@Fox_Claire we don't live in a democracy! It's a lie we are given as an illusion of choice otherwise people would riot. The Blue , Green , or Red pill options all lead to the same path. Look at Brexit never happened. Thats why riots are happening, then the law starts to work!
When Starmer was booed at the Southport commemoration – thatโs his next five years. And if the rozzers arrest people for booing, they will just maintain a stony silence.
— Viscount Toad KG ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ (@cheshiretoad) August 14, 2024
Or not.
I think an awful lot of people are even angrier than before.
This 53-year-old woman, a full-time carer with no previous convictions, wrote on Facebook 'Blow the mosques up'. It was a wicked thing to say, and she deserves public shaming. But 15 months in jail? When violent thugs are often given suspended sentences? https://t.co/lwPDd1y9Uo
People have already lost faith in the UK political process, and the police. Until now, the courts have retained a measure of public respect. Will the courts and the judges now go the way of the politicians and police?
“Respect” is not quite the same as “fear”. Judge Jeffreys was feared but not respected. Look what happened to him.
“George Jeffreys, 1st Baron JeffreysPC (15 May 1645 โ 18 April 1689), also known as “the Hanging Judge“,[1] was a Welsh judge. He became notable during the reign of King James II, rising to the position of Lord Chancellor (and serving as Lord High Steward in certain instances). His conduct as a judge was to enforce royal policy, resulting in a historical reputation for severity and bias.”
The judge said: "Of the people I have thus far sentenced, you are the person who provides me with the most difficulty because it cannot be levelled at you that you hit anyone, neither have you thrown anything, neither is it said that youโฆ
“This is how ludicrous things have become. The judge said: “Of the people I have thus far sentenced, you are the person who provides me with the most difficulty because it cannot be levelled at you that you hit anyone, neither have you thrown anything, neither is it said that you spat at anybody. But it is accepted by you that you were a party to this disorder and I have to sentence you on that basis, and you know that anyone party to it has to receive a custodial sentence.โ Man described by judge as the ‘least involved’ in riot jailed for a yearhttps://telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/13/youngest-female-rioter-13-court-mother-step-father/“
I was not familiar with the facts of the case until (just now) reading the above link, but if the defendant did actually nothing, neither by deed nor by word (of incitement, though he did say things of an insulting and profane character), then how could any judge, properly directing himself, either find the defendant guilty (even on a plea of guilty, which may have been procured by fear of a heavier sentence yet) or hand down any custodial sentence?
I see now, in the Daily Telegraph report, that the defendant did in fact push at a police riot shield, though once only.
The judge was fair enough to have gone into recess at the trial, until further video evidence was screened.
Surely appealable, at least on sentence.
Indeed, if the defendant’s only action had been to be at the scene, and even if, so to speak, “silently in agreement” with the acts done by others, then that surely would not be enough? His words actually said were at worst ambiguous, in my view. Meaning that, on those premises, arguende, there was no actus reus sufficient in law (?). However, the pushing of the riot shield might (and obviously did) change that, in the mind of the judge. Rather thin, though.
Even if the judge felt impelled to imprison that defendant, surely 3 months would have been more than enough? He would then have been released within 4-5 weeks. Now, he will be spending about 5 months in prison, unless he gets bail pending any appeal on sentence.
Strongly favours migration-invasion, and mass immigration generally. Pretends to think that it actually benefits this country! An enemy of Britain’s future.
@Fox_Claire on @BBCNewsnight just pointed out that while there are dedicated squads of police trawling social media for people to prosecute, if you call the cops because someone has burgled your house or stolen your car they're always too busy.
Victory of @elonmusk over #GARM is an enormously significant moment in the struggle to preserve free speech – Gerald Warner in @reactionlife. Have made this piece free to read. https://t.co/tKZhvCZ1tZ
(to British families or individuals only, though, not to migrant-invaders or any other non-Europeans).
A 53-year-old woman, the primary carer for her husband, who led a "kind and compassionate lifestyle". Sentenced to 15 months of prison time for a quickly deleted FB post. As she was convicted, she replied, โThank you, your honour". Just awful. .https://t.co/7dTwlaI049
Again, plainly excessive. A suspended sentence would have been appropriate; the immediate 15 months, in all the circumstances, and seeing the strong personal/family mitigation— savage. As it is, the defendant will only be released after 5 months (minus a few days).
Starmer and his compliant judges may have repressed the recent protests (which were coming to an end anyway— the (((Hope not Hate))) cabal just invented the spectre of 100 more “far right” protests— but, in my opinion, people are getting even angrier, albeit under the surface, and with both the general situation in the country and about the “elected” dictatorship (“elected” by a mere 20% of eligible voters) of Two-Tier Keir.
People are just wary of openly saying or publishing online anything now, because of the open repression of free speech, and because of the police-state over-reaction by both Two-Tier Keir and those judges who have recently been giving out Cold War East European-style “People’s Court” sentences (for political “crimes” only).
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He really sickens me , do this to pensioners and curtailing the British natives freedoms hard won , such as the freedom of expression our freedoms set down in Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights. https://t.co/nHbXjgmc1p
๐บ๐ฆZELENSKY APPROVED PLAN TO BLOW UP NORD STREAM PIPELINES
Despite the mainstream media saying for months that Russia blew up the pipelines, the Wall Street Journal has now revealed it was planned and executed by Ukraine at a cost of $300,000.
“ZELENSKY APPROVED PLAN TO BLOW UP NORD STREAM PIPELINES
Despite the mainstream media saying for months that Russia blew up the pipelines, the Wall Street Journal has now revealed it was planned and executed by Ukraine at a cost of $300,000.
When the CIA learned of the plan they told Zelesnky to abort it, however it still went ahead. According to senior Ukrainian defense and security officials, the pipelines were a legitimate target. They are jointly owned by Russian, German, French, and Dutch companies, and the explosion caused 800 million cubic meters of gas, equivalent to about 3 months of Danish gas supplies, to escape.
It’s a problem for Germany, as a senior official said: โAn attack of this scale is a sufficient reason to trigger the collective defense clause of NATO, but our critical infrastructure was blown up by a country that we support with massive weapons shipments and billions in cash.โ Ukraine still officially denies involvement in the attack.
The vulgar mercantilist influence comes out in the language, and has for a number of years.
Apart from that, throwing money at a trade union or its members, in order to ensure a period without strikes, is easy enough, and not some masterstroke of Labour Party industrial relations.
You have until Monday to apply to be in charge of the UK's trade with Poland: a top-15 UK trading partner with ยฃ31 billion (up 15% YoY) and buffer against Russia.
Pay: ยฃ33k.
Otherwise, a nearby Billโs restaurant is advertising for a sous chef: ยฃ40k https://t.co/9gTRkXsVfP
Wow. Reform is ahead of Tories in 2nd. Labour 33%, Reform 21%, Tories 20% (WeThink)
"Farage is winning over cultural conservatives who are economically populist, who loathe mass immigration and think global corporates are taking them for a ride"https://t.co/6tTOpMRoCr
You consistently opposed the one law that created a legal duty on UK universities to promote free speech& protect scholars who do not support the woke orthodoxy. So we shall take no lectures on free speech from you. https://t.co/dxoYS3KRmn
Then compare that to the equally inaccurate and one-sided BBC and Sky News (etc) reportage about the Ukraine conflict, the migration-invasion and much else.
Other than in the most egregious cases, such as where there is clear evidence of incitement to violence or law-breaking, I don't think anyone should be sent to jail for something they wrote on social media. That is a hill worth dying on.
I agree completely. The UK has gone slowly mad in that regard over the past 50 years and especially the past 25 years.
.@simoncalder. But the poor old taxpayer has to fork out far, far more on the pretend private rail franchisees( who delay my journeys far more often than any union does) and their bonuses. And drivers drive trains.Iโve never worked out what the operating companies do for me. https://t.co/YWcq7OmJr3
Example(s) of and from what Katie Hopkins calls “Batshit Bonkers Britain”.
Quite remarkable to see so many colleagues on the left reveal themselves as true "hang 'em, flog 'em" reactionaries after spending years berating me for the same thing!
As frequently noted on the blog over the past 7 years, the self-describing “Left” has almost nothing left except hysterical demands that “the authorities” should “deplatform” anyone of whom they disapprove, or who is not of the “woke” orthodoxy. It even came out during the “Covid” hysteria of a few years ago.
The once-socialist so-called “Left” and/or “antifascist” tendency has actually nothing to offer the British people. No ideals. No ideas. Just witch-hunts.
Incidentally, anyone wanting to confirm that those sorts of individuals really are of “Batshit Bonkers Britain”, read this
During the past night there was a new eruption of Etna volcano in Sicily. Due to the emission of ash into the atmosphere, the airport in Catania was closed until 18:00 pic.twitter.com/oghP9qmYl6
The lady in the white bikini better start running…
Megregor: The Kursk operation serves to create the illusion of progress
๐บ๐ธ It is possible that the United States participated in providing the intelligence that the Armed Forces of Ukraine needed to attack the Kursk region, said former Pentagon adviser Douglas McGregor. Theโฆ pic.twitter.com/bLAjIz8Wf7
“The Kursk operation serves to create the illusion of progress.
It is possible that the United States participated in providing the intelligence that the Armed Forces of Ukraine needed to attack the Kursk region, said former Pentagon adviser Douglas McGregor.
The goal of the operation is to create the illusion of success so that warmongers in Washington will continue to send money to Ukraine, he emphasized.“
Exactly.
A group of over 100 Israeli settlers invaded a Palestinian settlement near the city of Kalkilja in the West Bank. Burn houses and cars. pic.twitter.com/uvNGJ9Ktbd
Ian Hislop became editor in 1986. He then became part of the BBC's HIGNFY team in 1990. Some 600 episodes later, at 20k a pop, Hislop has made 12 million quids. Becoming a BBC whore lapdog entailed selling out the entire raison d'etre of Private Eye.
Private Eye, Have I Got News For You etc are on the same level of System-approved fake “satire” as was the Soviet publication, Krokodil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krokodil.
Working class people concerned about immigration? Private Eye really is dedicated to 'punching down' these days.
When people are first promoted they often shrink away from the bigger responsibilities and wider vision required by the new role, and search frantically for something they know how to do. Which usually turns out to be the thing they did pre-promotion.
As I blogged a week or so ago, Starmer, the “file-clerk given power unexpectedly”, has retreated into his “legal people” comfort zone, and (despite the sycophantic tweets of many of the usual pro-Labour Twitter-twits) has shown himself not a proper person to be Prime Minister.
BREAKING: A 60-year-old man named Glyn Guest has been jailed for two years and eight months at Sheffield Crown Court over the Rotherham riotshttps://t.co/cFJoMDPECj
A 60-y-o man imprisoned for 2 years and 8 months for merely pushing a policeman to the ground. True, he should not have done it, but (as with almost all of the recent reactive sentences following the protests) this seems highly excessive.
I hope that he appeals on sentence. 40% of 2 yrs 8 months is about 13 months. If he can get the sentence reduced to 20 months, he might be out in 8 months. Still pretty stiff. A suitable sentence might have been either a “suspended” or maybe 5 months, allowing for his release in 2 months.
Top marks for cheekiest job application for a recently sacked Tory MP so far. Theresa Coffey applied for a well paid, senior post with the Labour government. You'll be amazed to hear she didn't get it, but top marks for the sheer cheekiness. https://t.co/Cp0rX9XJcI
Therese Coffey, like Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, falsified her CV in several respects, and is little better than a fraud. I blogged about her 5 years ago:
The truth is already inconvenient to a number of influential groups in society (and not just “them”)…
Why is the @britishlibrary, which we all pay for even though it has been effectively shut for the last 9 months, telling us we must share its values before it will talk to us? https://t.co/gvPlFvYxvP
As frequently blogged, the West needs a thoroughgoing cultural purge, as well as a political one. TV, radio, the Press, the academic and other cultural institutions, the advertising industry etc.
Woman, 52, is remanded in custody after appearing in court accused of buying eggs and water for rioters to throw at police.
My rapist didnโt even get remanded and there was DNA evidence.
Keir Starmer and the Labour Party are never going to live this down.โฆ
Two-tier Keir has already failed as Prime Minister, but what will sink him is not so much his blatant attack on free speech and protest, but the fact that he and his cohorts have no idea at all how to tackle the real and pressing national issues, especially immigration (not just the rubber boats aspect), which causes or makes far worse all the other pressing issues— housing, benefits and pensions, pay, housing, crime, overcrowded roads, the environment; even water supply.
NEW POST. NO. Nigel Farage didn't cause the RIOTS. The ELITE CLASS did.https://t.co/6tTOpMRoCr
โOne of the most dangerous trends of our timesโ, said American writer Thomas Sowell, โis making the truth socially unacceptable, or even illegal, with โhate speechโ lawsโ. And this is exactly what is taking place in Britain.“
“What all this reflects is a wider point about the political left; in the end, as history shows, it will always sacrifice free speech and free expression on the altar of โsocial justiceโ. This is what we see in the online ramblings of people like Paul Mason, Oliver Kamm, Jessica Simor, and Edward Luce, all of whom have called for the shutdown of social media platforms, alternative television channels, and, ultimately, conversation among concerned citizens.“
I have already blogged occasionally about Paul Mason and Jessica Simor, as well as Oliver Kamm (all partly-Jewish, by the way); the last-named has an honoured place in my 2019 blog post They’re Coming to Take Me Away, ha ha! which (updated to quite recently) examines the linkages between mental illness, the self-describing “Left”, and Zionists (both Jews and non-Jews): see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/.
"It wasnโt Farage who decimated the communities that saw the worst rioting by ushering in globalisation, mass immigration, & deindustrialisation; it was the elite class. It wasnโt Farage who promised they'd lower immigration only to do the opposite; it was the elite class" https://t.co/5Iw0i5rJAZ
#MCCFeszt recap No.4#Hungary is often criticised by the Western elites, but while he was here, @MCC_Budapestโs speaker @GoodwinMJ saw โno crime, no homeless people, no riots, no unrest, no drugs, no mass immigration, no broken borders, no self-loathing and no chaosโ. โ pic.twitter.com/HCtFY3VW6I
Recession will hit the West most hard at the end of 2025 and will deal two blows IT IS UNPREDICTABLE WHAT CONSEQUENCES THE NEW LEVEL OF DELEGITIMIZATION OF THE SYSTEM WILL HAVE IN THE USA pic.twitter.com/iunobb2Wr9
What about the UK? Will this prove to be the open doorway for social nationalism, for which we have been waiting for most of our present lives?
In Kiev, another car of the Territorial Military Department, which distributed the war schedule and calls to the front, was burned. pic.twitter.com/avgefmvrj5
Ukrainian men generally are avoiding the draft, when that is possible. They have to be forced into uniform. Some are fighting back against the press-gangs of the Zelensky regime.
Johnson: Russia – especially after Kursk – will not negotiate with Ukraine
ZELENSKI IS MAKING FATAL MISTAKES BECAUSE HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SUPPLY THE BRIGADES HE SENT TO RUSSIA
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson: The sitting offer will not be as generous as the previous one. Itโฆ pic.twitter.com/k73zmRlRSZ
“Russia – especially after Kursk – will not negotiate with Ukraine
ZELENSKI IS MAKING FATAL MISTAKES BECAUSE HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SUPPLY THE BRIGADES HE SENT TO RUSSIA
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson: The sitting offer will not be as generous as the previous one. It will sound like this: withdraw troops from Odessa and transfer all others behind the Dnieper, and also demobilize your army, otherwise we will destroy it.”
I have been saying that recently on the blog and (with regard to the last bit) for 2 years. Who would have guessed that my analysis is swifter and better than that of the CIA?…
Sullivan: The future of the Ukrainian state causes pessimism
FORMER US AMBASSADOR IN MOSCOW: CONFLICT IN UKRAINE WILL NOT END WITH PUTIN'S CAPITOLATION
FORMER ambassador of the United States in Moscow, John Sullivan, assessed that the future of the Ukrainian state isโฆ pic.twitter.com/01z019GVey
“Sullivan: The future of the Ukrainian state causes pessimism
FORMER US AMBASSADOR IN MOSCOW: CONFLICT IN UKRAINE WILL NOT END WITH PUTIN’S CAPITOLATION
FORMER ambassador of the United States in Moscow, John Sullivan, assessed that the future of the Ukrainian state is pessimistic.
The conflict in Ukraine will not end “with the capitulation of Russian President Vladimir Putin,” Sullivan said in an interview with Foreign Policy. He admitted that he is pessimistic about the future of Ukraine: “The two sides do not want to negotiate, which could lead to a stalemate, and that is the best the West can hope for in the foreseeable future.”
Previously, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that Ukraine does not have enough soldiers to continue the conflict.“
The Pentagon is pessimistic about its ability to confront Russia, China and North Korea in a nuclear war, according to The Economist pic.twitter.com/4wckS3be10
A nuclear war would of course be terrible for all participants, and even those states not part of the conflict as active players.
Having said that, I feel that China and Russia would just about survive as peoples, probably, even if the states themselves were to implode. The USA is, relatively, more highly-centralized, more dependent on technology, more likely to fall into anarchy (meaning chaos).
If the top 100 population centres in the USA ceased to exist, the USA as a functioning entity would cease to exist.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz: โThe war in Gaza is the bloodiest war of the century in terms of civilian deaths. Israel has killed many Palestinians in what it declared as safe zones.โ pic.twitter.com/G6nriZrUDB
We hear little now of that rather fascinating tunnel network, said last year to add up to maybe 100-200 miles in length.
The armed forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region did not foresee that Russia would fight to the end and not retreat, Apti Alaudinov said.
โช๏ธThe goal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was initially to capture a part of the Belgorod region in addition to the Kursk region, he added. pic.twitter.com/3LtRkXxB6g
The world would be much better were both of those bastards not there.
Russian commander: More than 11,000 Ukrainian soldiers were engaged on the Kursk direction
"What can I say to Zelenskiy? Your 11,600 or 11,900 soldiers and all that combat equipment and all the tanks that were engaged did not fulfill their task," said the commander of theโฆ pic.twitter.com/L3uUjtArIX
The Dictator Zelensky is so desperate to cling to power that he will do anything to impress his NATO masters. Bomb a nuclear power station, destroy his population
“Call this justice? Family of millionaire travellers who kept homeless men as slaves in filthy caravans are ALL out of jail and back at work – while 15 of their victims have died without ever getting compensation.”
[Daily Mail]
Parasites, scavengers and predators. I should like to offer a solution here but, sadly, “the usual suspects” and their political, police, and CPS puppets, have almost destroyed free speech in the UK, making any comment difficult, presently.
Shows how the left creates and uses sensible-sounding legislation to censor. See it says nurses can withdraw care for โdiscriminatory behaviourโ. But parts of the Left think discrimination includes things like not addressing someone by their โchosen pronounsโ. https://t.co/FXmbN2PSXv
That sort of thing is being driven by relatively small groups within each occupation, profession, and vocation.
I cannot say anything directly on the blog because we now have so little free speech in the UK (by reason, indeed, of those same “small groups”), so I shall just say “are you thinking what I am thinking?“…
A man has been jailed for posting 3 memes over 2 days showing real images of Asian gangs with the words "Coming to a town near you".
This is becoming like a scaled down and ridiculous copy of Stalin’s purges. As Marx noted, first time— tragedy, but second time— farce [Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon].
Of course, that poor fellow quite wrongfully sentenced to 8 weeks in prison, will not see the (unfunny) joke, even though his 8 weeks will in the end be something like 3 (he will be out after 40% of the headline tariff).
In my opinion, the defendant should have pleaded not guilty. Unfortunately, he seems to have pleaded guilty (perhaps on advice of his solicitor) to get a notional sentence reduction from 12 to 8 weeks.
Starmer’s thoroughly wicked and unconstitutional suggestion (almost a demand, at least an expressed presumption) that anyone pleading not guilty to any charge arising —however peripherally— out of the recent protests) would be remanded in custody until trial (which these days might be months or even a year later) was a direct attack on the rule of law. Plainly intimidatory, and designed to make defendants cave and plead guilty.
The latest I heard, something like 700 arrests have been made. How many charges, I do not know.
Compare those sentences of imprisonment merely for giving out a few online opinions (though the Court, “Clown” Prosecution Service and politicized police all try to make the “offences” seem far worse) with those handed down for real crimes committed in the same area, such as this one:
“A thief told the manager of a Carlisle Co-op store who had caught him stealing alcohol that he would return and โstab himโ if he called the police, magistrates heard.
The defence lawyer representing prolific offender Elijah Ali, 34, told the cityโs Rickergate court that the defendant denied making the threat. He did, however, plead guilty to the theft and to using threatening behaviour.
Prosecutor George Shelley outlined the facts.
He said the defendant and a second unknown male walked into the Central Avenue branch of Co-op at around 9.30pm on August 5 and began brazenly stealing alcohol from the shelves, picking up โnumerousโ bottles of booze and putting them in Aliโs jacket.
This prompted the storeโs manager to make a 999 call, reporting that a theft was in progress and requesting urgent help.
The second male left the store but as he left, said Mr Shelley, Ali told the store manager: โIf you call the police, Iโm going to come back and stab you. That placed [the manager] in a state of fear.โ
Aliโs record comprises 98 previous offences, 25 of them thefts and kindred crimes. โHeโs a prolific offender,โ said Mr Shelley.
Magistrates imposed a ยฃ200 fine and told Ali to pay the Co-op compensation of ยฃ200 as well as ยฃ85 costs and a surcharge.“
So a few online comments about a news item results in immediate imprisonment, but for a “prolific thief” (called Ali) with 98 previous convictions, and who threatened to stab a shop manager, only a minor fine (probably paid off at ยฃ5 a week).
Any comment, “Prime Minister”? That’s you, two-tier Keir.
I donโt understand this. Why does the Crown Prosecution Service โstand withโ any community? Itโs supposed to be an impartial body taking decisions based on the law of the land. Why does the CPS need โpanelsโ? Who is on the panels? What influence do they exert? Worrying. https://t.co/1hx2LcA55w
The language gives it away (“our communities” etc).
I DARE YOU: Call me a racist! ๐ @ThatAlexWoman is apoplectic. She breaks down mass immigration, women's safety & Two-Tier Kier. Pls share because the media WON'T show this.
Exactly. Some completely blameless tweets by seemingly blameless middle-aged ladies, and which I reposted on the blog, are now gone completely (including from the blog, because I usually embed them). The ladies in question seem to have been frightened into deleting not only the (entirely lawful) tweets but also their Twitter/X account(s).
“Two-tier Keir” is a hateful bastard. Yvette Cooper is no better. They are conspirators, trying to impose a “woke” multikulti police state upon this country.
Todayโs authoritarianism knows no boundaries. Londonโs Metropolitan Police Chief just told the world that he will be coming after anyone who violates British social media censorship rules with international extradition requests โ to include American citizens. Simultaneously, theโฆ
“Todayโs authoritarianism knows no boundaries. Londonโs Metropolitan Police Chief just told the world that he will be coming after anyone who violates British social media censorship rules with international extradition requests โ to include American citizens.
Simultaneously, the EUโs Censorship โKommisarโ Thierry Breton just told Elon Musk he canโt allow EU citizens to witness tonightโs interview with President Trump.
The elites who want to decide what is permissible to read and watch justify their censorship by labeling dissenting opinions as โmisinformation,โ โhate speech,โ โfar right,โ or โextremist.โ
During the lockdowns, MI-6 designated me and other health freedom activists as potential โterrorists.โ But the label applies more closely to themselves, as they try to scare us into submission again with bird flu hoaxes, debt-fueled financial collapse, and ever more dangerous imperial wars of choice.
His uncle, President John F. Kennedy, once said this:
Something about which Britain’s new “Labour” government (“elected” by only 20% of all eligible voters and a mere 33.7% of those who voted) might care to think.
Three white police officers were discriminated against because of their race.
A judge ruled they were passed over for promotion in an anti-white racist decision, where bosses chose an Asian instead to "boost diversity". Disgusting anti-white racism. https://t.co/PQxbQzYeVp
Journalists should be reading the signs about growing authoritarianism instead of enabling it. Unfortunately many are ideologically identical to the people they're paid to criticise. https://t.co/UlZDALPcNW
The point is that the UK’s authoritarian/totalitarian laws and procedures have, in many cases, yes, been in place for some time, but have not been extensively used; in fact used mainly during and after the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic of 2020-2022.
NEW POST. Here comes the free speech CRACKDOWN which we must RESIST. How Labour and the left plan to undermine our hard-won freedoms https://t.co/zV4J9VyUSV
One reason I challenge the elite consensus on mass immigration and broken borders is because unless people feel respected and safe in their own country they will find other ways to express their frustration https://t.co/6S1tPfCRHdpic.twitter.com/J4eckNLR5z
Bureaucrat-drone-dictator Starmer thinks that, by repressing free speech following the recent protests (and their riotous offshoots), he has somehow “solved” the problem that came across his desk. No. Every one of those recently sentenced, or sitting in some overcrowded jungle prison awaiting trial or sentence, now resents and hates Starmer and also the multikulti police state which he, Yvette Cooper, and Rachel Reeves, now head.
What does Starmer imagine will be happening in 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2029, with British people scarcely able to make a living, to pay exorbitant rents, to buy houses the cheapest of which cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, or to walk the streets of their own cities safely?
Every day, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of migrant-invaders arrive illegally on our shores. Thousands more, every day, enter at least quasi-“legally”.
Britain is heading for a dystopian conflict never seen before.
"The Labour government will soonย expand the definitionย of โIslamophobiaโ, creating a blasphemy law that will shut down debate about Islam, not least as it tries to appease its shaky coalition of Muslim and radical woke voters"https://t.co/zV4J9VyUSV
Maybe also making “holocaust” “denial” (i.e. examination and historical revision, particularly of events of the 1940s and 1930s) illegal in the UK. Don’t forget that Starmer is a member of Labour Friends of Israel, and that his wife is Jewish.
"You're really no longer a country if you don't have a secure border"
703 illegal migrants entered Britain yesterday, the biggest daily number since Labour took power. Total this year now 18,342, 13% up on same point last year.
As I said, this crisis is only going to get worse until somebody takes control of our bordershttps://t.co/NmI46TvxuA
Don’t forget the others, the ~1,000,000 migrant-invaders that entered “legally” in the past year, or the births to non-European mothers.
Israeli media reports that the psychological war between Hezbollah and Iran continues. Iran's psychological warfare has completely taken over Israel's social media. pic.twitter.com/ZSFatgotyG
He would have been justified in smacking her in the face, in the circumstances. Not immediately, but by the end of her contrived and sustained confrontation.
Kiev-regime announcement
The Kiev regime has announced that it “is not interested” in hanging on to the little strip of land it recently invaded in the Kursk region of Russia.
Translation: the forces of the Kiev regime only made the incursion so that Zelensky and his cabal could claim to Western mass media that they are “winning”, or at least continuing to fight.
In reality, the Kiev-regime incursion forces, mostly press-ganged and poorly-trained serf-soldiers, have been mainly wiped out, and the rest are —literally— dying to be able to drive back over the border to Ukraine and relative safety.
The Kiev-regime incursion was never sustainable; the territory gained for a day or two, or a week or two, could never have been held.
I am worried, though, for the dim Ukrainian soldiers and their grieving, or soon-to-be-grieving families, and also for the Russian civilian families in the Kursk border region, their lives disrupted by this stupid publicity stunt.
At the same time, the Russian advance in the south-east continues steadily.
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Now it's a fight for simple human decency…perhaps already lost…thanks in part to degenerate media class..I know as I worked in it
“Just walked through Huddersfield city centre. Really struck by the starkest of contrasts.
Some older women sat outside a Merrie England cafe (remember โem?), trying to enjoy a civilised afternoon tea.
They were surrounded by the stench of weed, people shouting in foreign languages, couples in tracksuits hurling abuse at each other, gangs of lads hanging around, beggars off their faces.
Nothing noteworthy about the scenario – just everyday stuff in yer standard Red Wall town. But I was impressed by the dignity and stoicism of the women. The rest of it almost reduced me to tears.”
[Dr. Philip Kiszely]
I would suggest a few things, but no doubt that would bring the boring police drones to my door once again, as has happened several times in the past decade. They are the footsoldiers of the multikulti “woke” police state now re-energized by Starmer.
Had a break from Twitter for a couple of days just to come back and see the censorship brigade quote tweeting me hoping for my arrest. ๐คฃ
Thanks to the trolls for the almost 1 million impressions, you just paid my rent this month. ๐๐ป https://t.co/KpUdTZRB5m
— David Morgan ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) August 12, 2024
Late tweets
๐Dundrum, Tipperary.
This tiny Irish village of 200 people was forcibly planted this morning. 280 โasylum seekersโ are to be housed in this hotel, replacing the local population overnight.
Why is pathetic Sinn Fein supporting the migration-invasion of Ireland, and certainly not properly opposing it?
I really want someone to do this. There are a number of projects that are going to need to be people-led as 80% of the media seem to have abdicated their duty. We need better statistics to understand patterns, authority failures; to diagnose etc. https://t.co/c9SmOc0T0N
I remember seeing this sorta thing a few years ago and it worrying me, due to my "Patsy from Ab Fab" ways. Somehow in July last year I gave up booze. Everything improved! You don't need a "rock bottom" or epiphany. You can just feel "blurgh". Tomorrow could even be the day ๐ https://t.co/7VLtoJ9Qtn
Strange. I have read about the increase in alcohol consumption during the “lockdown” nonsense or 2020-2021. I went the other way, almost stopping my relatively-modest consumption.
There have been times in my life when I drank little or nothing, other times when my consumption was quite high. I suppose the latter was true of when I was living in the former Soviet Union, in the Caribbean, and in France, as well as when I was practising at the English Bar (during the years 1992-1996 and 2002-2008).
Now, most days, I drink no alcohol at all. No particular reason predominates. It may be partly a function of increasing age (I shall be 68 next month, ironically on the same day as the birthday of “two-tier Keir” Starmer, though he is six years younger than me).
Another reason is that the wines, especially the red wines, that I once liked, such as Chateau Margaux, are extremely expensive (I suppose they always were, but that I notice it more now), or are hard to source (some Moldavian and Georgian wines).
One kind of booze I do like is what the French term eaux de vie, such as 40%+ Kirsch and Poire Williams etc.
A Central and Eastern European taste too, that I must have picked up somewhere or other, is Slivovitz (plum spirit), which UK Lidl had on sale recently (I bought 2 bottles, 42% alc.), and what the Hungarians call palinka, fruit spirit, which may be distilled from one fruit, or a mixture. Apricot is probably my favourite, though I have not had any for well over 20 years.
On a hot day, though, beer is often the best drink (apart from water). I used to like (30-40 years ago), Zhiguli beer from Russia, which was at that time sold in the UK, in Selfridges. Czech beer is pretty good, of course, as is some Polish.
When I was living in Turkey for a few months, I liked Tekel beer, made by a State enterprise. It no longer exists, at least in that form.
One type of wine that I liked a lot in the 1980s, and early 1990s, was the kind of white wine produced in Australia at that time, especially heavily-oaked quality Chardonnay. Harder to find now, of the same type. Maybe tastes have changed, and the producers have followed suit..
Late tweets seen
The people cheering on the destruction of #FreeSpeech in the UK (because they think it gives them power over their peers) reminds me of the crowds cheering Mao's regime as it murdered citizens and erased history.
The most frightening revolutions happen to the sound of applause.
As I noted on the blog during the “Covid” hysteria, the self-describing “left”, including almost all of the “human rights” tribe, were all in favour of more severe “lockdowns”, more severe penalties, dissidents and people ignoring the “Covid” hysteria to have all civil rights taken away, deprived of all medical treatment, even when entirely unconnected to “the virus” etc.
Indeed, the self-describing “left” has lost of of its former ideology and direction, and seems to exist purely to cheer on the right labels (“Covid”, “Ukraine”, “BLM”, “trans”-whatever) and of course “Labour”, despite Labour (also) having lost all or 99% of its former ethos. That, and to “deplatform” from everywhere possible any people who are labelled derogatively by them.
I agree. She was scapegoated. I'm not saying her tweet was fine. When I saw it, then her mistake, I thought, bloody hell. But NEVER did I imagine her being carted off for police questioning. I think the fact she's wealthy & good looking plays into some of the glee over her arrest https://t.co/Xx4JfqCvha
Professor Tettenborn is someone I met a couple of times in Exeter circa 2002-2003. He was at that time the professor at the law faculty of Exeter University. I was in a small set of barristers (now very much larger and, under another name, the largest in the South West outside Bristol; the former head of my old set is now a Circuit Judge).
I sat with Professor Tettenborn and another as a notional “Lord Justice of Appeal” at a moot competition held in the Guildhall at Exeter in mid-2002. My only day as a Lord Justice of Appeal, or indeed any sort of judge.
Incidentally, the winner of the moot (out of three student contenders) was a young Anglo-Armenian who had engaged in some sharp practice during the competition. We three “Lords Justices of Appeal” discussed disqualifying him, but in the end relented. As a student advocate, he was head and shoulders above the other two students, and we thought that that had to be recognized.
A few years later, as a young barrister, the same person got into trouble over allegations of sex harassment (not in my own Chambers but another set), I heard. Not sure whether that went to the Bar Standards Board (I think it did), but the person in question is still, I believe, at the Bar and still based in Exeter; I think that he was also, quite a few years ago, an unsuccessful Conservative candidate for MP at Exeter.
All a long time ago now.
Professor Tettenborn also made a very cogent case at the Law Commission inquiry as to whether the very bad law known as Communications Act 2003, s.127, should be repealed. That was what was recommended, but the section has so far not been repealed, and is regularly misused either by the police/CPS or by the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism”.
Ian Robert Millard 