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Saw a few minutes of some TV propaganda piece featuring Starmer-stein and Rachel Reeves. She is so much of a robot that she puts previous political robots, such as “the Maybot” (Theresa May) into the shade. Rachel Reeves strikes me as a human tick-box, most of the time. There seems to be nothing in between a robotic impression and a meltdown impression, as seen in the Commons yesterday.
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Interesting news. Incidentally, that airport looks better than I had supposed. Photographed nicely, anyway.
Goodwin seems to have been “on a journey”, ideologically. Perhaps that journey has not yet arrived at its final destination.
Travelogue— Batumi (Adzharia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batumi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjara
As on previous occasions, a slightly silly title and subtitle, but the video itself still fairly interesting.
Many years ago, I wanted to visit Sukhumi, a small resort in Abkhazia, north of Adzharia , which resort was developed under 19thC Tsarist rule, but unfortunately there was considerable civil war damage after the collapse of the Soviet Union; at any rate, I never did go there; neither have I ever been to Batumi, an autonomous part of Georgia.
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According to Electoral Calculus, that translates into a Commons with 363 Reform UK MPs, Labour 129, LibDems 69, SNP 29, and Cons 25 (Greens 7, Plaid Cymru 5 etc).
Cons once again in notional 5th place. Near-terminal.
I imagine that, in that situation, Reform could offer most of the remaining Con MPs a home, were they willing to defect. On the other hand, why would Reform even bother, already having a fairly large majority on those polling figures?
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html
It is now probably only a matter of time before the Russian side can achieve a significant breakthrough, and then roll over the whole of Ukraine east of the Dnieper, leaving open the questions of Kiev and Odessa (which should be open cities, probably), and allowing the Ukrainians to maintain a non-belligerent rump state centred on, presumably, Lvov.
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“Several people were injured after a man wielding an axe attacked passengers on a busy train in Germany today.
The suspect, who has not been identified, was said to have lashed out at travellers on board the ICE 91 train to Vienna this afternoon at around 1:55pm local time.
The man, believed to be Syrian according to German newspaper Bild’s sources, was alleged to have boarded with an axe and a hammer, before one brazen passenger disarmed him of one of the weapons and fought back.”
[Daily Mail]
Incidentally, look at that latest example of the UK’s degraded “newspaper” “journalism”: “brazen” used wrongly, in my opinion. The scribbler in question: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/profile-263/james-clark-reynolds.html
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Ian Robert Millard 
Despite all of the misery in the world, nature is still doing its thing.
https://x.com/MeredithMComm/status/1940177093880340746
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Gaza airport.
Of course now it is just rubble, because Israelis don’t want Palestinians to have anything nice, or free movement and they are spiteful.
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/20/1214046260/gaza-palestinians-history-bill-clinton-airport
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The Zionist entity of Israel has no real intentions towards peace. Their leaders say they are in favour of a ‘two-state solution’ but continue to build WHOLLY ILLEGAL under international law settlements for settlers from places like Brookyn, New York all over the West Bank which would comprise a major part of an independent Palestinian state.
By their own actions in doing this and other policies, a ‘two state solution’ is not feasible now. So that leaves one option which is the peaceful dismantlement of the Zionist state and the establisment of an independent Palestinian state covering the entire area of what is now Israel then both Palestinians and Jews can live in peace and harmony as they mostly used to do before vile Zionist terrorists murdered our troops to force us to withdraw from governing the British mandate of Palestine.
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There is certainly a streak of pure nastiness/vindictiveness/spitefulness in your average ZioNazi/Zionist.
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Ha, ha, the fake Conservative Party is nearly extinct. GOOD RIDDANCE to a party of dopy liberal globalists who treated Enoch Powell with contempt when he had more patriotism and more of an IQ level than globalist cretins like Heseltine ect all put together. All the Tories represent is a warm-up act for Labour and by doing so give Labour credibility where none should exist. A large part of this country’s utterly deplorable situation is due to the Conservative Party not taking on Labour with the right political philosophy which was NEVER going to be silly, US-style, globalist libertarianism.
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Reform UK should NOT offer Tory MPs a home apart from Sir John Henry Hayes as he is one of the very, very few Tories who has any real idea of what conservatism should be about.
In general, Reform should give the Tories a wide berth as association with a nearly entirely discredited brand can be very bad for your own electoral prospects. After all, look how the Liberal Democrats have struggled since their coalition with the Tories from 2010-2015.
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John:
I agree, in principle. However, were the Cons to be left with only 25 MPs, as some polls suggest, then it might be an idea for Reform to offer those remaining Con MPs sanctuary if they immediately defect, so that the Cons would then have only, say, 5 MPs instead of 25. That would administer the coup de grace to the Conservative Party.
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Yes, Kemi Olungunko Ubungo or whatever her real name is is a Nigerian ‘anchor baby’. Basically, she is totally foreign in everyway to us so it is unsurprising the nowadays very degenerate, libertarian globalist, fake Conservative Party elected her to its ‘leadership.
Even as recently as the 1990’s there were a few decent Tory MPs like this one:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Janman who the ungrateful voters of my next door constituency of Thurrock kicked-out in 1992 to elect a typical Labour Party drone/timeserver. Tim Janman would have suited my seat of Brentwood and Ongar better than Eric Pickles (sadly, another pro-Israel lunatic)
Of course, you have to go back much further in history to get really good Tory MPs :
Probably the most notorious Tory (actually a Scottish Unionist Party MP which was, in effect, a Scottish Tory) MP of all time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Maule_Ramsay
And another one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moore-Brabazon
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Yes, Matthew Goodwin wrote a not very complimentary book about the BNP I recall so I do not entirely trust him but perhaps he has learnt a thing or two over the last ten years or so. Even liberal-left globalists can develop intellectually I suppose if they are at least a bit open-minded.
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John:
I know relatively little about Goodwin beyond basic background but, as you say, he was hostile to any kind of national politics, even conservative nationalism, and not so many years ago. I think he even tweeted once about me (not sure now) some years ago. I think that his “conversion” is genuine in the sense that he now sees the slope down which Britain is sliding, but he remains pro-Jew, pro-Israel etc. There again, he has found a very very lucrative niche, and he would not want to lose that if the Jewish lobby targeted him. 80,000 subscribers on Substack, each paying £5 a month, plus TV and radio appearances (f/t on GB News), and occasional columns in newspapers.
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Yes, that is a fine looking airport in Israel. I have to concede the fact that Jews do have a high average IQ eg people like Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer who helped to invent the first nuclear bomb (I saw that pretty good film on him and the Manhattan Project in 2023). There are plenty of Nobel Prize winners amongst them.
Unfortunately, some Jews misuse their high IQ to the detriment of others.
Changi Airport in Singapore is supposed to be the world’s best airport. Still, at least if you went to that Israeli airport and were found to be trafficking drugs you would not be at any risk of being hanged as you would be in Singapore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changi_airport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore
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Certainly, a good looking airport in the ZioNazi/Zionist entity but then there is little doubt Nazi Germany the country which the regime in Tel Aviv takes inspiration from also had many good looking airports and some fine motorways which were amongst the world’s first.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Tempelhof_Airport
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Not that I would ever willingly deal in drugs but if I were to go to Changi Airport I would do my best to keep my luggage under my control and in sight of me at all times. I would be bloody terrified if someone planted drugs in a bag of mine whilst I was not looking and then I set off the drug detectors at customs control.
My sister passed through Changi Airport on her way to visit Australia.
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Well, at least Rachel Reeves can show some emotion even if those tears were for herself rather than anyone else. She is human in that sense. Starmer, on the other hand, doesn’t appear to have ANY form of personality emotional, overemotional or otherwise. That vacant, long distance stare he has gives me the utter creeps. It is all too reminiscent of a Communist Party functionary in Albania or the Soviet Union in the 1950’s to 1980’s
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Hello. Have you seen the news regarding the apparent/supposed 30.000 North Korean soldiers that will go to reinforce the Russian Army? I doubt it because the information came from CNN, which is notoriously pro-Ukrainian; however, it is possible that the obese psychopath known as Kim-Yung-Un would send troops to curry favour with Putin. Although Putin does not need 30.000 extra soldiers, I am sure he would welcome them as they will save 30.000 Russian lives. “Better your people than mine”
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Claudius:
Koreans are tough. North Korean discipline, even for civilians, seems to be ferociously strict. On that basis, 30,000 troops must make a difference, especially if deployed to punch a hole through the Kiev-regime defensive lines.
A strange war— part almost sci-fi, partly WW2-style, partly WW1-style.
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Yes, I agree. A friend of mine knew some former South Korean military men when doing business with them, and he was surprised by the casual way they discussed killing and/torturing people. Compared with Europeans, Asians, in general, are fairly cruel. Remember the brutal, and sometimes sadistic, treatment of the Allied POWs at the hands of the Japanese during WW2.
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Claudius:
Yes. Of course the South has a superior economic system, and at least some civil rights now, as well as very good hospitals etc, but I think (rightly or not) that, under the surface, the North and South may not be as different psychologically as one might assume. Whatever the truth of that, Koreans generally are pretty tough and resilient.
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They are also intelligent as all the East Asian peoples are. Their average IQ is, in fact, a little higher than European countries like ours. This is no doubt one reason South Korea has been able to rise from being one of the world’s poorest countries in the 1950’s to achieving the ‘Miracle on the Han River’ economic miracle with companies like Samsung, LG and Hyundai. India, on the other hand, has a lower average IQ which is demonstrated by quite a few of them still pooping on beaches so despite its vast population it is doubtful whether the land of Priti effing Useless and Rishi Sunak will ever achieve an economy worthy of being compared with South Korea, Japan or China.
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