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Tasty, tasty, very very tasty
I was looking up some TV composers on Wikipedia, IMDB, and YouTube, and happened to see the ad below, a 1982 TV ad for breakfast cereal. People in the UK still remember it, though the music was also used for other ads featuring the same product, Bran Flakes.
I knew the actress featured, a lady called Fran, when I was in my mid-twenties, in the early 1980s. She was South African, 30-35, very lively, and whose father was at the time a director of the South African subsidiary of British Oxygen. I recall being told by a mutual friend that he would complain that he had paid out large amounts to keep Fran at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. Her friends there apparently thought (perhaps not entirely wrongly) that her father was “some kind of millionaire“, when they saw her large rented flat and absence of financial struggle; many of them were in cramped bedsits.
Fran’s father’s complaint was not so much that he had paid out for her to attend RADA as a foreign student for —I think— 4 years, but more that, notwithstanding her desire to become a classical actress appearing in Shakespeare etc, she had had few roles offered to her once she graduated, possibly because she spoke with a mixture of South African, Australian and English accent(s).
The “Tasty Tasty” ad was the only fairly well-paid role —so to speak— she was ever offered, as far as I know, though I believe that she did appear in a couple of plays somewhere or other. The ad paid a flat fee of £5,000 (in 1982; you could probably multiply the value today by 5x if not more, so at least £25,000 in today’s money).
Bran Flakes put out about half a dozen other ads using the same jingle during the 1980s, but Fran was only in that one, which was filmed, if memory serves, in Sydney.
Fran never lost her accent, which was somewhere between her native South African speech and that of her husband, an Australian who had come to London seeking stardom as a singer, but who also fell short, eventually becoming an entertainer on cruise ships (I think P&O, mainly).
I found Fran easy to talk to, her husband less so somehow, though I only encountered them together once, I think. They tended to live rather separate lives much of the time, encountering each other at intervals, in the manner of comets or planets or whatever. He was on the cruise ships much of the time.
I think that they stayed married mainly for two reasons: they had a nice little boy, Sam, about 4 when I knew him. A lady I knew, and who had known the husband when he was a student who rented an attic room from her, sometimes babysat Sam when the parents wanted an evening out. At the time, they rented a flat in Hampstead. Later, I believe, they moved to a cottage in Surrey, or maybe Sussex.
The little boy seemed to like me when I called in at times during the babysitting. He loved the older lady babysitter more, though, because she let him stay up with her as long as he liked, watching TV with her. That older lady often told me about how she had, many times, in years past, had to shield the husband, David, from girls insistently calling and wanting to speak to him.
The other reason the couple stayed married was apparently financial. Both sets of parents had opposed the marriage for religious reasons. One set (I think the Australian) was Roman Catholic, the other some kind of Protestant. Or vice-versa. Both sets were strongly anti-divorce. Both sets were financially loaded and made it clear that “no divorce, or no inheritance“…
On the couple of occasions when our paths crossed, I found the husband of that couple rather melancholic, something not unknown in the world of entertainment, as I understand. As for Fran, I think she found it hard to find a place (in life) in the UK. She said (very truly) “In London, stick your nose out of the door and £15 is gone!” (make that £50 or £75 in the London of 2024). I remember that she enjoyed a day out we had at Ascot, and her humour that day. My parents were there, and liked her.
I heard this and that about the couple over the years (including a couple of amusing but unkind anecdotes better not included here), but the last time I saw Fran was at Raoul’s Cafe in Little Venice, along with the other lady mentioned here. Fran and her husband were now living in the Caribbean, on Grand Cayman. That must have been around 1994.
As I get older (67 now), I find that my inherent tendency to look back is intensified. I have always taken an interest in how people develop and live through their lives, and the relation of that to society and its structure.
I wonder what happened to that couple in the end. The husband must be in his mid-seventies, at least; as for Fran, maybe early to mid-seventies. Even the little boy, Sam, must now be about 44 or 45. Good grief.
Tweets seen
I see so many tweets from the usual “antifascist, no racism, Ukraine, FBPE, refugees welcome and bring millions of your tribesmen with you” idiots, mostly calling for people in Clacton to vote for anyone but Farage, and for voters all over the UK to not vote Reform UK.
Rarely, in fact never, do I see any of those Twitter/X idiots attempt to square the circle of a million immigrants per year coming in, yet only 200,000 dwelling units completed in 2023. Or how to keep paying liveable pay when the potential labour force pool increases steadily while productivity drops. Or how to maintain State benefits and/or State pensions when a million persons a year, who have never paid in anything, become “entitled” to receive the benefits and pensions. Or how to subsidize that million extra individuals every year, when the vast majority of them are not only not employed but often completely unemployable.
All the aforesaid idiots do is demand by tweet that “the Government” builds more and more houses for the immigrants, pays them more and more from State coffers, and so on. Complete unreality.
In Clacton, Farage is now firm favourite to win. In his place, I should “double and triple the guard“, after what has already happened. He has become such a hate figure for some that I do not rule out some sort of assassination attempt by pro-immigration loonies.
Typical msm “commentator”/”journalist” scribbler and talking head. Clueless.
Yesterday, Sam Coates on Sky News expressed the view that Nigel Farage might be elected in Scotland! Slip of the tongue, yes, but Coates just carried on without having corrected himself.
Take a look at the video clip. Hustings organized by the Jewish lobby establishment, and guarded by Jew-Zionist thugs on the door. The sole anti-Zionist candidate not allowed to enter.
Looks as if my bold —some say rash— prediction of as few as 50 Con MPs after 4 July 2024 might yet come true.
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Life is more usually grey than black and white and, after all, there were few places more grey than the DDR (East Germany)…
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Jewish-lobby puppet Largan treating one or more of his constituents with contempt. The little bastard has no place as MP anywhere, and least of all for the High Peak constituency. He was born and brought up in the southwest of the Manchester area, and until elected, narrowly, for High Peak, was an accountant working for Marks & Spencer in London.
Whatever one may think of the flags, Largan is supposed to be asking for the votes of all eligible voters, not treating those who are anti-Israel with contempt.
He’s toast. After 4 July, Largan will not even be a footnote, politically. Ordinary employment beckons…
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It may seem absurd, at first blush, to compare the likely destruction of the Conservative Party with that of the East German communists [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany#Final_days:_collapse_of_the_SED], but in systemic terms there is not much difference.
A long-established party gets increasingly out of touch with the population in general, and there is institutional inertia (in the UK, the FPTP voting system, and ingrained popular “small-c conservatism”; in the DDR/East Germany, the repressive organs of the State (the Volkspolizei, the so-called “Stasi”, the “Aufklarung” etc) and absence of any but rigged voting.
However, that inertia is only effective up to a point, the point at which the situation gets to the tipping-point. The established power-party then collapses.
Montgomerie seems surprised that the very centre of Conservative Party misgovernment contains people (“special adviser” “SpAd” idiot-careerists, MPs, even policemen guarding 10 Downing Street) willing to sell their professionalism and even basic integrity and honour for a few hundred quid.
I heard similar stories about Moscow in the 1980s, when I was in a sense on the periphery of events there (though I never actually visited until 1993, after the Soviet Union had collapsed), and heard a lot from people who visited the Soviet Union, or had relocated to the UK. Policemen openly soliciting bribes, diplomats dealing in smuggled Western consumer goods, corruption in marking exams, you name it.
Symptomatic of a corrupt and collapsing system sliding into the mire.
Montgomerie has been pushing out “Conservative” scheiss for (?) 15 years, but he has always been able to at least pose as an upstanding and principled Conservative. Now? He has no choice, psychologically, but to turn against his own party, or lose all ideological integrity.
He seems to have belatedly woken up to the fact that the little Indian money-juggler neither looks like, nor behaves like, nor speaks like, nor thinks like a prime minister, a fact repeatedly noted on this blog.
This may be a “conspiracy theory” take, but there is something almost (?) orchestrated about the implosion of the Conservative campaign. Do the ruling circles and secret cabals want as bad a result as possible for the Conservatives, so that Keir Starmer, someone without any real ideology, and who is a puppet for NWO/ZOG, can impose a pseudo-democratic tyranny over the next 5 years and beyond? Open question.
Sunak’s “incredible anger” is about as convincing as the spoiled little girl of literature who threatens to “scream and scream until she is sick”. Entirely unconvincing.
The little Indian money-juggler seems to think that, after 4 July 2024, there will still be a Conservative Party out of which the corrupt defaulters can be “booted”. Sunak should read the (national) room. He’s toast. His party is toast. His candidates are almost all toast. Sunak himself will be “booted” out of both government and party in about 2 weeks.
Ha. “What goes around comes around“…
Well, Washington? Well, Paris? Well, Warsaw? Still want to give heavy and advanced armaments, including long-range missiles, to the Kiev regime?
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Ian Robert Millard 
The Twitter ‘Twats’ as David Cameron once famously remarked really do need to get a life. These liberal-left, PC globalist cretins need to develop some functioning braincells and realise this country isn’t as wealthy as it used to be so if we want decent public services we can no longer afford to spend untold millions on illegal immigrants, bogus ‘asylum seekers’, supporting the Ukraine in the US proxy war against Russia (Russia was last militarily defeated over 150 years ago ) etc.
Also, Britain is a very small country. We have a finite land area so if we want to preserve what is left of our countryside we have no alternative other than to very strictly control immigration.
Having London spread out across the entire country with its shocking crime levels is not a sane or viable vision for the future.
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To expect liberal/lefty cretins to develop some brain cells is like expecting Rishi Sunak to become a true patriot. As Ian said, most of those cretins are mentally ill. Those who are not are 100% evil and must be dealt with.
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Matt, your precious Labour Party started the destruction of the welfare state under that evil, anti-British war criminal and total wanker, Tony Bliar, who should be executed for his treason. It was he and his government that put mass immigration on steroids. Something had to give as we couldn’t afford to have a welfare state and grotesquely irresponsible and insane levels of mass immigration at the same time. As ever, the vile, anti-British Labour Party rabble put the globalist ideology of open borders first instead of protecting vulnerable British people.
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As the Jewish libertarian economist , Milton Friedman, once said, “you can have mass immigration or you can have a welfare state but you can’t have both”.
I know what my prioritiy is and that is I think vulnerable British people should be put first instead of foreign migrants.
BRITAIN and the BRITISH people FIRST should be the principle British governments operate by.
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Matt, the ‘politics of national suicide’ your party is a prime exponent of needs to come to a firm END.
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That thick bitch always was mentally unwell and unstable. The diminutive despot hasn’t got a hope in hell of ‘winning’ this ever so tiresome and inherently rigged ‘election’ and you know it, you stupid cow.
What an utter cretin she is even by the usually abysmal Daily Tory moron standards. Keep-on taking those tablets, love!
Utterly delusional! She needs to be locked into Boris-Idiot’s fridge for her own safety and ours!
https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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Apart from the ever vile Zionist thug issue in that seat, how utterly ridiculous, is it, that there are no fewer than 11 candidates standing in that constituency?
Our decades out of date, archaic, unfit for purpose, grotesquely undemocratic and unrepresentative, stand alone, ‘pure’ First Past The Post electoral system is designed so that there should be just TWO candidates standing in each seat ie ONE winner and ONLY ONE LOSER as otherwise if three, four, five candidates ect stand and they get anywhere near decent vote shares the ‘wasted’ votes start to build-up.
Repeat that in 650 one MP per seat constituencies and you have a recipe for MILLIONS of ‘wasted’ votes. What an utterly undemocratic farce this country is. No wonder we are going nowhere politically-speaking.
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In 2019, the number of votes cast for unsuccessful candidates amounted to something like 14,000,000 votes or about 45% of the total.
Of course, there do have to be winners and losers in politics but that huge level of ‘wasted’ votes should be unacceptable in a country that calls itself a democracy.
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The last time stand alone ‘pure’ First Past The Post worked reasonably well was as long ago as 1970 as that was the last general election in which there were a fairly large number of seats in which only two candidates ie Tory and Labour stood.
That electoral system is a grotesquely undemocratic and unrepresentative fraud. It needs to go into history.
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Wellsaid, Matt Goodwin, but how do we get that essential truth into the minds of the legions of liberal-left, PC globalist ‘Twitter Twats’?
The same principle goes for other issues as well. We can have functioning, non-PC, effective police forces or we can have mass immigration instead. We can have some nice countryside preserved, a transport system not overburdened by too many people in the country, a welfare state that acts as a safety net for our most vulnerable people or we can have mass immigration instead.
So what is it to be? I think mass immigration should be very severely curtailed. That is the wiser choice.
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That Daily Telegraph journalist is incredibly deluded. The only real hope the Tories would have to ‘win’ this ‘election’ would be if the turnout dives to an unprecedented low level ie something like 50% or even less and then more Tory voters might be present in the voting electorate and be at a level more in line with the number of Labour voters.
However, when turnout falls it is rarely the case that the turnout levels for Labour Party backers and Conservative ones are broadly the same. Nearly always, you get differential turnout instead. As we have seen in parliamentary by-elections over the last two years the Conservative Party has had great difficulty in motivating its 2019 supporters to vote for it in decent numbers.
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John:
To get paid, scribblers such as Camilla Tominey have to write *something*. She obviously made the wrong call a month ago, and probably now hopes that her wrong guess will be forgotten.
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It must be great to be a journalist on a large national newspaper and get paid considerable sums of money writing absolute BS.
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John:
Almost as good as “Boris”-idiot, now scribbling utter scheiss once a week for the Daily Mail, and getting £250,000 a year for it.
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At least that house is not flying the flag of the Zionist entity – a state that has been constantly disregarding international law since as long ago as 1967 and has no intention whatever of starting to respect it. Also, it does a nice line in butchery of Palestinians with many male, female and child victims. Basically, it is bandit state and it is no surprise a very educated and cultured (as most diplomats tend to be) French diplomat in 2003 during the time of the Iraq War called it, “a shitty little country”.
If I were you, Mr Largan, I would shut-up about my passionate support of such a criminal state as my support in my seat isn’t good at the best of times what with only winning last time by a mere 500 odd votes. You don’t have to have many muslim constituents to find some voters who would be wary of voting for an MP who is as Pro-Zionist and Pro-Israeli as you are and you don’t have much in the way of a majority that you can afford to upset many.
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And not just muslim constituents either. Quite a few people in this country don’t approve of the Zionist state’s behaviour nor the fact that both Labour and fake Conservative alike won’t really stand-up against it. Many musims and non-muslims are concerned about Zionist influence within both parties.
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I think Largan knows he will lose and is spewing pro-zionist comments in order impress the j**s, in the hope that (((they))) will reward him with a high-paid job at a (((hedge fund))) or (((investment bank))).
That seems to be the usual retirement plan for traitorous politicians who obediently serve (((globalist))) interests.
Largan may also be hoping that the (((elites))) who control the Tory Party will use (((their))) influence to get him a safe seat so he can return to Parliament in the future.
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Friend of Britain:
cf.
Michael Dugher, John Woodcock/”Lord Walney”, Tom Watson (etc).
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There will be precious few ‘safe’ seats left soon and they already have MPs. According to one MRP poll from Survation, the safest one will be the traditionally safe and wealthy Beaconsfield seat in southern Buckinghamshire commuter territory but even that seat will only have a majority of around 18% so would only require a ‘swing’ of 9% to be lost next time. At any rate, the MP there only became one in 2019 so she is not moving aside for failed Zionist loony, Robert Largan, or any other ‘Tory’ cretin who has lost their constituency in the cull.
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I’ve fixed Largan’s Tweet for him LOL:
“An…eclectic collection of colors on display in Robert Largan’s campaign literature. I assume he wishes to deceive voters into thinking he is a candidate for the Labour Party or the Green Party. But, being clueless, he actually wound up being reported to the police for election fraud.”
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I hope he is reported for electoral fraud. That is very deceptive behaviour. A better idea would have been to voluntarily resign the Conservative Party whip and stand in his seat as an independent Conservative. That way you can at least partially disassociate yourself from a political ‘brand’ that is mud in the opinions of about 80% of the voters.
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Regarding Tim Montgomerie, he has always been a Tory Party toady. He was one of Iain Duncan Smith’s sidekicks during the 2000s, and helped Smith set up the so-called “Center For Social Justice”, which hates the White working class, and cloaks harsh evil neoliberal austerity policies toward the poor in compassionate-sounding language.
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Friend of Britain:
I have not forgotten.
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So yet another thick, evil, bigoted Tory arsehole then who if he were honest would propose gas chambers as a ‘Final Solution’ for benefit claimants as I am sure Dunce Duncan-Smith would announce his support for if he thought he could get away with it.
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Regarding the Telegraph (more like TelAvivgraph, considering its long history of j**ish ownership/control) journalist who claims that a Tory comeback is on the cards, the phrase “waving not drowning” comes to mind.
Regarding Russia/Putin, turnabout is fair play. Since (((NATO))) is arming Ukraine, it is perfectly fair for Russia to arm North Korea. Let the hypocritical (((whining))) commence when Russia gives North Korea modern military technology. From what I understand, the North Koreans are especially interested in submarines, anti-aircraft missiles, and anti-ship missiles. Russia has lots of those.
Speaking of Russia, they have captured a significant amount of Western military technology in Ukraine. They even captured a Storm Shadow cruise missile which for some reason crashed in a field and failed to explode. No doubt, they had their engineers take it apart and study it. They have also captured Abrams and Leopard tanks, and are presumably studying the composition of the armor.
So ironically, all the Western military aid to Ukraine has given the Russians quite a bit more knowledge of Western technology than the Russians had before the Ukraine war.
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Russia has very advanced military equipment. Some of their nuclear weapons are amongst the world’s most sophisticated ones and unlike us they can deploy them by submarines, nuclear bombers and land-based silos. It really is not clever for the diminutive, unwanted despot in No.10, his likely replacement, ‘Sir’ Keir Starmer, or senile ‘Sleepy Joe’ Biden to keep-on prodding the Russian bear until it reacts in a dangerous way to everyone.
I have always admired some of their MIG fighter jets.
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In other news, Britain isn’t the only country with traitorous politicians who pretend to be “conservative.”
Just today, Donald Trump has said that he wants to allow anyone who graduates from any American college (even junior colleges) to stay in the USA permanently.
“You graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically as part of your diploma a green card to be able to stay in this country, and that includes junior colleges too,” Trump said in an episode on the All-In podcast, which is hosted by several venture capitalists. He floated the idea after being asked by a host if he would… “give us ability to import the best and brightest around the world to America.”
“It’s unclear if Trump’s suggestion on Thursday also applies to those who came to the country illegally.”
““I know of stories where people graduated from a top college or from college, and they desperately wanted to stay here and had a plan for a company, a concept. And they can’t,” Trump said. “Somebody graduates at the top of the class, they can’t even make a deal with a company because they don’t think they’re going to be able to stay in the country. That is going to end on day one.””
I guess the (((wealthy donors))) have given Trump his marching orders.
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