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Saturday quiz
Well, this week a very narrow victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 6/10, whereas I scored 6.5/10, having adopted Rentoul’s own habit of giving himself a half-point where appropriate (in my case, in regard to question 3). I did not know the answers to questions 1, 6, and 9.
In other words, I won this week over Rentoul, as the racing people say, “by a neck, cleverly“.
A “blast from the past”
While weeding old emails to save space, I happened to see the following one, sent by me to BBC Radio 4 PM and Sky News nearly 16 years ago, in 2010 (when I occasionally emailed my thoughts to the msm; I should not waste my time these days):
”pm@bbc.co.uk
news@sky.com;info@libdems.org.uk
The LibDems have now without doubt and in the time-honoured phrase, “sold their birthright for a messs of pottage”. They have lost all credibility, all integrity and for what? For baubles of supposed power which mean little or nothing.
There will have to be installed at No.10 a “clegg flap” of sufficient dimensions to facilitate the passage of Clegg’s swollen head. Or will clegg be expected to use the tradesmen’s entrance? Also, will Clegg also inherit Prescott’s gardening leave and set of croquet mallets?
As with the honorific office of V-P in the USA, the office of “Deputy PM” threatens to become a park spot for unwanted and, in Lenin’s well-known phrase “useful idiots”.
The Conservatives havee taken all the significant ministerial posts. Loyalty of the LibDems has been bought cheaply indeed, as 20 of the 56 or 57 LibDems MP’s get some kind of salaried (ie, thanks to their MP salaries, double-salaried) employment as notional part of the new government.
Meanwhile, the new semi-elected dictatorship will stay in power for 5 years thanks to imposition of the inflexible 5-year fixed term. Long live “freedom”! A government “elected” and “negotiated” into power which in reality was only put there by the 10.5 million Conservative votes out of 29 million. The people who voted LibDem have been mostly betrayed and tricked.
The LibDem negotiators were a notably poor lot: a little ex-banker, the buy-to-let parasite “Seven Houses” Huhne etc. All careerists.
The LibDems should have simply stayed independent and let the Conservatives go alone into minority administration. Now the Conservatives will do as they please, throwing out a few crumbs from time to time to their LibDem serving class.
One can see that, interpenetrating the supposedly open recent election was the real, concealed System, pushing for Cameron to take over as PM, as witness the very feeble LibDem/Labour negotiations, the fact (now emerging) that “senior Labour figures” did not even seriously try to come to a proper alliance with the LibDems, the fury of both Conservative leaders and the mass media talking heads when it seemed that Cameron might not make it, etc.
This government will be the most pro-Zionist government ever in the UK, eclipsing even those of Wilson, Thatcher and Blair. Also, connectedly, the least independent from American policy. That much is obvious.
In the campaign, Cameron said “vote LibDem, get Gordon Brown”. That now looks ironic and, indeed, mendacious.
I predict that this may well be the end of the LibDems UNLESS, perhaps, they can somehow still get, in the end, proportional representation, which is to almost everyone in this country (except the party now in undemocratic power) the fair way to go.
As for The Party Formerly Known As Labour, what is their legacy after 13 years? A country where the gulf (I do not say gap) between rich and poor is far greater than it was even in 1997; a country where “Labour” now admit that they imported millions of non-whites even in the past 13 years, AND QUITE DELIBERATELY to subvert the race, culture and civilization of the UK. Etc.
The medium term future of the UK after 2015 must lie, ideologically, in a blend of Socialism, National Socialism, reasonable and regulated private enterprise, decent welfare procedures, New Age/Christian/Grail and environmental concern. A synthesis of the collective with individual human rights (real human rights, not the Cherie Blair/Harriet Harperson shadows of rights). Rudolf Steiner’s Threefold Social Order can be a partial template.
In foreign policy, the EU scam will obviously collapse or radically change in time. The UK must join in free but close alliance with white Northern Europe, Scandinavia and Russia.
A real “New Order” can then emerge.“
[email from 2010]
If I say so myself, that email has held up well over the years, overall, though not perhaps in all the detail.
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Brothers Karamazov. I notice that he is reading one of the (post- Constance Garnett) Penguin English-language editions, which (though updated in 2008) was translated from the Russian about 30 or 35 years ago (early 1990s) by a now-deceased good friend of mine, Ig Avsey, of whom I have written on the blog a few times:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/dec/09/ignat-avsey-obituary
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Unsurprising, in view of the control and/or influence “they” have in and over the USA…
The [Israeli] Jews continue with their sadism and brutality.
[“The former commander of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, admitted that his country’s tank forces would not withstand a war with Russia:
“British tanks could be destroyed in the event of a war with Russia. And if we don’t increase the size of our army and adapt our tactics, they could indeed destroy one of the pillars of our defense”
He’d better have said this to his government. After all, it’s doing its best to provoke a war.“]
That ex-officer is one of the major scribblers (in the Daily Telegraph) apparently seeking war with Russia. His idea of such a war, however, seems to be a 1940s or 1950s one, rather than one in which London and other British cities are incinerated within an hour.
See also:
Yes, that Jew certainly thought he was a VIP— very “important”, with almost limitless money, private jets, political influence, whatever; he even had supposedly “royal” princes acting as his flunkeys. However, in the end, he was chucked into a prison cell, killed (almost certainly) and sent “up the chimney”. Something that should give pause to other exploiters.
I blogged about the Gorton and Denton by-election yesterday, and previously.
I see that one opinion poll has Reform UK and Labour vying for the seat, rather than Reform and the Green Party. Maybe, and Labour did hoover up half of the votes cast less than 2 years ago, in 2024.
On the other hand, the Labour “brand” is collapsing, arguably has already collapsed, and Labour’s 50%+ of 2 years ago might well collapse to 25% or even 15% at the by-election, depending on turnout, and on how many Muslims (Pakistanis) shun Labour and vote Green because of the pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby policies of Starmer-stein and his Labour Friends of Israel (mis)government.
Also, depending on how many white voters (about 68% of those eligible) are angry enough at the crazy decline of the UK —even over the past 2 years— to either vote Reform or to just not vote at all.
For me, it seems quite likely that Reform can do this, though I concede it might be close. What might swing it is that Reform may be able to get the votes of about half the white English/British voters who vote, so about 35% of all voters who vote. The remaining ~55% (leaving aside minor parties, and the Con, LibDem etc) will be split between Labour and the Greens.
Incidentally, I see that several msm commentators are saying that Matt Goodwin was a poor choice as Reform candidate. I do not see that. He is energetic, well-prepared, articulate, has a high public profile by reason of his TV and online activity and, despite having grown up mainly in Hertfordshire, has quite a few Mancunian links and connections.
I think that some msm scribblers just dislike Goodwin; Dan Hodges in particular. Also, Goodwin is gathering traction, and there may be envy in the mix somewhere.
I myself have no time for Goodwin’s pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby views, but some of his other views (not the crazed American-style anti-Welfare State ones) are not so far from a few of my own.
Anyway, Goodwin is surely the standout candidate in the by-election.
Mark Hehir gofundme appeal
I blogged about this case yesterday; a London bus driver who chased after and apprehended a thief/robber, but who himself was later arrested (!) and then (despite not having been charged with anything) dismissed by the bus company, Metroline.
Well, an MP raised the matter on radio, and a gofundme appeal was launched a couple of days ago. It is already, at time of writing, over £16,000: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-mark-hehir-the-hero-bus-driver.
“The world is not without kind people” [Russian proverb].
More tweets
[“My grandfather lived in this house
I remember cycling after him down the road as a kid and I couldn’t keep up – he was so big and strong
He worked at Farmer Norton’s steel factory on Silk Street in Salford as a chargehand
When my parents divorced, my brother and I would visit here a lot
It was a confusing time, I wasn’t quite sure what was going on
Like everybody else in my family he was working-class
On the other side, my maternal grandmother grew up in Llanelli, Wales, in complete poverty
Her father, my great-grandfather, worked down the mines
She sang in the local choir and was so good she became one of the first women to win a Blue Riband at the Eisteddford – a big deal
She was then sent to sing for the troops – during World War Two – which is where she met my maternal grandfather on a boat in the Indian Ocean
He was from working-class Brixton and fought for the Chindits, behind enemy lines, in Burma
All my grandparents were the same
They all struggled
They all worked hard
They all played by the rules
And they all believed in Britain
Visiting my grandad’s house yesterday was emotional
I thought of that boy who struggled to keep up with his granddad
I thought about how lost and confused I felt at that time
And now here I am standing for Parliament
Not only the first person in my family to go to university but actually standing for Parliament!
Many people on the Left want you to think that I am a bad person with divisive views
But it’s not true
I just want to live in a country where people like my grandparents are treated with decency and respect
Where people who work hard, who play by the rules, and who contribute to our country are put first – where they belong
This should not be controversial
This should not be a lot to ask for
But our politicians lost their way
So I am asking you to question the narratives you are being fed and, if you would like, come and join me in this positive and optimistic campaign to turn our country around“]
[Matt Goodwin]
Ian Robert Millard 