I've written to the Prime Minister in my role as Chair of the Cross-Party Coronavirus Inquiry. Following over 1000 evidence submissions, we recommend an urgent move to a ‘zero-covid’ strategy.https://t.co/ItMTe3K5Es
As bad as our govt is, some MPs, led by @LaylaMoran are even worse, calling for even more draconian restrictions on us this coming winter. This is the Parliamentary ´opposition´ in our ‘democracy’ :pushing the govt towards more authoritarianism https://t.co/bBUXI2hEyf
Layla Moran [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla_Moran] is obviously at least half-mad, proposing a “strategy” that would intensify and entrench the “Coronavirus” police state, justified by the idea that a virus that either does not affect or scarcely affects 1,999 people out of 2,000 people requires ludicrous yet sinister (and ongoing) measures in order to (supposedly) contain it.
I am not so much interested in idiots like Layla Moran as in what is really behind all of this, since it started. Some, like the writer and newspaper pundit Peter Hitchens, say that the Boris-idiot government is simply incompetent and panic-stricken, and indeed it is hard to argue with that.
A government that panicked and won't admit its mistake. . @robertmcalay, as I have now been saying day in day out since March. And it is 'Mr Hitchens' to you. https://t.co/UssRcRB3iS
What, though, of the many other governments that have also implemented the same policies or stricter yet, and have also failed to “stop” “the virus”? Spain, France, Italy etc? Are they also panic-stricken and incompetent? Maybe so, but I think that, even if such is the case, there is more behind all this.
There is a strong suggestion of “New World Order” [NWO] about this, as there is with the (sudden) System support for the “Black Lives Matter” nonsense. The World Economic Forum [WEF] has already proclaimed via tweets and Press releases that it is time for a “Great Reset” of world economy and society.
“Great Reset”? Meshed, perhaps, with the “Great Replacement” of white Northern Europeans with, speaking in group terms, more easily-ruled inferior peoples.
Huge blunder to seek to dictate a national policy on 3000+ counties, many of which have almost zero COVID cases recently. Many folks who would voluntarily wear masks will balk at submitting to a political command. https://t.co/MJ9x4CxG8K
Well, there it is. “Coronavirus” deaths have been dropping almost to zero for a long time. Now the rate has dropped to zero, but the conspiracy to impose an ever-stricter police state based around the ill-founded fear of “the virus” has not stopped! Au contraire.
“We” now wear masks to shop, when only a few cranks did at the peak “Coronavirus” time (4+ months ago). Now this “demand” that “the virus” be eliminated entirely before the toytown police state rows back (which it is obviously intended shall never happen…).
Good luck getting people to adopt "Zero Covid". As people lose their homes, jobs, educations and futures, more and more people are starting to looking at the bigger picture. Public compliance is getting lower every week. Let's see how social distancing works when unis go back
It seems that, for the msm and those in government trying to maintain “control” (of the agenda, not “the virus”), what matters is that more people are being tested positive for “the virus” (even though hardly any are even aware of their being infected), rather than the fact that deaths from (or with) Coronavirus are now actually at zero! In fact, the daily death toll has been in single figures for quite a few days, and in double digits for weeks.
Interesting thread: click on it to read the whole thing.
A few days ago I got a message from a priest like "do you wanna come and visit this church?" There was one odd thing about it though, he sent me the church name, and the post code – and that was it. No street name, no village, no… Nothing.
Only one thing can fix this: Three generations of conscious fast-breeding by the tiny minority who want their descendants to take back and repopulate our ancestral lands after the coming Time of Death.#reasonstobecheerfulhttps://t.co/snxBUujQtV
Paris has fallen. Having said that, a few bursts of machinegun fire would have cleared the streets and deterred a repeat of the “chimp-out” (a useful American phrase…). Unfortunately, France does not have a real President, but just a Rothschilds ZOG/NWO pop-up puppet…
[Macron, posing as President of France in some shebeen]
This is incoherent @colin_hewetson. I am not a lawyer and cannot afford the huge expense of a legal challenge against the state and its tax-funded law officers. The rules result from the bypassing of a comatose parliament, by the questionable use of Statutory Instrumnents. https://t.co/Gv4LkUEBZD
Also note that these El Salvador prisoners have been (amongst other things) kitted out with 'face coverings' of a familiar type. Is it really out of concern for their health? https://t.co/xbkig44aHt
In the debate about compulsory muzzles, ask yourselves if there is anything familiar about the face-covering attached (presumably involuntarily) to this person, and ask why it is attached. https://t.co/oprjcC8FQc
Well then, we know what you are, don't we, @itszilzalbytwo. Where should we deport them? What form of transport do you favour? What should happen to them when they get to wherever it is? Go on, expand a bit. https://t.co/kr5Ldtd8wk
The “sayamun” etc tweeter is not alone. There are thousands of self-describing “Left”, “antiracist”, “antifa” pseudo-socialists in the UK whose views are similar to his. Fortunately, there are many millions of people who agree with me. That means that “sayamun” and others like him will go up the chimney long before I do, in all probability. (I am with him on Boris-idiot, though…fair’s fair…).
In fact, rereading that tweet, I wonder whether in fact it and its tweeter are not a very dry parody which may have taken in Peter Hitchens. No matter, either way…
[Update, 26 August 2020: the tweet referred to above, replied to by Peter Hitchens, has been deleted; I thought that it might have been a clever dry parody. Apparently not…]
As the Irish or some of them might say, looking at the latest pictures of Boris-idiot, “Jaysus! Will ya look at that eejit?!“…
But if “Boris” is an idiot, what are those who actively wanted him to be (pose as) Prime Minister?
Crikey! Al Johnson needs to pack up his tent now if Fraser Nelson is reporting this about “The most inept government in living memory” pic.twitter.com/bZEOmJLpI7
Not at all @robertchallis. The covering of the human mouth alters the address, status and mood of the wearer, especially if it is imposed by force or threat. Observe the covering of the mouths of the Guantanamo prisoners. What was its point? https://t.co/nrWUDTKfHXhttps://t.co/JhEedr9OHa
This official tax-funded placard from Stockton-on-Tees encourages human beings to treat each other as toxic hazards. Leaving aside the disturbing philosophical and moral implications, surely such behaviour is incompatible with anything resembling a society. https://t.co/nDM9nWWE8v
For me, one of the most alarming aspects of the “virus” panic in the UK is the extent to which the fear, once triggered by government and msm, has trumped not only commonsense but any evidence. Look at the latest figures: hundreds if not thousands being diagnosed daily in the UK as having “the virus”, but the number of people dying daily dropping into single figures for some time; it has now reached zero!
Let’s repeat that: no-one is now dying from “the virus” in the UK.
Yet the population is still, sort-of, terrified. You see it in the absurd “social distancing”, such as when I picked up some fish and chips a few days ago, the customers standing outside the shop, in a stiff breeze, the 6+ feet apart, as indoctrinated into them for months by msm/System propaganda. At least not one was wearing a mask/muzzle.
Just how did batshit 🤪Gavin Williamson get to be where he is? His story is even more puzzling than we could have ever imagined. Deadhead MPs, An Occasional Series: The Gavin Williamson Story https://t.co/kwWOfvwx83 via @ianrmillard
“In our hospital we have a post Covid backlog of 11,000 radiology scans, & we get 1000 new requests a week. So you have to prioritise them, going through the 10,000 old and 1000 new. And you have to take extra precautions so you can’t do as many. It’s a never ending treadmill”
They encouraged clapping and medals for carers but are now taking benefits away from grieving families of carers who have lost loved ones during the crisis. This Government is even more despicable than I thought they were capable of. Sickening hypocrisy.https://t.co/2ksiVAet7W
Israel moves to demolish a cave in a small Palestinian village in Jenin, after a destitute family fleeing israeli dispossession set up home in it https://t.co/vRTPz7H7kt
The tweet below is, on the face of it, very naive:
Just spoken to a young Palestinian man. Every night for the last 10 days they've been woken up to F16 & F35 Israeli war planes bombing them. Can be you imagine living like that? The children are terrified. Why is our g'ment & the opposition silent? #GazaUnderAttack
Well, to answer the question: the UK Cabinet is packed with Jews, part-Jews (eg Boris-idiot) and/or members of Conservative Friends of Israel. As far as I know, every last member of the present Cabinet belongs to Conservative Friends of Israel.
As for the joke “Opposition”, we have Keir Starmer as Labour leader. He is, I believe, a member of Labour Friends of Israel (have not yet found proof, admittedly), as are most of the Shadow Cabinet (eg Rachel Reeves). What is known for sure, however, is that Keir Starmer is married to a Jewish woman, a lawyer, and that they have children being brought up as Jewish.
Is the above a good explanation as to why neither UK Government nor UK Opposition says anything about Israeli state terrorism?
Israel sustains its apartheid regime over Palestinians partly through arms sales and military support it receives from governments across the world.
The Manchester Police may not be much good at stamping on the untermenschen doing most of the crime up there, but show them a little child’s birthday party, being celebrated by 3 families, and, my God! they are onto it! Really, though, how pathetic the police are now! The toytown police and the associated poundland KGB both.
Jesus H. Christ! Just look at that police tweet! The sheer pursed-lipped smugness of it! It even admits that the “crime” took place in a private garden! Absolutely pathetic, but also disgusting. Spoiled a child’s birthday, and for what? So that the police can virtue-signal? The virus is not killing anyone! Zero deaths today. About 2 yesterday. Out of 70 MILLION people!
I hope you've worked out by now that a serious & lifelong effort to avoid every possible penny of tax is part of your moral duty. Refuse to pay for your own dispossession. Have children, not a tax-cow 'career'. Let the elite screw shekels out of their petshttps://t.co/x12ooQVzb7
I am in favour of a welfare state, but not one where much of the money goes to non-Europeans and their offspring, including some who are (quite literally) just off the boat, maybe the rubber boat they and fellow-invaders have used to cross the Channel.
Financial capitalism has decoupled from the capitalist economy, skyrocketing out of Earth's orbit, leaving behind it broken lives & dreams. As the UK sinks into the worst recession ever, & US edges toward failed state status, FTSE100 goes up 2% & S&P500 breaks all time record!
The above blog piece is fairly interesting, but fails to use the words “Jew” or even “Jew-Zionist” even once! Yet “they” were those plotting against Labour from as soon as Corbyn was elected leader! The whole campaign against Corbyn was led and almost entirely staffed by Zionist, pro-Israel Jews. I am no “Corbynist”, but I am a truthful and accurate observer and commentator on policy, events and people, as well as being a struggler for a better society and thinker into the future.
By a campaign of malicious denunciation to police, CPS and Twitter (etc), the fanatical Jew-Zionists have suppressed free speech to the point where it scarcely exists; where it does, it is because a relatively few British and other Europeans are determined to express their socio-political views and to fight for freedom, come what may.
“In 2003, [Gilad] Atzmon wrote that: “We must begin to take the accusation that the Jewish people are trying to control the world very seriously”,[48][49][50] the blog post was subsequently amended[51] with “Zionists” replacing “the Jewish people” in the original post.[52][53]” [Wikipedia]
“At a meeting at University College London the following November [2018], [Miko] Peled complained about the “witch-hunt against antisemites and Holocaust deniers” over the past two years.” [Wikipedia]
Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
Note the (((typically))) violent language: “slaughtered“… the language of kosher (kashrut) butchery, of ethnic cleansing, of Jew-Zionist tribalism and cruelty.
It is when the leader of the party is a Labour Friends of Israel member, married to a Jewish woman lawyer, with their children being brought up as both Jewish and Zionist!
More thoughts about the facemask nonsense
The joke below was sent to me. It has a sharp and topical edge:
Doctor: Good morning Mr Jones – how are you feeling today?
Patient: Great, just been for a 7k run.
Doctor: Right, Right. There’s no easy way to say this – I’m afraid I have some bad news for you, you had better take a seat.
Patient: Oh God, what is it doctor?
Doctor: Theres no way to cushion this, I’m afraid – the test you took for Covid-19 came back positive.
Patient: Oh no, that’s awful. Give it to me straight doctor, what are my chances? Don’t hold back. I need to know the truth.
Doctor: Well, I’m afraid you only have between a 99.8% and 99.4% chance of survival – although as you are 35 and have no other conditions it may be as much as 99.9%, maybe more – we just can’t tell at this stage. Though we’re pretty sure.
(Long pause)
Patient: Riiiiiiighhhht
Doctor: Also the test may be wrong. You may just have a cold or something…
(Patient gets up and walks out)
Doctor: Don’t forget your mask!
Well, there it is. Reasonably amusing and displaying the fact that virtually no-one is getting infected with Coronavirus in the UK now, but the fear is almost as great as it was when the ridiculous over-reaction started.
Yesterday, 20 people died in UK hospitals from or with Coronavirus. This virus is not, now, a really serious public health threat. The Government, though, is intent on forcing facemasks on the public, and is going to increase fines for non-compliance, after a first offence, to £3,200!
I was watching part of an episode of the 1970s TV documentary, The World at War. R.A. “Rab” Butler [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rab_Butler] talking about what happened on 3 September 1939, the day when Britain declared war on Germany, The air-raid sirens were sounded in London, all over London, and people were told to wear, and were filmed wearing, gasmasks.
In fact, there was no danger from either gas attacks or air raids. The Germans had no plans to use gas, (and few if any supplies); there were no gas attacks on Britain during the whole of the War. As for air raids and bombing, the first German bombs fell on London (in the area of the docks by the Thames, since the 1980s known as the Docklands) in September 1940, over a year after war had been declared.
So no real danger but much whipping-up of fear among the public, the public told that they must wear masks (at times) and react like lemmings if air raid warnings (klaxons or whining air-whistles) were heard.
That sounds rather like Britain today. No real risk to most people but everyone told (on pain of increasingly heavy fines) to wear (useless) masks inside many buildings (how long before that diktat is enlarged to include various outside places?). All for nothing except to control the public. Nothing to do with the “virus” itself, which for the past month has killed only a small fraction of those dying in the UK from influenza.
May you never experience the agony of having your country stolen; may you never feel the pain of living in captivity under occupation; may you never witness the demolition of your home or murder of your loved ones. May you never be sold out by your "friends." https://t.co/CBaNl1QQqx
Zionists are all eager to destroy the careers of anti-Zionists on the back of fake claims of antisemitism, yet when people have legitimate claims against their hate and stalking then they cry victim and spew nonsense about "We're only going after Jew-hate" #Antisemites
The Labour Party has lost 130,000 members since Sir Keir Starmer became leader in April – and there also has been a mass exodus of BAME people
Those in arrears are party members who have cancelled their membership/Direct Debt but have not yet been removed from the party's tally https://t.co/4YSJORP2xe
Some interesting tweets from “Socialist Voice” (Scott Nelson), who used to like and retweet some of my own Twitter comment before the Jew-Zionists (and a few non-Jew doormats) in the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” pressure group (cabal) conspired to have me removed from Twitter. The same untermenschen have been trying for years to get the Socialist Voice Twitter account removed; so far it is still there, but, with (mainly) Jewish/Zionist censorship intensifying, for how long?.
One has to wonder how long the fighters for freedom are going to play by “their” rules in a rigged game?
In respect of that report about the Labour Party, it is a matter of unconcern to the Zionists now again controlling Labour that membership numbers are plummeting. All that matters to “them” is that Labour, as one of the two “main parties” is not, even slightly, “antisemitic” and/or anti-Israel. “They” do not care if Labour does not win elections (95% of Jews now vote Conservative anyway), and in fact the lower taxes under Conservative Party rule suit most Jews very well…
The Conservative Party now claims 191,000 members. If true, that is an increase, in a year or so, of 50,000. Still, the relevant facts are that only 1 person in every 350 in the UK is a Conservative Party member even now, yet the Party won the 2019 General Election anyway, despite having only about 1 person in 500 as a member. Labour’s 500,000-600,000 members (2019), about 1 person out of 120 UK inhabitants, made little difference to that result.
Both System parties are now mere facades; both are controlled, in effect, by Jew-Zionists, and both are pretty much following similar policies. To put it another way, Labour is weakly echoing whatever Boris-idiot does, but adding “we might have done it better...”
Below: the whole thread is worth reading; click to read it.
The Zionists are using UK MSM like a machine gun when everyone else has bows and arrows. It’s little wonder they scream AntiSemitism if you point this fact out. Where’s @Jackiew80333500 voice? https://t.co/U3wy897pnf
I'm working on a book of heroes of the English-speaking world. I want to include #Rhodesian Selous Scout Chris Schulenburg. If anyone can provide me with enough info for a 2,000 word summary of his amazing military feats against the terrs, I would be very grateful. RT please! pic.twitter.com/rPgjWDLSI1
Yes @jordanfurniss and this bureaucratic, rigid, dismal, joyless document illustrates perfectly why civilised countries never permitted and should never permit government to interfere in the private lives of people. How did we come to accept this absurdity. Where was Parliament? https://t.co/lyP3UfkQLy
This is not recession, it’s something far worse – it happened *because* of government intervention, not (as is more usual) in spite of it. https://t.co/HYsVkuIvgv
An annoying early-morning start to the day, waking up not far past the middle of the night to typical rubbish on the BBC World Service. A programme called United Zingdom, in which what sounded like two Welsh women (one certainly was, being one Lisa Angharad) got together to trash England, the UK, and the British people. One of them apparently has a Singapore passport as well as a British one.
Everything, it seems, is the fault of “the British” (English). They, the English, are basically nasty, “racist” etc. They should not want their own country, language, customs, population. Now Wales, Wales is different! It (apparently) should have its own language etc. The bias and sheer untruth in that little broadcast was incredible.
The woman with the Singapore passport was asked about whether she would prefer to live there and seemed to affirm, though she said that “but they have anti-gay laws there…”, which apparently was a drawback. She then added “…but the British brought those to Singapore“. Ah, so once more the British (and failing that, no doubt any other white Northern Europeans) were to blame! I should have guessed. The other woman then chimed in with “ah, the British again“. Why are we paying (forced to pay) the BBC so that it can pay bitches like that to spout anti-British propaganda?
They should have added that, until the British arrived on the island of Singapore, there was nothing there at all, and had not been for at least 200 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Singapore
Another couple of deliberate inaccuracies: we were told that the Welsh language is vibrant and becoming more spoken, and that there is “a huge upsurge” in Welsh nationalism.
Language: I myself know from experience in the 1980s that Welsh is naturally a first language in some areas, in West Wales especially. It seems however that less than a quarter of the Welsh population as a whole speak Welsh to any useable standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language
Welsh nationalism: Plaid Cymru is only nominally “nationalist” anyway, willing to have people in Wales “whatever their race, nationality, gender, colour, creed [etc]” [Plaid Cymru platform].
Plaid Cymru controls only one local council in Wales (out of dozens). It also has 4 out of 40 Westminster MPs (a figure unchanged or not much changed since the 1970s), and in the last (and final) EU elections had elected 1 MEP out of 4 (their best result was in 1999, 2 out of 5).
Conclusion: there is no upsurge of Welsh “nationalism”, let alone a huge one.
The trashing of the World Service has been one of the saddest things over the past 30 years. It was once interesting, lively, truthful, stimulating. 1970s and 1980s. Now, it cannot even seem to be able to tell the time clearly! The World Service seemed to go into a kind of spiral of decline in the 1990s. A Jewish woman whose name I forget was on constantly, and —quelle surprise— obsessed on air about “holocaust” and “Nazis” almost nonstop.
The decline of BBC World Service continued, reaching (I hope) the bottom round about 2010. In the past year or two, there has been a slight improvement, but only slight. There are still only a few worthwhile programmes, the best being The Forum, especially when presented by Bridget Kendall: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszjvchttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Kendall.
Martin Bell, the famous broadcaster, journalist and one-term MP [Independent, Tatton] made the point several times that, in dangerous parts of the world (Iraq, Bosnia etc) people know the BBC World Service, yet the World Service is funded on a shoestring compared to rather useless projects such as the British Council [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Council]
I really value the BBC World Service, which is precisely why I despise what it has largely become. As Nietzsche wrote: “the great despisers are also the great reverers” [Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra].
Tweets seen
I’m so sick of this ‘The British People’ nonsense. It’s inflammatory and divisive and also errant vacuous nonsense with no meaning in a multi-party democracy. The phrase should be banned from political discourse. https://t.co/zVW56W5qlZ
Here we see science popularizer Professor Brian Cox putting forward, yet again, his tendentious political views. The sort of person all too common in the UK, meaning someone who wants the country to become even more of a multikulti dustbin. After all, “I’m all right, Jack”.
There are two types of scientist: the ones doing serious research and perhaps making real and even great discoveries or leaps forward; then there are the others, who are basically popular in the mass media, write books popular with the public, are on TV frequently, rack up official honours (and plenty of money) for all that. Nuff said…
Cox is a good example of the “clever person” (not infrequently someone of scientific background) who has come to think that he is a good deal more clever than he is and who, at least when out of his specialist area or areas, is rather silly.
Incidentally, he presumably meant to say “arrant nonsense“, not “errant nonsense“…
they are criminals trying to break in to our country illegally. We shouldn't be saving these people at all. They could stay in France and have zero need to come here apart from to fleece our country.
I fancy a nice house on the beach in either Africa or Asia. I'll admit, government benefits would do nicely too, along with free education & health care. Guaranteed sunshine. Do you think the natives would accept me & my white arsed family when we pitch up?
There are huge numbers of bien-pensant idiots in the UK, who love to think of themselves as kind, compassionate, generous etc, as they virtue-signal on Twitter and elsewhere. The famous or infamous ones, such as Yvette Cooper, Lily Allen, Gary Lineker etc are only the tip of the iceberg. Below their capital, income, and public-recognition levels, there are thousands, perhaps even millions of others.
I hesitate to say that none of those people, the “refugees welcome” dimwits, would ever accommodate migrant-invaders in their own homes. A few of the brainwashed and obscure ones might, just as, out of tens of millions, a very few people swim the Channel (to France, usually!), or learn to speak 10 languages fluently.
I met a man once who worked near Elephant and Castle, London, and who could speak, not 10 languages, admittedly, but certainly 8 languages fluently, and those languages did include some of the near-“impossible” ones, such as Finnish and Hungarian.
Such people are rare. They are not the general run. Most of the “refugees welcome” dimwits want the State and/or other people (which is all the State is, in the end) to house and feed those migrant-invaders, and to educate the children of the invaders. The dimwits prioritize the invaders over English/British people such as the ex-soldiers sleeping on the streets, or the middle-aged Brits struggling to survive after the (basically Jewish-influenced) “austerity” of 2010-2020 and the socio-economic upheavals which have occurred and those which lie ahead.
I thought that Richard Tice, 2-i-c of Brexit Party, had been nominated for a peerage; apparently not. Claire Fox has, though. What a strange nomination that is.
I first saw Claire Fox [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Fox] on TV about a decade ago. I think that it was on Newsnight. Or Daily Politics. I think the former. She was supposedly the head of something called The Institute of Ideas. I was curious enough to look it up via Internet. There was not much to see. The “Institute” seemed to consist mainly of Claire Fox, and (I found out after a while) seemed to be funded mainly by a City of London hedge fund speculator Jew, whose name I cannot at present recall.
As for Claire Fox herself, as seen on TV, she was not at all impressive, not convincing; there was something fake about her and her “Institute”, even before I started to look into it.
I found the “Institute of Ideas” to be little more than a facade; indeed, little more than a catchy name. I was unable to discover much about it. The whole thing seemed opaque, insubstantial. One could not grasp hold of it.
I see now that others, such as the journalist and TV news presenter, Jon Snow, had similar problems:
” The news broadcaster Jon Snow, according to a Guardian article, withdrew from an event to which he had been invited by the Royal Society of Arts after realising the IoI’s involvement. Snow felt there was a lack of transparency. ‘I didn’t have a clear idea of who they were,’ he said. This lack of transparency affects almost every aspect of IoI events, as the article notes: ‘From the platforms and the floor, the LM [Living Marxism] line is assiduously promoted by the magazine’s supporters and contributors – often without clear attribution of their affiliations.’ ” [Lobbywatch] http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=142]
It seems that the “Institute” was founded in 2000 by Fiona Fox, sister of Claire Fox, and other undisclosed persons. Fiona Fox also heads the Science Media Centre [http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=121], which is embedded within the very Establishment scientific body, the Royal Institution [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Institution]. Another sister, Gemma Fox, heads an EU-funded IT organization in Wales.
Another fairly high-profile person connected with the above is Frank Furedi, a person of Hungarian origins, frequently on BBC radio [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Furedi], whose wife is the head of the UK’s largest abortion “advice” organization.
Some of the tweets of Spiked can command my support, many cannot, such as this pitiful article:
Hiroshima was an experiment in extermination. The West viewed the Japanese as racially distinct and inferior. Sadly, this kind of racial thinking has returned with a vengeance. We must say loud and clear: there is only one human race, says @MsDinglehttps://t.co/vKTf4MrWc1
Taking just the main contention of that article, the Anglo-American atom-bomb project aka the Manhattan Project or Tube Alloys [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_Alloys] had as its primary aim the destruction of Germany and the German people, not Japan. Most of the scientists of importance were Jews. They hated Germany and National Socialism. Some were also Communists. Germany was only saved from atomic destruction by its unconditional surrender before the bomb was ready to be used.
The above exploration may or may not be interesting, but what interests me now and particularly is why did Boris-idiot (Boris Johnson) nominate Claire Fox for a peerage? Why?
Claire Fox has no real academic pedigree. Even in the 1980s (i.e. before the start of the present “award inflation”, by which almost all students get a supposed “First” or “Upper Second” degree), a 2:2 in English and American Literature scarcely cut it in the academic world! She was a mental health social worker for some years after graduation, then for 10 years a lecturer in English Literature at a couple of technical colleges in South Essex and in South Hertfordshire.
I think that we can be sure that Claire Fox’s peerage nomination was not for “services to education”!
We have already seen that, as a “think tank”, the “Institute of Ideas” scarcely existed. Even as an active lobby group, its activities do not seem to have had much impact. Claire Fox, despite a few appearances on TV, including the —now very outdated— Question Time, was not until recently (until 2019) a very publicly-known person; neither has she been involved with anything normally likely to attract an honour of any sort, let alone a peerage.
What about Claire Fox’s political life? Well, membership of the Revolutionary Communist Party or anything like it has never been an easy route to the House of Lords! Anyone with similar views who ended up with a peerage at least had to pretend to be “Labour”! I cannot think of many, even so. A few Jews, now long gone, perhaps. As for a “revolutionary communist”, even one now sort-of apostate, being ennobled “on the recommendation of” a Conservative Party Prime Minister would have been unthinkable, until now.
Claire Fox joined Nigel Farage’s pop-up “Brexit Party” in 2019, was selected (along with at least two other “former” Revolutionary Communist Party members) as a candidate for the European elections. She was elected, and was an MEP for about a year, until the UK nominally left the EU. One year…
It goes beyond that. Claire Fox has said things that many consider unforgiveable, such as, and in particular, her championing of IRA bombing in 1993, specifically the killing of a child.
Looking at it all, it seems inconceivable that, even a few years ago, or today, such a person could ever be nominated for a peerage, to become one of the UK’s upper house legislators, even bearing in mind the weird collection now in the Lords. Yet there she sits (soon). In fact, her previous (never reversed) support for the IRA has not stood in her way. Even the Sun “newspaper” has her on its YouTube channel!
Not that I disagree with everything she says. I agree with some of what she is saying in the above clip. [Having now —several hours later— seen all of the interview, I concede that I agree with a good deal of what she says in it].
So why was she given (nomination for) a peerage? I cannot entirely work it out, but it is obviously connected with her work for Brexit, and even more so with the standing down of most Brexit Party candidates while the election campaign was ongoing. A stunning act of betrayal by con-man Nigel Farage. He shot his own party in the neck. Or the back. Moreover, he stood down only candidates facing previously-incumbent or new Conservative Party candidates! Including Conservative Party candidates who were Remain supporters!
Nigel Farage ensured that the Conservative Party won the 2019 General Election. It might have won anyway, but might not have done, and certainly would not have achieved a Commons majority of 80 (or any majority).
If I am correct, and Claire Fox has been somehow rewarded for supporting Farage in his betrayal, why has Farage himself (or his 2-i-c, Tice), not been nominated for the House of Lords? There could be a number of reasons, such as (speculating) that Farage has been paid, as his reward, millions of pounds into an offshore secret account. Why not? I have no evidence that that is the case, but it seems not unlikely to me. £10 million? £20 million? Cheap at the price, when you get the UK in exchange…
Anyway, “the night is young”. Farage still might get a peerage from Boris-idiot; next year, or the year after. Tice too, maybe. Maybe Claire Fox getting one now is in the nature of a “statement of intent” or down-payment to Farage. Maybe giving Farage a peerage right now would make the corruption and betrayal just too obvious. Next year? 2022? Maybe.
The present politics of the System is more than sleazy. It has to be exterminated.
Other tweets seen
A must read. Gosh, this virus has brought out the inner nasty in so many. Sad. https://t.co/2ISqJBAOEJ
I went to a university, not a ‘uni’ and did not study PPE, @i0null. You, wherever you went, seem to have completely missed the point I was making, that the precaution should be proportionate to the danger, and have some experimental basis. Muzzles fail both these tests. https://t.co/TeIr94IzAu
Generally I have no trouble at all. Very few busybodies, plenty of cheerful smiles. Shop workers, not obliged to wear them , but under pressure to do so, may well welcome mask-free customers. https://t.co/EpL1DRsS9N
— THE CLOCKWORK ORANGE ¦POLITICAL COMMENTARY-SATIRE (@FineTunedOrange) August 9, 2020
Interesting how many of the muzzle zealots who attack me end their tweets with a peremptory 'Wear a mask!' or 'Wear a ****ing mask!' Yet I have never a suggested to any of them that they take theirs off (except by implication, during blood donations where a mask creates a risk).
Orwell once wrote: "Remarks like ‘They can’t run me in; I haven’t done anything wrong’, or ‘They can’t do that; it’s against the law’, are part of the atmosphere of England." This powerful article (which I do not endorse) suggests this is no longer true : https://t.co/70ljflCb0V
It’s ‘Mr Hitchens’ to you,@ionull . And no, I prefer not to cover my face with a loose soggy, porous nappy whose only true purpose is to proclaim my submission to and support of the stupidest government policy in history. Because I don’t support it. You wear one if you want. https://t.co/1WzZWzCQnA
I think that the film is one of the best of its type that I have seen. Quite long on TV (with ad breaks, 2 hrs 35 mins), it nonetheless kept the attention throughout (and that is not always the case with me: in younger days, as a 20-something, I was notorious among my friends for getting bored and walking out of cinemas after 20 or 30 minutes of the start of a film).
Assuming that the film was accurate (and I do remember some of the details of that terrible event of 2013), the wife of the main terrorist —she was a Muslim convert, he a Chechen resident in the Boston area— was lucky that it was considered that there was insufficient evidence to charge her.
As for the surviving terrorist, he only last week won his appeal against the death sentence he eventually received. He will spend the rest of his life in some soulless American prison. He was only 19 when he helped his brother to bomb the marathon event.
Such people cannot be described as “urban guerrillas”, if that term is still in use. They are purely terrorists, actuated by malice rather than anything approaching real ideology.
Some may say, “but look what American forces do, bombing civilians“, and that is true, but even from the point of view of hearts and minds, and leaving aside ethics, to bomb a civilian event like the Boston Marathon has no point and indeed is counter-productive: the Islamists gain nothing but the enmity of a superpower and its people.
“Millions of overs 50s could be given orders to stay at home as part of Boris Johnson‘s ‘nuclear plans’ to avoid another national lockdown.” [Daily Mail]
The latest statistics show 4,000 infections per day, but well under 100 deaths per day (yesterday 74, the day before 10, I think; these figures inflated anyway) from or with “the virus”.
It seems that, at present, 1 person dies for every 80-400 persons known to be infected. Many are infected but show no symptoms, so the real figure for the death rate (even taking the deaths figure as accurate) may be 1 death per 5,000 or even 10,000 infected.
It does not surprise me that the ludicrously misnamed SAGE committee (I prefer DUMB— Department Under Matt and Boris) is worried about public disorder. Incidentally, it it their job or their business to worry about that aspect? I think not. I suppose that that is what happens when proper government and administration is replaced by dystopian nonsense from people like Dominic Cummings.
I (like the “Government”) have been surprised to see how compliant and easy to scare and corral and order about the British people have been, but there is (probably) a limit.
The idea that the clown currently posing as Prime Minister can “order” anyone over 50 to “stay home” in a form of house arrest for months, or even years, is absurd. Even leaving aside the legalities, how would that even be enforced?
We have seen how compliant the rabbits of the UK are, but such a measure would certainly be unenforceable. For one thing, there are many who, though over 50, and even over 60 (like me) do not —on a good day!— look over 50. The police cannot check everyone’s age and, in the UK, people do not have to carry any ID or age papers, legally. So will the Handmaid’s Tale militia now used by supermarkets be checking passports at the door? This is unbelievable!
I shall, if such an “order” is ever given, be “49” for the duration, just like an ageing Hollywood actress.
In any case, I doubt whether many shops would actually enforce an “under-50s only” policy, firstly because that would wipe out half their trade (and many would buy as little as possible online to punish those retailers); secondly, such a policy by shops would surely be contra “equalities” laws, though admittedly that was never my area of expertise when I was at the Bar.
The “Government” (of clowns) has painted itself into a corner. Instead of taking sensible and limited measures early, such as stopping most inward flights, shooting “refugees” (migrant-invaders) in the Channel, closing pubs, nightclubs and crowded sporting and other events for the duration or at least for a few months, and stopping the Underground, other train services and other public transport, the idiots ordered the “lockdown” (shutdown of the economy). Result? A collapsing economy and little effect on “the virus”.
The next “policy” made up on the spur of the moment has been the facemask nonsense. “Holland’s top scientists said there’s no solid evidence coverings work and warn they could even damage the fight against Covid-19” [Daily Mail, 2 August 2020]
“Kate Nicholls, of Hospitality UK, which represents pubs, restaurants and hotels, said shutting down ‘large chunks of the economy’ was a short-sighted strategy.
‘We need to be focusing on collective efforts to drive down and control infections,’ she said, adding that the hospitality industry directly employs 3.2 million, with another two million reliant through supply chains. ‘It’s simply too big to just switch off.
‘We would be talking about millions of people unemployed, a major loss of economic activity.‘” [Daily Mail]
One problem is that the people giving the ludicrous “orders” are people who have never actually run anything much, starting with part-Jew public entertainer Boris-idiot; then we have little Matt Hancock (did a year or so as a graduate teaboy at the Bank of England), Gavin Williamson (once a fireplace salesman with a pet spider), Dominic Cummings (tried to set up an airline in Russia 25 years ago; it failed after one flight); and let’s not forget the ivory tower merchants, Chris Whitty and idiotic Professor Ferguson (who said that 800,000 would die in the UK, and who broke his own rules by letting his married “ho” visit him during “lockdown”).
What a bunch of clowns! And we the people are expected to obey their confused and quite possibly unlawful decrees? Screw that.
Tweets seen about this latest nonsense
So I'm classed as elderly now an I? Well that is odd. I've worked through lockdown, back in the classroom in a "bubble" of 15, caring for the elderly parents-in-law and my 14 year old. But Okay, if you insist. Can I have my pension from 60 then please? No? Thought not #over50s
#50sWomen and Men #over50s Can you believe this?🤬 Over 50s to be given personalised risk ratings. Over 50 now “elderly” One thing that struck me is, the meeting to decide to mess with our lives, took just an hour, I’ve spent longer on my online shopping!! https://t.co/YgDYpNoDCC
— Terri M #BeKindAlways #50sWomen (@Terri_rebel) August 2, 2020
#over50s Boris can try and enforce this ridiculous requirement to stay but he will fail. The whole UK is f****d off with this ineffective Government and will NOT BE TOLD ANYMORE WHAT TO DO
Finally fit and well enough year after finishing cancer treatment to walk eight tough miles in Lake District and start serious weight loss programme with 10000 steps a day I am 62 and do not need locking up however I may do if the Govt try it #over50s
Of course, not only the police, the Security Service etc know the identity, but also most MPs and many if not most journalists at the national level.
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Watch carefully the almost sinister abolition of personal liberty in Melbourne, Australia. The increasingly despotic Al Johnson may well be thinking of copying it. The greatest attacks on liberty are taking place in Anglosphere countries which previously took it for granted.
The mask is really coming off now. The “English gent” persona carefully crafted by Johnson since he was about 12 is now being replaced by the part-Jew, part-Turk charlatan playing the despot. That comes naturally to him. Johnson after all is not really English. As said, a part-Jew, part-Turk, born in New York City, brought up in the USA and Belgium until sent to Eton and Oxford to acquire the fake “English toff” persona (mask). Hard to say whether his patent inability to actually be an effective Prime Minister is an aggravating factor or a blessing in disguise.
Without going into the rights and wrongs, on the face of it this is more than a disturbing report about one particular case. It seems to show the way the police are going in the UK. Only 2 months ago, persecuted singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz had her bedroom invaded quite early in the morning by a whole crowd of (mostly non-white) police “officers”.
The “police state” in the UK may be a “toytown” one at present, usually, but it is clear where this is going.
Bars and pubs are the most likely places in which to transmit or get infected by “the virus”, so what does the government of clowns order? Pubs and bars can stay open and the customers can sit, drink, talk, shout or whatever without the requirement to wear a facemask or muzzle; but go next door to the supermarket and it’s “facemasks on or else!”. When did Britain become a country of scared unthinking rabbits ruled by clowns? I supposed that, like the Fall of the Roman Empire, it happened bit by bit, and almost unnoticed.
Imagine, a little pissant like Robert Jenrick posing as a Cabinet minister! Then again, Boris-idiot as Prime Minister…This whole situation veers between tragedy and farce.
As usual, unsurprising. A government of clowns, and an official Opposition which weakly supports (with mild carping) whatever the clowns are doing. Result? In a situation where the polled are asked which of the “main parties” (in which select group is included, ludicrously, the all-but-dead LibDem party) they support, people just say one or the other of Con or Lab, without conviction, without interest, despising both almost equally.
African wildlife
When orphaned animals are rescued, we bring them to our centres where they can recover and receive expert care from our Keepers. But this is just the first in a long journey towards rehabilitation back in the wild: https://t.co/m2OhQL429Zpic.twitter.com/91zJ0p7UEp
— Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (@SheldrickTrust) August 2, 2020
Poachers must be sought out and killed off. Their bases as well.
I do not know whether Dan Hodges ever “sold out” (as Corbyn supporters claim), because I have no idea whether he ever had any real political beliefs or principles before he started to doormat for the Jewish lobby and the Conservative Party. All that can be said is that the article above is as fine a piece of sycophantic rubbish as I have seen for many a day. In fact, the tweet accompanying it hits the spot better.
Useful information
Gardening: vegetables you can grow together (and the benefits of crop rotation) https://t.co/1yNmC0tdYs
We never know what will happen in life. “Prepping” may not be as silly as many imagine…
I wonder whether many people would have imagined, say a year ago, that the UK government would shut down much of the economy, tell most people to stay at home unless shopping, and have the police going around harassing lone sunbathers on beaches, and elderly couples walking on the fells of the Peak District? Or that the entire population would be told to wear facemasks in shops etc, though not in pubs? Or on trains and buses, but not in offices?
Likewise, who would have thought, a year ago, that so-called “refugees” would be escorted across the Channel and put up in 4-star hotels (and given money on top) by the tough-talking “Conservative” government? Or that those detained ready to be deported would all be released?! Not many, I think.
How many of the over-50s, who were the ones that mainly voted “Conservative” in 2019, would have thought then that their being put under house arrest indefinitely would be a subject for serious discussion by the very government they had voted into unmerited office? Not many, I think.
TUI
So Tui is going to close down 166 travel agency shops. I suppose that that must add up to about 1,000 people losing their jobs. Tui is owned mainly by a Russian; for once a real one, not a Jew, but that has not improved his behaviour. He is supposedly worth USD $20 billion, and is the 4th-richest individual in Russia, yet in 2001, when already a billionaire, was paying only $600 a month to keep his ex-wife and their son alive…
Few in Russia would want the old Soviet system back, particularly the unfree sneaking and spying system run by the KGB (mainly the Second Chief Directorate), but the present system of oligarchy and near kleptocracy cannot last forever. Too many inequalities and, worse, too many inequities.
Of course, Tui closing its doors (only the offline ones) is not really a function of the Russian economy but solely of the UK one, meaning the mad “lockdown” shutdown.
Yes, it is slowly sinking in that we shall never be free again but can at any time be yanked back into mass house arrest and economic destruction on the basis of cooked figures. Look at Melbourne now. It will be the same in a major British city before next Spring. https://t.co/b21qhETUxl
Yes. We are all used (in theory) to the idea of the “police state”, in which the state, and/or a dictator, tyrant, despot or fanatical political party imposes rule by force and penal laws.
What is so diabolically cunning about the present situation is that the public has in effect been scammed; fear has been weaponized. Not fear of the State or the police or the law, but of “the virus”. A fairly serious public health problem has been blown up into a deadly plague by which people will be killed.
Once the population internalized that fear, the other measures, such as police control, fines, social pressure, simply reinforced the feeling of social obedience or compliance.
Worse still @martindale567 is the almost total lack of protest or even intelligent examination of the facts by those who once regarded themselves as radicals and sceptics. I am very close to despair. I see nothing but twilight ahead. https://t.co/DR88tcqBhB
Is this https://t.co/9hY3UwSVNG what we in Britain face at the hands of Kim Jong Son, who is all too plainly enjoying the despotic powers he has granted himself (and which Parliament, Opposition, judiciary and most of the media have utterly failed to challenge)?
I have had my differences with Quentin Letts but this superb, merciless sketch, on Al 'Boris' Johnson's increasing delusions of autocratic grandeur, is worth the price of buying your way through the paywall of 'The Times': https://t.co/qI1Ca64GnK
When I first had a Twitter account, a decade ago, I began to tweet, inter alia, about the need for a wildlife grid in the UK. I meant a grid of strips or parcels of land, even if very narrow in places, that would link larger areas full of wildlife, such as woods, forests, national parks etc.
That idea is even more important today. I am heartened that, since I started to tweet and, later, blog about it, others have taken up the idea; some are well-connected, wealthy, famous. I think that, eventually, something can be done.
My concept was not nationalization of those strips of land, but a voluntary co-operation, co-ordinated for the sake of convenience and efficiency, but the ownership remaining, in most cases, in private hands, at least initially.
A quarter of UK mammals at risk of extinction. Including the hedgehog. Too many paved gardens or sterile lawns with little or no thought for wildlife.https://t.co/TQ22oKSdgj
My dad works in the local council and has been trying so hard to encourage rewilding areas, growing wildflowers etc. but he is so bogged down with complaints that "grass isn't cut" that its sickening. People need to get their priorities straight. https://t.co/FfAB2oyMFZ
Tragic – Quarter of UK mammals at imminent risk of extinction. Wildcat, red squirrel, water voles, hedgehogs are on the list. I’m lucky to have seen all these creatures in the wild, we need younger generations to see them too. #ActNow#EcologicalEmergencyhttps://t.co/B69cQtRcvM
BBCBreakfast: “11 of our 47 native species being classified as threatened imminently” The first official Red List for British Mammals highlights species most at risk of national extinction 🦔⤵️https://t.co/IKE5wvuVlqpic.twitter.com/4BKSlCBnu5
In the news today: a quarter of UK mammals now classified as vulnerable to extinction including my favourite the hedgehog 😢 When will people come to their senses and do more to help our wildlife before it’s too late?https://t.co/moty6dmRbu
— Oxfordshire Wildlife Girl (@oxonwildlifegrl) July 30, 2020
The area where I spent much of my childhood, the border of South Oxfordshire and Berkshire, near Reading, as now seen on Google Earth, exhibits the kind of changes that are all too common: high hedges replaced, usually by sterile fencing, some gardens in front of houses turned into gravelled or even concrete car parking. Sad. Why do people spend what is now the best part of a million pounds on a house in a leafy area, where suburb meets country, only to aesthetically trash their own house and gardens? Just to save a little inconvenience trimming the hedges? To save the cost of hiring a man to trim the hedges? It’s so tawdry…
A wildlife grid is probably the most important single measure that can and should be taken to help the survival of wildlife in the UK.
Tweets on other matters seen so far today
A rare commonsense voice speaks out with restrained passion against the Johnson regime's #CovidHoax measures. Reclaim your humanity, take off that ridiculous mask!#NoMaskshttps://t.co/fnw4fFLZWc
Despite massive unemployment caused by their ludicrous Lockdown, the Tories plot yet another immigration flood.
Nothing new here. EVERY Tory regime since 1959 has made anti-immigration noises to get elected, then broken their promises & opened the gates.https://t.co/SYMArWLChs
3 months ago, liberals everywhere said the idea of ID vaccination was a "far-right, tinfoil hat conspiracy theory". Now the BBC is selling it as a wonderful solution to the covid 'crisis'.#problemreactionsolution#markofthebeasthttps://t.co/mi3zWU0EHp
In 1976, as an occasional (19 years old) reader of the anarchist newspaper Black Flag, I saw an article by someone saying that the State wanted to track and trace everyone, “because the human insect must be controlled at all times“. It seemed far-fetched to me at the time, but it stuck in the mind. Now look! A technologically-updated version is today’s news on the BBC!
I suppose that that sort of thing happens more often than we suppose. Around the same time, I read in an American journal, the name of which escapes me, that before too long the U.S. Marines would be deployed to help Israel in the Eastern Mediterranean. They even had a parody version of the U.S. Marines Hymn, replacing “From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli” with “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tel Aviv.”
I thought that unlikely, but a few short years later both versions turned out to be correct, the first almost literally, though the “Tripoli” in the Hymn is the one in North Africa, not the one in Lebanon; the second, about Tel Aviv, only in effect:
Despite the review mafia's attempt to stifle it at birth, my latest book 'The Phoney Victory' is now in paperback. Signed copies can be obtained from Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford – 01865 792792 (overseas +44 1865 792 792) or via the website: https://t.co/Au4b8hirUB
A rare commonsense voice speaks out with restrained passion against the Johnson regime's #CovidHoax measures. Reclaim your humanity, take off that ridiculous mask!#NoMaskshttps://t.co/fnw4fFLZWc
Green Shield stamps are of course unknown to anyone under about 35, having been withdrawn in 1991 and having been in the doldrums for years (their heyday was really the late 1960s and early 1970s). What I find interesting is something peripheral to them and Argos.
When Tompkins, then a fairly famous fellow in the UK, founded Argos in 1972, the conventional wisdom of the “experts”(newspaper business pundits etc) was that Tompkins was a bit of a maverick or even loony, not a serious businessman, and who had bitten off more than he could chew. Argos would probably fail fairly quickly. I recall those judgments from when I myself was at school.
Well, that was over 48 years ago. Argos was sold by its founder in 1979 to BAT; the last time it changed hands, a few years ago, the price tag was £1.4 billion…
There are always those who are ready to criticize those others who are willing to break new ground. Another similar time was in the 1980s, when Rupert Murdoch moved into satellite TV broadcasting. I recall someone then looking at the Daily Telegraph business pages and saying that “everyone” says that this would break Murdoch. Well, it nearly did, but he persevered, and now look! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Television_(1984%E2%80%931990)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_UK
Beware the “experts”, who often know a lot but, equally, are often wrong in the end. Like fire, a good servant but a bad master.
Seems that Trump wants to “delay” the Presidential election. Is that simply a wild tweet, or is this the beginning of the end for the American republic and its accustomed form of democracy? Too early to say.
Ian Austin – the ultimate scumbag. Expenses fiddler, first and second house flipper, Tory enabler and treacherous low-life thug. All the qualities that have led to him being nominated for a peerage by Boris Johnson for services rendered to politics.
Seems that the notorious “GnasherJew” account on Twitter has fallen victim to the occupational disease of self-described “anti-fascists” (especially the Jewish ones)— mental instability.
We’re a bit overwhelmed with your kind words. Thankyou, we’ll miss you all, (but not the racists and the backstabbers). See you all in another life!
“You carry in your blood the holy inheritance of your fathers and forefathers. You do not know those who have vanished in endless ranks into the darkness of the past. But they all live in you and walk in your blood upon the earth that consumed them in battle and toil and in which their bodies have long decayed.
Your blood is therefore something holy. In it your parents gave you not only a body, but your nature. To deny your blood is to deny yourself. No one canchange it. But each decides to grow the good that one has inherited and suppress the bad. Each is also given will and courage.
You do not have only the right, but also the duty to pass your blood on to your children, for you are a member of the chain of generations that reaches from the past into eternity, and this link of the chain that you represent must do its part so that the chain is never broken.
But if your blood has traits that will make your children unhappy and burdens to the state, then you have the heroic duty to be the last. The blood is the carrier of life. You carry in it the secret of creation itself. Your blood is holy, for in it God’s will lives.”
[SS Verlag: material for instruction of the Hitlerjugend]
True, the slogan was vulgar, but not such as to constitute an offence such as “insulting behaviour”, particularly as it was presumably not meant to cause distress etc to Boris Johnson (who was in any case not present!). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_harassment,_alarm_or_distress
When I had a Twitter account, Eric Joyce, then still an MP, was rather rude to me once or twice. On another occasion, his wife or fiancee (I think the latter), the newspaper scribbler and novelist India Knight, was also rather rude to me, in her case in a very condescending way. My tweet was about MPs who cheat and freeload on the expenses system. At the time, I had no idea that Joyce was one of the worst of such embezzlers, nor that India Knight was living with him (or vice versa).
Well, I suppose one should not kick people when they are down. What I wonder is what drove someone who was once an officer, and later an MP, to do such a nasty and stupid thing (I mean his latest offence).
I had thought that Joyce had been an officer in the Black Watch. In fact, he was a private soldier at first, and his commission was in the Educational Corps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Joyce. He was asked to resign his commission in 1999, having engaged in public politics contrary to Queen’s Regulations. He became an MP in 2000, having been employed in the interim period at the Commission for Racial Equality. Black mark…
That is just abuse @deb_cohen, which has nothing to do with the point under discussion. You’re supposed to be a professional specialist, but you badly misread my tweet, then, when your error was pointed out, chose not to admit it but switched to personal rudeness. Not very good. https://t.co/hkbDhr1AWP
I am just sick of the bloody BBC: entitled, biased, a government mouthpiece, with terrible standards in recent years, an ideology of treachery etc. The BBC management even had to ask staff not to wear their “Black Lives Matter” badges (!) on air! They’re all just a bunch of traitors. Many are (((you know who))), too…
Twitter just suspended 50+ accounts for violating TOS around white nationalism & hate speech.
Among those who were suspended was Martin Sellner, the leader of Austria's Identitarian Movement, as well as members of Generation Identity.https://t.co/amJctzpkXe
The purge on dissent, and on free speech, continues. Once all peaceful means of socio-political expression are cut off, what, I wonder, will the people of Europe then do? Those who clap the campaign of repression may find themselves in a bad place, somewhere down the line…
@jamesd03433770.No, they are not. Despite an admitted blunder over care homes, similar to that in the UK, Sweden’s deaths per million are below the levels of several countries, including the U.K., which had severe shutdowns. Easy to check. https://t.co/s1N8K1j7zI
Good grief. When I was about 8 years old, around 1964-65, my family would occasionally drive down from the Berkshire/South Oxfordshire border area where we lived to spend a day at Bournemouth (usually at nearby Boscombe). Maybe not on the most crowded days, but I do not recall anything like these crowds. Why now? Is it because more people have cars now? Population increase? I have no idea.
In fact, though I am against the ludicrous “lockdown”, to crowd onto a beach with thousands of others like that must be an excellent way to get infected by Coronavirus. Strange to think that only a few weeks ago, the toytown police were patrolling and bullying even lone sunbathers on deserted beaches to “move along”! Mad world.
This is not surprising, firstly because it is the sort of “chimp-out”, to use the American phrase, that happens when there are large black populations; secondly because the blacks have been encouraged and emboldened by the craven police response to the “Black Lives Matter” nonsense and faux-insurrection (including policemen literally bending the knee to the blacks, in sign of fealty or surrender); thirdly because Sadiq Khan is hopeless; fourthly, also significant, the heat and humidity of yesterday is the climate that acts as a catalyst for such disorder.
Britain has still to make the decision as to whether it wants to be an advanced, European-race, high-IQ, high-tech, environmentally-aware country, or a multikulti black-brown and mixed-race mess, a “Congo-North” if you like, with ever-declining standards, pay, “welfare”, environment and culture.
“Cambridge condemns abuse against academics, after petition to fire Dr Gopal launched.” [Varsity]
“Gopal shared examples of the racist and hateful attacks she has received to her university email since the petition was launched, including from an anonymous person who said she was “disgusting inside and out”, and, “[i]f you don’t like white people, pack up your sh*t and go home. Problem solved.”” [Varsity]
“There is no religion higher than truth”: সত্যের চেয়ে উচ্চতর কোন ধর্ম নেই]
These —and many like them— will not be required in the new Britain.
How long before it really “kicks off”?
The ludicrous UK “lockdown” is being eased, but only with absurd restrictions in place. Who will want to go to a pub when there are plastic screens everywhere? Who will want to fly (certainly for touristic purposes) when forced to wear facemasks, muzzles or whatever?
Already, we see the wave of redundancies rising. Royal Mail is to (in effect) sack 2,000 people, all in managerial or other senior roles. The knock-on effects from such decisions are many and affect many outside the ranks of those sacked.
We have a non-Government and a non-Opposition, a collapsing economy, and black or multikulti mobs rampaging in the cities. It is time for the British people to step up.
and see this:
This is sometimes referred to as “White Genocide”, sometimes as “The Great Replacement”.
More about Cambridge University and Churchill College
It now seems that Cambridge University has, since yesterday, elevated the anti-British, anti-European academic terrorist Priyamvada Gopal to the rank of professor. What a scandal. It’s a disgrace. We need a cultural purge in this country, starting with the msm but not sparing the universities.
Thanks to everyone who wrote to @Twitter: the ludicrous ban has been lifted. I am therefore delighted to share with you personally, that last night Cambridge promoted me to a full Professorship. The hate mails & threats are coming in non-stop but @CambridgeCops are following up
The chances are that he was just waiting for a chance to do that, if he could find a plausible reason. Well, now he has found a reason.
This news, combined on the same day, or within a day or so, with Starmer’s refusal to call for the resignation of corrupt little pissant Robert Jenrick (another one with a Jewish lawyer wife and half-Jewish children), surely shows what types are now pulling Starmer’s puppet-strings.
Not that I have much time for Rebecca Long-Bailey. She seems rather dim, for one thing, and could never be considered to be “prime ministerial material”. For example, she said that she “...would support workers in all strike actions and industrial disputes, “no questions asked”.[47].” [Wikipedia]. Well, that is just asinine.
Rebecca Long-Bailey has also said, in the recent past, that “she was unhappy with Labour’s response to allegations of antisemitism within the party during Corbyn’s leadership, commenting that “I don’t think we were dealing with complaints quickly enough”. She said that if she was Labour leader then she would follow the recommendations of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.[42][43][44]“[Wikipedia]
In other words, Rebecca Long-Bailey, while not as much of a doormat for Jewish Zionism as is Keir Starmer, is or was all the same willing to kow-tow a bit to “them”.
Labour has been doing better in the opinion polls of late purely because of the incredible incompetence of the “Conservative” government. However, looking at its position structurally or strategically, it is even less connected with most British people now than it was when led by Corbyn.
I am talking about white British/English people, but I am not so sure that Labour is very strong now, or so strong, in the black/brown “communities”. The “ethnic” demographic(s) were Labour’s strongest suit. If they give up on Labour, all it will have left will be the public service people, the unemployed/disabled (in broad-brush terms) and the metro-London types that live in gentrified former slum areas. I am not so sure that even the Jews will drift back much to Labour, for all Starmer’s doormatting. They are anyway few in number, relatively.
From @SamCoatesSky: "The Campaign Group of left wing Labour MPs have requested a meeting with Keir Starmer about the sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey. The request has been declined".
"I’ve made it my first priority to tackle anti-Semitism and rebuilding trust with the Jewish community is a number one priority for me,” says Keir Starmer as he sacks Rebecca Long-Bailey for sharing an article containing "anti-Semitic conspiracy theory"https://t.co/Whg4nWTelspic.twitter.com/C89Wud0Jre
After weeks of undermining Rebecca Long-Bailey’s efforts to stand up for teachers and their unions, Starmer sacks her to protect the reputation of the Israeli occupation.
You would call him a coward – but a man who stands for nothing never has a need for courage.
Here (below) is an interesting tweet, though it is disappointing (even these days) to discover that the Editor of CityAM cannot spell “Damascus”…(and on a standard keyboard, “a” is far from “u”):
Extinction Rebellion spokesperson quits to become campaigner for nuclear energy. Road to Damascas started after her @afneil interview last year. https://t.co/uZ171ZFtlz
Jesus H. Christ! Why on Earth do people do it? They cannot lie down or even sit down in comfort. Yet there are other places along that coast in both directions where the beaches (albeit that some are pebble beaches) are not very crowded at all even on days such as this. I can only assume that people are just not willing to research alternatives, despite the Internet.
Silly, but it made me smile:
Tweets seen this evening
The complete refusal of the #BBC & other MSM to report the serious disturbances in #Brixton last night further highlights the way propaganda now trumps truth & news.
Whether it's about Covid, terror attacks or the impact of their multi-cult, you can rely on the media to lie! pic.twitter.com/Ccev8irghQ
Typical wikipedia. Poses as an impartial encyclopaedia. In practice governing cliques suppress any evidence of controversy about its right-on editorial position. https://t.co/LJOLac3AYw
I prefer my profile of Jenrick: an entitled little pissant, who is a complete tool of the Jewish/Israel lobby, has several houses, a Jewish wife who is a lawyer, and children being brought up as Jewish. In other words, not unlike Keir Starmer.
Update, 28 June 2020
The petition to sack Priyamvada Gopal from Cambridge University, which already, within a couple of days, had tens of thousands of online signatures, has been pulled by the platform (change.org).
So now in the UK you cannot tweet, post on Facebook, petition, put up stickers (a man got 2 and a half years for that recently), march or demonstrate, or have a banner flown over an empty football stadium, unless you are in favour of multiracialism, multiculturalism, Jewish influence and power, “Black Lives Matter” nonsense, or other “approved” (by the System) beliefs.
Leading @KingsCollegeLon academic makes the case for regulation of social media citing landmark conviction of Alison Chabloz brought about by CAAhttps://t.co/rDV9JGC19V
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) June 23, 2020
[above: David Icke, not the so-called “leading academic”]
The “CAA” describes Allington’s piece in the Sun “newspaper” as an “op-ed“, meaning a piece of opinion commissioned by the newspaper (sometimes unpaid). The term was first in use, I believe, in the Jew-infested New York Times (“all the news that fits”…), and the New York Times “op-ed” page was once described by Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan as the “Amen Corner” of the newspaper, because the scribblers were all Jew-Zionist neo-cons pushing the Israel First interventionist foreign policy line.
This is yet another attempt by what one might call “ZOG” and/or the Jewish lobby to destroy free speech, both online and offline. (((They))) have been pushing this for 60 years now, at first (of course) re. print media, now re. Internet publishing too.
As for the Sun “newspaper”, Rupert Murdoch has always been even more pro-Israel than most Jews (he himself is said to be part-Jew), and the Sun “newspaper” is and always has been slavishly pro-Israel and pro-Jewish lobby.
It is beyond ironic that Allington got his nonsense printed only in the Sun, long notorious for its invented “news reports” and other trash. There again, perhaps Allington simply does not quite “get” irony…
Some tweets seen
I would not normally repost anything from the unpleasant “Hope Not Hate” Jewish lobby group, but this is worth brief perusal:
I could have written 10,000 words on every section of Freddy Vachha's CV, but had to limit myself to a blog format. Truly incredible stuff.https://t.co/xeKUkvBmKF
So UKIP goes from bad to worse. The quite large quasi-System party “controlled opposition” of years ago has slid inexorably into Monster Raving Loony territory. There was an “interim leader”, some lady called Pat Mountain, and who was (as UKIP leaders since Farage have all been) as thick as two short planks; now this. An Indian with a faked-up CV, who is “libertarian”, and who wants to work against “Nazi” ideas and against “holocaust” “denial” (historical re-examination and revision). Just mad.
UKIP was always a bit of a joke, and was never social-national, but this surely takes the biscuit! I don’t know why the “Hope Not Hate” snoopers are making fun of this Vachha person, though. He sounds not so far from them in some ways, ideologically. Maybe he will join them.
A Joseph Rowntree report. Possibly worth reading:
The Conservatives are no longer the party of the rich while Labour is no longer the party of the poor. Both parties have inverted their traditional base of support. Our new JRF report on low-income voters is out todayhttps://t.co/XwOyspU5ez
We often underestimate what even one human being can achieve over time. It has been said that many people overestimate what they can achieve in a year, yet underestimate what they can achieve in 10 years. Look at Adolf Hitler. In his first year as political leader, he achieved comparatively little. Even nine years later, in 1928, his party received only 2.6% of the national vote. However, by 1932, that had increased to 33%; the following year, the vote was 44% and he was able to take on full powers of rulership.
[makes you think…]
Tom Watson
Well, as I predicted last year would happen, the Jewish lobby has found a well-paid sinecure for former Labour Party deputy leader, Tom Watson, who was notoriously in the pocket of the Jewish lobby, as well as being a relentless expenses cheat (until the system was slightly reformed, he was even blagging £500 a month on expenses —without fail— for foodalone!)
Now I read that Watson has been appointed Chair of UK Music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Music. Another “Labour” ex-MP entirely controlled by the Jewish lobby, Michael Dugher, was CEO until recently. Dugher is now the head of another body, to wit, Chief Executive of the Betting and Gaming Council (((BGC))).
In fact, I just discovered that, several years ago, around 2013, Tom Watson was “personally involved” with the (20 years younger) Stephanie Peacock, who was at the time trying to become a Labour Party MP. I do not know whether the affair continued, or continues. She failed in her first attempt to get into the MP racket, in 2015, but succeeded in her second, at the 2017 General Election, having been selected (by the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, i.e. not by the local party) only a week before the election, for the —then— safe seat of Barnsley East. Oh, and guess who was, back in 2013, Chairman of the Labour Party NEC? That’s right…Tom Watson.
Now, Stephanie Peacock retweets posts by the Jewish lobby “Hope Not Hate” crowd. Once you start digging through the compost, you see that it is all (((connected))).
More tweets seen
#NewNormal is utterly monstrous! Having artificially suppressed a respiratory virus, flare ups & autumn 2nd wave are inevitable, so this freedom-stealing, culture-wrecking madness won't end. Unless people find a bit of courage & force the elite to end it.https://t.co/8uGLn9D63p
[above: Daily Mail graphic. Note the mixed-race backpacking couple; the propaganda for what amounts to White Genocide never stops now, because time is running short for the NWO/ZOG conspiracy]
1/2 On the contrary, the dreary misery of shops, bars, restaurants, hairdressers etc in which everyone is festooned with plague masks, visors, aprons , gloves etc, and the ludicrous pretence that going to the pub is dangerous, is a fierce brake on any recovery @tom35618323tom https://t.co/tWO0bxzDFR
The first picture above is certainly accurate or at least plausible; I myself saw scenes like that (usually minus the lady) in Rhodesia, when I was there in 1977.
2 @tom35618323tom . How many times do I have to ask for (and not get from you) any evidence that muzzle-wearing in Japan is responsible for the different outcome there, given that proper research, such as https://t.co/OGiCb4109q says it isn't? Respond, or go away. https://t.co/B19g0FTVLL
The Japanese, while quite impressive in some ways, indulge in habits which may or may not be harmless but which we (as a “nation”) do not do: buying used schoolgirls’ panties from vending machines, overnighting in coffin-like transparent capsules, washing before getting into a bath etc. I put the wearing of facemasks into that sort of category.
Good luck. Today, in experiment wore my heavy-duty Warsaw Pact gasmask while riding Boris Bike from Paddington to Kensington. Got a small number of funny looks, but nothing *like* as many as I deserved. The New Abnormal. https://t.co/lY3veYxSkv
I noticed that long ago. Thus it is that the Twitter mob mostly favour “lockdown” as well as Remain; also, internet “regulation” (aka “censorship”), harsh laws against any expression of freedom re. the migration-invasion, “holocaust” “denial”, and so on.
You be a submissive mouthless serf if you want, @bamayorgo. I was brought up not to be. If I wear a muzzle, it won't save London from anything. Govt says so: ' 'The evidence of the benefit of using a face covering to protect others is weak & the effect is likely to be small'. https://t.co/KHFL17M8la
The young hero who organized the recent “White Lives Matter” aerial banner has been sacked from his job at a factory. “Long live freedom”. Not in the UK!
There is little or no real freedom left in this country. The young man’s girlfriend has also been sacked. Guilt by association? True, we are not yet shot or chucked into labour camps in the Stalinist way, but the slope is there and getting slippery.
“Things are looking bleak”, they say, for that little pissant, Robert Jenrick, who has a Jewish lawyer wife and who is a complete doormat for the Jewish/Israel lobby.
Here's my piece from last week saying Jenrick's position untenable (and much else besides). Only Covid has prevented Westferry from boiling over so far – however, national media (and trade press) clearly scent blood. Looking bleak for Jenrick.https://t.co/ForiPCsmQE
Oh, and here is part-Jew “prime minister” Boris-idiot with the same Jew businessman, who seems to be sporting an Eton tie (lefthand photo below), though he did not attend Eton (he went to a local authority school in North London: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ%27s_College,_Finchley#Notable_former_pupils). Boris Johnson (who did attend Eton) is not wearing an Eton or OE tie).
The tories refused to allow the BBC to use these photos yesterday. Nothing says ‘innocent’ like threatening public service broadcasters with legal action. https://t.co/brNEz2S5mk
Now why would Keir Starmer, new leader of the “Labour” Party, be so unwilling to attack the behaviour of pissant Robert Jenrick of the “Conservative” Party? Could it because both are in the pocket of the Jewish-Zionist-Israel lobby, both have Jewish wives (both of which are lawyers, too!), and both have half-Jewish children that both are bringing up as Jewish? Answers on a postcard…
Oh, and the Conservative Party donor and businessman (property vulture, publisher of porn etc) involved, and who gained £40 million by Jenrick’s corruption, is a Jew. What a shock. Not.
Reading, Brum. If you're living in one of these Ground Zero killing zones, get the hell out. Especially in the USA, bit Britain's heading the same way. They hate you. You know it. They know you know it. This won't end well.#YourKidsLivesMatterhttps://t.co/OoO6Xjw1pV
"The old lion was tired and just wanted to be left alone. But the two silly, cruel boys and the spoilt, spiteful little girl kept shouting insults and poking him with their sticks. Finally, one day, the lion….." You know how that story ends. The only question is when…. pic.twitter.com/EalxBhyIVK
A cop with some self-respect and sense of right and wrong. And who has just given up the chance of promotion by refusing to kow-tow to the Mob and its behind-the-scenes elite masters. pic.twitter.com/8UbD6JcnDi
The ones who are kneeling are craven traitors and/or careerists.
I would say that the evil Indian woman noted by Nick Griffin, below, an academic at Churchill College of Cambridge University, is another “traitor”, were she British, but of course she is not. She is an enemy of the British people, living here and spewing poison against us.
This clever clever academic has all sorts of explanations for why this isn't hate speech. She must know less intellectually brilliant BLM thugs simply take such things at face value. They see an academic condemning white lives out of hand. And will act accordingly. #incitementhttps://t.co/lBm9cVkzZj
I was going to talk about the mob rule which is being nourished and encouraged in the UK, but I have already said a lot about that (yesterday and also the day before), so I am going to talk about something else.
Several years ago, there was a plague of flying ants where I lived. They were the kind of fairly large insects that seem to emerge from cracks in walls etc, crawl for a while, then later take to the air. They bite (or sting) too, sometimes. They bit or stung our cats, I seem to remember.
There were, at first, thousands of them. An army of insects.
I hate killing things, for ethical or spiritual reasons, and also because I am not by nature violent, callous, cruel or bloodthirsty.
Had there been some way of capturing, and later releasing, the insects, I should have taken that path. As it was, there was no alternative. They had to go. They had to be eliminated. They were. It was not pleasant, but it had to be done. It was done. My modest residence was saved from being taken over by the creatures.
Well, there it is. An anecdote, perhaps not very interesting, but one which I wanted to relate, because those events happened at this time of year.
I suppose that those events were in my mind because of that, meaning because they happened at the same time of year, in early Summer…
More censorship…
“ Little Britain has been removed from Netflix, BBC iPlayer and BritBox amid concerns that the use of blackface characters on the series is no longer acceptable.” [Daily Mail]
I am not very familiar with Little Britain, mainly because I was living mostly in France when it was popular on TV (also because I am not a big watcher of comedy), but there is nothing wrong with so-called “blackface” anyway!
Where will this self-flagellating nonsense end?
Something like The Black and White Minstrel Show is now regarded as bad or even evil! In fact, it is just lighthearted entertainment. It might not be my own favourite kind of TV show, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with it!
This is not an isolated act. It is part of a global plot by sinister forces:
“I’m going to bring down the U.S.A. by funding B.L.M. We’ll put them into a mental trap & make them blame the white people. The B.L.M. community is the easiest to manipulate.” – George Soros, September 2014.
Now add to that “and subvert the cultural and historical foundations of their society...” (and, in the UK, the police force!)
Coronavirus
At last, some reality from a Government spokesperson: “a child has as much chance of dying from Coronavirus as of being struck by lightning.” Quite. Until now, there has been the lie officially spread that “everyone can get it”, which, though true in itself, is disingenuous, inasmuch as a child certainly might get infected but if so will almost certainly be entirely unaware of it, completely asymptomatic, whereas a 90-year-old has at least some chance of requiring hospital treatment and possibly even dying, especially if he or she has “co-morbidities” (other health problems).
Bristolian and other statues
In fact, I do have one thing to add.
Happened to see a brief minute or two of some dim black woman, apparently the founder of “Black Lives Matter” in the UK, being interviewed by Kay Burley on Sky News this morning. It was asked as to whether she thought that it would be OK to leave controversial statues but put an explanatory plaque nearby. The black woman answered that it might be better to remove the statues but still have a plaque. So have a plaque explaining a statue which is not even there…
When you see many black people interviewed, or just talking, you realize why black-ruled countries are always in a state of complete chaos. They just cannot organize their thoughts properly, in almost all cases.
So the censorship gathers pace. Superficially, the discontent of some blacks may seem to be at the root of it, but in reality the Jewish element, or part of it, is behind this.
If you still think the government or its cowardly bully cops are on our side in the ongoing anti-British revolution, take a look at this last night:
House of Commons minute's silence for George Floyd.
'Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost'. The New Statesman (!) finally says about universities ( and exam inflation in general) what I have been saying for decades, and have been denounced as a reactionary brute for saying: https://t.co/pmlGQwoFF6
“This summer, a department at the University of Sheffield sent an email to students. A group of them had complained about their marks for an end-of-year essay. While a few had received Firsts, these students were given 2:2s and Thirds. “Thank you for raising the issue,” began the email, “and thank you also for your patience.” After reflection, the head of department and the director of “learning and teaching” had decided that, “our normal procedures… failed us. For this we apologise unreservedly”. The department had decided to “uplift all the marks… less at the top and more at the bottom”. The poorly performing students had their marks raised by nearly 40 per cent. The few who had done well saw their marks barely change. “Again, our apologies,” the message concluded, “but we hope that this is a satisfactory resolution.”
What happened at Sheffield is one part of a national story: the great university con…” [The New Statesman]
Well worth reading. This has been a developing scandal for over 20 years, if not 30 years. Huge numbers going to “uni” (often to the Uni of Nowhere), racking up student debt which will, in most cases, never be repaid, wasting national economic resources, the proud graduates then often being unable to find jobs beyond the most basic.
“The proportion of students getting “good honours” – a First or 2:1 – has leapt from 47 to 79 per cent: at 13 universities, more than 90 per cent of students were given at least a 2:1 last year. And Oxbridge is leading the charge: 96 to 99 per cent of its English, history and languages students get “good honours”.“[The New Statesman]
Those are inflated grades fromalready-inflated grades. As recently as the 1980s, it was the norm for most students to get a 2:2. Tony Blair did…
Among the most culpable? Tony and indeed Cherie Blair, who promoted all this by making it easy to get McDegrees.
“This supposed university miracle can only have happened in one of three ways. The first is that schools have, over the past 30 years, supplied universities with students of a far higher calibre than in the recent past. This would be a notable achievement, as the university students of the past were the select few –In the 1970s and 1980s between 8 and 19 per cent of young British adults went on to higher education, whereas 50 per cent now do. The second is that universities have taken historically indifferent students and turned them into unusually capable graduates. And the third is the reality: the university miracle is a mirage.” [The New Statesman]
And see here:
“As schools have become ever more rigid and exam-driven, the contagion has spread. As one Russell Group professor, wary of being named, puts it: “In schools now, students are being virtually spoon-fed, and that is feeding through.”
“Students are not taught to read, quickly and critically, and to communicate their ideas,” seconds Jones. “These most fundamental things are not being taught in schools. When we ask them to write, they are incredibly disorientated. And the students who are prepared are incredibly frustrated.” [The New Statesman]
and
““Ideas that students readily understood ten to 15 years ago, they struggle to understand today,” Peter Dorey, professor of British politics at the University of Cardiff, told the Commons inquiry in 2009. “Many of them are semi-literate.” Dorey described seminars in which students sat listlessly, waiting to be told how to “pass our exams”. “They will brazenly admit to having read nothing…” [The New Statesman]
You see that on Twitter, in the outpourings of the younger “journalists” even in mainstream newspapers, on TV too and in the legal profession as well: people unable to think, who just want to be told, for example, “This is Good, That is Bad, and Ian Millard is a ‘Neo-Nazi’ who (therefore…) is Very Bad.” And so on. I noticed it after I was disbarred for socio-political reasons in 2016: the tweets from ignorant little law student and pupil-barrister wannabees, all wanting to be seen to be condemning me. In fact, all that they have done is to condemn themselves.
“According to their study, one in five graduates in England could not handle literacy tasks more complicated than understanding the instructions on a packet of aspirin, while the numeracy level of 28 per cent was limited to estimating the fuel left on a petrol gauge.” [The New Statesman]
I doubt that this terrible situation will be sorted out any time soon. It suits too many people:
the students (“she is a straight-A student who got a First from Oxford”…not so impressive when you know that 50% of all the students get “Firsts” and 95%+ get either Firsts or Upper Seconds…) (and I deplore the “straight-A” Americanism, but that too is legion, now);
the parents;
the schools from which the students have come (“X% of our students go on to university”…);
the universities themselves (which can —and do— pretend that their results and standards are ever-improving);
the government (“our policies are working in education! 101% of students are now getting First-class degrees!”…etc).
Scandal, and the country is the poorer for it.
Aye @BenIrvineAuthor and where are most supposed 'conservatives' now it is clear that Johnson made a disastrous mistake? Still sipping Waitrose Chablis in their gardens, giggling. Yet the real character of the mistake, making possibe an actual revolution, grows clearer by the day https://t.co/G8gauT4YFY
The word ‘ Please’ has disappeared already from railway station notices urging the wearing of muzzles, though not legally required till Monday. pic.twitter.com/kDet7ew5G9
I see that Rory Stewart is trending on Twitter (not that that means much). I blogged about him over a year ago. I started off rather impressed, but (see all the updates) my view of Stewart became less and less approving the more I discovered about him. Read below about the journey on which I embarked:
Saw a film on TV starring Nicole Kidman, Queen of the Desert [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_the_Desert_(film) ], about the English explorer and pioneering traveller, Gertrude Bell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Bell]. She helped to draw, with others whom she got to know, such as Lawrence of Arabia (T.E. Lawrence), the map of the Middle East as it was from the 1920s through to the present day, or at least until very recently.
The film was a quality production, but slow. It is more like, in the American phrase, an “art-house movie”, than anything likely to achieve box-office popularity. It was a major financial flop in 2015, I have now read.
I found the film quite compelling though, if you stick with it. At the end, rather moving.
Huw Merriman MP
In one of the ad breaks of the above-named film, I saw a few minutes of Sky News. A scruffy-looking MP hitherto unknown to me, Huw Merriman [Con, Bexhill and Battle], was speaking. I did not hear the whole of his interview, but what I did hear sounded rather dull. I looked him up on Wikipedia etc out of mere curiosity:
I see that he attended a Secondary Modern school (I did not know that some were still operating under that title as late as the 1980s), and then Durham University. Called to the Bar sometime around 1995, he seems to have practised briefly in criminal law before leaving the practising Bar to become an employed lawyer somewhere. He worked as a salaried in-house lawyer for 17 years until elected to the very safe seat of Bexhill and Battle in 2015.
He also seems to have been “economical with the truth” about his in-house lawyer role. He gives the impression that he was somehow appointed to “sort out” the mess at Lehman Brothers, after its collapse. Elsewhere though, I have read that he was working for Lehman Brothers itself, in earlier years. Maybe he was appointed to the latter role because of the former one. At any rate, and whatever the facts about that, his latter-day “consultancy” with the liquidators apparently pulled in (does it still?) £160,000 a year, according to the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-32891604
(also, disappointing that the BBC website thinks that “led” —past tense— is spelled “lead”. Still, that is where we are in these times of collapsing standards across the board).
On the face of it, Merriman does not seem to be a particularly nice person, and I see that his Parliamentary career has stalled. He started to climb the Government ladder in the 2010-2015 Parliament by being appointed PPS, latterly to the then Chancellor, Philip Hammond. However, he now holds no Government appointment:
On 12th April 2019, he voted for a People’s Vote, and also for a no deal Brexit.[15] He was the only MP to have voted for both options.” [Wikipedia]
Well, time to leave Merriman MP and return to more important matters.
Coronavirus
It is clear that the former epidemic/pandemic has tailed off now in the UK. We shall never know for sure, but it seems most likely that Coronavirus swept through unnoticed in the first month or two of 2020 (possibly even December 2019), but that most people had no symptoms, or mild symptoms. Others were probably misdiagnosed (“all clap now…”) before the new virus was publicized. The “lockdown” was unnecessary, apart from nasty “clubs”, pubs, mass entertainment and sporting events, and the Underground and buses (which never were stopped, though dim Sadiq Khan reduced the number of trains, and coaches on trains, so making infection far more likely!).
Now, the government of fools is busy slamming shut stable doors after the horses have bolted.
Prince Charles
"We need an army of people to help."
Prince Charles has called on the British public to assist farmers with harvesting fruit and vegetables that might otherwise go to waste due to a lack of workers during the pandemic. https://t.co/5My948yoFSpic.twitter.com/sRYyCWmKdO
The Prince of Wales always seems to go out of his way to make a fool of himself. I do not totally blame him. He thinks that he is somehow helping. He is not. Most people will just laugh (despite the seriousness of both the message and the situation behind it).
Naturally, the public see someone who is hugely privileged, vastly wealthy, and whose milieu is one of similarly-privileged parasites, to use a harsh word, and see no reason why they should pick for free, or for minimum wage, fruit and veg for farmers, many of whom are fairly affluent if not rather rich, and who receive large UK and EU subsidy payments as well.
Many may hurl insults such as “send Harry!” or even “get the Royal Mulatta to pick that cotton!”…or indeed might suggest that schools such as Eton College organize “Patriotic Picking” sessions…
This harvest crisis is typical of what happens when you have a government of fools incapable of organizing anything, and headed by a part-Jew public entertainer who is plainly out of his depth.
I'm much of your opinion @gfrarebooks Parliament in effect dissolved itself when it passed the Coronavirus Act *without a vote* and is now a neutered & useless body. I'd need a lot of persuading that *any* of the current MPs merits re-election. Compare these worms with Otto Wels. https://t.co/IkIEM9F5tr
A bitter,sad reflection on our plastic, dummy ex-Parliament. Lord Sumption reveals:'Personally, I would have preferred the argument against coercion to be advanced by MPs.But they have not dared to speak out, although a fair number have told me privately that they agree with me'.
“There is no evidence of a risk of societal breakdown, even if one takes Professor Ferguson’s disease modelling at face value. Spanish flu is estimated to have had an infection mortality rate two to three times higher than Covid-19 and to have killed around 200,000 people between 1918 and 1921, in a UK population two thirds its current size. Although it mainly attacked fit, economically active young people in their twenties and thirties, it came nowhere near to imperilling supply chains or provoking societal breakdown. Covid-19 attacks people with severe pre-existing vulnerabilities. Nearly nine tenths of the dead were aged 65 or over and likely to have been retired. The number of work days lost through non-mortal illness are fewer by far than days lost through the lockdown. At present, the real risk of societal breakdown comes from the lockdown, not the virus.” [Lord Sumption in The Spectator]
Let's get this straight: 1) #Lockdown is based on clearly worthless computer models; 2) Government & MSM are blatantly manipulating statistics & propaganda to frighten us into accepting incompetence & petty tyranny; 3) Govt regulations are killing thousands & destroying the…1/2
2/2… economy & fabric of society: 4) The global elite will dose us with this poison as long as we allow them; 5) Resistance to most dangerous attack on freedom in 1,000 years is obligatory; 6) Left/right. Black/white. Nothing is more important right now than #LockdownRebellion
What he fails to add is that most of the pain will have been because he, Boris-idiot and the rest of the crew shut down the UK economy unnecessarily, and have decided to continue much of that shutdown into the Autumn despite the fact that the Coronavirus has basically swept through and gone now.
“The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has warned that Britain is facing a “severe recession, the likes of which we haven’t seen” and lasting economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic.” [The Guardian, which apparently now employs people unaware that “Chancellor” is right, “chancellor” is not].
“Sunak had suggested as recently as last month that Britain could “bounce back” quickly thanks to the government’s support measures and the nation’s “fundamentally sound” economy prior to the crisis.” [The Guardian]
Can these people not see that companies, often long-established, are now falling dead to the ground all over the place. Today alone, I saw that Antler, the luggage company, founded in 1914, is gone, its remaining 200 workers (who were on furlough) being made redundant.
The very same day, a large energy company made 2,500 workers redundant.
These companies may have been struggling before, but have now been killed off, or in some cases mortally wounded, though they may survive until the “furlough” payments end. What is killing these companies, incidentally, is not “Coronavirus”, nor the “Covid-19 situation”, but the actions of this government in shutting down the economy and society for months, completely unnecessarily.
Ian Robert Millard 