BBC Radio 4 Today Programme: interviewee Nadhim Zahawi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadhim_Zahawi; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadhim_Zahawi#Expenses] said that the Government is expecting 85% of the England-resident population to agree to be vaccinated in the next few months. Asked about whether it might become compulsory to be vaccinated, Zahawi (born in Baghdad to Kurdish parents, only came to the UK aged 9) said “we are not that kind of country“.
To me, the telling point is that the subject of compulsion has been raised at all. I cannot recall any previous time when it has been. What is the real agenda, bearing in mind that well over 99% of people who are infected with “Coronavirus”/”Covid-19” actually recover, most without serious ongoing problems (as far as can be seen so far)?
Another piece of news today was that there are some indications that some variants of “the virus” have mutated to the point where the vaccine(s) become ineffective. There would then have to be, presumably, further or other vaccine(s).
One asks again, what is really behind all this? The “Great Reset”? If so, how does it all play out?
Tweets seen
BBC's Laura Kuenssberg used the the word "generous" while describing universal credit. This an opinion and not evidence-based journalism. It gives the distinct impression people receiving the payment, should be "grateful" @BBCr4today
Laura Kuenssberg has become steadily worse over several years; completely partisan. She is, basically, a government mouthpiece. A few years ago, I was sent information about her: part-Jew. I was unaware. I knew that she is part-German (echt German, not Jew), but it turned out that (like many UK-based journalists) she is also part-Jew.
Bim Afolami sadly demonstrating how out of touch Tory MPs are talking about people getting on the "work ladder" instead of Universal Credit on Westminster Hour.
2.2m recipients of UC are *working* & 70% of children in poverty are in working families. The problem is poverty pay.
If you have one ounce of decency in you (doubtful I know ) and you are a Tory Mp I beg you please do not vote to cut Universal credit payments by £20 tomorrow. You earn £1500 per week minimum , please try and understand what living on £75 per week is like .
As I have previously blogged, the whole idea of topping-up poor pay by means of State benefits is an error, completely wrongheaded. What it means is that employers can pay poverty wages, wages insufficient to live upon, and the employees paid those inadequate monies have to apply for Universal Credit merely to survive on a quite basic level.
Moreover, it means that the employers, and their profits, are being subsidised by the State, meaning by all citizens, including even those receiving State benefits! This is so because even those not paying income tax still pay other taxes: those working full-time (and many working part-time) are paying National Insurance [https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance], which is a tax by any other name; all are also paying VAT on most purchases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax_in_the_United_Kingdom.
What that all means is, inter alia, that those receiving Universal Credit are actually partly paying for that themselves, because most are paying not only VAT but also National Insurance.
The answer is twofold: firstly, the State should pay a measure of Basic Income to all persons whose income falls below a certain level. How much? Hard to say off the cuff, but about £100 per week seems right, as a minimum.
Secondly, there must be a higher minimum wage set. How high? Again, hard to say exactly, but £10 a hour seems about right.
Enforcement of the minimum wage also needs to be stepped up.
The devil is very much in the detail in such matters, of course. Housing Benefit is another can of worms. It may be that Housing Benefit should be eliminated, and the slack taken up by a much higher Basic Income. Expensive? Yes, but so is the whole “welfare” sector, with its “assessments”, snooping, intricate administration etc; of that, not the least pertains to Housing Benefit.
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This bloke spent £300 on vets fees and X-rays and it turned out nothing was wrong with the dog, was just copying him out of sympathy 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/CJ8pPqxJqH
Archaeologists in France have uncovered the remains of a Roman-era child. The child was buried with a pet dog who was wearing a collar fitted with a little copper bell.
This exceptional discovery is a very moving reminder of family life in the past. https://t.co/vCBDdSi31M
So what @peterbale? The question is, should forerign politicians openly side with partisan mobs against lawful govts in other people's countries? Yes or no? And was Ukraine's lawful govt overthrown by a violent mob? Yes or no. https://t.co/NNKmbrNtuV
[Ashkenazi Jews in Jerusalem, c.1885; The Independent]
Columnist Peter Hitchens says he is “appalled” by politicians accusing the public of ignoring Covid rules: “The government is preparing its excuse and it’s get out for the failure of its third useless lockdown”
Shameful. Ironic though, that so many of the Twitter-twits have reposted the above graphic while at the same time arguing for even more immigrants to enter the UK, thus depressing pay further, thus straining public services further. The self-described “Left” have nothing to offer, any more than have the finance-capitalists (who also want more immigration). Only social-national policies can beat and cut a path out of the jungle.
It is not fair to the manatees that the human community of Florida was built up around them. That this could happen to those gentle creatures challenges the notion of a loving god. https://t.co/hb22sf8w5g
Shows what weapons they use on the occupied population…
“History…first time, tragedy; second time, farce” [Marx]
Everything said by the MSM about what happened on that day is a lie. This video shows Viking Man walking to the Speaker’s Podium accompanied by a friendly and helpful policeman. https://t.co/oKjPgH2Yue
I like it when the uniformed attendant calls that “the sacredest place“! Where the freemasons, puppets of Israel, and fraudsters sit and spout? Sacred? Ha ha!
That mayor was once egregiously rude and insolent to me when I still had a Twitter account. Who’s next? “I have a little list“…—but in view of the encroaching police state, only in my head. Nothing stains like ink (adjust quotation for online version…).
This person has immensely damaged Britain. His long history of personal gain at huge cost to the country is catastrophic. Good riddance you rat. #DominicCummningspic.twitter.com/4ve03qw1KP
What is it about #DominicCummnings that has always set my teeth on edge? 👉believes there’s no such thing as the public interest 👉thinks institutions have no value 👉thinks flashy opinion = more NB than experience 👉lacks discipline to achieve basic competence 👉is an idiot pic.twitter.com/X7ASEFAhQT
What has been so extraordinary about the “resistible rise” of Cummings is that (ref. my blog posts about him) he actually has no track record of measurable achievement at all. Left university with a so-so degree, somehow got into Russian business (but nothing solid), tried to set up an airline in the 1990s using bits of decrepit Soviet property (the airline made one flight only). Then Cummings gets a job with the Conservative Party and somehow acquires a reputation for maverick brilliance. A mirage. In the old Soviet joke, “we hear that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs. Well, we see the eggshells, but where’s the breakfast?”
I always believe in the Biblical injunction to “judge the tree by its fruits”. I judge an ideology by its effects and by the behaviour of its adherents. I judge a government by its acts, omissions and achievements. Look at the chaos of the present government, in every way!
Cummings is not entirely to blame for the present chaos, which is soon going to get worse, with mismanaged Brexit about to come down the line. Boris-idiot, posing as Prime Minister, is the main culprit. Others, such as Johnson’s “ho”, are mere extras in the drama, but have, in the absence of proper government, taken on the role of active players.
In fact, the “eminence” of Cummings is symptomatic of Britain at the present time. It is a situation that has developed over the past decade or so. The “not what you know but who you know” scenario. We have seen the emergence of the no-salary “intern”, able to work unpaid for a year or more (and so create the foundation for a career) because the affluent parents or a family trust pay for everything. We have seen the unworthy but well-connected, the privileged trustafarians etc, become MPs, ministers, Cabinet ministers, even Prime Ministers and members of the House of Lords. A few names? David Cameron-Levita, Ed Vaizey, Dido Harding.
In fact, the above is the flip-side of the likewise prevalent “identity” appointments: persons appointed to positions in government and/or as (very well-paid) TV talking heads because they are black, brown, female etc.
The exit of Dominic Cummings would be a good start. But without the exit of most of the Cabinet and, ideally, Boris Johnson too, I struggle to imagine a kind and compassionate country emerging.#Newsnight
— Bakehouse Cottage aka Helen #FBPE (@Bakehouse2016) November 12, 2020
Every journey starts with one step…
The quality for which Boris Johnson will be remembered above all else is his unstinting ability to lie. A quality that should have excluded him from any role in public life, let alone that of Prime Minister.#Newsnight
— Bakehouse Cottage aka Helen #FBPE (@Bakehouse2016) November 12, 2020
What we need is a Universal Basic Income. That would massively reduce poverty and be far less burdensome or expensive for the state to administer.#C4News
— Bakehouse Cottage aka Helen #FBPE (@Bakehouse2016) November 13, 2020
I agree with that, but it has to be confined to bona fide and truly British citizens as recipients to be sustainable.
No.10 says the events of the past couple of days haven't changed their negotiating strategy. Maybe. But how is the site of the Brexiteers carrying their boxes up Downing Street going to convince anyone "Boris is going to dig in for hard Brexit here".
The succinct reply sums up my own cynical view: Boris-idiot…
Can you imagine how shallow that seems? Reinvent as in “pretend to be something else” or just rely on Fleet Street to create a different cartoon character?
Well, this week I again beat John Rentoul, I having scored 7/10 as against his 6/10; my score would have been 8/10, but the name of the German theologian of Question 7, though on the tip of my mental tongue, escapes me for the moment. In case anyone is interested, the other questions I cannot answer are numbers 2 and 9.
Memory is a strange thing. I wonder how much research is done into it.
Seeking a ruling from @johnrentoul on 'reset'. Only five letters and has a meaning of sorts. But it's suddenly in every headline, book titles, intros to news stories. I'm already sick of it but would appreciate opinion of the arbiter #Words
BRINO (Brexit In Name Only) was always the most likely option for the international conspiracy.
Trump
“Don’t get mad; get even” [American saying]
Trump should extend Presidential pardon to all social-national and allied prisoners held in U.S. Federal prisons. He should proclaim his intention as soon as possible, and pardon as many prisoners as he can while he can. It would be a good way of sticking it to the “antifa” swine.
“British” Christmas TV ads
I see growing discontent at the race-mixing propaganda posing as “just ordinary TV ads”. Christmas ads are just part of it. According to latest statistics, about 80% of the UK population still identify as “White British” and actual “blacks” (not including recent mixed-race) are supposedly “only” somewhere around 3%. Yet almost every TV ad now contains mainly blacks, or a mixed couple and “their” mixed-race children.
Sacked temporary teacher, serial grifter, “antifa” cheerleader (from a safe distance) and would-be (self-describing) “historian” and “journalist” Mike Stuchbery supports the propaganda:
Here's what I don't understand. There are BAME Britons. SE Asian Britons. Loads of them. What's wrong with putting them in a Christmas ad? The cheer of contrarians must be pretty bloody fragile if a PoC depicting celebrating Christmas annoys them. https://t.co/ofgGeahgLr
This is not mere happenstance. It is a deliberate and planned campaign. I have blogged about it in the past and it is getting worse. Google “Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan” for more. Alternatively, “the Great Replacement” and/or “White Genocide”.
I wondered whether the police would at some point take an interest in the GoFundMe appeal set up for Stuchbery by his associate “@antifashwitch”, Roanna Carleton Taylor of Derbyshire (it gathered in nearly £12,000 from gullible people who wanted Stuchbery to sue Tommy Robinson using it, but there never was a case brought). I now see that the Twitter tweets, going back years, of both “@antifashwitch” and her misnamed organization “@Resisting_Hate_”, have almost all been deleted.
I have no idea whether the two facts are connected, or whether she has been trying to delete potential evidence of fraud, but it has caught my attention today.
I believe that “antifashwitch” has a rather “dodgy” background generally. Her personal connections have, if the Internet is to be believed, been investigated by the police in the past, and not just for political matters.
Incidentally, the Pakistani named in the GoFundMe appeal is or was, supposedly, the solicitor (a one-man-band “firm”) who was going to act for Stuchbery. All very odd.
Do you have a source for that please @jennyrickson? I think we are only just beginning to grasp the damage done to 'our' NHS by the government which claimed to be saving it. Those who clapped for carers little knew what they *were* clapping for. https://t.co/qHoJjnGPaB
Keep it in proportion. A fascinating and thought-provoking ebsite which, I suspect, has never been studied in Downing Street , in Hancock HQ, or by @piersmorgan. https://t.co/fdusp3eULW
Not so @memphidos1. I clearly gave the number of 'infections' and also the (very small) share of them which are in fact serious. The worldometer site which I used as source does not give hospitalisation figures, or if it does I cannot locate them https://t.co/Cz5AqDhs9xhttps://t.co/77sa6gkeJA
1/2 I keep seeing shutdown zealots claiming that Sweden is in some sort of crisis. Here are the latest figures on Covid from Sweden 148,861 Currently 'Infected' Patients: 148,861 148,724 (100%) in Mild Condition 137 (0%) Serious or Critical Source https://t.co/Cz5AqDhs9x
Quite. As for the UK, the rural/suburban area of coastal Southern England where I live has 180,000 inhabitants within the District Council area. In the last week, 3 (three) deaths “from” (or “with“?) “the virus” have been notified. One death for every 60,000 people! Statistical zero. Yet for this, the population has been forced to comply with the facemask nonsense, shops and pubs and restaurants (a large part of the local economy) have been shut, and any medical services from GPs are telephone-consultation only.
Was that connected with “antifashwitch” too? I have no idea.
Non-white Christmas TV ads
Further to my comments earlier in today’s blog, I received this comment from a reader:
“I’ve noticed that the race mixing Christmas ads don’t mind showing an idealised England via small rural villages complete with a church in the centre, the catch is they don’t allow us to see a white family living there, it has to be mixed.
The problem is though, who do these multinationals think this nostalgia and yearning for an older England actually caters to? Is it the Indian wife in the ad? or the inevitable black husband of the white woman in another ad?
On the one hand they pander to the cultural identity of an ethnic group, while at the same time endorsing the erasure of that ethnic group via the mixing in the ads.
Note once again that the nature of the multinational is essentially parasitic, those images of England aren’t of them…” [a reader of this blog].
Well said, Blog Reader…If it were the other way around, it would be called “cultural appropriation” and so “wrong” (because white European people are always wrong…). Such TV ads (propaganda masquerading as ads…) are much more an “appropriation” (if not an expropriation!) than, say, The Black and White Minstrel Show etc, who were copying a longstanding American and European tradition of “blacking up”.
When are the hard-left and hard-right going to realise it isn't the number of people at your rallies that matter, but the number of people who actually vote for you.
That’s assuming that you are going down the Parliamentary road…
Hilarious. Johnson is the worst PM ever. Nothing is ever going to change that. He is, as a person, a hollow cardboard charlatan and should make room for an adult.
Well, there it is: yesterday, nearly 13,000 known “cases”, yet only 65 deaths. About 1 death for every 200 “cases”. Most people are not even tested, so that must mean about 1 death for every 1,000, 2,000 or more people in the UK.
The Government of Clowns is shutting down great swathes of the country (again) for almost nothing.
Britain’s toytown police state flexes its muscles again
I am reposting, below, tweets from little Darren Grimes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Grimes], despite the fact that he and his “libertarian” friends have never once said a word in defence of, inter alia, me, Alison Chabloz (who is still being both persecuted and prosecuted for singing songs and for taking part in an Internet “radio” discussion!), or Jez Turner of the London Forum (persecuted by a pack of Zionist Jews who then leant on the CPS to prosecute him— he spent 6 months of a one year sentence in prison, for making a single short speech in public).
Ecce! The “Free Speech Union” (the usual “libertarian” crowd, Delingpole, Toby Young etc), and LBC radio talking head Iain Dale all decry the misuse of police powers to repress Grimes’ free speech. Fine, but where were those hypocritical bastards when I was under attack? Skulking, afraid of the Jew lobby, that’s where!
They never defended my rights, never defended Alison Chaboz, never defended Jez Turner or others who have been repressed by police and prosecutors suborned by the Jew-Zionist lobby.
Still, here I am defending this individual’s rights. #MoralHighGround…
Incidentally, I see that the Daily Mail article above is written by Sarah Vine, the wife of Michael Gove [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gove]. One of the (in the end, five) tweets that resulted in my 2016 disbarment was that describing Gove (entirely accurately) as a “pro-Jew, pro-Israel, expenses cheat“. Despite those words being entirely truthful, they were held at Tribunal to be “grossly offensive”! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gove#Controversies.
Below, a typical tweeter who supports free speech (he says) yet seems rather naive to say the least—for a lecturer in politics (even at secondary school level): http://www.adrianhilton.com/index.php/sample-page/.
Darren Grimes is perhaps not sufficiently aware to know that it was the Jew-Zionist lobby that started this fairly recent trend of “lawfare”, meaning the abuse of badly-drafted laws to repress opinions of which that Jew lobby disapproves. The most obvious example of a badly-drafted law is the Communications Act 2003, s.127.
Jews are fond of saying that “repression may start with the Jews but rarely finishes with them“. It seems to be true, but not in the way “they” mean. They themselves started this attack on free speech, but it is not the Jewish population that suffers from it.
Oh, and right on cue (see below) comes Karl Turner MP [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Turner_(British_politician)], the sort of muddle-head who thinks that he is being terribly clever for saying “freedom of expression does not mean freedom from consequences“, a phrase which could be applied to Stalin’s Russia or Mao’s China.
Just been pointed out to me Karl Turner is actually a shadow justice minister now. Very worrying from Labour. https://t.co/IaymFUupLV
On the face of it, Identity England seems to be a commendable and worthwhile organization, though I do not know much about it as yet (and cannot read their material on the Telegram platform because I am not signed up to that or to Facebook).
Yet again, the pederast cancer in the Catholic Church is exposed as being intimately linked to the liberal-left and Vatican 2. None of this is accidental.https://t.co/rg1O7u8Ddf
So the BBC pays some ignorant Northern Irish slug to harass members of the public. Quelle surprise. This is him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Nolan, though the main photo seems to be a decade or more out of date.
That Nolan person (of whom I had never heard until today), seems to be unaware that not everyone has to wear a facemask muzzle even under the (probably legally invalid) government “rules”…
Interesting. Last year? It’s almost as if some in the Government knew that there would be a Coronavirus “crisis”…Google “Great Reset” and/or “Great Replacement”…
HM government would do well to remember that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
English Bill of Rights (1689) guarantees the right to political speech & protest against HM Government. It states: "That it is the Right of the Subjects to petition the King and all Commitments and Prosecutions for such Petitioning are Illegall." https://t.co/HXf10iIfQW
— Weston A. Price Foundation, London Chapter (@WAPFLondon) October 10, 2020
Abusing Peter Hitchens was perhaps understandable back in March, when people were in hysterics based on what turned out to be completely inaccurate death rate estimates.
Now, seven months later, it's just sheer, inexcusable ignorance.
Shame on you.
— Der Mann mit dem höchsten Sozialkredit-Score (@ghosted_2891223) October 12, 2020
The problem is that a huge number of people who want to be taken seriously have a huge amount of emotional capital invested in the fear propaganda, the facemask nonsense, the “lockdown” stupidity, the “clap for the NHS” nonsense (remember that? Idiots standing and clapping to order?). Not just the Government of Clowns; also the Twitterati (most of them), the pseudo-socialists etc. The facts are plainly against them, but all they (really) want to do is control what others do and say, or even think. The facemask muzzling is symbolic of that tendency.
I would rather trust Soviet TV, if it still existed, than today’s BBC.
2/2 @gerryoliver1. Given that we *do* know that these measures destroy jobs, businesses, health and liberty, I think I am entitled to ask those who call for them to provide evidence that they do any good. At the moment, HMG and Government broadcasters BBC *presume* this. https://t.co/Y1r6mLZxLk
On March 15, I wrote 'Some sort of national emergency – a major terror attack, an economic collapse, perhaps even a devastating epidemic – will at some point speed up our descent into a semi-totalitarian dusk.' https://t.co/qjCPusuJ4C via @MailOnline
“There is no getting around the fact that Europe is in absolute decline.”
“The continent’s long-stagnating economy is perched at the edge of a precipice. The Covid-19 health crisis has morphed over these past six months into a severe recession, exacerbating long-established European economic fault lines. Already hard-pressed southern Europe is experiencing by far the worst of things, as the continent is rotting from within. The south grows ever more politically resentful, even as the north grows weary of bailing out its hapless European brethren.
Vastly underreported, Europe’s moribund economy is presently entering a doom loop of deflation, with extremely limited weapons at its disposal to avoid the dreaded Japanification of the continent.” [City AM magazine] https://www.cityam.com/almost-unnoticed-europe-hurtles-into-decline/
Another important point. I see reports now from industries as diverse as hotels and construction, all starting to seriously consider increasing the use of robotics and allied technologies. Caterpillar is even adapting existing machines to no-driver operation.
What kind of bad joke is this?! Banana republic meets Ruritania! The Garden Bridge: FAILURE; Brexit: mishandled FAILURE. Incredible. When will the idiot scientists on “SAGE” [me version is DUMB— Department Under Matt and Boris] get gongs too? Next year probably…
Walls. Squads. End…
More about the Darren Grimes matter
The big question of course is whether the CPS/cops are saying the publication on social media of *any* interview with someone who says racist things is potentially committing a public order offence. Indeed publication/broadcast anywhere.
The above thread (worth seeing) was about Keir Starmer’s refusal to support free speech. He of course is completely tied up with the Jew-Zionist lobby and the freemasons.
A tidal wave of “usual suspect” idiots are on Twitter today, not supporting free speech but socio-political repression. Look at the idiot below:
Well said @Keir_Starmer Mr Grimes should be accountable for his actions in giving a racist a platform to propagate his views, police are right to investigate
Nice to see that some people see the sheer stupidity of many of the “politically-correct”.
You're missing the point, willfully or not.
Once you open that door, anyone can report you for an offensive communication, on any topic that they choose to be offended by. Whether you, or a reasonably minded person, is or would be offended by it is irrelevant.
That Dom Dyer person is pretty thick. He used to block me and tweet against me. Incidentally, I favour protecting badgers; he ought to stick to that. He does not have the horsepower to think and discuss about these wider socio-political issues.
Frankly, I think that half the problems with Britain are connected with the fact that far too many people in high or significant positions are simply not intelligent or educated enough. You only have to look at the present pack of clowns posing as a government.
So where does this end – do we say that owen Jones and ash Sarkar should be banned as we don’t want to give socialists a platform ? Should Corbyn be banned from the airwaves ?
Dominic, would you have Frankie Boyle prosecuted for the "Kill Whitey" comment on his show the other week, one that went unchallenged and was met with smiles and giggles by all assembled?
Here (below) is another unthinking one, a scribbler in the past for the Judenpresse/Lugenpresse, and in recent years editor of a holiday cruise magazine:
He is right. Hate speech and incitement should always be investigated – and challenged.
She sounds brainwashed, probably when a school student. A former Blairite Labour Party member who is now a LibDem and thinks that she has “a political career”. A “comms” person too, among various business activities, her own website was set up a year or so ago but is still empty of content.
Those business activities seem to have crashed now:
Now in the #UniversalBasicIncome debate at Lib Dem conference. Fantastic opening speech from @AdamBernard_HA, a real cry from the heart to our values – and followed by an extremely powerful personal speech from Liz Jarvis about her own experiences of losing her income.
— James Baillie (@JubalBarca@Scholar.Social) (@JubalBarca) September 25, 2020
Liz Jarvis (@LizJarvisUK) who stood as a Parliamentary candidate in the last General Election.
She’s backing a Basic Income because it will give people the freedom they deserve. pic.twitter.com/UF7BwIYnS3
She looks pretty good, and seems to support some socially-good policies (eg Basic Income), but at the same time also seems to have no idea that one cannot create an advanced society with backward people…
The PM says he’s going to turn Generation Rent into Generation Buy. Millions face losing their jobs including potential first-time buyers. How are they supposed to get mortgages?! #PMQs
The demographics favour the Democrats and Biden, but I would not necessarily write off Trump, whose own “virus” experience obviously bolsters his own views on the Coronavirus generally. It might be objected that everyone is different etc, but fact is, Trump is 74, in a poor state of health and fitness, yet has recovered in days and having had only minor treatment.
Most people are predicting a win for Biden, and for all I know they may be right, but I wonder whether that really will be the result. Still, whichever candidate wins, (((they))) will win…
John Tyler was already 46 years old when the Battle of The Alamo occurred, in 1836. He became U.S. President at the age of 50, in 1841.
Imagine that…someone whose grandfather was born in 1790, during the reign of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and only months after the French Revolution and the Storming of the Bastille, has only just died! To me, it’s almost incredible. My own (maternal) grandfather was born in 1901.
For all that, in some respects the USA gives an old impression, one lacking in youthfulness. Its personification, after all, is an old man, “Uncle Sam”.
BBC World Service
I occasionally remind people, who perhaps never heard the BBC World Service in its 1970s/1980s heyday, how good it was, and how rubbish it now is. Last night, they had some spiteful-sounding black girl talking rubbish about the 1977 “battle” in Lewisham, London: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lewisham
Biased throughout, the 15-30 minute piece never attempted to give a balanced view, or any perspective. There was one main interviewee, a black man who was an “antifascist” activist at the time. Poor.
Never go back
They say “never go back“. Usually that is good advice. It can be disturbing to see again places once known, and even loved, changed. That can be so even when the changes have improved the place in question. All the same, there is a strange fascination in seeing again places you once knew well. Google Earth can be addictive in this regard. It is a peculiar feeling to see just how quickly the world changes. In 20, 30, 40, 50 years, an area can change out of all recognition. Fascinating but unsettling.
Tweets seen
Never mind Brexit, we need a referendum on the #TheGreatReset. No one voted for it in 2019 yet Johnson is already implementing it. Let’s get the campaign started now!
Poverty can be reduced by giving people money to improve their lives with; it’s been proven time and time again. But this solution is constantly resisted because it doesn’t uphold the oppressive notion that poor people naturally make bad choices and don’t “deserve” to be secure. https://t.co/cDItsMGKmF
Allegra Stratton might usefully take note of the above tweets.
The government is employing 1,114 consultants from Deloitte to work on Test and Trace alone, @SkyNews reports. @PrivateEyeNews reveals rates typically charged by Deloitte £1,450 per day per partner £290 per Deloitte intern (Wonder how much of that the interns see)
Another real medical expert slams the elite's #rona obsession and its apocalyptic impact on health happiness, society and the economy. Johnson & his collaborators are serial killers.https://t.co/AsuL9unK85
Official figures for Covid hospital admissions include those who tested positive in hospital *after* admission. Worth remembering when looking at admission figures. pic.twitter.com/F0HIEuyhKi
Yes, and don't forget that the government has to get this money from somewhere. How many actual taxpayers are there left after six months of Rishinomics? https://t.co/Ll2DEc08O7
– Police allow people to riot, attack them and deface monuments – We lose our civil liberties at an unprecedented rate – Met investigate an interviewer for something his guest said for which the guest has apologised
'State of alarm' is a good way of describing these irresponsible, ill-informed and useless state-sponsored panics which have wrecked lives and livelihoods across the world. Note in this case it was done against the wishes of local govt. https://t.co/nigFCDLOZ0
The problem with UK politics is the tribalism. People believe the Tories are conservative and Labour represents the working class. As you have pointed out for years, Mr H, they couldn't be more wrong.
1/3 @atjaardstra. You are mistaken. I point out that Japan did not strangle its economy, yet had many fewer deaths than us, so challenging the connection the ill-informed assume exists between shutdowns and saving lives. https://t.co/ynShblGIRy
2/3 @atjaardstra. Your second error is your equally lazy assumption that mask wearing in Japan is the proven cause of lower deaths in a country where old people happen to a lot healthier than they are in N. America or W.Europe. https://t.co/ynShblGIRy
Well, isn’t that interesting? No doubt a…co-incidence(?). All the same, it would tend to support the idea that “Covid-19” was created for a purpose, a purpose connected with the “Great Reset”…
With even the #WHO trying (or pretending) to leave the sinking ship Lockdown, Boris and all the other politicians who've broken our world with this nonsense are way out on a limb – and still sawing away between them and the trunk.#fairtrials & short ropeshttps://t.co/6rB6js492C
I should think so @Francis_Hoar. Since it turned into an establishment rag and dumped its decent radical past, the Guardian has become quite a distressing spectacle. https://t.co/HNuLDsN8Pi
The BBC too. Its output is now of incredibly low quality, something most obvious on the BBC News on television. Endless “interviews” on Skype with boring and usually non-white persons, very little foreign news and that mostly of little depth, or even casual interest. Without the “licence fee” (enforced tax), the BBC would just go out of business. The “licence fee” protects it, enables it to pay ex-footballers a million or two a year, newsreaders half a million a year and many others £300,000, £200,000 or whatever. No wonder most are unwilling to rock the boat by standing up for the future of European humanity!
I doubt it very much @johnwil57255704. Listen to our supposed leaders talk, and you see shallow banality and unconscious ignorance, always on display. https://t.co/JjlDIhwm02
Sadly for Rachel “@frangrantfeline”, the person with whom she wanted to speak (@BRLMatter) seems to have been removed from Twitter. Another example of System/ZOG censorship and repression?
This criminal government plans to change regulations to make untested #vaccines for Coronavirus compulsory, and more. They're hoping people will really notice this 'consultation' so they can say "you were asked & no-one objected. Well, we do!https://t.co/KSoj0LapF1
I think so too, but it is a long time since I practised at the Bar, and I was certainly never a specialist in the construction of statute law, or in the validity of “advice” or regulations purportedly made under secondary law and/or primary law.
Thanks @AllisonPearson. The key part of the interview is also transcribed on the’Lockdown Sceptics’ site. It is very powerful. I hope the Courts listen to@this acute legal mind. https://t.co/dYObpQfO3U
Indeed, the muzzles are starting to carpet the cityscape, and will soon be annoying whales, dolphins etc, already struggling to cope with the vast quantities of hand sanitiser now dribbling into the oceans. https://t.co/hMCv6igNfC
I have no difficulty with those who choose to wear these things. Believe what you like @_f_a_l_s_a_f_a_ .My complaint is against those who would force me and others to do so. Why is this simple point, that it is about *compulsion*, so hard to get across? https://t.co/P0ywl37F2n
Peter Hitchens on the ridiculous doubling down. But they *could* have claimed a victory in the summer, and the gullible would have let them. This feels now more like a blinkered, bunker mentality, an obsession. Like abandoned japanese soldiers, they can’t bear the war being over. pic.twitter.com/litHw2FpNe
Al 'Boris' Johnson is like a schoolboy trapped in a lie whose consequences grow worse and worse – and it is harder and harder for him to admit it. https://t.co/Uj5uGx6lNP
Quite. Also, while we are on the subject of American (government) behaviour, I have been struck by the hypocrisy of “the West” over the events in Belarus.
AsI have blogged previously, Belarus is, in effect, a dictatorship, though a far better one than many which the West supports with words and arms (inter alia, Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar), not to mention China.
I daresay that there is discontent in Belarus, arising mainly from economic conditions, as well as those factors arising from relative lack of political freedom.
Having said that, the Western msm has been overplaying the “brutal tyranny” stuff. I hear on radio, see on TV, read about the repression of the discontent. Some people obviously have been badly treated, beaten etc. However, I also heard that some of those detained, and some who were ill-treated, were in fact released within hours, in some case a day or so, of having been detained.
In addition, some of the protesters themselves have admitted that the Belarus KGB and police were unwilling, generally speaking, to hit or brutalize women and old people. They obviously have some moral or ethical principles. European standards.
Compare that to how the USA often treats those whom it detains or abducts: “waterboarding”, i.e. cruel torture (in one case done dozens of times a day to a prominent prisoner, for reasons of sadism); hooding for hours, days, even weeks; cruel restraint techniques; use of attack dogs etc.
The names of the American “facilities” or concentration camps (those not still secret) are notorious: Guantanamo, Bagram, Abu Ghraib. Things were and perhaps are done there that have not been claimed even of the Soviet GULAG system, or during the German rule over Eastern Europe in the early 1940s.
[above: torture of Arab prisoner by American forces, Iraq]
[above: ill-treatment of prisoner by subnormal American female”soldier” at Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq]
[above: perverse American “soldiers” torture and brutalize Iraqi prisoners]
[above: forcible injection into bound prisoner by American female “soldier”, Iraq]
[above: American concentration camp, Guantanamo; prisoners muzzled and restrained, in tropical heat and humidity. Note the facemasks. NWO psychology now being used on the populations of Europe and elsewhere, and using “Coronavirus” as the excuse, in order to destroy any sense of being free citizens]
Actually @snarkydebastard , @johnnymercuk is in the right party – a Blairite rabble who don't even understand the left-wing policies they were browbeaten into adopting by Blair and the BBC. https://t.co/QWYl9ntuYF
Most ex-professional soldiers (in peacetime) who become MPs turn out to be useless.
Unsurprising you have no idea who Peter Hitchens is. He is socially conservative which you lot abandoned at some point between Maggie and letting the police take a knee.
The medical claims for masks are weak and not backed by RCTs. The U.K. govt itself admits this. The analogy is about *compulsion*Mask opponents regard them as a forced affirmation of support for a policy they oppose. Grasp that and you’ll get it. https://t.co/zHFh0khuE2
To me, who was in Australia (Mosman/Cremorne, Sydney, NSW) for 2-3 years as a child of 10-13 (1967-69), it is incredible to see what a police state Australia has become. When I was there, the whole country had only 12 million people (it’s 25 million now). It was a white European-origined population, mostly of British ancestry. Now, very mixed. Result? You see it…
It occurs to me that Australia is being used as a laboratory, and its people as lab rats. Mixed population now (they have even imported Africans!); then made to fear “the virus”, with strict “lockdowns” and facemask police state-ism and all that nonsense.
Meanwhile, Australia has entered its first economic recession for about 35 years…
Actually deaths peaked on 8th April, @parsot , too soon for measures which were announced on the evening of March 23 to be the cause. https://t.co/4Ul2zELihb
Are you sure, @sirMustard? Most Tory social, educational and family policy is basically Eurocommunist, and indistinguishable from its Blairite original.Tory MPs these days are politically illiterate lobby fodder, clueless about their own party’s aims. https://t.co/isbnoxdJdo
My appearance on BBC Radio 4's 'Broadcasting House' to discuss the Covid issue with Professor Linda Bauld and Paddy O'Connell : https://t.co/20pxegV3I6
Here is a very useful site for those who think that the Covid-19 outbreak has been exceptional in modern times. Full of corrective facts. What us exceptional is the excessive government response.https://t.co/fdusp3eULW
Why? Because the msm is basically controlled or very strongly influenced by the NWO, ZOG, and the associated Jewish lobby. That’s why…
“The Government has no legal right to impose the severe and miserable restrictions on our lives with which it has wrecked the economy, brought needless grief to the bereaved and the lonely and destroyed our personal liberty.“
“This is the verdict of one of the most distinguished lawyers in the country, the retired Supreme Court Judge Lord Sumption.
He said last week in a podcast interview: ‘I don’t myself believe that the Act confers on the Government the powers that it has purported to exercise.’”
“He was referring to the Public Health Act of 1984, the basis for almost all the sheaves of increasingly hysterical decrees against normal life which the Health Secretary Matt Hancock has issued since March. I promise you that it is not usual for a retired senior judge to use such language in public.
This 1984 Act was drawn up mainly to give local magistrates the power to quarantine the sick.
Nothing in it remotely justifies these astonishing moves – house arrest, travel restrictions, harsh limits on visiting family members, interference with funerals and weddings, closure of churches, compulsory muzzles, bans on assembly and protest.
English law just does not allow an Act of Parliament to be stretched so far.” [Peter Hitchens, quoting Lord Sumption, Daily Mail].
…and just in case you still imagine that you live in a “free country”, the Daily Mail has tipped the wink to its readers: “Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.” Quite. That would be going too far, would it not? After all, some of the comments would be about ZOG and NWO, and even “the Great Reset” etc…
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The blue whale is the largest animal known to have ever existed. They can reach a maximum confirmed length of 98 feet and weigh up to 190 tons.🐋 save our blue whale💙#BlueLivesMatterpic.twitter.com/Q7CcYY36FD
I have always found the SNP idea of Scottish “independence” odd. Free Scotland from Westminster and England, but not from supranational bodies such as the EU, NATO (probably), the international banking matrix, or the UN.
Also, what kind of nationalism is it that says that a Pakistani born or even simply living in, say, Glasgow, is more “Scottish” than a white European, say English but with Scottish or part-Scottish ancestry, and who may be living in England, maybe only on the border at Berwick on Tweed?
If Scotland departs, then it will be considerably poorer than it now is. Money is not everything, true, but the only benefit I can see to Independence is the right to stop mass immigration etc, and the SNP policies indicate that their intention is the opposite.
Having said that, if the majority of Scots want to pull away from the Union, then I say go with good wishes, so long as you do not become an enemy state.
Thoughts about the public mood in the UK as a government of clowns tries to act like a conclave of petty tyrants (forget “statesmen”)
We have seen the government of clowns first frighten the public out of its skin, then beg members of that public to return to work (muzzled on trains and buses), and we have seen all the other contradictory policies of a government that obviously has no idea of what it is doing; abetted by a non-Opposition that really just echoes the Government.
We also see much about how many people have got used to not going to work because paid as much or nearly as much (and in net terms, maybe more) to stay home and work online, or furloughed (paid by State benefit). Now we see others than Peter Hitchens telling people off for staying home etc, when the real culprits are the Cabinet of Boris-idiot, the ludicrously-misnamed “SAGE” committee, most MPs, and the compliant msm.
The fact is that the economy is crashing to a halt or at least a low point, all so that a virus which is not killing people now, can be confronted (and so that the Government is not exposed as totally incompetent).
Today, msm reports are that 3,300 people tested positive for “the virus”, and the number that died from it was…5. Not 500, not 50, but 5.
Can we get some daily stats for those dying of cancer each day? Or heart disease? Or the daily economic impact of each sector remaining closed because of COVID? Not a COVID nanny state please. #perspective#economicrecovery
Is there any point at which people will say “OK, the assault our basic liberties has gone too far now”. Or are we saying if it can help save people from Covid it’s a price worth paying. And if we are saying that, why should it stop at Covid. There will always be other threats.
“Matt Hancock does not deny that Operation Moonshot is set to cost a whopping £100bn – almost half the NHS budget”. Someone needs to get a grip of this lunacy. Fast.
The reality is we only have two choices. Return to some kind of normal, and accept infections and deaths will increase. Or lockdown, and accept economic collapse. But we don’t want to make that choice. So we’re fantasising we can be like Kirk in the Kobayashi Maru scenario.
Meanwhile, The Sun reports: “The Duchess of Cornwall visits training centre where trials are underway to see if dogs could detect coronavirus”. We’ve basically flipped as a nation haven’t we.
Where are the public on this? I detected (look at my blogs posts from as long ago as April or even March) that the public mood was by no means gung-ho to return to work etc, even discounting the fear factor so incessantly whipped up by the government.
My view was and still is that people would like a better way of organizing the work-life balance. Less work, or less frenetic work, more leisure or at least other, more personal work, nearer to home.
I have, in earlier blog posts, postulated the idea of “a society of measure” to set against both the existing (pre-virus) frenetic workaholic society and also against the 1960s idea of the “society of leisure”.
In practical terms, that could mean people working fewer hours per week, or the same number of hours per week but on fewer days, such as 10 hours a day for 4 days per week, or even 13 hours per day for 3 days per week, leaving 3-4 days per week for other activity.
My view is that there should be one day a week when all or almost all shops etc are shut. That creates rhythm in the society.
A start must also be made with Basic Income, even if at first that Income does not cover even all basic necessities.
I think that the public, as individuals and families, are ready to consider other forms of societal organization. If paid work (talking about persons employed by others) occupies 3-4 days per week, and if a measure of Basic Income exists, people will be free to start businesses of their own in the remaining 2-3 days (with 1 day as “day of total leisure”).
This is not just pie in the sky. J.K. Rowling has written about how it was only the relatively more generous “welfare” arrangements of the 1990s that enabled her to sit in cafes writing Harry Potter. It was not that more money was given, though that might also have been true in real terms, but that she was not harried by DWP staff constantly (as her equivalent would now be under a system which was made far harsher by the part-Jap Iain “Duncan” Smith and the Jew “lord” Freud and others).
Because J.K. Rowling was not harried by petty bureaucrats, she was able to write her first bestselling book, which has created a huge industry for this country: books, films, spinoffs.
My sense is that people generally want a society which is less pressured.
As for the “measures” taken by government, most people are now rather sceptical, but the constant msm propaganda (esp. but not only on the BBC) is keeping some fear instilled too.
Good on you Claire, @fox_claire This is a classic Bonhoeffer moment. Anyone who abandons Assange now should not be surprised if they themselves are defenceless in the unpleasant years to come. https://t.co/R7uS4Ve6Ks
I have no idea whether Johnny Mercer had some decent intentions when he applied for selection as a Parliamentary candidate but it is surely clear now that he is basically a woodentopped moneygrubber and a waste of space.
I just don’t understand why people want the lockdown to end………oh hang on…… More than 600,000 UK workers lose their jobs amid lockdown https://t.co/RZqgjMQ8f4
The msm are mostly still parrotting the line that “Coronavirus” caused the impending UK economic and social tsunami, when in fact it was the “lockdown” (shutdown) that (mostly) caused it and is still causing it (and don’t be duped into thinking that a few thousand fat young women poured into tight jeans and lining up outside Primark (desperate, presumably, to buy a larger size?) will make much difference.
The astute Larry Elliott confirms: Crashing the economy was a mistake:,The past three months have proved it: the costs of lockdown are too high | Larry Elliott https://t.co/ZiCRPxD5O0
Well spotted, William Hague. Pity you took so long to notice: 'The unemployment figures about to be released represent a personal catastrophe for hundreds of thousands of people. Large rounds of corporate redundancies mean worse is to come.' https://t.co/mR1SCwZ1xl
Some commentators are belatedly forecasting 3 million unemployed, one or two are going as high as ten million.
Meanwhile, an opinion poll says that a third of the whole UK population are too scared to leave their houses! All because of a propaganda campaign which has been, arguably, the biggest farrago of untrue nonsense since the non-existent “gas chambers” of the “holocaust” narrative.
It recalls to my mind a weekend I once spent with the British Army, over 30 years ago, and “somewhere in Kent”. A mixed male/female group. We had to do exercises such as one where an area of woodland had been marked out with tape. This was “contaminated ground” and we had to work out weird and wonderful ways of crossing that area without touching the ground.
It was all taken very seriously by the attendees, all of us dressed in olive-green jump suits and with a number on the front and back. I think that mine was 22, or perhaps 21. People were only addressed by their number, not by name. That was a rule. Another was that the “contaminated ground” was to be treated as if real, though we knew that it was not.
That is “lockdown”, with its crazy rules that are mostly senseless, in accord with the make-believe “facts” about the “virus”.
You have to keep 6 feet apart at all times, and (until very recently) not drive (even in a sealed car) anywhere beyond X-miles from your home (the distance not specified but to be decided by any stray motorized Plods that you may encounter en route).
You can (now) go to Bicester Village shopping outlet with a thousand or more other shoppers inches apart, but you may not visit any friends or family not in your designated “bubble” (the details of which only you know about and no policemen can know about and so cannot enforce even if there were enough Plods to do so).
You must wear a facemask on buses, trains, or in hospitals, but only in England (not in Scotland or Wales), and no-one (in England) not wearing a mask or similar can use a bus or a hospital (but shops are OK…). Oh, and the World Health Organization said (until last week) that facemasks were unnecessary for most people. Still, “rules are rules”, so all wear one anyway, then go stand outside your houses and clap like complete idiots to show that you are good citizens or whatever…
If you are a Brit living overseas, or a foreign visitor, you can come to the UK, so long as you promise on Bible, Koran, Torah or the Selected Works of Marx that you will “self-isolate” for two weeks, and at an address which you will provide to immigration officials (no proof required) at Heathrow on arrival. Priti Patel truly is as thick as two short planks.
The whole thing has just become madder and madder.
I myself would not object to the removal of the Bomber Harris statue, partly because he was —even bearing in mind the terrible war in which he led a major contingent— something akin to a mass murderer; partly because the statue is not so old (1990).
The mad thing is that the “Black Lives Matter” idiots want Harris’s statue taken down not because the bombing campaign Harris led in the years 1941-1945 was a major factor, probably the major factor, in the killing of an estimated 800,000 German civilians during the Second World War, but because Harris spent 5 years in Rhodesia (when aged 17-22) and so was a “colonialist”! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet
[above: ruined Dresden, 1945, after British bombing destroyed the city]
I had wondered what Fiona Onasanya was up to. I suppose she is on the dole now, and trying to latch onto some (paid) role in the “Black Lives Matter” contrived “movement”. I blogged about her last year:
Give one eighth of an ounce of evidence that crashing the economy and imposing mass house arrest saved a single life, @joemensor (it's all right, I know you can't. But do you?) https://t.co/p0Cqi7a8Re
Jean Raspail, author of the brilliant, prophetic novel about "the end of the white world", The Camp of the Saints. died yesterday. He made 94 – and a real difference,helping to wake up a whole generation of nationalists. If you've not read it, order your copy today! pic.twitter.com/4DKU9cBbaJ
That little pissant, Robert Jenrick, is in trouble.
“A minister admitted last night he knew he was saving a Tory donor tens of millions of pounds in approving a £1billion property scheme.
Robert Jenrick faces claims of ‘cash for favours’ over his dealings with former newspaper tycoon Richard Desmond.
He over-ruled the local council and a planning inspector a day before the introduction of a community levy that would have cost the billionaire between £30million and £50million.” [Daily Mail]
The Daily Mail fails to point out that Richard Desmond is a Jew.
“Jenrick is married to Michal Berkner, an Israeli-born corporate lawyer. They have three daughters, whom they are bringing up in the Jewish faith.[1][39][18]
Jenrick owns two £2m homes in London, one of which is a £2.5m townhouse less than a mile from the Houses of Parliament. He also owns Eye Manor, a Grade I listed building in Herefordshire which he purchased for £1.1 million in 2009.[40][41] His constituency of Newark is 150 miles (240 km) from his ‘family home’ in Herefordshire.[42] He rents a £2,000-a-month property in his Newark constituency,[38] which he bills to the taxpayer.” [Wikipedia]
I was idly looking at pictures of some of the Chinese cities. Some are massive yet quite new. Take Shenzhen, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen , which scarcely existed until recent decades, though there were once historic villages in the area, much as Manchester in the UK expanded hugely in the 19thC from a modest starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester
I suppose that the same was true of Chicago in the 19thC; in 1833, Chicago had only 200 inhabitants, but over 4,000 by 1840 (1900, 1.7 million; 1930, 3.4 million) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago#19th_century
Once China had taken “the capitalist road”, albeit under “Communist” banners, the economy expanded, indeed exploded. I saw these photographs of Shenzhen:
[above: Shenzhen in 1982, not long after the trial of the Gang of Four]
[above: the present main business centre of Shenzhen as it was in 1998; below: the same general area today]
[above: Central Business District]
[above: Luohu, another part of Shenzhen; surprisingly, one of the oldest parts of the city]
[above: within the Shenzhen Central Business District]
Europe, to the Chinese, is something rather quaint, to be made into part of a theme park!
[above: European-style tourist village in Shenzhen]
[above: within central Shenzhen]
[above: an outlying part of Shenzhen]
[above: a country park; the Shenzhen area is not without beauty]
I was in Hong Kong, and also Macau, in 2006. Fascinating, though I should not like to live there. I do tend to find fascinating what human beings can create in terms of cities and parks.
The Internet is incredible, though I expect that anyone born after 1985 or so simply accepts it as part of normal life. It is only now, looking at maps etc, that I realize how close and closely hemmed-in by massive Chinese urbanizations is Hong Kong. That is not obvious to the visitor, because Hong Kong is still cut off from “mainland” China both by high hills and by a “frontier closed area” which was initially established under British rule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Closed_Area
In some areas, the border fence echoes those between the USA and Mexico, or between Israel and the West Bank
It may not be the same for Hong Kong inhabitants, but for the visitor, Hong Kong seems a world unto itself. It is only when you look at the map that you realize to what extent Hong Kong is a kind of isolated or reserved part of that vastly larger surrounding Chinese urbanization which laps at its borders like an ocean surrounding an island. The Shenzhen area has about 13 million inhabitants, compared to 7.5 million in Hong Kong.
I dislike the Chinese attitude to the natural world and particularly animals, but at the same time the Chinese are impressive in their capabilities and in their sense of scale.
From the sublime to the ridiculous. Monaco.
I saw on TV the second of a three-part series about the microstate. I have never been there, though I have heard about it from people I know. I once had a Finnish girlfriend who loved it, and had been accustomed to going there once or twice per year. What she liked about it was the absence of detritus (inanimate or human) as compared to London and other cities; also the enveloping luxury.
I find (see above) “self-generating” cities and states very interesting. Places like Singapore. It does not mean that I should wish to live in one! Monaco is another place which would not suit me, for several reasons.
For one thing, whenever I see Monaco on TV, it looks so crowded that it resembles an anthill. This is in fact accurate, because the population density is about 48,000 persons per square mile, nearly three times as dense as Hong Kong and 2.5 times the density of Singapore.
There is a (slight) resemblance to Hong Kong…
Another aspect (admittedly judging only by what I have seen on TV) is that the foreign residents seem to have nothing but dollar signs, greed and emptiness in their eyes. As for the Monegasques, who are only about 8,000 out of a total population of 38,000, they are more of a clan than a nation, it seems to me.
The ultra-wealthy, who are there for the tax advantage and the police-state security, pay for their behaviour by having to spend at least some of their time there (again, my possibly jaundiced view…).
A “state” which covers only 4/5ths of a square mile, and which is therefore smaller than the combined Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens in London, is a bit of a joke from one point of view, but there it is. It has its function, just like, say, the Vatican, which has an area of less than 1/5th of a square mile. The one may not have many divisions in its “army” but has the spiritual allegiance (even today) of hundreds of millions of people; the other’s power lies in the facilitation of matters of money.
The TV documentary I saw spent some time with the ruler, Prince Albert, who (in what is almost rule by Divine right) is seemingly held in awe by his subjects and foreign residents. I was surprised to hear him sound exactly like an American. I knew that his mother was the film star, Grace Kelly, but to see him sound and look rather like an American businessman was unexpected. On the surface, he seemed amiable enough, though.
Prince Albert lives in a rather Ruritanian set-up, which made me laugh, but in fact Monaco’s princely house is actually one of the oldest in Europe, if not the very oldest. I suppose that that is because, until the late 19th Century (when Monaco’s fortunes were transformed by the Casino), this was one of the poorest parts of Europe. In other words, no-one could be bothered to invade it, especially with it being so small (though it was relieved of Menton and another town during the 19thC).
The documentary showed the Palace Guard, in smart white uniforms spoiled rather by black parade boots. Behind the scenes, there was an efficient-looking military and bodyguard operation.
A strange little enclave, but efficiently run. I did not know before (or from the documentary), but saw today in Wikipedia, that there is still a railway there (underground).
Coronavirus lockdown nonsense etc
Lest we forget. There isnot (and never has been) any scientific basis for the 6 foot 6 inch rule : https://t.co/uOzUqBLODq
It is 'Mr Hitchens' to you @woody274. And yes, I have heard of population density, and Sweden is a highly urbanised country, whose major cities are as densely populated as any in Europe, and Japan likewise. So go away and patronise somebody else. https://t.co/0E5zCaEfdQ
I suggest @brian_in_dorset you check Mr Harford's account of what Prof Sikora said against what the Daily Telegraph actually reported.(if you have any probs, I have a transcript of Mr Harford and a copy of the report, which I can email to you). The experts I quote are actual. https://t.co/ZjShRoXDPU
Patronizing insults from the ignorant are a Twitter speciality. When I was on Twitter, I was called everything under the Sun by people who (often behind a pseudonym) evidently thought themselves far better informed, educated or intelligent than me. I recall one little Irish bumboy who, having read my background in brief, as on this blog, informed his few Twitter followers about how unimportant I was and how far I had fallen into obscurity and poverty. Yes, a little student bumboy from Southern Ireland (who has probably never been beyond — or even to— Dublin in his life, who has no profession, no job, no future…).
Twitter specializes in the sort of people who, though semi-literate, will call you an idiot, or a “knuckledragger”, for not wanting the UK to become even more of a multikulti dustbin. Then there are those who will say “he must never have met a black/Muslim/Jew/whatever“. They would probably be quite surprised to discover, inter alia, how many countries I have been to, including some, in various parts of the world, where I have even lived, worked and, indeed, been married! Yet people whose sole exposure to other cultures has been a week in Majorca, or a gap-year stint teaching English in Thailand or bumming around in Goa (or even just a weekly Chinese takeaway), will assume that they are far more informed than me…
Likewise, you get people (who have never achieved the slightest thing in their whole lives) who will talk about how those with whom they disagree are “old”, “failures”, “without influence”, even “morons” etc. They, almost invariably, are looking in the mirror (even as regards age, sometimes)!
That’s Twitter. Peter Hitchens is (must be) far more patient than me. As I have speculated before, he must regard it as some kind of duty, perhaps a religious duty, to debate, at least for a while, even with those who insult him.
I just have no time for the nonsense of it.
Dim tweet of the day?
I am up for free speech and being able to speak your mind. BUT when you have racists and vile people using free speech as a way to justify their disgusting racist views and hiding behind this term this is NOT acceptable nor attacking their free speech. It's hate speech.
Surely the laughable thing @turkishortygloom , is to be so gullible and ill-informed that you think the crashing of the economy and mass house arrest have saved or will save any lives. https://t.co/F24uYns413
Here comes the reckoning. Rush Sunak, the pay day loan king, wants his money back. Pensioners are only the first who will be made to pay pic.twitter.com/Ln4h0vUWeI
One wonders where the discontented voters of 2021-2024 will go. Misnamed “Labour” is no alternative, not being far from “the same old” convergence LibLabCon, but with different puppets on sticks. There is effectively no LibDem party now, and the LibDem bolt was shot some time ago. As to radical parties of any kind, there are, as yet, none.
A 'lockdown' with no lock and no key . We (and most of Euroe) were not 'requested'. We were blinking well told, threatened, denounced, informed on and punished if we disobeyed. And our economy was ruined. Assume what you like @wittgenfrog. But don't state it as fact. https://t.co/ULSBkiUzRR
Top-selling black author says she's stopped talking to white people about race. Funny thing is, the last couple of weeks have had a very similar, albeit oppositie, effect on many white people.https://t.co/owNLT1NqC9
My knowledge of numerical cycles told me that 2022 is the first really significant year, in terms of the Zeitgeist, since 1989. However, the logical Western post-1400 AD brain said to me “how?”.
Now, with two years to go, it already looks more likely than it did a few months ago that 2022 could see a sea-change. In the UK, with unemployment, poverty, lack of opportunity all set to soar, with a government of near-imbeciles in power, and with an official Opposition no better and just as Jew/Zionist-ridden, there is a real chance for a social-national movement of importance, for the first time since 1939 or even 1929.
Oh, I went quite deliberately to watch the demonstration, @toadmeister. If some of them didn't like me, they were quite entitled to say so. What's objectionable is the ridiculous idea that my presence was 'offensive' or some such and by implication should have been prevented. https://t.co/9pq08o9gar
Almost none of this is true. @philosopherqueer. For all I know you may have 'actively slowed the crowd to avoid me', crazy as it sounds when there were hundreds of you and one of me, but the rest is twaddle. https://t.co/tCVLTAb40T
I want as many BBC —and other msm talking heads and scribblers— to lose their jobs, or freelance work, as possible. 99% are enemies of the people and/or useless and ignorant tools of ZOG/NWO.
Soon, the catastrophe brought onto the UK and much of the rest of Europe by evil-intentioned or incompetent governments will be with us. We, as the vanguard of the social national movement, which as yet hardly exists, must be ready to strike. The ground is being prepared for us.
Britain’s new and proliferating toytown police state
“An actor was stopped in the street by a police officer because she was wearing a strongly worded t-shirt.”
Leaving aside the absurd contemporary affectation by which all actresses are supposed to be referred to as “actors” (and leaving aside the woman’s obviously ridiculous and anti-white views), this is yet another example of the British police acting as a poundland KGB.
So go, if you do not want to stay part of the UK! I am not stopping you. Just remember that, from now on (after Independence), Scotland pays for everything it wants or needs without English help. State spending per head is presently higher in Scotland than it is in England.
I hope that all those Scots pro-Independence voters realize that they will be far poorer after such “Independence”. They will, of course, only be “independent” from the UK, not from the international banking set-up, the transnational companies, the UN, NATO and, perhaps most directly, the EU.
Still, that poll gives me the opportunity to repost the “SNP dim tweet of the day” (which I do not, in fact, post every day). Today, two for the price of one:
Aye maybe there is something else going on that WM don’t want us to know
The social security or “welfare” system is supposed to provide basic subsistence for those without sufficient income. It is not supposed to be a State-run insurance scheme (even though parts of it started like that).
The main problem with public acceptance is that people see migrant-invaders straight off the boat (often a rubber boat landed on a Kent pebble beach) getting more help than the British people do, despite the latter having paid in all their lives.
Not everyone can pay in, but the monies going to invaders who should not even be here are a, maybe the, major problem.
Basic Income must come, but should be available only to British people (and I do mean real British people).
Looking at the latest Labour nonsense (see above), one can see that Labour is going back to a kind of Blairism without Blair, or Gordon Brown-ism without Brown. You have Keir Starmer, with Jewish wife (a lawyer) and whose children are being brought up as Jewish. You have these rather tired or outdated anti-“welfare” statements being made (this is 2020, not 2010). Above all, you have Boris-idiot, not much respected by the public, but sitting there, and sitting on his 80-seat majority which nothing is going to dislodge for at least 2 years.
I had not previously heard of that MP, Jonathan Reynolds.
One or two good points noted, such as support for Basic Income and proportional representation. A few bad marks too, such as the fact that he is a vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel. That is very bad.
Reynolds is also one of the many “never had a real job” MPs, really, though he did some (unspecified and probably very minor) work for the local council as well as 4 years’ work for his mentor, the Blairite MP and now BBC bigwig, James Purnell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Purnell , a horrible little bastard and one-time Chair of Labour Friends of Israel (also a noted expenses cheat).
Reynolds became a solicitor before being elected as MP, but has never practised.
Tweets seen
Will this one day seem as odd as those 1939-45 ‘Is your journey really necessary’ posters? Or is this the future forever, muzzled and permanently frightened? pic.twitter.com/igYdpWZjQ5
Unembarrassed, apparently unconscious of any possibility that their message might be mistaken or disproportionate, bossy notices telling us life is more inconvenient for our own good are everywhere on the rail network. pic.twitter.com/F8y4waouzj
Sweet of you to care @allthatchas, but as there are almost no passengers, there was no queue for the single available stall. If you want to wander lonely as a cloud, go by train. Al Johnson Ratnerised the rail network on May 10 https://t.co/wBaXFjms6nhttps://t.co/jJFDSVq6RA
The attempted Shadow Banning of this interview https://t.co/vfJLz1TP3J failed (thanks to some tough resistance) and as a result it has now had more than 73,000 views. Please watch it, if only to defy the censors.
If you want to wander lonely as a cloud, go by train. The government has Ratnerised the rail network and refilled the roads by persuading everyone that trains are dangerous places where you must wear a muzzle to survive. pic.twitter.com/eWZmbUS5pZ
Yes, @Richard93111191 but how long is this sustainable, as government-induced panic scares passengers away from the trains now running empty on colossal, unaffordable subsidies with no fare income? Once again, only an admission that the whole thing was a mistake will cure it. https://t.co/VtWGSpWbKp
I'm much of your opinion. I am not surprised to hear that the wearing of muzzles is popular. There could be no better symbol of our decline as a people. Perhaps at the Last Night of the Proms a muzzled crowd can bang spoons on pans instead of singing obsolete patriotic songs. https://t.co/3UEXDodRnr
The Last Night of the Proms is of course anachronistic, in that only about three-quarters or so of the inhabitants of the UK are even white/European now! (officially about 85%, but is that a statistic or a mere “damn lie”?).
There are two ways, beyond face value, of looking at the Last Night of the Proms: either it is a reactionary insult to “BAME people” and should be banned, or it is a way of pretending to the remaining British population that Britain is a real country with real patriotic people, when it in fact no longer is…
Yes, the only 'criticism' permitted is one that says the government did not follow its mad policy efficiently or quickly enough. As in the USSR, where tame media could rail against failures to fulfil fictional 5-year plans . https://t.co/ShUAH9mqLI
In 2004 I wrote : ' …the rise and rise of officers such as Brian Paddick and Cressida Dick, politically correct and right-on, is not accidental. After the purge of the police following the Macpherson Report, this is the future of law enforcement in this country. ' https://t.co/9gFYW9V8IE
As Hitchens perhaps implies here, there is only incidentally law enforcement now in Britain. What has taken its place is a kind of politically correct, politically approved enforcement of multikulti society norms, using the law as a ploy, by a police “service” which is on the one hand brainwashed and on the other hand a poundland KGB.
Funny the way pro-Virus Panic media *didn't* notice Norway's Public Health Chief Camilla Stoltenberg saying Norway could have brought the coronavirus pandemic under control without a lockdown: https://t.co/FAHOVt3GYL
Two more studies – one by the main body of Britain's GPs – conclude that lockdown was pointless.#BorisJohnson regime & Keir Starmer oppo alike have been criminally negligent.
There must eventually come a parting of the ways. The bulk of the world’s population, even the majority of the white European-origined population, cannot travel into the future in their present form(s).
“Fewer than 24 people are catching coronavirus each day in London, new modelling suggests, with forecasts predicting the virus could be wiped out in the capital within a fortnight.
If cases continue to decrease at the current rate, the virus will be virtually eliminated in the capital by the end of the month, raising questions about whether the strict lockdown measures would need to continue.” [Daily Telegraph]
After leaving their traps, they no doubt go home to stand outside their homes, virtue-signalling by clapping like drunken seals “for the NHS”.
Government subsidy for the self-employed
“A government scheme to support self-employed workers signed up 440,000 people on its first day at a cost of £1.3bn, according to the Treasury.
The self-employment income support scheme (SEISS) provides workers whose finances have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic with a cash grant of 80% of their average monthly trading profits up to a cap of £2,500, backdated to cover the last three months.
Launched this week, more than two weeks ahead of schedule, the scheme is expected to support up to 3.5 million of the UK’s 5.2 million self-employed people.” [Guardian]
What strikes me first is how “autres temps autres mœurs“…
In the past decade particularly, we have seen the way in which the Conservative Party governments (aided in 2010-2015 by their LibDem enablers) stigmatized the poor, and particularly the poor who are also unemployed and/or disabled, and living on mostly very modest State benefit monies.
Many people who are now gratefully in receipt of the “furlough” payments for furloughed employees, and those who are applying for what amounts to the new State benefit for the (supposedly) “self-employed”, will have voted “Conservative” in the past 10 years. Amazing how attitudes change with circumstances…
While the new “benefits” are modest (the maximum claimable is £2,500 per month), they are still more than almost all unemployed and disabled can claim (even if Housing Benefit etc is included in the latter categories’ monies).
It reminds me of the attitudes of the farmers, who like to pretend that they are self-standing independent people running agricultural businesses, yet who “accept” farm subsidies and grants at (under the system as it now is, which may change) around £150 an acre merely for owning or renting land, fundamentally. A farmer with 200 acres (the overall average), will get 200 x £150, so about £30,000 a year. Not huge, but still pretty good for doing effectively nothing (a simplification, but one cannot get into more here)! That sum will be payable whether the farm makes £100,000 profit, £10,000 profit, nothing, or a loss.
The farmers do not see themselves as being “on benefits”, of course! You only have to listen to BBC Radio 4 Farming Today to hear the convoluted arguments and language they and the NFU farmers’ lobby employ to justify their subsidies (“providing a service“, “doing environmental work“, “growing the food the nation/world needs“, “ensuring Britain’s food security” etc…). Anything but “we want the State to pay us for owning land“, though occasionally you do hear “without the farm payments, half the farmers in England will go out of business“. And your point is?… The coal mines, steel works etc used to say the same.
Is it April the First?
There are now so many red flag warnings that Western society has gone mad that it is hard to select from the hundreds, thousands, of examples. What about this?!
One of the few good things about the Coronavirus situation is that, up until now, it has pushed Greta Nut off the news agenda. Now, those behind her have managed to inveigle her back on, despite her lack of any knowledge or qualification.
Economic ruination?
“Almost half of UK businesses are within six months of running out of cash, despite the lifeline provided by the government’s furlough scheme, according to the latest official snapshot of how firms are faring.
In its fortnightly survey on the economic impact of Covid-19, the Office for National Statistics found 44% of firms that responded said their reserves would last for less than six months.”
“About 27% said they had cash that would last beyond six months.” [The Guardian]
So only a quarter of UK enterprises have cash reserves sufficient to last them beyond November of this year? Sobering.
“When the government put the economy into lockdown in March a third (33%) of those surveyed said they thought it would take six months or more for the country to bounce back to its pre-crisis state, but that figure has risen to 46%.” [The Guardian]
The “furlough” and other recent Government schemes are expensive in themselves (at least £8 billion per month, and now more, with the “self-employed” subsidy), but a debt of that sort (meaning eventually perhaps £100 billion) is at a level that can be handled, given that the UK can at present borrow at long-term rock-bottom interest rates
The economist Jonathan Portes was making that point only this morning on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme. If I heard correctly, he thought that it worked out at £30 per person per year (interest or interest + capital repayment? I have seen £100 per year as a combined figure). In any event, not catastrophic. A long-term national debt burden.
What would be catastrophic would be a general economic collapse. Were that to happen, the pound sterling would fall like a stone (despite the similar problems in other countries, particularly EU countries). That in turn would make imports prohibitively expensive. Britain imports (including raw materials) about 80% of its food.
In addition, a general economic collapse would cause enormous unemployment, in that genuine employment would be hit, and so would the basically fake (short-term, “gig economy”, part-time, zero-hours) employment and (equally fake, really) “self-employment” of millions.
Still, as Lenin put it, “worse will mean better…” meaning that, for us now, and in 2021-22, there might be, for the first time in my present lifetime, a realistic chance for social nationalism in the UK.
White genocide
The tweeter below sees, in the Daily Mail‘s cropping of a photo, “white racism” but I see something else— the cover-up around “the Great Replacement” of whites by non-whites in Europe.
Compare the #DailyMail front cover photo and the stock photo they used – and notice anything about the people they cropped out? pic.twitter.com/8dG38mU0vD
When I was a child, in the early and mid 1960s (I was in Australia 1967-69), Britain was an almost-entirely white country (despite the lies put out to the masses by shows such as Grantchester, Endeavour, various other popular TV shows). Certainly you never saw many, if any, blacks or browns etc in most of the country or even in Central London (there were enclaves in ports such as Liverpool and Cardiff). In fact, the only black person I believe I ever saw in England was the consultant (ear, nose, throat) from somewhere in the Caribbean, whom I saw when aged about 6, maybe 7, at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.
Now, the BBC and the msm generally have stolen British (and other European) history, right back to the Middle Ages, and even to Roman Britain and earlier!
The Conservatives have slipped back to 51% popularity. What, I wonder, would David Cameron-Levita or Theresa May not have given for such a level of support? However, it is merely popularity by default, given that Labour support continues to bump along the bottom, a function of irrelevance.
You wanted me to wear a face mask? Here it is, even though the WHO says 'If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with COVID-19.'https://t.co/xC6QBEr5Cmpic.twitter.com/tDaByf9Dh4
Indeed @mrpjdonovan. People who got married in the 1970s are so embarrassed by how they looked that they often do not display their wedding photos. Yet at the time they thought it all quite reasonable. https://t.co/Zx42iySX6d
Hard to argue against the above Hitchens comment, looking at the present government of fools.
“There is no correlation between fatalities and lockdown stringency. The most stringent lockdowns – as in China, Italy, Spain, New Zealand and Britain – have yielded both high and low deaths per million. Hi-tech has apparently “worked” in South Korea, but so has no-tech in Sweden. Sweden’s 319 deaths per million is far ahead of locked-down Norway’s 40 and Denmark’s 91, but it’s well behind locked-down UK’s 465 and Spain’s 569.” [The Guardian]
“Britain’s last experience of protracted national disruption, Jim Callaghan’s Labour government continued to lead the Conservatives in some polls. But as the crisis dragged on, and seemed increasingly beyond Callaghan’s control, the government’s ratings collapsed and never fully recovered.
If that happens to Johnson, the disconnect between his popularity and his political abilities will stop being a mystery that columns like this try to solve. His long hold over voters and the media, ever since he won the mayoralty in usually Labour-supporting London 12 years ago, will be seen as a bit of a con – like an enticing but dodgy company that eventually went bust.”
All well and good, but if the public get fed up (enough) with Boris-idiot and his government of fools, to where do they turn? Britain, or at least England, has a basically binary system. When the “other party” is flat on its back, defeated, irrelevant, as Labour now is, will the electorate turn to it? Doubtful, especially with someone like Keir Starmer as leader and MPs such as Rachel Reeves around him. You never know, and the System loves the pointless ping-pong on Con-Lab politics, but Labour has no real base any more, in any sense; unless you say that Labour’s base is now the affluent but virtue-signalling London multikulti types, and the Twitterati, together with the ethnic minorities (except Jews) and public service people. The old Labour of the steel mills, the coal mines, the transport unions, the (now near-irrelevant) TUC, has disappeared.
Again, this should be, in theory, the time when social nationalism rises up to destroy the evil ones, but there is no such party, no such movement. Yet.
I expect a huge amount of System propaganda today about the 75th anniverssary of VE-Day. BBC Radio 4 Today is going full Soviet Radio. It is like living in a parallel universe. In the BBC/Sky/msm universe, Britain “fought for freedom and won” in 1939-45, and today the Queen will “lead the nation” in a 2-minute silence. There will be speeches, RAF fly-pasts etc.
To a large extent, it is the Jewish lobby that now promotes all these contrived anniversaries. The 75th or 80th or 85th anniversary of whatever. It gives “them” the opportunity to yet again talk about “holocaust” etc. The line of travel is anniversary/WW2/Hitler/”holocaust”.
Meanwhile, in the real world, the UK government of fools has put almost the entire nation under house arrest, even calling it “lockdown”, a term previously used mainly in American and other prisons.
Leaving that aside, only on State-mouthpiece BBC (and the other System msm) will “the nation” (which scarcely exists now, as such) be waiting agog for the Queen’s speech, or taking part in any “2-minute silence”. In reality, hardly anyone will listen, let alone stand silent, though no doubt the msm can be relied upon to produce suitable photos or film clips.
That graph says it all. The virus wave, in reality, peaked in February, a month before the “lockdown” nonsense was imposed. The biggest fall was when the “wash hands” propaganda was launched in early March. That propaganda or advice was the best and in fact the only useful advice offered to the public. The “stay at home” advice/threat was and is all but useless (as of course is the “protect NHS/save lives” stuff, and the weekly social coercion of the “clapathon”).
@BorisJohnson is clearly absolutely terrified by the media. He is crippled with fear and will just keep lockdown for months and months. People need to get with the picture.
She is right. Boris-idiot is to a large extent a creation of a decadent and “tolerant” mass media. Inside the onion rings of rote-learned Latin and Greek, the Eton and Oxford polish, the public speaking skill etc is…nothing. There is nothing in the middle. Boris-idiot has no real programme that he wishes to implement. All he wanted to do was become Prime Minister, because it is the highest office the UK can bestow. Now he has achieved that, and so has nowhere to go, nothing to do.
So we have been under lockdown and they didn’t even protect the care homes in the end. My colleague @KathyConWom predicted this at the very beginning.https://t.co/Q5RCgAEmab
The facile answer to that tweet would be “well, no-one knew that a virus emergency would emerge”; but that simply begs the question as to whether these measures were necessary and/or proportionate. I think not.
Once more for slow learners, epidemiologists often try to baffle you by describing their work as ‘stochastic’ . Sounds serious, huh? But as the Oxford Shorter English Dictionary shows here, it means ‘guess’ . Pseudoscience works by dressing guesswork in a crisp white lab coat. pic.twitter.com/beNHaDeFuB
Government advice. Their so far unchallenged use of the 1984 Act to enforce this, scores of fines and arrests, police officiousness. Seems persuasive to me. If I go out, I have to explain my reasons to a state militiaman. This is not the country I grew up in. @brian_in_dorsethttps://t.co/JTSvVFXgV8
Guesswork, you mean. Proper science is about objective testing, repeatable, falsifiable, predictive. That is why we pay attention to it. Guesswork dressed up in a lab coat is still guesswork. https://t.co/AYWNfTfGGu
It is medically futile and economically disastrous. But it is politically useful to Dear Leader Kim Jong Al, too weak and indecisive to act just now, and hoping something will turn up. https://t.co/UeNJvQjCp5
Boris-idiot, posing as PM, has messed up the Coronavirus situation in every possible way. Those to whom he delegated power, notably the half-Jew Raab, and little Matt Hancock, have also messed up. “Boris” can use his supposed Coronavirus illness to escape some of the consequences on an alibi basis (“I was in hospital and not in charge at the time”) though that hardly washes, in view of the fact that most of the big decisions were taken by Boris Johnson and before he became unwell.
He is now back at No.10 and still will not admit that he was wrong or wrongly advised; he will still not drop the “lockdown”, because it would mean losing face. He is being supported by the Twitter mob, much of it, and by the Gadarene swine of the msm.
Result? Well, even the Bank of England is now predicting a situation not far short of economic collapse, at least in the short term. That is not caused by “Coronavirus”, but by government policies.
Basic Income
I have supported “Basic Income” for years. In fact, I first conceived the idea in the 1980s, when thinking about the future direction of society. Others, with more appropriate letters after their names, were working on it at the same time or later, it seems. Now, it may be that Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, or will come soon:
Most tweets seen by me were, as expected, replete with ignorance. Stuff about how “evil” National Socialism was, and how good were not only the Western Allies but the Soviet forces, including the Red Army pillagers and rapists. Such is the ignorance shown (especially on Twitter) that I would not bother to argue with it even had I still a Twitter account (the Jew lobby had me expelled in 2018).
I do not think that I shall bother to repost many ignorant tweets even to laugh at them, but here’s one, anyway:
The ignorant young woman above has, on her Twitter profile, “#law Graduate #LLM#LPC student #Lawyer wannabe. #feminist ~Ally ~ writer sometimes ~cynical always. #eurovision fan ~ Wine aficionado – Coffee Freak“.
So a trainee solicitor or barrister…good grief!
She thinks that “The only reason why WW2 was a success is because it was a European and common effort against the Nazis’ 3rd Reich.” Where does one start? Even leaving aside the evils of the Soviet Union under Stalin, there is the fact that much of Europe was either on the German side or neutral.
On the German side, inter alia (and taking only Europe into account), were Austria, Hungary, the Baltic states, Finland, former Yugoslav state Croatia, ex-Czechoslovak Slovakia, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria and, in effect, Vichy France. Neutral were Spain, Portugal, Eire (Ireland), Switzerland, Sweden, and small states such as Liechtenstein (and the Vatican).
Individuals from all over Europe, including the states ranged against Germany, and including small numbers from the UK, fought on the German side. Members of the Legion of St. George, from the UK, were among the last few valiant defenders of Berlin in 1945, as the rapists and pillagers of the Red Army broke through the last lines of defence.
The Jewish element has poisoned the minds of many, especially in the past few decades, via msm, fake-history feature films, the whole “holocaust industry” in publishing, wrongheaded and/or biased teaching in academia (secondary and tertiary education).
Relatively few see the Third Reich or National Socialism straight. However, only political Twitter, with dissidents removed, really cares much about it all. Tomorrow, it will all be forgotten again, until the (((msm))) finds another anniversary or event for the “useful idiots” to emote about…
Finally, the young woman tweeting above thinks (because told so) that “WW2 was a success“. Well, if you think that the deaths of 80 million people, the smashing down of much of Europe, the misery caused by the war, the post-1945 collapse of European rule in much of Africa and Asia (with consequent wars, civil wars, wildlife destruction, environmental disaster etc) was “a success”. That’s even leaving aside the drab 44 years of Soviet rule, in effect, across Eastern and Central Europe, which lasted until 1989.
I don’t expect much now from most British people in the way of independent thought, reflection, even basic knowledge or logic. That way, I don’t get too disappointed. Usually.
A few pictures from that Third Reich that that young woman is sure had to go…
[above: a woman talks to a German soldier —unarmed soldier, off-duty— in occupied Paris in 1940 or 1941]
[above: a gendarme salutes a German officer by the Arc de Triomphe]
[above: SS man, with others (one probably Latvian), plays with a kitten]
[above: Dresden 1945, destroyed, together with much of the civilian population, by British bombers. American fighters, flying low the next day, strafed defenceless civilians, including women with children]…
[above: devastated Berlin, 1945. The photo shows the central Unter den Linden area]
More “words of wisdom” from tweeter “Em”:
Whatever the government says (and because I do not take it as valuable or worthy guideline or rules) I will not end lockdown.#IDontWantToDie
That is the semi-literate level of someone in Britain, in 2020, someone with a law degree, a Master’s degree (joke though that usually is) and reading for either the solicitors’ profession or the Bar…It is not a matter of shaking one’s head at one individual but of noting one person as typical of literally thousands of others.
Tweeter “Em” has the excuse of relative youth. What is the excuse of such as James O’Brien?
Here below, Peter Hitchens deplores the outbreak of war in 1914:
Well, was I right to be pessimistic about the future last New Year's Eve? https://t.co/puIL0vAyEz
He does not think that the outbreak of war in 1939, and in particular the declaration of war on Germany by Britain and France, was wrong. He is wrong.
Ah, here is faux-revolutionary fake Owen Jones (part-Jew, btw, for those unaware):
75 years on, here's to the courageous fighters who crushed Nazism and fascism at such cost and sacrifice, and to the millions murdered by a genocidal creed. #VEDaypic.twitter.com/CrurxEUmli
Vic, staying strong, on #VEDay. 75 years ago he celebrated the end of the War in Europe. Like others his age, he's so modest about the part he played in defeating Nazism. Whenever I ask him about the War, he simply says 'I can't remember'. To be fair he was two when it finished. pic.twitter.com/CAMzvlZ0Yt
1945 is now 75 years distant. Scarcely anyone who actually fought in it or was an adult civilian at the time is still alive. In Britain, “the War” still overshadows everything. Even the problems with a virus are referred back to “the War”! They are fighting on the beaches…against Coronavirus! How incredibly puerile… What they should be doing is fighting the migration-invasion, which is indeed, in part, quite literally “on the beaches”, mainly of Kent and Sussex. About 200 invaders a day now…idiotic Priti Patel is very quiet, for once. Useless.
Yes, sweetie, we have heard this, but since the govt has stopped publishing figures for ICU bed occupation, the only measures we have of Covid-19's actual power to lay people low and *put* them in ICUs are the death stats. And they suggest that the alleged threat never emerged. https://t.co/DCVeF16WxK
Peter Hitchens is basically an intellectual. He thinks or perhaps hopes that presenting facts, logic, statistics will convince people that the “lockdown” is a disastrous mistake that should be ended at once. The problem is that most people, including many who think themselves very clever, have only a thin veneer of intellect over the seething mass of emotion and will. The “lockdown” was accompanied by propaganda designed to affect the public on the emotional level, and by using emotional hooks, in particular that of fear. As Hitchens himself notes, the government of fools now finds that its own present desire to end “lockdown” (before the economy is destroyed almost totally) is thwarted by the same fear that the government itself has engendered!
The public, or about half of the public, are not willing to leave their houses because they are afraid despite the fact that there is actually no reason for at least 80%-90% of the public to be afraid! Most people, even if infected, show no symptoms, or few, and require no professional medical intervention. So far, fatalities have been, at highest, 1 in every 2,000 people in the UK.
There are other reasons why the public is not more keen to end “lockdown”. Some people live in pleasant large houses, with grounds or gardens. Some have swimming pools and tennis courts. I daresay that that description fits many of the houses of those droning dully every day on the BBC, Sky News, ITV News etc. For people in that position, and with no shortage of money (the msm is still paying 100% of pay; the same goes for MPs…), the situation is a kind of Oxfordian “Long Vac”. In fact, these days, for the affluent, with the Internet and its possibility to order food, wine, whatever, and to have almost anything delivered easily, life can seem like an endless Summer, albeit slightly restricted.
For others, not so fortunate as the above, there are other incentives: “furlough” pay at 80% of pay (with £2,500 per month cap). Many only make that much, or less, anyway, and the 20% cut is offset by the lack of need to pay for commute transport etc.
Only a small proportion worry about the civil rights aspect (the government dictating that the people stay in house arrest until further order, the antics of the toytown police and so on). That parallels all dictatorships. Only the few are dissidents. The dissidents are harassed, even imprisoned or killed (not yet in the UK, but who can say what it might be like in later years?), but if they survive they can become the next leadership cadre, as happened after socialism fell across Europe in and after 1989.
Amusing exchange…
If you say so. @paulhoo579937. But I struggle to think of an occasion when theoretical physics was used as a pretext for throttling the economy, wrecking small business and mass house arrest. https://t.co/l2NAobxc9m
I see that Dusty Springfield is trending on Twitter. She had an unforgettable voice, and was of course famous during my 1960s childhood.
The criminal Bar seems to have hit rock bottom…
(at least in the lower ranks)
Having encouraged the “fat cat” criminal barrister myth and spread lies about legal aid over the past decade, the government is now leaving junior criminal barristers destitute. https://t.co/kZGtH1kBvl
— The Secret Barrister (@BarristerSecret) May 8, 2020
Magistrates’ courts work never paid large amounts, but I can recall getting £5,000 for a week in City of London Magistrates’ Court in 1993. It could not happen now, partly because “old-style” committals (extended committal proceedings for trial in the Crown Court, in that case at the Old Bailey) no longer exist and because all criminal legal aid amounts have declined greatly in real terms.
Fees like that were rare (for me, at least) even in 1993 (part of why I remember it!).
Another great singer
A peaceful tomorrow may be an optimistic thought, but who knows?
It will be seen from the above chart that the UK is in 4th place for death from Coronavirus, expressed in proportion to population. Belgium, Spain and Italy, all of which had strict “lockdown” regimes, have fared worse than has the UK. Some countries which have implemented only light regulation, such as Sweden, have fared better than the UK.
There are many variables, based on lifestyles, the way deaths are counted, when the virus really emerged in a particular country etc, so people can argue endlessly over which country has the worst or best record and why. However, it seems clear that whether a country has strict “lockdown”, less strict, or none at all, is almost irrelevant to the spread and effect of the Coronavirus, taken over a couple of months.
It will be seen, also, that Coronavirus has killed (taking the statistics as provided) about 500 people for every million in the UK. One out of every 2,000. That is unfortunate, but is hardly the Black Death (which is said to have killed about 1 out of 3 people across Europe, in other words about 700x the rate of Coronavirus in the UK (so far).
I notice that the political Twitterati have not disappointed me. They always get it wrong. They are on the wrong side of pretty much any argument. They predict every election or referendum inaccurately. In this case, they (most of them) want an extension of the UK “lockdown” nonsense; many want it even more strictly enforced, and with even fewer services and facilities open for business.
You cannot really talk or debate (not that I wish to) with that unthinking and self-righteous Twitter mob. They are the bookburners, the proponents of heresy laws etc.
As things stand, people in the UK are under loose house arrest, en bloc. It seems that some restrictions are going to be eased next week. All the same, and more importantly, the British people cannot do all manner of normal things at present, some of which are very necessary. Examples include accessing dental services, getting hair cut, sending their children to school.
This farce has to end. The cost is enormous. Vast numbers of people (at last count, over —uh-oh, that number again!— six million) were “furloughed” on 80% pay (capped at £2,500 per month). I have to admit that a wry smile may have been seen on my face at the sight of those who, many of them, cheered on Dunce Duncan Smith and others from both main System parties as they marginalized and demonized the poor and especially the not-employed poor, now themselves staring down the barrel of destitution.
Apart from that, the fact is that the “lockdown” is killing people every day in various ways: deferred consultations, cancelled operations etc.
At some point soon, all the “emergency” measures will have to end. Many prefer to stay away from boring jobs for a while, given that they are “furloughed” on 80% of their pay (and when you take off costs such as transport, it might even add up to 100% of net pay in reality). However, this will not be sustainable for much longer.
Having scared the people out of their skins, the government of fools is now preparing to crack the whip to get those same people out of their houses, by reducing the furlough cap to (probably) £2,000 from £2,500, by reducing the amount anyone can get to 60% of pay rather than 80%.
I wonder what the unemployment figure will be by Christmas. 3 million? 5 million?
Latest news (only 1 hour old at time of writing):
Debenhams is to shut five stores after failing to reach agreement with its landlords over rent, resulting in 1,000 job losses https://t.co/414K3gDR57
Those calling for “lockdown” to continue almost indefinitely, and certainly for months more, have no interest in or understanding of the effects on the UK economy. They seem to think that people can be subsidized indefinitely to stay in their homes while commerce and industry die on the vine.
As usual, the Twitter mob, all but irrelevant to the real course of events, rant at those (in this case) calling for an end to the “lockdown” nonsense, calling them “stupid” etc. Those Twitter drones have evidently not thought through all the implications of a continuing “lockdown”. Apart from which, it occurs to me that the present times are characterized, at least in part, by unthinking selfishness disguised as concern for society.
I favour Basic Income, but that can only work where society (and the economy) is open for business. If not, then the monies expended are merely dead outflows, fuelling inflation eventually.
Notting Hill Carnival
The Notting Hill Carnival has been cancelled, a rare bonus from the Coronavirus situation. The blacks may or may not riot as a consequence in August, when the heat builds and the tom-toms drum incessantly in the darkening (urban) jungle. For the local population, this will come as a blessed relief.
Notting Hill was already being gentrified when the Carnival (the white would-be ethnics drop the “the”) started to become a really major event in the 1970s, having started in 1966. In the 1960s and 1950s, Notting Hill had been known as an “edgy” neighbourhood wedged among other, more expensive, areas (Kensington, Holland Park etc).
I myself was familiar with Notting Hill in the 1980s. I would fairly often visit the wonderful art-nouveau Electric Cinema in Portobello Road, which sometimes showed Soviet films such as Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears; I was trying to improve my Russian at the time.
The Soviet diplomatic presence was not far away, near Notting Hill Gate (Consulate) and Kensington Palace Gardens (Embassy). The Czech Consulate was also at Notting Hill Gate.
Some of the films were very odd at first sight:
Other films (especially the ones from the Caucasus) seemed almost impenetrable. I remember this one, which I think was shown with Russian subtitles:
I visited the actual Portobello Road Market, specifically, a few times in the 1980s and early 1990s. It sold everything from apples to antiques and expensive fur coats (some valued at thousands of pounds, with provenance doubtful).
As for the Carnival, I did go once, out of curiosity. That would have been mid-1980s. Ghastly. Non-stop drumming “music”, dubious palm wine bought from an African in the street, fried plantains (not unpleasant but very over-priced) and, everywhere, huge numbers of people (by no means all non-whites, though blacks were by far the majority, as I suppose they soon will be in all of London, if they are not already). A hot day, too. I stayed for an hour or so. To return to real London was not easy. All Underground stations in the vicinity were closed because of the crush. I ended up walking all the way home, in the hot sun, to Little Venice, which was blessedly quiet and leafy by comparison with the streets of “Carnival”.
The present-day residents of Notting Hill (where houses now sell for millions) mostly barricade themselves in for a few days, or lock their houses up as securely as they can, and then go away for a few days. I imagine that they must be (secretly?) celebrating the cancellation this year.
Errrrr…Vitamin D deficiency anyone? Not exactly cutting edge science, but surely worth a mention, BBC? Don’t worry, no-one sane will think you’re being anything-ist. https://t.co/DivDMA6Toh
I start with one, the poster of which evidently imagines itself very clever:
#Iceland are doing brilliantly vs #CoronaVirus, confirming no new #COVID19 cases. Currently, just 3 patients hospitalised. It's only suffered 10 fatalities
Or…just maybe…because Iceland, unlike the UK, is not a multikulti, globalized, overcrowded dustbin of peoples…
Something better:
I think the best way of describing Dear Leader Kim Jong Al's approach to the Covid-19 epidemic is that he is like a man who sets fire to his own pyjamas to cure himself of the hiccoughs. And then says it worked because, lo, the hiccoughs have gone.
Much worse than that @emilyjanecrews. Champagne Trotskyist. Almost nobody can cope with the undoubted facts in this article, so everyone ignores it: https://t.co/ZlYmwTZQeHhttps://t.co/7hxeC6qr2g
Hitchens of course glosses over the fact that most important Communists in the UK, from the 1920s up to the effective end of the socialist/Communist movement in 1989, were Jews.
In fact, Hitchens’ own Daily Mail article (an inset of) refers to Karl Marx simply as “German“, and not the more correct “Jew“, presumably because Marx was born in Germany and spoke German as well as other languages. If I had been born in China, would I be Chinese? Of course not (though some of the madder Twitterati would probably and defiantly answer in the affirmative!).
Thank you @ben_crocket , l hope so. I think the shift is among people working for themselves who really cannot afford to stay at home any longer. https://t.co/ZLsCOh3AZs
I disagree @jayfab69. I think the dangers of Covid-19 to healthy people of any age are gravely exaggerated by a government which wishes to distil fear into power. https://t.co/RytrTjvWTo
I'm sorry @steventomboots. I don't regard testing as a practical or useful response to the prob. The only thing that really needs to be tested is the intelligence of the government, a test they'd fail if properly applied, so requiring them to hand over to somebody sensible. https://t.co/FjGkOQY9xN
Deaths peaked on 8th April. French scientists have found evidence that Covid-19 was in Europe in December. Imperial College's modelling, which caused this panic, is increasingly under question. Expect – and demand – a major rethink soon. https://t.co/XFymlyxqGN
2/2 @johnnyclithero As a result I think the level of fear spread by government propaganda is wholly disproportionate to the problem, as is the policy of throttling the economy and mass house arrest, which do not seem to me to be effective. Happy to discuss further, if you wish. https://t.co/dGUWhKLKyA
Heard one whilst out on my bike Tuesday; can't remember the last time I heard one before then.
— Lee E Collins | Could do better (@Lee_E_Collins) May 7, 2020
Quite, it has been ages, 30 years, I'd guess, since before I went to live in Moscow in 1990. I have put it down the chemical warfare known as modern farming which has led to many British birds moving to the suburbs to find food. https://t.co/KDYr9rijGo
I cannot recall when I last heard a cuckoo. Perhaps in a deeply-wooded part of Surrey, c.1985, aged about 28, when I would go trekking every week for several hours with a well-organized group of elderly persons (all 70+), some of whom, like my parents’ then neighbour, Edward, had been officers of Special Operations Executive (SOE) and/or other organizations during the Second World War.
They would trek on a pre-planned route along rural footpaths (very rural— we never met another soul), wooded, with ferns pressing in at time, and always ending up at the country pub where we had started (and where a ploughman’s lunch and a pint of beer would await). Those old people were resilient! I myself, 50 years their junior (and at the time a student of Taekwando, who also could swim 2 miles or more) always fell asleep on the way home in Edward’s car! That was a tough generation.
More tweets:
This,ladies and gentlemen, is the kind of thing complete strangers,such as @taggio72 here, feel entitled to say to me because I dissent from the official view(this tweet is part of a larger mob troll attack).I regard it with contempt, but others might be scared from speaking out. https://t.co/IVMNX09iHW
I am rather surprised that Hitchens even bothers with Twitter, let alone little twerps such as his “interlocutor” there, “@taggio72″. I myself am banned from Twitter anyway, because a group of Jews organized a campaign of complaints against me in 2018. I do not know whether my 3,000 followers miss my tweets. I followed only about 50 accounts, I believe, and most of those were organizations.
Twitter is basically a waste of time. I do read tweets from a few people (Hitchens being one), but Twitter is basically an echo-chamber and outrage-chamber where the agenda changes almost daily. When you add to that the fact that the more interesting tweeters (like me) have been systematically removed over the last few years, the net result is that Twitter is almost useless, though it is a way of identifying some “enemies of the people”. The bias in Twitter is such that it is almost useless as a way of gauging public opinion. Maybe if you see the Twitter mood, the best idea is to then take the reverse view as being the view of most people.
More tweets
The government have done something that weak, incompetent and insecure rulers often do. They sought to distil power from fear. In this case the spirit is too strong. The fear is so great they are trapped by it. https://t.co/fgR0bw95HD
Failure to protect care homes, plus very loose definitions of who died from rather than of the virus, which have enlarged the figures. https://t.co/4RGDGcgN22
Nope @F59man Powell was a fastidious man of great intellect and education. He knew that terms such as 'grinning piccaninnies' and 'whip hand' were the weapons of the rabble rouser. yet he deliberately used them in a speech calculated to boost his political 'career'. No excuse. https://t.co/U0yOznlyV7
Hitchens is against Powell on various bases, including Powell’s alliance with what is now called “racism” (before about 1989, most people would have used the word “racialist”, though that was not so often heard. The politically-correct mob had not yet quite stormed the citadel (under their paramount chief, Blair).
My own view about Powell is that he was a Conservative, so I am not on the same page as him. When he made his famous or “infamous” speech, I was only 11 and living in Australia.
The ITV News piece below is of course multikulti-biased; still…
The fact is that, overall, Enoch Powell was right. Is the Tiber “foaming with much blood”? Not in the cartoon sense, but look at the violent crime in the large cities, the knife crime, the gangs etc. Look at the direction of travel. It is getting worse.
As to Powell himself, one of the true stars of postwar British politics. He was a Conservative, which I am not. He hunted the fox, which I deplore. Still, a real mind amid, even then, the mediocrity. Look at that clip again. Both of the other MPs featured are very slight as compared to Powell.
The first, Paul Uppal, a Sikh, was Conservative Party MP for Powell’s old seat, though only from 2010-2015. Prior to that, supposedly “ran his own business”, the nature of which was not disclosed even on his own website, except that it apparently had no employees other than himself… (#bullshitklaxon…)
As for Ian Austin, MP for Dudley North 2005-2019, he was a press officer in the Labour Party prior to becoming an MP. A total mediocrity, as well as being one of the worst expenses cheats in the Commons and a doormat for the Jewish lobby and Israel.
Austin was finally removed from Parliament in 2019, having stepped down to avoid losing his seat. He was not popular, and caused scandal by apparently wanting the law against pornography featuring bestiality to be repealed. He too has now been given a government sinecure. He is unmarried (I do not know whether he has a pet or companion animal; I hope not!).
Powell, a former Professor of Ancient Greek (Sydney University), who had been born into very modest circumstances in the UK, was multilingual, an academic star student who, after leaving his Sydney academic post, joined the British Army as a private soldier in 1939. He ended the war in 1945 as a brigadier.
I imagine that Powell would have been appalled at the MPs now sitting in the Westminster monkeyhouse. As for Twitter, I cannot see him having an account or bothering with the tidal wave of ignorance, though the brevity taught by his mastery of Greek epigrams and proverbs might have assisted him, if he were to have a Twitter account.
I oppose Powell in that he was very pro war with Germany, even before Hitler took power! Also, he did not say much about black and brown immigration into the UK until the late 1960s. To that extent, Hitchens is right. Powell did try to, as people now say, “weaponize” the race issue for his own political benefit. However, that resonated with millions of British people who even then suspected that the System was betraying them.
Why did Powell never really get anywhere politically after 1968? My view is that, as someone who was basically a Conservative and reactionary, he could not see himself as “national revolutionary”, leading a social-national party.
“A February 1969 Gallup poll showed Powell the “most admired person” in British public opinion.” [Wikipedia]
Had Powell started his own party, even if Conservative-nationalist, he probably would have won several seats and perhaps attracted a few Conservative Party MPs too. It has to be borne in mind that, in the 1970 General Election, over 97% of the votes went to LibLabCon, just under 90% to Labour and Conservative. Powell probably simply thought that new parties fail…
So it was that, in 1974, Powell abandoned the Conservative Party and joined the Ulster Unionists. Why? Again, my own view is that Powell had in mind the bloc of Irish MPs (I think about 90) that Parnell had once led, in the 19thC, though Powell was not the leader of the UUP (which was also few in number at Westminster, I think about 11 MPs).
It may be that, in the end, Powell over-valued Parliament, Parliamentary procedures etc. It was alien to him to start a new party, despite his surely knowing that he had all the talents necessary to lead one: public profile, public support (up to a point), a fine mind, public speaking skills of a high order, administrative skills etc.
Imagine if Powell had had the initiative to start a new party immediately after the “Rivers of Blood” speech. He could have recruited thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands. He might have been able to get a bloc of MPs and, from there, who knows?
As for Hitchens, where I part company with him is that he is a kind of “small-c” conservative or quasi-conservative. The race question is as nothing to him, the Jewish Question is as nothing to him. As a result, he inevitably gets things wrong at times even when, often, he is on the right track.
Why are they not dealing with that gorilla, even if it requires a taser (or a Glock)? I have no idea what the situation was, though. The black may simply have been sunbathing. God knows.
A tweet about the pathetic Question Time rubbish now fronted, poorly, by ludicrously-overpaid BBC face Fiona Bruce:
People who are “conservative” nationialists can never see that the UK is not being flooded by non-whites by some kind of accident! Question Time, The Pledge etc are not full of ignorant blacks such as Afua Hirsch or “Femi” by “accident“! Au contraire. This is part of the Great Replacement. It is not a “conspiracy theory”. It is real and it is all around you. Just open your eyes.
Well, that’s enough for today. I may not like the Chinese attitude to animals, but they can put on a parade!
End of the day…
Afterthought: the officially-mandated “clap” nonsense, which has been conspicuous by near-absence around where I live, was briefly in evidence this evening, at 2000 hrs. Some fireworks went off in the distance, then I heard one person loudly clapping, unseen but not far away. Maybe a drunk.
I think 3 of my neighbours clapped for 30 seconds this week! 😂😂#NHSclap When it started almost the entire street was out. They have to stop this nonsense.
Ian Robert Millard 