It's nearly that time of year again! And it’s certainly raining in Winchester at the moment ☔️ Tradition upholds that if it rains upon this bridge – St Swithun's bridge in Winchester city centre – on Monday 15 July, it will continue for forty days. #StSwithunsDay 🧵 pic.twitter.com/f5zvsdzTAH
— Winchester City Council (@WinchesterCity) July 9, 2024
At present, the forecast for Winchester on St. Swithun’s Day (next Monday) is…wet.
What an incredible waste of the British people’s tax monies, thrown at the brutal and shambolic regime of the Jewish dictator Zelensky. Meanwhile Britain’s public services are collapsing.
Fake Labour is already a failure as a government.
Crimea has been Russian for 200 years as shown by the continuation of the presence of their navy. And zelensky was bombing that region of Ukraine for 5 years before putin entered
"The knowledge that at least some Conservative ministers opposed the woke agenda meant radical activists in the institutions could not fully let rip. But that leash came off when Labour won on July 4" – guest essay by leading scholar of wokeism @epkaufmhttps://t.co/zBe2Fqilc1
“Ultimately, this means that defending our truth-based order, free speech and national identity is considered undignified while sacrificing these values in the name of ‘equal outcomes’ and ‘emotional safety’ is not.
Of course, Labour is also proposing innocent-sounding legislation on hate speech and racial equality which will further supercharge this woke cultural socialism, shutting down offensive speech while pressuring organizations to discriminate against whites and males to achieve equal outcomes for identity groups.
Will Britain wake up in time to prevent…erosion of our long traditions of free speech, free expression, objective truth, equal treatment and due process? Will future generations be taught to hate the British past and the white men who played an outsized role in creating our national community?
At best, I think we have one or two decades to reverse the march of wokeism before today’s Zoomers and Millennials, who prioritise ‘emotional safety’ over free speech, become the median voter and the country reaches a point of no return.”
[from a guest essay, published on Matt Goodwin’s blog].
There are of course other ways to resist tyranny than via the so-called “Parliamentary road”.
Virtue signalling Net Zero nonsense that will cost us jobs, revenue, exports, growth and energy security and do nothing to lower average global temperature. #NetZeroReferendum Ed Miliband orders immediate ban on new drilling in North Sea https://t.co/Els1iHavqb
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 10, 2024
I am sure Jake Wallis Simons, Robbie Gibb, Pollard, Harpin, the BoDoSBJ are all ensuring the person responsible for publishing that article feels their wrath, professionally and reputationally.
It will be recalled by older British readers that, in the Dikko case of 1984, an Israeli Jew doctor was directly involved in the MOSSAD operation to kidnap a former Nigerian government minister:
“The Dikko affair was a joint Nigerian–Israeli attempt to kidnap Umaru Dikko, a former Nigerian government minister living in the United Kingdom, in 1984, and secretly transport him back to Nigeria in a diplomatic bag. The kidnapping took place, but the transportation thereof was unsuccessful.
Mossad sources across Europe failed to locate Dikko. However, Mossad Director-General Nahum Admoni decided that Dikko was probably in London, which had become a haven for Nigerian exiles critical of the new regime.
Mossad field officers (katsas), accompanied by Nigerian security service agents led by ex-Nigerian Army Major Mohammed Yusufu, traveled to London. The Nigerian team rented an apartment on Cromwell Road and posed as refugees from the new regime. The Mossad agents rented rooms in hotels catering to tourists from Africa, and posed as anti-apartheid activists.
Working separately, the two teams moved among the Nigerian expat community in London, gradually narrowing their search to West London, to the area around Hyde Park, where many wealthy Nigerian exiles lived. They combed the electoral registers freely available in the area’s town halls, but found no trace of Dikko.
On 30 June 1984, a Mossad agent driving down Queensway, in Bayswater, spotted Dikko. He parked his car and then tailed Dikko on foot to his house in Porchester Terrace. Admoni was immediately informed, and ordered surveillance on the house. From then on, the house was constantly watched, while the Nigerians, using their London high commission as a base, prepared a kidnapping operation.
Meanwhile, Mossad recruited Levi-Arie Shapiro, an Israeli doctor who was a consultant anesthetist and director of the intensive care unit at HaSharon Hospital. He was to fly to London and participate in the operation. Shapiro’s job would be to drug Dikko, and insert an endotracheal tube to keep him from choking on his own vomit while being transported in a crate.”
Hey #politicslive just thought I’d let you know that in the GE @LibDems did brilliantly – loads of new MPs. Yet today you’ve got the chairman of Reform on. I’d like to say I’m surprised but 🤷♀️
Typical Twitter-twit. Yes, the LibDems, as longstanding “dustbin-for-votes” party, got 72 MPs at the General Election. Their vote-share was 12.2% (3,519,199 votes).
By reason of the incredibly undemocratic and illogical UK voting system, Reform UK only got 5 MPs, despite having received a vote-share of 14.3% (4,117,221 votes), well ahead of the LibDems.
Needless to say, tendentious creatures such as tweeter “@Jo_WhiteheadUK” are actually secretly or not so secretly pleased that the electoral system is biased against even mildly-national parties such as Reform UK.
The absurdity of the electoral system is surely now obvious to all. The Conservative Party got a vote-share of 23.7% (6,827,311 votes), just over 1.6 times the vote received by Reform UK, yet now has 121 MPs!
Labour is even more unfairly favoured: <33.7% of the popular vote (9,704,655 individual votes); only just over 2.3 times the Reform UK vote, yet it now has 411 MPs.
Sinn Fein got only 210,891 votes (0.73%) yet has 7 MPs, because its vote is concentrated in a small number of Northern Irish seats. Absurd.
This is not really “democracy”, however defined. A caricature of democracy.
Two things. Firstly, Labour, at the highest level, is signed up to the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, just as are the “Conservatives”— they want to import non-Europeans into all European countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.
Secondly, Labour, like their supposed “opponents” in the Westminster monkeyhouse, talk about “criminal gangs” as if they are the problem. No, they are but a symptom. By all means eliminate those criminals (the System politicians will not even do that, in reality), but the migration-invasion will not be stopped, or even much reduced, by those methods.
It is clear that Labour intends to “legalize” both those illegals already here and most of those planning to invade our shores.
In Britain’s fantasy politics, centred around House of Commons seats, Labour “won” GE 2024 by a landslide, the Conservative Party lost hugely, the LibDems did terribly well and had a kind of resurgence, and Reform UK performed underwhelmingly and got the few (5) MPs that they deserved (or not, according to many Twitter-twits).
In Britain’s real political landscape, away from the Westminster Bubble and the TV studios, things look rather different.
Take 20 UK potential voters, 20 people eligible to vote.
Out of that 20, at least 8 did not bother to vote at all. Those 8 people are completely disenchanted with the whole political system.
Of the remaining 12 voters, i.e. those that actually voted, 2 (in statistical terms, 1.72) voted for Reform UK, 3 (2.84) voted Conservative, and 4 (4.04) voted Labour. Another 1 or 2 (1.47) voted LibDem and maybe 1 (0.76) voted Green.
That is how, out of every 12 voters that voted, and out of every 20 eligible, people voted.
It can be seen that Labour does not really have the massive mandate to which it pretends. For every 4 people presently voting for Labour, another 3 are voting Conservative, 2 are voting Reform UK, 1 or 2 are voting LibDem, and 1 voting Green.
It is the view of the System msm that the above does not matter. Labour has 411 MPs and a huge majority in the Commons, and that’s that.
Not quite. Public opinion can be ignored by those holding power, but only up to a point. I have seen at close quarters some entrenched political systems change, indeed collapse, when public opinion and mood reached a certain tipping-point.
What happens in 2027, 2028, or 2029, after Labour fails dismally, as I think it will (and must, if it is going to allow a million non-Europeans into the UK every year)? The people will not turn back to the Conservative Party, whichever faction rules that rump of a party. The LibDems are just a tactical-vote and dustbin-vote party. Reform UK may or may not rise further.
Ultimately, I think it entirely possible that a social-national alternative not presently in existence may arise. That may or may not be a “party” in the Parliamentary sense.
One thing is for sure— the will and welfare of the people cannot be trifled with indefinitely. Salus populi suprema lex…
[“the welfare of the people is the highest law“— Cicero].
The new government is going to do the BASICS OF THEIR JOB and run an asylum system 🥳
Processing people’s claims & helping rebuild lives instead of warehousing people in limbo forever as a pantomime of cruelty as Tories did is the bare minimum. #r4todaypic.twitter.com/PeIxmfcNKX
Pro-migration-invasion “@zoejardiniere” (Zoe Gardner) with her usual pro-mass migration nonsense.
The 100,000 figure refers to invaders (often “illegals”) who are in the UK without having been granted leave to remain.
Still, her tweet featuring the Daily Telegraph story does confirm what I have repeatedly said on the blog would be the Labour policy: “stop the boats” by allowing almost all “asylum” applicants to stay. Those already on UK territory to be “processed” (rubberstamped) and allowed to stay (and so to work, and/or —more likely— claim benefits, apply for social housing, get a State Pension eventually etc). Those in France or elsewhere to be “processed” (rubberstamped) there, with 95% allowed to come to the UK.
This is the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan in action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan. Of course, it will mean social and economic disaster not far down the line. Political upheaval too.
There is also the point that the “small boats” invasion is but 5% of the total of all migration to the UK. We are talking about a million, give or take, every year. Even if you use the “net migration” figure, meaning excluding those leaving every year (most of them Brits desperately emigrating to Australasia etc), we are still talking about well over half a million a year, maybe three quarters of a million, in bald numbers.
Zoe Gardner talks about “rebuilding lives”, but what is really happening is that lives, British lives, are being destroyed via mass immigration: impossibility of house purchase for most, impossibility even of renting properties without having to share with strangers or wasting most of a person’s pay on rent; crowded railways and roads; crowded State schools; ever-declining health services; a society in which real British people have to share space and life with persons of totally different race and culture.
Of course, those promoting all of that, whether “@ZoeJardiniere” or Yvette Cooper, will not themselves be subject to such cheapening of their lives. They, most of such pro-migration people, live far from those alien madding crowds.
Twitter/X idiocy
I see that one of those silly Twitter/X “news” accounts (with a mere 113 “followers”) has decided to tweet what is displayed below:
A disbarred barrister who posted grossly offensive #antisemitic material online has been sentenced.
Between May 2021 and April 2022, Ian Robert Millard persistently posted about his hatred of #Jewish people online, while claiming he was simply exercising his freedom of speech.… pic.twitter.com/OKjza5c2lq
— Q.I.B.L.A.H uncensored news (@QUNproductions) July 9, 2024
“@QUNproductions” is only 4 months late with that “news” (and copied its tweet verbatim from the BBC News tweet from 4 months ago). Why do people set up these ridiculous “news” Twitter/X accounts, copied from real news organizations? Maybe as an alternative to trainspotting or other hobbies; God knows.
For the true picture about my trial and sentence, see below:
NEW POST. This is the ONE issue that will derail the new Labour government. How the public mood on one big issue is starting to movehttps://t.co/1Z4tNem2r8
“Starmer’s spokesman, too, has already indicated the Labour government will allow more than 100,000 illegal migrants who are already in the country to apply for asylum, thereby, in my view, creating a huge incentive for many more to come.
Labour’s new Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, who just watched Nigel Farage’s Reform party finish second in her own northern seat, has also refused to say the Labour government is committed to Rishi Sunak’s pledge to “stop the boats”.
And the Labour government is already pressing ahead with its proposed ‘solution’ to the illegal migration crisis by establishing a ‘new UK Border Security Command’ to ‘tackle the gangs’ —a move which for reasons I’ve already outlined (see here and here) is unlikely to stop the gangs or the small boat invasion at all. In fact, I’ve yet to meet a single expert who thinks Labour’s plan on illegal migration will work.“
[Matt Goodwin]
"The man tipped to be in charge of stopping the small boats has said he is "proud to be woke", compared Suella Braverman to Enoch Powell, praised Black Lives Matter & openly opposed a ‘No Deal’ Brexit. Is this the man to restore trust?"https://t.co/1Z4tNem2r8
“Furthermore, the very man tipped to be appointed by Labour to tackle the small boats, Neil Basu, has previously said he is “proud to be woke”, compared Suella Braverman to Enoch Powell, has suggested diversity and inclusion are the most important things in policing, spoken positively about the revolutionary group Black Lives Matter (BLM), and openly opposed a ‘No Deal’ Brexit.“
[Matt Goodwin]
Neil Basu was one of the most senior policeman, and was always shouting about the “danger” from the so-called “far right” (despite migration invasion happening all around him); he seems, all of the time, to have supported the interests of the non-white population as against those of the real British people. That was certainly my perception.
Picture a remote Arctic island 10,000 years ago, where a handful of woolly mammoths became stranded by rising sea levels. Despite the risks of inbreeding, they survived for millennia to become the last known mammoths on Earth. https://t.co/tcWpfzLOcb
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 9, 2024
Reminds me of one of the few times I ever played a kind of video game. It was in a South London pub, sometime in the 1980s. I was early for a rendezvous not far away. I went into the pub, bought a beer, and played a game machine; one had to rescue hostages and kill terrorists. Result: all terrorists killed, but about half the hostages also killed.
NATO is heading towards the abyss amid bravura speeches from officials – Foreign Policy
After years of false alarms, the Western military alliance is finally truly heading towards the abyss, writes FP. Donald Trump is well-positioned to return to the US presidency in 2025, the… pic.twitter.com/rjCVikzoxb
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 9, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 9, 2024
Penguins in Argentina are walking around town
The temperature on the islands of Tierra del Fuego does not exceed 2 degrees from June, which makes it an ideal place for wandering birds that do not fly in search of food. pic.twitter.com/rIRFLJ8UZ0
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 9, 2024
Reform UK is a symptom of how angry rather a lot of English people are about the state of the country. Over 4 million votes, over 14% of those voters who voted (i.e. Reform UK was voted for by 1 in 7 voters).
Reform UK got 14.3% of votes, but only 5 MPs.
LibDems? Fewer votes by far than Reform, yet 72 MPs. Ridiculous.
The Conservative Party got 23.7%, little more than one and a half times the number of votes taken by Reform, yet 121 MPs.
Where is the justice, or even logic, in that?
As for the Labour Party, its 33.7% of votes cast represents less than two and a half times the Reform vote, yet it ends up with 411 MPs!
Again, no justice and no logic.
Apparently, Peter Barnes (or Peter C. Barnes) is a UK political campaigns person, who works or has worked for the Conservative Party, and who appears on the “no-one watches” Talk TV and the “almost no-one watches” GB News television outlets.
Back in May I made a prediction. A lot changed and to everyone’s surprise @reformparty_uk actually secured the seats
Seems that Barnes blames Reform UK for Labour’s faux “landslide” (procured by a mere 33.7% of votes cast, i.e. about 20% of all potential votes), and via an electoral system patently not fit for purpose.
In reality, the blame for the Starmer-Labour victory should be placed, first and foremost, with a succession of supposedly “Conservative” governments over the past 14 years, headed by no less than 5 Conservative Party prime ministers who all turned out to be complete deadheads.
Those Conservative Party governments presided over the importation of 3-4 MILLION immigrants, mostly non-European, and over the trashing of public services including the libraries, courts, police, district nursing, roads, elder care, social housing; also riverine pollution… you name it.
At present, mass immigration into the UK is somewhere around a million a year. Yes, a few hundred thousand also leave, but most of the leavers are Brit or other European people emigrating to Australasia and elsewhere.
Barnes seems to think that, had Reform UK not existed, all or most of its voters would have voted Con, thus preventing a Labour government, or one with a majority.
First of all, while most 2024 election Reform UK voters would not have voted Labour in those or any circumstances, that does not mean that they would have voted Con. Probably not. More likely, abstention.
Secondly, parties exist for a reason. There now seems little reason for most voters to vote Con. That seems to be lost on Westminster Bubble types such as Barnes (of whom I had not heard until today). Reform UK is the outcome of profound discontent in the depths of the population.
If Labour (as I firmly expect) fails to give the British people what they require, then Reform UK will not only grow in influence, but will also be the least of the problems of the System parties.
Britain needs a real social-national movement.
Remarkable how he got such a big majority on so few votes. Also he has the lowest popularity rating of any newly elected PM
— Sara Lockwood, Reform UK (@SaraLockwood_x) July 8, 2024
Rachel Reeves sister Ellie made minister without portfolio & Labour Chair. Jacqui Smith to be higher education minister. She resigned in 2009 in the expenses scandals & had got 2 day-release prisoners to paint a room in her house instead of doing work to benefit the community. pic.twitter.com/39nI82fdNO
— Ann Johns, Grumpy Geordie Gran #PAL #Save our NHS (@AnnJohn30914404) July 7, 2024
Cronyism, petty or not so petty corruption and fraud…it’s like the Blair-Brown years all over again.
Are new housing plans a 'declaration of war' against opposing residents?@heliaebrahimi asks Chancellor Rachel Reeves if Labour's plans to prioritise brownfield and grey belt land to meet housing targets is 'calling time' on all NIMBYs. pic.twitter.com/KkOFuOLq3R
This is fucking insane and dangerous. Rachel Reeves tells labour friends of Israel that she’ll prosecute those with “anti-zionism and anti-Israel feeling that is allowed to flourish in some communities”
Rachel Reeves believes in the nationalization of intimidation…
Conservative party will seek to absorb reform as a whole or at an individual MP level in an effort to rebrand. I don’t think that should happen, the Tories have failed us so badly, I for one will never trust them again. Our great country deserves better 🇬🇧
We must be clear: the minority of “activist” blacks and browns want the real British people, the so-called “white British”, to disappear, bred out or otherwise disposed of.
Isn’t the whole point to get rid of the illegals not to actually take more? 🙄
— 𝒯𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝑜𝓇𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁𝓎 🇬🇧🚜 💚🤍💜 (@tractorgirly) July 8, 2024
As I predicted. Labour continues the fiction that the problem is “smuggling gangs” etc, when the real problem is the migration invasion itself (both “legal” and “illegal”), and that would be about the same whether or not various types of criminal were making profits from it all.
I also predicted that Labour in government would open “processing centres” in France, approve 95% of applicants (who will then travel on to the UK “legally”, via ferry or air); the TV and newspaper coverage of invaders being ferried to the South Coast ports (via RNLI and Border Force) or beaches (via rubber boats etc) will simply all but stop, but the invasion itself will continue, just invisibly.
The Conservative party watching on, slack jawed, as it realises you are in fact allowed to use the machinery of government to do things you want and don't have to care if your opponents scream about it.
Now park a few newbuild estates in Tory seats to drive that point home. https://t.co/w16NZI3wNq
— Sam Ashworth-Hayes (@SAshworthHayes) July 8, 2024
Tweeter “@IGMansfield” obviously loves the new “elected” dictatorship of Labour, as it prepares to build over the once “green and pleasant land” so that the invading migrants have a hutch to call their own. No consultation, no appeal, and he loves it.
We often talk about the “enemies of the people”. They now emerge in plain sight. Those who want to trash what is left of this country, whether for profit or for political tendentiousness.
Look at those applauding that tweet (eg below). Not all, or even mostly, any kind of “socialist”:
There is still a small window of opportunity for a party such as Reform UK, or even a genuinely social-national party, to make headway in terms of Commons seats etc. All roads lead to Rome. However, we are getting to the point where ordinary political activity, as per the Reform phenomenon, is not likely to lead to real success, or to triumph.
We are facing an exploding non-European population in the UK, and an upcoming repression on free speech worse than anything so far seen.
Meanwhile, the hordes of “useful idiots” applaud fake “Labour” and love to see government being tyrannical and careless of civil rights (a phenomenon also noted during the 2020-2022 “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic),
Starmer-Labour has little in common with “the party formerly known as Labour”; it is a finance-capitalist project, which poses (and is presented by the msm) as wildly popular because of its Commons “landslide”, when in reality (as examined on the blog over the past few days), it only got 33.7% of the popular vote. Indeed, 40% of the eligible electorate did not vote, so the real support for Starmer-Labour in the country is only about 20%.
This is a WEF government, a ZOG/NWO government, a Labour Friends of Israel government, a Bilderberg government. It has no real validity.
Starmer-Labour is really just another globalist and finance-capitalist “project” akin to Blair’s “New Labour”, as seen in the many Blair-Brown faces now in government. The myriad new MPs are basically lobby-fodder.
Ed Miliband will soon build wind turbines on this skyline. How do people feel about that? https://t.co/qyEmMt1RhY
Miliband, who claimed in 2009 at Copenhagen that we had either 3 or 5 years to “save the planet”. Then the planet yawned and everyone, or almost everyone, forgot about the prediction (which was echoed by the then Prince Charles).
Well, now Miliband is back, wanting to cover the countryside in turbines.
Wonderful to see the first Border force boat bringing in migrants trying to cross the channel safely into Dover, since Labour winning.
I thought that that “@Bushra1Shaikh” Twitter/X account must be some form of satire, but apparently not.
There it is, anyway— the latest batch of migrant-invaders, brought to the UK by one of the government agencies meant to protect our borders from invasion and breach by criminals…
Just looked her up online. Apparently, she was on the TV show The Apprentice about 7 years ago, in 2017 (fired before the show came to an end). 40-41 years old, a divorced single mother of three children, and a businesswoman of some sort, who sells Muslim clothing.
Late tweets
Lots of people telling themselves Reform was a "protest vote". Wrong. Number 1 reason people left Tories for Reform was "Tories didn't deliver what they promised". And immigration absolutely central to this. Reformers know exactly what they want …https://t.co/hjoHoqJtxM
After claiming tens of thousands of taxpayers £££ for her home in #Redditch, former MP & Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said: "I don't think people who have been disgraced should go to the House of Lords." But the new 'changed' @UKLabour give her Peerage! https://t.co/dSCCKI9S81
We can already see the road being taken by the Starmer-Labour “elected” dictatorship. Cabinet members who are not even MPs (which has always happened, but not I think to this extent), and a likelihood of policies imposed with little or no consultation.
The irony of Jess Phillips asking security to "throw out" a mob of baying Islamists. Your party invited them in and fought to let them stay, Jess. Enjoy the consequences of your own opinions. pic.twitter.com/bwIRL47SWI
— Leo Kearse – on YouTube & Saturday Night Showdown (@LeoKearse) July 5, 2024
“A female Deliveroo rider who bit a customer’s thumb off in an argument over pizza has escaped jail.
[defendant]
Jeniffer Rocha caused Stephen Jenkinson a ‘permanent, irreversible injury’ while delivering him a Pizza Express order in a ‘reckless’ attack, a court heard.
Mr Jenkinson, 36, and Rocha, 35, had a brief argument over a delivery code before the Brazilian Deliveroo rider bit his thumb off.
Rocha, a married mother of two who was making deliveries on her moped as a replacement rider for her husband, admitted grievous bodily harm in March on the eve of her trial.
On Friday, at Salisbury Crown Court, Wilts, she walked free from court as she was handed a 16 month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, by a judge who accused her of ‘excessive self defence‘.”
[Daily Echo]
More tweets seen
“The obvious danger is that an unpopular government, made complacent by its grossly disproportionate majority, systematically imposes an agenda that the majority don’t want.”https://t.co/2nCx4ZEyM5
Written submissions on costs are with the judge in my case.
Mr Cantor seeks to reduce his liability for my costs because he was poorly advised by Mark Lewis and therefore did not properly consider my offer to settle in November 2021.
At least we now have at least 5 MPs who will oppose Labour in the HOC. The #SettledScience can now be unsettled again and hopefully better policies will emerge as a result.
Peter Hitchens is a confirmed political spectator, and has certain fixed views, one of which seems to be a huge over-valuation of the importance of voting every 4-5 years. He thinks that MPs are terrified of their voters voting them out. No, because they have incentives to vote according to other motivations, such as lobby money, outside “work” as “consultants”, party discipline (careerism), possibility of a paid “peerage” down the line etc.
Another Hitchens characteristic is that he is very fixated on the “two main parties” set-up which has dominated British politics (with LibDem and SNP distractions) since the Second World War and to a large extent since the First World War.
Hitchens seems to think that it was wrong for the public to turn to Reform UK, and that it would have been better to have had a Labour government with a much smaller majority.
I disagree. That would change nothing, and the UK needs to change (though not in the Starmer-Labour way). Hitchens seems to support a different kind of Conservative Party, if possible, but you cannot put new wine into old bottles.
There isn't one. If there was an opportunity to reforge conservatism in this country, which is arguable, it passed in 2010, when British patriotic conservatives endorsed David Cameron's Blairite takeover of the Tory Party.( as I have said here 1,000 times before).@rikstoreyhttps://t.co/TUXqKHA67o
Regular readers will know that I have little time for Farage, let alone Tice etc. They are not social-national. However, their Reform UK project has moved the “Overton Window”, and has started to break up the rigged political system that has been in place all of my life.
Hitchens is right in saying, as he does, that Reform UK is just Farage, but you could have said that about, say, on a higher and more significant political level, Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP.
As Rudolf Hess said, famously, at Nuremberg in 1934, “Die Partei ist Hitler, aber Hitler ist Deutschland wie Deutschland Hitler ist!” [see https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6uajey at 1:43:00].
For me, Reform UK is but one means to an end, not the final destination.
Not Keir Starmer, .@mrsonicadvance . *?Please* grasp the breathtakingly simple point of voting *against*. It hopes to *prevent* an undesired outcome. I long ago ceased to imagine that voting in Britain could have any positive outcome for conservatives. https://t.co/HYitBymN2v
Does Hitchens really imagine that Starmer-Labour is or will be worse than (or even very different from) the “Conservative” governments of the past 14 years?
“In his 1991 book Geschichtsdenken im 20. Jahrhundert (Historical Thinking in the 20th Century), Nolte asserted that the 20th century had produced three “extraordinary states”, namely Germany, the Soviet Union, and Israel. He claimed that all three were “abnormal once”, but whereas the Soviet Union and Germany were now “normal” states, Israel was still “abnormal” and, in Nolte’s view, in danger of becoming a fascist state that might commit genocide against the Palestinians.”
Good grief. What a list! Only one or two are even European. Suella Braverman of Indian origins; James Cleverly of mixed African and English origins; Kemi Badenoch, Nigerian; Priti Patel, East African Indian origin; Tom Tugendhat, quarter-Jewish; Robert Jenrick, possibly fully-English (uncertain); Victoria Atkins.
Speaking personally, if I were in any case a Conservative, I should find Jenrick unacceptable by reason of his seeming (?) corruption, his Jewish personal links (not just his wife, his social circle, which seems to consist largely of Jewish business sharks), and his poor judgment in office.
Tugendhat? Apart from his part-Jewish origins, he is very very keen on support for Israel and the Kiev regime. Also, I am always suspicious when someone, especially from a privileged background (his father was a High Court judge), has a large hole in his or her CV.
Tugendhat seems to have graduated in or about 1994, then spent a year (?) getting a Master’s degree in Islamic studies. After that, he spent a brief time as a journalist on an English-language newspaper in Beirut.
We next hear of Tugendhat about 6-7 years later, in 2003, when he is gazetted as a Territorial Army officer (after a month or two, joining the Intelligence Corps); as of 2013, Lt.-Colonel in the Int. Corps. He was also working, ostensibly for the Foreign Office and in a civilian capacity or role, in Iraq in 2005.
As MP and minister, Tugendhat has been associated with both “security” matters and allied matters of so-called “extremism”. He seems to be hostile to free speech, especially about Israel and the Jewish/Zionist lobby.
Well, one can draw one’s own conclusions.
Not much to say about Victoria Atkins. A barrister by training, and married to a multi-millionaire who is a director of numerous large companies, including British Sugar.
I cannot see any of the above appealing to the British voters.
The only Conservative Party MP for whom I would have any time at all would be David Davis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Davis_(British_politician)], who at least has proven that he has principle, respect for civil rights and, also, courage. He, however, is now 75, and may not want to lead that rabble anyway.
Late tweets
MOST READ #2. Britain's looming demographic CRISIS. Mass immigration, economic decline, or more babies — time to choosehttps://t.co/7mONuSWfOm
I feel sorry for Jonathan Ashworth. But he lost his seat because of a communal sectarianism that, with these words, he denied even existed. pic.twitter.com/pJiXckkFTb
" The tide is rising, this time it didn't rise high enough but it continues to rise and therefore our victory is only delayed ," said Le Pen.
▪️As she added, she has too much experience to be disappointed with the result in which the National Assembly doubled its number of… pic.twitter.com/6urSI5Ss7q
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) July 7, 2024
Yes, that is the point. Despite the “arrangement” concluded by the System parties and the other anti-French parties, the RN hugely increased the number of RN deputies elected.
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
Something pretty big is missing from Labour's historic landslide: voters. Keir Starmer is set to win 64 per cent of the seats but on only 33.8 per cent of the votes, the smallest vote share of any modern PM https://t.co/kD6RBa8VaR
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.
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).
Tweets seen
Nigel Farage In His First Day As Clacton On Sea MP Does A Shift On The Local Coastguard Station 😆 pic.twitter.com/XyZLqVoGvr
NEW. The Tories are on LIFE SUPPORT, Reform is SURGING, the battle begins. Crunching the numbers on the 2024 general election resultshttps://t.co/qQqBhLZX9H
Both Starmer & Lammy have already resorted to crude identity politics. Expect lots more of this, from Racial Equality Act to teaching. Tories hapless on this. Enormous open goal for Farage + Reformhttps://t.co/ohKIsJJ5uB
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. https://t.co/9qRLKK25TC
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”.
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.
“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.
More tweets
"Reform achieved a 14% vote share but 1% of seats while the Lib Dems achieved a 12% vote share, half a million votes LESS than Reform but 11% of seats. Reform got 5 MPs; the Lib Dems 71" – John Curtice
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.
— Captain Benjamin 🐺 (@BenjaminDeRebel) July 6, 2024
“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.
10/13 Britain has also chosen to keep an overvalued pound to favour financialisation, which has helped crush their native industry by making their exports unaffordable. pic.twitter.com/BY5pdhV3Oe
12/13 It's becoming more common for big US firms like Blackrock to acquire British companies.
The UK economy is becoming more subservient to Wall Street, while the new financialised economy engages in a great asset-stripping of the rest of the country. How long can this last? pic.twitter.com/9XXBS5oDmS
Fascinating article, although parts of it wouldn't be out of place in The National, a left-wing newspaper that supports Scottish independence, or a George Monbiot critique of neoliberalism
The Tory/Boomer right and the dissident right are on different planets at this point pic.twitter.com/pKZwPCkCgz
💵 The boss of Britain’s biggest transport company is being awarded an £800,000 bonus – nearly double the size of his salary – even as train cancellations soar, The Telegraph can reveal https://t.co/aHTbIupzGR
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 will renationalise Britain’s railways “as soon as possible”, Louise Haigh, the new Transport Secretary, has said
Some industries are, in the contemporary era, better under public ownership. Rail. Domestic water supply. Most electricity. Most if not all gas.
Braverman: ‘No announcements’ on Tory leadership race
The former home secretary is expected to throw her hat into the ring in the contest to replace Rishi Sunak, who said he would quit as leader once formal arrangements were in place to select his successor pic.twitter.com/XflYqpavE1
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…
Nigel Farage’s plan to be prime minister in five years’ time may seem far-fetched, but it would take fewer than 340,000 voters to switch to Reform UK for the party to overtake the Tories and become the official opposition, a Telegraph analysis shows
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.
Sir Patrick Vallance appointed to Starmer’s #WEF Cabinet.
Jaywick's been like this for at least half a Century. The people who live there have a right to feel ignored and forgotten. Idiots like this just prove their point. https://t.co/mzAy8fKjLn
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).
Woke is not "being nìce". Woke is embracing a radical ideology that consistently prioritises minorities above the majority, is hostile toward truth & free speech, & seeks to deconstruct Western societieshttps://t.co/liUeIhMiRYhttps://t.co/4g1hMZKd1B
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.
Disgraced former New Labour MP Jacqui Smith voted for the Iraq War, claimed £2,500 on expenses for her husband's porn collection, and is an apologist for genocide.
So, naturally, Starmer has given her a peerage and a ministerial job.
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) July 6, 2024
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…
It’s a truly precious thing to live in a country where people decide who should serve in government and when you should go. And that those in positions of power accept that with grace.
…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!
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 6, 2024
Rains and floods in Saudi Arabia, which have become common since the beginning of the year , continue Video shows flooding after extremely heavy rain in Al Dhayer. pic.twitter.com/LuzWHmqXIv
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 6, 2024
Late music
[Tunis in the rain. I last trod that pavement about 39 years ago.]
Disappointing. I wanted the Conservative Party to be crushed (~50 seats) whereas, now, on about 120 seats, it can still pose as a viable party, and its status as official Opposition reinforces that.
Labour, as expected, won the most seats, easily (with 2 results not yet in, 412 MPs, and a majority of about 96 or so).
The other System party, the LibDems, have apparently won 71 seats, almost all entirely by default, as “alternative choice”, or “dustbin” choice, or “tactical choice”.
Of course, this election again emphasizes the inadequacy of FPTP voting, but the “usual suspects” make sure that the System parties oppose proportional representation. “They” remember Adolf!
FPTP makes it very hard for small parties to rise up. That makes the modest success of both Reform UK and the Greens even more striking.
It has been hilarious to read the tweets bitterly whining at Farage having won at Clacton.
Reform UK now has a foothold at Westminster. The exit poll had predicted 13 MPs. Looks like 4 now. Still, the significant thing, apart from those 4 successes, is that Reform came second in dozens of other constituencies. When Labour (as is inevitable) lets down the voters over the next 4-5 years, Reform may be in a position to do much better.
The Greens also did well, though that party will never be able to convince the general public that they are really “green” while they continue to support mass immigration, or allowing the creation of large solar electricity installations, or huge wind turbines, on green fields etc.
While I am disappointed with the overall result, and with some individual results too, I have seen plenty of results that have cheered me.
A number of the MPs removed have been featured over recent years in my “Deadhead MPs” series.
Some removed MPs:
Victoria Prentis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Prentis], a complete puppet of the Israel lobby, and an exceptionally poor Attorney-General, has been removed (as MP). A Conservative Friends of Israel member.
Penny Mordaunt. The now-washed-up “great white hope” of those Conservative Party members outdated enough to want a real English person as leader and possible PM. Not the worst of the ditched MPs. Never mind; she will always have the memory of that Coronation sword and, a few years earlier, that swimsuit moment…
Nigel Evans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Evans. A useless creature, whose only real job before becoming an MP was helping out in his parents’ corner shop. He was also lucky to escape conviction on sex offences (see my “Deadhead MPs” profile, below).
Oh, God, what can one say? Actually, I already said it, years ago (see her “Deadhead MP” profile, below). She had one of the supposedly safest Con Party seats, too.
This was the idiot who wanted to put GPS trackers in the handles of all knives to deter “knife crime”! A total deadhead. He should have suggested putting microchips under the skin of those “likely” to commit knife crime, but that might be seen as “racist”, of course.
As I said in an update to that blog post, “Mann could, I suppose, go back to being a postman, a far more socially-useful job than being an MP, at least one of the type Mann has been. Otherwise, unless his friends can find a job for him, he may soon start to learn from personal experience how hard life can be in contemporary Britain for the unemployed, especially at his age (46).
That should not come as too much of a shock to him, though. After all, he himself voted for all of the anti-“welfare” nonsense put through from 2015-2024, and approved of most if not all of the Dunce Duncan Smith nonsense of 2010-2015.“
One of the best results of GE 2024, as far as I am concerned. Not merely a Conservative Friends of Israel member, but a very nasty little individual, who tweeted against me a few times in the past, and also gloated online at the convictions of Alison Chabloz, the satirist and singer, who lives and/or lived in the High Peak constituency.
Larghan was a “bean-counter” (accountant) for Marks & Spencer before latching onto the old MP racket; perhaps he will go back to that way of making a living.
“After losing his seat as the HIgh Peak MP Robert Largan, who was standing for the Conservative party, says he has helped a huge number of constituents and brought money to the area during his time in power.
This morning it was announced that Jon Pearce had taken the seat with 22,533 votes and Mr Largan only getting 14,625 votes.
However, reflecting on his time in office Mr Largan said: “All political careers end in failure.“
[Buxton Advertiser]
Largan, derivative to the end…(and most “political careers” last longer than 5 years…).
Incidentally, I notice that all or almost all of the Conservative Party MPs binned (not just the few noted above) would have retained their seats had it not been for the Reform UK candidatures.
Tweets seen
These two good dogs bring their humans to save this baby calf trapped in mud & show kindness to it. Regardless of species, empathy & loyalty make this world beautiful. 🙏🪄 pic.twitter.com/ClEDNuig3a
😂😂😂😂😂😂 great night for Reform this is just the start!👍🔥 @Nigel_Farage and @reformparty_uk have destroyed the Tory party to its foundations. Tories deserve this. Reform are the true opposition to Labour and will win the election in 2029 and we get @Nigel_Farage as PM! ❤️🇬🇧
“Man proposes, God disposes” etc, but this will have been merely the start, now that Reform UK have their boots under the table. They are, of course, not social-national, but their success moves the “Overton Window” a bit, anyway. A real social-national movement must emerge, though.
@reformparty_uk the ket thing now is that @Conservatives can never govern again unless they embrace 5 million Reform voters
Reform UK apparently got a national vote-share of around 14%. In a pure PR system, Reform would be allocated about 91 MPs, not the miserable 4 allowed via FPTP.
Will Hutton, like so many of his type, cannot see that most of the issues, if not all, that he highlights, have been caused, or have been made worse, and/or are still being made much worse, by the continuing migration invasion, numbered in the millions. Indeed, over the past 25 years alone, numbered in the tens of millions.
The Tory’s are the party of the walking dead little support amongst the under 30s. In 20 years they will be gone as a political force. Reform on the other hand 4 musketeers in HOC four million votes. Zero political baggage for 2029 and the most popular party with the youth.
Labour’s “landslide” is an arithmetical trick, nothing more. No-one really has any enthusiasm for Israel-puppet Starmer and his unimpressive MPs. The result of GE 2024, as expected, was that Labour’s vote-share stayed almost the same (33.7%, compared to 32.1% in 2019), as did the LibDem vote-share (12.2% compared to 11.6%), but the Conservative Party vote-share dropped from 43.6% in 2019 to 23.7% in 2024.
Reform UK’s vote share (the official figure not yet seen by me but supposedly 14%) was obviously the main reason why Con losses and Lab gains were so great.
Another significant fact is that over 40% of those eligible to vote did not vote. Turnout was below 60%.
They won 4m votes and got just 5 seats. The Lib Dems got just under 4m votes and got 70 seats. There’s your answer. A broken electoral system.
Tweeter “@BarnabyEdwards” displays the usual “woke” inability to think. He only accepts the logic he wants to accept. At first, it’s “ha ha, look at Reform UK! What a failure!“, then, when some facts about voting numbers are pointed out, it’s “yes, FPTP is rubbish, but fact is that Reform UK have only 5 MPs and yet are treated the same as serious parties like Plaid Cymru and the Greens, and will get more coverage than they merit“.
The said tweeter, one Barnaby Edwards, is really saying that Plaid Cymru, with its (faux) Welsh “nationalism”, and the pseudo-Greens, merit more coverage than Reform because (unspoken) Reform is anti-migration invasion etc.
Look at the popular vote numbers, though: Reform UK well over 4 MILLION votes; Plaid Cymru below 195,000, not even a twentieth of the number of votes received by Reform. As for the Greens, 1,842,000, so good but still a long way short of half the number of votes received by Reform.
Incidentally, tweeter “@BarnabyEdwards” has nearly 23,000 Twitter/X “followers”, whereas the more sensible or less biased fellow talking with him, “@cllranderson”, has a mere 2,000. Typical of the platform, of course.
If the country deteriorates beyond recognition due to the much higher and faster influx of African illegal migrants of a hostile culture, enabled by a virtue-signalling Home Secretary @YvetteCooperMP , such disaster would be on Labour and on those who voted Labour into power.
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 4, 2024
"Reform achieved a 14% vote share but 1% of seats while the Lib Dems achieved a 12% vote share, half a million votes LESS than Reform but 11% of seats. Reform got 5 MPs; the Lib Dems 71" – John Curtice
Zelensky: Ukraine cannot equip 14 brigades due to lack of weapons
" We have brigades without weapons, we have 14 brigades that do not have enough weapons. One brigade has from 1,000 to 8,000 people, and the main source of weapons for the Ukrainian forces is Western supplies ,"… pic.twitter.com/wIjrY2zSzv
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 4, 2024
Whether it happens this summer or next, sooner or later the Russian “Stavka” will order a general advance across Eastern Ukraine. Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose it.
#ToriesIntoThird Stephen Smith was found 'fit for work' by the Tory DWP. He appealed from his hospital bed but died before the result was known. One of thousands. Don't let them get away with it. pic.twitter.com/wsScXd1WGM
The Labour Party 1997-2010 created the system that resulted in this, the Conservative Party 2010-2015 made such events more common, and the Liberal Democrats enabled the Conservative Party from 2010-2015.
— alessandra rizzo (@alessandrarizzo) July 4, 2024
If so, rather disappointing for me. I wanted the Conservative Party to be all but wiped out, primarily. 130 MPs will mean that it can still present itself as a potentially viable party of government, as it did after 1997. Very disappointing and irritating.
That means that the “2-3 main parties” scam rolls on, at least until 2029.
For social nationalism, there is no “Parliamentary road”…
Assuming that the exit poll is accurate, this is the triumph of the unmeritorious. Unmerited “elected” dictatorship for Labour. Unmerited success for the LibDems, getting 61 seats off little more than Ed Davey clowning and falling off sailboards etc. The “dustbin” party… Also, the unmerited survival of the Conservative Party, even if only as a rump party of ~131 MPs, but still enough to be the official Opposition.
The SNP, reduced to ~10 MPs at Westminster, is pretty much a dead duck as a party of Scottish government in the future, as is, now, any faux-“Independence” for Scotland.
As for Reform UK, I think that ~13 MPs constitute as good a result as they realistically could have expected. For the past 9 years, the LibDems have had fewer MPs: 8 in 2015, 12 in 2017, and 11 in 2019, yet look at them now— 61 MPs predicted. Reform UK could be there, or beyond there, in 2029. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)#General_elections.
The air force and air defense forces of Belarus and the Russian Federation are put on high combat readiness due to the activation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Missile systems "Polonaise" and "Iskander" were brought into position, President of Belarus Lukashenko pic.twitter.com/3ZWzRUdAlA
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 3, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 3, 2024
🇻🇳 Footage from a Vietnamese police training to destroy terrorists and rescue hostages in a building pic.twitter.com/RrOcl7ICT6
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 3, 2024
Former economic adviser to Israel's chief of staff, Ram Aminah, said: "Israeli society does not understand the extent of Hezbollah's power" because it has a large stockpile of missiles, he added.
Hezbollah is considered one of the five superpowers along with the United States,… pic.twitter.com/udIWpIVVxF
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 3, 2024
“Former economic adviser to Israel’s chief of staff, Ram Aminah, said: “Israeli society does not understand the extent of Hezbollah’s power” because it has a large stockpile of missiles, he added. Hezbollah is considered one of the five superpowers along with the United States, China, Russia and Germany.“
Interesting and unexpected. All the same, Hezbollah is not part of the nuclear club: no Trident, no French force de frappe…
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 3, 2024
When they are given power…
The Kiev junta refused to compromise with Moscow:
Ukraine is not ready to compromise with Russia and give up any territory in order to end the conflict – Ermak. pic.twitter.com/Fq9IfoRDi9
— Global Info Factory (@GlobalInfoFact) July 3, 2024
“He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword” [Matthew 26:52]
Extraordinary- Sam Coates saying one member of the govt worried he might win, he just wants to lose 😆 Survation's latest poll puts Tories at just 64 seats. But we need to VOTE pic.twitter.com/eWnPFSqny4
Wonder what that idiot-tweeter will say when real social-nationalism arrives…
Have you any idea how shite the UK is to live in? Have you any idea how long you need to wait for a check up, a hospital bed, a dentist etc? Have you seen the slums and filth being created through lack funding? And you want more of the fucking same???
Incidentally, that Britain Elects poll result, if it is right, would mean a House of Commons with 469 Labour MPs (overall majority 288), 75 LibDems, 56 Con MPs, 15 SNP, 9 Reform UK, 3 Green (etc). https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.
Many will settle for a 20k salary so they avoid paying tax
My view is that it would be better to raise the threshold to at least the £20,000 level, but increase the tax burden of VAT (overall). True, that would hit poorer people disproportionately, but at the same time would put the choice into their hands, in fact into the hands of all consumers. Basic purchases, such as food, or basic foodstuffs, could be charged out at a lower rate or rates, or zero-rated.
Government needs tax monies in order to fund the functions of government.
"The British Conservative party will leave Downing Street after 14 years and 5 incompetent prime ministers who have left Britain poorer and weaker. More than at any time in modern history, Britain has lost the respect of the world", @FrancisGhiles 🔗https://t.co/a2FDKtxJ0cpic.twitter.com/4fEYy8suc3
— CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs) (@CidobBarcelona) July 3, 2024
FINAL poll of campaign
Labour 36% Reform 20% Conservatives 16% Lib Dems 10% Greens 9% SNP 4%
That poll, by my use of Electoral Calculus, would result in a House of Commons with 454 Labour MPs (overall majority 258), 74 LibDems, 46 Cons, 34 Reform UK, 15 SNP, 4 Green (etc).
That People Polling opinion poll comes very close to my own (I hope, educated) guess about what might be the result of tomorrow’s General Election. Labour as “elected” (by default) dictatorship, LibDems the official but completely toothless Opposition (again only by default), and Reform UK in a good position to capitalize on what will soon be Labour’s total let-down as a government. Oh, and the SNP put back in its box, probably permanently.
As for the Conservative Party, if not totally wiped out on the day, mortally wounded.
I also tend to agree, as I have been blogging recently. “Shy Reform UK voters”, unwilling to share their tendency with pollsters, may add up to something significant, if they vote at all.
That means a House of Commons with 472 Labour MPs (overall majority 294), LibDems 69, Cons 63, SNP 15, Reform 6, Greens 3 (etc).
Once again, LibDems as official Opposition. About half the polls are predicting that the LibDems will get more MPs than the Cons. I imagine that large donors to the Conservative Party will close their pocketbooks soon. A party not in government and not even the main opposition party has little influence.
1700 hrs now. 17 hours before the polls open for real.
BREAKING – final YouGov polling has Reform on 36% in Great Yarmouth, Labour on 29%. The Tories CANNOT win here. If you want to keep Labour out, then voting Reform tomorrow is the only way. pic.twitter.com/MDwe0OsKdW
This is Frank and he has had a coffee stand at the top of the steps at Bethnal Green tube for as long as I can remember.
When the new restaurant/coffee shop next door opened along with another high street outlet opening across the street, Frank suddenly found that his license… pic.twitter.com/3bgeCMvuxP
“This is Frank and he has had a coffee stand at the top of the steps at Bethnal Green tube for as long as I can remember.
When the new restaurant/coffee shop next door opened along with another high street outlet opening across the street, Frank suddenly found that his license from the council had been revoked and he was chucked off his stand. I believe it was to make way for these new shops to take his regular custom. They didn’t need him in the way of gaining maximum profit… so Frank was gone.
Well the locals were having none of it and a petition started demanding his return. How dare they do this to him. How dare these people smash his business and leave him with nothing.
After a lot of pressure the council backed down and Frank had his licence and pitch returned to him but sadly by that time Frank had sold his equipment to feed his family and try to survive. So the good people of Bethnal Green started crowdfunding and here’s the result… Frank back in business on his old pitch with brand new equipment and even a little hut now to shelter him from the rain… Brilliant!!
He is truly the happiest man in East London and it’s wonderful to see. It really does show that if we all stick together, stand up to them and just say no… the little guy can win. If you’re in Bethnal Green come and have a coffee with this lovely man.“
A nice story, and an illustration on a small scale of what society could be.
Not an area I know (have been there a couple of times, 30-40 years ago), but if I am ever there, admittedly highly unlikely, I’ll take that coffee.
“A man has been convicted of strangling his wife while her online boyfriend was on a video link, and throwing her body hidden in a suitcase into a tributary of the River Thames.
Aminan Rahman, 46, was found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey of murdering Suma Begum, 24, in a flat in east London on the night of 29 April last year.
The killing was witnessed by Begum’s two children, aged four months and two years, and her online boyfriend via a video call from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where he was living.“
[The Guardian]
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Nigel Farage and Reform's average vote share in the final polls is now up to 17.3% — from 11% at the start of the campaign & 15% last week. Most polls suggest a strong end to the campaign for Farage & Co … https://t.co/O3wB4eQNON
‘He was the guy who liberalised immigration. He was the guy who lost control of the borders. He’s the guy who put mass migration on steroids.’@GoodwinMJ rips into Boris Johnson, saying his political influence has almost entirely diminished following his time in office. pic.twitter.com/KwVR8b8V9j
[1938— Adolf Hitler enters Vienna to popular acclaim after the overwhelming vote of the Austrian people to join with National Socialist Germany in the new German Reich]
Talking point
[comment from a report in an American news magazine]
The Conservative Party misgovernment is more or less at an end now. The next battle will soon start, the battle against the overall “woke” nonsense going to be spearheaded by the Labour Party in government: “trans” nonsense, multikulti nonsense, migration-invasion, Israel/Jewish lobbyism and, encompassing all of those and more, the attack on free speech and freedom of expression.
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Blowback is a great podcast on the Iraq War.
“The invasion of Iraq in 2003 constitutes the greatest crime of the 21st century. The war killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and the country plunged into a cycle of violence and misery that endures today.”…
A reminder that, in international affairs, there is sometimes no “good” option but only “bad” or “worse” options. Sometimes the “least worst” option is also the (relative) “best” at that particular time.
In the example, leaving a terrible tyrant like Saddam Hussein in place might be “bad” (arguably) but deposing him, destroying Iraq, and further destabilizing the region, thus also causing millions to flee westward, might be described as “worse” or even “worst”.
Well they have been for some time
— Sue🐱🐴🐔🍃💚🍃 🏴 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 (@sw18780774) June 29, 2024
🚨DOVER INVASION UPDATE🚨
Over 300 illegals in the last 3 days have crossed the channel in dinghies
Saturday: 77 illegals in 1 boat Sunday: 217 illegals in 4 boats Monday: 85 illegals in 2 boats
13,574 migrants in 272 dinghies have so far crossed the channel this year, an 18%… pic.twitter.com/uBHagV2n43
Most Britons are willing to at least give a Starmer government the benefit of the doubt
Have high hopes and think they will do a good job: 21% Do not have high hopes, but willing to give the benefit of the doubt: 35% No not have high hopes and think they will do a bad job: 33%… pic.twitter.com/9JQTZgNzBd
So we are asked to believe that two Reform UK GE 2024 candidates have only just discovered, in the latest case two days before the General Election, that they disagree with their Reform UK colleagues or ex-colleagues?
To me this looks like a set-up, maybe co-ordinated, maybe not.
The latest defector is one Georgie David. I wonder what her provenance might be. She does not look very European in the Sky News photo.
If those two candidates really are against the UK being mainly white Northern European etc, how stupid must they be to have joined with Reform UK in the first place? I might add that the pair are, obviously, though in a minor sense, “traitor” types by nature, to defect like that only days before the “off” (to put it in racing terms).
I doubt that the defections will have any effect on the General Election. In fact, I doubt that the barrage of anti-Reform propaganda being put out by the Conservative Party will do more than perhaps dent a little the Reform UK vote. Even if it did, it would not help the Con Party; any Reform-leaning voters in doubt would not vote Con anyway, but more likely abstain.
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I remember Obama visiting downing street just a couple of days before he announced the election. I think sunak was ordered by the Davos lot to hold an election, get there man starmer in so we can have a war in Ukraine. The chess pieces are being moved into their final position.
Likewise, I happened to be in Qatar for a few days in early 2001. On leaving from the old (now replaced) Doha Airport, I was just being driven to the steps of my plane in a limousine when I noticed that Air Force Two (with Colin Powell on board, as I later discovered, though probably not aboard at that exact moment), was parked right next to it. In retrospect, part of the diplomatic build-up to the invasion of Iraq which occurred 2 years later.
There are always small events, and there is always chatter, before larger events occur. One reason why it is so suspicious that the Israelis claim that the events near Gaza in early October 2023 came as a complete surprise to them.
Labour policies in a nutshell…
🚨 Trans rights over women’s rights 🚨 Immigrants first, Britons last 🚨 Net Zero & higher bills for all 🚨 War first, peace last 🚨 LGBTQIAP+ gender ideology 4 all kids 🚨 Davos first, Britain last
Rachel Reeves. Labour Friends of Israel. Poses as “competent”. Ran up very large (interest-free) debt on her House of Commons credit card, then refused for years to repay. Freeloader and cheat.
Shut these sick events down , we the ordinary public have had enough of this nonce shit https://t.co/u0xpR2pvhf
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 1, 2024
Tommy Robinson. Even a stopped clock is right once or twice per day.
From Sept 2020 @GuidoFawkes reported that in a 1988 edition of Socialist Lawyer magazine, the words of Sir @Keir_Starmer.
All main System parties are signed up to the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan (nb. the “usual suspects” habitually vandalize Wikipedia, so bear that in mind).
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— 🇬🇧#VoteREFORMUK🇬🇧 I want my country back! 🇬🇧 (@ItParachute) June 27, 2024
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 1, 2024
My own experiences have been both worse and far more significant (because my own free speech struggles have been over serious socio-political postings, not silly “dog gives Hitler salute” video clips): see below
I don't think he can live. But you have rescued him and that was the best that you could do. I think you must have reassured him that he was not lost in some dark mysterious place, causing him pain. Às a pet cat he would have looked to humans for help.
Mark Lewis left Britain because antisemitism meant he did not feel safe?
But he returned to spend a week in court representing people who joke about the Protocols, being Nazis, and fleeing to Argentina?https://t.co/oq8y9GCyCA
The old adage about how investigators should “always follow the money” applies a fortiori to the egregious Lewis.
Nina Power is bankrupt after losing a defamation case. Her co-claimant Daniel Miller is already bankrupt. Both defendants in my case are heading for bankruptcy. They are all former clients of Mark Lewis who decided to take cases to trial and lost. @MLewisLawyerpic.twitter.com/LVJ4tmvbv9
As I have said on the blog previously, I pity anyone who instructs Lewis as solicitor (at least anyone who does not have a rather simple and easily-won, indeed “open-and-shut”, case).
— Damian Lyons Lowe (@DamianSurvation) July 2, 2024
The only two where the range is relatively unimportant are Labour, which is (however unmeritoriously) on track for a massive win, it seems, and the LibDems, who seem likely to do modestly well or quite well purely by default, by being the “dustbin” or “tactical vote” choice.
All the rest? Either getting a bloc of significance, or almost nothing. Even the Con result will be very different on 34 MPs (a near wipeout) compared to 99 MPs (very poor but still just about in the game).
Last week Starmer said, “Handouts offer less dignity to people than earning a living through work.” The same Starmer has accepted £76,000 of handouts including concerts, parties, sport games, hotel stays and clothing. https://t.co/oNsXDQWteY
Starmer and his cabal are a collective waste of space, but this time next week they will constitute the “politburo” of an “elected” dictatorship.
Nebenzja: Residents of Gaza on the brink of starvation
" The situation on the ground is not only worsening, but it is bringing the people of Gaza to the brink of starvation. This is a sad reality, which is directly indicated by the estimates of the UN World Food Program, which… pic.twitter.com/N2ac9COlcD
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 2, 2024
Everything that was published about the terrible conditions was true. I have already proposed a much simpler solution – the introduction of the death penalty "
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir commented on reports of concentration camps for Palestinian… pic.twitter.com/jNX10O5MIU
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 2, 2024
“Everything that was published about the terrible conditions was true. I have already proposed a much simpler solution – the introduction of the death penalty “.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir commented on reports of concentration camps for Palestinian detention, where Israeli soldiers tortured, deprived of food Palestinians.”
[Israeli Jew, and government minister, Ben-Gvir]
Ecce “the simulacrum of the human“…
A Palestinian youth made a video documenting his life in Gaza before and after the war. pic.twitter.com/1hOldX1BGZ
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 2, 2024
Interesting poll tonight from Reuters/Ipsos: Trump with 39%, Michelle Obama with 50%.
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 2, 2024
The latest trick of the Deep State “war party”…
Donald Trump, if he wins the elections, could abandon the expansion of NATO to the east , especially to Ukraine and Georgia, writes "Politico".
▪️Trump is also thinking about an agreement with Vladimir Putin on which countries will be able to join NATO in the future.… pic.twitter.com/q6PDsY9Vyq
— Global Info Factory (@GlobalInfoFact) July 2, 2024
Makes me wonder whether the “war party” is somehow drugging Biden to make him seem even more demented, with the idea that he will be pressured to step down in favour of a candidate more likely to be able to defeat Trump.
Ian Robert Millard 