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Saturday quiz
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 4/10, but I trumped that with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 5, and 8, and was unsure about question 6, so also did not award myself a point for that even though I knew it was one of two particular architects.
GE 2024
Not only that, but Starmer-Labour’s vote-share of 33.8% was, of course, 33.8% of those that bothered to vote. Turnout was only 60%, so Starmer-Labour’s share of the entire eligible electorate was only 20.28%. That’s before you even take into account those too young to vote.
So active support for Starmer-Labour is, at best, little more than 20%, one in five of the eligible electorate. Even then, one has to consider that —as I have blogged since a long time prior to the General Election— the main motivation for all voters, except the quite small minority that actually voted Conservative, was to get rid of the Conservative government and, if possible, party, not to install a Starmer-Labour government.
It is quite likely that only about 10%-15% of the population really support Starmer-Labour.
Of course, it is worse for the Conservative Party. On the above bases and premises, real support for the Conservatives, in the country as a whole, is somewhere between 5% and 14%. Much worse than their headline 23.7% vote-share.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election
Nearly 60% of voters, of the 60% who voted, voted for one of the three main System parties, but if you factor in the non-voting eligible voters, that means that a minority (well below 40%) of all eligible voters voted for a System party . Then factor in younger people unable to vote, and the true “support” figure for the System, let alone the Starmer-Labour part of it, reduces to somewhere abound 20% (with Labour having maybe 15%, as already noted).
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Meanwhile, offshore…
If only…
Jess Phillips saying that “Birmingham Yardley has given my family everything..”!
Ain’t that the truth?!
“Since 2019, Phillips has received the second highest income on top of her MP’s salary amongst Labour Party MPs.[5]” [Wikipedia]
A freeloading grifting opportunist. Labour Friends of Israel member. It is unfortunate that Jess Phillips was re-elected; by only 693 votes too, ahead of a candidate from Galloway’s “Workers’ Party”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Yardley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s
I doubt that Jess Phillips will be MP after 2029. No doubt she will be using the next 4-5 years to coin as much money as she can for herself and her family.
I wrote a piece about Jess Phillips in 2019. I see no reason to change my view of her; au contraire. https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/05/07/deadhead-mps-an-occasional-series-the-jess-phillips-story/.
“Maybe liberalism’s children are starting to realise that multiculturalism has been a disastrous social experiment that no one wanted and that will destroy every society it’s forced upon.” [tweeter “@jtworr”/James Orr]
Talking point
Why has the UK (msm and, therefore, public) adopted the Americanism of describing every former soldier, even if his (or her) service consisted of 3 years in a completely safe UK-based and/or non-combatant unit, as a “veteran“?
Puts my teeth on edge.
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What price “democracy”?
“Her son literally sells his wife Only Fans, and she has no experience outside of being a trade Union representative, is she remotely qualified or experienced enough to hold the office she has? These are valid questions. But we could ask this of the entire cabinet? Literally none of them have experience of my distinction outside of playing politics. Look at the business Secretary, he has literally never owned or even worked in a business? What knowledge can he possibly bring to the role? These are important questions, that can’t simply be brushed aside with a few slurs.“
Interesting.
Look at thick-as-two-short-planks David Lammy, now Foreign Secretary.
Admittedly, recent years have seen quite a few deadhead appointees to Cabinet anyway (including, as Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss and “Boris”-idiot), but look at this!
The only way this undeserved huge-majority Starmer-Labour government will not crash and burn within 1-2 years will be if it can stop mass immigration into the UK (I doubt that it will even try), and stop the cross-Channel “small boats” migration invasion (Starmer will probably simply set up “processing centres” in France, then rubberstamp 95% of applicants).
Starmer will also have to reconcile the “need” (caused mainly by mass immigration) to build huge numbers of new and really affordable houses and flats, meaning council or other social housing, and at the same time not trash the —mainly— English countryside, including Green Belt land.
Starmer-Labour will probably not have the money to build millions of dwelling units, so will turn to private housebuilding carpetbaggers, and so will probably let them loose on what should be protected countryside. Starmer will all but demolish planning controls answerable to local people.
I can see even worse bullying of the sick, disabled, and unemployed. Look at Rachel Reeves and Liz Kendall. Do you really see any compassion (or any particularly high intellect, or any willingness to think outside the box) there? I don’t.
Looks also as if the UK will continue to throw support, including money and weapons, to both “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) and Israel.
I see no higher (indeed, lower) living standards in prospect. Mass immigration inevitably means lower pay (whatever some Twitter-twits may think), and also higher taxes (because most of the immigrants are, at best, parasitic overall, and many are prolifically criminal as well).
The fabric of society will continue to fray, both by reason of the importation of about a million non-Europeans each year and because of cultural and administrative factors.
In short, this new pseudo-landslide government will almost certainly fail the British people, and fail quickly. After the people wake up to that, anything is possible.
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I recall reading a Russian-language book about Dzerzhinsky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky], sometime around 1982. When he was, in the early 1920s, and amid his other responsibilities, head of the rail industry, he discovered considerable inefficiency, corruption etc. He had some executives and other people shot. Apparently, his methods, harsh though they certainly were, checked the problem sufficiently until systemic improvements were implemented: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky#Director_of_Cheka.
Just a thought.
Labour’s less sanguinary alternative.
Some industries are, in the contemporary era, better under public ownership. Rail. Domestic water supply. Most electricity. Most if not all gas.
Oh, right…let’s have a “bas-class” Mauritian Indian and pro-Israel puppet as “Conservative” leader and, later, potential (will never happen, though) Prime Minister…
No thanks…
I always said that the reason why British people, most of them, have not turned to social nationalism over my lifetime [b.1956] is because not enough of them were hurting enough. Not enough of them hurting enough and not enough of them knowing where to place the blame and, also, not enough of them knowing where to place their trust.
The situation at present, as I see it, is that living standards are now falling (and have been for some time), that social and civic standards are in most respects at an all-time low, and still sliding, and that the background and intellectual level of MPs is at an all-time low, as is public trust in, and respect for, them.
All those above factors are getting worse, more pronounced. At the same time (and connected to the above), mass immigration is totally out of control. Not just the cross-Channel “illegals”, but the “legals” coming in on student visas, work visas, “family and friends” visas, “fiancee” visas, tourist visas (the “tourists” then disappearing or claiming asylum) and the rest. A million a year, give or take.
That whole situation has been the background for the loss of confidence in the Conservative Party, and is also the reason why Starmer-Labour is also actually quite unpopular, despite its “landslide by default”.
The happy cheers from TV studios and from System journalists such as John Rentoul are not echoed by the British people.
The situation on the ground is why Reform UK, despite its semi-“libertarian” bias, and its often underwhelming candidates, has managed to get 5 MPs and (arguably as important) over 4 million votes.
When Starmer-Labour falters, in 2025 or 2026, the British people may be ready for a much more radical movement of the “Overton Window”, policies well beyond those of Farage’s Reform UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Vallance#Minister_of_State_for_Science
So it begins…
I notice also that Nick Boles, pro-Israel and a Bilderberg attendee, may be another to join the Starmer-Labour “elected” dictatorship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Boles#Policy_positions; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Meeting.
The System has several faces…
Tweeter “@jdpoc”, a self-describing “antifascist”, used to occasionally tweet rubbish about me, too. He has (as people now say) “issues”; he has made one or two guest appearances on one of my blog posts: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/.
Regular readers of the blog will know that I have never favoured the Rwanda plan, for several reasons (impracticability, cost, probability of political instability in Rwanda, numbers etc), but of course the cancellation will encourage the migrant-invaders (even more).
It is alarming to see (though Twitter is not at all typical of the mass of the public) how many idiots of the “Janet Cobb” type there are in the UK. Unwitting (?) gravediggers of our people’s future. Take a look at her Twitter/X timeline. Incredible wilful stupidity.
Now we see how Starmer intends to run his “elected” dictatorship. As a dictatorship. A Zionist-influenced or controlled tyranny. We are only on day 2 so far…
Jacqui Smith. Expenses cheat and freeloader, but that’s OK because she has the imprimatur from Israel…
…and then, after those who stole and grifted for years get chucked out in elections, those same cheats and freeloaders (such as Jacqui Smith) get invited back into government, given a peerage (no need for silly elections, oh no…), and a ministerial portfolio! How wonderful “democracy” is!
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Ian Robert Millard 
“Why has the UK (msm and, therefore, public) adopted the Americanism of describing every former soldier, even if his (or her) service consisted of 3 years in a completely safe UK-based and/or non-combatant unit, as a “veteran“?”
This comment hurt (((Rory Stewart’s))) feelings. (((He))) fancies himself a combat veteran after spending a few months in the Army on a gap-year commission. After that he briefly worked for the Foreign Office before resigning so he could ponce around the Middle East LARPing as Lawrence of Arabia.
Some more thoughts:
Regarding financial deregulation and finance capitalism taking over Britain: As one of the articles you linked to correctly points out, Britain has been the victim of “country capture”, a hostile takeover by (((banks))) and (((corporations))).
The traitor politicians have turned Britain from a sovereign and distinct country into a mere colony of (((international finance))), an identity-less, faceless economic zone that exists only to enrich the (((globalist plutocrats))).
This began with Thatcher and her (((cabal))) which included, among others, (((Rothschild))), (((Nigel Lawson))), Nicholas Ridley, Geoffrey Howe, and alleged pedophiles (((Sir Keith Joseph))) and (((Sir Leon Britain))).
The roots of this problem go back a very long time. But it was globalist puppet Thatcher who put the (((international finance))) takeover of Britain into turbo-drive, while simultaneously destroying Britain’s sense of unity and community, by intentionally vilifying the White working class.
Every single Prime Minister who followed (Major, Blair, Brown, (((Cameron))), May, (((Johnson))), Truss, Sunak, and Starmer) is an HEIR to Thatcher. They have merely continued to implement her policies.
Blair and every Prime Minister who succeeded him have injected an aggressive cultural marxist social liberalism into Thatcherism, but even Thatcher only paid lip service to social conservatism, while actively destroying Britain’s traditional society.
With regard to the (((Wall Street))) takeover of Britain, the roots of that go back to the 1940s, when Sir Robert Peel repealed Britain’s protective tariffs, known as the Corn Laws.
But guess (((who))) was pulling the strings? Peel’s chancellor of the exchequer, (((David Ricardo))).
It was (((David Ricardo))) who implemented the repeal of the Corn Laws, leaving the British economy totally vulnerable and defenseless to being devoured by (((Wall Street))). This happened very slowly at first, but picked up tremendous speed after World War 1 and especially World War 2, when a heavily indebted Britain and a weakened British economy could be bought up at bargain basement prices by (((Wall Street))) speculators.
Again though, it was Thatcher who put this process into overdrive, making the British economy entirely subservient to the the (((bankers))).
All the Prime Ministers who have followed Thatcher have simply continued her destructive policies.
A lot of British people are unaware of the huge role that Thatcher played in the formation of Blairism, who was essentially the heir to Thatcher.
That book (The Finance Curse) looks very interesting. I will have to read it.
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Friend of Britain:
I once, aged about 18, read a biography of Ricardo. Sadly, I cannot now recall even one fact from it, beyond the bare bones i.e. that he was a Sephardic Jew who made a fortune in speculation on the London Stock Exchange and then bought a country estate.
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Some more thoughts:
-It’s absolutely absurd that the token diversity hire David Lammy is Foreign Secretary. Can you imagine him negotiating with the Russians, Chinese, or Indians? Nobody will take him seriously.
-But aside from Lammy and a couple of others, Starmer’s cabinet is noticeably not particularly diverse.
-It’s noteworthy that Starmer’s cabinet is significantly LESS diverse than the now-former Tory cabinet. That’s how far to the left the Tories have moved. The Tories are now even MORE aggressively socially liberal than even Labour.
-As mentioned yesterday, the election result is disappointing because the Traitor Tories have twice as many MPs as the polls predicted.
-However, there are a few silver linings, namely the Tory bigwigs who were thrown out by the voters. Most of those I mentioned yesterday (Coffey, Mercer, Mordaunt, Conor Burns, Theresa Villiers, etc).
-But there were a few names I missed in my initial trawl through the results:
– Eton-educated Nigerian Abimbola Afolami is no longer an MP, having lost his seat to Labour.
-The loathsome zionist sock puppet Stephen Crabb, former chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel, and alleged sexual harasser of women, has lost his seat. Crabb hates the White working class, and voted to reduce benefits for disabled people. Now he’s been thrown out by the voters. Too bad, so sad!
– Sir Peter Bottomley has lost his seat. For decades, there have been very disturbing rumors and allegations circulating about Bottomley. I will not repeat these allegations here, because I know that Britain has unfair libel laws, and I don’t want the owner of this website to get into trouble. Bottomley’s Wikipedia page refers to the allegations against Bottomley only very briefly, indirectly, and in a very oblique manner. Suffice it to say that if the allegations are true, Bottomley is a very bad man.
-I’ve tried to phrase the above paragraph in a way that I believe is compatible with Britain’s harsh libel laws, which are designed to prevent people from discussing the misbehavior of the elites. However, you feel that the above paragraph is still problematic, feel free to redact it.
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Friend of Britain:
Thank you. Good to know that Israel puppet Stephen Crabb is out, though I daresay the Zionists will throw him a bone (director of some bs “think tank” or whatever).
That bastard Crabb even used to say “MOSSAD” etc with an Israeli accent! Complete and utter slave.
Do not be concerned about libel. While I try to publish truth, I am entirely unconcerned about the civil libel laws. One of the few advantages to being poor is that you are effectively unsueable. If anyone did sue me, I should make sure that it cost them a couple of hundred thousand, none of which would be recoverable even if they won their case.
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A very welcome departure from politics, with the absolutely charming ‘Eli from Russia’. Eli discovers a country where the Soviet Union still exists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X00rgfID8dI
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That woman (Louise Haigh) looks awful. Do you remember the saying “The face is a mirror of the soul”? I do not know who said it but over the years I found it to be true most of the time.
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Claudius:
“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.” [St. Jerome]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome
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Thank you very much! How knowledgeable you are!
Starmer´s cabinet will be the worst in British history and that says a lot considering the awful cabinets of the past Tory governments! BTW, it could also be called “The Ministry of All Talents” in a sarcastic reference to the famous cabinet formed by Lord Grey in 1806 which only lasted a year and practically achieved nothing.
The great difference between Lord Grenville´s cabinet and Starmer´s is that the former was a combination of well-meaning but incompetent men, whereas the latter is just a bunch of numskulls, crooks and traitors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_All_the_Talents
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