Talking point
To my mind, two aspects stand out: firstly, the fact that Reform UK has been attracting voters from all System parties, leaving the Greens aside. Former Conservative Party voters, but also former Labour Party voters; even some former LibDem voters (presumably, people who previously voted LibDem as being “the least bad of a bad bunch”). Secondly, the fact that Reform UK seems to be able to pull out of their self-imposed (?) exile people who in recent times have preferred not to vote (presumably in disgust at the choice or, rather, lack of choice, offered.
I have said many times on this blog that, with (in 2024) just on 40% of the entire eligible electorate preferring not to vote, any party that could energize even a substantial fraction of those voters, might sweep to power. It is not clear what proportion of 2024 non-voters are now willing to vote Reform, but it seems to be a substantial proportion, anyway (and no other party is managing to do the same).
A further point of interest is how many 2024 Lab and Con voters are now intending to abstain. Quite a few, but more from the Labour camp. I am guessing that the one-time Corbyn supporters are either going Green or abstaining, while others are going LibDem or to Reform, but it may not be so clear-cut.
What the picture will be by 2029, I cannot say, but somehow I doubt that most of those dissatisfied voters will be flocking back like homing pigeons to Lab or Con. Indeed, it may well be that both main System parties will experience further drift away from their control and influence.
Gaza
Whoever in the UK —whether Jew or non-Jew— supports what the Israeli Government is doing in Gaza is complicit in war crimes of a deeply sadistic and brutal kind.
Jewish orgs in the UK, such as the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], maintain that only 6% of Jews in the UK say that they are not “Zionists”, and that the vast majority of the remaining 94% support what the Israeli Government is doing. From the horse’s mouth.
Starmer-stein has vowed to maintain arms sales to Israel. He is therefore and thereby aiding and abetting the worst kind of state terrorism, indeed terrorism bullying a civilian population (a high proportion of which consists of non-combatant women and children) which has no means at all of protecting or defending itself, let alone of fighting the Israeli Jews with their jet aircraft, missiles, tanks etc.
It becomes ever more obvious that the establishment of the State of Israel was a terrible mistake. Still, perhaps it will be possible to correct that, together with other, connected, mistakes.
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You only have to look at the schools, particularly at primary educational level, particularly in the cities, towns, and suburbs. There are few white children (“formerly known as English or British”) at all.
Electoral Calculus translates that result to Reform 376 MPs, Lab 129, LibDem 65, SNP 39, Cons 11. Once again, if replicated at the 2029 (?) General Election, terminal for the Conservative Party.
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html
That kind of special forces type of operation is in a grey area alongside “terrorism”. The Kiev regime is doing it not from a position of strength but from one of military weakness, weakness on the battlefield. The Kiev regime’s forces are depleted, at little more than skeleton strength now. Russian Federation forces are steadily if slowly advancing across the major sections of the front, and are not retreating on any sector of the front.
I expect a Russian move shortly that will be both payback for the recent drone attacks on airfields as far away as Western Siberia, and an escalation which may create a breakthrough for the Russian side.
Late music
Ian Robert Millard 
Soave sia il vento – Cosi fan Tutte, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Absolutely sublime.
Two officers believe their fiancées will remain faithful, but Don Alfonso (the baritone) claims there is no such thing as a faithful woman and that women are fickle. To test the women the two officers pretend to be called to war and sail away in their boats. But actually sneak back to spy on the women and try to tempt them disguised as Albanians.
Soave sia il vento,
tranquilla sia l’onda,
ed ogni elemento benigno risponda ai nostri desir.
May the wind be gentle,
the waves be calm,
and may every benign element respond to our desires.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuPGHIgReEU
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By sheer accident, today I discovered the existence of this clown; do not tell me that his royal title is not funny (LOL). His portrait tells you everything!
Zog I – Wikipedia
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Claudius:
I agree that the picture does have something rather comic-opera about it.
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Oh, yes, it does! 😂😂😂
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By sheer accident, today I discovered the existence of this clown; do not tell me that his royal title is not funny (LOL). His portrait tells you everything!
Zog I – Wikipedia
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This is very weird. A mansion which belonged to one of the wealthiest families in American history, the Du Pont, ended up being owned by Russia, until today! The house has been under Russian ownership since 1946, and nobody knows the current state of the beautiful and luxurious rooms designed for George DuPont Pratt.
Russian Owned Mystery Mansion on Long Island: George DuPont Pratt’s “Killenworth” in Glen Cove
Killenworth – Wikipedia
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Claudius:
It was not uncommon for Soviet embassies in various countries to own one or more country houses for “R & R” (for the diplomats etc). The Soviet Union also owned a large property just within the city limits of New York, in Riverdale N.Y., on the Hudson: see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverdale,_Bronx#Housing.
That, I think, is still in Russian use.
I believe that the Russian Embassy in the UK also has a large place, somewhere in Sussex, or maybe Surrey, south of London.
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Thank you for the information. It does not surprise me. I am quite sure that wealthy or important countries must provide a nice country house for their ambassadors.
Have you been to Harrington House, the Russian embassy in London? The place does not look very nice, and I could not find any photos of its interiors. It has a rather weird history. Its last owner, a British millionaire, spent a fortune redecorating it, only to donate it six years later to be used as the embassy of the Soviet Union; he must have been a communist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Kensington_Palace_Gardens
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Claudius:
No, I have been past there a few times, though long ago, in the 1980s, but never inside the house or grounds. In those days, that building or a nearby one was the Soviet Embassy, with the Consulate also nearby but round the corner in Notting Hill Gate. Both Consulate and Embassy are now in Notting Hill Gate.
I have been to the Consulate a few times, both in Soviet times (because my then-girlfriend’s mother, born in Russia before the Revolution, was too old and infirm to queue up for 2 hours to get in to apply for a visitor’s visa…) and in 1993, on my own account. It was much more efficient than in Soviet times, and they had got rid of the typical stupid Soviet tiny hatch, which you had to stoop down to in order to speak to the receptionist.
The last time I went to Russia, in 2007, I was too busy to line up for hours to apply for the visa, and it was urgent, so I employed a commercial organization to apply for me.
As you may know, that part of London has, since at least 1945, had a strong diplomatic presence. Kensington Palace Gardens contains a number of embassies, including the Russian, Israeli, Romanian etc. The late King Hussein of Jordan had his London residence there, as does or did Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One car race businessman.
Incidentally, long ago in the 1960s,or early 1970s, an American professor of 19thC literature took photos of Thackeray’s old house there, now part of the Israeli Embassy. Two young Jews came out and asked him what he was doing. He told them. They then politely invited him in to see the interior. He gladly accepted, but once inside was set upon, stripped naked and searched, and all his documents taken away and presumably copied. The camera was also taken and returned later minus the film. He was then reunited with most of his belongings and clothes and dumped in the street.
My main girlfriend of the 1980s used to park her old van (long story) in that road, because there were no parking restrictions, and the guards in sentry boxes at either end never seemed to question drivers who dared to drive in (most did not). I doubt you could do that now; security is so much more severe everywhere.
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The behaviour of the Israeli security guards then does not surprise me in the slightest. They are genetically predisposed to lie, cheat and murder, if necessary, to achieve their goals. I wonder if the American professor took legal action against them.
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Claudius:
I doubt that that professor took any legal action. For one thing he was a tourist in a foreign country. Secondly, the Israeli guards were probably covered by diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention, even if they were not themselves diplomatic staff: see the commentary provided by the Crown Prosecution Service as to the position now:
“Staff at diplomatic missions and London-based consular missions
Criminal immunity and inviolability in the UK is conferred on all Diplomatic Agents and Administrative and Technical Staff of foreign diplomatic missions and on all Consular Officers and Consular Employees at London-based foreign consular missions. To qualify for this immunity and inviolability, the staff must be: (1) accepted by His Majesty’s Government (HMG) as the receiving State; and (2) notified to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
Criminal immunity is only afforded to the Service Staff at foreign diplomatic or foreign London-based consular missions in respect of the acts performed in the course of their duties. However, such staff are not inviolable.”
[CPS]
https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/diplomatic-immunity-and-diplomatic-premises
Thirdly, the otherwise-criminal acts only occurred once that professor was on the footprint of,and in fact inside, the embassy or its grounds. While an embassy is not (as often believed) “foreign soil” (the “extraterritoriality” fallacy), it has privileges that mean that acts done by its staff inside the building or even in the grounds are not justiciable by English courts (admittedly, a grey area).
In other words, the professor had nowhere to go, either in terms of criminal or civil law.
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