-up of EXCLUSIVELY single MP per seat constituencies is a recipe for MILLIONS of ‘wasted’ votes.
This archaic, undemocratic crap warps our politics. We outgrew it long ago, it is plainly unfit for purpose and it MUST GO.
https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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Germany and New Zealand use First Past The Post in their national electoral systems BUT they DON’T use it on its own as we do but only AS A PART of an OVERALL Proportional Representation system. It is used only to provide for a ‘constituency link’ to their parliaments:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_New_Zealand
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For anyone who says we can’t have Proportional Representation/fair votes because “we would lose our local MP” they are wrong.
In Germany and in New Zealand they have Mixed-Member Proportional Representation/fair votes which means that they still have local MPs and in the same form as we do ie First Past The Post single MP per seat geographical constituencies. The only difference is that the seats are a bit larger geographically-speaking and have more voters within them but this is still kept to a reasonable limit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bundestag_constituencies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New Zealand_electorates
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John:
That “local MP” scam is for the birds. Look at that Richard Holden chancer— MP for North West Durham for a few years, but now parachuted into Basildon and Billericay in Essex!
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I don’t have a problem with the concept of local MPs and having them can be said to a good feature of decent electoral systems though not strictly necessary for a NATIONAL electoral system for a supposedly NATIONAL, UK-wide parliament and holding GENERAL elections using them.
Of course, it goes without saying our politicians often trot out the line “if we were to change to Proportional Representation you can’t have local MPs”. They do this to play upon people’s ignorance about electoral systems but also because they seek to defend First Past The Post and the feature they like about it is that it is composed EXCLUSIVELY of pretty small geographical constituencies.
This is a surefire recipe for ‘wasting’ MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of votes at every general election ( in 2019, about 14,000,000 votes or 50% of the total were ‘wasted’ because they were cast for unsuccessful candidates in the single MP per seat constituencies). In essence, it is NOT the small geographical constituencies of FPTP they like all that much BUT the VOTE WASTING EFFECT it inherently causes when you have several candidates standing in each seat and more than two major parties across the country.
As you say with regard to the new Tory candidate in Basildon and Billericay and many other instances like that from both Tory and Labour they don’t have much respect for FPTP’s supposedly one good point but boy do they LOVE the huge amount of ‘vote wasting’ it causes.
As ever, they are self-serving hypocrites.
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So Sunak’s family were part of the “alien wedge” the great TRUE Tory, Enoch Powell, warned us about in the 1960’s then!
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Steven:
Indeed. cf. Priti Patel’s family
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Today I was watching a very nice video of Kew Gardens shot last Sunday by an English YouTuber and suddenly noticed that EVERYONE of the visitors were White. Something quite logical because, except for the Japanese, we are the only people who appreciate the wonderful art of gardening, i.e.: Nature´s beauty tamed by Man.
This brings me to a similar observation. As an admirer of European art and architecture, I enjoy watching videos about stately homes and palaces and I noticed the same pattern in the UK, France, Germany and Italy. ALL of the visitors in those places are White! Of course! Who else would love and appreciate those wonderful buildings and the magnificent works of art that decorate them? Again, the only non-Europeans I saw visiting these places and making beautiful videos about them were Japanese. In fact, the nicest vlog on YT about France and Paris is made by a Japanese couple: France: Table & Voyage
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Claudius:
That was even true (of Kew Gardens) in the early 1980s. I went there a few times then, mostly with a rather nice German girl I met somewhere. I have not seen Kew since the replanting and rebuilding that followed the 1987 hurricane.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_electorates
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