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The sheer sickness of the present society is exposed when some thick-as-two-short-planks “diversity-hire” such as David Lammy is an MP, and now even a Cabinet minister, and is on TV politics shows, while at the same time someone such as me is either ignored or is treated as a political criminal. It’s just ridiculous, a bad joke.
Ecce “your” (Starmer’s) Foreign Secretary…
With the “Conservative” Party as good as dead, and with fake “Labour” already, after only 2 months in office, crashing and burning, it is not impossible that, failing the emergence of a real social-national movement, desperate voters will have only Reform UK for which to vote in 2029 or 2028.
Those hundreds of “diverse” “Labour”-label idiots presently in the Commons will then die off like flies in Autumn.
The David Morgan Twitter/X account is one of the most worthwhile of those dealing with certain problems head-on. Those with a Twitter/X account will find his material of interest should they follow it.
Morgan, however, must —and probably does— realize that many types of people suffered both before and during the Second World War (and in the mid/late 1940s, after it ended). In most cases, not at the hands of National Socialist Germany (contrary to that which “the usual suspects” tend to say).
From the newspapers
“Keir Starmer has suffered a precipitous fall in his personal ratings since winning the election, according to a new poll for the Observer that comes before his first Labour conference as prime minister.
The latest Opinium poll reveals that Starmer’s approval rating has plunged below that of the Tory leader Rishi Sunak, suffering a huge 45-point drop since July. While 24% of voters approve of the job he is doing, 50% disapprove, giving him a net rating of -26%. Sunak’s net rating is one point better.
In a troubling assessment of the government’s opening months, only 27% think it has so far been a success, while 57% think it has not been successful. Even a third (32%) of those who voted for Labour at the last election believe the government has not been a success in its opening two months. Labour is seen as focusing too much on the government’s fiscal position when the public want them to focus on growing the economy.
James Crouch, head of policy and public affairs at Opinium said: “While the prime minister might have a world-beating new wardrobe, voters are refusing to wear his government’s austerity drive.“
[The Guardian]
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“What goes around comes around“… or to put it another way, “old sins cast long shadows“…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Phillipson
“Labour are so bad it’s hard to keep up. It’s not just the sleaze. You expect greed galore from grabbing socialists. No. It’s the sheer bovine stupidity. Ok, you expect that too – but never in my wildest dreams could I have foreseen this utter sh*tshow. I almost feel guilty for enjoying it so much. I have to keep reminding myself that it’s deadly serious. They’re freezing pensioners, sucking up to unions, gendering kids, bowing to Islamists. They’re crashing the plane into the f*cking mountain. We have to think about what will replace them.“
So thick-as-two-short-planks “Deputy Prime Minister” Angela Rayner took “a friend” on her freebie break in Manhattan, as well as going (on another freebie break?) to Ibiza, where she made the UK a laughing stock by her vulgar antics in the so-called “VIP area” of a noisy horrible nightclub of some sort? (at age 44).
For someone of her overall background [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Rayner], she must think that she has hit the lottery.
Very true, but that should not be used as a reason or excuse to vandalize the English countryside with tracts of boring, poorly-designed and ugly housing, with inadequate infrastructure (a fortiori, if that housing is destined to be used as hutches for migrant-invaders).
Incidentally, I recall friends of mine talking about Scruton when he first started to become “famous” in the 1980s. He had at one time bicycled quite regularly to their home from his job one and a half miles away at Goldsmiths’ College, though his main position was at Birkbeck [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsmiths,_University_of_London; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkbeck,_University_of_London], in order to discuss philosophy, politics, religion etc.
Sadly, when said friends were featured in a national newspaper gossip piece about him (meaning, about Scruton hobnobbing with people having radical “neo-fascist” political connections), Scruton decided to cut them from his acquaintances for reasons of careerism.
Scruton was a very influential academic later in his career, and published over 50 books which were translated into many languages, especially in Eastern and Central Europe (I myself recall seeing an entire bookshop window of Scruton’s works in Czech in the Old Town of Prague in 1999). Scruton, though, was fatally flawed by his wish to make money.
All that and also a member of Labour Friends of Israel…[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Reeves#Israel_and_Palestine].
Rachel Reeves and Starmer have, they say, “no money” to keep pensioners warm this winter (or in those to come) but there’s money aplenty to throw away and waste on the “Ukrainian” Jewish regime in Kiev, on the rulers of dozens of African and other “nations”, and on sheltering and feeding and giving pocket-money to millions of migrant-invaders who should not even be here.
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Bearing in mind that only 4 out of 12 voting voters (4 out of 20 eligible) actually voted for Labour anyway, that is pretty damning, and much less than 3 months in.
Migrant-invaders. At best— useless parasites; at worst— criminals and/or terrorists.
Anyone supporting this invasion is, in a very real sense, a traitor to the British people and to all European people— and the future.
707. In a single day. All will now be housed, fed, given money, given medical and dental services, given other services etc by the “government”, i.e. out of the pockets of the British people. About £200 per day each. Maybe more. So at least £140,000 per day, just for today’s consignment of riff-raff.
Meanwhile, Starmer’s Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment and “elected” dictatorship is throwing billions at “Ukraine” (the Jewish regime in Kiev), at African and Asian wastes of space, at all sorts of nonsense, and is cheating all British people, especially pensioners but also, down the line, the middle-aged and young (deprived of a decent future).
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Ian Robert Millard 
Vintage transport film – Link Span – 1956
Absolutely fascinating. Britain when everything worked beautifully and travelling wasn’t a feat of endurance. We used to be a civilised country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyLncXp_7yo
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I do agree. I saw a couple of hateful comments made by some f… “Guardian” readers I am sure. I resisted my urge to abuse them and left some sarcastic replies.
Not only the UK was a civilised country, but all across the Western world most people were polite and dressed well; in other words, they behaved as decent White people used to. They had something missing today: DIGNITY. My grandparents were humble Italian migrants who arrived here on the eve of WW1; their house was immaculate and they were always nicely dressed. They behaved with a natural dignity that imposed respect.
Moving forward to present times, last week I watched a video about a beautiful historic property run by the National Trust; the way 99% of the visitors were dressed was awful, they looked like Americans in a shopping mall. My wife, who is English, was appalled and said “I cannot believe those people are British, there is no excuse to look like that!”
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Claudius you are so right. People were polite, not pushy, nowadays if you dared to say anything to the people around you, there would likely be an altercation.
One thing I would say though, the narrator does enunciate English beautifully, but the tone is very condescending, I wouldn’t like to return to that.
Sadly our standards of dress have slipped to American levels of scruffiness.
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Hello Velvet88! Yes, I agree with you, I also noticed that tone, very irritating and patronizing. As my wife pointed out, you can speak English very nicely without being, or sounding, a pretentious fool. I remember meeting a very well educated, elderly Englishman in Australia who run a small picture framing shop; he had a beautiful voice and his pronunciation was impeccable, it was a pleasure to listen to him.
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A few years ago I came across several videos about or by Roger Scrutton and Iiked what I saw, but then I found he cowardly dropped several of his friends because they were “a liability” and I despised him ever since. He was a good example of the “Do as I say, not as I do” type. In my country we have a similar saying that can be translated as: “He erased with his elbow what he wrote with his hand”
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Claudius:
Interesting that my friends’ experience was not unique. Yes, he just dropped them or, in the 1920s phrase, “cut them” (in contemporary “Stab City” London, it means something even worse, I suppose). He did not even say anything to them.
Scruton, in more recent years, 1990s or 2000s, was getting £250,000 a year for several years as a kind of “bung” from an oil company. I cannot see that any of his skills relate directly to the oil and gas industry, so I presume the CEO just wanted to help him broadcast his views. Hm…I could do with that sort of support!
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Me too! 😁😁😁 Who would not welcome 250.000 pounds a year for doing nothing? In fact, I would be more than happy with 50.000 (I am cheap to run… 😁😁😁)
Another good reason to hate Roger Scrutton: He loved fox-hunting. 🤬🤬🤬
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Claudius:
Scruton was a type of which you see rather a lot in England, the person living a faux “country” lifestyle (tweeds, dogs, shooting, hunting, country house) but whose income comes, usually, entirely from urban or suburban sources, in Scruton’s case from scribbling. Others of the type have inherited investments, legal or finance or banking jobs (etc). Basically fake. Publications such as The Spectator are infested with faux “country” people.
Like not a few of that sort, Scruton was brought up in an urban setting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton#Family_background
His early years were spent in what (Google maps) seems now to be almost a bombsite in Manchester:
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4849139,-2.2105458,3a,75y,173.2h,79.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3beApblI0iY8WtfuZQyrMQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkxOC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
and then in a slightly better or somewhat better place in High Wycome (NW of London)
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6175943,-0.7056285,3a,75y,232.69h,94.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSYXsKf_lt4iOyd3-xjrWCA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkxOC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Scruton reinvented himself, and there is perhaps nothing wrong in that, but maybe that is why he felt at home in a way in the USA. In Virginia (where they also hunt the fox).
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Thank you for the biographical information about Scrutton and his type. That kind of pretentious fools has been around for a long time and by that I mean nearly 400 years. I remember reading that in the 17th century, in England and France, it became something quite popular among successful and wealthy merchants to buy a country estate and retire there to play “the squire” or “le gentilhomme”. Some of them went even further and bought nobility titles. Of course, that ridiculous attitude did not go unnoticed by their contemporaries who produced many pamphlets and even books dedicated to mock these pathetic snobs.
As I said before, I despised Scrutton but after I learned he enjoyed fox-hunting I began to hate him.
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Claudius:
Yes.
You probably know that one of the most famous early economists, the Jew David Ricardo, made a fortune on the London Stock Exchange and in banking, and bought a country estate (now owned by Princess Anne).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ricardo
As to titles of rank, very few British ones now go back further than 1900, and hardly any predate 1600.
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