“Prepping” in the European context, especially in relatively crowded spaces such as the UK, cannot be the same as in, say, North America.
The problem with the more fuzzy kind of thinking about prepping in Europe is that it leaves out the potential for chaos and disorder if (or when) centralized authority collapses or disappears.
Multiply that by about £20,000 per person (including NHS services, educational services, legal and police costs etc), a modest supposition, and the cost exceeds £32 billion per year…
They haven't been 'ditched'. They're being re-branded. The replacement will be even worse. That's how it works – every time. https://t.co/kQn1pVy7Nk
How polite we British still are! Try that in, say, Russia or France and see what happens! It would have been amusing to see the cars shown here roll slowly towards the virtue-signallers (who mostly no doubt live comfortable easy lives with their parents in some suburban or semi-rural enclaves), and then just keep on going…
They're just re-branding it. It will return in a form even more vile than before. https://t.co/yRlCHQTKWE
A Victorian phrenologist would have a field day with Sajid Javid’s head.
💰 Is Cornwall set for a modern-day gold rush?
Beneath the Cornish countryside lie untapped reserves of lithium, a metal with the potential to power our futures and make fortunes.@harrydq visited the mining companies hunting for 'green gold' 👇https://t.co/pTKBkkT7MApic.twitter.com/af200j5C6Z
Peter Hitchens in todays Daily Mail speaks to Julian Assange partner Stella Moris: "On September 22 it will be two years since Julian finished serving his sentence over the bail violation – two years of being held solely on remand " #FreeAssangeNOWhttps://t.co/U17WCnnekspic.twitter.com/6yeROixjCi
'If the war against Saddam were held now, and it was found that there were no WMD, the news would never get out, not least because supine media would classify the information as "pro-Saddam war crimes denialism".'
Last night at the proms London 2021, 1000’s of double jabbed multi tested people singing 'Britons never, never, never shall be slaves'. Peak irony pic.twitter.com/fGgHZ7oQoX
Are the British allowed any say in their own destiny, or are only foreigners permitted a say or even residence in this nation that was once ours? Serious question. https://t.co/gx7ymw68xt
“Happiness is…” a new laptop computer! Amazing. Runs at twice the speed of the old one (which all but stopped working recently, and yesterday just gave up the ghost).
The vast sums spent on unnecessary “lockdowns” (shutdowns) could actually have funded so many beneficial projects: narrow-gauge and standard-gauge rail, new forests and rewilding, hospitals with decent services and parking, social care for the elderly and infirm. What a bloody mess.
Discrimination against white people in some legal education and training situations
Not really surprising. There is a whole agenda. Those who are part of its dissemination get msm contracts, money, career progression etc. Those opposed to the agenda of evil are ignored, or persecuted.
It's very clear from what I've read that an anti-SNP white man took the time to trawl through past posts of yours to try and get some dirt. The past is the past. You don't stand by these comments anymore. Sniffs of desperation and nasty tactics. Keep doing your thing.
That last tweet is a classic; really shows the moronic nature of many of the Scottish fake-“nationalist” types. The personification of badness? “...an anti-SNP white man“… Quite. A Pakistani who was brought up in Glasgow? Oh, Scottish for sure. A person of real Scottish heritage who lives in, say, London, and does not support the SNP? Just “an anti-SNP white man“. And I thought that England is screwed!
God! In the middle of Hampshire! The police must be too occupied making sure that no-one is tweeting anything critical about Jews…
More music
Late thought
Heard at least a little good news today (sadly, not me winning the Euromillions); in fact, not a financial win at all. Still, good enough for now. I shall not say anything about it, but simply play a little song that indicates my feeling…
Late tweets seen
The latest on the woman who future generations of post-Reconquista Brits will revile as 'Elizabeth the Disastrous'. If this isn't true, the Palace would shoot it down, but you will wait in vain for that to happen, because it surely is. #BLMhttps://t.co/Jivg3u8C55
I myself am not quite as hostile to the Monarchy, and not to the present incumbent, as Nick Griffin. In the end, we are talking about a figurehead, mainly.
Yes, I can remember scenes somewhat like that from when I was in Rhodesia in 1977 (but without the silver birch!).
I well remember the original version of this, which was a radio ad for Lion lager (“Simba”, pron. “shumba”, means “lion”).
Well, the people of #Grantham voted Ukip instead of BNP, so they're getting exactly what they voted for – fewer Poles and (many) more Pakistanis (and similar). It's what Farage was for. 'Hotel cancels guests, bookings and weddings to house Afghan refugees' https://t.co/twJU0buOF6
Anyone who, like tweeter “Anastasia”/”@Speakingasl”, talks about “a crate full of cats” is indeed a heartless type, the sort that probably likes to think she is full of love of humanity etc, but actually is lacking in real compassion; a box-ticker. We saw the same mentality recently over the alpaca Geronimo. Quite a few of the pseudo-socialist and other Twitter-twits saying that the animal was “just an alpaca” etc, and “what about [fill in virtue-signal]?”…
I’m not rebelling against anyone. I’m just not wearing a mask because I don’t have to, and because in my opinion it’s a total nonsense to do so. It’s an even bigger nonsense to define yourself by your mask wearing status, and to use it as an instrument to signal your virtue.
King Hussein of Jordan is said to have asked, rhetorically, after having met David Owen, then Foreign Secretary of the UK, “do you suppose that he is any good as a doctor?“
We all knew that when we reached the last week of August the ‘cases are surging’ propaganda pushing for a return of restrictions & a further round of lockdowns in Sept/October would begin. And so it has. Expect the propaganda to intensify in the next 2/3 weeks.
"shipped in from other ISIS strongholds". i.e. Syria, from which these head-cutters were airlifted by US planes to save them after Russia stopped them doing NATO's dirty work against Assad. US #DeepState still trying to play its Islamist terror card.https://t.co/DAVkLEWYRQ
I was opposed to the invasion of Afghanistan, and in principle would be against further intervention(s), but I have to admit that it would be great to swamp that country with huge forces if only to see the panic on the faces of those backward and cruel Taliban (and other) barbarians as they realize that the chopper is coming for them…
Plane leaving Luton to evacuate Paul "Pen" Farthing's rescue animals and staff from Kabul https://t.co/zMeidXjkHY
What a dreadful and poorly prepared interview by @SKinnock It’s not blocking anything and as for his ‘pets before people’ comment he’s once again showing a complete disregard for the truth. They go in the cargo hold as we have been told time and time again. Absolute #PenFarthing
In an ideal world”, weasels like Stephen Kinnock would [redacted…]. Apart from anything else, the weasel almost personifies nepotism. His father, NWO/ZOG former “Labour” leader Neil Kinnock, got little Stephen a well-paid sinecure at the useless British Council, arranged other lucrative jobs for him, then had him parachuted in as an MP. Complete NWO/ZOG drone [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Kinnock].
I keep finding myself positing #PenFarthing's honourable, life-risking attempts to save people and animals against those of Dominic Raab, who couldn't be arsed to get off his sunbed.
I wish that I could say that “I cannot believe how disorganized” has been the UK/US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Sadly, but at the same time lividly, I can believe it all too easily. Taking the British aspect, the quality of British politicians (there are no statesmen) and bureaucrats has declined very much in the past decades.
Britain may pose as a world player, but the major states know that the UK is now a “man of straw”, and no amount of “comms” and public relation bs about “punching above its weight”, “intelligence successes”(where are they?) , “intangible assets”, “soft power” and the like can put that Humpty-Dumpty back together again, not for a very long time, if ever.
As for the Americans, they have betrayed their allies and clients before, but I doubt that any government or group will now place much reliance on American honour or loyalty, or on American words.
Right. Look for the enemy at Westminster, at the BBC, at Sky News, at ITN, in the Church of England, in other churches, in synagogues and mosques, in the City of London, in the White House, at Israeli embassies worldwide, in infested universities, and in the gatherings of Common Purpose, freemasons, and (((others))).
The censor's universal appeal, 'Free speech is irresponsible and dangerous', voiced here shamefully by an academic supposedly committed to the pursuit of truth, @scottlucas_ea. Graham Greene liked to quote Robert Browning: 'Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things'. https://t.co/teRe9G7rtU
2/2 @jdportes Jonni Porter, I have repeatedly shown you here to be a twister and a liar who cannot be honest even when it would be easier to do so. I could not be ruder without actually swearing. Yet you keep coming back for more. Should we call a Freudian? https://t.co/9SMSYilC2j
@_thegman I find Jonni Porter @jdportes educational, in that he teaches me how the Blairite mind works, and how power-worship and complacency drive reason out of that mind and replace it with sour, embittered bilge. https://t.co/sti17NtlkT
I hear stories about NHS inattention and/or negligence constantly. The work of the more dedicated NHS people is weakened by a system grown complacent, and by the fact that for most UK people there is no choice. Like other parts of British life —Oxford and Cambridge, the SIS, the Bar, the Foreign Office, the legal system generally, the Monarchy, the (largely fake) “aristocracy”— the NHS is living off its reputation, not (mostly) from its real value today.
Radio loudmouth Julia Hartley-Brewer once again shows her ignorance. Some animals are worth more than some human beings. Fact. In relation to the Afghan situation, those cats and dogs are completely innocent victims, unlike most of the people there.
“Other animals, which, on account of their interests having been neglected by the insensibility of the ancient jurists, stand degraded into the class of things. … The day has been, I grieve it to say in many places it is not yet past, in which the greater part of the species, under the denomination of slaves, have been treated … upon the same footing as … animals are still. The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may come one day to be recognized, that the number of legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum, are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate. What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or perhaps, the faculty for discourse?…the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being?… The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes…“ [Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832)].
My latest solo show. What white nationalists need to learn from Northern Ireland. Food shortages and dying boomers. Afghanistan and the latest excuse for #replacement#immigration. 45 minutes of plain truth. Watch it and, as always, thanks for all shares.https://t.co/aceCBU4K8P
Out fungi hunting in the #Shropshire hills. This field never fails to produce a good crop of parasol mushrooms. Just avoid any where the largest is smaller than 4 or 5 inches, as they may be poisonous amanitas. But good size parasols are great eating – cooked. pic.twitter.com/hOf6xOgzci
Reports from usually-reliable sources say that one of the two magistrates who usually flank the Circuit judge at such an appeal was discovered to be, or to have been, on the board of some “holocaust” “charity” concerned with the so-called Anne Frank “diary”! That magistrate was then removed from the appeal hearing.
I shall report the result when it has been declared, presumably tomorrow sometime.
[Alison Chabloz outside Southwark Crown Court, and with the Thames, and Tower of London, as backdrop. At least English dissidents do not get put there these days…not yet anyway!]
People cannot have free will if they do not know the truth. The truth that marijuana increases the risk of mental illness is being suppressed by Big Cannabis, just like the evidence that tobacco causes lung, laryngeal, oesophagal and mouth cancer was suppressed by Big Tobacco.
Our new stats reveal that driven grouse shooting make up 44% of the Cairngorms national park, 28% of the North York Moors and a fifth of the Peak District. https://t.co/8GHvPD2JAC
Great work from @AliDriverUK and @RewildingB on rural jobs created by Rewilding. We reckon we have as many people in employment at Knepp (not all employed by us) post rewilding as were working on this land in 1750. #rewildinghttps://t.co/5aLKcCyJch
The Jewish woman refuses to address the points that 1. the UK now produces only 1% of “global emissions” (if that), and 2. the real ecological threat to this planet is the fact that the population is now 8 billion, of which the vast majority are non-European (in fact, nearly half of the world population is in only four countries: China/India/Pakistan/Bangladesh).
So will the new multikulti Australian police state ban cars (they kill people), sugared soft drinks (they kill people), processed foods (they kill people), cigarettes (they kill people), alcohol (that kills people), and non-European immigrants (they kill people) etc? No?
What nonsense it all is! The Australian police state had and has some of the strictest “lockdowns”, facemask nonsense, vaccine compulsion, “Covid passport” nonsense, “test and trace” nonsense, quarantine nonsense. Yet there they are, these petty tyrants, now imposing an even harsher regime.
Australians (the sort from Anglo background), are rather like the British— they don’t care whether their country goes to ratshit so long as they can watch on TV something labelled a “national” team win a cricket, rugby, athletics, or whatever competition somewhere or other.
The latest news I have heard from my own Australian connections is that Australians now outside Australia in countries such as the UK will not only have to pay huge amounts just to get back (my niece just paid £2,000, and I think that is in Economy class!), not only have to pay for weeks of imprisonment (sub nom “quarantine”), and regardless of whether vaccinated etc, but also will not be allowed to leave Australia later!
Sovietism meets the biosecurity state in…Australia. Who’d have thought it?
“You sort of find yourself at a loss for words. The only words that are appropriate are: it’s disgusting, it’s horrible, it’s inhumane, it’s uncaring."https://t.co/rajhGttNde
We are on our way to 58,000 in less than 3 weeks which is sensational. Let’s get to 60,000 by the weekend that would be sensational..huge thanks to all.Petition: Change the law to include laboratory animals in the Animal Welfare Act. https://t.co/H9Eab2JWsHpic.twitter.com/26TiMyzauS
Data from our analysis of 23 large-scale rewilding sites in England – including some former driven grouse areas – shows a 47% increase in jobs overall as a result of #rewilding.
It will be recalled that persecuted singer, songwriter and satirist, Alison Chabloz, was sent to prison for lampooning Jewish and Zionist pretensions, and discussing related matters etc on an Internet radio podcast. She ended up doing 2 months in prison (of a notional 18 week sentence).
Tomorrow, 12 August 2021, Alison Chabloz will be at Southwark Crown Court to attend her appeal against her conviction and sentence (handed down at Westminster Mags.).
I had thought that the appeal would take the form of a full rehearing, but it seems that Alison and/or her legal advisers have decided to limit the appeal to certain legal points. This would mean that, while the Court has discretion, should the appeal fail, to impose an even greater sentence (to 6 months max) than the 18 weeks originally imposed, such a course would be unlikely to be taken.
In any case, even were the Court to impose a maximum 6-month sentence, that in reality would mean three months (if that), and Alison has already served two.
I shall post the result as and when I am aware of it. In the meantime, I wish Alison Chabloz good fortune in her appeal.
Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife: Wilding: The return of nature…. Sales through my links generate 5% fees go for #conservation nature projects https://t.co/TtfcjYakFZ
Reminded of the fact the British public broadcaster went out of its way to paint a very feasible and relatively conservative tree-planting target as being extreme in the run up to the 2019 election https://t.co/VfY0t3Loedpic.twitter.com/WkptYF45Hb
A textbook example of the unreality that was Corbyn-Labour. Tweeter “@jrc1921” actually showcases the calculations of BBC journalist Chris Mason, and does not seek to say that they are inaccurate, but persists in the idea that planting 200 trees per minute (i.e. more than 3 every second!) is both “feasible” and ” relatively conservative”!
True, a British equivalent of the 1970s Khmer Rouge could, in principle, get millions of people planting trees, even on such a scale. 100 million trees per year could be planted, were every single adult of appropriate age to plant 2 trees per year.
The devil is in the administrative detail. That is the unreality. Organizing 50 million people to plant 1 tree each, every 6 months. How? Where?
Not that I am against tree planting. Au contraire. Let’s do some good! Let’s have some fun!
Political reality is what people can accomplish, and so to that extent is flexible, not fixed. Sometimes 2+2 can = 5… To that extent, I agree with the tweeter above, and not only with Chris Mason. Both are right, if you like…
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'The decent campaign to restore our traditions and liberties by leaving the EU was taken over by piratical free traders, and we have swapped being pushed around by Brussels for being pushed around by China' . My @GBnews discussion wiht Nigel Farage' https://t.co/pYwda9bkQb
NIgel Farage : 'Nearly everything you write and say is essentially pretty negative' Peter Hitchens . 'Absolutely!' HItchens vs Farage, GBNews : https://t.co/pYwda9bkQb
PH talking to Nigel Farage :'I am a British Gaullist . It's extraordinary that this combination of strong defence, national independence, patriotism and a strong welfare state is not more common in politics as it appeals to so many people.'https://t.co/pYwda9bkQb
Exactly my position, in the mundane sense. I call it social nationalism.
I think the belief in incessant mask-wearing for the benefit of others is the founding myth of what is effectively a new religion, that health is the highest law. That is why any serious discussion of the Danmask study is greeted as heresy.
2/2 @JoshGlancy The belief that the election was stolen from Trump' is just not comparable to the belief that Parliament, the opposition, the media and the courts all failed to protect liberty under the law, or prevent the pointless throttling of economy and society. https://t.co/CBsPo8jAj5
Not sure why intelligent commentators such as Hitchens persist in trying to squeeze people and policies into the now almost meaningless “Left”/”Right” straitjacket(s).
“No free society regulates opinion.”
Well said Peter Hitchens but sadly this is now exactly what regulators do. https://t.co/WJ4gfPjDK5
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) August 8, 2021
…and guess (((who))) or (((what))) is behind most of the repression of opinion in the UK? The (((You know who)))…
Not a big fan of his generally but I like Peter Hitchens metaphor that the Tories and Labour are two dead corpses propping each other up
Exactly. Two moribund political parties. For the electorate, a false binary choice with, in general, the same sort of policies coming out in the end (in government).
Another e.g. of politicians finally catching up with advice I've given for free for a decade & more. University degrees are worth jack, so get a trade, dodge a mountain of debt & the libtard brain-mincing machine, maximise cash & minimise tax.#resistancehttps://t.co/En7il5KKFm
The early 1960s (or late 1950s) comment about “redbrick” university expansion, by (?) Kingsley Amis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis], that “more will mean worse“, may have been partly snobbism, but God knows what he would have made of the 2021 situation, with so many “McUniversities” that one has not even heard the names of many of them; God only knows, also, what Amis would have thought of a Government minister (James Cleverly), whose “degree” is apparently in “Hospitality Management”; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cleverly#Early_life_and_education.
Well you and other MSM outlets are partly to blame for all of this, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS pouring into the Country every single day and how many times have you covered it? There are people on twitter doing more reporting than you will ever do.🤬
Of course, the young people, say under 21, who support the nonsense put out by Extinction Rebellion and Greta Nut, were only 9 (or younger) when the chaotic and ludicrous 2009 Climate Change conference was held in Copenhagen. I remember it mainly for the little monkey who was President or Prime Minister for the Maldives, and who was constantly excitedly clapping above his head, especially when some delegates said that Europe should direct much money to countries facing inundation (in fact, 12 years on, and the Maldive islands are still there…). https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2009/1220/Chaos-in-Copenhagen-behind-the-scenes-at-global-warming-summit
There may be climate change, in some degree (e.g. Australia is now certainly much hotter than it was in the 1960s when I was there), but that has happened throughout history. Humanity is only partly responsible. Moreover, whatever Britain, or even Europe does, is of small, indeed minimal, importance. Britain’s CO2 “emissions” are about 1% of the global whole.
“Climate change”, like “Covid-19” and other stuff (eg “Black Lives Matter” nonsense) has been distorted and weaponized by transnational conspirators, in order to impose an agenda. Call it “The Great Reset” (in part), if you like.
Over 475 migrants crossed the English Channel in 15 small boats on Thursday, following a record 482 arrivals on Wednesday.https://t.co/FG6DulQpAY
— UK Justice Forum 🇬🇧 Latest Video News Updates! (@Justice_forum) August 9, 2021
Ironic. The best way (perhaps the only way) in which Britain’s depleted navy could defend the UK now would be to sink the ships of the UK “Border Force”…
@haydnjones1 I can hardly bear to think about what has happened to the old Waterloo to Plymouth LSWR mainline. I know bits of it still exist, singled down to make them inefficient, but not a day passes when I do not miss the glorious Exeter to Tavistock run over Dartmoor. https://t.co/yHAYTwufuD
Well, I once again triumphed over John Rentoul, who only scored 3/10 this week. I always commend his honesty, though. I myself scored 6/10 this week. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 2, 6, and 9.
Ha ha! “Unusually“?! What about, just off the top of my head, “Boris”, Theresa May, David Cameron-Levita, Trump, George W. Bush, James Callaghan, Sarkozy, Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Honecker? Etc… The list is long.
Labour is going nowhere. The next two by-elections (Chesham and Amersham on 17 June 2021, and Batley and Spen on 1 July 2021), should give an idea of the state of play. At present, I am inclined to think that Batley will fall to the Conservatives, and that Chesham and Amersham will result in a Conservative win, and with a Labour lost deposit (maybe).
Football fans won't shut up about it, but how excited is the wider population about #EURO2020 ?
Boris Johnson has said that Joe Biden is "actively engaged" in resolving the row over Anne Sacoolas, who fled the UK after a car crash which killed Harry Dunn
About one and a quarter million acres of private gardens exist in the UK. A crucial reservoir and sanctuary for animals, birds, insects, trees and bushes. These often-modest private spaces are a very important environmental element.
The public vs the private face of the global elite during lockdown. The 'rules' are there for us ordinary folk, not for them.#Resistancepic.twitter.com/mhwgictGCg
That Harwood person seems to be a component of the fake political-cultural debate, there to give the illusion of pseudo-national “takeback”. If you like, the mirror image of Owen Jones (as fake “revolutionary” scribbler), or a more mainstream “Prison Planet” Watson.
Many people are still fooled by the “panicdemic”, which is in a way unsurprising, after nearly a year and a half of truly relentless msm propaganda across the world. All the same, there are many people who can see that the virus scare has been weaponized for other purposes.
No masks, no social distancing, no quarantine before.…. They’ve all come in from other countries.
She sat in church, alone, with a mask for her husbands funeral. The virus is "still deadly" apparently and they are extending lockup, what the hell happened? There's going to be a shortage of piss soon, the elites running this scam seem to have taken it all….. pic.twitter.com/Gsi0sryjjP
"[We are] destroying our ancient edifices to make ready the ground upon which the barbarian nomads of the future will encamp in their mechanised caravans."
I like the bit “do you know how hard it is [to say a few glib words on TV]?”…! These msm idiots are so up their own rear ends, it is not true! Some local TV news talking head marionette in Birmingham.
“In 1915 Feinberg traveled to Egypt and made contact with the British Department of Naval Intelligence. In 1917, he again went to Egypt, on foot. He was apparently killed on his way back by a group of Bedouins near the British front in Sinai, close to Rafah.[3] His fate was unknown until after the 1967 Six-Day War, when his remains were found under a palm tree that had grown from date seeds in his pocket.” [Wikipedia].
How about that?! “…his remains were found under a palm tree that had grown from date seeds in his pocket.“
Well, now that the said Feinberg is apparently an Israeli hero-figure (they even have a stamp with his head on it), the suspicion must be that the bit about the palm tree and the date seeds is some kind of fairy tale. Still, it may well be true. These things happen.
I have not included the above in my blog to make any political or other point; it just struck me as interesting. Still, one could reflect on how one never knows how one’s actions may, long after one’s own death, bear unexpected fruit (in the case of Feinberg, literally, of course).
Israeli elections
Readers of my blog will know that I am usually cautious about commenting about the political situation in countries with which I am not directly familiar (even Scotland), but idly browsing Wikipedia while listening to BBC World Service, I heard about the electoral impasse in Israel. I looked up the state of play on Wikipedia:
It seems that there 120 elected members. What is extraordinary is that Israeli politics is so fragmented that the party presently ruling, Likud [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likud], has only 30 members out of that 120. Indeed, the whole minority government coalition headed by Likud only has 54 members.
The second-largest party in the Knesset, Yesh Atid [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesh_Atid] has only 17 Knesset members. The next-largest party has 9. In fact, there are no less than 23 parties and Independent members represented, grouped into 13 factions.
[Update, 31 August 2024: state of play as of date of update—
…Likud now has 32 seats].
Compare that to the much larger UK House of Commons, where there are 16 parties and Independents but where, out of 650 MPs, 562 belong to only two of those parties.
Why is the Israeli parliament so fragmented? It may be that there is something in the Jewish psychology that tends to dissension, dissidence etc. That was certainly true of the various Marxist factions that used to exist in the Western world, especially in the realms of Trotskyism.
There again, the Israeli proportional representation system has a low threshold for representation: 3.25% (it was 1% at one time). In fact, there has never been a one-party-majority government in Israel.
Another aspect yet is that most of those parties were started not long ago. The main Opposition party, Yesh Atid, was only formed in 2012. Several others were formed even more recently, in the past two or three years. Likud, the presently largest party, was founded in 1973.
Well, there it is. A peculiar country. Interesting though. I am interested generally in countries which are contrived or artificial, as Israel surely is. Singapore would be another example. They tend to be small geographically; Israel is almost exactly the size of Wales (or New Jersey), while Singapore is not even twice the size of the Isle of Wight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore.
Farm subsidies
Listening to some typical farm-owner whining on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme. Farmers in the UK always want it both ways, to be treated as independent businessmen and women, but given State subsidy or support at the same time. For me, it just does not wash.
One farmer had the right sort of ideas about small-scale farming, biodiversity, organics etc, yet wanted public money, in effect for not being an environmental vandal. Why should the public subsidize farmers at all? Better to impose environmental and animal welfare regulations, restrict imports, and let the farms be real private “businesses”. Alternatively, to put them largely into State ownership but give environment-friendly farmers or collectives long-term (even lifetime) leases.
Tweets seen
Daily Mail tiptoes to the very edge of #antisemitic tropeland, but manages to find one rare example of a church-going vulture capitalist. Close run thing though. "And if you could see them through my eyes…." https://t.co/UAfkxgfxA0
Stop the so-called 'trials' of e-scooters. Anybody with any sense can see that there's no good case for them (they're not green, they stop people taking badly-needed exercise, they're a dangerous nuisance) , and that they will increase the sum of human misery. Write to your MP. https://t.co/ZWjWNrsUev
"It’s time to rename 'Call The Midwife'. It would be a good way of marking its transformation from engaging historical drama to relentless politically correct propaganda vehicle. May I suggest 'Call The Abortionist'?" https://t.co/kH1TzZMoQT
Yes @michaelrosenyes. But I loathe their habit of referring to institutions by the names of their very different modern successors. I went to the Oxford College of Further Education, known to all as the Cowley Road Tech. https://t.co/wBp8RnBJJW
Soon, there will be the Batley and Spen by-election. I shall be blogging about it in a week or so. The Labour Party vote has suffered a gradual decline in that constituency since the rigged by-election in 2016. After the assassination of Jo Cox, the System parties conspired to get another Labour Party MP elected, so an ex-soap actress was parachuted in, and the Conservative and LibDem parties did not stand. Pathetically, “controlled opposition” UKIP also failed to put up a candidate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batley_and_Spen_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s.
Now Labour is relying, in the Batley by-election, on a kind of “sympathy vote” by putting up the sister of that assassinated MP. Pretty desperate…
Lisa Shaw, a healthy 44 year old woman, had zero chance of dying from covid.
It is therefore ironic that a vaccine deployed against a virus with a 99.97% survival rate killed her.
Believing in UK government covid propaganda has its consequences.
The gradually-emerging UK police state in operation. Quite normal things criminalized, but real criminal acts ignored. Read The Protocols of Zion and you will be on the right track…
I agree with The Guardian : 'This is the biggest data grab in the history of the health service.'The Guardian view on medical records: NHS data grab needs explaining: https://t.co/Sr1KggToE5
More lunacy from the Thing formerly known as the Church of England. A quick study of how the Puritans dealt with unwanted statues may be instructive here….#williamdowsinghttps://t.co/ONCYaQfF0d
That sort of madness started to erode the Church of England long long ago, which is why scarcely anyone now attends a church except to dance round the customary baptism, marriage and death rituals.
As a ten-year-old, this was the pictorial definition in my French dictionary that I enjoyed the most. pic.twitter.com/3ohZlm0WdD
We really welcome the Species Reintroduction Taskforce announced today. We need to reintroduce more beaver, wild cat, red backed shrike and Golden Eagles – as mentioned by Goerge Eustice – all keystone species which enhance British landscapes. https://t.co/BIUw5k51fnpic.twitter.com/RuEhJshaA1
“We must move the emphasis away from processes which moderate the pace of nature in decline and put in place schemes that deliver nature recovery" ~ George Eustice.#Rewilding Britain is one of the clear solutions! Who is with us? https://t.co/BIUw5k51fnpic.twitter.com/EJbRdOjhlM
Our chicks at @KneppSafaris are growing fast! The parents are doing a great job, especially with all of these storms. Yesterday they were all hunkered down in the nests keeping the chicks warm and dry.@DurrellWildlife@CotsWildTweets@RoyDennisWF
— White Stork Project (@ProjectStork) May 18, 2021
The England Tree Action Plan is finally out. Good bits: – Funding for natural regeneration of trees, not just planting – 'support further reintroductions' of pine marten to control grey squirrel damage to trees
— The Wildlife Trusts (@WildlifeTrusts) May 14, 2021
Find out more about natural tree regeneration and digest our report 'Reforesting Britain: why natural regeneration should be our default approach to woodland expansion' here ⬇️https://t.co/IB6EgMn3XQpic.twitter.com/L4HgFp0yf1
Natural tree regeneration is already happening. When farming stopped in this field at @KneppSafaris , nature came back. The dominant tree species recolonising this field is sallow (hybrid goat, white and gray willows).
🌳Letting millions of trees plant themselves across the country would reduce costs, management, tree diseases and plastic tree guards which are commonly used in tree planting schemes.
We suggest a Three-Step Natural Regeneration Hierarchy to expand tree cover and woodland 👇 pic.twitter.com/0Qzti91rXw
Through grazing, debarking, foraging, wallowing and trampling, the hefty bison boosts habitat diversification.
They also help disperse seeds that stick to their fur 🌾. A true #rewilding superstar! They're extinct from Britain but ready to be reintroduced to England in 2022! 👏 pic.twitter.com/b47tOV280P
Samir Mansour bookstore,one of the most famous bookstores in #Gaza.It was bombed by the Israeli occupation missiles.The occupation is’nt content with robbing people’s lives and destroying their properties,but it also aims to put the survivors in a world of poverty & ignorance. pic.twitter.com/AWo0o30iRH
In the UK and other Western societies, fanatical Zionist Jews exercise their censorship in different ways, such as trying to have anti-Zionists such as Alison Chabloz, Jez Turner, David Icke, and me (among others) shut down, “deplatformed”, even arrested and prosecuted.
Hey everyone, if you're an American charity with 30 years of saving thousands of innocent children's lives in #Gaza and your office was bombed yesterday, how would one inform @cnnbrk@nytimes or @MSMBC2 ? Is there a portal or something? pic.twitter.com/1jt0wPKDgv
— Dr. Jennifer Cassidy (@OxfordDiplomat) May 18, 2021
Please tweet #Eurovision while we expose all the Israeli attacks on #Gaza killing children & women, targeting houses & clinics & hospitals. Raise your voice up for #Palestine
I myself have never had any interest in the Eurovision circus, but have also never understood why Israel, a leech state situated in the Middle East, the population of which state is not European, is in Eurovision anyway. Kick it out. Boycott it.
Note the very (((characteristic))) hand gesture made by it.
As a matter of fact, that poster is well out of date. According to an American expert interviewed on BBC Radio 4 PM yesterday, the Jewish state now gets USD $4BN annually from the American taxpayers. A leech state. What a surprise…
In that case, I hope that Murray will now, belatedly, say something in support of people such as Alison Chabloz, Jez Turner, David Icke, me, and others, “deplatformed”, disbarred (in my case), even imprisoned (in the cases of Alison Chabloz and Jez Turner of the now-defunct London Forum).
So far, nothing (because Murray is pro-Jew and pro-Israel…were he not, he would not be where he is, of course…).
There is now, and has been for the past decade or more, a whole raft of “controlled opposition” figures and organizations in the UK, some witting agents of the System, others merely manipulated. Breitbart. UKIP. Brexit Party. Reform Party. EDL. The “Football Lads’ Alliance”. Farage (perhaps the most important and the most wittingly used). Katie Hopkins. Tommy Robinson. Toby Young. James Delingpole. The “Free Speech Union”.
The touchstone is always their attitude to Israel and Jewry. They always support, or pretend to support, Israel and/or the Jews.
The latest catspaw? Laurence Fox.
This explains why BLOCKED @ssilvuk and @grubstreetsteve stalk my account and have done for almost 6 years, they must believe it’s their right? #Shiksa and proud
John Betjeman, poet, saviour of lovely old buildings, Christian, died on this day in 1984: 'But most of us turn slow to see/The figure hanging on a tree/And stumble on and blindly grope/ Upheld by intermittent hope.' https://t.co/QA4Sukm4HA
The sort of literate, thoughtful piece rarely seen on UK television today. I mean there are no blacks and browns to be seen, no references to the “panicdemic” either.
Looks nice. I was probably a fool to have turned down the possibility of becoming an undergraduate there (by a back-door route) in 1984 (I wanted to stay in London for various reasons).
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The latest madness to come out of Sweden:
Living in the UK in 2021, I do not know whether one can say whether Sweden is now officially more mad than the UK…a close-run thing, anyway.
Provoke provoke and provoke, scream anti-semitism and play the Holocaust victim card. Unhinged Zionist supremacists also do the exact same thing online too. #catpissosthttps://t.co/h1OGuduVmH
A self-sown 'wilding' apple (Malus pumila), so heavy with blossom (& pollinators) it positively illuminates this urban copse. 'Wildings' represent a diverse genetic reservoir, both of long lost apple varieties & potential new ones.🌳🐝 @BSBIbotany@wildflower_hour@WoodlandTrustpic.twitter.com/LdHcQr2Jn1
— Urban Rewilding 🦊 River Len Maidstone (@URewilding) May 13, 2021
1/2 @spy_historian If anyone in London had wanted to avoid war, they would have done everything they could to disabuse Poland of its fantasy that Britain and France would come to its aid when it was attacked by Germany. https://t.co/m91v8gaFhm
And you @spy_historian must know that the Polish Guarantee *did* hand Poland carte blanche to drag Britain into war, and that it did do so. Need I remind you that Britain declared war on Germany because Germany invaded Poland? Before the guarantee, we had no such obligation. https://t.co/WiCwMXaXIZ
Churchill’s actions triggered a war which destroyed not only the German Reich but also the British Empire, and the similar empires or overseas colonial arrangements of other European powers (French, Italian, Dutch, Belgian, Spanish), in the end. The net result has been war, civil war, terrorism, environmental degradation.
Generally, @spy_historian, the British way is resolutely to reserve the title 'doctor' for medical practitioners. Any other use in this country (outside the academic industry) tends to be tinged with irony. https://t.co/hzLEDzYeXZ
Hitchens is right. I have blogged, en passant, about this. In the UK, “Doctor” is reserved for a few (though Hitchens is too restrictive): medical practitioners (even if, in fact, not actually Doctors of Medicine), persons in holy orders who have a doctorate in theology or the like, and bona fide academics.
It weakens the rank or status to have stray persons calling themselves “doctor” just because they have a “doctorate” in some McSubject from a McUniversity. Examples that come to my mind are the tweeter and “antifa” cheerleader (she does little else, I think) “Dr.” Louise Raw, whose doctorate is in one 19thC industrial dispute, and “Dr.” Julian Lewis, an MP whose doctorate is in Strategic Studies; among others (eg “Dr.” Therese Coffey, the present DWP Secretary in the Cabinet).
Part of the problem in the UK is that huge numbers of people now go to institutions called universities, where all get “degrees”‘; not a few go on to get higher degrees, including doctorates.
On the mainland of Europe, especially Germany, the conventions are different. Use of “doctor” is ubiquitous and accepted. For example, Dr. Goebbels, whose doctorate was in History and Literature [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels#Early_life].
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10% of all farmland given over to rewilding. Let nature to its own devices as much as possible.
Just finished reading Rebirding by Benedict Macdonald @Rebirding1 and I have to say its absolutely brilliant Ecosystem restoration and #rewilding are not anti-economy, anti-job market or anti-rural culture. In fact, they promote the economy, job market and rural culture (1/2) pic.twitter.com/fpY4iUzh1m
When it comes to achieving net zero climate change targets, rewilding the ocean is just as important as reforestation, according to a new report from the Marine Conservation Societyhttps://t.co/aWaLNldM8Wpic.twitter.com/rKyrtde49G
— Climate Save Movement (@climatesavemvmt) May 13, 2021
Join Chinnor and Thame Friends of the Earth – https://t.co/BZqCBojCgb Chinnor and Thame Friends of the Earth invites you to join them to hear a talk from environmentalist and wildlife campaigner Jan Stannard, about the importance of rewilding.
If rewilding ever takes place on a planetary scale, I can think of some good sources of fertilizer, but I think that I shall not cite them here, not just yet…
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Here (below) we see another holder of a Ph.D, but in his case an academic at a recognized university, tweeting incorrect rubbish about the law in England and Wales (and Scotland):
Holocaust denial has been successfully prosecuted in UK under the offence of "sending grossly offensive communications" (see R v Chabloz). It's staggering then that a minister could consider HD worthy of free speech protection. BoJo's ministers are such poor calibre.@simon_schamahttps://t.co/qiSp4YnFgt
In fact, the Crown Court judge (H.H. Judge Hehir) in the Alison Chabloz appeal last year, and the district judge (magistrate) in her most recent case (heard in late March 2021) both made the point(s) that
“antisemitism” is not a crime in this country; and that
“holocaust” “denial” is not a crime in this country.
No doubt, were the matter to be considered and pronounced upon by the higher courts, the same conclusions would be reached.
Alison Chabloz was convicted because the tenor of what was posted was “grossly offensive” (and she is presently appealing that), not because posting historical revisionist or “antisemitic” views (including so-called “holocaust” “denial”) is grossly offensive per se.
What is “staggering” (see the “@DrDMiles” tweet above) is that someone who claims to be knowledgeable about the law can publish such a misunderstanding, and so vehemently.
The Miles character has made rather a fool of himself, in short.
In fact, the said Miles, apparently the author of a book on “constitutionalism”, is, so his Twitter profile says, a “University teacher” (at St. Andrews: https://st-andrews.academia.edu/DavidMiles). Law as such, however, is not his subject. He evidently misunderstands it as applied (misapplied in his case) to so-called “holocaust” “denial”.
Ah, I see now what the said Miles believes in: censorship…
Never mind protecting it, it should be a crime as it is in most European countries.
Surprising that someone with such a limited and narrow mentality should be teaching at a university such as St. Andrew’s but that is Britain in 2021, I suppose.
I believe, subject to correction, that that person used to work at Lloyds TSB, selling financial products of some sort [https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mrdavidjmiles].
Here’s a crank singing the same song:
#holocaustdenial is an offence on the 2003 Communications Act if it's communicated. See R vs Chabloz. So whatever you do deniers, don't tweet about it. What kind of fucked up country behaves like this? https://t.co/B4corWWsrQ
— Jonathan (Katie) Brayshaw 🌍🌎🌏🇬🇧🇪🇺🇩🇪🏳️🌈 (@ModerateUK) May 13, 2021
Another one who has simply misunderstood the law. Claims that she is an “ex-journalist/commentator“. Yeah, right…
Another couple of cranks:
What is wrong with this country?
Some 17 million people were killed during the Holocaust, but in the UK deniers are now being protected under free speech..
Simplistic and kneejerk; no real thought, no nuance, no real understanding of the issues or the real world in general. How does someone like that hold down even a minor academic teaching post?]
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If you think the siege and relentless attacks on #Gaza are only about hatred of non-Jews, you should look at the map of recently discovered gas fields off the coast of Israel. Left alone, Gaza would become a wealthy energy exporter. 💰💰💰 https://t.co/hoeJYJB3YA
Ian Robert Millard 