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Afternoon music
A few thoughts about Trump’s first days as President of the USA
My random thoughts start with the fact that Trump is unlikely to start a nuclear war with Russia. For me, that is number one, the question of primary importance. For a while, it looked as though the NWO/ZOG cabals were about to succeed in causing a third major war in Europe but, as far as I can see, that danger, though still present, may now be receding.
In fact, looking at Trump’s recent tweets about North Korea and other areas of the world, they read more like those of the businessman he is, rather than those of a warlord, statesman, or even ordinary politician. Trump is a businessman; he does not see the mileage in war or conflict— it interferes with the making of profits.
That businessman mentality is arguably out of place in the head of state of the most powerful state on Earth, but it has its positive aspect, i.e. the avoidance of war in Eastern and Central Europe, in the Middle East, and in the Asia-Pacific region.
The Presidential pardons for the rebels and/or protestors of 6 January 2020 are a very good thing, but I see that a number of social-national people convicted have been left unrescued. Trump should extend his courtesy and clemency to them as well.
Trump’s apparent hostility to a few countries not at all hostile to the USA —Mexico, Denmark (re. Greenland), Panama, and Canada— strikes me as entirely unnecessary.
I can only assume that Trump looks at the map, sees North America as a coherent whole, and then concludes that that whole continent should be under one rulership, US rulership. I seem to recall seeing a film (maybe starring Gary Cooper, not sure) in which an oligarchic cabal has a plan to take over not only the USA but also all of both North America and South America (and the bit in the middle, Central America). Did Trump once, in his own childhood long ago, see that same film? We shall never know. He himself may not even consciously recall seeing it, if indeed he ever did.
I note that Trump now says that the Israel-Gaza war is “not our war“, which is interesting. To me that says that he, now serving his second and final term as US President, no longer needs the Jewish lobby (though he has more in common with them, arguably, than he does with the Arabs and other Muslims).
Trump is not only a businessman; he is also one who thinks that he can negotiate successfully with anyone, and on any issue. He even wrote a book about it, The Art of the Deal. Thus he believes that he can strike a deal with anyone or any group or nation, based on mutual self-interest. That is likely to be successful, much of the time, but will fall down and fail when the adversary or opposing party is not motivated by self-interest as such, but by some fanatical or uncompromising belief.
Anyway, there it is. The next 4 years has begun.
Elon Musk
Much kefuffle about Musk’s odd “salute” gesture at the Inauguration.
I honestly do not know what to make of it.
I noticed that online “grifter” and pseudo-historian tweeter, Mike Stuchbery, tweeted about it:
In fact, Stuchbery has never had so many views on Twitter/X— 11M at time of writing. I believe that so many views might result in Twitter/X (and so, ultimately, and ironically, Musk) paying Stuchbery about USD $95. More than the bastard has earned in years! Still, I think that he will have to continue to rely on the largesse of the German social security/welfare system for the time being…
Actually, though he poses as “historian”, Stuchbery is not really one, not in the accepted sense.
My popular 2019 (inc. later updates) blog post about Stuchbery (who used to tweet about me from time to time) has just spiked again, by reason of his having tweeted about Musk in the past day or so. Hundreds of people today alone.
https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/10/23/a-few-words-about-mike-stuchbery/
Panama Canal
I was once on a ship, the Oriana, going west to east through the Canal. In 1969. I was just (by about 2 weeks) 13 years old. The Canal was then in the Canal Zone, ruled by the USA. To go into Panama itself, tourists or visitors had to pass through a kind of US Customs and Immigration, in effect, though it was all done by special Canal Zone police. At age 13, I was fascinated by the sidearms worn by the said police. Real “Wild West” pistols, huge and heavy-looking, sticking out of leather holsters. The uniforms were khaki, I recall, with wide-brimmed “cowboy” hats, rather as in the photo below that I have just found online today:
The ones I saw had “Wild West” holsters, though, and bigger sidearms than those in the photo. The weapons were the other way around, too.
I had asked my parents to go on the short escorted tour of Panama City. Out of the nearly 2,000 passengers on the ship, only about a dozen or so had asked to go into Panama, possibly in part because the tour started in the very late evening.
I recall that the First Officer of the liner (who used to say hello to me as I swam endlessly up and down the swimming pool late at night— I was an odd boy, arguably) saw me waiting to disembark, as the ship was secured to the dock, and remarked to me that “every thief, murderer and rascal (I think it was) comes to Panama.” Obviously Panama was not his favourite place for shore leave…
The “run ashore”, in the Royal Navy phrase, was not without incident. The dark and quiet city was patrolled by submachinegun-carrying soldiers in groups. Nothing seemed to be open (perhaps unsurprisingly, at nearly midnight), and there was an air of menace. In fact, 1969 was a year of coups d’etat in Panama.
The evening ended with an unexpected diversion, literally. Our little single-decker bus, carrying the dozen intrepid passengers off the ship, was just about to fire up and drive back to the Canal Zone when a long-haired blond and youngish (30-ish) American man, in one of those leather jackets with tassels, and carrying a large knife, told the bus driver to drive to where he, a rather unfunny Crocodile Dundee lookalike (though this was 17 years before that film was released) wanted to go. I was seated right at the front, near the driver. The driver put up no more than token resistance. We drove to wherever it was that our hijacker (who stood up throughout the fairly short journey, brandishing his weapon) wanted to go; he then disembarked, to general relief. The driver drove back to the Canal Zone, fast.
My family did manage to take a more normal afternoon walk around, I think within the Zone itself, when the ship docked at the other end of the Canal, at or near Colon. I especially remember a shop where they sold all sorts of odd stuff, such as stuffed baby alligators about 6 inches long.
Incidentally, part of the trip through the Canal, the bit that is or seems natural, was like being in the film The Naked Jungle: small waterfalls falling from the jungle-clad shores, parrots etc. Incredible humidity.
Panama is of course very different today. I had some legal connection with it when I was a barrister doing offshore work. It changed out of all recognition after the American invasion and restructuring of, and after, 1989.
Trump’s idea of seizing the Canal seems to me misconceived. For one thing, there seems to be no need. For another, there is a plan to dig another Pacific-Atlantic canal, in Nicaragua, thus lessening, in theory, the risk of the Panama Canal being blocked. In any case, the USA has many large ports both on the Pacific and Atlantic, so why worry?
Another point would be that any seizure of the Canal would stir up huge anti-American sentiment across Latin America. So why…?
More tweets seen
“UK power prices jump to their highest in more than two years as the country imports electricity from Europe at record levels https://trib.al/isTt7hy.“
Well, goodness gracious me. Who could possibly have foreseen that, after the UK closed down its coal-fired power stations and imposed sanctions on Russia?… Oh…
Wait until the Jew Miliband and the other “net zero” fanatics really get the bit between their teeth.
Incidentally, I happened to see a brief TV report yesterday about how the “net zero” nonsense will mean 5x or 6x the number of giant electricity pylons in the country. Some pathetic pseudo-environmentalists, including one from the RSPB, were there, bleating about how they support “net zero” and were “working” to mitigate the negative consequences of covering the country with giant pylons. Pathetic.
Starmer, aka “Tel Aviv Keith”.
Actually, “Black Lives Matter” did help a few blacks…the ones who ripped off the monies gifted by government, fake charities, the National Lottery Fund, and millions of utter mugs.
I stopped donating (very modest donations, so be it) to Wikipedia when I realized that anything to do with UK social nationalism, WW2, and the old/tired “holocaust” farrago etc was being systematically vandalized by Zionist Jews.
In fact, a few years ago the malicious, indeed poisonous, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA” advertised on its website and, I think, Twitter/X account for Jew volunteers with their own Wikipedia accounts (i.e. so that their activities would not be seen to be a concerted CAA campaign or conspiracy) to “edit” (i.e. vandalize) Wikipedia.
All involved with “Ukraine” (the brutal, corrupt, shambolic regime of the Jew Zelensky in Kiev)…
Though painfully slow, the Russian advance in the southeast of former Ukraine continues.
If and when Trump cuts off military materiel going to the forces of the Kiev regime, the Stavka can order a general advance with little prospect of serious opposition.
#TenGreenBottles
Ha. As I said, Trump thinks like a businessman, a property developer. Having said that, it may be that many actual Gazans might welcome heavy American investment, if it did not come with obvious Jewish control attached to it. At present, the enclave is pretty much uninhabitable. Massive investment would be needed to remedy the damage Israeli war crimes have done.
Translation: “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) wants hundreds of thousands of NATO troops, so that Russian forces can be pushed back, or so that NATO can in some other way be dragged into the war, or the next war.
Lunatic.
Correct, though very obvious…
Late talking point
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Ian Robert Millard 
Starmer wants to change the terrorism laws. Maybe he is going to start here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8xykr5v95o?xtor=AL-71-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_link_origin=BBCNews&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_link_id=7C5C7152-D7C2-11EF-B5A6-983C2D7D3883&at_format=link&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_link_type=web_link&at_medium=social&at_campaign_type=owned&at_bbc_team=editorial
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Typical filth from the BBC (British Bolshevik Corporation)
Here is the truth: https://www.patrioticalternative.org.uk/bbc_exposed_full_interview_covert_recording?utm_campaign=20250117_email_blast&utm_medium=email&utm_source=patrioticalternative
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Notice that the “Counter-Extremism Commissioner” who is demanding Patriotic Alternative be banned, is named (((Sara Khan))).
What a (((surprise))).
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Yes. I blogged, though briefly, about her, quite a few years ago. A State careerist drone. Utterly useless and very unpleasant.
I have also blogged (though, again, years ago) about the Prevent and Channel nonsense
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Stuchbery should by shovelling gravel, or snow, in Siberia; that would give some purpose to his pathetic life (LOL) He is a useless, petty creature who thinks is knowledgeable on historical and political matters; of course, he is not. Unfortunately, there are millions like him (i.e.: all the so-called leftists or “social justicie warriors”)
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Claudius:
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I understand. That was the great Ian Richardson (1934-2007); playing cynical, as usual, evil upper-class civil servants or politicians…
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Claudius:
Only my little joke. Yes, by all means have Stuchbery shovelling snow, or whatever.
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I found this yesterday night. It is very good. Unfortunately, as I commented, there is a lot of footage of the disgusting character to whom the video is dedicated, which almost made me sick (LOL)
Anyway, the best part of it are the comments by the viewers which I invite you to read. I got the impression that they do despise Rory…
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Claudius:
Thank you.
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Claudius:
You will know that I blogged about Rory Stewart:
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Selbstmord !
https://x.com/StopArabHate/status/1881715487631085652
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Very interesting reminisces about the Panama Canal, Ian. Thank you for sharing that story. I always find your anecdotes very interesting.
I have never been to Panama. It sounds like a fascinating experience.
For several years, I have been following this rather mysterious case, which happened in Panama:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_Kris_Kremers_and_Lisanne_Froon
On the surface, it seems straightforward: the two Dutch tourists got lost in the jungle and died. But there are a number of unexplained circumstances, including some strange photos on their camera, and a missing photo that was deleted and could not be recovered.
I hope this case is conclusively solved one day, so the families of the two women can have closure and know what happened.
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Friend of Britain:
Thank you. Yes. Interesting.
Reading that, my first thought was that maybe those two Dutch young men killed and robbed the deceased, as in the notorious, in fact chilling, Charles Sobhraj case in Asia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sobhraj
I see, though, that USD $88 was found, so had not been taken, or maybe not found by any killer(s) (?).
Having said that, it is easy for speculation to run into fantasy. I mentioned on the blog, years ago, how I was asked to investigate the death of (and attend inquest of) a youngish man, the nephew of someone I knew (and I had encountered, briefly, the deceased as well, a number of years previously). There were hints of murder or manslaughter, possible financial motives, even KGB involvement.
In the end, it came out (via local newspaper publicity of the inquest) that the deceased had actually been *nearly* hit by a bus while cycling home from his BBC Monitoring (Russian radio) job, and had simply fallen off his bike, but cycled home, only to die of a brain injury hours later.
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“What unites the UK rape gangs scandal & the Southport atrocity? The total failure of state authorities and state officials to do their job….A completely incompetent state”
As usual, Matt Goodwin is gaslighting his followers into believing that the problem is “incompetence.”
“If only we elect someone competent like Farage, everything would be solved”, the controlled opposition bleats.
When is Matt Goodwin going to grow a spine and be brave enough to name the (((malevolent tribe))) who are causing the destruction of Britain?
The problem is NOT incompetence. The government is very competent, as we can see from how quickly they track down, arrest, convict, and imprison British patriots for politically-incorrect Tweets.
And after the very peaceful Southport protests, Starmer’s NKVD identified, arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned everyone involved within a week.
The British government is very competent indeed, when it comes to silencing and crushing White patriots.
The people who claim that the problem is “incompetence” are either lying (Goodwin, Tim Montgomerie, etc) or don’t understand (((who))) really controls the government and what (((their))) goals are.
The (((goal))) is to genocide the White race, and the traitorous British government is accomplishing that very competently indeed.
100 years ago, Britain ruled 1/4 of the world, and the British people were confident and spiritually strong.
Today, London is majority non-White and has a muslim pakistani mayor, and the indigenous White people of Britain are treated as 5th class serfs, who have to walk around on eggshells in their own country, terrified of being called “racist” and being fired from their jobs and/or arrested.
The British people, who just 100 years ago had a world-spanning Empire, are today so spiritually defeated that most of them won’t even speak up to defend their own daughters from being gang-raped by muslims.
The treasonous British government is accomplishing the (((goal))) of White genocide very competently, and has been doing so since 1939 or even earlier.
So Matt Goodwin should stop gaslighting his followers, and start naming the (((evil tribe))) who have brought the once-proud British people to their knees, and the once-great nation of Britain to the brink of destruction.
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Friend of Britain:
I agree, of course.
Still, Goodwin and indeed Reform UK have their uses…
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I do not know if you or any of the readers knew about this. Just concentrate on or listen to what this man says between 1.40 and 5.10. Another very good reason to hate “Two Tier” Starmer.
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Claudius:
Thank you. Starmer should be [REDACTED]…
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Reform UK are not doing very well, are they? A paltry 24% of the vote will get you nowhere in the farcically rigged non democracy of ‘Britain’/Loony Airstrip One unless it is super concentrated in certain constituencies as the Liberal/SDP Alliance found out to its cost in 1983 and 1987.
WHEN, oh WHEN, is Britain going to grow the fuck up and become a REAL democracy at long last? Tiny Belgium got there as long ago as 1900, Germany in 1918, Denmark in 1920, the Commonwealth Realm of New Zealand with King Charles III as its Head of State in 1996.
Until we change to Proportional Representation/fair votes I will refuse to co-operate with the British state and its agencies ie the police and the tax authorities.
If the British government refuses to give me a fair vote then I will not co-operate with it or finance it directly. They can fuck off and go to hell. I am utterly sick and tired of my human rights being infringed in this way.
Our fundamentally undemocratic politicians are trying now to get us back into the EU by raising certain ideas like rejoining the customs union. I say to them FORGET IT as rejoining the EU without changing to PR would not work and would only result in us carping and moaning on the sidelines as we did from 1973 to 2020 and the other members would be well advised to veto any renewed application to join without us becoming a real, modern democracy.
https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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John:
Reform UK may be “only” at 24%, but a year ago was only at about 9%, and at GE 2024 scored 14.29%. On that basis, 24% is good, especially when the other “main” parties are at or about the same level.
Of course, you are right about concentration of the vote, which is why the LibDems got 72 MPs despite scoring only 12.22% at GE 2024, 500,000 votes fewer than Reform UK, but Reform UK is starting to concentrate its vote in a few areas (coastal East Anglia, the North generally, other places).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election#Full_results
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An utterly unfair and profoundly undemocratic result which makes us look like your typical failed Third World ‘Banana Republic’ state. Seriously, you may as well try and get more logic and rationality out of National Lottery results than trying to understand how such an electoral outcome can be deemed ‘fair’ and ‘democratic’. It simply is NOT.
Continual election results like that should make us permanently ineligible for renewed EU membership and, I imagine, that would be the response from the other EU members if we did make an application for EU membership again. Would they be wrong to veto our possible membership unless we changed to Proportional Representation/fair votes? I do not think they would be.
In Germany, votes on the secondary party list part of their overall PR system are accorded EQUAL weight by the system whether they are cast in Berlin, Hamburg or deepest Bavaria. That should be the case here too. The value of our votes should not be distorted by where we live.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_New_Zealand
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If the Alternative fur Deutschland partei (AfD) were to get that in their general election in February this year they would get well over a hundred seats not potentially a handful as here with the Reform UK score.
Britain should NOT be sharing the same electoral system for its lower house of parliament as that world renowned icon of democratic values called Belarus (Putin’s only real friend in Europe).
The last time stand alone, ‘pure’ FPTP could have a slight case made for its continued use was as long ago as 1970 when fake Conservative and Labour got over 85% plus of the national vote share between them and there were still quite a few seats where only Tory and Labour candidates stood.
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The British government is NOT incompetent when it comes to rampant PC, globalism, open borders. They know jolly well how to control borders properly ect. They will not do it because they DO NOT WANT to do it. Their programme of anti-British genocide has been in effect and done WITH PLANNED INTENT since the semi-Marxist Attlee ‘won’ the general election of 1945. I do wish Matt Goodwin would stop making excuses for these fanatical anti-British thugs and profoundly undemocratic bastards. One day they will pay for their crimes either via the hangman’s noose or an ultra-long prison sentence of 60 years plus in a new British version of Alcatraz.
https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatraz
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One of Trump’s favouite films if not his absolute favourite is, apparently, Gone With The Wind. I like it very much as well and it is a favourite of mine along with films such as The Exorcist. GWTW is probably THE classic film of the ‘Golden Age of Holywood’. Nowadays, it is normally shown with warnings about its supposed ‘cultural insensitivity’🙄🙄🙄🙄
Well, many loony Democrats and others do call Trump a ‘massive racist’ so I suppose a film set in the era of the US Civil War with black slaves in the ‘Bible Belt’ of Georgia in the Deep South of the US with white plantation owners and their black slaves would be a favourite of ‘racists’.🙄🙄🙄🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😃😃😃🤣🤣🤣
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Matt Goodwin, ANY Briton is ‘far right’ in Labour’s eyes. ALL whites in Britain are ‘far right’ according to the loopy Labour Party merely for having the sheer temerity to exist! In Labour’s view we are simply not meant to be here and they want us GONE like the Dodo and the dinasaurs.
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I see that the ‘refugees welcome’ dimwit Home Secretary is moaning about how the Southport attacker found it so easy to obtain knives on Amazon. As usual with Labour she is ignoring the real issue. The issue is NOT the supposed easy avaliabilty of knives on Amazon or elsewhere since the laws are as strict as they are in most countries but rather knives falling into the hands of those with an evil intention to misuse them. Knives do not by themselves murder people.
Is she going to say it is wrong for level headed, sensible people who do not intend to act in evil ways such as celebrity chefs like Gordon Ramsay to obtain knives on Amazon?
The underlying problem here is the non stop and significant in numbers immigration of people from inherently violent and backward cultures like Somalia.
Germany did not have gang rapes in appreciable numbers until Angela Merkel recklessly opened the borders in 2015 to people from countries such as Afghanistan. Now, they are quite common.
Labour has now added Amazon owner Jeff Bezos to its list of multi billionaires it despises along with Elon Musk. Are there more to come?
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John:
Yes. How absurd that the issue is, according to incompetent and fraudulent would-be dictator Yvette Cooper, “knives”. Don’t get rid of knives, get rid of the untermenschen using knives for criminal purposes. Most of them, 95%, are non-white.
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Yes, as a typical Labour person, she simply does not recognise the fact that humans are not totally interchangeble and that not all cultures are of equal worth.
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I would not necessarily describe the would be dictator, Yvette Cooper, as incompetent as Priti Useless undoubtedly was. Yvette is more deserving of the evil and malevolent tags.
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Milliband comes across quite well for a Jew. In some ways, he appears more normal and less idiotic and weird than the gentile members of the Cabinet. I think you could have quite an intelligent conversation with him about various issues than you could with screeching ‘refugees welcome’ harriden, Yvette Cooper, ‘Tel Aviv Keith’ or thick as two short planks David Lammy.
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John:
A decade ago, while of course I could never countenance a Jew as Prime Minister, I liked the fact that Ed Miliband liked ideas. The problem is that they are usually the wrong ideas.
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We should be working to transition ourselves away from a carbon-based economy but there are various ways to achieve that eg we could and should build more nuclear power stations particularly the more advanced smaller forms. I find the opinions of Tory rags like the Daily Telegraph towards these kind of issues to be both hilarious and disturbing at the same time. They have a real caveman and King Canute attitude towards electric cars. How are they going to react when China becomes the world leader in making electric flying cars that they are steadily working towards? They will have a fit! Technological progress can not be halted I am afraid!
As for enviromental organisations, they need to acknowledge the fact that an ever higher population in Britain fuelled mainly by immigration is placing an immense strain upon our enviroment and is increasing our carbon footprint. Sadly, as we know, globalist supporters of open borders burrow themselves into numerous parties and organisations and ruin them from within eg the Green Party.
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