Russian servicemen eliminated over 21,900 Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries in fighting on the borders of the Lugansk People's Republic in March, which is almost 1,800 more than in February, military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS:https://t.co/w91mEJpp9Tpic.twitter.com/NQVwPMVEUG
No wonder few if any Ukrainians want to be forced into service in the Kiev-regime army. To be posted to the crumbling front lines is almost a death sentence.
BREAKING NEWS; Keir Starmer Resigns with Immediate effect; he Apologises for lying & misleading the public with mistruths & deceptions to get elected; he said as he left Downing St “I couldn’t look in the mirror anymore knowing the hurt I’ve caused so many & I’m truly very sorry” pic.twitter.com/zUW1pkSXEW
If only… No April Fool is more absurd than Starmer-stein’s fail of a government.
Worth reading on Runcorn by-election. It is a really interesting heat because both main parties in the election are doing their level best to lose it. Low turnout and a long tail of non-trivial candidates means the uncertainty really is high. https://t.co/BcU4EGPYJU
Voters know your power. Let’s get rid of @UKLabour at #Runcorn and Helsby. “If a @UKLabour politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.” My latest article for @MiddleEastMnthttps://t.co/gtyA1pYPbg
— Yvonne “Newcastle 🏆” Ridley (@yvonneridley) April 1, 2025
As blogged previously, only voting for Reform at that by-election will defeat Labour. The “Conservative” fag-end of a party has no chance, and scored only 16% (3rd place) at the 2024 General Election.
Reform can smash this, if people (whatever their preferences) prioritize their wish to defeat fake Labour, Starmer-stein Labour, over everything else.
The population explosion caused by mass migration has put the NHS under severe pressure…
7.2 million people born outside the UK have registered with GPs over the last 10 years!
Had Matt Goodwin been the Reform candidate at the by-election, he would have been a shoo-in. This lady, I don’t know, but if Runcorn voters vote Labour, they must be total dummies. I still think that Reform will walk it, but that is my guess or educated guess. We shall see.
[“A Deliveroo driver named Muhammad Faizan Khan assaulted a pregnant woman at her home in Scotland, who later suffered a miscarriage. Khan “rented” a Deliveroo account from another driver. He got … just 12 months in prison. Unbelievable. What are @Deliveroo &@Keir_Starmer doing to clamp down on how food apps are used by crime gangs to support the black economy?“]
Nothing.
We know that such an individual should be put up against the wall, but we also know that, at present, under this system and in this society, that is not going to happen. In 10 years’ time, who knows?
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Anyway, I have to go and register myself as a potential threat to civilisation, being white, male and 'of a certain age'. The letter says I can sign at any council office, mosque or 'community' centre.
Well, according to Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html], that translates to a Commons with 191 Lab MPs, 171 Reform, 154 Con, 67 LibDem (SNP 3 etc). Truly a hung Parliament. Any Labour minority government would need either Con or Reform support to govern, and that would be unlikely (unless Reform were to extract a Proportional Representation law as the price of passage). As for Reform, even with Con support it would still be 1 seat short of a formal majority.
Net approval of the government's managing of the cost of living has fallen to -69, lower than the -59 when the Conservatives left office last July
Combining that with the fact that, in another YouGov poll, 52% of UK people see the economy as the number one issue (the second being immigration—44%), it bodes badly for Labour at the Runcorn and Helsby by-election.
This just slipped by everyone yesterday didn’t it!
Ah. In that YouGov priorities poll (see above), health was in third place, on 35% (economy 52%, immigration 44%). By-election upcoming, and here comes Reform.
Would you support Tony Blair getting thrown in prison for everything he has done to Britain? 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/1vy5lxA9Hy
Prompted by my interest in artwork on intelligence I submitted an FOI a request for a list of paintings hanging in the HQs of UK intelligence agencies. More details to follow, just to note the painting “The Dead Mole” hanging in the HQ of MI5 is a little on the nose #ArtofSpyingpic.twitter.com/bx4sjcm8NP
Looks though someone at MI5 has a sense of humour.
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Russian troops liberated the community of Razliv in the Donetsk region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/DTDhFEFLwSpic.twitter.com/4e4jCcZpOe
80% of Britons say courts should have the power to ban people from standing for election if they are convicted of crimes related to elections or holding office, after French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was banned from standing for election for embezzling EU funds
The question bamboozles the naive respondents. It assumes that the definitions of the alleged crime(s) are correct, and that the court deciding the question of conviction is not itself political or politicized, or politically-influenced. The poll is therefore meaningless and, in fact, dishonest.
“What the Marine Le Pen case reflects is how the elite class is now trying to push us into ‘post-democracy’— a new era in which power, influence and legitimacy are taken out of the hands of the people and put into the hands of a small, unelected, unaccountable elite.
[“What the Marine Le Pen case reflects is how the elite class is now trying to push us into ‘post-democracy’— a new era in which power, influence and legitimacy are taken out of the hands of the people and put into the hands of a small, unelected, unaccountable elite.
This new elite —which spans the political, media, legal, and creative class— not only decides what values and voices are permissible and socially acceptable but is now, visibly, reshaping the parameters of our political systems so that its ongoing and extreme ideological project —radical liberal progressivism enforced through a technocratic managerial class—cannot be disrupted, opposed or diluted in any meaningful way.
As the likes of Christopher Lasch predicted more than thirty years ago, the next major revolt that would reshape the West would not be one that sees the masses rising up against the elites but the elites rising up against the masses.
This is what we are now witnessing across the West, through the rise, spread and enforcement of things like the ‘censorship industrial complex’, hate laws, concept creep, the removal of anti-establishment candidates from the democratic realm, and the use of social norms and taboos to continually discredit conservative, populist, and gender critical views that are entirely legitimate but which the elite class consider unacceptable and so work to stigmatise if not shut down.
In this way, in post-democracy, our once representative political systems, the public square, our institutions, our civic culture are all hollowed out so that they only ever serve and reinforce the values and voice of an elite minority, rather than the forgotten majority.
Ordinary citizens, in this way, are not only stripped of their democratic power but are also forced to live with the dire effects of this project, including mass uncontrolled immigration, broken borders, radical Islamism, sectarianism, and more.
This is what is now unfolding across much of the West. This is what millions of ordinary, taxpaying, hardworking, patriotic people can now see and feel. This is what millions of people are fighting against”.]
[Matt Goodwin]
One conclusion must be that this evil tendency cannot be fought against, let alone defeated, by “peaceful means” alone…
Starmer-stein and the Labour (Friends of Israel) misgovernment
So Starmer, with a potentially disastrous by-election (Runcorn and Helsby, 1 May 2025) coming down the track, is suddenly making meaningless “tough” noises about immigration gangs etc.
One thing is sure: the migration-invasion will not be stopped by such measures, even if implemented.
As far as Starmer is concerned, both as “world leader” or “statesman” (in his own little mind), he has, so far, managed to alienate both Russia and the USA, as well as 90% or more of the British people.
Marine le Pen and French “democracy”
We are not from the same political camp as Marine Le Pen @MLP_officiel, but we nevertheless strongly oppose weaponizing judiciary against political rivals. This not only casts a bad light on the rule of law, but directly undermines the very essence of democracy. It started in… https://t.co/MuCx5eP5mh
Macron is widely despised. This judicial outrage is nakedly political, and has the aim of preventing Marine le Pen from standing as a (probably successful) Presidential candidate in 2027, and is aimed, beyond that, at keeping France under NWO/ZOG control.
The French people have overthrown tyrants in the past. Perhaps the time has come for a new French Revolution.
Remove Macron. He does not represent France but only NWO/ZOG.
Incidentally, I assessed Macron on the blog six years ago:
You are gaslighting the British people. Most of these are returning voluntarily while you’re approving most asylum claims from illegal migrants in Britain, encouraging more to come, which is why the small boats this year are up 40% on last year. You’re not securing anything. https://t.co/ghw7o2YaZb
Very true, Goodwin, but one-sided. Ask the Jews in the UK, too.
The public services are, er, meant to serve the public but the public increasingly get second class service from far too many teachers, doctors and police officers who enjoy levels of job security that people in the private sector can only dream of. I see this latest example of… https://t.co/fiztWVllIu
Over the past day, Russia’s Battlegroup West shot down 17 fixed-wing Ukrainian drones and destroyed 23 drone control centers, the spokesman for the battlegroup, Ivan Bigma, told reporters:https://t.co/tx6HAAsVqEpic.twitter.com/cpmz9CipiJ
Russia is saying a resolute no to the idea of sending peacekeepers to Ukraine by countries which have been supplying Kiev with weapons, Kirill Logvinov, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department of International Organizations:https://t.co/W5B0rL735mpic.twitter.com/DhQueyWXdB
The reference is to members or supporters of the malicious Jew-Zionist pro-Israel org known as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, effectively a volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in London, which org has managed to influence or suborn the police and CPS (in some cases).
“Study the polls and see why Farage and Reform genuinely have a chance to govern.
Public put the Reform leader top in ‘best PM’ poll
Nothing is sticking. New polling for The Telegraph by Ipsos reveals that when asked who would do a “good job as prime minister”, Farage comes out on top on 28 per cent. Keir Starmer is one per cent behind, and Ed Davey two per cent. Badenoch is languishing at 18 per cent, her step-by-step approach to formulating a new set of Tory policies failing to register with voters who are still not listening to the “natural party of government”.
I went through the Ipsos numbers with Ben Butcher, our data editor, who identified just why Labour and the Conservatives should be worried.
“Labour is widely seen to be the party of the elite, with Reform trouncing Starmer with the C2DE and lower-paid respondents,” Butcher told me. The “red wall” is there for Reform’s taking, with the party polling well ahead of Labour amongst non-graduates.
“Ain’t nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos,” said the American politician, Jim Hightower. As Davey attacks from the soft centre, Reform outflanks the Tories from the other side. The Conservative leader is on a perilous downslope, her skis pulling in different directions. Farage beats Badenoch with older voters, the working-class and lower paid people on the question of who would do a good job as Prime Minister.
“Let’s fix broken Britain,” Farage told 10,000 people in Birmingham. “I’m not mucking about.” The old parties that once commanded the comfortable heights of majority support are very clear that he is not.“
— The Real Slim Skagmacker 🇺🇸🦅 (@CattardSlim) March 31, 2025
In 2020, lawyer Gloria Allred sent a school bus driven back-and-forth in front of Buckingham Palace with Prince Andrew’s pic and banner: "If you see this man, please ask him to call the FBI…" Years later, his accuser Virginia Giuffre gets struck by a school bus – on a Sunday?🚌 https://t.co/ughqmcblfnpic.twitter.com/pzwkMGWlcn
This was clearly written by the state or encouraged by it. I’d be embarrassed if I had my name on this. It makes absolutely no reference to the evidence on what Brits think or the costs. It’s an effort at public opinion management. https://t.co/qlFTv0Q5pT
The French people should rise up and take power directly. Action directe.
This will backfire —massively
Across the Western world the elite class is doing all it can to shut down any opposition to its programme
From chasing Trump through the courts to very nearly forcing the British people to have a second referendum on Brexit, from blocking the… pic.twitter.com/wNjMn5mrKy
We are in the worst cost-of-living crisis since the Second World War. Public services are collapsing. Our borders are a joke. The British people are furious. And this is how the Liberal Democrat’s launch their election campaign. This is not a serious party. It is a joke party.… pic.twitter.com/PnKhe1wcus
Goodwin is right. The LibDems are a party for people who do not really want a serious political alternative, who do not really suffer. An easy, meaningless “alternative”.
Head of the National Rally’s parliamentary faction Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to four years in prison and the immediate loss of her electoral rights for five years, according to the ruling of a Paris court in the parliamentary assistants case:https://t.co/sU4G705AyVpic.twitter.com/mKFxDShL6o
The “electoral road” has been closed off. Fake “democracy”. Do what has to be done.
Russian forces struck a Ukrainian military airfield, UAV assembly workshops and ammunition depots over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/CppSfJkH8epic.twitter.com/AGCOwOSZWz
I just saw something I wrote about 3 or 4 years ago (not on the blog). Around 2022.
I think that it has held up rather well:
“Looks like I was far too kind (as usual) in describing William and Harry simply as “the tame thick princelings” a few years ago…
The Royal Mulatta is a ruthless manipulator and adventuress. Harry is, in the vernacular, a “fuck-up”. He has not [as some newspaper scribbler claimed] “risen from” anywhere. His one and only distinction, and ticket to fame and fortune, is his birth. He has nothing else.“
“The Harry Formerly Known as Prince”…
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The above photo shows a Roma Gypsy district in Romania.
Comment unnecessary…
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They’ve <created> a new offence for this precise purpose “conspiracy to cause a public nuisance” (2022)
— Gas Lighting Services 🇷🇺 (@TauntonHeat) March 30, 2025
As I predicted during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic, Britain’s toytown police state, which had been developing slowly, embryonically, since the days of Blair, which grew (largely unnoticed) during the days of Cameron-Levita and Theresa May, and which hatched out during the “Covid” years of 2020-2022, has now started to behave like a real East German (DDR)-style police state.
When it comes to free speech, freedom of expression, even political freedom as formerly understood in this country, the police are now running out of control. This has been developing over about 25 years.
I happened, unusually, to be watching, this morning, I think on Sky, a political show hosted by Trevor Phillips. There was a panel of three scribblers/talking heads, and guests one by one, of which one was Yvette Cooper, Home Secretary (also, former expenses cheat, would-be dictator, moneygrubber, and member of Labour Friends of Israel).
Yvette Cooper did not even try to answer the concerns of the presenter about freedom, civil rights, “democracy” etc, just gave out a bland robotic, scripted response, in the old Blair-Brown way she learned back then (when not defrauding public funds).
In fact, the same was true when Yvette Cooper was asked about the Labour government of Starmer-stein and Rachel Reeves cutting off the benefit income of the sick, disabled etc. No real answer.
I hope that at least some of the voters of Runcorn and Helsby were watching. The by-election is set for 1 May 2025, the same date as the local elections. Voters, you know what to do. You have to vote Reform, even if you dislike Reform, or Farage, or the Reform candidate. Why? Because only a stunning win for Reform will send a message to the main System parties.
Only a dummy would vote fake Labour now. Even the “Con” governments of 2010-2024 did not go as far as the “Labour” (Friends of Israel) government is going, attacking people they think cannot hit back.
Of course, it would be stupid (especially at that upcoming by-election) to vote fake “Conservative” either. Not only because the Cons have no chance of winning at Runcorn and Helsby (only 16% in 2024) but because voting Reform increases the already-good chance of Labour losing.
Incidentally, unpleasant Helen Whately, the Shadow DWP Secretary, said in the Commons very recently that Labour’s callous and cruel attack on the sick and disabled did not go far enough! Surely the Conservative Party must be totally washed-up now.
Also incidentally, the panel on that show were all unimpressive, with one (Guto Harri) looking scruffy and unwashed.
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Britain is still hurtling toward a two-tier legal system in which judges will consider whether somebody is from a minority group when sentencing
Remember, only 13% of Brits support this. The fringe extreme minority are the unelected Sentencing quango & lawyers who want this pic.twitter.com/umi0u8y08W
When the electoral system is largely rigged, when the “elected” government (in the case of Labour, “elected” by only about 20% of all eligible voters, and by only 34% of all actual voters) ignores the popular will and popular desperation, when the government throws money at foreign dictatorships (eg Ukraine) and migrant-invaders while beggaring most British people, and when the mainstream media carries only lies and government propaganda, the whole system is likely to fail and to fall, but a new order will only be established via real struggle.
Wake up. That bitch was always on the dark side. Labour Friends of Israel, an expenses cheat, a buy-to-let parasite, and a fraudster. A would-be dictator.
Yvette Cooper saying they're focussed on what works, so will continue to try to "smash the gangs". She's very stupid and thinks we are blind and deaf First they came for freedom of speech Then they came for journalists Now they're smashing down the doors of a Quaker Meeting…
— Paul Friend🌹Pray God saves us from liberals (@PFr1end) March 30, 2025
So what should be done about the cabal of tyrants currently posing as a legitimate government?
Which is prime example of why Yvette Cooper is unqualified for the job.
— Common Sense Is Dead (@commonsense1191) March 30, 2025
Once you realize that most System MPs are enemies of the British people and their future, you see it all much more clearly.
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[same building in East London, or possibly Chelsea (?), 1930s and 2020s]
What a difference 90 years makes…
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For Labour, a supposedly big fiscal event has done little.
The dial remains unmoved on most facets of the economy, when compared to the Conservatives.
The only area that it has shifted slightly is towards Labour in setting tax levels and improving business conditions. pic.twitter.com/55LPJiGNK5
I have found that to be the case. I am smiling with pleasure as I contemplate how many of those enemies have either “snuffed it” or are presently awaiting the same (via natural causes, in most cases).
We all go “up the chimney” sooner or later, but I still prefer my enemies to go up sooner…
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Russian troops liberated the settlement of Zaporozhye in the Donetsk region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported: https://t.co/nk16i2tlWIpic.twitter.com/9NqcpH8NR2
Russian forces continue to advance across all relevant sectors of the front.
This #MothersDay, meet some of the mares and foals whose stories have changed for the better, thanks to your support. ❤️
20 pregnant mares were brought to safety during our largest UK rescue in 2021. With expert care, these mothers and their foals are now leading happier lives. pic.twitter.com/loEJd8SKrt
— The Donkey Sanctuary (@DonkeySanctuary) March 30, 2025
'We've never won Runcorn.'
'So you're not bothering?'
Camilla Tominey questions Alex Burghart MP on why the Tory Party have 'given up' with the Runcorn by-election. pic.twitter.com/7cSBcZpY2f
From the horse’s mouth. If 2024 Conservative voters at Runcorn and Helsby want to stick it to Labour and Starmer-stein, then the only way to do that is to vote Reform. This could be the most important by-election of the decade.
In that by-election, a Con vote is a completely wasted vote, so either vote Reform, or stay home. Likewise, if 2024 Labour voters want to send a message to the present fake Labour-label regime under Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper, and Liz Kendall, then the only way to do that is to vote Reform or, failing that, to stay home.
Well, this week a modest 5/10, but still enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 3/10. I knew the answers to questions 2, 3, 6, 8, and 10.
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Talked on @BBCNewsnight last night about people's grim views of the economy and the sense of hopelessness it'll ever get better. The very real possibility is having voted for change 3 times (Brexit, 2019, 2024) and not got it, people start looking elsewhere for 'real change' pic.twitter.com/uAFqu7j6Ro
We know in our hearts what we have to do. We may have to steel ourselves, and take on karmic guilt, in order to do what has to be done, as Krishna counselled Arjuna, before the battle at Kurukshetra, and as recounted in the Bhagavad-gita.
"Last year, in 2024, the General Medical Council registered 9,285 doctors who had been trained here in the UK and … get this … 19,279 doctors who trained abroad."https://t.co/RcfOA7Bl7P
And here’s the insanity taking place on UK campuses where I worked for 20 years and helped bring in a new law to uphold free speechhttps://t.co/f2He9wyBxR
[“I cannot remember the last time I saw six police officers together in Britain. But here they are, arresting two parents, in front of their children, for complaining about their local school in a Whatsapp group. Britain is completely and utterly lost. It used to be the home of individual liberty; now it’s morphing before our very eyes into an Orwellian nightmare. We need a political revolution to restore common sense. And we need it now.“]
Incidentally, Matt Goodwin, who seems to support the Jew-Zionist lobby, has never said a word in support of my free speech rights. Neither has Goodwin said anything to support persecuted satirical singer Alison Chabloz, imprisoned for posting songs and cartoons online; Goodwin never said a word on her behalf. Same goes for Jez Turner, imprisoned for making a brief speech in Whitehall (calling for the deportation of Jews from the UK).
It is suspicious that the Sun comic gives Goodwin (and Farage) a mass platform; TV shows do, as well. Would I ever be given such platforms? No.
As you can see, not one mention by Goodwin on his blog of the Jew-Zionist lobby that is the main driver of censorship and repression of free speech in the UK; notably the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, whose so-called (self-titled) “Director of Investigations and Enforcement” was once exposed in open court, and by the CAA’s own bungling solicitor, as a vicious and perverse social media troll, targeting mainly women, and doing so pseudonymously.
That unpleasant nuisance still holds that (I presume, paid) role, and appears on joke TV stations such as GB News, Talk TV etc, as well as, occasionally, on Sky News. He even turned up to gloat at my free speech trial (which his own persistent backstairs manipulation of the stupid/ignorant police and CPS Wessex had procured), as well as at the later sentencing hearing. He quickly scuttled off, however, after my sentence (which he later described online as “absurdly lenient“) was pronounced. See my blog posts of 16 March 2024 and 17 March 2024 for more detail.
Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative was imprisoned for distributing stickers, the content of which even the prosecution at his trial conceded was lawful.
Support for Melia, Turner, Alison Chabloz —or me— from Goodwin, Toby Young, Katie Hopkins etc? Nil.
The long-term Jew-Zionist attempts to criminalize “holocaust” “denial” (examination of the ever-less-credible stories around the repression of Jews in the mainland Europe of the early 1940s) have become a general strategy to criminalize any and all criticism of Jewish behaviour, or Israeli war crimes etc.
Likewise, we have seen how the plodding UK police, while failing at their proper job most of the time, enthusiastically tried to reinvent themselves as a poundshop KGB or Stasi during the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic of 2020-2022. Those dissidents pointing out the absurdity of shutting down the economy and society because of a virus that was actually killing hardly anybody were hounded and, in some cases, even arrested. They were labelled “Covidiots” and/or “Covid deniers“
Some fanatics even wanted those sceptical of “climate change” orthodoxy to be criminalized. They too are called “climate change deniers“…
Starmer-stein’s fake Labour-label regime seems to be going even further.
That evil fraud should have been put up against a wall years ago.
Executive Board of the IMF has completed the Seventh Review of the Extended Arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility for Ukraine, which provides Ukraine with another tranche worth $400 mln, the IMF press service said in a statement:https://t.co/gBbRTbcbJqpic.twitter.com/QsBfLemJTK
The Russian armed forces have liberated Panteleymonovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Shcherbaki in the Zaporozhye Region, the Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/jfYYFndJwzpic.twitter.com/h5XxzB8ZOx
The Kiev regime no longer tries to invent victories, advances etc. Russian forces are advancing steadily on all fronts.
🚨 This week’s Spring Statement was a “massive missed opportunity” to implement a wealth tax, economists and campaigners have warned.
Economists told Big Issue that a wealth tax could generate as much as £24 billion a year – five times the £4.8bn Rachel Reeves expects to save… pic.twitter.com/XnOrhL9W8I
Our social fabric is fine – despite Jenrick’s best efforts to stir the pot. I don’t think he’s the right person to lead anything – his recent trajectory frankly crackers. And I backed him so imagine he’s received pretty unfavourably by A N Other Average Voter too. pic.twitter.com/qH4vV9FwGr
If that lady (ex-wife of an ex-MP) thinks that the UK’s social fabric is “fine“, I really think that she should get out more…
I agree with her about Jenrick though (albeit for other reasons). He is a horrible little pissant, completely in hock (probably literally) to the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby.
Despite statements by Vladimir Zelensky about the purported cessation of attacks on Russian energy facilities, over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian army continued strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure, the Russian Defense Ministry said:https://t.co/TgzXhSueZDpic.twitter.com/stykns9IOH
🇬🇧 Great Britain and France cannot accept defeat in Ukraine
▪️ France and Britain's efforts to escalate the Ukrainian conflict stem from their "concern for their relevance" and refusal to accept that the conflict is lost, former British MP Matthew Gordon-Banks said. pic.twitter.com/VCo8djsYrb
In 2004, Gordon-Banks switched party allegiance to the Liberal Democrats, joining the party’s Executive Committee in Moray, Scotland.[6][7]
Gordon-Banks was suspended from the Liberal Democrats in 2016 after an antisemiticTwitter tweet: “Farron’s leadership campaign was organised and funded by London Jews” and “I am glad I never had to represent a constituency with a significant Jewish community because [they] are all bloody hard work“. Marie van der Zyl, Vice President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said, “The comments by Matthew Gordon Banks on Twitter are of very deep concern. He talks about Jews and money and hints at the age-old canard of the ‘Jewish conspiracy’. He must urgently clarify and apologise for his comments, otherwise, we would expect the Liberal Democrat Party to invoke disciplinary procedures.[1][8]“
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This is how absolutely INSANE this case this. This is what the local Member of Parliament said today:
“I have constituents getting in contact with me saying their house has been burgled and the police have not turned up, or they have watched shoplifters come in and take things… https://t.co/KppX5zzmva
[“This is how absolutely INSANE this case this. This is what the local Member of Parliament said today: “I have constituents getting in contact with me saying their house has been burgled and the police have not turned up, or they have watched shoplifters come in and take things off the shelf, and police will not come. Now it appears Hertfordshire police were able to send six officers for parents’ comments on a WhatsApp group and emails to the school”. And now, we also learn today that the local police who staged this arrest warned off DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED local councillors from getting involved in the case. Outrageous. What has happened to our country? As I say here, this is not simply a freak case, an unusual outlier. No, it is merely the latest symbol of our country’s major and growing free speech crisis. This is, at its core, about freedom. Whether you believe we are a free nation with free speech, free expression and the right to question authorities, or you don’t.“]
Toytown police state becoming a real police state…
I am 43 years old. I cannot recall a time in my life when I have been as depressed about the state of Britain and England —a country I love—as I am today.
Here are 5 things that happened in the last week alone that point to the terrible future that awaits our once great country…
[“I am 43 years old. I cannot recall a time in my life when I have been as depressed about the state of Britain and England —a country I love—as I am today.
Here are 5 things that happened in the last week alone that point to the terrible future that awaits our once great country unless we urgently and radically change course.
1. In the political system, a group of MPs, many of whom preside over disadvantaged neighbourhoods here in Britain, decided to lobby instead for an airport in … Pakistan … to please their Muslim constituents, thereby continuing to usher in a dark and dangerous sectarianism into our politics that was further reflected this week in the election of “independent” local candidates campaigning not on issues central to Britain but … Palestine. We are heading, slowly but surely, toward a model of sectarian politics that looks more like Lebanon than Britain.
2. In the legal system, a remote, unelected, unaccountable and self-righteous ‘Sentencing Council’ refused a request from elected government ministers to change guidelines that will entrench a two-tier legal system, whereby people from racial, sexual and gender minorities will be treated more favourably than others when handing out prison sentences, thereby violating the principle that everybody in this country should be treated equally before the law
3. In the judicial system, police decided to arrest two parents whose only ‘offence’ was to complain about their local school in a WhatsApp group, with the Orwellian school and police authorities both prioritising the ‘emotional safety’ of a few fragile teachers over the need to uphold free speech and individual liberty in this country.
4. In the immigration system, meanwhile, we learned that 6,000 illegal migrants have now arrived on our shores on small boats in the first three months of this year, 40% up on last year, with crossings happening every day this past week, taking the total since 2018 to 157,000 illegal migrants who are costing struggling British taxpayers upwards of £7 BILLION a year. This isn’t only breaking our laws but is throwing full light on the total incompetence and inability of our politicians and the UK state to control our own borders, keep our own people safe, and maintain our status as a sovereign nation.
5. And in the economy, lastly, this week we learned that our hapless rulers in Westminster are now more interested in helping foreign nationals and illegal migrants than their own people, with a Spring Statement from the Chancellor confirming they are more focused on slashing welfare and support for British pensioners, workers, and farmers, who come from these islands and whose ancestors have contributed to these islands for centuries, than they are on slashing the BILLIONS these same British taxpayers are now being forced to spend subsidising foreigners, illegal migrants, foreign criminals, our broken asylum system, and foreign aid which is still being used to support the likes of eco-farms in Nepal, obese children in China, and LGBT campaigns overseas.
Sorry, but enough is enough. The people in power, the people who are presiding over these disastrous decisions, really need to start thinking about where all this is going, where all this is pushing us as a people and a nation.
Because it’s increasingly clear, to me at least, that the eventual destination will be a very dangerous, dark and divided place indeed. There is a total lack of strong leadership in this country. We need to change course, now. We need to start putting the British people first, now. And we need to start radically reforming the entire political, legal, judicial and economic system, now. Because unless we do then we are all heading into very serious trouble.“]
[Matt Goodwin]
Well, I am now 68, and I say the same, or similar.
Only social nationalism can save Britain and all Europe.
Exterminate evil, then build a state which can be a foundation for a better society and ethnostate and, developing over long periods of time, an eventual super-race.
“A 12-year-old girl was forced into carrying out an abortion by one of her alleged rapists, a court has heard.
The schoolchild was coerced into being filmed during the gang attack in Vienna, Austria, by multiple teenagers from different countries.
The girl was attacked between February and June of 2023 in different locations across the city, with 17 people under investigation on suspicion of sexually abusing the victim.
Earlier this month, Austrian police said the suspects, mostly minors, included Austrian, Italian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Turkish and Syrian boys.
But the young girl’s 18-year-old ‘boyfriend’ was the first to be convicted of sexual abuse in a gang rape incident.
Named Wais S, the Afghan national reportedly knew the victim was underage, and impregnated her.
He also admitted to blackmailing her into aborting the child, coercing her to do so with videos of the pair having sex.
Wais was sentenced to just 15 months probation and £670 in damages.”
[Metro]
If only there were a proper social-national org in Austria capable of eliminating him/them.
…and you can bet your bottom dollar that the “Austrian(s)” mentioned, if he or they exist at all, will be non-white with Austrian passport(s).
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The Kiev regime has continued attacking Russian energy infrastructure, using various types of unmanned aerial vehicles and a HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/WiW5mGd8oipic.twitter.com/AiG9uKvjQh
Russian troops have liberated the settlement of Gogolevka in the Kursk Region, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported. The Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 320 soldiers. TASS has gathered all the essential information on the situation:https://t.co/JkRGFlYfGupic.twitter.com/rzZFVWSsxD
China's Metal Storm Cannon Will Fire 450,000 Rounds Per Minute
China is developing the world's most powerful machine gun: the Metal Storm project, led by scientists from North University of China, is designed to combat high-speed threats such as hypersonic missiles.
SPECIAL FORCES "AKHMAT" – YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT FAITH IN YOUR HEART:
"Baba Yaga, fpv, mavics were flying, cannon artillery and a tank were working on us from Russkoye Porechny, mortars were firing from the landing, a Ukrainian AGS was shooting at everything from the farm – it… pic.twitter.com/Ho5wNYoRyL
[“SPECIAL FORCES “AKHMAT” – YOU CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT FAITH IN YOUR HEART: “Baba Yaga, fpv, mavics were flying, cannon artillery and a tank were working on us from Russkoye Porechny, mortars were firing from the landing, a Ukrainian AGS was shooting at everything from the farm – it was hot. We came in from different sides, started clearing, went into basements and saw civilians, tortured and killed. And we went forward, like our grandfathers, our great-grandfathers, drove them out, so that there would be no more of these scoundrels on our land. The Battle of Kursk is being repeated again, so that our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will never have to face this…” https://x.com/MaryanaNaumove/status/1904638222291869956?t=iOaQ9LlJ6112vnmk0sY7xw&s=19… WE ARE ALIVE No. 307, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, Sudzhansky district, Kursk region.“]
I saw that little weasel on TV, smirking by the side of “Rachel from Accounts” Reeves in the Commons. Only now can I identify the bastard.
Here he is, being questioned by Victoria Derbyshire:
“Your reforms will push an extra 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, into relative poverty… wow..” @vicderbyshire challenges Darren Jones MP on the welfare reform impact assessment which he says doesn’t account for “the positive benefit of moving into work”#Newsnightpic.twitter.com/fD9GTZnYlM
I suppose that I am old-fashioned enough to tend to think that someone called “Darren” should never be an MP in the first place but, leaving that (which I concede is probably unfair) aside, this particular Darren is the very personification of the German saying “put a beggar on a horse and he rides it to death.“
According to Wikipedia, the weasel is married to some fake “social entrepreneur” whose business failed. She is now apparently making money out of the “net zero” nonsense championed by the fake “Labour” government of which her own husband is a key member.
Jones is a member of Labour Friends of Israel, like all or almost all of the Starmer-stein government.
Listen to his dishonest weaselling in that Victoria Derbyshire interview. A soulless, heartless careerist.
"That impact assessment is shocking – the numbers don’t lie” @Nicholaswatt recounts the word of one senior government figure, and tells us “If I were a whip I’d be putting that person on resignation watch”#Newsnightpic.twitter.com/J8v8qT5Mgn
It is almost funny how typical Westminster Bubble scribbler/talking-head types such as Nicholas Watt talk about speculative economic figures as if they have some kind of reality. “Real disposable household income to rise this year by twice as much as expected“…as of now, just empty words from “Rachel from Accounts”; meaningless.
We need a universal basic income of £1500-1800 per month per house and that's it.
— Original Aaronski (Accy Blue) (@Origi_Aaronski) March 26, 2025
I agree. Basic Income (at some level or levels) is the way to go. Do away with making amputees, the chronically-sick, and/or the unemployed jump through hoops. Shut down 90% of the DWP, and much of HMRC (which latter is like something written by Franz Kafka).
Not just a question of fairness or compassion. Basic Income works.
Jeez, @darrenpjones just dismissing everything as hypothetical. People might get jobs, they might not! Even by today's dreadful standard of politician, this is breathtakingly and even brazenly out of touch. #Newsnighthttps://t.co/MxekLGCK3m
What are Starmer/Reeves doing 1) implementing such cruelty 2) expecting their MPs to stand by it. They’ve put their own people in the worst of all worlds.
The first test of the public mood will probably be the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, about which I have blogged in the past few days. The pollsters and bookmakers are forecasting a probably marginal or modest win for Reform UK. I disagree, though I do see from where that comes, looking at the fact that, in 2024, the constituency was the 16th-safest Labour seat. However, much has changed since the General Election of 2024 and, in any case, only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters voted Labour even in 2024 (4 out of every 12 actual voters) in the country as a whole.
I am thinking that Reform will smash the by-election, despite the fact that Labour got over 50% in 2024 while Reform only got 18.1% (Cons 16%).
Everything has changed since July 2024:
a. the imperative desire to kick out a “Conservative” government headed by a (perceivedly) “unelected” and non-white PM (by voting Labour) is no longer there;
b. the continuing migration-invasion;
c. the harsh sentences given to people who supported the anti-invader protesters last summer;
d. the taking away of the pensioners’ Winter Fuel Allowance money;
e. the freeloading —and what amounts to casual petty corruption— of Starmer-stein, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner etc.
Now also the latest terrible attack on the sick, disabled, and unemployed, as bad as anything done by the Conservative Party in office 2010-2024.
Former Labour voters will either not vote or will change to Reform, to punish Labour. Former Conservative voters will (though how many ?) vote Reform as a quite (and the only) realistic way of sticking it to Labour, Starmer-stein and Rachel Reeves etc. People who favour Reform anyway will be motivated to vote because they know that this time they can win. People normally perhaps unlikely to vote, but who want to yell “NO!” to everything happening in this country, will mostly vote Reform.
On that basis, I think that it is possible that there could be a stunning win for Reform. If that happens, it will be the death-knell of the Starmer-stein fake “Labour”-label government, despite the fact that it has 4+ years left in office, in theory.
Election Day has not yet been notified but is widely expected to be 1 May 2025. Just under 5 weeks from today.
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The Chancellor on @BBCr4today says she came into power to make 'working people' better off, which conveniently excludes people who can't work, or can't find work, carers and pensioners. It's a clear explanation of her priorities, but is quite a rebrand for Labour.
There is no Labour Party now, as previously understood, just one of the several labels behind which is NWO/ZOG, Israeli manipulation, Jewish-lobby manipulation etc. The Conservative Party is the other main label. Both are losing not only public support, but almost all connection with the public.
The European bureaucracy will never be able to defeat Russia, Moscow’s Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said:https://t.co/zdYG4XzdjGpic.twitter.com/U9OpzguTVK
Rachel Reeves. First she came for the pensioners, but I wasn't a pensioner, then she came for the farmers, but I wasn't a farmer. Then she came for the disabled, but I wasn't disabled…..
Leaving that aside, it will be great to see hundreds of those petty careerists lose their seats, and their salaries and expenses. That was the best thing about the 2024 General Election, when hundreds of “Conservative” MPs lost their comfortable way of life. I hope to see the same (if not more, and “worse”) applied to the present Labour Party MPs.
Russian forces struck a Ukrainian military airfield, production facilities of a weapons enterprise and attack UAV assembly workshops over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/iLJ1CX7l63pic.twitter.com/jEDRWnmlKF
Russia faces large-scale tasks in the Arctic and will need to strengthen its transportation and logistics infrastructure, protect the fragile ecosystem, and ensure comfortable living conditions, President Vladimir Putin said:https://t.co/FRAwMGTDdapic.twitter.com/8ZS461m5TS
More about incompetent, negligent, and dishonest Jew-Zionist solicitor Mark Lewis
There’s no wonder that Lewis’ clients thought they were on a winner with advice like in this email.
There is no explanation of the risks.
Lewis wants striking off ASAP. He’s a danger to his clients. I can’t believe he’s still on the top row of Patron Law’s website. pic.twitter.com/cylPqOB9oc
Nearly 2,000 of the bastards in a single week. Sometimes, that number arrives in a single day. All expect to be sheltered, fed, given medical services, transport, pocket money…
“Refugees welcome” idiots such as Zoe Gardner (@ZoeJardiniere), Yvette Cooper etc have encouraged this aspect of the overall migration invasion, yet they themselves live in comfort, and far from the mean streets where the tragedy is mostly played out.
Acc. to Electoral Calculus, that translates to 215 Commons seats for Reform (largest party, but a plurality and not a majority: Lab 153, Con 151, LibDem 61, Greens 6 etc). A minority Reform government, with some kind of Con support, probably.
“I think there’s been some confusion online in recent weeks so let me clarify my view If you arrive illegally in this country you should be deported If you are a foreign national and break the laws of this country, you should be deported And if you are a dual national who is convicted of rape gang activity, you should be deported If you read my Substack newsletter or watch my show you will know these are my views and yes I have changed my views in recent years I think losing control of our borders while presiding over mass controlled immigration has been one of the most extreme and damaging policies the elite class has pursued It will go down in the history books as one of the biggest policy failures on record It has undermined our economy, divided our nation and weakened our democracy Only by doing what I suggest above, alongside dramatically slashing the amount of legal immigration into Britain, and removing Indefinite Leave to Remain, will we restore public trust in the system and our democracy Where I draw the line, however, is against those who think it is somehow desirable or possible to deport British nationals. It is neither. Which basically puts me where the average voter is. So that’s where I stand. Remove those who break our laws while respecting the British people who respect and uphold our laws.“
There you see the weakness of the Matt Goodwin/Farage/Reform UK position. Blacks, browns, and others with a piece of cardboard called a “British passport”, are apparently OK to stay, and to breed.
That would still mean that Britain will become majority non-white sometime later this century.
Unacceptable.
Former employee of the immigration service, gives some home truths about how it is run.😳 pic.twitter.com/62lPzq1kOA
The Wall Street Journal: US B-2 bombers failed to destroy Houthi underground missile complex (in Yemen) with Bunker Buster bombs. pic.twitter.com/L3OfxxUDDJ
Poland's security chief: We have ammunition for only two weeks of war
▪️In the event of a possible war, Poland has ammunition for up to two weeks, until allied forces arrive, said the head of the country's National Security Bureau, Dariusz Lukowski. pic.twitter.com/yR5IRXPuvV
I was just looking yesterday, as I drove through, at the shopping area in the town very close to where I live. An affluent small town in coastal Southern England.
The big chains are mostly still there (Boots, Costa Coffee, Greggs, Holland & Barrett, M&S food hall, Waitrose etc), but the small independent shops have, many of them, closed up and disappeared. Why? Well, as I predicted at the time would happen, the sinister yet farcically-stupid “Covid” “rules”, “laws”, restrictions etc, so unnecessary (and utterly ridiculous), killed off those small businesses (despite furlough payments etc), and the knock-on effects of a poorer population also drove those shops to the wall over the past few years.
Examples? Well, the small barber-shop I once used, run by an old retired merchant seaman and his wife, which also employed a few local ladies, is no more. The old man died (nothing to do with the scamdemic/panicdemic, by the way), and his wife decided that she preferred to shut up shop. However, that was 2-3 years ago. The shop remains empty, as are those on either side (formerly a computer and office supplies place, and a junk shop).
A couple of new barber-shops have opened in the nearby High Street, true, but those are staffed by non-Brits (either Turkish or Kurdish).
I noticed, yesterday, that several small cafes are now closed, as is what had been a Cornish pasty shop. Some independent clothes shops too.
I went to the local Waitrose for the first time in months, mainly because I had £50 in gift tokens, and found that it has further declined since last summer. Not as many customers as there used to be at a similar time of day. Still, I bought 6 or 7 jars of red caviar, so that must have helped them.
More seriously, it is clear that people in the UK have been made much poorer not only because of the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic and its knock-on effects, but also because pay —not only recently but over the past few decades— has not kept pace with inflation, and particularly inflation in that most basic of needs— shelter, or housing.
Now “Rachel from Accounts” Reeves is sucking money out of the economy, and particularly out of the retail sector. The result will be further economic decline.
A measure of Basic Income must be the way forward.
Angela Rayner has a disabled child. Did she claim benefits to help with his living costs? Does she think he should be denied benefits now? https://t.co/WsSRWZvicq
That reminds me of the hypocritical part-Jew, David Cameron-Levita, who despite inherited tens of millions, went all-out to claim disability benefits and Carer’s Benefit for his sick and disabled child, but later —via Iain Dunce Duncan Smith and the Jew “lord” Freud— took away the same monies from poor people who really needed the cash.
I truly hate Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner, David Lammy, Liz Kendal.
They are the scum of the earth and traitors to the British people.
Well, hello everyone! Yes, it is really me. I am back! As a great number of you had noticed, I have been missing online for almost two months now. I disappeared almost as soon as the trial for the Southport Massacre ended.
[“Where did you go, Charlie? Well, hello everyone! Yes, it is really me. I am back! As a great number of you had noticed, I have been missing online for almost two months now. I disappeared almost as soon as the trial for the Southport Massacre ended. Public opinion and concern has been split as to why I went missing; between those who thought I had a breakdown after covering the massacre, and those who thought I had caved to government pressure to stop reporting upon the cover-up. Neither of these, thanks to the strength of public feeling and the support of my colleagues, is true. What really happened? Three days after the trial ended, my X/Twitter account was hacked. My profile remained intact; live but inactive. Except for one thing…My viral timeline of the Southport massacre had been unpinned and DELETED. This timeline had been collated on the day of Axel Rudakubana’s sentencing, and detailed exactly what had taken place on that dreadful summer’s day in Southport. It exposed how the UK Government had failed time and time again to prevent this monster from moving about with freedom, and what they and other authorities had done to cover-up their incompetence, and the devastating consequences of their political agenda. This timeline had been see by 50 million people within 3 days – and was recognised as one of the most authoritative records of the Southport massacre. But, just as my account was gaining momentum, and I had the platform to explore the depth of the corruption in this case – including the anti-white sentiment of Rudakubana being glossed over by the Establishment and mainstream media – this detailed timeline of evidence was deleted, and I was locked out the account until this morning. (More on this to follow.) I do not know who did this to me, or what caused X to withhold my account from me for almost two months. But there is one thing of which I am certain: Whoever did this did not want the hideous truth about the Southport Massacre in the public domain…“]
Maybe GCHQ, maybe 77 Brigade, maybe some other actor.
While looking into the cover-up in the Axel Rudakubana case, @astor_charlie was hacked and locked out of X for MONTHS. She's finally back today – and here is the shocking truth she uncovered.
Last week, I also joined @LukexDaniel and @Con_Tomlinson over at @CourageMedia___ to discuss some current affairs, including the new OFSTED Chief, the US deportation debacle, and cultural desecration of the Bard by the custodians of his legacy. https://t.co/L5XzWIKQPf
NEW. The British people are not just giving up on the Labour government –they're giving up on everybody. Thoughts on the Spring Statement and the mood out there in the country https://t.co/KRAVNW68RI
That is good, because eventually the people will seize at the most radical alternative potential salvation— social nationalism.
Why are we slashing billions in welfare for British people and pensioners while wasting billions on foreigners who break our laws?https://t.co/KaihWoYU3i
Channel One's war reporter Anna Prokofyeva was killed while performing her professional duty in the Belgorod Region, while cameraman Dmitry Volkov, who accompanied her, was injured, the channel said:https://t.co/OwDJa3GHFlpic.twitter.com/dzuNaZFuGf
At least 37 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television reported citing Gaza’s mass media department:https://t.co/aHBdsMoKVTpic.twitter.com/lkSgVemjZa
That’s a good question. The SRA seems to be very reluctant to confirm anything. My next S-stack piece will be about the SRA’s various irrational decisions. I’m also going to publish some of Lewis’ emails to the SRA. It’s wild stuff!
Lewis will have to scuttle back to Israel if he wants to avoid being sued by his own former (?) clients and/or his own colleagues, I think…
11 days now. You’d think that where there is evidence that lawyers might present a risk to the administration of justice, their regulators might think:
Those tweets from James Wilson, successful claimant in the libel case Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased), and Cantor, refer to the dishonest and negligent conduct of some (and it seems all, from what Wilson is saying) of the Jewish lawyers instructed by the unsuccessful defendants in the matter (one of whom, a vicious social media troll and Zionist, committed suicide before the case finished).
This must be the death of the Labour Party as anything even notionally “socialist” or even “social-democratic”. It goes way beyond anything done by Blair and Brown, or even Cameron-Levita’s “Conservative” regime during 2010-2015.
Why would anyone, especially anyone English/British, vote Labour-label now?
The by-election at Runcorn and Helsby now takes on an importance few would have expected. It is or was the 16th-“safest” Labour seat. Now, Reform has a good chance of winning it, according to opinion polls, bookmakers etc. I would go further: Reform has at least a pretty good chance of smashing the by-election, and thus humiliating both Lab and Con.
At the 2024 General Election, Labour got over 50% of the vote. We are now in a different political world. Reform came second last year, ahead of the Conservative Party.
The by-election is between Reform and fake Labour. The Cons have no chance, and their former voters, if they want to bin Labour, should vote Reform, even if only tactically. That is, surely, obvious.
I blogged about the by-election in more detail yesterday:
“The European Union is pushing for every household in the 27-nation bloc to have a three-day survival kit ready in case of war or natural disasters.
EU crisis management commissioner Hadja Lahbib said the proposals will be formally presented today as part of a broader ‘preparedness strategy’.
Brussels is hoping to ensure every citizen is equipped for 72 hours of self-sufficiency amid the growing threat of continental conflict breaking out.
EU citizens will be told to stock up on a dozen key items, including matches, ID documents in a waterproof punch, bottled water, energy bars and a flashlight, as part of their ‘resilience’ kit.
European leaders have said the invasion of Ukraine could soon break out into a ‘global’ war.”
[Daily Mail]
So what do the unfortunate people of the EU states and UK do once the 72 hours have passed, and the 3-days’ supplies have run out? Kill themselves? Kill the System politicians? (Hey, now… wait a minute…).
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The sanctions pressure on Russia has intensified in recent years, though the country’s economy continues to grow, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said addressing the State Duma with a report:https://t.co/RVTXaV6ufXpic.twitter.com/2Q8iSBWzAa
Russian forces struck Ukrainian military airfields, an equipment repair plant and UAV assembly workshops over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/gKvuBNWAchpic.twitter.com/ZYD2klUHm8
— Mark Hazard 🏴 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇺🇳🦖🐉 (@MarkHazard2020) March 26, 2025
There are two ridiculous shibboleths around politico-economic discussion in the msm of the UK. The first is taking seriously the absurd “Office for Budget Responsibility” or “OBR”, which is wrong most of the time. The second is the phrase “the markets”, as in “the markets will not accept this, that, or the other“.
— Betrayed by @ukLabour, #Excluded by @Conservatives (@ChrisPDuck) March 26, 2025
Only 11% of Brits think Rachel Reeves is doing a 'good job'. Only 16% think Labour is managing the economy 'well'. And only 14% feel 'better off' under Labour
While the elite class spits feathers about cuts to foreign aid, the vast majority of Brits support them & think we should cut further. We are sending £13 BILLION overseas while stripping welfare, winter payments and public services from the British people. Makes no sense.
Dmitry Medvedev was briefed on the development of laser weapons.
According to the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, the Ukrainian armed forces are actively using drones to attack civilian infrastructure in Russia. pic.twitter.com/6PVZuhd8b4
The fear that Rachel Reeves is putting on disabled people and those that already suffer from conditions is horrific. I would never have voted Labour at the last election if I had known about their disgusting plans. They are no better than the Tories.
It only takes one individual to stand up, step up, and send a message that will never be forgotten.
Rachel Reeves has no credibility. She had a company credit card taken away because of misuse, she had her parliamentary credit card suspended because of misuse, she falsified her CV,and her recently published book was riddled with plagiarism. The chancellor is a fraudster #Fraudpic.twitter.com/iAJjUGOo3n
Reeves to put £2bn into affordable housing to ‘sweeten the pill’ of cuts https://t.co/4NxN5nL5KZ Chancellor will announce plans to fund 18,000 social homes before fraught spring statement on Wednesday
I am sure that the migrant-invaders and other non-Brits will appreciate the free housing. Then they can start (or continue) to breed.
More of the green countryside lost to featureless sprawl.
Is this a pic of Rachel Reeves? This homeless looking crack slag doesn't look like a gov't bigshot. She looks like she really needs a shower, a shampoo and some deodorant. Eww! https://t.co/RALSio7ein
About time that the British people awoke to the fact that most of those purporting to rule over them are their enemies.
"Take a good look at Labour’s roll call of benefits scrounges: Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, Wes Streeting, Bridget Phillipson, Lucy Powell, and Anas Sarwar—each one a master of mooching off the system they claim to fix. Starmer’s hauled in £107,145 since…
[“Take a good look at Labour’s roll call of benefits scrounges: Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, Wes Streeting, Bridget Phillipson, Lucy Powell, and Anas Sarwar—each one a master of mooching off the system they claim to fix. Starmer’s hauled in £107,145 since 2019—£20,437 for a lord’s flat, £16,200 in suits, £2,435 for glasses, and £18,000+ in football tickets while fans queue for crumbs. Rayner’s £3,550 wardrobe and £1,250 New York getaway, courtesy of Lord Waheed Alli, scream entitlement—she can’t even dress herself on £150,000 a year. Reeves, our tight-fisted Chancellor, snatched £7,500 in outfits, while Streeting grabbed £1,160 Taylor Swift tickets as the NHS staggers. Phillipson’s £14,000 ‘event’ cash from Alli—birthday bash, anyone?—pairs with her concert freebies, and Powell’s £40,289 since 2019 marks her as a seasoned scrounger. Sarwar’s £10,117 in Scottish perks tops his MSP rivals. Together, they’ve gorged on £220,000 in shadow cabinet handouts—£700,000 across all MPs in a year—preaching equality while pocketing privilege. Hypocrisy doesn’t just drip from this lot; it pours, a rancid flood of greed proving they think rules are for us plebs and benefits are their divine right. Utterly revolting!“]
Dear Rachel Reeves MPs claimed over £200 million in expenses over the last 3 years. Why is it their electricity, gas, council tax, and contents insurance for second homes is paid for by us, the taxpayers? #GMB#BBCBreakfast
Delegations from Russia and the US have conducted technical consultations in Riyadh and sent reports to their respective leaders; the talks’ results will not be published, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:https://t.co/LcsV1esmZ4pic.twitter.com/cmt6GgmWHF
A widely circulated video shows secondary detonations at a Ukrainian Armed Forces ammunition depot in Sumy Oblast after an Iskander missile strike pic.twitter.com/GCDA9QtAnc
Ukraine continues attacks on Russia's civilian energy infrastructure amid the Moscow-Washington consultations in Riyadh, the Defense Ministry reported. TASS has compiled the main information on the Ukrainian attacks:https://t.co/20sDdznUpWpic.twitter.com/mCNJVWJR0s
Russian troops liberated two communities in the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Zaporozhye Region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/jyPEVoOAJRpic.twitter.com/Jdt0qhbmzI
The more that I think about the upcoming Runcorn and Helsby by-election, the more I think that Reform are going to smash it.
No matter that I could imagine Reform with a better candidate (someone such as Matt Goodwin), though the Reform candidate seems voter-acceptable, anyway. The important thing, surely, is the hatred so many people now feel for the main System parties and even more —because of the feeling of betrayal— from Labour (in fact much more than for the Conservatives who, despite their appalling record 2010-2024, are now seen as near-irrelevant, finished, washed-up).
That’s before you even factor-in the fact that the Conservative Party is now led by a Nigerian woman who also seems totally clueless. Also, Kemi Badenoch’s thunder (on social security, tax, spending cuts etc) has been stolen by Labour. Labour is just a label now, and is even less social, let alone socialist, than the Conservative Party.
For me, it is telling that the Labour candidate for the by-election is trying to ape Reform, demanding the closure of hotels occupied by migrant-invaders etc. It is clear that Labour considers Reform to be its main rival, and not only at Runcorn and Helsby.
In the past nearly 9 months, the Labour “brand” has been totally trashed. The whole population, I should have thought, has turned away from Labour. Pensioners, the young, anyone receiving any State benefit at all, anyone anti-migration invasion, anyone with any genuine feeling for the English countryside, will not be voting Labour.
The petty corruption and sleaze of the Labour Cabinet may be dwarfed by the corruption of the past years of “Con Party” misgovernment, but the point, I think, is that people, especially in the North of England, somehow expected Labour to be somehow better.
The sheer “we are the masters now” arrogance and callousness exhibited by Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall, Starmer-stein, and their lesser followers such as Torsten Bell, has disgusted millions.
People now, after only 9 months, see this Labour-label regime as being quite as bad, and in fact worse in every way, than those of 14 years of Conservative misgovernment.
I do not think that Labour’s appalling handling of foreign affairs (by thick “diversity-hire” Lammy, as well as by Starmer-stein himself) will count for much at the by-election, either way, but people can surely see that Starmer has made a fool of himself by threatening to send (almost non-existent) troops to Ukraine etc. That is so even for people who support the Kiev regime.
I think that important factors at the by-election will include the continuing migration-invasion, the petty sleaze and corruption of Labour’s top echelon, the hypocrisy of the same, the sense of Britain as a country sliding to chaos and even civil war (albeit not this year), the behaviour of the former Labour MP, the wish to give Labour a real kick and, perhaps most important, the sense of total betrayal by Labour.
At present, both polling orgs and bookmakers predict a modest or narrow win for Reform.
I may be wrong, but I think we could be looking at a huge win by Reform. A win in the region of as much as 50% or even 60% of the vote-share. Labour? Maybe 20%-30%. Cons? 10% or below; maybe even a lost deposit.
This might turn out to be a very significant by-election result. If Reform can win it, the win might pave the way for dozens of others in this Parliament.
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The shocking sense of unfairness that now pervades British life —millions of hardworking, tax paying, law-abiding Brits now feel they’re being taken for a ride by a political class that puts immigrants first https://t.co/KaihWoYU3i
Wrong. The “political class” in the UK puts itself first, then its cronies and bribe-makers, and only then the migrant-invaders etc, with most British people last in line.
Only 11% of Brits think Rachel from Accounts is doing a 'good job' –YouGov, today
[“A British school scrapping Easter to celebrate “refugee week” & “diversity” is not a trivial story It reflects something which unites today’s ruling elite –a belief in “asymmetrical multiculturalism”. And what’s that? It is the belief you must celebrate every identity, culture & people except your own I wrote about this and the attack on who we are here https://mattgoodwin.org/p/the-war-against-our-past-inside-the“]
Well, bravo! A scribbler and talking head has, it seems, belatedly woken up…
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Here we have again the “I’m about to deck the interviewer” manner. And he has a mortgage to pay! What a dreadful look capping off a day of shame. https://t.co/m1E9Y6stHf
That Torsten Bell idiot is so obviously a careerist and hypocrite. Frighteningly thick, too, for all the Oxford PPE degree etc, and with no real principles or ideals, or even ideas. Just a careerist drone. Sickening. This is neo-Blairism without even the fig-leaf of public good that Labour displayed 1997-2010.
The Torsten Bell idiot reiterates the now-standard bs (first seen per Dunce Duncan Smith etc, during the 2010-2015 years of the Cameron-Levita “Conservative” government) about how cutting the income of those already poor or very poor somehow saves them from being “written off”! The sheer lying hypocrisy is stunning.
When I see lying hypocrites and System careerists such as Torsten Bell, I think “that is why you need concentration camps” (at very least).
I see from Wikipedia that that Bell individual is 42, 43 later this year; looks and sounds like a recent graduate, though he must have graduated 20 years ago. No weight, very very unconvincing, and also very plainly in it (politics) for his own benefit.
Torsten Bell has just accused me of defending a Tory welfare system. That is a lie. I have consistently called for reform of the system but not a reform based upon billions of pounds of cuts that will harm and put the lives of disabled people at risk.
That little Torsten Bell blot seems oblivious to the fact that, in contrasting what the Starmer-stein “Labour”-label misgovernment is doing with what he calls the “Tory welfare system“, he is actually presenting even the cruel/callous policies of the Conservatives from 2010-2024 as having been better (less cruel and less callous) than those of Starmer-stein, “Rachel from Accounts” Reeves, and Liz Kendall.
My illustrious MP , parachuted into a safe Labour seat ,he’s a despicable man. This happened to my husband who is now dead . The pip process is dehumanising.”
I thought that that tweet was worth reproducing in detail, especially since the lady who tweeted it later deleted it for some reason (possibly upset).
Voters of Runcorn and Helsby, send this evil “Labour”-label misgovernment a message by voting Reform at the upcoming by-election. No matter if you do not like Farage, or disagree with some Reform policies. The thing to do is to stick it to both Labour and the equally-misnamed Conservatives.
In an ideal world, I should like very bad things to happen to many System politicians but, in view of the fact that we live in a gradually-encroaching police state, I prefer to say no more, and to let the readers of the blog read between the lines.
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'It sets disabled people against the rest of society'
Former Paralympian Baroness @Tanni_GT says the government's announcement of cuts to disability benefits 'portrays disabled people as scroungers'. https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3
Labour support declining even among formerly enthusiastic young people (I think it stood at about 80% at one point a couple of years ago); interestingly, Reform support has grown from just a few percent to 13% over the past couple of years.
Put the policy aside for a moment. The tone adopted by government ministers today – aggressive, uncompromising, arrogant – could not be less appropriate when talking about cuts to vulnerable people’s benefits. It was the same when they cut Winter Fuel Payments. No idea why they…
Because Starmer-stein’s own attitude has transmitted itself to his Cabinet and thence to almost all Labour MPs…i.e. “we are the masters now“, but I remember how rattled and, in a word, scared, they all were when the so-called “riots” (protests) happened last summer. I think they were at least slightly wondering whether they would end up dangling from lamp-posts, as happened to the Communist secret policemen of the HVA after the eruption of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956.
The arrogant and cruel attitude of the Starmer-stein government might and in fact would turn to grovelling supplication if a British uprising were to occur.
On the wider question, Basic Income is the only way forward.
“Between welfare payments for foreign nationals and the bill for our broken asylum system, the British taxpayer is currently paying somewhere in the region of £13 billion every year, or £250 million every week for this insanity” https://t.co/ffnirFBRK9
“I’d say that if you look in nearly every country, from Canada to the UK, that imported large amounts of cheap labour, you’ve seen productivity stagnate.
If Reform can win the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, the momentum created will weaken fake Labour even more, and all but finish off the increasingly less relevant “Conservative” Party.
In Gaza, according to a report by Al Arabiya television, 356 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ordered residents of the area on the border with Israel to evacuate deeper into the enclave. pic.twitter.com/rPnCV4N7eL
Watch "JOURNEY TO THE WEALD OF KENT. TRADE TEST FILM NARRATED BY SIR JOHN BETJEMAN." on YouTube https://t.co/CaxZnpTt0D
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) July 6, 2021
[Journey to the Weald of Kent, filmed in 1959, and narrated by Betjeman; starts at 0:54; interesting to hear that, in the past, orchards were called “gardens” in Kent. In Russian, the same word is used for both “orchard” and “garden”— “сад” (pronounced “saad”) ]
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In Nottingham in UK there are 30 mosques but Muslims decided to celebrate Ramadan in square. Why? pic.twitter.com/UzVjCfwuPq
Putin speaks on imminent Ukrainian defeat in Kursk at Prosecutor Office board meeting. The Russian president noted that the number of complaints received by the Prosecutor's Office increased by 10% in 2024:https://t.co/DbIESIeN3hpic.twitter.com/DCBTnKe7Ne
Moscow and Kiev have conducted a 175-for-175 prisoner exchange, the Defense Ministry said. As a goodwill gesture, Russia also handed over to Ukraine 22 severely injured prisoners of war in need of urgent medical care:https://t.co/xBAtKBn3Ubpic.twitter.com/6gvpYgtwBf
Russian forces struck Ukrainian military airfields and UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) storage facilities over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday:https://t.co/WNCCzTBFXApic.twitter.com/gCc5xAgfkv
Tweet is ambiguous; I am presuming Ukrainian POWs captured by the Russians. They all look in reasonable condition, not obviously ill-treated or malnourished.
“Ukrainians are just brainwashed Russians.”
Icelandic journalist Haukur Hauksson shares his views on Ukrainian propaganda and Russia’s humane treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war. pic.twitter.com/VsO6WyRIL0
Al Qaeda Al Julani gangs on 03/09/2025 abused civilians of all ages, both the elderly and the young—and subsequently mass executed them. Among the victims, the martyr Wahib Shaaban, distinguished by his white attire, was later identified.https://t.co/2AIedzIzQjpic.twitter.com/CzlnTJqcB3
Among the worst movements or tendencies of the world are Islamism and Zionism. European/Aryan or post-Aryan Eurasian hegemonism must defeat both.
At the end of our focus groups in Grimsby, we asked former Labour voters and people who didn't vote in 2024 to choose who they would most like to be Prime Minister.
“My feisty debate on @GBNews We must not be embarrassed to assert the primacy of Western civilisation Africa didn’t produce a Shakespeare because, of its 2000 languages, 80% have no written form Asians play European classical music, hold Shakespeare festivals and have national museums of Western art because they appreciate the depth and sophistication of European art forms. They do this whilst also being justifiably proud of the magnificent art, literature & music of Chinese, Japanese and Indian civilisation. This is what the anti-British ideologues who dominate our own cultural institutions cannot – or will not – grasp. They cannot stand that an Englishman is the greatest writer the world has ever produced. It sticks in their craw and they will do anything to diminish and downplay that achievement.”
Britain faces an existential crisis
Every day we see our culture & history undermined and our population demoralised
The British people are told they've nothing to be proud of & that Britain is the root of all evil
“Britain faces an existential crisis Every day we see our culture & history undermined and our population demoralised The British people are told they’ve nothing to be proud of & that Britain is the root of all evil We must fight back “AMERICA: LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!” was a popular saying when I was young. Britons need to adopt a similar attitude now. Dominated by nihilistic, self-loathing ideologues, our cultural and academic institutions are responsible for much of the anti-British propaganda we encounter. We must remember that WE, British taxpayers, fund these quangos, museums, galleries, universities etc. The government doesn’t have any money. It spends OUR money. If publicly funded institutions create anti-British exhibitions, lecture us on the evils of our past, give us a guilt trip about slavery and the British Empire, denigrate our heroes, or simply demoralise our people, they should lose their funding. That’s the most effective way to retaliate. From Arts Council England to Tate Britain and the National Theatre, potentially hundreds of these bodies are eroding national self confidence. It’s a war of attrition and it cannot continue. My thoughts with @TVKev on @TalkTV.”
“Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun” [Mao]
“The pen is mightier than the sword” [Bulwer-Lytton]
As for Goodwin, I recently flagged the possibility, no more, that he might be on the following trajectory— win a by-election (Runcorn & Helsby?) as a Reform UK candidate, take over from Farage the leadership of Reform (with Farage’s support), and then (once Reform has become the largest party in the Commons after the next general election ) become Prime Minister.
It might just happen.
However, as that tweeter “Serena Brown” notes, either the UK becomes again a homogenous society, or it does not. There would be no point in a Reform UK government if it were unwilling to take the steps necessary.
This is not merely about immigration, and certainly not only about that relatively small part of immigration which comes in via the infamous “small boats”. It is about the non-whites already here, who are breeding much faster than the English/British, who themselves are not even reproducing their own numbers.
When we see Reform, we notice that it is ideologically in hock to the Jew-Zionist lobby, and pathetically adherent to Israel and Israeli interests.
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Shabana Mahood's justice system . Look how it's going is this fair is this justice …… https://t.co/EVlYYjgiFC
I have blogged previously about the bad joke that is Shabana Mahmood as “Lord Chancellor” and Secretary of State for Justice— a Pakistani woman whose total legal experience has been a 12-month Bar pupillage (decades ago), followed by a year as a salaried “gopher” at a firm of solicitors. Use the search box on the blog to find out more.
I polled a nationally representative sample of the public to test for attitudes to deportations, beginning with violent criminals, far from being a ‘very online’ fringe, it has overwhelming popular support: — 83% of all voters and 100% of reform voters https://t.co/QP2yY5oGPTpic.twitter.com/eeIY340YJc
Sexual offences – similar popular support. And notably not just with the general public but near unanimous support from reform voters — 84% of all voters and 100% reform voters would support removing migrant sexual offenders pic.twitter.com/zVdEYsXzw0
I cannot comprehend how *any* MP can believe that lowering the (relatively modest) rate of LCWRA is going to incentivize a measurable number toward employment.
The idea of 'mitigations' doesn't cut it either; the entire group is 'severely disabled.'https://t.co/6affz0ut1D
Starmer-stein is not a Labour prime minister (even of the Tony Blair/Gordon Brown type); he is a Labour Friends of Israel prime minister, and that applies, mutatis mutandis, to virtually his entire Cabinet.
Starmer-stein and his Cabinet should face real resistance from the British people.
Meanwhile, Starmer-stein continues to try to play the “world statesman” and would-be war leader, and looks ever-more pathetic as he makes that attempt.
NEW POST. NHS Insider — We should train more British young people to become doctors instead of importing less well qualified doctors from abroadhttps://t.co/ZJggUPTtLI
When simply noting the totally obvious sounds radical…
That influx of non-white doctors has another consequence: by reason of the high pay received by doctors in the UK, any offspring are automatically given a better life-chance than most white English/British children. The knock-on result is that more non-whites are going to be placed into the higher socio-economic groups in the UK, thus further weakening our civilized European culture and society.
“Last year, the General Medical Council registered 9,285 doctors who had been trained here in the UK and … get this … 19,279 doctors who had trained abroad” https://t.co/xN9e92K0JR
Yes we know… but what will @reformparty_uk actually do about it? All I hear is watered down rhetoric, political impossibilities…. Where is the solution – isn’t that how you win? Give us a credible solution, not garner votes out of the good British publics desperation.
Exactly. Reform is the last hope of many, but it is also the last chance for the System itself to survive. If Reform is squashed or disappears, we are looking at quite likely civil war, or social war, and the national revolution, down the line. However, if Reform manages to be either the largest or second-largest party after 2028 or 2029, or even in government with a Commons majority, but then fails to take the steps necessary, we shall also be looking at not-unlikely civil/social war.
We must not forget that the Jew-Zionist element is embedded in Reform. One only has to look at the pronouncements of Farage, Tice, and now Goodwin.
Still, at present, Reform UK is the only game in town:
Phenomenal growth for Reform in just 8 months:
-14% to 26% in national polls -160,000 members (220k total) -465 branches set up -30 events across country -will stand in ALL local seats
Hopefully, that little bully will be found and prosecuted, but of course his punishment, if any, will be slight, in the present society.
When the law ceases to be respected, or enforced (by reason of weak and/or politicized police, prosecutors, courts), such lawlessness leads, in the end, to the public taking the law into their own hands, and meting out more condign punishment to evildoers.
Not for nothing has “the Bailey” (Central Criminal Court, London) the following inscription on its facade: “Punish the evildoer, and protect the children of the poor“…
A deeply unpopular left wing prime minister or a man propped up as the anti-immigration right wing candidate by the same media that pretends to oppose him. Voters like Farage because they are told he is on their side, but what they want and who he actually is could not be further… https://t.co/xv0zF75ukM
It will be recalled how warmly Starmer-stein welcomed Farage into the chamber of the House of Commons for the first time.
Look at Canada. Similar story in UK. Mass immigration imposed while productivity flat lining. Why? Bc as I wrote here mass immigration is bad economics and pushing us into “population trap”. Economists were wrong https://t.co/KPXX4VnTqTpic.twitter.com/yTTHkO2ytX
The Council of the European Union has approved the payment of 3.5 billion euros to Ukraine under a macrofinancial assistance program, according to a statement:https://t.co/OrgTP4YbSopic.twitter.com/XbLFdcp8zP
The conversation between Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin scheduled for March 18 is indeed being prepared, Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing in response to a TASS question:https://t.co/RXmzAXunMHpic.twitter.com/kCNZN8pbKt
Russian forces fully liberated the community of Stepovoye in the Zaporozhye Region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday:https://t.co/zHeKGo2sgApic.twitter.com/pQbyH8kaw4
What? Apparently the incoming President of the International Olympic Committee Sebastian Coe visited Epstein’s Island 11 times!! pic.twitter.com/HebCwV40u5
'State pension is a benefit not entitlement – what you get is up to Starmer' https://t.co/TmQ2ELIFtJ I worked from 16 to 65 and never missed a payment as did my wife you piece of shit . Whilst you piss money up the wall on Ukraine and you lunatic green policies
Over £7.5bn in universal credit is spent on foreigners as more than one million non-Britons claiming benefits. Also when given leave to remain, they also qualify for state pension!
There is your savings @RachelReevesMP NOT the sick, disabled and vulnerable UK nationals !!
These penguins were stuck in a dip and were freezing to death, so this BBC Crew broke the rules stating they can't interfere to save them pic.twitter.com/jjicLNeq8o
Who makes up stupid rules like that anyway? Small-minded people who think that the natural world is not connected with humanity. Glad that those BBC people broke the “rules” laid down.
I often break rules, and feel good about doing so.
If the most significant event in my life was an extramarital affair with Britain's least successful prime minister, I would simply not write an autobiography. pic.twitter.com/t3vvxxRj8W
Runcorn & Helsby is the 144th most 'Reform-friendly' seat in the country.
If Reform can win there it can make enormous inroads across Labour-held territory in northern England, Yorkshire and the Midlands https://t.co/BhN57QraEs
“The government says it wants to make significant savings on welfare payments to the disabled and help the disabled into work. The point, say all ministers – led Sir Keir Starmer – is not to harm the disabled, but to free them from a life of dependency. That, they claim, is why this is a truly “Labour” reform — and not just brutal cuts engineered by Rachel Reeves because she needs billions in savings so as not to breach arbitrary, self-imposed fiscal rules on the assessment date of 26 March. Is any of this plausible?
The first thing to say is the point of fiscal rules should be to help focus minds in government about how best to share scarce resources between different important resources. They should not set hard deadlines for making decisions with potentially profound consequences for the lives of millions of people.
We’ve already seen an example of the political dangers of trying to rush through changes to personal independence payments (PIP) and the health related elements of universal credit – because one element that was particularly upsetting to Labour MPs has already been dropped, namely a one year freeze on PIP payments.
But as my colleague Anushka Asthana has been exclusively disclosing for the last ten days, this was only one part of the welfare reform package. The other elements were to restrict entitlement to personal independence payments, while cutting the health-related universal credit payments and recycling those UC savings into an increase in the standard rate of UC. You can see in this the simple story and perhaps simplistic story about welfare payments to the disabled that the government believes and is trying to tell.
First, that hundreds of thousands of people receive cash to help with their living and mobility costs, but don’t “deserve” it.
Second, that the structure of UC payments provides too great an incentive to disabled people to sign themselves off work to get the health-related benefits top up.
Starmer will doubtless take comfort from the fact that – according to polling by the Good Growth Foundation – 60% believe the system provides too much support to people who don’t want to work and 39% think that it’s too easy for people to get benefits who don’t need them. But popular belief does not make it true. And before going further into the nitty gritty, it is worth doing a quick economic reality check. It is a fact that the proportion of British people in employment has fallen since Covid and, unlike many other rich economies, has not recovered to 2019 levels. But the proportion of British people who are working remains high by international standards. According to the OECD, in the third quarter of 2023 the UK ranked fifth in the world, with an employment rate of 74.9%, well ahead of the US for example, and behind only Iceland, the Netherlands, Japan and Germany
Even if it is a laudible ambition to encourage more people into work. The UK’s is not an economy whose failure is that too few people are working. The grotesque failure of the British economy is hardly a mystery.
It is that living standards for those in work have barely increased for more than 15 years and too many of those in work receive too little to pay even for food, energy and other essentials.
Pretty much every competitor country whose employment rate has recovered to pre-covid levels has higher productivity and higher wages than the UK. Which might tell you that Britain’s problem is not that its benefit system is skewiff but that it’s the labour market itself that is broken, that remunerated toil in Britain delivers inadequate incentives. And by the way, we don’t have a benefit system in the UK that is remotely generous or lavish by international standards.
Research published only last week by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research showed that we spend less on welfare as a share of GDP than the average for developed nations.
Also when it comes to the so-called replacement rate – what any unemployed person receives as a proportion of earnings from employment – only the unemployed in Australia and the US receive less.
Unemployment payments are significantly higher everywhere else in Europe, for example.
And another thing. As the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has shown, standard universal credit does not cover the costs of basics and essentials, for families or single people. “Ah ha!” you may exclaim, especially if you are the PM or chancellor. Surely this proves that there is a unhealthy incentive in the UC system for any claimant to prove that he or she has “limited capacity for work or work related activity” – to be diagnosed as unfit for work – so that their UC entitlements would go (for a single person) from £400 to £823, a month. But is an extra £106 a week the kind of incentive that would persuade a vulnerable person to permanently shut down their availability for work?
And if it were cut and partly offset by a rise in standard universal credit – which is what Starmer plans – would that persuade the vulnerable person to look for jobs?
That doesn’t feel compelling as an argument – especially in a world where most employers are reluctant to employ disabled people, let alone retain them on their books.
So another concern about the timing of these welfare changes is they come well before the findings of an equally important government review, that by former John Lewis boss Charlie Mayfield about how employers can be helped to retain and hire disabled people. Later this week he will publish his “discovery” document, about why employers struggle to keep in employment those who start to feel unwell, especially those suffering from mental ill-health. However Mayfield is still months away from recommendations.
In other words, it feels cart-before-horse to take cash from the disabled before a new support system is in place for employers to keep on their books those who are struggling.
As for the proposal to increase the threshold for those claiming the PIP, this will have an impact both on new claimants and those in receipt who are subject to review. How many disabled people could see their PIP payments reduced or withdrawn altogether?
Very large numbers indeed, according to the Resolution Foundation if it remains the Treasury’s aim to find net savings of up to £6bn by 2029-30. Louise Murphy of the Foundation estimates that more than 600,000 people, most on low incomes, would lose £675 a month on average.
Obviously this is all still hypothetical. Proper judgement awaits publication of the Liz Kendall’s policy paper tomorrow. But a change in entitlement on that magnitude will generate massive anxieties in those who both receive PIP and may need it in future.
None of this is to argue that any government should ignore the forecast that on current trends the cost of PIP is set to rise by £15bn by 2029 or that large numbers of especially young people are being excluded by disability from the world of work too young. It is to suggest that reforms that could reduce benefit bills in the long run will require large expenditure in the short term on mental health provision, skills, rewiring coaching and job search at the DWP, occupational health support for companies and so on.
A rational approach would see the costs of supporting the disabled rise in the short term. It would be an investment programme, not a cuts programme. With the supposedly all-important fiscal assessment looming, we’ll see if that’s what Starmer , Kendall and Reeves unveil. 2/2“
[Robert Peston]
A long comment, but important.
For me, the answer to all this a a “basic income” system, whereby all citizens (note, citizens, not any African or Afghan or similar just off the boat) get some modest amount of income regardless of any factor such as contribution, need, or “deservedness”.
That would also save vast amounts by enabling the shutdown of 95% of the DWP bureaucracy.
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Ian Robert Millard 