Afternoon music
Runcorn and Helsby by-election
At time of writing, the Runcorn and Helsby by-election has 9 hours still to run before polls close.
I have blogged that I think that, despite Reform UK not being social-national, and despite the candidate, Sarah Pochin, being rather low-key and also an ex-Conservative, it will probably smash this. It should. After all, what sort of idiot now votes “Labour”-label, even in the North of England? Starmer-stein has shown his true colours— indistinguishable from the Cameron-era “Conservatives”, and a complete puppet of the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby.
If I am wrong, and Labour retains the seat, it will be disappointing, though even that will (depending on the figures) show that Labour, as much as the Conservative Party, is in terminal decline.
As previously blogged, all generally pro-British voters should back Reform in this by-election. Former Labour voters who do not want to vote Reform should vote Green or elsewhere, or stay at home. As for former Conservative voters, the Con candidate has no chance at all. If you want to stick it to Labour, vote Reform.
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Ha. Very true…
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That evil creature is, for once, speaking the truth— NATO is rapidly becoming a dead letter.
The UK needs “walls and squads”. Let’s just leave it there for now.
If replicated at a general election, that would equate to about 349 Reform MPs, and a substantial Commons majority (Lab 130, LibDems 60, SNP 41, Cons 39).
Such a result, placing the Conservative Party only 5th in the Commons (after Reform, Labour, the LibDems, and the SNP) would probably be effectively terminal for the Conservative Party.
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.
In its effect, that would be almost revolutionary, even if Reform by then were as (((occupied))) as the existing System parties. The System structure would have been broken down. After that, anything might be possible.
Good for them! If a Russian army of millions, even unarmed, were crossing the Channel, the msm, and System politicos, would all be gagging for them to be shot, but the present black/brown cross-Channel invasion is far worse than a Russian invasion (armed or unarmed) would be, because those now invading us are at best useless parasites, at worst criminals, scavengers, predators, and/or hate-filled enemies of our whole way of life.
The whole idea of (in the UK) having elected mayors and, even worse, those risible “police and crime commissioners”, was a very poor policy. The “police and crime commissioner” in Hampshire is a very fat woman who seems to be completely useless, and has never had a job (except political ones such as running Portsmouth Council), let alone a profession, though to give her some credit she at least recognized publicly that the so-called “riots” (protests) in 2024 against immigration or migration invasion were linked to, er, immigration and migration invasion. (Most of the country knows that anyway, true, but few politicians and other System drones have admitted it). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Jones_(British_politician).
(((Witkoff)…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Witkoff#Early_life.
Well, that idea is a non-starter, of course. People need to know what party is running, and that party must have clear ideology and, where appropriate, clear policies, even if only in outline.
As for that Phillipson drone, she is just a System political robot, liar, dissembler etc. A total waste of space, like so many of them.
16 (?) idiots, and probably bussed-in, at that.
…even if fake Labour manage to hang on at Runcorn and Helsby, though naturally I should prefer them to lose and, if possible, heavily.
Betting odds are often unreliable indicators of political events, and that is especially true of by-elections.
At time of writing, about 3 to 4 hours until the declaration at Widnes (for Runcorn and Helsby; apparently, the constituency itself has no hall large enough to accommodate the count and declaration).
Late music
Ian Robert Millard 
This is wonderful. Young Scottish boys playing football outside full of joy and without a care in the world. Will Starmer send these youngsters to fight in a war in the next couple of years?
https://x.com/SundayShoutsFC/status/1917268392421253365
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Oh do shut the fuck up, stuck-up, middle class, immensely overpaid, out ot touch, globalist, anti-British, so-called ‘journalists’ at old and surely due to expire very soon, Aussie unpleasant fruitcake, Rupert Murdoch’s lie sheet The Times which was once Britain’s ‘newspaper of record’ but which is now just a grubby lie sheet for sick, degenerate globalists eg ex Tory MP Matthew Paris who has penned numerous articles in the rag extolling the virtues of getting rid of Britain’s ‘useless eaters’ ie old people via ‘assisted dying’ otherwise known as eugenics/assisted SUICIDE for the costly old and disabled.
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The ‘journalists’ at the Times along with far too many others at other so-called ‘newspapers’ would justly in Germany be called members of the ‘lugenpresse’ or lying press.
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John:
Most “journalists” are better avoided, especially the ignorant twenty-something scribblers now comprising the vast bulk of their “profession”.
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You are right, of course. The level of ignorance and incompetence of these stupid scribblers is stunning. The situation here, in my country, is very much the same. Last week, my wife and I were discussing the appalling quality of the writing in most newspapers and magazines (British and Argentinian); I am not referring to the writing style, but to the poor vocabulary and the terrible spelling mistakes that are so predominant nowadays.
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There is a good reason why journalists are viewed as being on the same level as dodgy second hand car dealers. Some of them are ok and interested in facts and real stories particularly at the local level but honest, upstanding, reputable journalists at the national level are a rare breed.
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If Reform win the by-election it will not be by a large margin. It is doable but difficult considering the seat is Labour’s 49th safest and has a majority of 14,000 plus.
Apparantly, it is VERY close. Labour or Reform UK will win it by less than 1,000 votes. According to the New Statesman magazine and their electoral forecasting model they have Labour winning by about 300 to 400 votes with Labour on 36% and Reform UK on 35%. The fake globalist Conservatives are on 11% down from 16%.
Even if the remaining Tory voters can not stand Farage and company and are of the liberal globalist type they should vote Reform because Badenough has made no positive impression upon the voters so a loss of vote share by the party in this by-election and others to come should mean the Tories dumping her and getting a leader who can take on Labour.
https://x.com/BritainElects/Status1917324840257593499
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John:
Of course, voting “Conservative” in a seat like Runcorn and Helsby is a fool’s errand. The Con vote there will be about 5% or 10%, but that small bloc might spell success or failure if or if not redeployed to support Reform this time.
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A large number of Labour’s safest seats are in the Merseyside and North West England area:
https://www.electionpolling.co.uk/battleground/defence/labour
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If that latest national opinion poll in Matt Goodwin’s tweet is anywhere near accurate then it should be reflected in Runcorn and Helsby and is of the level of lead required to make a win of the by-election by Reform UK possible.
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Labour cancelled our elections in Essex today because they want to reorganise our local government and give us one of these stupid Mayors. Mayors are for towns and cities not entire counties.
We in Brentwood have no problem with our local district council. That is more local to us so we feel a connection to the authority. We really do not want to be governed from Labour voting Basildon or Thurrock which we have little in common with. If you are going to get rid of a local government tier then it is the more distant county council that should be abolished not district councils. Counties could be done away with and their functions transferred to regional assemblies. That is how to do devolution properly. A Royal Commision in the 1960’s recommeded a more logical devolution arrangement.
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John:
The local elections across Hampshire were also “postponed”. Also, stupid Angela Rayner has decided to do away with, inter alia, the New Forest District Council (which at least is genuinely local and is based at Lyndhurst) and transfer its functions to the County Council based at Winchester, which feels some distance away from here.
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Yes, utterly stupid and irrational. Also, a surefire way of ensuring even fewer people bother to vote because larger and less local authorities reduce the level of voters identifying with them.
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County councils are too large for many to feel a real connection with yet they are too small to deal truly effectively with some issues like transport, economic development ect. If any tier of local government needs to go then it should be the less local county councils.
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Your council was presumably created in 1974 from the smaller councils then existing before it. Our councils are already less local than those in even small countries on the Continent like Denmark.
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The turnout for elections which is no doubt poor for many reasons eg the continued use of archaic First Past The Post will decline even more by abolishing local district councils and having just three or four bigger authorities in Hampshire or having no local district councils at all and having a single Hampshire County Council authority.
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John:
The FPTP system is completely outdated and is now absurd.
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It recommended the creation of regional assemblies/provinces with district councils being retained at a more local and identifiable level beneath them.
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Of course, First Past The Post is such an archaic and completely out of date electoral system and gives a voter ONLY a CANDIDATE vote to cast as you only have ONE vote it means you can NOT technically vote for a party per se.
Under our system, you have ONE vote for ONE candidate at ONE TIME for a SINGLE MP or councillor.
It is a CANDIDATE orientated electoral system NOT a party orientated one.
https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system
Germans get to cast TWO votes each ie one for a candidate and an explicit one for a party:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Germany
https://www.mskevotesmatter.org.uk
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system
https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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Bussed in, class A MORONS who rightly moan about benefit cuts to vulnerable groups like the disabled yet, at the same time, say our borders should be completely open and this country should accept limitless numbers of refugees and endless numbers of often unassimiable immigrants.
As the Jewish libertarian economist beloved of Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman, put it you can EITHER have a functioning welfare state OR you have continuing mass immigration but NOT both at the same time
New Labour Mark 2 has made its choice ie to cut benefits and weaken the welfare state and it is the WRONG ONE.
Charity begins AT HOME!
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John:
Exactly. Those pro-invasion cretins are just a bad joke. People who, in the 1928 words of Hitler, want not only their daily bread but also their daily illusion…
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Giving a vote to everyone regardless of IQ levels is not a good idea when one comes into contact with and tries to knock some sense into members of the the ‘great unwashed’ like those people.
Well, Der Fuhrer did say democracy was a, “mere head count”. I think he was referring to hard left, crazed nutcases like them in his disdain for democratic values.
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John:
Churchill was, once or twice, equally dismissive, as you know.
I attempted examination of “democracy” about 6 years ago:
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Also, those kind of idiots no doubt complain about our enviroment being degraded/trashed. Well, how is adding to the population of an already overcrowded country going to reduce this country’s carbon footprint?
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Regarding Churchill´s supposed (or real, as I believe) contempt for democracy, there is a famous quote attributed to him, which I noticed is now being denounced as false; regardless of its authenticity or not, I think it is brilliant. Here it is:
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
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Claudius:
Yes. I have no idea whether the words cited are really from Churchill. Looking at them, I wonder whether they are really “Churchillian” (“average voter”). I suppose the opposing words, certainly from Churchill, would be “democracy is the worst system of government…except all the others”.
My historical piece of 2019 attempted analysis of what is meant by “democracy” anyway.
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Well, it took a long time to get a result from Runcorn and Helmsby and I pity the counting staff but we got there in the end! I had a feeling the result would be close but not THAT close! Now, Two Tier Kier has acquired a new nickname! From now on we can refer to him as SIX vote historic by-election win Kier!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍👍👍😁😁😁🤣🤣🤣🤣😃😃😃🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_by-election_records
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John:
The best thing about it is the perception, i.e. that fake Labour is on the way out. Had Lie/Bore managed to hang on, even by one vote, Starmer-stein would have been able to weasel, however unconvincingly.
The other excellent consequence is that that fat humourless woman Labour put up for the seat, Karen Shore, a really typical Labour-label political drone and local council grifter, has lost out, and will be miserable for at least the rest of this Parliament and possibly forever..
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