Well, a modest 4/10 this week, but still good enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored only 2/10. I got the answers to questions 2, 3, 5, and 9 (no. 3 being a semi-guess).
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Oct. 3, 1925: Police in Liverpool plan to swear in up to 3,000 members of the British Fascists as special constables to crack down on radicals in case of emergencies. The police commander for greater Lancashire and Wirral hopes to employ even larger numbers of the blackshirts. pic.twitter.com/ksSVJhQJFH
“The world is not without kind people” [Russian proverb]
Trump has not rejected the spirit of the meeting with Putin in Anchorage and still hopes that relations between Washington and Moscow will improve, former vice-chair of the National Intelligence Council Graham Fuller has told TASS:https://t.co/1l6ojWzuqOpic.twitter.com/wurX3w8sTU
Many readers of this blog will know that I have been subjected to a decade or more, about 13 years, of (relatively) low-level persecution by malicious Jew-Zionists. That includes (though not exhaustively) my having been nominally disbarred in 2016 (nominally only, because I had abandoned actual Bar practice in 2008 anyway), and includes also my more recent free speech trial (2023) and sentencing hearing (2024):
The sentencing hearing was in mid-March 2024, over 18 months ago as of today’s date.
The Jew-Zionist liars and perjurers of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] wanted the state to punish me for telling the truth and, also wanted to shut down my free speech and, especially, to shut down the blog.
In the event, most of “their” evil intentions never came to fruition: the blog has continued to be published (as it was even throughout the process of prosecution, trial, and sentencing).
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The administration of Trump is unlikely to hand over Tomahawk long-range missiles to Ukraine, because it may become embroiled in a direct conflict with Russia as a result, columnist Ted Snider wrote in an article for The American Conservative magazine:https://t.co/Pgt0KdObr5pic.twitter.com/efk5zVpLjF
The West is making a big mistake in Ukraine, while Russia is not afraid of NATO’s plans and isolation threats, President Milorad Dodik of Republika Srpska, said in an interview with TASS:https://t.co/lbHvX9ws2Mpic.twitter.com/UrPovnGaem
"Reform has averaged 31% of the national vote in the latest polls. In fact, Reform has now led the last 120 opinion polls in a row —which is in itself remarkable."https://t.co/0NZ3qhNcC0
…and, as previously blogged, indicates not support for Reform as such, but disdain, disgust, even hatred, of the former main System parties, Lab and Con, both of which are on life-support, especially with (real) English/British voters.
"Last year, in just one year alone, the UK’s population surged by another 755,300 people, equivalent to adding a city the size of Leeds in twelve months."https://t.co/tXqMxKyIHd
The question is not whether the train will hit the buffers, but when.
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Hitler talked about that in the 1940s. Now it is fairly well-known. On a completely veg diet, it is possible to feed 1 person for a year from food grown on a very small area of land, as little as a quarter or even a fifth of an acre, depending on climate, soil, irrigation etc.
Some studies suggest that, under optimal conditions (climate, soil, technique etc), even a tenth of an acre, a tiny plot (<4,000 square feet, or a strip 40 x 100 feet) , can be enough to sustain 1 person over a year.
A heavily meat-centred diet requires over 3 acres per person, 20x to 100x the area, compared to a fully-vegetarian diet.
A middle way might include some eggs, fish, chicken etc.
This is why the UK has to import a great deal of its food: too many inhabitants, combined with a mainly part-carnivorous population.
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Are you serious? Do you not remember 7/7, the Manchester Arena bombing, or the grooming gang scandal? They have been coming for us for decades.
Jews only care about Jews. That’s it. Even US presidents noticed this at the end of WWII where their incessant lobbying revolved around getting concessions not just for themselves but to press for their removal from other groups and be given to them or to have special status… pic.twitter.com/juOUGTSuFb
Allison Pearson is a dim scribbler who cried, and whined in her newspaper column, when a policeman came to her door regarding tweets she posted, yet she goes to demonstrations and marches with the same malicious Jew-Zionist liars, perjurers, and Israel-lobbyists who have been trying to shut down free speech in the UK for decades, and particularly in the past 25 years; groups such as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”].
— Samantha Thompson 🏴 (@SamLovesEngland) October 4, 2025
Jenrick, a Jewish-lobby puppet whose origins, and rise to wealth and prominence, are very obscure, and very hard to understand given his limited abilities, may be part of some hidden scheme.
Israel is involved in a covert digital influence campaign in Persian, promoting Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last Shah of Iran, and subtly pushing for the return of the monarchy within the Islamic Republic, reports The Haaretz. pic.twitter.com/LGwITOUIvv
The people of Iran would have been better off had they remained under the Shah’s rule, but that is history nearly half a century old. As it is, any change of regime now would probably put Iran under American —and so Jewish/Israeli— rule, in effect.
Mercouris: Putin is aware that the situation is increasingly going in his favor
“President Vladimir Putin, during his speech at the International Discussion Club 'Valdai', left the impression of a confident and strong political leader. Putin is aware that the situation is… pic.twitter.com/GIJtZdcdup
The news I see from China is either impressive, or worrying, or appalling. Sometimes two or three of those at once.
The events in Georgia are actually part of a new Western plan to invade Russia's "comfort zone" in the Caucasus. The West is trying to divert Russia's attention from Ukraine and open a new front against Moscow.
[“The events in Georgia are actually part of a new Western plan to invade Russia’s “comfort zone” in the Caucasus. The West is trying to divert Russia’s attention from Ukraine and open a new front against Moscow. If Russia loses support and alliance with Tbilisi, its geopolitical position will be greatly weakened, and it is possible that it will have to enter a new conflict.”]
In Syria, unknown individuals broke into the music institute located in the building of Judat al-Hashimi secondary school in Damascus and destroyed all the musical instruments inside. pic.twitter.com/mHSU38avlS
Translates to a Commons with (about) 438 Reform UK MPs; massive Reform majority, of course; Lab 86; LibDem 48; SNP 34; Cons 16 (etc).
I see tweets here and there to the effect that 2029 is over 3 years away, and a general election could be held even 4 years from now, in late 2029. Also, that much can change politically in 3-4 years. True, but does anyone expect the migration invasion to stop or even slow in the intervening period? I think not. Is the UK economy likely to improve or even stabilize between now and 2029? I think not. Is anything much likely to improve in the UK between 2025 and 2029? I think not.
[view of Caer Caradoc, the Lawley, and the Wrekin, in Shropshire]
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European companies are forced to pay two or three times more for energy than American ones as the authorities of those countries refuse to use Russia's energy resources, the Russian Foreign Ministry told Izvestia:https://t.co/sVYIiZhpdBpic.twitter.com/pEx6SPrWMW
Consultations on US military support for Ukraine have been halted following the suspension of the US government’s operations, and deliveries of American weaponry may be affected, The Telegraph newspaper reported:https://t.co/qpXG5vdfvJpic.twitter.com/81xp6FP4z4
The US plans to provide Kiev with intelligence for attacks on Russian territory, according to the Wall Street Journal. The publication notes that Washington is also calling on NATO countries to provide similar support. In addition, the possibility of supplying Ukraine with… pic.twitter.com/Nfc2DXvTg3
Starmergeddon is not a popular policy. As more and more voters realise the consequences of open borders, mass immigration, net zero, high taxes, #TwoTierPolicing , Britcard, over-stretched and declining public services and a govt in complete denial of their culpability, the…
— I am🇬🇧 Retired Anti-Discrimination Lawyer (@BubblyIan) October 3, 2025
[“Starmergeddon is not a popular policy. As more and more voters realise the consequences of open borders, mass immigration, net zero, high taxes, #TwoTierPolicing , Britcard, over-stretched and declining public services and a govt in complete denial of their culpability, the inevitable result will be a drift to Reform UK. Given msm is entirely anti-Reform UK, reaching beyond 35% ‘natural’ support is tricky. Only people with access to http://x.com/ have any chance of hearing the truth even if they don’t want to hear it. God save us from the evil globalists and their puppets.“]
Reform UK may not get beyond 35% in a general election, but that is irrelevant in big-picture terms, so long as Con and Lab are both below 25%; at present both are at or below 20%. In fact, even were Reform to score only 25%, with Con and Lab around 20%, Reform would still easily capture a plurality of Commons seats, though without a majority.
S erious question: given that Labour’s overwhelming Parliamentary majority means that it cannot be dislodged from office for the next four years (despite having won only 20.2 percent of eligible voters), is there a democratic way for Britain to solve its existential problem
Starmer-stein, and his Labour Friends of Israel cabal, masquerading as a legitimate government.
Russian troops liberated seven communities in the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Dnepropetrovsk Region over the week of September 27— October 3 in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/awajawVISSpic.twitter.com/WlMXzYOLe6
It's worth reminding people (as neither he nor the UK media ever does) that the Chief Rabbi is the spiritual leader only of Orthodox Judaism in the UK and so only of approximately 30 percent of British Jewish households.
Worth reminding people also that the Chief Rabbi of the UK , Mirvis, was born in South Africa, lived most of his life in Israel, later lived in Ireland, and only then arrived in this country. This is not, in any sense, his country.
The Jewish embedded establishment, and other Jew-Zionists, are using the recent Manchester incident as a peg on which to hang policies such as destruction of free speech generally, repression of the long-standing rights of assembly and protest, and repression of any online or offline expression deemed “anti-Semitic”. Also, of course repression of any street protests against the appalling behaviour of Israeli Jews in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.
Hundreds of thousands of Gazan civilians, mostly women and children killed by Israeli Jews. Children and others killed or maimed as part of sadistic sniper games played by Israeli Jew snipers, deliberate starvation of a massive population. Etc.
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Total mobilization
The Kiev regime has turned Ukraine into a concentration camp. Round-the-clock rounds to capture potential recruits continue.
Meanwhile, attacks on TCC employees are becoming more frequent. While previously limited to setting cars on fire, now even the… pic.twitter.com/ShAW5pUpDw
[“Total mobilization The Kiev regime has turned Ukraine into a concentration camp. Round-the-clock rounds to capture potential recruits continue. Meanwhile, attacks on TCC employees are becoming more frequent. While previously limited to setting cars on fire, now even the “military commissars” themselves are facing threats to their lives and health. Yesterday, in Kryvyi Rih, a potential recruit attacked TCC employees with a knife and cut them. Similar incidents are becoming more frequent.“]
Unsurprising. Of course people try to flee, hide, in extremis fight back, rather than join the shambolic corrupt “army” of the Kiev regime. To be sent to the front-lines is not far off a death sentence now.
Assassination attempt on Bashar al-Assad fails
A few days before the military delegation of the new Syrian regime arrived in Moscow, Assad was poisoned
Assad was discharged from a hospital on the outskirts of Moscow early on Tuesday, September 30, and his condition was… pic.twitter.com/xce3ab4CHy
[“Assassination attempt on Bashar al-Assad fails A few days before the military delegation of the new Syrian regime arrived in Moscow, Assad was poisoned Assad was discharged from a hospital on the outskirts of Moscow early on Tuesday, September 30, and his condition was described as currently stable A source told the Observatory that access to Assad during his hospitalization was strictly limited, with only his brother Maher al-Assad and former Secretary-General for Presidential Affairs, Mansour Azam, being allowed to visit him.“]
Presumably treated at the “Kremlin Clinic” (in fact, located on the outskirts of Moscow), where, in the old Soviet rhyme:
“Полы паркетные – врачи анкетные” (“poli parketniye, vrachi anketnyie”), i.e. where “the floors are parquet, and the doctors are vetted“.
[🙊 Советские пословицы и поговорки🔗 https://citaty.info/quote/515162: в советское время предназначавшейся для лечения исключительно работников высшего партийного и советского аппарата. Главным критерием при отборе медперсонала для работы в этих комфортабельных больницах служил не высокий профессиональный уровень, а анкетные данные, как тогда говорили, “чистая анкета”.]
NEW: Allies of Robert Jenrick are collecting no confidence letters from Conservative MPs calling for party leader Kemi Badenoch to quit, The i Paper has been told.https://t.co/mNBCYDRFTQ
If the opinion poll predictions of a post GE 2029 Conservative Party having maybe only 30 MPs, or even as few as 7, are correct, then the leadership election which is all but inevitable will in reality be equivalent to several bald men and women fighting over a comb.
The European Union is moving towards sending troops to Ukraine, who will return in coffins, according to Orban. The Hungarian prime minister also noted that most EU countries recognize that Europe is “sliding towards war” and are sending troops to Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/nsZE6oPO4A
A huge amount of money, and time, and effort has gone into online platforming of the claim that the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan is “debunked“, a mere “conspiracy theory” etc. One has to ask “why?“, if the Plan is just a silly “conspiracy theory”. If…
Look around you, and notice what group in Western societies tends to all but monopolize (and increasingly) the political and legal systems.
Notice which “community” pervades the Press, radio, TV, publishing.
Notice which “group” effectively controls the banking and much of the business sector.
Notice how the African and Asian migration-invasion of Europe, including the UK, has been facilitated by transnational orgs such as the EU, UN etc.
Notice how “British” governments, among others, have never seriously tried to stem the migration invasion, but instead more often seem to assist that invasion, while occasionally offering the public (and voters) weasel words, and never-implemented policies, to supposedly “control immigration”.
“Conspiracy theory“? I think not…
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This is very disturbing.
The EU is now seeking to roll out gender self ID across all Member States.
The LGBTQI Strategy, devised by activists, will attempt to force Gender Self ID onto European countries; Ban conversion therapy; Expand Hate Speech framework to include gender… https://t.co/ut3fiE6HYa
[“This is very disturbing. The EU is now seeking to roll out gender self ID across all Member States. The LGBTQI Strategy, devised by activists, will attempt to force Gender Self ID onto European countries; Ban conversion therapy; Expand Hate Speech framework to include gender & sexuality. They intend to classify these “hate speech” violations as “EU Crimes”. 5 well-funded LGBTQ NGOs are behind these schemes. They are heavily influenced by the Yogyakarta Principles and remain unopposed because of media silence and general EU opposition to open debate.”]
🚨 Another complete blubbering idiot gets a position of power in the name of DEI 🙄
David Lammy has been sworn in as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, becoming the first black person to hold the role 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/2lIZzrmM5Z
I am, these days, more embarrassed, or angry, than proud of my own country. Just look at that…
I have, on previous days, and previous months and years, made my views about Lammy plain enough. Unintelligent, uncultured, at best semi-educated. In the language of the people, “as thick as two short planks“. A “diversity hire”, as the Americans say.
Incidentally, Lammy is now a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, my former Inn, whereas (as a result of my unlawful and wrongful disbarment of 2016) I myself am now persona non grata.
Society has gone mad in this country.
Actually, looking at their current website, it seems that Lincoln’s Inn has followed suit and has also gone rather mad (“diversity”, “inclusion” etc…): https://www.lincolnsinn.org.uk/.
Still, the Lammy types are not the organ-grinders. ‘Nuff said…
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A group of soldiers from the Ukrainian army’s elite unit Skala surrendered to Russian troops in the outskirts of Krasnoarmeysk in the DPR, a TASS correspondent reported:https://t.co/JZy5qXptqBpic.twitter.com/ixtzRAy2l1
The United States will provide Ukraine with intelligence to launch missile strikes against Russian energy infrastructure, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources:https://t.co/gUbSLDuGQYpic.twitter.com/YIyz8j190U
🇮🇷The comprehensive strategic partnership agreement between Moscow and Tehran has officially come into force
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that the document confirms the commitment of the Russian and Iranian leadership to strengthening friendly and… pic.twitter.com/5kdDg1ewCp
Russia has changed the "rules of the game," nullifying the effectiveness of the Patriot system – FT
The West acknowledges that Russia has seriously complicated the American Patriot air defense system. The Financial Times reports that upgraded Iskander-M and Kinzhal missiles have… pic.twitter.com/vlin4ckcIx
[“Russia has changed the “rules of the game,” nullifying the effectiveness of the Patriot system – FT The West acknowledges that Russia has seriously complicated the American Patriot air defense system. The Financial Times reports that upgraded Iskander-M and Kinzhal missiles have learned to evade interception – the missiles initially follow a standard trajectory but in the last seconds sharply change direction, entering a steep dive or performing maneuvers.”]
The same kind of Patriot missiles, inter alia, protect Israeli air space. Once Iran and others acquire Iskander-M and Kindzhal missiles, or similar, Israel’s fate will be sealed.
The Kiev regime also now has a “get out of jail free” card for its criminal prisoners. The only catch is that they have to fight on the front lines. Life expectancy there may be only a few days in some sectors.
Tucker Carlson: Israeli officers "stormed the Pentagon, making demands"
An American journalist reports that during the Iran-Israel conflict, Israeli soldiers entered meetings of American military officials at the Pentagon uninvited and gave orders to American officers, while… pic.twitter.com/rzXuEyMLJl
Translates to a Commons with about 461 Reform UK MPs, about 65 Lab, 46 LibDem, 41 SNP, 7 Con, 6 Green, 4 Plaid Cymru (etc).
For the Conservative Party, terminal, of course. Technically 5th in line, but only 1 MP more than the Greens, and only 3 more than Plaid Cymru. Finished. I could not easily see which would be the 7 surviving Con MPs. Not Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, Kit Malthouse, Mel Stride, or Suella Braverman, anyway. All gone.
As for Labour, on those results, Starmer himself might survive as MP, unlike most of his troops and including most if not all of his potential challengers: Angela Rayner, Dan Jarvis, Shabana Mahmood, Jess Phillips, Ed Miliband, Bridget Phillipson, Wes Streeting, Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall, Yvette Cooper, and many other…all gone.
Wonderful. If it happens. I think it might.
Jane Goodall has sadly passed away at 91.
Here's she and her team releasing a rehabilitated chimp back into the wild — the chimp hugged her as if to say thank you for a lifetime of love and care. 🕊️🐒 pic.twitter.com/dKsDlP7xUa
The Ukrainian army lost roughly 1,510 troops in battles with Russian forces in all the frontline areas over the past 24 hours, according to the latest data on the special military operation in Ukraine released by Russia’s Defense Ministry:https://t.co/C419nWhmF9pic.twitter.com/cXakpepPza
…and similar numbers every day, which is why the Kiev regime is giving prisoners convicted of murder, robbery etc a chance to redeem themselves on the battlefield, and why the same Zelensky regime abducts people off the street and then forces them to fight on the front-lines.
🚨BIKE THEFTS AT TRAIN STATIONS – DECRIMINALISED
I wish this was a joke but it's absolutely true
The Police have announced today that they will no longer investigate this
But they will still arrest you for hurty words online
Even that is not the whole picture, because births to “white” English mothers are usually counted in such statistical studies as if “white” births, even where the mothers were impregnated by non-whites (and so the offspring are actually “mixed”).
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Northern Ireland had it right with a whopping 56% Remain vote. And, as ever, this woman can’t grasp even basic facts. https://t.co/u3kDAggMvN
Orban keeps explaining to fools that Hungary needs Russian energy resources and that he is for his country, so he is not ready to hate Russia. Viktor Orban: "The situation is serious. Open war proposals are being considered. They want to hand over EU funds to Ukraine. They are… pic.twitter.com/qnf3vN5H2K
[“Orban keeps explaining to fools that Hungary needs Russian energy resources and that he is for his country, so he is not ready to hate Russia. Viktor Orban: “The situation is serious. Open war proposals are being considered. They want to hand over EU funds to Ukraine. They are trying to accelerate Ukraine’s accession to the EU using all possible legal tricks. They want to finance arms deliveries. All these proposals clearly show that Brussels wants to start a war. I will firmly hold Hungary’s position, but this summit also proves that the coming months will be marked by the threat of war. Brussels has chosen a strategy of exhausting Russia with an endless war. This means investing billions in Ukraine, sacrificing Europe’s economy, and sending hundreds of thousands of people to die on the front lines. Hungary rejects this.“]
Vladimir Putin noted that the possible use of American Tomahawk missiles by Ukraine will damage relations between Russia and the USA, in which there has only just been "a light at the end of the tunnel," but it will not seriously affect the situation on the battlefield.
Was just thinking about Labour’s crazed “plan” to build what they are pleased to describe as “new towns”, but are really just going to be (if ever built) huge soulless housing tracts, with few amenities, roads, or anything else, certainly without the true cultural institutions and green spaces of a real (and decent) town or city. Effectively, tract housing for migrant-invaders, and/or the offspring of non-Europeans, or those of single white or other women impregnated by non-Europeans.
Destruction of landscapes, of trees, animals, and birds etc, and for what? Tracts of hutches for useless parasites and enemies.
Ghastly. Evil.
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I’ve been working in politics a long time. I’ve seen some bonkers stuff. But having the Prime Minister blast an opponent’s policy as racist on Sunday, then getting the Home Secretary to announce the same policy on Monday is about the maddest thing I’ve seen at a party conference.
a) Major donor boasts in meeting about Labour Together getting Starmer elected b) A secret memo is drawn up of the meeting, and sent to Andrew Whyte, Labour head of legal c) Whyte joined Labour directly from the Electoral Commission d)…
a) Major donor boasts in meeting about Labour Together getting Starmer elected
b) A secret memo is drawn up of the meeting, and sent to Andrew Whyte, Labour head of legal
c) Whyte joined Labour directly from the Electoral Commission
d) Electoral Commission still refuses to reopen the investigation, or even publish report into Labour Together slush fund
e) Downing Street still deny Labour Together helped get Starmer elected“]
New leaked memo reveals Labour Together donor boasted how the organisation “helped rally the party membership behind Keir Starmer”. https://t.co/Po54Rwsh0y
Further thoughts about the Labour Party Conference 2025
I have not watched any TV coverage, but from what little I have seen via Twitter/X, the audience seems to be maybe 500 people, mostly middle-aged and elderly. The System parties all have fairly elderly memberships, and Labour apparently has a larger membership than the other two, but it is pretty clear that all three are dying.
Starmer is a near-cretin. How did he ever become Director of Public Prosecutions? I do not say “…and a barrister” because my opinion of many of my once-fellow barristers is not terribly high in any case.
It is ‘relatively’ small – relative to the scale of overall immigration.
Quite. The Labour enemies of the people may think, or pretend to think, that 500-2,000 invaders per day is small, but over a year, it still adds up to about 180,000-750,000 per year. Every year. To that ~300,000 must be added about a million coming in “legally”, and then of course untold numbers of births to non-white mothers and to white mothers impregnated by non-whites.
At the same time, about 100,000-200,000 real British people are fleeing (and I think that is the right term) to anywhere which promises (or seems to promise) a basically white-European-style life— Australia, New Zealand etc. In other words, the UK population changes hugely every year now, because about 1,500,000 (mostly) non-whites come in, and about 200,000 British people leave for good.
Whoa
A new “mega small boat” just brought 125 illegal migrants into Britain
This crisis is about to get a whole lot worse … ⬇️
Is it too “dystopian” to imagine a scenario in which migrant-invaders, like other invaders, are shot on the beaches by military forces? Under System-party governments, I suppose it is…
Reform last week = migrants will have to contribute economically, speak English, not live on welfare and have a clean criminal record
Labour: “this is racist”
Labour today: migrants will have to contribute economically, speak English, not live on welfare, have a clean criminal…
Shabana Mahmood will today say migrants in the UK will have to volunteer, have a “spotless” criminal record, speak English to a high standard and be a net contributor to stay in the UK
In other words, all the things Keir Starmer said, only yesterday, “are racist” 🤡
So speaks yet another Labour Friends of Israel drone, Rachel “from Accounts and Customer Relations” Reeves, an expenses cheat and fraudster, as well as enemy of the British people.
Britain Predicts | Gorton and Denton, how the seat would vote in an election today:
That was, on different boundaries, the one-time Westminster seat called Manchester Gorton, which was held for over a decade (1955-1967) by the crypto-Communist and probable NKVD/KGB agent Konni Zilliacus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konni_Zilliacus], whose widow (they were never officially married) I met a few times when I lived in the Little Venice area of London in the 1980s and early 1990s. Zilliacus had also been MP for Gateshead (1945-1951). See also: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-jan-zilliacus-1097376.html.
If these are the terms pretty much the entire population of Afghanistan could come here. 😐🤦♂️
Exactly. In fact, in principle, in terms of Britain’s so-called “obligations”, drafted after 1945 in a totally different world, as many as 800 MILLION non-Europeans could apply to live in the UK and with a quite likely chance of official/legal approval. Madness.
Of course, if even a tenth of that number came here, the present society would collapse. Even at present, the structures of society are showing signs of strain and fatigue.
🇹🇷 Turkish Navy frigates have begun escorting the Global Sumud Flotilla, now three days from Gaza.
Sumud Flotilla organizers:
“The ships contacted us, asked about our needs, and confirmed they will escort and support the flotilla.” pic.twitter.com/Zolcia4xsJ
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council: European countries are weak and divided and cannot withstand a war with Russia. pic.twitter.com/hd9zKWFI60
In any event, Russia in 2025 is not the Soviet Union, with its Marxist-Leninist official ideology and (sometimes) expansionism. Russia today has no wish to rule over Central, let alone Western, Europe, and has no way of invading and occupying those regions of Europe anyway.
The whole anti-Russia claque noise about war is being co-ordinated by secretive Anglo-American cabals, which cabals are the real enemies of the people of the UK, France, Germany etc.
New post: Some pretty astonishing findings in this exclusive polling of 13-17 year olds for the New Statesman… https://t.co/oN5GPcUl49
How many more women will it take for this government to realise immigration isn't great 🤔. He threatened acid attacks, had an exclusion order, he is a misogynistic arsehole. Let's give him a home, monthly income etc!!
Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 84 Ukrainian UAVs over the country's regions at night, the Defense Ministry reported. TASS has compiled the key reports about the consequences:https://t.co/bv9mAdeGXEpic.twitter.com/MzjNdxp1EI
Russian troops liberated the community of Shandrigolovo in the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday:https://t.co/GXcJOyfO5Jpic.twitter.com/QHsap6iV5Z
Goodwin is right. The Jew/Zionist/Israel lobby had my Twitter account “suspended”, i.e. I was expelled, in 2018. That was after about 7-8 years. Prior to my getting expelled, my Twitter account was subject to shadowbanning etc, and the number of Twitter “followers” was artificially limited to 3,000.
Oddly enough, though, my finally getting expelled from Twitter, after a concerted campaign of “complaint” by a pack of Jews (who admitted it later; some were crowing about it), may have saved me from getting prosecuted for “incitement to racial hatred” around 2018 or 2019, because, having expelled me, Twitter had no record of my tweets since about 2010 (which might otherwise have formed some kind of cobbled-together “evidence” admissible in court).
In other words, “they” shot themselves in the foot, as “they” often do.
If I wanted to do so, I could now recover my Twitter, now “X”, account, and would probably have about 50,000 followers, but Twitter/X is largely a waste of time from the serious political point of view (though I find it useful in terms of material for the blog).
“Otto English” continues (and finishes) with this:
I notice that the similar nuisances and would-be “antifascist” radicals who have left Twitter/X because they cannot handle divergent views, have mostly gone to “Blue Sky Social” to die. Unpleasant ignoramuses such as Mike Stuchbery, who had nearly 80,000 “followers” on Twitter/X, but now has only 2,800 on Blue Sky, and has all but given up, having posted only 3 times on Blue Sky in the past month.
More about Stuchbery, who was always threatening to sue me and various others in libel, below. Never did sue me, of course. A man of straw, posing as “historian”, “journalist”, “commentator” etc.
See also (originally from 2019 but frequently updated):
Stuchbery used to “hang out” online with a woman called Roanna, a fake witch based near Chesterfield, Derbyshire. They both made common cause with a crazed old Jewish woman in North London who was always inventing false accusations about me (and others) and bothering the police with them.
Stuchbery and Roanna the “witch”, with a Pakistani one-man backroom solicitor, managed to get mugs to donate about £12,000 to “sue Tommy Robinson”, but “Robinson” never was sued by them, and the money just…disappeared…
That was some years ago. Stuchbery was even then living in Germany, and Roanna then changed her Twitter/X account to be non-political, then locked it and moved to Blue Sky, where her 879 Twitter/X followers have become 379 Blue Sky followers (she now posts about art and dogs).
As to Stuchbery, now about 46 or 47, he must be on better medication these days, thanks to German healthcare. He no longer posts about how people should have their skulls cracked open etc.
The fact is that the self-describing “Left” has given up the idea of revolution or even reform, and now concentrates only on “deplatforming” “fascists” (in their description) and “neo-Nazis” (ditto), and even that is not working (is it, “Otto”?).
(in which I examine the linkages between “antifascists”, crazed Jew-Zionists, and the mentally-ill (often three-in-one).
Late tweets
“Labour’s problem is that their declining vote is actually not simply because of Reform.”
Labour’s voters are “scattering all over the place,” leaving Keir Starmer to fend off attacks from all sides, says polling guru Sir John Curtice. @KateEMcCann | #TimesRadiopic.twitter.com/J4bawiy34Z
I happened to see the comment below, appended to a video on YouTube.
“A friend of mine was very high-ranking in the British Army during the Iraq war and knew Tony Blair personally. When I asked what he was like he told me that Blair is ‘demon-possessed’. He was quite serious and meant this literally. This surprised me as he is a mild-mannered, diplomatic man and not given to overstatement.”
I have no idea of the provenance and authenticity of that statement, but it rings true.
The McSweeney scandal is starting to boil down to this. Are he and No.10 seriously now going to try to pretend Labour Together had no role in Starmer's leadership campaign. Having spent the past 5 years briefing every journalist in Westminster they were central to that campaign.
An Afghan man who arrived in Britain illegally on a small boat in 2022, telling asylum officials his Taliban-controlled homeland was too dangerous to return to, has been pictured on holiday in … Afghanistan.
Roger Scruton, before the election of 1997, on how Blair would make Britain worse and turn it into a different country. The prescience is pretty astonishing, and demonstrates that Scruton wasn't just the Paddington Bear of safe consrvatism. https://t.co/9pLoROq6I2pic.twitter.com/dk2KHhhvrF
Scruton, though, fails to place much of the blame for all that where it —most of the blame anyway, admittedly not all— belongs. The embedded Jewish/Zionist element, in short. Even Scruton ran a little scared of “the lobby”, needing as he did to make a comfortable living, get his books published etc…
🇮🇹Italy sends a second warship to escort the aid flotilla to Gaza
Italy will deploy a second warship to protect the Global Sumud flotilla as it sails to Gaza, Defense Minister Guido Crosetto told lawmakers on Thursday.
…and even were that first tweet (from a Jew in the USA) true and accurate (and not, as it seems, a lie), the events supposedly taking place would be merely a far more limited and low-tech version of what Israeli Jews are doing in Gaza, and have been doing for nearly two years now. 200,000 dead or very badly injured, mostly civilians, mostly women and children…
'He is a mob orator'
Lord Jeffrey Archer shares his views about Nigel Farage and whether the Reform UK leader could become PM. pic.twitter.com/ZczFiS0KfY
Fraudulent perjurer and one-time Con politician (“con” in both senses), Jeffrey Archer, says that he has been surprised by how many people he has “met in the street” who say they are going to vote for Farage and Reform UK. I expect that it would surprise a dishonest chancer of the Archer type. He fails to see (or prefers not to see) that voters are turning to Reform not because Farage is (as Archer puts it) “the best mob orator since Michael Foot or Tony Benn” (the now-deceased fake “socialist” traitors and poseurs) but because the old System parties, Con, Lab, and LibDem, have run the UK into the ground, particularly over the last 35 years, arguably for far longer. The voters are intending to vote Reform not because of Farage, or indeed Reform itself, but because Reform is the only (quasi-) credible game in town that is not Lib, Lab, or Con.
It must be easier for Archer to “meet people in the street” now. The only time I myself ever saw him in the street was in the 1980s (I forget when exactly, probably circa 1985), somewhere in the Westminster area. As he exited one of several cars, his retinue of bodyguards and/or other idiots got in my way as I walked along the pavement. I actually had to walk onto the roadway to get past as that silly little man, about 5 feet tall, marched self-importantly inside a building, surrounded by his entourage of besuited nobodies. F*** him…
Are people in the UK 'over-taxed'?@DanNeidle points out that the median worker is currently paying historically low levels of tax 👇 pic.twitter.com/7UUYgfiMhE
The devil is in the detail. Government, both central and local, needs revenue from various taxes, but what matters is not only how much is raised but also how and where it is spent. Much of the tax burden accomplishes little because the monies raised are mis-spent.
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We're working with the 10,000 Black Interns Foundation, chambers and organisations, across England and Wales to provide 6 weeks of internship placements at the Bar for aspiring Black barristers.
I was always anti the death penalty, but that was when this was a semi-decent, semi-civilized European country. It is now time to treat the untermenschen how they should be treated, to control them until we can get rid of them en masse one way or another.
This poll was undertaken 2 days AFTER Reform committed to scrap the Boriswave
Which legacy media from Andrew Marr, Iain Dale to Dan Hodges said “was an error”
Turns out, again, the British people think otherwise
The best part of that, if it happens, will be the grief and despair of all the Con and Lab careerist MPs, suddenly chucked out, and losing their ~£100,000+ p.a. salaries, their expense accounts, their networking opportunities etc. I’m lovin’ it!
That would be gamechanging in several ways, socially as well as politically. Politically, obviously, massive. The LibDems, though only with 68 MPs (fewer than they now have) as official Opposition in the Commons; the rout of Starmer-stein Friends of Israel “Labour”; also, the utter collapse of the once-great Conservative Party. 11 MPs! Brilliant. Just what they deserve (well, if what I would do to them were taken off the table). 11 MPs. Finished. Totally.
In fact, if that poll is realized in a general election, the fake Conservative Party will have only 3 MPs more (11) than the fairly pathetic Green Party (8).
This is another massive blow to Starmer. Driver was universally respected and liked across Westminster. https://t.co/ywCVLGVW6B
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, firing back at Vladimir Zelensky, warned that if Russia unleashes the fury of its weapons arsenal, it won't do any good to hide in a bomb shelter:https://t.co/UrwggDb2Zqpic.twitter.com/Ai2IyHw6ID
That is the main point. In the UK, we see the pathetic msm “newspapers” and TV stations giving airtime to know-nothing talking heads, superannuated ex-officers etc and talking about Second World War things such as conscription, rationing etc, as if the nuclear age had not happened.
If a full-scale war —totally unnecessary— breaks out between NATO and Russia, you (especially in the UK, a major likely target) can forget about Dad’s Army, bread rations etc…just say a last prayer.
Russia couldn’t even beat Ukraine…and they expect the world to believe they have the capacity for a broader conflict?
That last tweeter has apparently never heard of Russia’s ~7,000 nuclear weapons…
If Russia were willing to do it, Kiev and all other major Ukrainian cities under control of Zelensky would be radioactive holes in the ground within minutes. Russia has a different strategy, thank God. So far.
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer will shortly announce that all UK adults will be issued with a compulsory "Brit Card" digital ID
The emergent UK police state being given more structure…
Labour got in to such a mess over winter fuel they’re too scared to take off the lock. #Moderates wouldn’t have touched winter fuel with a barge-pole but would’ve taken off the lock day 1.
The lady tweeter who pretends to have a political quasi-party called “the Moderates” (the membership must be the empty bottles lined up in her kitchen or kitchens— I believe that she may own more than one property) tweets another wrongheaded “policy”.
Imagine a former Conservative (she is the ex-wife of the one-time Con Party MP for Poole, who “employed” her via his MP expenses; he was voted out in 2024) who favours making British pensioners poorer so that (mostly non-European or non-white) families with several children can extract more money from the State!
Talking point
A very important subject, here analyzed by Nick Griffin:
Starmer now on to his fourth communications director in a year, which must be some kind of record. But if you don't have a clear vision of what you're trying to do then no-one can communicate it – let alone implement it https://t.co/mNLzVpWwtw
Housing Sec Steve Reed refuses three times to say whether Morgan McSweeney told him donations to Labour Together were being declared in line with the law while he was on the think tank's board. Tells @BBCWorldatOne that the case was investigated at the time and is now 'closed'
The fact is, that “digital ID” would do nothing to stop or “control” illegal migration-invasion (which is, in any case, only 5% or so of all migration into the UK).
Academic argument anyway. The Starmer-stein government of utter clowns may be able to get the proposed new law (and this would require new law) through the Commons, thanks to his GE 2024 majority of young, know-nothing, fake-Labour MPs, but to get the new law through the Lords may be a great deal more difficult.
Many older people do not even have a “smartphone”. I had a mobile telephone before most people; from 1992, I think, certainly in 1993, but now that I do not have to have one (as I did when a practising barrister), I choose not to have one, for several reasons.
Will older people (65+) not in possession of a smartphone be forced to buy one? Will they be exempted? We do not know.
Such telephones cost hundreds of pounds, too.
I can see this being yet another Starmer disaster for Labour. Good in that respect, then.
Of course, behind the “digital ID” plan are the usual sinister forces and secretive cabals, as we saw during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic.
Russia’s ambassador to France Alexey Meshkov has warned that if NATO were shooting down Russian planes allegedly violating the airspace of the alliance's member countries, that would mean war:https://t.co/7KlhOBhwjdpic.twitter.com/mJRWasiFle
Pakistani migrant Mohammad touched a girl inappropriately. She alerted white man who spontaneously stepped in and gave “nice slap” Salute to this brave gentleman for protecting the woman. pic.twitter.com/Adpq8guQon
The "Brit Card" policy was first floated through Labour Together in June. So either the Government read the policy document and decided to introduce a fundamental national policy change in less than two months. Or Downing Street is still so close to Labour Together it's using… https://t.co/M5a6tDBZvA
“Keir Starmer is now as unpopular among the British people as Rishi Sunak was after he bailed out of a D-Day remembrance service, and Boris Johnson was after his entire government collapsed”https://t.co/OJ2UhNJkdm
Paris City Hall has removed Ukrainian flags. ▪️ The flags have been hanging on the building since 2022. Conclusion: the fashion for lavish symbols is fading in the West — even in France the tone is changing pic.twitter.com/Q6hzeTjUuq
North Korea is in the final stages of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of striking the US mainland
Yonhap reports this citing a statement from the South Korean president, noting that if confirmed, this capability would become one of the most… pic.twitter.com/x6V7O7K3IN
If true, extremely significant. The distance from North Korea to California is about 6,000 miles. The distance from North Korea to Moscow is about 4,000 miles. The distance from North Korea to Israel is about 4,900 miles.
Trump seems to have finally gone off his head. I always favoured his election (on both occasions), and for one reason only— to avoid a Russia-USA or Russia-NATO conflict which would probably degenerate into a nuclear exchange, devastating Europe as well as Russia and North America.
I was never under any illusion about Trump, and, during his first term, called him “a squawking parrot in a gilded cage, guarded by a phalanx of Jews“. That has not changed.
Now Trump has (apparently) totally changed his stance on the conflict between Russia and the Kiev regime in Ukraine. He is sanguine about Russian planes being shot down if they overfly even the borders of Polish airspace, and has made the extraordinary statement that “Ukraine” (the Zelensky regime in Kiev) can “win” (defined as seizing back all territory occupied by Russian since 2014: Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk etc).
The fact is that, even if supplied with new weapons (and Trump has not offered any directly), the Kiev regime would not be able to re-occupy those regions, because, first of all, the Kiev-regime armies are crumbling away. They lose 1,000-2,000 men per day, and try to plug the gaps by abducting men aged 25-65 from the streets of Ukrainian cities, pressing them into service by brutal compulsion.
Then there is the fact that most of the populations of Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk are actually Russian and/or Russian-language speakers. They do not want to be part of the Jew Zelensky’s shambolic, corrupt, and brutal fake state.
If Trump orders huge new weapons transfers to Kiev, or that is done via NATO, and if it looks as if Russian advances are being pushed back, it may trigger a reaction in Moscow that few if any want— the use against the Kiev regime armed forces, or against Kiev itself, of tactical or even strategic nuclear weapons by the Russian side.
Trump says one thing one day, another thing another day. His brain, in strictly medical terms, may not be working normally now. That should worry even those of us who were (relatively) in favour of him in the past (though, personally, I myself never favoured most of his policies anyway, only some and somewhat).
Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose it.
Tweets seen
The British newspaper "Telegraph" called the statement of the American president bad news for Ukraine.
Donald Trump said that Europe should help Kyiv to "retake territory."
According to the newspaper, this looks like Washington refusing to increase support and shifting… pic.twitter.com/UYFLWhaLD4
If that is right, then all well and good (though if the analysis is correct, Trump should lay out his strategy more honestly or at least more clearly).
ITV has been given exclusive access to film the deportation of dozens of foreign migrant criminals. They were put on a flight to Romania after losing their right to remain in Britain. They had served sentences for offences including theft, sexual abuse and murder.
Incidentally, those deportation flights to Romania carry almost (?) entirely not real Romanians but Roma gypsies (with Romanian passports), a fact ITV News glosses over. Don’t insult real Romanians by conflating them with the Roma predators and scavengers.
Another poll showing Reform slipping back. Again too early to show a definite trend. But worth watching. https://t.co/4YUqf3RfD6
Is this true? Can people be that stupid (even bearing in mind the disappointingly poor quality of Reform’s policies and people)?
If accurate, that would result in a Commons with Reform having about 287 MPs, Lab 192, LibDems 63, Cons 56, SNP 22 (etc). A minority Reform government, or one requiring Con MPs’ votes to keep it afloat.
What is known about consequences of overnight Ukrainian drone attack on Russian regions. Two people were injured by shrapnel in the Rostov Region after a drone attack:https://t.co/5DAEB8Z46rpic.twitter.com/Q6XnNjX7De
Again, this is the problem with Reform’s current strategy. Nigel Farage feels the need to blindly support all Donald Trump’s narratives. Which means he keeps getting pulled off onto Trump’s agenda, rather than his own. https://t.co/7FYKMtWJpi
Well, for once I agree with radio loudmouth James O’Brien, as well as Dan Hodges.
Farage should have added the unsaid, i.e. that those taxi drivers were (obviously) Muslims. Not that that necessarily makes their words an accurate prophecy, but it would have given needed context to what Farage was saying there.
This decision sends a green light to any Muslim who wants to enforce an Islamic blasphemy by taking the law into their own hands. The court is effectively saying that if you attack a blasphemer with a knife, he will be convicted of causing you harassment, alarm or distress and… pic.twitter.com/oPK8nueih1
[“This decision sends a green light to any Muslim who wants to enforce an Islamic blasphemy by taking the law into their own hands. The court is effectively saying that if you attack a blasphemer with a knife, he will be convicted of causing you harassment, alarm or distress and you won’t have to spend a day behind bars. Moussa Kadri has been let off with a suspended sentence after repeatedly slashing Hamit Coskun with a knife while shouting that he was going to kill him. Kadri had been enraged that Coskun was protesting against Islam. Hamit is still living in hiding having been convicted of a “hate crime” for burning his own copy of the Quran.”]
A completely wrong decision.
As the famous Dickensian character said, “the law is a ass, a idiot“…
Hard to believe that a violent foreign crazie like that has been effectively let off, even in today’s Britain.
Little is written about McSweeney’s decisions to drop out of university and subsequently move to Sarid, a Jewish colony built upon the “flourishing” Palestinian village of Ikhneifis. pic.twitter.com/aTjNdN3zKL
Upon joining Labour in 2001, McSweeney worked on Peter Mandelson’s “Excalibur” database.
Starmer overruled security services to promote Mandelson, despite him being a close friend of convicted paedophile + suspected Israeli intelligence asset Jeffrey Epstein. pic.twitter.com/EQnLjUQ3Oj
From 2008-10, McSweeney campaigned alongside David Evans, Jon Cruddas, + Margaret Hodge in Barking & Dagenham.
David Evans kicked Corbyn out of Labour and was subsequently handed a life peerage by Starmer. The Jewish Chronicle describes him as a “fierce critic of anti-Zionism”. pic.twitter.com/9JmEDSgi85
God. Just look at them. “The simulacrum of the human”, as someone once called “them”.
In 2015, McSweeney ran Liz Kendall’s leadership campaign.
Kendall refused to vote to recognise Palestine in ‘14. In ‘15, she told Labour Friends of Israel that she would fight Israel boycotts + sanctions with “every fibre in [her] being”, and she joined LFI the following year. pic.twitter.com/IBICZSRNKF
McSweeney was advised to claim an “admin error” by solicitor Gerald Shamash.
Shamash previously took action against Tony Greenstein on behalf of Labour + Scott Horner, a party official who got a discussion on sanctions against Israel banned.
After covertly attacking the Canary, McSweeney instead forged ties between Labour Together + the Guardian.
Historic Guardian editor C. P. Scott was a committed Zionist + close friend of Chaim Weizmann. He introduced Weizmann to the PM + helped lobby for the Balfour Declaration. pic.twitter.com/HPVWGSocOy
In March 2024, Albanese was the referred to the ICC as an accessory to genocide for defunding URNWA, providing military aid and “unequivocal political support” to the Israeli state, and allowing Australians to join the Israeli military. pic.twitter.com/L4BB4mQmtS
If not “them” directly, their agents or, to put it more plainly, slaves.
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The Ukrainian army lost about 1,495 troops in clashes with Russian forces across all combat areas over the past 24 hours, according to the latest data on the special military operation in Ukraine issued by Russia’s Defense Ministry:https://t.co/9VFAjSBXEApic.twitter.com/PFJ95en3KX
About the same number every day now. 1,000-2,000. It means that, over the course of a year, the Kiev regime is losing about half a million, or more, men.
Russian troops are on the cusp of liberating Kirovsk (Ukrainian name — Zarechnoye) in the north of the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Presumably, the “security guard” has been told not to try to detain the thieves. They obviously know it, and are not at all deterred by his pointless presence.
Enoch Powell was not only right, as far as he went, but also wrong inasmuch as he did not go far enough, and never could have foreseen (even in his later years) the jungle that Britain’s urban concentrations have now become.
Marwa has two feet that don’t work properly. PIP claim anybody? No doubt a cheeky Motability car. Then there’s UC (and full Housing Benefit and Council Tax support). Child Benefit for the 3 kids. Maybe more DLA/PIP if any have ADHD. Plus NHS, schools and social housing IN ZONE 1.
As previously noted on the blog, neither side should be directly targeting civilians.
The Spanish Prime Minister announced that he will send a warship to accompany the Sumud global fleet in Gaza to "ensure respect for international law". Turkish MP Ozgur Ozel appealed to Erdogan to send Turkish ships to protect activists traveling by boats to Gaza: We appeal to… pic.twitter.com/JY6CbfUASn
[“The Spanish Prime Minister announced that he will send a warship to accompany the Sumud global fleet in Gaza to “ensure respect for international law”. Turkish MP Ozgur Ozel appealed to Erdogan to send Turkish ships to protect activists traveling by boats to Gaza: ‘We appeal to those who govern the country: the Sumud fleet is the conscience of humanity! Support this fleet. Whatever happens, protect this fleet!‘
Italian Minister of Defense: An Italian Navy ship has been dispatched to the “Steadfast Fleet” to provide assistance after it was attacked.“]
It would be a great thing if the Spanish, Italian, or Turkish naval ships in question ended up sinking the Israeli ones. It might lead who knows where…
Donald Trump, despite changing his rhetoric towards Russia, still refuses to authorize strikes with American weapons deep inside Russia"
This is claimed by The Wall Street Journal, noting that Trump received from his circle data about a "planned offensive by the Ukrainian Armed… pic.twitter.com/QAvi3otlaN
“The only two factors preventing Britain and other European countries from retaking direct control of Africa, of all of Africa, are
1. socio-political will; and
2. the fact that the (((globalists))) find it more convenient to exploit Africa’s resources via corrupt tiny “elites” in each fake African “state” (and to hell with the environment, the forests, the wildlife, and the African people themselves).
The fact is that European rule would benefit all, not least the ordinary Africans.
Incidentally, it would be a great deal easier than many imagine for Europe to reconquer Africa militarily. Only the two factors already noted make it at all hard.”
[from my blog post of 5 October 2024]
Another talking point from the same 2024 blog post (originally headed “The “fake history” of the 1970s“)
I have blogged in the past about how very many people (including, weirdly, many who were at least in their teens then, and so actually of an age to remember) say, and even perhaps believe, that the 1970s in the UK were some kind of dark age in which the electricity was off most of the time, in which bodies were left unburied by reason of industrial action, in which trains and buses rarely ran, in which rubbish piled up in the towns and cities, in which there was a “three day week” when offices and factories were closed for four days each week, and in which life was generally miserable (for example, food was terrible, they say).
The above-noted fabled dystopia was, we are told, the result of overreaching trade union power and Labour misgovernment.
In other words, out of the 10 years, Labour was in power for about 6 years. Labour government was in place from the early 1960s until mid-1970, then from early 1974 until mid-1979.
Compare to 2024: 81.8% of seats based on 57.4% of the popular vote.
In 1966, the winning party (Labour) got 48% of the popular vote, the losing Conservatives 41.9%.
In 2024, Labour got 33.7%, and the losing Conservatives only 23.7%.
The electoral system has become not just unfair but also illogical and ridiculous. It no longer reflects reality.
Reverting to the general situation in the 1970s, the much-talked-about “Three Day Week” only affected, directly, commercial operations (which were banned from using electricity on the other four days). The Three Day Week only lasted for two months. Out of 10 years (120 months).
I saw the Three Day Week firsthand. I was working, aged just 18, as supposed assistant manager in a very small commercial intelligence outfit based in the Strand (London). The office only had 5 people including me, though we did have a network of mostly ad-hoc agents all over the southern and eastern parts of England (anywhere south or southwest of The Wash). Much of the work was in Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Hampshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Essex. The agents were often retired Army officers who, on being contacted, would —eagerly— say something such as “right-oh, old boy. I’ll fire up the Rover and get onto it.”
I must do a blog post sometime about it.
There were, in the early 1970s, strikes by coal miners etc, resulting in a few brief power cuts (“outages”, as the Americans say), but they lasted for a few hours a day, for a few days. Out of 10 years, again.
In the “Winter of Discontent” (1978-79), there were, for a few weeks, situations in some towns and cities whereby rubbish piled up, yes; that much of the “fable” is true, but only for a brief time. As for the “bodies left unburied“, that only applied in Liverpool and Manchester and only for 14 days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent#Gravediggers’_strike.
In fact, though the 1970s had its problems political, social, economic, Britain still had possibilities. The population was still almost entirely white Northern European, new ideas and projects were around or developing (the Milton Keynes conurbation, the Open University, new express trains, cross-Channel hovercraft etc), and the absurd and damaging house-price madness, though it had started, was still in its early stages.
Britain still had a functioning Army, Navy, Air Force (etc), and a police force that mainly did its expected job and was not usually the sort of poundshop Stasi we now see, snooping on or “monitoring” the expression of views and opinions.
Incidentally, the food was OK back then on the whole. Slightly less cosmopolitan, yes, but in the South of England at least, foreign foods such as hummus, taramasalata, olives, Indian, Chinese, etc were ubiquitous. In fact, some food was better and more available back then.
What I find worrying is not only that people who were not there, or were small children, are convinced that England in 1970-1979 was a dark and gloomy place; more that people who were there seem to have substituted, for what actually happened, a kind of folk-tale.
As for Jewish-lobby puppet Robert Largan, who was parachuted into the constituency of High Peak (Derbyshire) and served as MP from GE 2019 to GE 2024, he was only born in 1987.
If people cannot recall accurately the 1970s, how much less accurate must be the “memories”, often publicized, of the 1930s and 1940s.“
[extract from a blog post of 5 October 2024]
Update to that blog piece:
Former MP Robert Largan, who has, in past years, tweeted about me a couple of times in a hostile manner, and who crowed mightily on behalf of the malicious Jew-Zionist pro-Israel cabal, “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, when his own constituent, Alison Chabloz, was imprisoned for having (notionally, supposedly) “offended” Jews by having sung songs , lost his Commons seat in 2024. One of the shortest political careers on record, and one unlikely to be resurrected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Largan; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Peak_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.
I think that Largan wants to come back as MP for High Peak, but that will probably prove to be a vain hope. Even were he to be reselected by the Conservative Party (surely unlikely, after his dishonesty during the 2024 campaign— see Wikipedia), the Conservative Party “brand” is ebbing away to nothing nationwide. Largan’s only hope would be to join Reform UK, and then hope to be selected as their candidate for High Peak. Very unlikely, though “never say never” in politics.
Incidentally, on that same blog post from last October, I noted Matt Goodwin’s excited tweet about how Reform UK had reached its highest-ever opinion poll level— 20%! Here we are, just under a year later, and Reform is at about or as high as 35%, and rarely goes below 30%.
Further talking point (from a blog post published in September 2024)
“The Second World War was disastrous in many ways: including the destruction of the German Reich; the reinforcement of Stalinism not only in the Soviet Union but also across both Eastern and Central Europe; the huge human and animal cost in terms of death, injury, and other harm; the destruction of the very concept of “Central Europe” [“Mitteleuropa”] for nearly two generations; the collapse of the civilized European empires across Africa, Asia, and elsewhere; the huge environmental, wildlife and human cost of decolonization; the near-squeezing-out from Europe of European-centred ideology between American finance-capitalism and Marxist-Leninist Sovietism; the 1948 establishment of the state of Israel, and the consequent increase of Jewish wealth, influence and power in the world generally; the shrinking proportion of white Northern Europeans as against the general population of the world.
Today, we again stand on the brink of European and “world” war. If it were to happen, and whether it were to start in the Middle East or Eastern Europe, or even in the Far East, it would be more disastrous in its consequences even than were the previous two “world” wars.
Statesmen and political leaders of all existing states must pull back from the brink.“
The situation today, a year later, is more or less the same, though arguably even more perilous.
Further talking point
The label “genocide” matters little. What matters is what the Israeli Jews are actually doing in Gaza, and that is bad enough.
Revealed: Morgan McSweeney and the secret slush fund that helped secure the Labour leadership for Keir Starmer > Mail on Sunday > https://t.co/AyYrZHyerv
Corbyn may have been hopeless in most respects, but at least he was the genuine choice of Labour members, not the puppet of Israel and the “British” Jewish lobby.
"Net Zero lunacy is now forecast, according to energy experts, to add yet another £100 to the average household energy bill from April onwards."https://t.co/hp07s7yvUp
@grok I thought this was a parody at first. Is this fucking real. If so @Keir_Starmer is literally killing free speech and we need @elonmusk more than ever.
Britain’s toytown police once again behaving like a kind of clown-Stasi.
Look at those police drones! One dim-looking (and sounding) little girl, and an older woman, obviously non-European and presumably Muslim.
West Midlands Police (yet again…).
The West Midlands. A very “diverse” area, of course…
As a retired West Midlands Officer, their uniforms are real and the collar number is not fake. PACE does allow entry without a warrant however this did not apply in the circumstances laid out. It appears an unlawful search and seizure by police
Notice the Jewish or anyway pro-Zionist woman tweeting there. Typical Jew-Zionist (or pro-Zionist) know-all (know-nothing), lecturing people. (Oh, well…at least she seems to be against the UK migration-invasion, looking at her other recent tweets).
Starmer-stein told Trump recently that the UK “has free speech“. Hardy-ha-ha…
Many people like this around the world: They selflessly devote their lives to serving others, even risking their lives to do it. And the world mostly ignores them.
As doctors, they must know that dealing with symptoms is important, but also that the main thing is to eliminate the cause, the disease (((itself))).
Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Dr. Munir Al-Barash:
"The occupation killed 1700 medical staff during the war as part of its attempts to disrupt hospital operations and take them out of service, and arrested more than 360 medical staff since the beginning of… pic.twitter.com/0B7IWv4zSG
“Fergie’s Epstein lies exposed in bombshell email: She publicly apologised for taking abuser’s cash and vowed to cut ties with him, then weeks later told him: I only said it to save book deals.”
"Astonishingly, last year, some 15,000 international students even claimed for asylum once they had already arrived in Britain on student visas."https://t.co/Dg8Fe6wpEp
The Ukrainian army lost around 1,515 soldiers across all lines of the special military operation over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a report:https://t.co/jx0DvcUbKTpic.twitter.com/6HDzF8Y3JC
Of the 16% still intending to vote Labour at the next general election, and at an educated guess, the majority are probably those, mainly in the North, whose great-grandparents always voted Labour. The rest are blacks and browns.
This is Sajoud the little girl who’s childhood was stolen by war, her eyes still shine with beauty despite collecting garbage in the streets.#FreePalestinepic.twitter.com/9rBQowlWHY
“They” are very brave when targeting children or other unarmed civilians, but they still have the race-memory of a time, about 80-90 years ago, when they themselves (at least, their ancestors) scurried in fear away from soldiers wearing a different uniform…
Von der Leyen to focus on EU militarization in State of the Union address. The principal elements of her speech are clear in advance: calls to stand firm against Russia, support for Ukraine, and an accelerated pace of EU militarization:https://t.co/vvzl9exec0pic.twitter.com/1Rz4WMgYFY
IN BRIEF: What is known about overnight Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian regions. Two employees at a boarding school in the Rostov Region suffered injuries:https://t.co/s453hMGv1Wpic.twitter.com/62SJlpFe8b
Poland sent military equipment to the Belarusian border on Wednesday morning, reported the state television channel "First National".
"A column of Polish military equipment is moving towards the Belarusian border. Morning footage shows the movement of Polish troops heading… pic.twitter.com/egEULS2FGI
Translates to about 392 Reform MPs, so a substantial overall majority. Lab 99, LibDems 64, SNP 33, Cons 30 (etc).
I have seen a few tweets noting that, in another recent opinion poll, Reform’s share dipped to about 28% after its recent annual conference, but those tweets are mistaken insofar as they say that the lower Reform UK level therefore shows increased support for Labour or Con. I think not. People are not intending to vote Reform to get a Farage/Reform government; they are intending to vote Reform in order to stamp on and kick Lab and Con.
Look at 2024. Voters voted Labour (or abstained) in order to kick out the Cons and their “great non-white hope”, the little Indian money-juggler, Sunak. Labour thus gained an unmerited large Commons majority even though, out of every 20 eligible voters, a plurality, 8 out of the 20, did not even vote; 4 out of every 20 voted Labour; 3 out of every 20 voted Con; 2-3 out of 20 voted Reform; another 2-3 voted LibDem, and 1 out of 20 voted Green.
The point is that, having binned the fake Conservatives, the voters now want to bin fake Labour. The result of that will be that Reform benefits by default, as Labour did in 2024. The wish of the people, though, is not Reform government, as such. They accept, whether consciously or not, that that will be the inevitable result of binning both main System parties, but their wish is just to have an effective government, and a society which puts Britain and British people first.
It is hard to say what the “ceiling” of Reform, in percentage terms, may be. The opinion polls have had Reform as high as 35%, so far. That may stretch to 40% or higher; we do not know. I certainly think it doubtful that either Con or Lab will get to 35% before the next general election. Lab may or may not get to 30% (I doubt it); the Cons are unlikely to go higher than 25%, or even 20%.
As often said, my hope is that Reform beats Con and Lab, but then fails in government, leaving the field wide open for the advance of a social-national movement that, at present, does not exist in a formal sense.
The head of the UK police watchdog has said ‘non-crime hate incidents’ should be scrapped and police should focus on tackling crime.
…and the police must stop acting as puppets or good little dogs for the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby (especially the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”).
Nationwide protest rallies and strikes against the government’s economic policies are taking place in France. According to French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, nearly 200 people have been detained for participating in riots so far:https://t.co/KdH4FfGiTEpic.twitter.com/nCD4l2ZLsj
The European Commission will suspend financial support to Israel and freeze all payment transactions with this country, said Ursula von der Leyen, President of the EC.
She also proposed imposing sanctions against several Israeli officials.
“I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened.
"I can still barely understand it. It just could not happen in Britain. You have to be incredibly resilient, fight for early release and be… https://t.co/0cPmDlQJnj
Well, we know that Mandelson is uninterested in young (or any) women, so what is the connection? It must be the Jewish and Israeli connection. Mandelson is a Jew. Epstein was a Jew (Epstein now, of course, having “gone up the chimney”, but Mandelson not yet).
Mandelson is yet another member of Labour Friends of Israel, along with Starmer-stein and almost all of his Cabinet.
There is a clear Jewish, Zionist or pro-Zionist, and Israeli Intelligence (MOSSAD, Aman etc) aspect to the whole Epstein case. Look at the involvement of the half-Jew, Ghislaine “Maxwell”, whose horrible full-Jew father, “Robert Maxwell”, is believed to have been MOSSAD’s chief agent in Europe, until (very probably) assassinated on MOSSAD or Aman orders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Intelligence_Directorate_(Israel).
Look at my very detailed, and frequently updated, examination of all such matters around Epstein:
Hodges thinks Starmer-stein’s position is hard to understand. Not when you factor-in Starmer’s slavish pro-Israel position, which is egregious even compared to that of Sunak, Truss, “Boris”-idiot, May, and Cameron-Levita.
Look at Starmer’s Cabinet, at his elevations to the Lords etc. Starmer may actually be a conscious and willing agent, or at least an “agent of influence”, of the Israeli state.
Has everyone in Government gone completely insane. How can they think this is a tenable stance. https://t.co/qlN5oczjdS
Like previous no-good prime ministers, Starmer was the preferred candidate of the Israel lobby. That lobby trashed poor old Corbyn, and (via a Labour Friends of Israel, and pro-Zionist msm, conspiracy) installed Starmer and his Labour Friends of Israel ministers.
Speaking for myself (and as can be verified by my blog posts going back several years), I always saw Starmer as “dull as ditchwater“; also, having been at the Bar myself, I knew that quite mediocre people often get quite high positions in English law, in Starmer’s case as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). I therefore thought, until about 3-4 years ago, that Starmer, though dull and also in the pocket of the Israel lobby, would —as a Prime Minister of this country— be at least administratively competent. I was therefore surprised, circa 2022, to see that, in fact, Starmer was so incompetent that I described him that year as “utterly clueless“.
I think, though should not say so, that I was right…
'Mr Herzog, is your government committing war crimes?'
Look at stupid Starmer-stein’s face as the scarcely rhetorical question is asked. He looks more affronted than the Jew from Israel.
The armed forces of Ukraine lost approximately 1,325 servicemen in the zone of Russia’s special military operation in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said:https://t.co/5YOoOuxmXopic.twitter.com/6d3ecEhUpz
In a single day…(and it is happening every single day).
NATO, at Warsaw’s request, has invoked the use of Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty and launched consultations over the violation of Polish airspace by unmanned aerial vehicles, government spokesman Adam Szlapka told the Polsat TV channel:https://t.co/DtbtKfi65opic.twitter.com/ZKUr0cTUGh
I am not “anti-Polish”, not by any means, and travelled there several times in the late 1980s, but I struggle to understand why the current Polish authorities seem determined to have their country flattened again, and for no good reason.
Protests have broken out in France against the government's economic policies. Hundreds of protesters are blocking roads and disrupting city operations in Paris. The reason was the government's decision not to index pensions and social benefits in line with inflation. pic.twitter.com/Ty40FwKSFX
“Jeffrey Epstein was a very wealthy man, but exactly how wealthy and where that money came from remains shrouded in mystery.
Newly unearthed emails last week shone light on Epstein’s role as freelance client development officer, acting as a channel between political figures and business titans, greasing up the former with lifestyles they could not afford and the latter with avenues of political influence.
…the questions about the source of Epstein’s wealth have never been fully resolved. He was worth nearly $600m at his death, thanks mostly to two wealthy billionaire clients – Victoria’s Secret founder Les Wexner and, later, Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black – as well as Johnson & Johnson heiress Elizabeth “Libet” Johnson, sister of former US ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson.
Between his collection of lavish homes in New York, Palm Beach and Paris, two private Caribbean islands, two jets and helicopter, Epstein held nearly $380m in cash and investments, according to his estate.
That wealth arrived suddenly. According to associates, until the end of the 90s, Epstein was living in a two-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side close to the river. It was only when Maxwell arrived from London that his lifestyle was dramatically elevated.
Epstein moved to a townhouse on 68th Street and later to a 28,000-sq-ft mansion on 71st Street, later transferred to him by Wexner in 2011.
Steven Hoffenberg, a former business partner of Epstein convicted of running a Ponzi scheme, claimed that Maxwell’s father, disgraced press baron Robert Maxwell, introduced his daughter to Epstein in the late 1980s.“
You sent minions to harass totally innocent elderly folk because Falter & Friends were offended by a few songs.
Complicity in the crackdown on free speech via lawfare, plus support for ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza – what effect on rising #antisemitism, in your view? https://t.co/oP9fqOidxf
I have speculated previously as to the provenance, in one or two senses, of Jake Wallis Simons. Brought up in the UK, attended a Jewish school in London, went to Israel and was involved in some sort of military or paramilitary service there before temporarily abandoning overt Jewishness while drifting around East Asia, later returning to the UK to attend Oxford University and thereafter scribble for the Daily Mail etc (presently Editor of the Jewish Chronicle).
One minute #ReformUK compares cancel culture in Britain to North Korea, the next, Reform leadership appears alongside the man who had me jailed because he felt offended by my song (((Survivors))).
If elected, Reform won't be governing in the nation's interest. Mark my words. https://t.co/801ttWKTe1
European leaders need a plan B if Donald Trump refuses to side with them on military assistance to Ukraine, Financial Times commentator Gideon Rachman writes:https://t.co/hMjfGwqTBopic.twitter.com/WPLOlCdwAr
The future sees Europe join with Russia and the Russophone parts of northern and western Asia. Eurasian axis.
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In case you’re not from the UK, you should know this campaign isn’t only about national pride —It is an act of resistance. Resistance against mass uncontrolled immigration, broken borders, and a policy of prioritising illegal migrants over British peoplehttps://t.co/liUeIhMQHwpic.twitter.com/qYKWNp86uF
This actually happened in Lambeth, as reported in The Times:
An east African asylum seeker came to Britain and was given leave to remain, thereby allowed to stay in the country. He was provided with a newly refurbished studio on a…
[“An east African asylum seeker came to Britain and was given leave to remain, thereby allowed to stay in the country. He was provided with a newly refurbished studio on a quiet, tree-lined street. Then he brought over his wife and multiple children through the refugee family reunion route. Other tenants in the block of flats complained about the noise; the family had trouble fitting into one bedsit but the council could not throw them out, so at short notice it had to provide them with a four-bedroom house. The man has no job and is living on universal credit; no one in the family can speak any English; the children need schools, and his wife requires medical attention. The council has a duty of care, so they went to the top of the housing list, bypassing 2,000 locals. What is happening in Britain today is a total and utter disgrace. Source: The Times newspaper (ht @JACKGUYANDERTON)”]
British people shoved to the back while families of untermenschen are prioritized… that is Britain in 2025; a country ruled by traitors.
They're not 'migrant' boats. Those men are invaders. Your country is being invaded. Queer starmer, zelensky rent boy, is just part of the invasion. He and his cronies are facilitating. Let's see if he can come to NH and arrest me.
Starmer claims (in a speech I saw online) to “have family in Israel“. I presume that that referred to the relatives of his Jewish wife, but I suppose I may be wrong. Either way, my name for the bastard, “Starmer-stein”, suits him very well.
Incidentally, I noticed that Yvette Cooper (Labour Friends of Israel member and now, having proven totally incompetent as Home Secretary, promoted to Foreign Secretary) made a stupid statement about the recent bus attack in Jerusalem, saying how terrible and barbaric it was.
Well, maybe, but I have seen nothing from Yvette Cooper about the Israeli Jews’ barbarism in Gaza over (mainly) the past couple of years, which has left 100,000-200,000 dead and wounded, about a quarter of them children. “Wounded” in Gaza often means children left without arms and legs, and/or terribly scarred, as well as often orphaned.
Israel bombing Doha shows it has no interest in any “ceasefire”. This is the Zionists state third such attempt to bomb the negotiating team. Violence appears to be their only language.
Attacking 4 sovereign nations in 24 hours are brazen acts of war. What other country gets away… pic.twitter.com/1v63EU3ysn
A swastika would look better, either alone or in the centre.
A good summary of the Zionist subversion tactics permeating all of British Society, from my ace solicitor Zillur Rahman.
The only quibble I would have is that is not necessarily one or ‘a’/‘an’ complainant/Zionist group/journalist/law firm/politician etc, but many. In my own… https://t.co/4VSMnzPvwC
[“A good summary of the Zionist subversion tactics permeating all of British Society, from my ace solicitor Zillur Rahman. The only quibble I would have is that is not necessarily one or ‘a’/‘an’ complainant/Zionist group/journalist/law firm/politician etc, but many. In my own case it was multiples of each. I am proud to say it was more than a hundred members of the Houses of Parliament who wrote to Bristol University to have me sacked. The only way to deal with them is to fight. No apology will ever be enough. If you don’t fight you will certainly lose. But, as my own case shows, if you fight, you can win.“]
Türkiye stands with its Palestinian brothers and its ally, strategic partner, and friend, the State of Qatar, with all its capabilities. pic.twitter.com/xAn7BOMIhj
I pursue medical negligence cases. People have no idea just how bad NHS treatment is. These CEO’s are absolutely not worth what they’re paid. In fact, many should face criminal charges.
The only person who’s put Israeli hostages at risk is Israel. To say the UK has is outrageous and so ungrateful. We stood full square behind Israel but they took it way too far a long time ago. Even their own people & military say so. Bugger off lady. #LBC
Once the Israeli Jews had killed a thousand, or two thousand, Gazans in retaliation for the 2023 attack, the civilized world should have firmly told the Israeli Jews that that was enough, do no more. Instead of which, the infiltration of Jews into the governments and msm across Europe, USA etc ensured that Israel got more or less what it wanted. That will continue to be the case so long as wealthy and influential Jewish populations, influencing policy, exist in the USA, UK, France etc.
This is the backdrop to a contest in which Labour MPs are being asked to support a deputy leadership candidate who will back and promote Keir Starmer’s agenda. https://t.co/86XNlq67Uj
Not just TV news reports, but reports leading the TV news.
This seems to me like overkill, really. After all, terrible as the crash was, killing 16 people, it was 2 days ago, no-one is still trapped or requiring rescue, plenty of major news is happening elsewhere and, in the end, this did not even happen in the UK. A straightforward crash incident, which happened in seconds, or a few minutes, which was a one-off incident, and the causes of which will no doubt be investigated (very likely a cable problem, possibly metal fatigue, and insufficient maintenance). Yet the BBC and Sky News still have reporters on the scene. Why? Enough.
Whatever the exact rights and wrongs of Angela Rayner’s (latest) property purchase, the background to the matter was the “fill your boots” mentality with which this Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment is suffused.
It became known a year ago that Angela Rayner had accepted gifts of clothes, I think also cash donations, and free trips to noisy vulgar clubs in Ibiza, the appalling nightclub, drink, and drugs island. Not that she was alone in accepting “freebies”. Her boss, Starmer-stein, had accepted clothes for himself and his Jewish wife, and even free eye-glasses!
Angela Rayner also postponed, on rather spurious grounds, some of the previously-scheduled 2025 UK local elections, which postponements—whatever the reasons for postponement— looked bad at a time when Labour was already losing ground greatly to Reform UK.
The postponed local elections will now not take place until May 2026. Both Labour and Conservative parties must be dreading them.
That whole “fill your boots” or “make hay while the sun is shining” mentality, which pervades Starmer’s Labour Friends of Israel cabal, was also a major factor putting paid to the Conservative Party’s electoral chances in 2024, after years of crony-corruption under (mainly) “Boris”-idiot, Liz Truss (briefly, in her 49 days as PM), and the little Indian money-juggler, Sunak.
So what now for Angela Rayner? She had been puffed as the successor to Starmer. Perhaps, though that seems far less likely now, bearing in mind the public perception of her. Some may think her a greedy, moneygrasping, “typical MP”; others say “it was not her fault, because she failed to take obvious steps to avoid the situation which arose“. Well, so not dishonest, simply careless and/or clueless? Not a very good impression either way.
In any case, Labour is now facing a really major challenge from Reform UK, which is really just the public’s proxy method for “getting rid of both Lab and Con“. The idea that Angela Rayner might be the next Prime Minister always seemed to me unlikely to happen, and now seems a very remote possibility indeed.
As to Rayner herself, the resignation will hit her rather hard financially. Loss of her Government position means that her salary is halved, she now being left with “only” the (just under) £94,000 p.a. MP salary (and attendant expenses). She now also loses whatever access she may have had to the country houses used on weekends by Government ministers. There are smaller hits as well, such as loss of the government cars and drivers that ferry ministers around.
Wider political fallout? Well, just another hit that Starmer could have done without. The Reform annual conference is taking place now, and Angela Rayner may be good ammunition for Farage. Also, the news will mute any criticism of Reform people for whatever they may say during the conference.
In any case, people are intending to vote Reform to stamp on Lab and Con, so anything negative in the msm about Farage and Reform will not, I think, have much effect, because people already know that Farage and especially his cohorts are not the best and brightest. That makes little difference to how people are intending to vote.
“Huge tracts of precious riverside habitats for water voles and other wildlife in England are being lost as they are not covered by post-Brexit farming rules, campaigners warn.
New analysis by the Wildlife Trusts found more than 400square km of riverside habitat in England may have been lost since the UK left the EU in 2020.
Under the common agricultural policy (CAP), which subsidised farming when the UK was in the bloc, farmers had to keep a 2-metre buffer between their fields and the rivers. But with the UK’s exit from the CAP, farmers may try to increase their income by ploughing to the edge of their field – an area that, at present, is unprofitable for them.
As well as being a critical habitat for wildlife, waterway banks are home to plants that filter pollution from the water.“
[Guardian]
As regular readers of the blog know, I am not very pleased about the farming lobby. Not all farmers are greedy, moneygrasping, environmentally-destructive nuisances, but many are.
I remember that on TV from the early 1960s, when I was about 5 or 6 years old.
For me, the point is not that Nadine Dorries is an idiotic woman, an expenses-blodger and outright fraud, or that “Boris”-idiot and Liz Truss are nominally (and only nominally) better-educated versions of the same brainless type, but that the whole political system we now have in the UK promotes such cretins, selects them as candidates etc.
Labour's re-election chances blown out of the water by a triple resignation?
My view is that the Reform candidates are relatively unpolished, most of them, so the relative absence of the bright lights of msm publicity and exposure might actually help Reform. That may sound cynical, but the old System parties are just waiting for Farage’s candidates to slip on banana skins.
As the Conservatives accuse Angela Rayner of hypocrisy, in this week’s episode both @George_Osborne and I predict that the Deputy Prime Minister will likely survive this storm.. https://t.co/0gygL33fBh
So former fraudulent expenses-cheat and puppet of the Jewish/Israel lobby, Ed Balls (husband of similar Yvette Cooper; they are both members of Labour Friends of Israel) has his latest rubbish political prediction blown out of the water only one day after he made it! An idiotic person, despite the quite academic CV; hugely over-promoted.
A dangerous Bolshevik from a family of dangerous Bolsheviks. Net-zero is merely the contemporary iteration of Bolshevism, within which the state machine has total control over the production and distribution of all energy, and, through that, the entire economy. https://t.co/J0VCgFPQwV
Yvette Cooper should leave the Home Office. She has been utterly incompetent. The small boats crisis, the use of asylum hotels, the resistance to a rape gang inquiry, the chaos, it all got worse under her watch.
Her incompetence is now going to be transferred to the Foreign Office.
Yvette Cooper reshuffled after migrant crisis chaos and small boat blunders
Yvette Cooper was moved by Sir Keir Starmer today, Cooper took a new role as Foreign Secretary after the Government faced intense criticism over immigration, asylum and policing.https://t.co/9QG01C0HmZ
Good grief. Lammy is a total ignoramus. As Foreign Secretary (and in every other role, including that of MP) he has been a bad joke. Now his head is on the stick of “Deputy Prime Minister”. Britain has become a joke country.
In any case, that (((Zeffman))) character is wrong. The new “Lord Chancellor” is ignorant black, David Lammy, who takes over from equally ignorant Shabana Mahmood. Both of them together were only at the practising Bar for a very short time. Not really qualified for the office.
Moscow considers the UK's use of the proceeds from frozen Russian assets to purchase military equipment for the Ukrainian armed forces to be an illegal act, the Russian embassy in London said in a statement:https://t.co/UJ6Ovqkymjpic.twitter.com/CAZdUtmTQY
Insufficient range to reach Moscow or Petersburg, but enough to reach Minsk.
@doctor_rahmeh I'm sorry you are being persecuted; zionists also persecute other people, e.g. Ian Millard:
"Regular readers of the blog will know of my own past battles with the Jew-Zionist lobby in the UK, which have been taking place for over a decade"https://t.co/5UeTvQ8Rcphttps://t.co/z79GM1p64s