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A modest 5/10 this week, not much better than the 4/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 1, 2, 4, 5, and (just) 8.
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That is certainly my view.
What a pity— I missed that.
Contemporary Britain— a country where the least able have been put into positions of high responsibility which they are totally unable to properly fulfil.
“I can’t get my head around this… Labour promised to clean up politics—then took loads of dodgy freebies, handed jobs to their mates, and approved contracts for major donors. They said their top priority was growth—now they’re tanking the economy. They vowed not to raise taxes—then hit us with £40bn in tax hikes, and there’s more to come. They said they would freeze energy bills—now energy bills are rising. They said they’d stop the boats—then scrapped our only deterrent and introduced more pull factors. They said they’d look after farmers—then tax them out of existence. They claimed they’d keep us safe and be tough on crime—then released dangerous criminals from our prisons instead of deporting foreign offenders. They claimed there was a £22bn black hole and ‘difficult decisions’ were needed—then increased spending by £70bn, spent billions on foreign aid, and billions more on illegal immigrants. They said they would respect Brexit—now they want to align us closer to the EU. They said, ‘honesty is the cornerstone of the Labour Party’—then lied about Southport and everything else on this list… and more. I could go on… This Labour gov’t is the most incompetent, heartless, anti-British, hypocritical, and dishonest in history. We need a general election. NOW!“
The reason I disagree with that (leaving aside the extra point that I never use the old and outdated “right/left” stuff) is because the original tweet fixates on the fact that FPTP voting “punishes division“. What is important is what is happening beyond the crumbling walls of the Westminster monkeyhouse.
At the 2024 General Election, over 40% of the eligible voters did not vote, many no doubt out of disgust with the whole system and the System parties.
Out of every 20 eligible voters, 8 did not vote. Only 4 out of every 20 voted for fake Labour, and probably half of those did so because a “Conservative” candidate was the only apparent alternative.
Labour’s incompetent and freeloading ministers, and its Labour Friends of Israel leading cabal, may think they are sitting pretty on their very large Commons majority but, outside the walls of Parliament itself today, 100,000 protesters were demanding the release of “Tommy Robinson”.
Robinson is “controlled opposition”, of course. So be it.
The rise of Reform UK (despite Farage’s unreliable history etc) shows anger at the way Britain is going. For Labour, and Westminster Bubble drones, to look only at numbers of seats and at the way FPTP voting distorts public opinion, is very short-sighted.
At present, it seems that, yes, Labour may be the largest party in the Commons after the next general election, but even if Reform UK fails to dislodge Labour from that position, it may well come second and thus become the Opposition. That would in itself destroy the basic structure that has been in place for over a century.
The likelihood at present (with the Con Party still embedded in some parts of the country, as are the LibDems, and both likely to get 50-100 seats next time) is a hung Parliament and thus a weak Labour minority government, though if Reform does really well, the outcome could be a fairly weak Reform government, backed up by the surviving Con MPs.
Outside the supposedly-hallowed walls of the Palace of Westminster, though, the English/British people are murmuring. The Tommy Robinson protest, the summer 2024 protests, the now-constant stream of trials of social-national people who have said or done the (politically) “wrong” things (and then been entrapped by System police, MI5, the “Clown” Prosecution Service, and the System judges) speak to underlying discontent.
Reform UK, Tommy Robinson etc, are merely part of the journey, not the destination.
There may come a time, not so far down the line, when what happens in and around Parliament becomes only the outcome of what happens outside Parliament.
As to Goodwin’s comment above, I agree, but I also tend to agree (sort-of) with Lenin: “A revolution without firing squads is not worth much.”
“The Queen would never have allowed this to happen“…What universe does that tweeter, “@Lotus 17”, live in? The late Queen died only 3 years ago…Does that tweeter really think that the decline of the UK has only happened since 2022? Try (at least) 1989.
Woodrow Wyatt, in his diaries [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wyatt#The_Journals], expressed the view that, inter alia, the Royal Family did not care whether Britain descended into poverty and general decline, because they, the “royals” would still be sitting pretty atop of it all, and insulated from the badness with which almost everyone else would be contending.
When I read Wyatt’s diaries, 25+ years ago, I thought that his point about the “royals” was arguable but maybe too harsh. Now I agree completely. Look at Charles, desperately trying —and failing— to fill his late mother’s boots. Look at tame thick princeling William, no doubt at least, or somewhat, well-meaning, so be it. Look at even thicker princeling, Harry, “the Harry formerly known as Prince”, not forgetting Meghan Mulatta. All of them signed up to the crazed “multikulti society”, all willing to pay lip-service to “holocaust” propaganda etc.
If the already-rigged “democratic” process becomes even less honest, even less responsive to the needs of the British people, then the whole Parliamentary system will have to be bypassed. Action directe…
It may be, though, that the Reform UK upsurge will lead, before too long, maybe by 2030, and against the will of Reform’s leaders, to a further movement of the “Overton Window”…to a huge revolution of social nationalism.
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The BBC is one example of that.
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“We need only one victory“. Нам Нужна Одна Победа…
Ian Robert Millard 
Tourism in Zimbabwe: Ruins of Rhodesia
Callum gives us a short but interesting history about Rhodesia as an introduction.
What I don’t understand is why Africans are so complacent about the fact their infrastructure is decaying all around them, yet they don’t appear to have the will to change anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHOvQ5P5Mr8
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Zimbabwe was much better off as a British colony or when it was ruled by Ian Smith and his Rhodesian Front party. The country was developed carefully and wisely under our rule and that of Ian Smith. Its agricultural sector was booming with tobacco and other crops being grown. Infact, we and Ian Smith accomplished so much in this field the country was known as ‘Africa’s breadbasket’.
I used to think Kenya was quite reasonably well-run for an ex British colony in Africa but it appears this is not the case since the government there is encouraging its young people to move abroad to obtain work in countries such as Germany.
The late Queen Mother was said to have remarked that, “the Blackamoors can’t run their own countries, the poor dears”. Was she necessarily wrong? Off the top of my head, I can’t think of many of our ex-colonies who have demonstated much, if any, progress and good governance since we left. Singapore is an exception but where else?
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That horrible photo of Farage laughing his head off is nauseating.
Incidentally, straight out of the horse´s mouth:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-takes-forceful-and-unprecedented-steps-to-combat-anti-semitism/
No wonder Farage likes Trump so much. Having said that Trump, as despicable as he is, at least built an empire almost out nothing while Farage was a mediocre stockbroker.
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Claudius:
I agree with that, in general, but the idea that Trump built up his commercial empire from almost-nothing is not quite the case. I recall driving with my first wife on the “BQE” (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway) in New York some 35 years ago,about 1990) and she telling me that the cluster of tall apartment buildings we were passing was “Trump Village”. Built not by Donald Trump but by *his father*. Trump inherited plenty. Millions. They say the first million (now, arguende, the first 50 million) is most difficult. Well, Trump was gifted that by birth.
Actually, when I was first in the New Jersey/New York area, in 1989, I had never even heard of Donald Trump. I first heard his name when my first wife (we were not then married) said that the part of the New Jersey road where we were driving (I think it was the Jersey Turnpike, but it may have been the Garden State Parkway) was where a helicopter crash had occurred, killing a group of Trump’s “top cohorts” travelling to New York City from Atlantic City, where Trump’s main casino was located. It was also the first time I had heard the word “cohort” used in that sense.
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Thank you for that information. I believed that Trump inherited a modest fortune; obviously I got it wrong. I always thought that Trump´s father was a successful real estate developer but not an important or very wealthy one.
BTW, I remember that when the idiot of Farage used to be at LBC, he played a tape where you could hear Donald Trump introducing him to the public in one of his meetings; the impression he tried to convey is that HE was the important one and not Trump. How pathetic! 😁😁 To make things worse he used to wear a baseball cap. 🤮🤮🤮
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Claudius:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Village
USD U$70M value in 1963-64. About USD $800M in 2025 money. Not all belonged to Trump snr. though. It seems to have been a public-private partnership type of arrangement.
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump#Business_career
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I wish my father invested in “Trump Village” buying a couple of units/flats. (LOL)
Apparently the only place where properties depreciated was Buenos Aires. Over the last 5 years, on average, properties lost nearly 30% of their value pre-2020.
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Claudius:
These things happen from place to place, and time to time.
Were Karl Marx alive today, the old Jew would have a field day! The property speculation, buy-to-let etc … (admittedly not unknown even in the 19thC, but taken to a new level today in both UK and USA —New York City especially). UK, USA…
What “element” is prominent in both countries? Especially in property speculation? Yes. “Them”…
However, “they” are not alone in speculating (viz. Trump).
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If you were in New York at that time you should have heard of him. He took out a now infamous newspaper ad calling for the death penalty to be restored in New York state and applied to a group of four black teenagers and a Latino who raped and assaulted a young woman in Central Park.
https://www.vice.com/en/death-penalty-bring-it-forth-trump-loves-capital-punishment
There is a video on Youtube from Vice with Trump espousing his very pro death penalty views. It always makes me laugh.🤣😃 Trump often expreses his opinions in a humourous manner!🤣🤣🤣😂😂
I tend to agree with him that the worst drug dealers should have a possibilty of being executed. America has a shocking and disturbing drug abuse problem which has caused so many untimely deaths and bred crime. It is clear that radical actions of all types need to be used to deal with it and executions should be a considered approach not that you can not be put away for a very longtime in some states for the vile crime of drug dealing eg in Texas some miscreants have received 99 year terms.
Meanwhile, your Tory MP in New Forest West, said he wants the death penalty to be restored and uses the example of that Southport murderer. The murderer in that case committed truely horrific murders and if he had been 18 or over should have received the death penalty. His guilt was proven to be not merely ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ but ALL doubt.
Of course it should go without saying the new ‘leader’ of the fake Conservative Party is against restoring the ultimate punishment. Well, she would be, wouldn’t she! After all, she is far more of a libertarian globalist than a Tory and people of her ethnic minority background would be sent to the gallows at a high rate since they commit a large proportion of murders.
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Mrs Thatcher advocated for the return of capital punishment and voted for it.
You tell ’em Maggie:
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Lee Harris, Labour are a party of virulently anti-British scumbags and always have been though it should be more obvious now in their so-called ‘New Labour’ guise. Nobody with any degree of British patriotism should vote for them. If people despise the Conservative Party that is fine but doing that does NOT mean one should automatically vote Labour in response. Vote for another party or ‘vote’ for Britain’s most popular ‘party’ ie the ‘Sod The Lot, I am abstaining from voting at all’ ‘party’.
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The Southport murderer also displays no remorse for his utterly wicked and depraved crimes. That should be taken into account.
It would be in the well-governed and admirable nation of Japan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Japan
The Southport multiple murderer is a poster boy/example for the return of the hangman’s noose.
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That tweeter above you mentioned should be aware of the fact the late Queen was bound by constitutional norms of not meddling in politics. We know little about her real political opinions but it seems they were that of a liberal globalist Tory. Apparently, she opposed changing our archaic and unfit for purpose electoral system to Proportional Representation/fair votes but King Charles III is rumoured to be in favour.
The late Queen was apparently a liberal globalist staunch Tory whereas the late Queen Mother was supposedly ‘so Right-wing she was almost a fascist’.
Our best Monarch whose opinions we can have a guess at was King Edward VIII. It was a shame he abdicated instead of finding another love with using the typical way some upper-class people find it ie by using arranged means and done his duty to our country by remaining the Monarch.
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The Windsor men are very weak imo.
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As for Labour, they are pure anti-British SCUM with a capital S so their dangerous and repellently soft attitude towards illegal migration should come as no surprise. Let us hope Reform UK takes some more votes off them. They appear to have achieved some measure of doing that at the moment but this needs to happen more.
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John:
To my mind, “Labour”-label are going the same way as the “Conservatives”, by which I mean accomplishing nothing of any use to the British voters, but assuming that those downtrodden voters will still vote for [whichever party] based on the way the voters’ grandparents may have voted; also, based on the Tweedledum/Tweedledee “choice”— “I now despise Party A, so will vote for Party B”.”Same old”, as people say.
As you have noted previously, the semi-rigged FPTP voting system (especially with boundaries carefully monitored and altered to achieve faked “balance”) has meant that any new party faces *almost*-insuperable odds. As you have also noted, though, there comes a time when that new or other small party (or the patience of voters) may reach a tipping-point. It happened (after c.80 years!) with the SNP in Scotland (in 2015); now it may happen in England with Reform UK.
The response of the System is to try to trash Reform. If that fails, to guide the Reform leadership into making Reform itself into a System party. There have already been signs of that, looking at pronouncements by Farage and Tice.
If Reform becomes “System”, which is not unlikely, the anger of the British people will not go away, but will pour out another way.
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Singapore shows the way to deal with drug dealers. President Trump obviously supports that approach and that of China.
Some say it is too harsh. Well, drug dealers are effectively dealers in death so in a way they are murderers in a roundabout fashion.
At any rate, they are treated too softy by the courts here even when some blatantly take the piss out of the law and deal in killogramms or even tens of killogrames of hard drugs such as cocaine, heroin, crack cocaine, meths ect. Even when they deal in considerable quantities like this they are far too often given derisory prison terms of five years or ten at the most. Pathetic. I propose mandatory minimum incarceration terms of 15 years for any form of drug dealing.
Singapore executes drug dealers with 15gms being the mandatory death penalty amount for pure heroin (diamorphine) dealing.
I am not aware really of what amounts of hard drugs can cause large numbers of people to become addicted and to sometimes die from it if those quantities get out onto the streets. 15gms does seem to be low in this regard but who knows?
If a sentence is to have some form of deterrent effect then it needs to be put into effect quickly and be widely known and understood by potential criminals as a likely one should they be caught and convicted.
Perhaps, Singapore should set its mandatory death penalty amount for pure heroin (diamorphine) dealing not at 15gms but 100 gms as this is more likely to be remembered by potential criminals. Then drug dealers there can carefully use their scales to make sure they get under the death penalty threashold amount so they will not hang via the hangman’s noose.
Some people say the death penalty is not a deterrent to criminal behaviour. Whilst that is true for some forms of murder I bet it has helped to deter drug dealing in Singapore since drug dealing is a crime that is not done in a fit of rage but is, instead, engaged in by dealers by considering the pros and cons of this activity. It is a rational crime by them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore
https://www.cnb.gov.sg
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John:
As you know, I oppose the death penalty, in general. However, elimination of drug abuse via executions is not, for me, a judicial penalty, but a public health measure. The drug trade is fuelled, though, mainly by demand (albeit that supply can trigger demand at times). The group to get rid of first, therefore, is that of the consumers, not the suppliers (importers, distributors etc).
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The drug abuse problem needs to be tackled by many varied means which Singapore does ie it has a very extensive public education campaign starting in schools warning about the dangers of taking drugs. This deals with the demand aspect of the issue whilst very lengthy prison sentences, executions, floggings and ENFORCED border controls help to stem the supply of these dangerous substances.
Whilst individual drug abusers are morally culpable in helping to create and continue this problem they are not as morally reprehensible as the dealers are hence the dealers are shown no tolerance by the Singaporean authorities.
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Futher to my comments above, one reason Crime Watch was a good programme was not only that it helped the police solve some cases (and to find missing people which is so often an underated part of their work) but also helped to inform some potential criminals about the likely sentences they would get if they committed certain crimes.
It should not have been taken off the air.
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John:
Crimewatch was a first-class TV show even if only looked upon as entertainment, let alone its useful aspect in assisting the police to do their *proper* job (i.e. deterring and suppressing and detecting *real* crime, and *not* snooping on or persecuting people like me at the behest of the Jew-Zionist lobby).
Crimewatch was taken off the air for one reason only (after having anyway been made boringly politically-correct or “woke”)— because the majority of wanted criminals were (are) non-white, despite being only about one-sixth of the population (and now about one-fifth of the population). Thus, the bare facts, via the photos and artists’ impressions shown on the show, were made obvious even to the most brainwashed or stupid TV viewer. Result? Crimewatch had to go…
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Yes, that was the obvious reason the anti-British so-called ‘national’ broadcaster the BBC ended the programme. It had to be as even some thick Labour and ‘Tory’ voting morons were starting ever so tentatively to notice patterns emerging from watching it.
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Reform UK ahead of the useless fake Conservatives? EXCELLENT. Reform UK are not as good as the AfD are in Germany but they are better than the Tories. Seriously, WHAT ON EARTH were the Tories thinking when they selected Kemi? They did not think she would be popular, did they?🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤣🤣🤣🤣 They really should quit taking those mind-altering drugs!
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John:
The fake “Conservatives” are proving, as are fake “Labour”, that “anti-racism” is associated with mental illness, as I examined in my popular and frequently updated blog post:
See also:
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