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From the newspapers
“Keir Starmer is looking into plans to process asylum seekers outside the UK as part of a rethink of the government’s immigration policies, even as a returns agreement with the EU appears more distant than ever.
The prime minister said on Thursday he was open to the idea of Britain processing claims offshore, after a day spent discussing illegal migration with fellow European leaders at Blenheim Palace. Those talks, as part of the European Political Community summit, included a meeting with Edi Rama, the Albanian prime minister, whose country processes asylum claims on behalf of Italy.
But he said a deal to return refused asylum seekers to the EU was low on his list of priorities, as the French president, Emmanuel Macron, warned his country was not willing to shoulder the additional burden.
“But look, I’m a practical person. I’m a pragmatist. And I’ve always said we’ll look at what works and where cases can be processed closer to origin, then that is something which of course ought to be looked at.”
[The Guardian]
As I have been predicting for many months on the blog, Starmer will “solve” the “small boats” migration invasion, meaning get it off the TV news agenda, by simply “processing” the applications of the invaders long before they reach the UK, whether that be in France, in Albania, in Italy, or even in Africa.
“Processing” will mean, in this context, rubberstamping 90% or more of the applications. Probably more, looking at how about 80% of the applications of the present wave of invaders are eventually approved once they land in the UK (and the rest not deported anyway).
What about those, the small minority no doubt, who apply for asylum in those extra-territorial processing centres or offices but are refused? Is Starmer pretending that they will be content to stay in, or return to, their native countries? Of course they will not. They will simply make their way to the English Channel and then try to cross it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan
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See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/11/update-re-mark-lewis-lawyer-questions-are-raised/.
I wonder “what element” is behind that agenda…
If you import populations from the more backward parts of the world, in sufficient quantity, your own society becomes backward and/or degenerate.
Why are they even here?
Please refer to the last few comments.
That made me laugh, which is something…I mean both the comment by tweeter “@TexanGhost” and Dawn Butler’s brainless tweet.
Only one thing can save Western culture and civilization, and the root-stock on which they both depend— social nationalism, and a consequent “revaluation of all values”.
Personal memory
Happened to see the above photo of the Thames just below Benson Lock, Oxfordshire. My mind at once returned to the summer of 1971, when I was there, aged 14, rowing my inflatable yellow neoprene boat downstream.
53 years ago. Over half a century. Does not seem possible, in a sense.
At least that little corner of England has not yet been trashed, or built upon.
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“Ukraine” (Kiev regime)— a shambolic, corrupt and brutal dictatorship masquerading as a “democracy” that values civil rights etc.
https://en.majalla.com/node/320656/politics/biden-could-drag-us-wwiii-will-trump-be-any-different
Ethno-mix: Jewish, Filipina, Belorussian…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm528vv490go
I often worry that I may be too old to take a leading part in the national revolution by the time it happens, at least to take an active leading part; I am already 67 (68 in September). Damn.
“The Great Reset”…
Elon Musk has evidently had a very different experience of living in the USA than I ever did…
Mirabile dictu! Former-MP and Israel-puppet Largan has said something with which I can agree.
I have noted in the past on the blog the inadequacy of so many post-1945 public buildings in the UK, for example the court buildings in both London and the provinces. Some are OK, or even impressive, but more are not. Compare them to most of the American court buildings, such as the Federal court building in Trenton, New Jersey, where I was, several times, over 30 years ago:
Not the world’s most beautiful building, but very solid and impressive (and the interior is, in my view, even more impressive).
Ah…. just saw (for the first time), the New Jersey (i.e. State, not Federal) justice building, also in Trenton:
So ugly, one is prompted to speculate, “Britischer Architekt?” Still, quite large and impressive at least.
I see that that 1980s building is named after a former Governor of the state, who was also at one time Chief Justice of New Jersey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Hughes_Justice_Complex#Dedication. I was very slightly acquainted with one of his sons, who himself became a Federal magistrate in 1991, a year or two after I was introduced to him; I met him again, en passant, a few times, in the years 1989-1991: https://www.pli.edu/faculty/hon.-john-j.-hughes-i1305491. He was all right, but not the most social person in the world, to be frank. Not sure that I would have liked to have been a defendant in his court…
Well, amazing. A second tweet of Largan that I like. Two in one day. Amazing.
If those poetic lines are original, from Largan himself, then he has a poetic sophistication, though not unflawed, at which I should not have guessed, to be frank.
Even if that were not so, the ban is obviously the right thing to do, whatever the collateral damage.
Defund Zelensky and his cabal. The war will then continue for only a few weeks in most areas.
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Ian Robert Millard 
This is extremely satisfying.
Absolute fire. Watch Polish MEP @EwaZajaczkowska
masterfully hold VonderLeyen accountable for her many efforts to destroy Europe. “You are responsible for every rape, every assault, every tragedy caused by the influx of illegal migrants.” “You should go to prison!”
https://x.com/EvaVlaar/status/1813924733903426037
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Dugin is a despicable human being who has concocted a pathetic political doctrine called “The Fourth Political Theory” which basically is a rehash of that vile concept known as “national-bolshevism”; in other words a cocktail made of water and oil. He claims to fight globalisation promoting nationalism and traditional values but, at the same time, he rails against national-socialism and the White race in general using traditional Marxist language such as “imperialism”, “racism”, and “colonialism”. These historical facts, which are only “bad” if you belonged to the defeated/backward nations who were at the receiving end of imperial power, are as old as Mankind but they are only “bad” when practised by White men. American Indians and Africans had been killing, torturing and enslaving each other for centuries and nobody said a thing about it.
Here is an excellent article by Kevin MacDonald that explains much better than me, and in great detail, why Dugin´s doctrine is poison for any well-educated and racially conscious White man.
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2014/05/18/alexander-dugins-4-political-theory-is-for-the-russian-empire-not-for-european-ethno-nationalists/
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Claudius:
Dugin is, as you say, ideologically-flawed. His philosophy, as far as I have read of it (not a huge amount) seems to be very much a mish-mash of this and that, and his Soviet background has, of course, coloured it all.
I am, like Dugin, rather a “Eurasianist”, but not in quite the same way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin#Ideology
Incidentally, looking at him, with his “Slavophile” beard (cf. Solzhenitsyn), it is a surprise to be reminded that Dugin is over 5 years *younger* than me!
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Are you sure Dugin is younger than you? I would not be surprised because beards; apart from being ugly, unless they are perfectly trimmed like those sported by King George V or Tsar Nicholas II, make you look 10 or even 20 years older and awfully scruffy.
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Claudius:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin
You are right about beards. I had one from age 25 or 26 to age 31. One of the worst decisions I ever made, for several reasons.
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A good reminder of the kind of person that Donald Trump is; these are fragments from a speech he gave in Illinois on October 27, 2018, after a shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. The full speech is here: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-make-america-great-again-rally-murphresboro-illinois
“Before going any further, I want to address the horrible shooting that took place earlier today. The hearts of all Americans are filled with grief following the monstrous killing of Jewish Americans at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. You’ve all seen it. You’ve been watching it. It’s horrible.”
“This was an anti-Semitic attack at its worst. The scourge of anti-Semitism cannot be ignored, cannot be tolerated, and it cannot be allowed to continue. We can’t allow it to continue. It must be confronted and condemned everywhere it rears its very ugly head. We must stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters to defeat anti-Semitism and vanquish the forces of hate. That’s what it is.”
No wonder Farage loves him…
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Claudius:
I agree of course, *but* Trump is after all a “dirty democratic politician”, as Hitler put it. He says what he thinks will benefit him. Obviously, Trump is not social-national. His re-election, assuming it happens, is still a better event than would be either the re-election of Biden or the election of some puppet such as Michelle Obama.
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I agree with you 100%. I posted this comment for the naive or politically non-educated potential reader who believes Trump is “the real McCoy”. The same applies to those in the UK who believe Farage is a true patriot.
Of course, Trump is a lesser evil, but that´s it. A friend of mine gave me his view of the US political situation and it makes sense. It is something like this: “The Zionist faction within the US is represented by the Republicans and Trump is their guy. Israel needs more than ever the full support of the US and Trump will do whatever they ask/tell him. The Liberal faction of the US Jewry is represented by Biden & Co. They do not care about Israel but they are very keen on supporting Zelensky. So, in the end, this is a win-win situation for the Jews. They will give up Ukraine but they will annihilate Hamas and save Israel; at least that is their objective.”
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Regarding beards, I hope you have destroyed ALL the photos where you are wearing a beard! (LOL)
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Claudius:
Not all, and anyway, in our age, any that may have found their way onto the Internet are there forever…
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Regarding your thoughts about being too old to take part in the coming storm (which I fully share) Here is an interesting text that I copied and translated from a very good Spanish-language TELEGRAM channel. It is clearly inspired by the ancient Aryan-Indian civilization (The sentences highlighted are mine)
“The period preceding the cataclysm that must destroy the current species of humans is marked by disorders that are the signs announcing its end. As occurred in the case of the Asuras, Shiva cannot destroy more than societies that have departed from his role, have transgressed natural law. According to the theory of the cycles that regulate the evolution of the world, today we are approaching the end of the Kali Yuga, the age of conflicts, wars, genocides, embezzlements, aberrant philosophical and social systems, of the evil development of knowledge that falls into irresponsible hands. Races and castes mix. Everything tends to level out and leveling out, in all areas, is the prelude to death. At the end of Kali Yuga this process accelerates. The acceleration phenomenon is one of the signs of the approaching catastrophe.”
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Claudius:
Thank you. Interesting. The trouble with assessments of *time*, though, as in “approaching catastrophe”, is that descriptions are elastic. In the boxing ring, an “imminent” event is measured in split-seconds, whereas in the world of geology, “imminent” may mean “in the next million years”.
BTW, if you are wondering why I am around before 0500 hrs UK time, it is because I am going out fairly early today to try to buy 2 bottles of Slivovicza (plum spirit), an Eastern/Central European taste I picked up somewhere or other. The cheap supermarket, Lidl, is having an “Eastern European” promotion this week, and there is one of their outlets about 5 or 6 miles from here.
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Yes, I agree, and that is what bugs me! (Grrrrr!) I am, by nature, a bit neurotic and I want everything NOW! (LOL) I do not believe we will see a drastic change in the direction we hope for, but who knows…? The maniacs in charge are (unwittingly) sawing the branch on which they are sitting. Events that our ancestors believed would have taken decades to happen did it in a few years. As the saying goes “We live in hope…”
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The US Democrats truly are vile hypocrites. They have been stirring this Ukraine war/situation since 2014 endangering the safety of ordinary Ukrainians, Russians and Europeans in general and creating a proxy war out of it for US interests and now because of Trump’s rise they are intending to back out of their manipulated situation and leave Europe to pick-up the pieces.
Still, it isn’t any different to what Franklin Delano Roosevelt was doing behind the scenes in the 1930’s to help to set Europe ablaze.
Why doesn’t the US pick-upon China instead of Russia? I would have thought that country was the threat to US interests rather than Putin and company or is it they aren’t so willing to do it because China will fight back against America and could well succeed in doing that more than Russia can?
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John:
While China is still there and trading, the whole international economic system keeps going. If China stops manufacturing and selling to the West cheaply, that economic system grinds to a near-halt very quickly.
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Ha, ha, Irish hypocrites marching against mass immigration to the Republic of Ireland. Where were these people when it came to illegal immigration to the UK by Irish people or the fact that during virtually its entire existence (except for the relatively brief period of the Irish ‘Tiger Economy’) the Republic has more often exported its people in large numbers across the world?
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John:
What illegal emigration to the UK by Irish ppl?
Irish citizens were allowed to move to the UK, and work in the UK, without a visa (or even a passport, until quite recent times), by reason of the treaties concluded between the UK on the one side, and the Irish Free State and, later, the Republic of Ireland, on the other.
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So the British police in Leeds are not meant to touch anyone apart from British people? Illegal behaviour by others is supposed to be swept under the carpet and ignored completely. What are the Roma upset about anyway? I would have thought they would be happy about the illegitimate ‘election’ of a globalist, anti-British Labour government with no real mandate to govern on a record low share of the vote!
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I doubt Trump will win by a landslide for the simple reason too many Republican voters live in the wrong places eg Wyoming is the most Republican state but as it has a small population it doesn’t have many votes in the Electoral College that indirect tly elects the President. The most populated states have the most Electoral College votes eg California with its 55 Electoral College votes and 40 million people. It is a staunchly Democratic Party state and has been for decades now along with other Democratic Party strongholds like New York.
Trump will probably win but only by a small margin. His best bet is that ‘Sleepy Joe’ continues to be the Democratic Party’s nominee.
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John:
My impression is that some of the traditionally Democratic states are now marginal or pro-Trump, but I may be wrong.
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Minnesota may flip into Trump’s Republican Party column but I doubt whether many more will. Certainly, California or Commifornia as many anti-liberal Americans call it won’t. The Democratic Party lead there is vast. I think the last time California voted Republican at a Presidential election was as long ago as 1984 or 1988.
Still, Donald Trump doesn’t need to win California or Minnesota to win. All he needs to do is keep hold of the states which voted for him last time including North Carolina and ‘flip’ some of the ‘swing states’ like Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
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Well, Matt Goodwin is certainly correct about Trump. Whatever people think about him as a person ect, he is undoubtedly a charismatic and clever/politically astute politician who has successfully remade the Republican Party in his own image. He instinctively knows who are the sort of people who are most likely to vote Republican and he can certainly relate to ordinary Americans and their fears/wishes for the future. His political enemies would be wise to never underestimate him.
All this stands in stark contrast to the British Conservative Party who are as aimless/directionless and politically-speaking clueless as they have been since 1997.
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