A few thoughts out of season
I read a couple of pieces in the online-only Independent newspaper and its connected Indy100 site. Semi-literate, semi-educated. Examples? In the Independent, in an interview with the ex-MP, Mike Amesbury, Amesbury described the three days he recently spent in prison as “…surreal…like an out-of-body experience“, which the Independent‘s scribbler, one Ellie Crabbe, wrote down as “an outer body experience“. No sub-editor (if they even have any) corrected Ms. Crabbe’s egregious mistake. Appalling ignorance. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/reform-labour-amesbury-runcorn-chancellor-b2745519.html.
Meanwhile, in the Indy100, one Harriet Brewis, described as “ the Chief Reporter at indy100, covering everything from scientific discoveries to online trends. She previously worked on the Evening Standard’s news desk, heading up the coronavirus blog throughout 2020 and writing the website’s leading stories“, writes that a lake in California has returned after long absence, the water having been extracted by “the greed of colonialists“! Ha ha… Is this an English news outlet, or a Cuban one?
The water extraction was in the USA of the late 19thC, as the article does say, so “colonialists” is a bit anachronistic, arguably, and not really accurate anyway, however bad the treatment of the local Indians/Native Americans may have been.
I might add that that report was published somewhere else a year or two ago. I recall reading it, or some version of it.
Ah, I see now that it was first published a year ago. Well, OK, and it is quite interesting, but do subscribers (I am not one) pay to read stuff recycled from over a year ago? https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/tulare-lake-2024-2671911762.
Standards in all areas are, overall and collectively, dropping like a stone, as I noticed and/or predicted many many years ago, in the 1990s.
Talking point— the decline of the Conservative Party
“Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said the Conservatives cannot rule out becoming extinct because of a “massive earthquake” in politics that is seeing the fracturing of the old two-party system.
Senior Conservatives are increasingly alarmed about polls that show support for the party plummeting, while Reform UK is soaring.
Some Conservative party sources said there appeared to be “very little dynamism” within Conservative Campaign Headquarters about trying to turn the party’s electoral fortunes around, while many local activists and some agents have already made the leap to supporting Reform.
On Wednesday morning, a YouGov Westminster voting intention poll put Reform on 29%, Labour on 22%, the Conservatives on 17%, the Liberal Democrats 16%, and the Greens 10% – suggesting the Tories are now flirting with fourth place in popularity.“
[Guardian]
In fact, the Conservative Party may well soon be in fifth place in terms of numbers of Commons seats (after Reform, Labour, LibDems, and the SNP).
Talking point— the decline of the Labour Party
“The government’s planned disability benefit cuts will hit 700,000 families who are already in poverty, according to internal Department for Work and Pensions forecasts obtained by the Guardian.
The figures, sourced under the Freedom of Information Act, are in addition to the projected 250,000 people who will be newly driven below the poverty line by the cuts, as set out by the government’s impact assessment in March.
Disability rights campaigners called the new disclosure “truly shocking” and said the changes would push people even further away from having the means to find work.
The DWP estimates that 3.2 million families across Great Britain will lose out under the plans in 2029/2030, about three years after the cuts are due to take effect. Of those, 700,000 will be families already categorised as being in relative poverty, when taking housing costs into account.“
[Guardian]
So that is some of the human and social cost of the policies of Starmer-stein, Rachel Reeves, and Liz Kendall (all members, incidentally, of Labour Friends of Israel). What, however of the political cost to Labour?
We see Labour already languishing in the opinion polls below 25%, in some at only 22%. I have already blogged about the fact that the UK population now has about 20% of its population non-white, and that those voters (those eligible and actually voting) probably now provide the vast bulk of Labour votes.
Since Starmer-stein lied his way to the office of Prime Minister in July 2024, his misgovernment has alienated the “average white families”, those above State Pension age, those approaching State Pension age, almost all British workers at or below average incomes, anyone concerned about the racial and cultural degradation of the country, anyone concerned about developers trashing the green countryside, and anyone at all concerned about the migration-invasion of between half a million and a million immigrants and/or invaders every single year.
Now, in addition to the above, Starmer-stein’s regime is about to hit not only the various types of disabled person, but also their families and others. The biggest hit will come in 2028 and 2029, just when the next general election is probably going to be held.
The result of all of that is that Labour will quite likely have (a trend forecast on the blog quite a while ago, a few years ago) votes mainly from (some of) the “blacks and browns”, and (some of) the public service workers, including (some of) the NHS workforce. Even the 18-24 demographic generally is turning away from Labour.
The electoral result may be that Labour can only score 22%, maybe only 20%, at the next general election. The Conservative Party, on present showing, may not even achieve that. The LibDems are the default “alternative” or “dustbin party”, so will pick up votes from both, but mainly from disaffected Con voters; perhaps 15% or so overall. Greens and several others will take (combined) about 10%-15% of votes. That leaves maybe 30% of the whole available for Reform.
Nature abhors a vacuum. If Reform gets to 30%, with Con and Lab both in the 20%-25% range, the earthquake will have happened. Reform will be in government with a 30 or even 50-seat majority, Labour may have fewer than 140 MPs, and the Con Party may slump to as few as 25.
Once the main System parties are displaced, the only real alternative to Reform, after 2029, will be real social nationalism.
Tweets seen
So less money for the Treasury (which means it will have to be found from elsewhere), and more unwanted immigrants coming to the UK (and don’t believe the nonsense about “short-term working” etc…).
The Starmer-stein and Rachel Reeves fake “Labour” government is a disaster in every way.
Under the surface, its attitude is probably unchanged. Snoopers.
As blogged previously Matt Goodwin may be a Father Gapon for our times…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Gapon#Bloody_Sunday
The above nonsense is only part of huge wastage. The “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic “Test and Trace” programme alone was 4x worse. About £38 billion. I favour government spending, in principle, but the devil is in the detail. The kind of idiots who get into System politics in the UK are simply not capable of running anything properly, or of making the right decisions.
Mason has been examined previously on the blog. A System asset of some kind or other, but one who, for whatever reason, likes to be thought of as radical or even revolutionary. He always supports police-state measures; he did it during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic, he did so when the BNP was rising up, he even did so when UKIP looked like becoming a major party. He certainly did so in relation to Greece, when the popular Golden Dawn social-national party was repressed by the fake “Left” or “socialist” party, Syriza, when the latter was in power. Syriza quickly sold out to international banking and the EU. The Golden Dawn people, many of them, still sit in prison.
There is something deeply unpleasant about Paul Mason. Deeply suspicious, too. Look at his Twitter/X timeline over the past few days. Incidentally, he is part-Jew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mason_(journalist)#Early_life_and_education.
What interests me more, though, is the revolution after the revolution…
Late tweets
Electoral Calculus suggests that those numbers would result in a Commons in which Reform would have 421 seats out of 650. Labour would have 92, the LibDems 56, the SNP 43, and the Cons only 8. Eight MPs… Surely terminal for the Conservative Party. https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.
Ian Robert Millard 
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I suppose Indians will now get visa free travel to the UK thanks to that terminally thick, anti-British wanker Two Tier Kier! Indians have abused that before. So much so infact that back in the days when the Conservatives were not totally the degenerate bunch of quasi Lib Dem morons they are now ie when Thatcher was PM her government drew-up some special regulations to ensure Indians could not get vias free travel. Indians were abusing the previous arrangements and were becoming one of Britain’s largest sources of illegal immigrants.
Any country in the world who lets Indians travel to them without needing a visa is bloody stupid as Indians simply can not be trusted to not abuse visa free travel.
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Indians really really dislike British people. They may be polite on the surface but once the barriers are down they are incredibly rude about us. They consider themselves to have superior intelligence and to be wily operators.
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I agree with your assesment. The British Raj ended in 1947 yet if you go on Youtube you will find many Indians moaning and whinging about how hard done by India was under British rule and they tend to blame CURRENT problems in India today on the Raj!
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Indians are to quote Churchil a ‘”beastly people”. When we ran India we tried to civilize them but it proved impossible to achieve. Even now, a not inconsiderable proportion of them poop on their beaches!
Despite its huge population, India will never be an economic superpower like some predict. The average IQ of them is too low compared with the far more clever Chinese.
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John:
Well, Indians have their points. Their history and religion(s) are complex and interesting, for example. Having said that, I do not want millions (more) of them coming here, even if they are not the worst of the groups invading this country. Starmer is, in lay terms, a traitor.
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If only Two Tier Kier would go out into a thunder storm and get killed by a bolt of lightning. Sadly though that will not happen since I think God hates this country. He never gives us any luck.
Starmer has no right to misrule us anyway since his party only got a pathetic 33.7% vote share last year at the inherently rigged ‘election’.
https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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John:
As you say, “Tel Aviv Keith” Starmer-stein’s party only achieved marginally over a third of the votes cast at GE 2024. 4 votes out of every 12 cast, 4 votes out of every 20 eligible.
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Yes, we do not want more abject failures like Priti Patel or Sunak living here and one Southall is enough. I once went to that infamous Indian enclave to see just how bad it was. You could smell it from miles away on the train.
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Indians have their own homeland to stay in. They moaned and whinged for many years about we British allegedly misruling and ill treating them during the Raj and told us to, “quit India” in Ghandi’s words so we did yet they followed us back here to OUR homeland. Our ‘oppression’ could not have been that bad then!🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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Out of the non-European peoples, the ones to admire are East Asians ie Chinese, Japanese and Koreans. The Japs would be at the top of the list for me followed by Koreans.
The Japanese were once called ‘honoury whites’ by somebody. I think that is a fair assessment. Not for nothing has Japan been called ‘The Britain of the East’.
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Yes, Indians should stay at home and develop India. Constant whining about alleged past British ‘oppresion’ during the Raj and how we supposedly ‘stole’ from India and slowed down or even stopped Indian economic development must end now as our colonial rule ended many decades ago. Now is the time for Indians to build-up their own country and stop moving here, to Germany, Canada, America, God knows where else!🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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Hello John: Although my knowledge of India and China is rather superficial, I tend to focus on what makes a country successful or not, and according to what I have observed I fully agree with you, the Indians are fairly inferior to the Chinese who also have the great advantage of having a strong, monolitical and (it seems) very efficient but ruthless state fully dedicated to the greatness of China.
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China, for all of its faults, not least for the fact the Chinese are devious and can not be trusted does have a population with an average IQ higher than ours and other Europeans. For that, one can respect them. Also, China was once an economic superpower and is becoming one again.
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Even by the usual standards of the ‘Left’ Paul Mason is an unpleasant character. He always has a distinct liking for brutal suppression of people espousing alternative opinions to his own. No wonder he is a fan of dictatorial tyrant, Two Tier Kier.
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A PM can be driven and confident but that is not a reason by itself to endorse him or her. If Starmer confidently told Paul Mason to jump off Beachy Head a lemming like him would go and do it!
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John:
I like that (both the logic and the picture…).
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Personally, I would rather a PM show timidity if their policies were disastrous for Britain as those of Starmer are.
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I have been looking at Paul Mason’s recent tweets. Yes, a deeply unpleasant character and like most internationalist lefties wrong about many aspects of history. Britain did NOT go to war in 1939 to, “smash fascism”. Neville Chamberlain’s government could not care less what Nazi Germany was doing within its own borders. Indeed, KristalNacht was barely remarked upon by the National (Tory) government. We went to war on account of Hitler breaking the word and spirit of the Munich Agreement and his seemingly unstopable military expansionism.
There were many Tory MPs who had quite a bit of sympathy with Nazi Germany even when the war was going on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moore-Brabazon,_1st_Baron_Brabazon_of_Tara
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John:
I was just reading that.Interesting. I knew of Brabazon, but not in that detail:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moore-Brabazon,_1st_Baron_Brabazon_of_Tara#Conservative_MP
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That Paul Mason seems to be, and I am sure he is, an obnoxious person. Fancy praising Starmer-stein! 🤮🤮🤮
Changing the subject, I believe (like someone mentioned here) that most Indians hate the British. This is understandable because, since 1947, their educational system has been telling them how cruel the British were. Therefore, it is logical to expect from them the same hate and resentment that most Blacks have for Whites.
The worst part of it is that there are millions of cowardly and stupid White people, mostly women, who believe that crap and think that if we are subservient and apologetic towards them, they will not hate us 😂😂😂
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Claudius:
Not so sure about that. It may be partly true, but most Indians at least *appear* to be not badly-disposed toward the British. Some of the officers’ messes in the Indian Army still have the British pictures on the wall, and I once (1980s) was slightly acquainted with a barrister, an Indian, who owned an Indian restaurant in Central London, and he told me that his grandfather in India always regretted the departure of the British; India, his grandfather said, had never known incorrupt government since the British left.
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My fault, I forgot to mention that I believe the anti-British feeling is shared by the majority of the population, particularly the lower classes. I am quite sure that many very well-educated Indians appreciate the quality and efficiency of the British rule. In 2002, during a visit to Rome, I met a humble but very well-educated Indian who worked for the state railways. He spoke English fluently and told me almost the same as the Indian barrister told you.
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Claudius:
Ah, possibly. Perhaps it is the better-educated and/or Indian upper classes or castes who are better-disposed to the British. I do not know, though. I have never been to India, unless you count a few hours in New Delhi airport when I was 10 (1967), and when my family’s QANTAS airliner was refuelling. In those days, you went from the UK to Australia by air stopping several times; our plane (Boeing 727) went London-Athens-Teheran-New Delhi-Hong Kong-Manila-Sydney).
BTW, at New Delhi airport, I was able to buy a sturdy traditional knife with a curved blade, and in a kind of wooden scabbard, *and take it onto the plane*! Imagine that today…
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If that happened today, as soon as you boarded the plane with the knife, you would have been arrested by “security” officers (in the US, “air marshals”) and charged with “attempted murder” or labelled “a potential terrorist”! What a horrible, paranoid world in which we live! All this thanks to the attack on the twin towers of the WTC in September 2001.
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