It might be said that I should not write about ordinary political matters on Christmas Day, but the news having just been announced yesterday about Brexit, a few more words are needed.
As I said yesterday, “Boris” has decided to put on the mask of a tragi-comic Chamberlain rather than a tragi-comic Churchill. He says now that he has, belatedly, delivered Brexit. Of sorts, arguably. It is all rather underwhelming.
This goes beyond BRINO (Brexit In Name Only) but not very far beyond.
Having said that, the agreement has pretty much shot Farage’s fox as far as the EU is concerned. I think that, though opposition to EU norms will continue on the fringes, this means the end of Brexit and EU matters as central in UK political discourse. Effectively the end of 20 years of Brexit/EU being political drivers in the UK.
To a large extent, the agreement has also shot Labour’s fox re. the EU, too. Labour under Keir Starmer has become almost invisible. Unsurprising. Starmer-Labour has, with minor carping, supported the “Conservative” Government on almost every issue in the past year, from the “virus” messaging and the facemask nonsense to Brexit. It seems that that support will now continue in the Commons vote on this agreement (next week, unless delayed). The agreement will thus be approved, with minor rebellions on the fringes.
As far as the general public is concerned, this agreement will draw a line under Brexit, politically.
The agreement seems to cover most of the factors important in the public mind, such as (by implication) the Roma gypsy element looting the UK from foreign bases, and also the low-paid foreign workers, Poles etc, coming to the UK as of right; the food standards now staying where they are (because the UK will not drop below EU norms, so no American chlorinated chicken etc).
It looks as though animal welfare in farming etc is covered (the UK is ahead of most of the EU states in that respect anyway).
Yes, there are sacrifices made: the fishing part is not very good for the UK, though at least there will not be the first Anglo-French naval engagements, in the Channel, since Napoleonic times. Britain’s fishermen have been, to some extent, sacrificed for the wider good. That means that the head has ruled the heart, fishing being only 1% of the UK’s GDP.
Also, British people will (or may) find it less convenient to live or work in EU states, though most live rather than work (retired people etc) and that happened even before the UK joined the original EEC in 1973, though on a smaller scale. People just had to apply for a carte de sejour in France, and the equivalent elsewhere.
There will be some grumbling about this from both “Brexiteers” and Remainers but, as a major political issue, Brexit has been finally put to bed.
First of all, language people use in this area can be quite emotive, e.g. talk of Christians ‘usurping’ or ‘sanitising’ a pre-existing pagan festival. There’s a tendency to ascribe a collective agency that never existed to ‘the Church’ or ‘Christians’ when it comes to Midwinter
The minds and behaviour of early medieval people weren’t software programmed by a Church that exercised total control. The Church showed sporadic interest in popular celebrations, but its main concern was Christian rites and belief – not suppressing all pre-Christian legacies
(The later concepts of sacred and secular may not be especially relevant here, but we can’t rule out the likelihood that pre-Christian societies (just like Christian ones) had many behaviours and practices that simply lay outside the realm of the sacred. This is a complex debate)
For example, when people compare Christian saints with pre-Christian gods – often implying that saints simply ‘replaced’ gods – what they’re really referring to is saints filling the same niches as the former gods in a spiritual ecology common to most pre-modern societies
Most pre-modern European societies had broadly the same concerns, the same areas of uncertainty, and the same spheres of life where divine protection was sought, before and after Christianity. Furthermore, societies often celebrated the pattern of the seasons in similar ways
In time, as people became culturally accustomed to it, Christmas came to play the same role as whatever Midwinter festivals existed before it, and earlier traditions receded
A plausible scenario is a mixture of sacred and profane festivities existing in parallel in early England, with pre-Christian elements fading gradually as they became less culturally relevant, and Christmas traditions becoming richer as society acquired a Christian identity
So without getting into the extent to which Christmas is ‘pagan’ or not, let’s be careful about the language we use and the assumptions we make, because the nature of the evidence – and of human belief – is often insufficient to support them…
I wonder how true that is. If it is basically correct, then those social-national-sympathizing police should not be wasting their time issuing puerile death threats against stray nuisances, and making online comments, but should be keeping their powder dry, recruiting more people, and organizing quietly and secretly for when the right time may come.
Yet you act as his propagandist. As does Starmer, who has completely failed in his duty to oppose, instead demanding that the country be yet more disastrously strangled. Why not be proud of your transition from active journalist to passive state servant? @matthewstadlenhttps://t.co/AgOnUtVJMy
Yes. My (small, pleasant) nearest hospital (semi-rural coastal Hampshire) had, at one time three (yes, 3) patients with “the virus” and, more recently, about two weeks ago, seven (7). That’s out of a total district council area population of 180,000 spread over 291 square miles. 95% of the population is “white British” (and nearly 3% “white Other”). As against that, the age demographic is quite high.
True, there are other, larger, hospitals not very far away (Bournemouth and Southampton, both within 25 miles distance) but even so it is clear that few people in the wider area are infected or at least symptomatic to the extent that they need hospitalization.
Much of the Western world has gone crazy and I do not believe that the public health issue is the main reason for that. Think “Great Reset”. Think 2022, and the 33-year cycle.
I interpret that as I have been suggesting for some time: the Conservative Party is winning, just about, by default. The Jewish mass media have stopped attacking Labour (because the Zionists achieved their objective of recapturing Labour and dumping Corbyn), but that alone is not enough to put Labour into the lead.
In a sense, remarkable, when you look at the sleaze and incompetence of the Boris-idiot government of fools.
Labour is not really being an Opposition. All it is doing is saying “we want stricter lockdown, more facemask nonsense, blah blah”.
There is no legitimate Government, and no real Opposition.
Been sympathetic to the argument what are framed as No.10 "communications" screw-ups are actually policy screw-ups that then have to be rationalised by the No.10 comms team. But how can you square last night's presser with these images. And what will they do topublic confidence. https://t.co/B0cuzwE0ie
I first encountered “Happy Holidays” when I first lived in the USA, in the winter of 1989-1990. Basically a Jewish idea, i.e. to give “Hannukka” the same billing as Christmas on the public stage. Also thrown in as makeweight was the ludicrous invented “celebration” called Kwanza [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa].
This is what happens after ten months of non-stop terrorporn about a disease which poses minimal risk to most people. A shopper sobbing in the pet food aisle. Shame on the government and shame on the mainstream media. #panicbuyingpic.twitter.com/zSYONWcqLE
Understand basic maths far better than you. A global death rate "with" Covid of 1.6 m out of a population of 7.8 bn. That's just 0.02%. Give yourself a shake. https://t.co/L62DMx8jQf
Very sorry to hear that. Hope you don't become one of the coming millions of unemployed; bankrupt; homeless; mentally-ill; suicides or cancer deaths on the back of lockdown.
When logic and fact meet fear and a brainwashed mind, logic and factual reality have no chance…
Don’t agree that the Western world should cease to exist or function because 1 out of 1,500 or 2,000 people are dying with “the virus”? Then you are callous, stupid, ignorant, and/or even a murderer. Or something…
Speaking of reality v. unreality, I heard a truly absurd piece on the BBC World Service a few days ago. Some black preacher expressing the view that Jesus Christ was a black African or at least “black”, whose parents came to Palestine “as refugees from North Africa“! As said on many previous occasions, the whole UK msm, and especially the BBC, needs a real cultural purge.
More tweets
Here (below) is a supposedly Welsh tweeter, tweeting under the name “Sion Gruffudd”, and who seems to be a complete doormat for the Jewish lobby (or maybe is a Jew, tweeting under “Welsh” cover; I don’t know):
If you said that you wanted to feed Jews to the dogs, or any named Jew, the police would probably be at your door, and/or you might end up on trial (like Alison Chabloz) under the notorious Communications Act 2003, s.127. Will that happen to “Sion Gruffudd”? I doubt it…
“.…Professor of History Carroll Quigley (1910-1977) of Harvard, Princeton and Georgetown Universities in America…wrote a book entitled The Tragedy and Hope (1966) which discloses an international bankers’ plan to control the world from behind the political and financial scenes. Quigley claimed that the planning by billionaires to establish a dictatorship of the super-rich disguised as workers and socially concerned democracies was already well-advanced even by the middle 1960s. Something that would be dismissed today as a “conspiracy theory” by the university departments sponsored by the likes of Facebook, Google, YouTube and Soros; beholden as they are to an elitist cadre of alumni who fund their research, and who are monitored by the Stasi-like Equality & Diversity units who enforce ‘right-think’ with an enthusiasm that matches Mao’s Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution in China.”
“This is a situation that can no longer go unchallenged by those who truly advocate for diversity of thought and intellectual rigour based on the right to open and unrestricted debate within our education system.”
We need a wider public demand for the crimes of being 'offensive' or 'abusive' to be removed from all hate crime legislation, only retaining that which actually threatens. https://t.co/VexfYCbXf5
The Spanish growers have said they’ll sort the French out. Meantime, back in Lincolnshire beautiful cauliflower, broccoli, sprouts, potatoes and carrots are ignored by the big supermarkets! The best for British produce are Lidl & Aldi! Counter-intuitive but true.
Alternatively, the Spanish authorities can, though not immediately, build up the ports of Bilbao and Santander. At present (or until recently) there was only one ro-ro ferry per week from Santander to Plymouth. I believe one per week Bilbao-Portsmouth too. If that were changed to 5 per day from each port, France could be sidelined. It takes longer to get to the UK from Spain, naturally, but taking the road trip Spain-Channel ports into account, not much longer.
But is it good news for British workers? Controversial schemes to fly in foreign workers to pick crops last spring, will be extended this coming spring, right after the March furlow ends and hidden unemployment explodes. https://t.co/U0IOj9JZMH
Of course, were cruel kosher/kashrut and halal slaughter to be banned in the UK, quite a few Muslims and Jews might feel impelled to leave the UK. “Oh dear, what a pity, never mind”…
It's time to Buy British, Dear Readers. Here's a brief guide along with the requisite links to help change your buying behaviour. Help out your local grocers & butchers. Like Her Majesty, eat seasonal produce. Glenfiddich not Jack. #csm#BuyBritish 🇬🇧 https://t.co/RSUzc4WVdA
Yes, by creating a starker two-tier justice system and not removing these physical threats from society, what Lammy and other similar racial activists are actually asking for is a social arena that will inevitably lead to the robbery, deaths and maiming of more minority people. https://t.co/InVQCzUT3o
At least MPs who happen to be barristers can no longer get “QC” letters patent on the nod, as they could until fairly recently (which is why barristers such as John Mortimer were “QC”).
I see that “the virus” has even made its way to Antarctica (a Chilean base there). Hopefully the one person who (last year, I think) accessed my blog from Antarctica will not be hit by it (I am presuming that he —or she?— is an English speaker, but could still be Chilean, of course).
Late tweets
Apart from his own claims, and he’s hardly a man averse to falsehood, exactly what evidence do we have for this libertarianism?
Frankly, I think that Hitchens is too kind to “Boris”. Don Corleone at least had a sense of strategy, a sense of loyalty and, in his own way, a sense of honour. I see none of that in the unpleasant clown posing presently as Prime Minister.
I am not suggesting that people should leave the country to find a better life, @manwiddecombe. There is no such place. I am suggesting they get out before it is too late. I've always made this clear but almost everyone deliberately misunderstands. https://t.co/bqMKUB1g6G
Claire Fox is not on the right. Most of my ex-IS comrades from the 1960s and 1970s have remained on the left but tailored their Marxism to the times. https://t.co/ylLOylHDL7
Still this “angels on a pinhead” “Right” and “Left” stuff…Who is “Right” or “far Right”, and who is “Left”? What a dull exercise! Concentrate on policy and intention. Leave that fruitless exercise and deal with realities.
Strickley Barrington Dot 30th, born just before milking this morning. She’s the 30th female member of the pedigree BD family to be born here, hence the name.
We have been registering pedigree Shorthorns for over 100 years, and they are always more than just a number in a book. pic.twitter.com/a0EeHJcUqU
A brand new member of our herd, Strickley Goldie 283rd. With the Fillpail calf we had last night, that makes 67 pedigree Dairy Shorthorn heifers born in 2020. In two years time we will have about 30 in milk heifers to sell.
There’s been a lot of talk this week about mega farms in China & about fake lab-grown meat replacing the ‘barbaric & uncaring’ livestock industry. I wrote this back in October & posted it onto my Insta account. It is the real side of my industry, it’s about our care & compassion. pic.twitter.com/T0bWrEvgKm
I am often critical of (some) farmers and of both their behaviour and attitudes, but it is not an unmixed picture by any means.
Hedges need to be laid to maintain the think growth in the base to keep it stockproof. If we left the hedge to grow tall, it would eventually ‘grow out’ and die. Hedge plants such as hazel & hawthorn are species which will live for 100’s yrs if laid, but die much sooner if left https://t.co/c1Q4nL6PcM
Started on a new 100m length of hedging between ours and the neighbour’s. It’s mainly big scrowey blackthorn, which sticks together like Velcro, so we’ve been able to ram on and do a gurt load since dinner.
A bit more hedging done this afternoon between ours and next door. It will soon be bushy and messy again, hedges grow quickly once laid. It hasn’t seen a flail machine for decades on our side and it won’t see one in the future either.
Another length of drystone walling getting rebuilt from the foundations up at the bottom of our hay fields.
Over 150m completed now by Uncle Arthur, a true craftsman. This wall will last hundreds of years without intervention, it will slowly settle into it’s surroundings. pic.twitter.com/DUFw5iDTUm
We will leave it almost untouched for the next 20-25 yrs. Our farm’s 7m of hedgerows are managed over that same long rotation, there’s a full spectrum of hedge sizes across the farm, from newly laid to huge 6m high boundaries. The best thing for hedge health, wildlife and carbon. https://t.co/B95bGsG7k8
Kind of you @talkrussian. Media conformity on most major issues has been solidifying over the past ten years, and accelerated greatly in the two years before this began. The cultural revolution, at first tentative and slow, is accelerating fast now. https://t.co/RVWli5CoCj
It becomes very obvious that “the virus” is being used, being weaponized. Coronavirus or “Covid-19” has killed about 1 out of every 1,400 people in the UK. More accurately, it has killed 1 out of every 1,400 people, who have mostly been over 80 and who mostly had several other serious conditions. Even leaving all that aside, it still means that 1,399 people out of 1,400 in the UK have either not had “Covid-19”, or have had it and survived (usually without ever having noticed that they were infected).
International organizations, such as the World Economic Forum, have openly proclaimed the virus situation as an “opportunity” for a “Great Reset” of world society.
The populations of Europe, USA etc are being taken for a ride.
Oh, ported @jdportes, sweetie, are you so inflamed with conformist prejudice that you can’t understand a scientific paper? It there’s no significant difference in positives, between masked and unmasked, then it is conclusive that masks don’t work. Prejudice hates truth. https://t.co/9ELIjsULye
What are you on about, failed bully portes @jdportes?You seem to think you know something you don't. Indeed, I think this may sum up your problem in general, an assumed & unearned superiority. 'Professor', like 'Pound Sterling', doesn't mean the same as it did when I was young. https://t.co/PGAzxJY33q
“Ain’t that the truth?”…not only about Jewish talking head Portes, though. The general point is also true. Fake or supposed “professors” are everywhere now. At one time, “Professor” was an esteemed rank or title. Now? Well, of course every tertiary educational institute, however basic, is now a “university”. “Universities” need or anyway have “professors”. So now we have not only “grade inflation” and “award inflation”, but also “title inflation”. “Professors” are two a penny these days.
That’s not to say that Portes is always wrong about everything; he was right, imo, about the wrongheadedness of most if not all of the policies pursued by George Osborne, 2010-2015.
COVID-19: Risk of 'serious disruption' to Christmas fresh food supplies https://t.co/J04h7bBmys
Nine out of 10 children on remand in London come from BAME background. The government’s failure to act on racial disproportionality across the justice system is resulting in grossly unfair treatment. The justice system must be fair for everyone. https://t.co/wAXAWYETAv
Ha ha! Lammy must have been a crap barrister! Unintentional admission implied?
*Thread*@Channel4News broadcast a segment on Palestine which included this image from a Prevent training module. The segment claimed that 'vocal support for Palestine' and 'opposition to Israeli settlements in Gaza' are viewed as "potential indicators of extremism" (1/7) pic.twitter.com/7qH8GILHp2
The next slide goes further, "Holding the views on the previous slide is legitimate provided they are not expressed or furthered by statements, deeds or actions which result in harassment, intimidation or threats of violence against individuals or society itself" (3/7) pic.twitter.com/9VhgFj2n95
As for the “professionalism” no doubt claimed by “Prevent” and its practitioners or employees, I believe that there are no Israeli settlements in Gaza; not even the most determined anti-Zionists claim that! So not terribly impressive that “Prevent” gets even basic and unargued facts wrong…Unless, of course, Channel 4 changed “West Bank” to “Gaza”.
Takes the CST Jewish snoop organization as credible?
Jewish student interrogated after complaining about Warwick lecturer. A report by @CST_UK into #Antisemitism on campuses found swastikas drawn on property and assaults. In 15 cases, university staff made antisemitic remarks to or in front of students.https://t.co/Maccx4pmde
Ooh! Swastikas drawn somewhere! Better call out the SWAT squad! Actually, just **** off…
Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
Unintentionally amusing. Could be applied to one of the biggest —and unproven— “conspiracy theories” of all— the “holocaust” “gas chambers”…
BS. New strain known about in September. This is psychological warfare against the British public. Those responsible need to be put on trial. https://t.co/Q4dD9rRAXa
Exactly. Jewish lobby puppet Starmer wants even more “lockdown”, shutdown and facemask nonsense. He’s as much of a waste of space as “Boris”…
Is there anyone out there who still doesn’t realise that we are living under a one-party state dictatorship? Don’t be fooled by the fake ‘Labour’ ‘Conservative’ ‘Lib Dem’ ‘SNP’ left’ ‘right’ divisions: all of them want us locked down forever.
“NWO” and “ZOG” pretty much covers the waterfront… Add in “the Great Reset” and “Great Replacement” if you like…
So Israeli arms firm Elbit is part of a consortium that will train the U.K. navy and marines, along with Raytheon U.K. which is chaired by a former Conservative minister. Just another day in the British Oligarchy. https://t.co/wC7BcXMXDS
The PCR tests are fraudulent so it doesn’t matter if they’re run by the public or private sector. Again the ´left’ is missing the bigger picture. https://t.co/CbxlGwoSQY
Ha ha! As the Irish are said to say “will ya look at that eejit?!“…
I wrote an article about the significance of Patel’s comments. She said ´social distancing is here to stay’. She didn’t misspeak, she knew the agenda. https://t.co/HPwGR5fufw
Exactly. Also, you will never get to the bottom of this if you try to apply ordinary party or other political ideas to it. This is not about the outer labels of “Conservative” or “Labour” etc, not even about trying to create a Bilderberg/WEF “one world” corporatist tyranny. That is just part of it.
This is about trying to steer the whole of the world in an oligarchic materialist-dictatorship direction. It is tied-in with occult, evil purposes which reach right down into everyday life, even into family life.
If people had refused to wear masks the project would have been derailed. If the govt can get you to wear masks for a seasonal winter virus in July! – they can get you to do anything. It was a compliance test and unfortunately too many complied. https://t.co/JLtRYawRW4
Wealth is certainly part of this but there must be more. I am not scientifically trained (just like “Boris” and his Cabinet of clowns), but it is surely at least possible that the hidden agenda of the vaccines is to secretly weaken the human immune system so that, in a year, 3 years, 10 years, a new virus will “suddenly” appear and wipe out most of the population of the world, who (thanks to robotics and AI) are thought “Not Wanted On Voyage”…
Yup. While others, who we thought we could have relied on, when totalitarianism did come to Britain have not only sided with the authorities, but actually urged them to be even more draconian. https://t.co/LTVZbPO6QN
Surely Neil Clark did not seriously think that “Labour” drones in Parliament or outside (or the pathetic self-describing “Left” Twitter-twits) would stand up for freedom and civil rights? They cannot even stand up for free speech against the Jew-Zionist element.
Starmer is making things WORSE. He's shamelessly using the situation to point score and thus facilitating an agenda of ever more draconian rules.
Labour seems to want the whole country to go into Tier 4 before Christmas, as in Labour-run Wales. Toys presumably sealed off in supermarkets too. We need Johnson and Hancock out urgently but Labour most definitely is not the answer.
Starmer says ´Coronavirus is ’now out of control’. That’s is shameful fearmongering. We have a casedemic based on ramped up not-fit-for purpose PCR testing. Hospitals were more full this time last year. Johnson’s awful but the answer to our problems is most definitely not Starmer pic.twitter.com/zDjO5RJotH
Well, admittedly I live in a “Tier 2” area, but over a whole 9-10 months now, not only have I not known anyone personally who has had the “virus”, but I know, from questioning people, that I do not know anyone who knows anyone who has had it. Not died from it, or been to hospital because of it, just had it, or been tested and found be infected. Not one.
I read online about people in London or Birmingham who have supposedly had it. I have no reason to doubt at least some of those claims, but this is not, or not yet, a plague. The big headline today or yesterday about this was “318,000 virus deaths in USA”, which (though many did not die of the virus anyway) is a huge number, but the USA has about 350 million inhabitants, so that is still far less than 1 in every 1,000 inhabitants.
It's very simple: the covid test comes up positive for all SARS viruses, including standard flu. There is no flu this year, because it's been rebounded as new strains covid. They're destroying your world over a standard flu. Because you let them. pic.twitter.com/DdIDP3ZoB4
Yes., @matthewstadlen, I know. , you support censorship. And are not ashamed. But I have never said the virus does not exist. Nor do I think it. https://t.co/zfJbTnTjFA
That Stadlen individual is typical of many in the UK today, especially those who make a living being scribblers or TV talking heads. Unlike most of their predecessors, they see nothing wrong in censoring views, either directly or indirectly (the latter by simply encouraging the BBC, Sky, Press etc to disallow dissidents to write or speak).
It is normal @matthewstadlen , for the person making the claim to provide evidence in support. I don’t say they don’t work. I say you have no evidence that they do. And so it proves. Silly boy. Learn to debate, the come back. https://t.co/isz4vladWn
Stadlen has a First in Classics from Cambridge, albeit gained since award inflation became rampant, yet seems never to have heard of onus probandi incumbit ei qui dicit, non ei qui negat, sometimes put more simply as the rule that “he who asserts must prove“.
In the above case, the positive action taken was to institute “lockdown”. That changed the norm. Therefore it is for those who claim that “lockdowns” work to prove that they do. Not merely assume or assert; prove.
1/2 @matthewstadlen. Twaddle. Read your own tweets. You attack me for the act of dissenting. You can't do naything elkse. You have no interest in (or knowledge of) what I actually say. You think it wrong of me to disagree with the government. https://t.co/t1LQTXgltX
1/2 @matthewstadlen I fear *you* have missed *your* point @matthewstadlen. The description of speech as 'dangerous' is plainly a preliminary to limiting or preventing it. Why else use such a word? You are ploughing the furrows in which others will sow censorship. What argument? https://t.co/MraPHgOx0h
2/2 @matthewstadlen. Quite how destroying your neighbours' jobs, by the hundreds of thousands, and their businesses by thousands, wrecking the NHS, & condemning the healthy old to lonely inavctivity and early death is 'common sense', I do not know. What a prig you are. https://t.co/9wbhwJAs8g
What does this Stadlen care? Wealthy Jewish background, well-paid jobs for BBC and other msm outlets. Looks like he has had a pretty easy life so far. No real concern for the millions of British people suffering (and about to suffer far more). Just crocodile tears tacked on to the end of his virtue-signalling.
Difficult to square this with what we were told in the press conference only three hours ago. https://t.co/EDrqP6rErF
Purely anecdotal, but in my experience people are once again taking big swerving steps to physically avoid each other on the street in the way everyone did back in March.
“Atrocious” maybe, but scarcely surprising to anyone who has seen on TV Anneliese Dodds, let alone Angela Rayner or Keir Starmer. Not that I have much time for Indian “clever boy” Sunak either.
Never bought the "sick of experts" narrative. But when you spend half an hour being told by academics you should speak to "experts" on child-grooming – themselves and their friends – rather than the actual victims and their representatives it's quite hard not to give it credence.
Ah. We got there. Home Office officials aren't "experts". Ministers aren't "experts". The people who represent those who were abused aren't "experts". Those who were actually abused aren't "experts". Just you and your mates. You are the only "experts" that matter.
“Judges have insisted that freedom of speech includes the ‘right to offend’ in a landmark ruling which could help to turn the tide.“
“Presiding over a case in the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Warby said: ‘Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.’”
“Mr Justice Warby explained that the relevant parts of the Communications Act ‘were not intended by Parliament to criminalise forms of expression, the content of which is no worse than annoying or inconvenient in nature’.“
“Miss Scottow [appellant] told The Daily Telegraph: ‘It was necessary to enshrine one of the most fundamental rights of every living being in a democratic society – the right to freedom of speech that is now routinely attacked…’ ” [Daily Mail]
The malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [CAA] conspirators will be tearing their hair out (those that have any). This must be relevant to the ongoing Alison Chabloz saga. Unlike the magistrates’ court decision in Alison’s 2018 conviction, which (contrary to CAA lies) set no precedent, this is a judgment in the Court of Appeal, and certainly does set a precedent.
Can the Alison Chabloz trial (presently set down for 2 days, 30-31 March 2021, at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, London) now even be continued? It would seem otiose now to continue the prosecution, quite apart from anything else.
[Alison Chabloz]
It could be argued that, stricto sensu, there is no precedent set by the Scottow appeal, in that Human Rights Act 1998, s.3 requires the court to interpret legislation in accord with Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (which “guarantees” freedom of expression).
Sadly, the ECHR is hemmed in by so many ifs and buts that it is all but meaningless. For example, several EU states, such as France and Germany, are signed up to the ECHR yet have “holocaust” “denial” laws akin to those of the mediaeval times which criminalized “heretical” opinions.
On a practical level, this is a precedent. The ruling reaffirms the right to freedom of expression on political, social, religious, and historical topics.
On a connected point, Scotland may soon have a “hate speech” law that runs counter to the developing law in England. The funny thing is that, if so, anyone in Scotland wanting to post anything online which might be caught by that absurd yet tyrannical law need only go an inch over the border in England to escape such capture. If comments are not posted in the jurisdiction, they will not be justiciable in the jurisdiction.
Radio 4 Today Programme
God, what a bloody bore the Today Programme has become. I wonder how many people listen now. I try it most mornings, mainly if I am awake early enough to listen to the preceding broadcasts (Farming Today etc) but usually switch off before long.
Japanese whaling
Some years ago, when I still had a Twitter account (i.e. before a pack of Jews had me expelled), I often used to tweet about and against Japanese whaling. I also made the point that the international pressure against Japanese whaling, though absolutely correct, would not lead directly to a cessation of whaling by the Japanese.
For the Japanese, saving face is all important. It meant that the Japanese could not be seen to bow to either international diplomatic pressure or to the direct pressure exerted on the high seas by the Greenpeace and especially the Sea Shepherd protective ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shepherd_Conservation_Society.
“In his 2009 book, Whaling in Japan, Jun Morikawa states that Sea Shepherd’s confrontational tactics have actually strengthened Japan’s resolve to continue with its whaling program. According to Morikawa, Sea Shepherd’s activities against Japan’s whaling ships have allowed the Japanese government to rally domestic support for the program from Japanese who were otherwise ambivalent about the practice of hunting and eating whales.” [Wikipedia]
While I personally supported Sea Shepherd to the hilt, the above was obviously correct. However, I sensed that the Japanese leadership was trying to find a way to scale down whaling while still saving face. Whaling was and still is subsidized. Few Japanese now eat whale meat (a practice which, though ancient on a small scale, in modern form dates mainly from the 1940s:
Most other products of whaling as practised in the 19th and 20th centuries have now been superseded by inorganic substitutes.
Japan needed to get out of whaling for both presentational and economic reasons, but needed a face-saving way not to be seen to back down. It found it, as I always thought it would. Simply, whaling has been continued in and around Japanese waters, within the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone under the Law of the Sea (i.e. extending to c.200 miles out): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone_of_Japan.
“Following the September 2018 Florianopolis Declaration where the IWC rejected Japan’s latest commercial hunt proposal, and concluded that the purpose of the IWC is the conservation of whales,[112] Japan withdrew its IWC membership on December 26, 2018. It then resumed commercial hunting in its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone on July 1, 2019, but ceased whaling activities in the Antarctic Ocean.[114][115]” [Wikipedia] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_Japan
“...without government subsidies, their whaling industry is not expected to survive.” [Wikipedia]
Though unfortunate for those whales killed within Japan’s EEZ, meaning about 200 minke whales annually, the change of policy does mean that Japan is no longer going to kill whales in the Antarctic and South Pacific, or indeed in the North Pacific outside Japan’s EEZ, though Japan retains the purported right to do so if it wishes.
Hugo (five minutes later): You idiot, Peter. There’s clearly no way to test whether a mask works or not. How do you track everyone they encounter? Muppet. You fail, I win. So embarrassed for you.
Unusually, I agree with the implication of Jew-Zionist “@Mendelpol” here (as well as with Laura Towler): people should indeed say “Jews” where —and only where— that is both appropriate and true…(though in fact I think that “@thisislaurat” was using the phrase “you people” in a wider way in those tweets).
In any case, I do not suppose that even the most “antisemitic” would claim or complain that everything of importance is controlled by Jews!
The virus is the greatest globalist con trick ever. Coordinated at the highest levels of government and media, it has united the world in fear and conformity to a completely irrational set of rules. They expect you to get used to this.
A house I leased for a couple of years about 18 years ago had a real conservatory just like that, though maybe two-thirds of the size. Beautiful.
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Shocking figures on the deaths and suffering from cancer caused by missed scans and appointments – something I first highlighted during my time on the frontline in April – along with all the other non-COVID health harms caused by COVID and by lockdown. https://t.co/82E6piL2HU
'British Justice' – what a very sick joke. Despite an 18+8 sentence for multiple rapes of 13-year-olds, the beast who led the #Telford groomers is now back on the same streets as his victims. Had enough yet?https://t.co/Fcjgn4k49s
Another Christmas alumni contest. The final one. Wadham, Oxford v. Leeds. Once again I did far better than Wadham’s whole team (inc. Anne McElvoy and Jonathan Freedland), and as well as, maybe better than, Leeds, though the latter were good at science, and I could answer few of those questions; got a few right. Leeds won by a mile over Wadham.
“Sensitive, empathic, and insightful, you care deeply about people, wanting to accommodate them on the one hand, and having strong visions that you desperately want to turn into reality on the other. Often preoccupied with mulling over your personal thoughts in your own head, others are likely to describe you as tolerant, courteous, and appreciative, but also a bit remote and dreamy. Thoughtful and caring, you have a well-developed facility for putting yourself in another person’s place and an instinctive understanding of how people work. Though you tend to spend considerable time fantasizing about how society could be improved, you typically refrain from arguing passionately in favor of your solutions. Instead, you prefer to influence others by gently letting them know how their individual contributions would be invaluable in the greater scheme of things.”
This apparently puts me on the same page as Jefferson and Gandhi, inter alia.
Radio 4 TodayProgramme
Heard what I thought sounded like a typical British and aged Oxbridge academic woman called Dr. Brenda Boardman, demanding that the little UK, with its relatively small population, take measures (which might trash our living standards) to “reduce emissions”, despite the fact that all UK “emissions” of “greenhouse gases” add up to only 1% of those of the world as a whole.
In fact, though she does work out of Oxford University, the woman concerned got a Open University degree in Sociology and Technology around 1980 at the age of (about) 40: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Boardman.
I have no objection to people getting degrees “late” or from the Open University, and it may be that that lady’s work overall has been valuable, but it can be very dangerous or destructive to give academics or semi-academics too much power or influence over the real UK. Look at “SAGE” (aka “DUMB”— “Department Under Matt and Boris”)…
River Lugg
Horrible and upsetting to hear on the Today Programme that “someone”, presumably a local farmer or landowner, has deliberately trashed over a mile of the bank of the River Lugg, which meets the Wye near Hereford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Lugg
Trees cut down, bushes etc destroyed, the bank of the river actually canalized, otters, birds and fish killed or displaced.
Penalties for this sort of crime must be greatly increased.
[Update, 9 December 2020:the following tweet was seen by me]
The farm at the heart of the Lugg River story gets a lot of subsidies. In 2000-2009 it received 1.93 million euros of farm payments. In 2018 it was £213k. Last year £189k. That's about 950-1000ha.
This is why paying farmers for public goods, not owning land, is the way forward.
Crash the economy & reduce the peasants to joyless poverty, and emissions of the world's most important natural fertiliser will indeed fall. The old Communists wanted to control the means of production, the new ones want to abolish them. It won't end well!https://t.co/mvWH3qKnZe
I don’t see myself as anything of the kind @clagsborough. I have repeatedly rejected attempts to describe me as an ‘intellectual’ , and describe myself as what I am, a jobbing scribbler. https://t.co/m3hNhCHBft
If only all msm scribblers were as honest! In fact, to be fair to Hitchens, he is somewhere between “intellectual” and scribbler.
Good old SNP, pulled the rug from BiFab after first blowing £52 million, costs 500 jobs in renewable energy & even their overpriced "unclosable" Queensferry Crossing is closed… and they're sat on BILLIONS of Scottish taxpayers money. #snpout2021#SNPouthttps://t.co/uh8xOrnfgT
— The First Casualty – Falklands War History (@FirstFalklands) December 4, 2020
Alison Chabloz
Persecuted satirical singer-songwriter, Alison Chabloz, expected to stand trial —again— on 17 December 2020, has published her first completely public blog post for some time: see https://alisonchabloz.com/
[Alison Chabloz]
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If you are *infuriated* by the opinions of another person @richardz86, the chances are very strong that this person is expressing opinions you yourself suspect are correct, but fear to adopt. I speak as someone who has been through the unpleasant process of changing my mind. https://t.co/IgQdYwX2oP
I should say, the degree of domestic comfort now taken for granted by UK residents of all conditions. Central heating is major, as is hot water on tap without problems (see old British films for an idea of what many had to endure before, not even 1945, but c.1970).
Incidentally, the first house in England (and UK, I think) to have central heating, at least since the days of Roman Britain, was the country house of the steel magnate, Bessemer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bessemer], which country house is now a seaside hotel [https://www.beachhousemilfordonsea.co.uk/] not more than a few miles from where I myself now live. Oddly, I also lived (for a year or two) near another area associated with Bessemer, Denmark Hill in South London, which was his main residence (and he died there, not long before the outbreak of the First World War).
What made me laugh were some of the responses to that Goodwin question. Some cited “public housing” (though of course that pre-dated 1945), “good and reliable television” (“reliable”, yes, if that means the picture appears when you switch on; “good”, doubtful…), and of course TV never really got going until the early 1950s though it had existed (in both Germany and the UK) since the 1930s, but with only a few hundred viewers initially.
I did not see “mass immigration” as an “important advance or achievement” cited by even one of the usually avid Twitter virtue-signallers. Honesty by default?
That Anderson person is in the pocket of the Jewish lobby. He used to tweet against me, before part of that same Jew lobby had me expelled from Twitter in 2018. Interesting to see this news. “Oh dear, what a pity, never mind!…“
Speaking of “what goes around comes around”, here is serial Twitter troll “@grubstreetsteve”, aka “@rattus2384”, real name Stephen Applebaum, an active conspirator of the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, tweeting to others, notably “@TimGStevens” (aka “Dr. Dim”) about me:
Millard appears to have zero life beyond providing commentary on Chabloz's case and writing snide antisemitic blogs.
So I have “zero life“? Well, it is true that my life is far less affluent —and far more circumscribed in consequence— than it was 15, 20, or more years ago, but Applebaum might reflect on how saying unpleasant things can boomerang back: he, once (long ago) an aspiring film critic, is now never, or hardly ever, published anywhere, is basically a “house husband”, and moreover has recently been tweeting about how he has been diagnosed as having both cancer and “Coronavirus”, which has affected his lungs etc.
As for “Dr. Dim” (Tim G. Stevens), an NHS psychiatrist with a depressive condition, and based in Essex, his tweet (above) scarcely covers his apparent obsession, stretching over several years now, with me. See https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/. Seems to be an honesty problem and a medical ethics problem there…
Actually, “Dr. Dim” tweeted not long ago to another mentally-disordered Zionist (a Jewish woman from North London) that he quite often looks at my blog (the said Jewess replied that she looks at it daily, no doubt to see whether she might be able to make —another— malicious complaint against me to the police). In other words, Dr. Dim’s assertion that he hardly knows of me, and so on, is rather “economical with the truth”…
“They” snoop constantly on my blog. They do not realize that, by so doing, their own minds will be affected.
Another troll exposed in open court, like Applebaum, is Stephen Silverman, “Head of Enforcement and Investigations” at the sinister Jew-Zionist cabal, the so-called Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA).
I have noticed that quite a few people on Twitter, gratuitously nasty about me in the past decade, are now either dead or have serious and chronic medical conditions. Looks like someone “up there” is on my side. As the ancient Chinese proverb has it, “the stars in their courses fight on the side of the just“. May God mote it be!
In Hampshire, each little police area seems to run its own Twitter account. Most are unexceptionable, informing the public about their work, and about arrests made etc, appealing for information, and so on. Quite useful for the public. A few, however, have fallen into socio-political bias. For example, the “Waterside Cops” Twitter account (covering the area of the Solent shore South West of Southampton), seemed to be, until recently, full of propaganda about “hate speech”, and also about how good, supposedly, are the “Roma”, “traveller” etc “communities”. Ironic, in view of the “situation” with those “communities”…
Well, it seems that the Chief Constable (or whoever) has taken the matter in hand, with the result that all the local police Twitter accounts in Hampshire, all the ones of which I am aware anyway, will be closed on 4 January 2021. It may be that they are throwing out the baby with the bathwater, in that most of those accounts, most of the time, were all right. Still, there it is.
The above tweet may be unintentionally misleading. The hearing on 17 December 2020 is the trial of Alison Chabloz on another three charges arising from a complaint made in 2019 by Stephen Silverman of the “CAA”. It is not directly connected with Alison’s appeal in respect of earlier trials or matters (which are now concluded).
Bhakdi is almost a prophet, foreseeing the extent and nature of this needless tragedy from the start. The extreme gentleness of his manner contrasts with the contained power of what he has to say. https://t.co/5TASi4kGNw
Read Peter Hitchens’ book the abolition of liberty. Jury trial has been undermined for decades and is barely functional now, Keir Starmer ran the crown prosecution service and it’s not fit for purpose
When Starmer was put in (by the Jewish/Israel lobby) to re-take Labour (he’s married to a Jewish woman lawyer; children brought up as Jewish, just like those of that corrupt little pissant, Robert Jenrick), I thought that he would at least look reasonably competent. Wrong!
After 1-2 years of the incompetence of Boris-idiot, he is still well ahead of Keir Starmer in the opinion polls!
1/2 @georgemonbiot, We differ on that. I also disapprove of your use of the word 'denial, with its implied smear. To disagree with you is not to 'deny', but to challenge. You are not the fount of all knowledge, nor has anyone given you power to decide what is and is not true… https://t.co/x9H77A1bhm
More farcical news. It seems that “because of the disruption caused to education by Coronavirus“, school pupils and others will have their exams marked “more generously” in 2021. In addition, they will be tipped off as to which topics within subjects will be particularly examined!
You really could not make it up! Or, as Victor Meldrew would say, “I don’t believe it!“. Except that I do believe it, because it is entirely consonant with the tenor of the times. Award inflation has become a notorious fact over the past two decades. Something like 35% of students at Oxford and Cambridge are now awarded First Class degrees (at one time awarded only to the brilliant few), and no less than 94% are now being awarded either Firsts or Upper Seconds.
Likewise at the secondary educational level. The school student who gets (in the Americanized vocabulary of the day) “straight-As”, is now almost the rule.
The reality is not so shining, and is not infrequently clear even on shows such as University Challenge, the showcase of “la creme de la creme“.
We might as well just give high marks to everyone, and have done with it! Oh, no, wait… we already do.
I suppose that the Government announcement is a political move designed to mollify the young, to “stuff their mouths with gold” (or at least Fool’s Gold).
Such welcome news from @DefraGovUK Culmination of 50 year's campaigning. We will give every support to ensure the ban reaches the statue books. Live animal exports have always been cruel & unnecessary. We will not rest until finally consigned to history. https://t.co/pNHm5GCQfB
Brimelow: Government has published 304 statutory instruments re covid restrictions – 8 per week since 6th March. Laws have been uploaded in the middle of the night, in one instance just 30 minutes before it came into force.
"It is time to clear the fear and let us all breath," says @Kirsty_Brimelow criticising the government's covid laws which she says has led to the "criminalisation of social behaviour". pic.twitter.com/dGhHc3LAoX
“Mitigating for Moyo, defence lawyer Michael Goldwater said: “He came to this country at age 20 and lived in Coventry with his family and remained there until his release from his last prison sentence in 2016.”
Rishi Sunak dines at lavish private club days after freezing public sector pay
The Tory Chancellor attended the exclusive surroundings of 5 Hertford Street days after announcing austerity measures following the coronavirus crisis https://t.co/y0izLALtgP
Once again I urge my fellow journalists, regardless of your political views, without fear or favour, to speak out against the extradition to the USA of Julian Assange, a threat to the freedom of all journalists. Your words will matter. So will your silence, if you choose that..
@benswin_ is that so? Then please provide any hard, objective testable evidence for the effectiveness of strangling the country, in reducing Covid deaths. ‘It stands to reason, dunnit?’ does not qualify. https://t.co/vH82XORlPI
The latest word is that Alison Chabloz, persecuted satiriste, singer-songwriter, entertainer and truth-seeker is, after all, expected to face her latest trial on 17 December 2020, at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, 181 Marylebone Road, London NW1: https://courttribunalfinder.service.gov.uk/courts/westminster-magistrates-court
Doors open at 0900 hrs, with the trial expected to commence at 1000 hrs. All supporters will be welcome.
[Alison Chabloz]
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The first epidemic in history that the authorities have had to go out and look for. pic.twitter.com/7wIyIgElbI
One of the things which has kept me going since March is the incessant resort of my opponents and critics to personal abuse and misrepresentation. A good cause does not need such weapons, and hesitates to use them. https://t.co/CpdZHXbyVB
Exactly the sort of idiot that is driving the whole “panicdemic” SAGE nonsense: the “lockdown” nonsense, the facemask nonsense, the testing (of the asymptomatic) nonsense, and all the other “virus” nonsense of the past 8 months.
@jed_mercurio This article traces the curious switch of authority from indifference to fierce support for mask wearing. Not driven by science: https://t.co/0pwh3tNsYU
Answer to the above— yes, but those who would benefit from European rule in and over Africa would not, primarily, be European people but African, together with the animals, birds and other life of the continent.
“Coronavirus”
Just listening to the Radio 4 PM programme. Ludicrous and convoluted new “rules” around who is “allowed” (by our gracious ZOG tyranny) to meet with whom during the Christmas period. Households, “bubbles” etc. Just junk it all, and those who presume to lay down “rules” and fake laws.
The fact is that, if people want to “flout” the “rules” in their own homes, there is no way for the State to prevent that, short of instituting a real Stasi/Maoist style surveillance regime.
The interesting aspect is that these “rules” are effectively (99.9%) unenforceable in the usual way (police, prosecutions etc). They are only enforceable via making the population afraid. The population, to some extent, is now afraid. As a result, the UK has almost closed down.
Early evening music
[Carlsbad/Karlovy Vary]
The toytown police state slowly turns into a real one
“Disgraceful and un-British”? He must mean “just like our ZOG/NWO elected dictatorship, aka the government of Boris-idiot”.
This sort of police heavy-handedness (to white people legitimately protesting) will get worse until a few people, or at least until a few thousand people, just put (according to preference) one or two fingers up to the Government of Clowns and say something colloquial, whether it be “on yer bike!” or “**** off!”…
When enough people ignore the so-called “rules”, those “rules” are no longer the rules. Simple as that.
Late tweets
2/2 This advertisement is not to do with mixing (though I'd argue the response to this virus is wildly disproportionate to its danger) . It's to do with recording the maximum number of positive tests among people who aren't ill. What is the purpose of that @bleakrobot ? https://t.co/MIhaCkDHAS
1/2 I've been out for a long walk in the clean November air @bleakrobot. You have not 'exposed' me. Johnson, frantic to prove his destruction of the country is justified, seeks to achieve high figures for positive tests. https://t.co/UJ1T92BnJb
Repetition is necessary in any attempt to spread an idea @bleakrobot . The government spends millions a day on internet posts, posters, newspaper advertisements etc. Saying the same thing over and over again. Why do you think they do that? https://t.co/mQTyuONide
There are arguments for lockdown. There are arguments against lockdown. But if we're now a society that decides to only hug those we love for 5 specific days of the year, as stipulated by Government edict, we have literally lost our minds.
People are telling me we have adequate protections here in the UK. We’re literally living through a period where free elections have been cancelled by a simple majority vote in Parliament.
One thing we’ve seen over the past year. If the Prime Minister of the day can convince the country their actions are necessary for protecting the health and safety of the nation he or she will be given licence to basically do whatever they like.
When dictators pop up they don’t say “I’m doing this because I want a gold throne and diamond encrusted robes”. They say “I’m doing this because it’s the only way I can protect you and your family”.
JUST IN: Another blow to pubs.. festive bubbles are limited to private homes or place of worship or outdoor public space only…. you will not be able to go out for Christmas pint or meals together as three households.
MOMENTS AGO: Reporter shouts, "Will you be issuing a pardon for himself?" to President Trump following Thanksgiving turkey pardon. pic.twitter.com/BJrFeQTygD
[I crave no indulgence for repeating that] Trump should be pardoning or preparing to pardon the thousands of social-national people currently doing hard time in Federal prisons. No-one can stop him from extending the Presidential prerogative of mercy to anyone in Federal incarceration. Just do it, Trump!
The Party Formerly Known As Labour is pushing for a law to prevent anyone discussing online and negatively the anti-Covid vaccines currently under development.
Things have slid so fast in Britain that such a measure seems almost normal; to have an “urgent” law passed (at present only proposed, and only by Labour) which would have the sole aim of stifling or gagging discussion and views on a contentious bit of public policy.
One can see where the idea came from. Keir Starmer is married to a Jewish woman, a property lawyer, and their children are being brought up as Jewish. The “holocaust” narrative is protected from debate, analysis, or questioning in much of Western and Central Europe by means of “holocaust” “denial” laws, meaning that anyone questioning even part of that narrative faces prosecution.
Such laws can be compared to the religious heresy laws which were in force in much of Catholic Europe in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance eras.
It is natural for Keir Starmer, a former Director of Public Prosecutions, to see repressive law, or police and other punitive action, as the answer to a perceived problem of public belief in, or compliance with, government requirements. He believes in repression.
This kneejerk reaction, to ban any expression of dissent, is very much a sign of the times.
The conventional political wisdom is to think that, now that Labour is supposedly less “extreme” after the departure of Corbyn, the party is more “electable”. Perhaps, in Britain’s rigged binary system, which posits a “choice” between two “major parties”. Also, we have a government which exhibits incompetence and muddle exceeding even that of the previous decade. However, I would not put much money on Labour. It is still a party wedded to mass immigration, political correctness etc, still replete with black MPs, still full of petty would-be dictators such as Yvette Cooper and Rachel Reeves (both members of Labour Friends of Israel, incidentally).
While we are on the subject of System politics, consider the transnational element in the ZOG/NWO set-up. For example, Yvette Cooper went to work for then Presidential nominee Bill Clinton in Arkansas in 1992, after having left university but after a brief time also working as a researcher for the then Shadow Chancellor, John Smith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Cooper#Early_life_and_education.
Another case: the present New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, worked for the Labour Party in London sometime around 2002 as a Special Adviser (paid £50,000-£100,000 p.a.), before she returned to NZ politics.
Trump
Trump needs to extend Presidential pardon to all social-national or allied prisoners doing time in Federal prisons. Stick it to “antifa” and other swine!
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Quite. It was dismal to visit Soviet public hospitals shortly before the USSR imploded – staff shortages, no drugs, poor hygiene, corruption usually necessary to secure antibiotics etc. National Wealth is essential to provide National Health. https://t.co/yI89ewZSXb
A Soviet-era poetic line about the Kremlin Clinic read, “The floors parquet, the doctors OK“, meaning politically-vetted (it rhymes in Russian): полы паркетные, врачи анкетные.
Straw in the wind https://t.co/T2XJEOCtCJ but I see more and more advertising for private GP services. I suspect this has accelerated in the past six months.
I'm in favour of free-at-the-point-of-use @cancelledxxx . Problem is that, if such a free health service crumbles, those who can will increasingly turn to private GPs, already increasing in number here, and private hospitals.The NHS officially survives,while in fact fading away. https://t.co/DzdwvMev6k
Again, yes. When my local GP (a nice fellow) was on paternity leave last year or the year before, he was replaced for the duration by a far more pro-active young doctor who improved my (high blood pressure, mainly) medication. Despite the fact that I only attend the medical centre about once a year, I was sorry to read in the newsletter the practice puts out that he had relocated to London to join a purely private practice. I looked up that practice online. Based in Kensington, and I noticed that a home visit was charged from about £250!
I have to say that that young doctor must have been very driven, because after all most GPs now get over £100,000 anyway, especially if partners, and if they practise in an area such as this they can play golf, sail, ride etc. In other words, they can live a rather pleasant lifestyle. Well, there it is…
'More and more journalists seem happy to be the mouthpieces of government, or of political parties. Worse, they attack other journalists for refusing to fall into step with the official line'. https://t.co/bOTe8CfgLv
Britain is floating – for now – on a sea of funny money. How long till we pay the enormous price for pretending we are richer than we are? https://t.co/bOTe8CfgLv
The woman arrested (with a degree of brutality, at that) cries out, “I have not done anything!”, as if that matters in the Britain of 2020 (cf. Alison Chabloz).
At what point does the “Overton window” move to the extent that it becomes accepted that former British “democracy and freedom” have been subverted, and therefore that it is acceptable to do whatever it takes to restore our liberties?
Special tweet for followers of current British nationalism on the shocking arrest of a young #PatrioticAlternative activist for giving out leaflets, and the response from #MarkCollett. With no freedom to comment here, I've addressed it on Telegram. https://t.co/wEhjdENgCh
The ending of the Dom Cummings era has damaged Boris. If it's replaced by the Carrie Symonds era it will destroy him > Mail On Sunday > https://t.co/MMGNd9fcim
Something being missed. It's not that Carrie Symonds was briefing against Cummings or Cain. She was briefing against Boris himself. He'd taken a decision. And she opted to use her contacts in the media, parliament and Government to overturn it. You can't run a country like that.
Some people keep tweeting me "how do you know". We know because it wasn't just Carrie Symond's enemies who were briefing she overturned the Chief of Staff decision. Her allies were openly boasting about how she overturned the Chief of Staff decision.
It is not often that I agree with Dan Hodges! In an extraordinary year, this stands out. Britain is, arguably, now run by the “ho” (to use the now-ubiquitous black argot) of the part-Jew chancer currently posing as Prime Minister!
A degree in art history and theatre studies, then Miss Symonds joined the Conservative Party in the lowly position of one of many press officers. Nine years later, she was heading that department, but “It was reported that she was asked to leave her post as director of communications after sources claimed party chiefs had said her performance was poor, and questions were raised over significant unjustified expenses claims.” [Wikipedia]
I notice that Miss Symonds was appointed to head the department in which she had worked for many years in 2018, the same year in which she started her affair with the still-married “Boris”.
“It’s not what you know but who you know”…(or should that be “It’s not what you know but by whom you are known”, using “known” in the “Biblical” or “Ugandan” sense?)…
Miss Symonds is an advocate for animal welfare. I like that. However, as Hodges says, this is no way to run a government.
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Laura Towler and her husband, of Patriotic Alternative, were attacked by three “antifa” swine yesterday, but beat them off. This has generated very many tweets.
Woman: I've been assaulted. Leftie women: omg, I don't even need any evidence, I believe you regardless. Let's get this male scum who did this to you. Even if he's innocent, I don't care. I believe you. Woman: it was Antifa. Leftie woman: …..where's your evidence?
A reminder to all that Alison Chabloz will be put on trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, 181 Marylebone Road, London, on Tuesday 17 November. That is the day after tomorrow. All supporters welcome. THe nearest Underground stations are Edgware Road (District, Circle, Bakerloo) and Marylebone (Bakerloo). The trial is expected to start at 1000 hrs.
You are pre-judging it's a 'lie' because you disagree with it. Thereby protecting yourself from hearing it and having to think and possibly have your bigotry tested.
Christopher Hitchens would have had a field day with you.
Watching that Schwab “Great Reset” video above reminded me of the opinion of Max Planck, who said that most scientists [and therefore people in general] are not convinced by theories, facts or new facts, but that once that sceptical generation is replaced by a new generation brought up with those new facts, the new theory becomes accepted wisdom.
That is what the propaganda is aimed at— the younger generation, including young children. What propaganda? Not just the “Coronavirus” stuff, but also “Black Lives Matter”, the whole racemixing agenda, all sorts of associated stuff too. The Great Reset. The Great Replacement. White Genocide.
It is not aimed against people born( like me) in 1956, nor at those born in 1966, or 1976, or even 1986. It is aimed at those born in the 1990s, the 2000s and the 2010s.
Late tweets
One of the worst 'leaders' in the Western world lets out more than he probably should about how #TPTB are exploiting #covid to force a society-wrecking #GreatReset on our all. pic.twitter.com/Jm5znv467B
"The days when newspapers had that sort of concentrated power to defy authority are coming to an end.The internet, all too easily censored & manipulated, is taking over. Without strong newspapers, all the forces of liberty & law are weaker"
The problem with that view is that the “Judenpresse” is, and for a long time has been, owned, controlled or very strongly influenced by the Jew-Zionist element. The Internet promised —and briefly delivered on that promise— to provide free expression, but “they” are now reasserting control, and only the harshest resistance will prevent that.
Peter Hitchens’ view of “Press freedom” is very out of date.
Three #Israelis who returned from #Denmark and were confirmed as infected with the novel #coronavirus may have been infected with the new strain discovered among minks in the country recently.https://t.co/IqODNC0rox
How did Israelis have contact, in Denmark, with live mink or even with people who have had contact with live mink? How could that even happen? Am I being too suspicious?
I suppose that they could have been Jew fur traders. Or is there more to this, something even more sinister?
It's getting increasingly difficult for the #covidmask fanatics to bully people into wearing unhealthy, dehumanising & futile muzzles. If anyone has a go at you for refusing to comply with such degrading nonsense, give them a taste of their own medicine.https://t.co/f0BADJKxeI
Not entirely with Griffin there. In the case shown, the man was wrong, in my view, to follow the woman down the street to intimidate her, even though she herself triggered the incident by “talking on her telephone” about how people were not wearing masks on the train. In other words, she was being what people now call “passive-aggressive”, not confronting nearby non-mask-wearers directly but talking “about” them (at them) using her telephone as cover.
Still, people who act as unofficial “Covid marshals” (or even official ones) deserve to be denounced.
Once again the formerly pro-panic London Evening Standard opposes the pointless strangling of the Capital’s economy – on p.1. Things ain’t wot they used to be, thank goodness. pic.twitter.com/PKHiHA8EqD
But they do not ‘suggest’ @patrickfieldin6 They threaten fines of £6,400 . There is nothing like enough evidence to justify compulsion, let alone these tyrannical threats.” https://t.co/A57orPvrI5
The days are numbered for publishers like Twitter dot com / Facebook dot come / youtube dot com & big-tech. They are involved in a coup right now and one day there will be massive backlash. https://t.co/raDyg3SqzV
All the usual pathetic “antifa” idiots (for whom Twitter is basically the whole world) are rejoicing. Useless grifter and fake “historian”/”journalist” Mike Stuchbery, “historian” “Dr” Louise Raw, “antifashwitch” (pseudo-occult crazie Roanna Carleton Taylor). The whole of that silly echo-chamber.
Here (below) is a typical example of that degenerate type:
twitter finally banned neo-nazi turbononce Mark Collett, cue a lot of really shitty opinions from incoherent fash apologists about cEnSorShiP.
📢 being a full blown nazi isn't a position to be politely debated against, the little rat needs firing into the fucking sun
The Jews are also rejoicing, alongside their “antifa” dupes.
Twitter is only useful for illustrative purposes. All social media is only good as an adjunct to real-world politics and power.
All the interesting people, pretty much, are now banned from Twitter.
There is only one way forward, though it may take a variety of forms.
Time is running out for others on Twitter. Laura Towler, Nick Griffin etc. They must know it.
There are positive aspects. The poundland KGB (emergent UK police state) relies on the monitoring of the Internet and especially on the monitoring of social media. Those banned from using this or that platform, or the Internet generally, fly beneath the radar and are hard to track.
If anyone wants to go to Telegram, or Parler, or Gab etc, fine. However, talking or posting on social media can only take you so far. Yes, that also applies to posting on blogs such as mine.
Talking about the Twitter echo chamber, I am amused to see that a new secular saint has emerged, following in the footsteps of Saint Mandela and Saint Obama: Saint Jo Biden (with, pictured smaller, as in ancient Egyptian artworks) his “Nubian” assistant, Saint Kamala Harris. Truly pathetic…
“@loratlov” is quite correct. I have spoken (at the London Forum in 2017), tweeted (before I was expelled at the behest of the Jew lobby), and blogged for years about the “privatization of public space”, and also about how the pseudo-socialists nowadays defend the “right” of huge transnational capialist enterprises to take away the free speech of the citizen.
My father fought in WW2 and his opinions on race and immigration would see him put in prison today if spoken in public. The same applies to all the men of his generation who I met.
“Mariana M”, apparently. Another enemy of the British people.
just look at the live births of children born last year 58% where from white british. how in 40 years time will they not be on the verge of being a minority.
Laura Towler is right. Twitter is but a convenient cul-de-sac. As for “Elizabeth Haggis”, she exemplifies Twitter. Twitter is the whole world to such people.
Music
Late tweets seen
Below, a typical Twitter degenerate:
.@YouTube@YouTubeTV are still hosting neo-Nazis including the, just banned from Twitter, Mark Collet and Laura Towler. Please take time to report them and let YouTube know regularly.
This specifically applies to young white men. Why sign up to a life of indentured servitude as a tax-cow for an elite that hates you and will use the wealth you produce to fund your #greatreplacement?
“We have a golden opportunity to seize something good from this crisis — its unprecedented shockwaves may well make people more receptive to big visions of change,”
Furlough just kicking the can down the road. When it ends and the consequences of that emerge, the Conservative party are finished. Furlough is the sticking plaster holding society together.
No one with any real idea thinks that Government money is a fixed amount of coins in a wooden chest; that is “Mrs Thatcher” economics, “housewife’s shopping basket” economics.
Having said that, continual issuance of fiat money eventually cannot be sustained. In extreme cases it leads to collapse of the currency as people cease to accept that such money has value. Such money ceases to be money at all except nominally, and just becomes worthless paper. Examples well-known include Zimbabwe under Mugabe, the 1923 German hyperinflation (1921-1923, but the slide became unstoppable in 1923), various Latin American examples too.
I myself saw, on several visits, what happened in Poland in the late 1980s as the zloty slid in value and then just collapsed vis a vis hard currencies. When I was first there, in summer 1988, the zloty already had an official rate which was many times the value of the true rate (as against the US Dollar, the only currency universally acceptable in 1980s Poland). The taxi drivers all had stickers saying “x4“, meaning that you paid 4 times what the meter showed. By the time that summer 1988 had given way to the snows of winter, the stickers read “x40“, and by early Autumn of 1989, “x200“.
I recall taking a taxi ride around part of Warsaw in late 1989. The taxi driver could not find the address, because the apartment building sought was in a small street which was not marked on any streetmaps. Eventually, he found it. The amount on the meter was large and then had to be multiplied by 200! Fortunately, I had more than enough (in British money it was worth only a few pounds). As a tip, I gave the driver a single American dollar. His face! I might as well have given him a gold bar with “Reichsbank” stamped into it! His thanks were effusive…he could not stop smiling.
At that time, the ordinary shops were almost empty of goods. Only the hard-currency “Pewex” shops had goods, mostly imported: alcohol, scents, some foodstuffs. Their customers were either black market operators or those with access to foreign currency via relatives in the USA or elsewhere. Everyone wanted dollars, and Poland had a class system of three tiers: the ruling elite, those with dollars, and the rest.
I bought little with the stack of zloty high-denomination notes in my possession. A bottle of Krupnik (a Polish drink, not bad with black coffee on the side: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupnik), and also some vinyl records, mostly of Soviet manufacture. Cesar Franck, Taneyev, Lyapunov, Tchaikovsky, Russian folk music. I still have a couple somewhere. I think that they cost, in English money, about 20p each, if that.
By that time, late 1989, the socialist system had just more or less collapsed. The —very— new government was a Solidarity one.
Collapse of a currency means, more often than not, collapse of the political system too, eventually. Both government and currency depend on confidence.
Absolutely right. The seriousness of all this has just not filtered through to the majority of the population. When it finally does there will be the rudest awakening possible. https://t.co/xuEu0covju
The wall came down because Moscow lost the strength and wealth to sustain its empire. No doubt the demonstrations speeded things up a bit, but the Warsaw Pact states were finished anyway. @winston03457509https://t.co/8Y8fcyVJRt
Yeah @johnlowe56 , Governments can create money by magic. That is why HMRC has been closed down, income tax has been abolished and VAT , fuel duty etc are no longer collected. Instead offices have been set up on over High Street where free money is handed out on request. https://t.co/oHsKV7O28M
Looking at the above exchange, both are right and both are wrong. What matters is the extent of money-creation in any given period. If Hitchens is too much of the “Thatcher’s shopping basket”, then his interlocutor is too blase by far. Yes, the UK has been mightily indebted in the past, and to some extent that is a fiction, just as money (whether coins, notes or displays on computer screens) is a fiction or accepted reality. There is some effect or price to pay though, eventually, though it can be minimized by stretching things out for years or centuries.
People often talk about how Britain was in a poor state in terms of public finance after WW2 and by reason of that unnecessary war, yet established the NHS etc.
True, the UK established the NHS and kept an Empire/Commonwealth going, but as Correlli Barnet pointed out, Britain had resources enough to do one or possibly two things (global power status and a Welfare State), but tried to do both and also to modernize its industry. It could not do all three, despite the 1960s/1970s development of North Sea Oil.
“WW2” rationing did not end, along with the War, in 1945; it carried on, at first stricter but then lessening, until 1954, and even slightly longer in some respects! Rishi Sunak has more to play with, but not an unlimited amount.
I walk across this esplanade as Governor of @edinburghcastle & think of the men who were photographed here at start of WW1 & later picture of survivors at the end.
I recognise him – he's someone worried about what's happening to this country and where things are going. If you got up off your knee, you might recognise him too.
they talk of demographic changes, such as ONS statistics such as adult indigenous brits being a minority in uk by 2066 and children even sooner by 2037…..but that kinda wrongthink is not allowed under this system
Please define "racially abusive and unacceptable wording" What do the leaflets say?? Perhaps you should do some real policing – how is this a Police matter?
It would probably be better if you spend your time investigating real crime rather than taking the role of the thought police. Saddens me to see how quickly the police are losing public support with recent actions.
Yes, because the gym owner is defying the “advice” or “rules” laid down by government decree and posing as valid law. The police are now a State militia and politically-correct poundland KGB.
Look at and listen to that little police drone! This is akin to what the Roundhead soldiery did in the days of Cromwell.
(the victim should stop wittering about how she is “under Common Law“, though. That is just silly.)
Only a matter of time?…
Stray thoughts
I thought that the “young” (eg aged 18-24) were supine, but looking around in the local town and local supermarket a mile or so away from my humble home, I see that many of the worst kow-tow-ers are members of the older generation (70+ or 80+), wearing their facemasks and muzzles even in the open air, as if to say, “look Mr. Government, look Mr. Policeman, I am compliant!“
If they are so worried and think (wrongly) that a cloth face-muzzle will protect them, then why take the (non-existent) risk? Why not stay indoors where I cannot see your pathetic mugs?
Tweets seen
Interview with Laura Towler, Deputy Director of the British Patriotic Alternative
Laura Towler is quite right. In fact my own (maternal-side) grandfather fought in WW2 (really fought: he was at Dunkirk and later in Burma). I doubt that he would think much of the Britain of today (he died in 1970, when the decadence and evil of multikulti Britain was but in its early stages).
Many UK and US troops were shocked at the destruction wrought by RAF and USAAF bombing in Germany, as was my father in law (himself a WW2 officer of Bomber Command, and who had to bomb Germany on many occasions).
As if a few hundred or thousand Indo-Paks (in a UK population of 40M-50M then), would “get Britain moving“! Also, the mill towns in the North already had skilled workers…you know, English workers…
In the 1920s and early 1930s, the NSDAP always said that a Communist was a potential National Socialist, but today, in 2020 Britain, we of social nationalism would not want the “antifa” and similar idiots anyway, because they are idiotic, badly-informed and generally useless.
The Guardian
Apparently, the Guardian newspaper is on the brink of insolvency and is cutting more staff. In a way, I shall be sorry to see it go, when it goes, if only because at least it has sub-editors, or others who can spell and/or have some basic education (compare the wannabee “journalists” used by the Daily Mail and other online news outlets).
On the other hand, it has supported mass immigration and the Jewish lobby as far back as I can recall, so goodbyee, don’t cryee…
What’s good for the goose
I noticed a few pro-“antifa” drones whining on Twitter because an account was briefly disciplined by Twitter staff for using the word “redneck“. Well, “redneck” was preceded by other terms long ago, “nigger” and others among them. “What goes around comes around”, as the Americans say.
More widely, these “useful idiots” of the Jewish-Zionist lobby or ZOG/NWO cabal(s) cannot see that, once they have served their purpose, they will go the same way as those they have hounded or weaselled off Twitter and other platforms.
A US President has an unfettered jurisdiction and power to apply the prerogative of mercy, that is to pardon anyone. Trump could, at any time up to his last minute in office, pardon anyone. If he wanted to, he could pardon all the social nationalists etc who have been serving hard time in Federal prison, many of them for years.
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