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Diary Blog, 28 November 2021

Keir Starmer interview

As mentioned in yesterday’s blog post [https://ianrobertmillard.org/2021/11/27/diary-blog-27-november-2021/], I heard and later saw parts of Nick Robinson’s interview with Keir Starmer. Now, because it has been recycled several times on BBC World TV, I have seen most of the rest of it.

Overall impression? What an incredible “cuck”, in the American vernacular, that man is! Actually, his manner reminds me of another weasel, now deceased: Cecil Parkinson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Parkinson]. There is even a passing physical resemblance:

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[Cecil Parkinson]

The above picture shows Parkinson when aged 75. When younger, he looked a good deal more like Starmer, in my opinion.

I doubt, however, that Starmer is a shit, in the personal realm, on anything like (if at all) the level that Parkinson was:

Parkinson died from colorectal cancer at The London Clinic in Marylebone, London, on 22 January 2016.[14] He left nothing in his will for his daughter Flora:[15] in April 2017, it was reported that Sara Keays was preparing to sue Parkinson’s estate to continue to gain support for her daughter’s 24-hour care, for regular payments had ceased a few months after Parkinson died.[16]

Parkinson’s daughter, Mary, was found dead at her home in Wandsworth on 10 December 2017, aged 57. Police did not treat the death as suspicious,[17] and it was later reported that she had committed suicide.” [Wikipedia].

[addendum: it seems that Parkinson did make Flora Keays the beneficiary of a life assurance policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Keays].

Apart from the (to my mind) physical similarity, Parkinson had something else in common with Starmer, who is (at an educated guess) a freemason. Parkinson was apparently an “active freemason” [Wikipedia]. It would be surprising if Starmer, a former Director of Public Prosecutions, were not a freemason, though I concede that I have no direct evidence that he is.

I ought to add that I once knew a woman who was seated alongside Parkinson at a State banquet, some time not long after the scandal with Sara Keays. That woman said that Parkinson was quite sympathetic in his manner. Maybe he went down better with women; I always thought that he deserved a good kick.

Reverting to that Nick Robinson interview, obviously Starmer is not a clown and pathetic waste of space in the “Boris” Johnson mode, but actually I can see why he has not really cut through to the public, despite Johnson’s incredible lack of ability and competence.

Starmer, like a good mid-range lawyer, makes the right noises: Channel migration invasion must be dealt with by “cross-border co-operation“, and the “upstream causes” dealt with, said he.

What does that mean? “Upstream causes“? So…wars and socio-economic problems in places such as Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, Afghanistan, black Africa etc? How will Starmer “deal with”, or cure, those? Answer came there none, methinks.

The only thing that Starmer looked at all passionate about, or even interested in, was so-called “anti-Semitism”, with the focus on his Jewish wife and half-Jewish children. I saw no real interest in (or policy concerning) the huge poverty that does exist in the UK in places, made worse by continuing mass immigration. Housing problems, the same.

It may be that Starmer does take an interest in those social, and so political, problems, but if so he failed to actually convey any great interest. That is of importance in a supposedly “democratic” political leader.

Hitler talked about “dirty democratic politicians“. We are now in a contest between the sheer incompetence and corruption of the “Boris” regime, and the —if you like— “managerial semi-socialism” of a Keir Starmer Labour offering. No wonder the opinion polls show a stalemate at present.

Looking again at Parkinson’s Wikipedia entry, interesting to note that he achieved high office despite having come from unmoneyed, modest, and indeed humble, origins. Something increasingly rare in our own day.

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Quite. The facemask and “vaccine” zealots display a pathology that is quite incredible at times, and which will of course be given full rein yet again, now that the Cabinet of clowns has ordered mask-wearing in shops, on trains etc from Tuesday.

As many have pointed out, masks in supermarkets but not in crowded pubs…The whole thing is just mad. All because (we are told) a “new variant” has appeared which may (or may not) be “as dangerous” as previous “variants”. Meaning those variants that killed 1 in 1,000 (if that) of the UK population. Madness but, on some level, planned madness.

I cannot believe that Farage retains even the slightest degree of credibility with anyone but, sadly, there probably are maybe rather dim Daily Mail readers, or Daily Express readers (if any still exist), who would still follow him.

I have only known personally two people who have knowingly contracted “the virus”. Two people! In nearly 2 years! Both in 2020. One was my late —nothing to do with “Covid”, incidentally— and then 98 y o mother-in law, who only knew she had “the virus” because she was routinely tested while in hospital for another, and completely different, problem. She had no symptoms, despite her age, infirmity, and existing medical conditions, and was discharged a few weeks later. Like so many others , she only contracted “Covid” because she was staying in one of the NHS’s shambolic hospitals.

The other person I know who has had “Covid-19” is my 20-something Australian niece, living in London, who was advised to take paracetamol, drink water, and rest! So much for the (unused) emergency “Nightingale” hospitals etc! She lost taste and smell for a week or so, had a few other symptoms, but soon made a full recovery without the need for any NHS medical assistance at all, unless you count the “take paracetamol and drink water” “advice” (given over the telephone).

Panicdemic…

All to do, really, with scaring the people to accept a biosecurity police state, so that “the Great Reset” can proceed from 2022-2055.

That ridiculous “Femi” creature was hoping to become a Labour MP, I think, and thousands of white, and even educated, Twitter twits seemed to give him credibility, about 2-4 years ago, but most people soon saw through his complete nonsense, so he remains living with his affluent parents, and pretends to be some kind of socio-political “influencer” on Twitter. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femi_Oluwole. Note that Wikipedia calls him “British”…(apparently he was born in the UK).

Forget whatever that evil woman, Priyamvada Gopal, may have said about Israeli puppet Priti Patel; more to the point, the Gopal woman is an enemy of the British people, their history, race and culture. There are, in the real (not the strictly legal) sense, traitors riddling Whitehall.

Dan Snow

Just heard 25 mins of his history podcast. What a total “cuck” for the Zionist lobby… a silver-spoon “favoured nephew”…

I shall not bother with his stuff again.

Apropos of that, the woman interviewed was terribly excited about a British Intelligence bod of (mainly) the 1920s and 1930s. These people never see the wood for the trees. Yes, such spy bods were and are very active, but the big picture is that Britain could have joined with the German Reich to rule much of the world, but instead of that decided to declare war against the Reich. As a result, Britain (with its big friends USA/USSR) beat Germany into the ground, but also lost both its Empire and its world role, and set itself back economically for decades.

As for the rest of the world, the Second World War was disastrous. Famine, population upheavals, civil wars, premature decolonization, environmental degradation. The effects are still rippling out.

Now? Well, we hear much about the supposed “threat” from Russia —non-existent were it not for Russia being prodded constantly by NATO (NWO)—, and of course “terrorism” (including the actually or effectively non-existent “far right” sort) while the UK is actually being destroyed from within, daily, eaten away by treacherous termites, not to mention the connected migration-invasion, and births to non-whites.

The Augean Stables need to be cleansed: msm outlets, Parliament, academia, other areas too.

The big picture is what matters, not spy games by minor-public-school careerists.

https://podfollow.com/1042631089/episode/354f2d08835a7ee810ba4c82678a8fbf73871708/view.

The person lionized on the podcast apparently caused many thousands of Jews to be brought to the UK.

There should be the opposite of a decoration, that could be awarded to some individuals. A “rotten tomato” medal…

Ah…just looked up the interviewee on Wikipedia:

During the 1990s, she was active on the international stage in the youth movement of The Council of Christians and Jews, and in promoting inter-faith relations. She has written over 20 books, with special expertise on the 10,000 German-speaking refugees who served in the British forces during the Second World War, especially the Royal Pioneer Corps.[1]

She is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Dept of Hebrew & Jewish Studies at University College London and Honorary member of The Association of Jewish Refugees. She teaches at the London Jewish Cultural Centre.

Fry lives in north London.”… [Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Fry]

“Fry”, or (originally?/perhaps?) “Frei”?

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Blutfahne

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[“Blood Flag” parade, commemorating 9 November 1923; Nuremberg, 1934 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blutfahne]
[“The banner must stand, even when the man falls”]

In these times of increasing State and Zionist-lobby repression, we in England must remember that, though people may be repressed, the idea of a better future cannot, ultimately, be repressed.

Haiku

A reader of this blog sent, via the Comments section, a link to, inter alia, a haiku [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku] he had written. I was thus “inspired” to write one for the first time in years. It is in the English haiku tradition, 17 syllables over 3 lines:

The empty words
From the mouth of “Boris”
Seem even emptier now

On this day, a year ago

SNP Conference

As my blog’s regular readers will know, I usually steer clear of Scottish internal politics. I do not purport to know a great deal about Scottish politics, and have never even been there. Having said that, the SNP and its peculiar cranky little leader, Nicola Sturgeon, cannot be entirely ignored.

I happened to see the article referred to in that tweet: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-nicola-sturgeon-.

The SNP, which had almost no MPs until six years ago (it took about 40 years just to get one), took off in 2015, and is still in precarious power north of the border.

The SNP benefits from not being Conservative, Labour, or LibDem. Simply that. Scotland was once rock-solid Labour, but a few years of Blair’s pathetic, smug, and dishonest henchman, Jim Murphy (and general trends), put paid to that. Labour now has only one Westminster MP from Scotland.

As the Spectator article notes, only half of the Scottish electorate (in fact, at present, less than half— 47%) favour Independence, the number one policy of the SNP.

Surely Scotland could not and would not break away from the UK if only a tiny majority voted to leave the Union?

In reality, what if even , say, 57% favoured Independence? Would that really be enough to tear Scotland from England? It might be far more divisive in Scotland than the Leave result was in the UK overall in 2016.

The SNP has not done so well in its other areas of responsibility, a fact that might explain why it has only 64 seats out of 129 in the Scottish Parliament, a plurality but not a majority (the SNP governs with the 7 votes of the Green Party): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament.

No radical conclusion from me. I do not see the present Con, Lab, or LibDem parties enthusing Scotland much in terms of Westminster elections, so it seems that the SNP will remain the only game in town, north of the notional, if not “national”, border.

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“The Great Reset” starts in only 5 weeks…33-year cycle. 1923. 1956. 1989. 2022. 2055…

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Diary Blog, 27 November 2021

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The LibDems have been washed-up since they “enabled” the misnamed “Conservative” Party, under part-Jews David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne, to impose wrongheaded austerity on the poorer two-thirds of the British people.

As for Reform UK, a pathetic “controlled opposition” vehicle, but a straw which may be clutched at by many in the absence of a real social-national party; the lineal successor to Brexit Party and UKIP.

Green Party upswing is another “grasp at straws” sign of voter desperation or frustration.

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Well, this week brings another victory for me over political journalist John Rentoul; I scored 7/10 as against his 4/10. I did not know the answers to questions 5, 6 and 7.

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System politicians and msm talking heads (and the medical establishment) are still pushing the “it’s an existential threat to humanity” narrative, and that is all you will hear and see on the BBC, Sky, ITN etc. They have painted themselves into a corner with their panic, lies, and obfuscations.

We are Chinese, if you please! We are Chinese if you don’t please!...”

The mask zealots are truly insane and/or brainwashed. I had to argue, briefly, with a cheeky Ch… I mean Chinese… student in Waitrose in mid-2020. Told the interfering little alien to get lost.

No…

(((They))) truly are “the simulacrum of the human“…

Telling…The people do not want either main System party “leader” as Prime Minister. The people really want social-nationalism, but they themselves do not even know it, because the repression on free speech, and the lies of the ZOG/NWO msm, have them completely confused.

On that modelling, Labour would need support from both the SNP and the LibDems to form even a working minority government; the Conservative Party would in theory be able to govern with SNP support. However, the price of that would be, at the least, another Scottish Independence referendum.

Writing as advocatus diabolus, I suppose that the Conservative Party could buy the SNP by offering actual Independence without a referendum, but that might cause a political explosion north of the border, where about half of the Scottish voters are opposed to, or at least not in favour of, “independence” (independence from the UK/England, but not necesssarily from the international finance system, NWO/ZOG, NATO etc…).

Still, continuing in the cynical vein, and as I have blogged before, if Scotland were “independent” (from the UK), that would pretty much kill off Labour as a party of (“rump UK” or England/Wales) government. Once you take out the 48 SNP MPs and the one Labour MP from the Commons, as well as the 4 LibDems and 6 Conservatives, it becomes clear that Labour would never be able to form even a minority government, unless there were some kind of “peaceful revolution” in England. On the above modelling, Con 289, Lab 264, LibDem 7. (plus other parties).

From (just over) a year ago

Happened to see my blog post from 14 November last year. It has worn quite well. I notice that —no fault of mine— there is a slight Groundhog Day feel about it… https://ianrobertmillard.org/2020/11/14/diary-blog-14-november-2020/.

I may make a more exact “year ago” posting a feature on the blog. Here is my offering from exactly a year ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2020/11/27/diary-blog-27-november-2020/.

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[Levitan: Above Eternal Peace]

The Chase Celebrity Special

Saw an old (not sure how old) “celebrity” version of The Chase quiz show. Featured Jewish-Zionist zealot Rachel Riley, who seemed to be pretty ignorant, though not much worse than the others. She even got a very simple maths question wrong (actually not wrong, because she failed to answer). Ghastly former MP, Edwina Currie, was the only one to be knocked out before the end. Surprisingly, though, the remaining three won £66,000 for charity, so that was nice, anyway.

Those who watch TV quiz shows will know that the “celebrity” shows are invariably cringeworthy, and lead one to speculate why hugely well-paid celebrity faces are often so hugely ignorant. I have seen few such “celebrities” acquit themselves well. One of the few who did was studiedly foppish interior designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Llewelyn-Bowen]. I think that that was also on The Chase.

Keir Starmer

Heard part of an interview with Keir Starmer, conducted by Nick Robinson. Starmer’s first point, even before it was explored further by Robinson, was how he had done everything he could to stop “anti-Semitism” in Labour (I think that his pleasant phrase was “tear out“…).

Seems that Starmer’s only real interest is in bringing aid and comfort to the Jews, despite the fact that they are numerically few (250,000-300,000), and so relatively insignificant in electoral terms.

Starmer admitted that, at home, his family does celebrate Jewish customary holidays. Sadly, Nick Robinson was too polite to ask whether Starmer, on such occasions, wears the little skullcap (“yarmulka“) which I believe (rightly or not) is de rigueur.

Nick Robinson is himself at least half-Jewish: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Robinson_(journalist).

On radio (the interview was also shown on TV), Robinson’s intro mentioned the problem Starmer has with seeming credible to the public were he to appear, as Prime Minister, on the step of 10, Downing Street. I am scarcely favourable to Starmer but, surely, after Boris-idiot, almost anyone would be credible, or at least not seem worse?

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I may listen later.

This is now descending into total madness (again). A “variant” of a virus that kills about 1 in every 1,000 in the UK (and 1 out of 4,000 in the world), and this stupid yet evil Cabinet of clowns is apparently going to mandate the facemask nonsense again! We are pretty much at war now, not with “Covid” but with this evil Con regime, its equally evil fake “Labour” supposed opposition, and with a transnational conspiracy with several (to use Biblical language) heads and/or horns.

So the police shut down mild heckling of “antifa”-type “useful idiots”? Reminds me of the Trafalgar Square disgrace which continued for years in the 1980s, with amplified yelling 24/7 outside the South African Embassy, while the police, on political orders, allowed it and in fact facilitated it.

System conspiracy.

Birmingham men“?! Hardy ha ha…

Good grief! The gall and madness surprises even me! A consultant cardiologist is “fact-checked” by some bimbo with a “degree” in…wait for it… magazine journalism!

Kristalltag Wien! Jetzt!

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Diary Blog, 25 November 2021, including the socio-political misuse of marketing and advertising

Misuse of corporate marketing to pursue a socio-political agenda

There’s a certain kind of business leader who wants to interfere in social and political matters by using corporate funds to pursue an agenda that has nothing to do with the goods or services being sold. The Calvin Klein ad shown is but one example.

Another factor is the influence of socio-politically tendentious advertising and marketing directors. See later below about the once-ubiquitous clothing company, Benetton.

Naturally, the above factors take place under the umbrella of an international or transnational agenda being pursued by secret or semi-secret groups and cabals. In other words, this goes beyond the idiosyncratic views of a few business types.

The racemixing agenda of Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi] (basically, elimination of white Europeans by racemixing with blacks and browns, the resulting mass to be ruled by Jews and part-Jews) is now adopted by powerful interests across the Western world.

In fact, that agenda is now seen all around us. In the UK, practically every TV ad has to have blacks in it, and mixed-race children. I blogged about this deliberate campaign a few years ago: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/12/10/tv-ads-and-soaps-are-the-propaganda-preferred-by-the-system-in-the-uk/.

That has become even more blatant this Christmas.

The same socio-political programme can be detected easily in TV dramas etc. Even the general public is now aware of, and trying to push back against, the tide of trash of that sort. However, such pushback will be unsuccessful. The public has no power; the levers are all controlled by the conspirators, often (though not all) Jewish.

The propaganda noted is not aimed at people of my (middle or late middle) age, not even at younger 30-somethings or 20-somethings; it is aimed at those who are so young that their undeveloped and relatively uncritical brains can be strongly influenced by such material. Children and young teens. The idea is to normalize the idea of mixed-race relationships, marriages, and offspring.

Many will recall the horrible Benetton posters of the 1980s and 1990s: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benetton_Group#Marketing. They were designed by an individual who later stood for election in
Italy on a supposedly radical platform: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliviero_Toscani; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_in_the_Fist.

Did the “controversial” advertising help Benetton itself? Not really. After initial publicity and (largely hostile) public reaction, Benetton faded: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benetton_Group#History.

The Body Shop [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Shop] was another commercial enterprise that mixed selling things with a socio-political agenda. The joint founder, Anita Roddick, copied the Body Shop idea word for word from a shop of the same name in Berkeley, California, and she then made a huge success out of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Roddick.

My problem with Roddick’s business (in the 1980s) was not its environmental campaigning as such, but the fact that its employees had to subject their own views to those of Roddick, as I understand. For me, in terms of the Threefold Social Order [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_threefolding] concept, that was an example of the economic sphere interfering, and so wrongfully, with the political sphere or “sphere of rights”.

In fact, much of the Anita Roddick Body Shop project was permeated by fakery, though I have no doubt that Roddick believed in much of what she said.

I was once slightly acquainted with the family of a girl from London who told me, when I last encountered her (on a train from Blackheath to London Bridge, sometime in the mid-1980s), that she was going to work in the (then just going to open) Body Shop in Moscow.

The girl’s father was a senior official of the Foreign Office Research Department, who owned a tremendous library of Russian art books, as well as some high-quality Scotch whisky.

The girl had originally wanted to join the same part of the Foreign Office as her father, but the familial connection had apparently made that impossible. I wonder whether she ever did get to Moscow to work, and whether it worked out.

I have in fact just now discovered that Body Shop either did not open in Moscow in the 1980s, or perhaps did open but later closed, perhaps re-opening in 2006: see https://citywire.co.uk/funds-insider/news/russia-ready-for-body-shop-experience/a269320. At any rate, it is there now: https://www.thebodyshop.ru/. Anita Roddick herself died in 2007, at the age of 64, and the Body Shop, less “activist”, is now owned by other interests.

[Update, 6 April 2024: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/05/the-body-shop-debts-suppliers-landlords-trade-creditors-administration].

Reverting to the main point, we see a campaign now, on a wide front, to use (misuse) the vast resources of international business for socio-political propaganda in support of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan and, therefore, some of the aims of “Zionist Occupation Government” [ZOG] and the “New World Order” [NWO].

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Tweets seen

https://twitter.com/BritishDeanV51/status/1463620753824309252?s=20

https://twitter.com/Steve_Laws_/status/1463831964537049090?s=20

https://twitter.com/Steve_Laws_/status/1463798820932890624?s=20

https://twitter.com/Steve_Laws_/status/1463778359519940611?s=20

…so that said migrant-invaders can be ferried to the UK…

https://twitter.com/Steve_Laws_/status/1463628089653665800?s=20

https://twitter.com/Steve_Laws_/status/1463617481759678465?s=20

The migration invasion is being excused and indeed facilitated by “refugees welcome” dimwits, and/or politically-tendentious “activists”, and that applies particularly to those in the political and mass media milieux.

That (see above) tweeter, Julia Rampen, is or has been a freelance msm scribbler and talking head, who works now for IMIX, a public relations/pressure group with pro-migration invasion aims.

IMIX has co-signed open letters with other organizations, including one connected with a Clare Moseley. See details about Clare Moseley: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3924505/married-calais-jungle-charity-boss-who-romped-with-toyboy-migrant-fears-for-her-life-after-refugee-lover-tried-to-burn-down-her-hq/; and https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/charity-commission-opens-statutory-inquiry-into-refugee-charity.html.

Seems that the often-lax Charity Commission has had to step in.

More about the head of that charity: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/claremoseley

The IMIX organization has this website: https://imix.org.uk/our-funders/. Pretty well-funded…Even “Comic Relief” is funding it.

The “big battalions” are on the side of the invasion and the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. Only we, “we happy few“, stand ready to defend Western civilization.

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Interesting in part, despite the tendentious commentary.

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https://twitter.com/DogswaldMosley/status/1463213140624224257?s=20

Almost all msm scribblers and talking heads are enemies.

Trouble is… Migration Watch, though very measured, very accurate, very respectful of law and established order etc, basically fails to see that this is a transnational conspiracy, and that the “British” Government (the Cabinet of which is now mainly Jewish and/or non-white, non-British) is part of that conspiracy (the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan).

Merely presenting statistics and then expecting a pack of corrupt sinister clowns like the present government to “do the decent thing”, or even the obvious thing, is a complete waste of time.

Video from 1939

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Diary Blog, 20 November 2021

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Army

Idly perusing Wikipedia, I saw that the Danish Army now consists of about 25,000 men (and women), 63,000 reserves, and about 600 tracked and wheeled armoured vehicles.

Modest on the world scale, of course, but I now see that the British Army, once mighty, now has only 82,000 active personnel, little more than three times the Danish equivalent, and only 30,000 reserves.

In fact, proportionately, Denmark has far more troops than does the UK, because the population of Denmark is less than a tenth of that of the UK.

Of course, mere numbers are only part of the story in the contemporary era, where technology plays such a big part. All the same, numbers are still part of the story.

At the end of the Second World War, the total strength of the British Army was over 3 million, and even in 1980, just before the Falklands campaign, 159,000 active and 63,000 reserves.

The notional 82,000 active troops in 2021 would be the lowest muster since 1780. Of course the population was then a fraction of what it now is: even in 1801, when the first British census was taken, England and Wales had only 10.5 million inhabitants (and Ireland about 5 million, interestingly).

As said, numbers are only one factor. As said, technology is also key. So, however, are factors such as morale, motivation etc. Those, at least, have not changed since the time of Napoleon, and indeed of Clausewitz. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz.

One hears of and sees, in the cheaper newspapers, stories of how drug abuse is rife in the British armed forces, not to mention drunkenness (that, of course, is scarcely a new problem!).

The British armed forces overall have about 10% of their numbers women. How effective they are is a question for others to answer.

As to the Army generally, one sees reports that of the 82,000 active soldiers claimed, only about 50,000 are actually fit for duty. In any case, very many are what the Americans call “rear echelon” forces, not frontline fighting men. Not that that means that those rear forces are useless. Napoleon himself pointed out that “an army marches on its stomach“, and in the modern era a fighting spearhead needs a very broad rear support, everything from supply and logistics to pensions and banking.

Still, at a time when the clownish political leadership of the UK seems intent on provoking Russia, I wonder how our forces would, if push came to shove, stack up against at least the more elite Russian contingents.

[members of the elite Air Descent Contingent march in Red Square]

Britain and all Europe should be standing with Russia at this time. Contra Zionism. Contra Islamism. Spiritual Eurasia, contra mundum, if necessary.

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Well, once again I beat political journalist John Rentoul. My score was 8/10 this week. I did not know the answers to questions 6 and 7.

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Exactly. Nowhere, arguably, is that more obvious than in the UK.

Sadly misguided. The places where the “hundreds of thousands” need to go, suitably prepared, are not the beaches of Kent and Sussex, but the TV studios, radio stations, the “newspaper” propaganda offices, the Westminster monkeyhouse, and other System installations of importance.

Wherever Jews have power, non-Jews eventually become victims or slaves. Look at history. The ridiculous thing is that, in the UK, many of those who oppose Jewish supremacism in Israel or occupied Palestine, effectively support the Jewish lobby in Europe, eg in the UK itself; they pay lip-service to the “holocaust” farrago, in particular, and applaud the Zionist efforts to destroy free speech.

“Millennial Woes” has now been removed from YouTube and is only on Odysee. More censorship…

Worth listening to.

Controlled-opposition kingpin Farage. Was he paid millions, or tens of millions, offshore, as a reward for stabbing his own Brexit Party in the back in 2019, thus ensuring a Boris-idiot “Conservative” government (and ensuring, also, the binning of Corbyn, so that the Jewish lobby could retake control over the Labour Party)? Maybe (I do not know). Will he get a “peerage” (absurd and almost valueless though they now are)? Maybe (I do not know). Farage’s crony, Claire Fox, is already elevated to the Lords…

Sink them all, in the Channel, if that is the only way.

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[“Russia has no borders; it is wherever there are Russians”]

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[Neuschwanstein]

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Griffin is right. He must be— he is in agreement with me!

Good to see resistance in Rotterdam and Vienna.

Wien! Not a government window in Vienna should remain intact until the Covid police state is stood down! Kristalltag jetzt!

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Diary Blog, 19 November 2021

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Last broadcast in 2006, by which time, I suppose, it was becoming clear that the UK the music represented had almost ceased to exist…

Incidentally, the individual responsible for getting rid of the Radio 4 UK theme was a Jew, this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Damazer. Ironically, the arranger of the theme was also Jewish: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_4_UK_Theme.

Imperial War Museum

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10218385/Imperial-War-Museum-bosses-say-sorry-ending-Remembrance-Sunday-silence-woke-rap.html

I have not been to the Imperial War Museum since the mid-1980s when I was frequently in the vicinity. Since then, the IWM has, I believe, given over a large area to a permanent “holocaust” propaganda display. Once you start purveying that kind of ahistorical fakery, there is no going back, and you end up inviting a taxpayer-funded (why?) bunch of cretins to shout out “anti-racist” (in reality, anti-White and anti-British) black “rap”-crap on Remembrance Day.

The Daily Mail, of course, completely tied in with the Jewish lobby, would never make the connection…

In fact, the nonsense reported on is but part of the frenzied racemixing and anti-European agenda now being promoted everywhere— in TV drama, TV ads, across all msm platforms. The very significant year 2022 is fast approaching, the next key year in the 33-year cycle, and with it the agenda of the transnational conspiracy usually abbreviated to NWO/ZOG.

Not that I favour Churchill’s misconceived and evil war against the German Reich, of course, but I doubt that the rap-crap mentioned that.

Incidentally, imagine the (much greater) furore if a “rap” or other group had launched, at that museum, a satirical or other attack on the baleful influence of Jews or, indeed, blacks, at some point in history. That’s right, neither of those would happen. Then ask yourself why…

Ehrentempel

[“Feierlichkeiten zum 9. November in München. Ehrentempel auf dem Königsplatz”]

Ehrentempel means “Temple of Honour”:

“erected… in 1935, housing the sarcophagi of the sixteen members of the Party who had been killed in the failed Beer Hall Putsch (the Blutzeugen, “blood witnesses”). On 9 January 1947 the main architectural features of the temples were destroyed by the U.S. Army as part of denazification.” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrentempel].

I cannot read the names on the U.S. military document below, but some persons without military rank are suggesting destruction of the structure. Probably Jews; who else, arguably, would make such a vandalistic suggestion? “…most offensive” and “dangerous“? Typical language, also arguably. We see the same terms used by the Zionists in 2021 Britain.

Free speech

“In democratic societies, freedom of speech is sacred. Citizens have a right to speak and therefore to be heard.” [Michal Herzog, wife of the Israeli President, quoted in Jewish News/Times of Israel: https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/michal-herzog-how-britains-jews-prepared-me-to-be-first-lady/].

“Their” hypocrisy, as always, is stunning.

In the UK, Jews are at the forefront of the free speech battle, constantly trying to use “lawfare” and undue influence to shut down free speech, in particular any mention of Jews that is not laudatory, as well as any critical examination of their history and behaviour.

I myself have been attacked by them, and continue to be attacked by Jew-Zionists: see, eg, https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/13/when-i-was-a-victim-of-a-malicious-zionist-complaint/; and https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/.

Tweets seen

Does Priti Patel get monies directly from Israel, or only (that much is already proven) from “British” Jews?

I have already blogged to the effect that only a massive window-breaking event (“Kristalltag“?) in Vienna, and soon, might wake up the Austrian people before the biosecurity police state’s grip tightens yet again.

The System will say anything, and apparently do anything, to get enmeshed in Eastern Europe. Remember 1939 (or at least remember reading about it)? The governments of Britain and France gave the government of Poland a worthless guarantee, that is that Britain and France would come to the aid of Poland were it to be attacked.

Well, we know what happened. Germany did attack, and that triggered declarations of war against Germany by Britain and France, but —crucially— no troops or ships were sent to aid Poland. None.

The British and French governments used Germany’s invasion as an excuse to declare war, but Poland was left to sink or swim. It sank, partly because the Soviet Union also invaded, scarcely opposed, from the East. Britain and France did not declare war against the Soviet Union. Poland had no chance. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland; and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland.

The upshot of the above is that Britain did not help Poland and —again crucially— never could have done. Neither Britain nor France could have opposed the massive forces of the German Reich and the Soviet Union, yet it was the worthless joint guarantee which (together with the refusal by Churchill to conclude armistice in 1940, after the Fall of France) condemned much of Europe to years of war.

Surely the “British” government is not about to repeat in some farcical form its mistakes of 1938 and 1939? NATO is becoming aggressive in the East.

War with Russia could trigger a massive conflagration in which, inter alia, the UK might be almost entirely destroyed.

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More tweets seen

This happens to all dissidents now. Peter Hitchens has had a similar problem, as did I (before a Jew pack had Twitter expel me in 2018).

Good grief! What on Earth is that cretin Drakeford doing?!

Hitler and Martin Luther King on the same page!

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The biosecurity police state, this time in Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20211119/germany-passes-law-reform-for-sweeping-covid-measures/.

Eventually, the problem (and similar problems) will only be solved one way, but that is something that cannot (in the new unfree UK) be expressed publicly.

“There are men to whom a tree is sacred” [Chekhov, possibly —I write from memory— quoted in Gorky’s Literary Portraits]. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Literary-Portraits-Maxim-Gorky/dp/0898755808.

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“I’m lovin’ it!

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I like it.

The mask of “woke” fakery is slipping. They lost, so out come the snarls…

I have only one problem with the young man who was on trial, which is that he should have shown more of a stiff upper lip at that trial.

As for Paul Mason, and as I have blogged previously, some of his writings on economics have been interesting, but from the political point of view he is a complete idiot.

Incidentally, I often wondered, when Mason was on TV regularly, and when he posted on Twitter, why he is so venomously against social-nationalism. I discovered that he is part-Jew. That may account for it.

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Diary Blog, 18 November 2021

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I noticed that my early 2019 blog post about civilization and its renewal from the ashes has had a number of hits already today. I therefore repost it below. It covers the all-important or overarching issues that should concern us.

Re-reading it now, I note that I “predicted” (examined as a distinct possibility) a “pandemic”, as well as a possible NATO-Russia war in Europe.

Well, so far no such war, thank God, though there are “rumours of wars”. As to “pandemic”, we have a sort-of pandemic, though not one that, so far, poses an existential threat to civilization (because in the world generally, it has —even on the alarmist statistics— killed only about one in every four thousand people in the world (about one in a thousand in the UK).

What I did not, perhaps could not, predict was the weaponization of that “pandemic” (the Covid-19 virus, as it turned out) as a means for a transnational conspiratorial “Great Reset” of the world’s societies and economies, together with the installation of a biosecurity police state in many countries.

We approach 2022, the most significant year since 1989 (and before 1989, 1956 and 1923). Society will look even more different in 2055 than our present 2021 looks when compared to the Europe of 1956-1989.

Tweets seen today

Rachel Johnson, like Ghislaine Maxwell, is part-Jew, of course. My 2019 blog post about Ghislaine Maxwell, the Jew criminal Epstein, and unpleasant and useless “prince of the realm” Andrew Windsor has been another rather popular page since its publication: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/08/11/the-jew-epstein-and-prince-andrew-the-british-royal-family-has-another-scandal-maybe-its-time-to-just-get-rid-of-them/.

There is no real official Opposition, just a pathetic facade of one, fronted by Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer and thick-as-two-short-planks Angela Rayner.

Incidentally, it is good to see that tweeter “@eternalenglish” is back from Twitter prison after a week or two. One of the best Twitter accounts at present, which is why (((they))) make malicious complaints about him, in the attempt to deplatform him.

Those who put out such efforts “deplatforming” English social-national Twitter accounts have obviously never considered what might be the ultimate result of removing even the very limited freedom of expression that now exists in the UK. The end result might be rather unpleasant for the “deplatformers”.

Britain has had poor Cabinet ministers in past history, both recent and not so recent, but has it ever had a Cabinet comprising such a collection of clowns, idiots, and ridiculous little monkeys (few of whom are even English) as over the past decade? I think not.

Idiotic people such as tweeter “@Corazzz” have been so brainwashed that all one can do is laugh at them. As a matter of fact, I saw an old woman filling up her car a couple of days ago, alone in the car yet wearing a disposable facemask (which is not only all but useless but also, having been —probably— used multiple times, must be replete with bacteria of all sorts).

The old woman slowly filled up her car, still wearing that mask, then went into the kiosk to pay! You would think that, if she were that afraid of picking up the dreaded virus, she would have (as was possible) paid at the pump. “Against stupidity, the Gods themselves struggle in vain” [Schiller, die Jungfrau von Orleans].

The old woman then drove away, still alone in her car, and still wearing her miniature security blanket…I mean facemask.

The transnational conspiracy is now hysterically pulling out all the stops to destroy European race and culture, as the year 2022 approaches. Every TV ad in the UK now has blacks and browns and the mixed-race in it, often outnumbering white actors; the same is true of every TV drama.

I examined this years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/12/10/tv-ads-and-soaps-are-the-propaganda-preferred-by-the-system-in-the-uk/.

In fact, I happened to see an ad on TV today for toys. No actors, just animated puppets or cartoons of some kind, and there were more non-whites than whites. This is not “reflecting the diversity of the UK”, as the weasels are wont to claim. The UK is still over 80% white, and even England is about 80% white. No, these ads and dramas are no reflection of reality, but are social engineering aimed at creating a new or different reality… propaganda aimed mainly at young children, so that they accept as normal a UK where the majority will be non-white (black, or brown, or mixed-race). Evil. All part of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Long

[New World Order exposition]

[Jeremy Lee was born as Jeremy William Dominic Lee. He died on April 28, 2012 in Ravensbourne, Queensland, Australia].

Explanatory word

I should add a word as to why I repost rather many things, mostly from Twitter. The reason is that I post what I can while I can. “One human soul is a big audience”.

It is clear that Twitter and other online fora are being slowly squeezed. First the most influential Twitter accounts (I mean of significance, not those of “One Direction”, or this or that System comedian) are removed (as mine was, in 2018, after the usual pack of Jews cobbled together a faked-up complaint). David Icke, Katie Hopkins, Alison Chabloz, to name only a few, have already been removed. Nick Kollerstrom was removed only last week, after a complaint from the Jewish “CST” strongarm and snooping org.

After the most prominent are removed, any others supporting European race, culture, and values.

How long can blogs such as mine survive? Maybe a year or two. The “usual suspects” are already bearing down on the Online Harms Bill (eg the recent CST demand for, in effect, in reality, anonymity for Jew Zionist trolls but not for anyone else).

I do not expect a blog such as mine to be available for more than a few years. 2023, perhaps 2024. Not much longer.

Once all (meaningful) freedom of expression is shut down, there is effectively a ZOG/NWO police state in existence; in existence and openly at war with us.

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Ian Blackford, a typical on-the-make SNP drone, an ex-investment banker; also typical in his hypocrisy.

Exactly…

Of course, you know (((who))) or (((what))) is behind that kind of propaganda, at least 90% of it? Yes, “them” (((them))).

Priti Patel? Well, you can write off pretty much anything said by a Jewish-lobby puppet of her sort.

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Diary Blog, 16 November 2021

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Tweets seen

Petitions are all very well, writing to MPs is OK (I suppose), same with writing letters to msm or other news outlets, or tweeting, or (yes) blogging, but at the end of the day, only boots on the ground will make any significant, let alone decisive, difference.

Controlled-opposition kingpin Farage is OK having a go at minor (if violent) anti-British (indeed, anti-European) Islamists and other nuisances, who have little influence or power, but I have never seen him criticize the Jew-Zionists who effectively control the UK’s msm. Many of them hate us, our history, our people, with a passion…

Note how the transnational conspiracy (NWO/ZOG) tends to promote those who have little loyalty or real connection to any tradition or heritage. Sajid Javid, Pakistani by origin, though born in the UK. A kind of ex-Muslim apostate, who had so little cultural “anchoring” that he espoused (and still does) the self-seeking nonsense written by the Jewess who called herself Ayn Rand. Javid is not Muslim, not Christian, and of course not Jewish, despite his near-worship of the Jews and Israel.

Take another case: David Cameron-Levita, his forbears a mixture of wealthy and notionally “aristocratic” persons, and Jewish bankers who were keen to apply British “upper class” camouflage by sending their offspring to Eton and Oxford, and by joining White’s (club). Where is his real racial-cultural heritage? Another part-Jew is “George” Osborne. In fact the Cameron-Levita government was full of similar examples.

Take yet another case: Priti Patel. Another worshipper of the Jews and Israel (and, it goes without saying, money). Her Indian heritage seems to mean little to her (in any case, her parents were remote from India itself, having been born in or living in Uganda before coming to the UK). What are her beliefs, her culture? Like Javid, vague, almost non-existent.

Again, Priti Patel worships the Jews and Israel, and meets secretly with their representatives, though also sometimes openly. Indeed, only today she was at a lunch hosted by the sinister Jewish strongarm and snooping organization called “Community Security Trust” or “CST”:

The “CST” is engaged in a continual battle against free speech. Only a week or so ago, they were crowing about having “deplatformed” (from Twitter) the thinker Nick Kollerstrom [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Kollerstrom].

The present evil and yet (?) chaotic government is full of similar types as noted.

Look at “Boris” himself. Even his name is a self-invention. A part-Jew, but also part-Levantine by origin, born in New York City, and brought up largely in the USA and Belgium, despite attending Eton and then Oxford.

“Boris” had an American upbringing, in part, and was described in his Oxford college’s yearbook as “American”; he even had a U.S. passport until 2019!

This all fits in with the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: destruction of the white European race and culture, and its replacement by a bastardized —and basically negrified, or black/brown— mixture of peoples (and a correspondingly-similar cultural mix); and the whole lot to be ruled by Jews and part-Jews.

The above is yet another “conspiracy theory” which just happens to be happening all around us. You only have to open your eyes to see it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi

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Diary Blog, 14 November 2021, with a few thoughts about writers and films

Angela Merkel retires from public life

[Merkel’s legacy]

A few thoughts on the subject of writers, and filmed books

The writer Wilbur Smith has died.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-59278275;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Smith

I think that I have only read one or two of his books, long ago, in the 1970s. He sold 140 million copies altogether. When I visited Rhodesia in 1977, I found that the only large (perhaps even, the only) bookshop in Salisbury (now Harare) sold few books from Europe or North America (because of the anti-Rhodesia sanctions imposed, and because of shortage of foreign currency). South African or locally-published books about how to look after your horse, dog, even tropical fish, seemed to be the main stock-in-trade. Those, and Wilbur Smith.

Smith’s huge success as author did not translate well onto film, judging by the two films seen by me (Gold, and Shout at the Devil). Some have thought that the film The Wild Geese was based on a book by Smith, but that is not so [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Geese].

At one time, I thought that the book The Rain Goddess [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rain_Goddess] was one of his, but in fact it was written by another writer, Peter Stiff [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stiff].

Some writers, some characters, do not translate well onto film, or are hard to film credibly. In my opinion, Raffles has never been brought to life successfully. The same could be said of Chesterton’s Father Brown stories.

One writer usually poorly-represented in the films of his books was Alistair Maclean; at least eleven of whose books were filmed. The best I have seen is probably Where Eagles Dare, though Ice Station Zebra is also not too bad. Some of the films based on Alistair Maclean books are very poor indeed, though, e.g. When Eight Bells Toll [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Eight_Bells_Toll_(film)].

Even much-filmed John le Carre has often not translated well onto screen. The BBC series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was incomparable, its sequel, Smiley’s People, also very good (and another mini-series, A Perfect Spy, was not bad, lifted by the stellar performance of Peter Egan); le Carre’s stuff is better in such series format, hard to squeeze into the couple of hours of a feature film.

The Tinker, Tailor film released a decade ago was, for me, pretty poor, pedestrian, though it seems that only the more thoughtful critics agreed with me! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_Tailor_Soldier_Spy_(film)#Critical_response.

It may be that the best feature film adaptation of le Carre was the black and white The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, with Richard Burton:

I myself rarely read any kind of fiction now; when young, I did. In the adventure genre, my favourite was Hammond Innes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammond_Innes]; rather forgotten now, I suppose. Four of his books were filmed, but (in my view) only one quite well, The White South, which was filmed as Hell Below Zero; the film contains historically-valuable, though unpleasant, footage of actual Antarctic whaling.

My favourite Hammond Innes book is The Strange Land, but it was never filmed.

Some writers’ books, which you would think would have made exciting films, never were filmed. Desmond Bagley [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Bagley] comes to mind. Adventure in tropical or other wild parts of the world: espionage, crime, treasure-hunting. I have only read a couple of his books. I recall reading The Vivero Letter about 50 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vivero_Letter_(novel).

[Update, 14 November 2022: since writing the above, I have become aware that The Vivero Letter was later, much later, filmed— in 1998, thirty years after the publication of the book. It seems that two of Bagley’s other books were also filmed, in all three cases unsuccessfully as far as fame is concerned— I had never heard of the films].

Desmond Bagley, like Hammond Innes, can create a credible and quite gripping world out of strange and unusual events.

Another author whose work went largely but not entirely unfilmed was Elleston Trevor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elleston_Trevor. His spy story The Berlin Memorandum, written under the nom de plume “Adam Hall”, was filmed as The Quiller Memorandum, though not very credibly, in my opinion. Somewhat in the Len Deighton area [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Deighton].

Trevor is arguably better known as the writer of the book The Flight of the Phoenix, filmed twice. As usual, the earlier film was the better by far.

Len Deighton himself (he is still around, presently aged 92) has had a number (I think three) of his early books filmed, and quite successfully, perhaps (?) because they are not as reflective and “psychological” as those of le Carre and some others. The IPCRESS File, Funeral in Berlin, Billion Dollar Brain. Indeed, his own later work is more complex.

[title sequence from Billion Dollar Brain; directed by Ken Russell; music by Richard Rodney Bennett]

Tweets seen

This kind of “pile-on” is typical of Twitter, of course. Not that Twitter is of any real importance now. Most of the really interesting accounts have been “suspended” (expelled), including mine!

My own Twitter account was removed in 2018 after a big effort by a pack of Jew extremists. Now we see almost any “dissident” account worth looking at removed. The better-known names include David Icke, Mark Collett, Laura Towler, Alison Chabloz, Katie Hopkins, the London Forum. Many others.

The purge on Twitter continues: only a week ago, the account of thinker Nick Kollerstrom was removed. Why? Usual (((suspects))), of course…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Kollerstrom

I repost tweets on the blog as a quick and easy way of making points or illustrating matters, but in fact Twitter has little real political influence. I have blogged in the past about this. I am always seeing accounts with, supposedly, thousands of “followers” yet only a handful of “likes” or retweets on any given tweet. Some accounts do get hundreds and even thousands of likes/retweets, but then you look at the profile and find that those accounts (mostly of the “famous”) have hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of Twitter followers.

As I have blogged previously, it says much about the self-describing “Left” that their big idea is to “deplatform” this or that person or organization. Nothing to say about society or how to form a better one; just negativity. That is why such people rarely get anywhere politically. Their lives revolve around Twitter. Many of the Zionist Jew cabal on Twitter are like that. They even have a word for themselves, “J-Twitter”.

As for the campaign of propaganda (not only “Covid” passports etc but the whole racemixing campaign), I was alerting the people to that years ago. Now, many are waking up.

However, that propaganda campaign is not aimed at people like me (65-y-o), nor indeed at those in their fifties or forties, nor even at those in their thirties and twenties. This is propaganda, and subliminal propaganda, aimed mainly at children, whose critical faculties are at an early stage of development.

The idea is to normalize the multikulti society, the society composed of various and very different races and ethnic groups, which society will then form the mixed-race mass promoted by Coudenhove-Kalergi.

See: https://www.westernspring.co.uk/the-coudenhove-kalergi-plan-the-genocide-of-the-peoples-of-europe/; and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi.

TV ads and “soaps” are an important part of this propaganda campaign: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/12/10/tv-ads-and-soaps-are-the-propaganda-preferred-by-the-system-in-the-uk/. Written by me in December 2018, and even more pertinent today.

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The ignorance of the police about the very laws they are supposed to enforce is one of the most alarming things today. They often seem to have a completely wrong idea about what the law actually is. This became apparent during the stupid “lockdown” shutdown.

Man proposes, God disposes…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10194941/Gurapareet-Bains-claimed-invent-worlds-healthiest-meal-dies-heart-attack-aged-43.html

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After the earlier discussion of writers, books, films, and film music, here is the full suite from Billion Dollar Brain, music written by Richard Rodney Bennett [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rodney_Bennett]

John Bean— obituary

https://counter-currents.com/2021/11/remembering-john-bean/

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bean_(politician).

General Donkey speaks

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/14/uk-must-be-ready-for-war-with-russia-says-armed-forces-chief

Actually, I love donkeys, but not those carrying the rank of general officer.

Imagine a real war between NATO (i.e. the USA, i.e., in reality, NWO/ZOG) and Russia. It would quite likely turn nuclear. Britain is still the USA’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier” in the words, I believe of Roosevelt. You could say goodbye to the UK and most of the British people, were the UK to be attacked; we are just too small, geographically, and have too many people (and too many key targets) in far too small a space. Britain could do a lot of damage to Russia, but not destroy Russia. Russia, however, could destroy the UK, in effect.

Why is Britain still being the poodle of the American NWO cabals? It’s madness. Better to join with Russia, against both NWO/ZOG and, if necessary, China, and certainly against both Zionism and Islamism.

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Marr is of course compromized, in general terms: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2200493/Andrew-Marr-caught-kissing-groping-mystery-woman-outside-Soho-nightclub.html; not in a position to be too censorious as to the sexual aspect, though of course the facts in his case were very different, in that no misuse of public funds occurred.

A video worth watching

Late tweets

Denison’s Island. I have been there, in 1967, aged 10, with my school class. There was no-one else there at the time except the custodians. Strange place, quite small inside (the walls are over 12 ft thick in places), with a small area of lawn and a few old cannon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Denison. 54 years ago. Hard to believe.

The constant and seemingly neverending push for vengeance (not “justice”) against Germany and German people by the international Jew-Zionist lobby is, quite exactly, “a kind of distasteful Old Testament thing“, akin to the behaviour exhibited by the Israelites thousands of years ago.

For true European people, the idea of carrying on persecution of individuals, or a state, or country, for decades or even hundreds of years (will the Zionists stop whining and/or bullying in 2045?), for alleged crimes which are not continuing, is indeed distasteful.

The Japanese, or many of them, treated Allied prisoners abominably during WW2. We, meaning the British, after the war ended, hanged or shot a relatively few and clearly proven war criminals, persons who had cruelly or brutally transgressed the accepted rules of war. The rest were released.

Now, nearly 80 years later, we do not seek out Japanese who were 18-y-o typists or even sentries, and put them on trial in a grotesque parody of courtroom “justice”, which is actually (in the case of of 90 or 100 year old SS men or German female ex-typists) a deliberately-contrived ordeal because of the defendants’ age and medical condition.

Likewise, no-one has suggested that those who, at age 18 or 16 were typists or security guards at, say, Los Alamos, should be tried for “facilitating” mass murder of Japanese civilians at Hiroshima. That would be not only unjust but, as said, grotesque.

The same could be said of British people who worked as typists or teenage Home Guard personnel etc at RAF bases from where bombers left to devastate the cities of the Reich in 1941-45, killing between 600,000-800,000 people, mostly civilians, mostly women and children.

The German bombings of the UK killed far fewer, 60,000 or so, but that was still devastation on a wide scale; yet the British do not constantly whine about it now, and did not at the time, or immediately after 1945.

The attitude of many Jews, particularly the hardcore Zionists, is at odds with the culture of Europeans, including British. So why the trials? Because the present German state is still, in a sense, “occupied”…

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Diary Blog, 13 November 2021, including invasions without arms, and the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan

Migration invasion

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10192937/France-accused-ceding-territory-people-smugglers-700-migrants-cross-Channel.html

[migrant-invaders off the coast of England]

1,000 one day, 700 the next, even 1,200 on one day last week. This is an invasion. The fact that it consists of migrant-invaders in rubber boats, mostly unarmed, is irrelevant.

It will be recalled by some, perhaps older readers, that, when King Hassan of Morocco decided to take over the mineral-rich region of Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara), he was opposed by Spain, then still ruled by Franco, who however was then at death’s door (d. 20 November 1975).

Hassan cunningly decided that, rather than invade Spanish Sahara in the conventional way, where his troops would be up against the very tough Spanish Foreign Legion [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Legion] and other military elements, he would use what is now sometimes called “soft power”, a “people’s march”, thus pressuring Spain via the UN.

Hassan’s ploy worked. The gods or the stars were on his side, in that the march took place from 6 November 1975 and, Spain being paralyzed by the expected death of Franco, the Spanish authorities not only did not attack the Moroccan marchers, but even had minefields cleared for them! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_March; and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Sahara#Modern_history.

What we now see in the English Channel, as well as elsewhere, both around the UK and in other parts of Europe, is an invasion, presented otherwise by a transnational political and msm conspiracy.

The UK is the target destination for the migrant-invaders. Part of that is the relatively easy help available as soon as they get here (hotel accommodation, food, pocket money of about £50 a week); part of it is because the UK cities are becoming black/brown and are not fully European any more, thus perhaps seeming more welcoming. There again, unofficial (and untaxed) work is widely available for those that want it; for those that don’t, the social welfare system, though cut back in recent years, still provides plenty for people used to living in backward societies.

Whatever.

21 years ago, I went over to Calais for the day, with car, and on a free ticket, to buy booze and cheese, mainly. It was at about that time that concerns about the illegal immigrants started to become louder.

In early evening, I had a drink in a little bar not far from the hotel de ville. I mentioned the immigrants, who even then were becoming apparent in Calais. The bar owner told me, “we are not troubled so much by them. They stay for a few days, a week, then they move on to England“. Need one say more about the French attitude?

A reminder: that was in the year 2000, 21 years ago. The UK authorities were not effectively barring entry then and, 21 years later, still are not…

The key question is how to stop the migration invasion of the UK. Harsh though it is, I can see no choice left but to use brute force, and if that means sinking the invasion fleet in the Channel, so be it.

Of course, the fact is that the System politicians “of all parties” (meaning from the one big uber-cabal, but posing as separate parties) want the invaders to arrive, because the international conspiracy (or consensus of power) is following the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. See https://www.westernspring.co.uk/the-coudenhove-kalergi-plan-the-genocide-of-the-peoples-of-europe/; and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi#Views_on_race_and_religion.

In his 1925 book Practical Idealism, Coudenhove-Kalergi envisioned an all-encompassing race of the future made up of “EurasianNegroid[s],” replacing “the diversity of peoples” and “[t]oday’s races and classes” with a “diversity of individuals.”[42]

In an interview in the first Pan-European Congress in 1926, he expressed the support of Jews by the Pan-European movement and the benefits to Jews with the elimination of racial hatred...” [Wikipedia].

Well, there you have it, right from the horse’s mouth. European peoples wiped out, replaced by “Eurasian Negroids”, and real diversity of European peoples replaced by a meaningless “diversity” of individuals, all of which individuals to be, ultimately, mixed-race “Eurasian Negroids”. That, and society ruled by the Jewish element.

You could not describe more succinctly what is now developing in the UK, France, and elsewhere. Not only in Europe, but also in the former offshoots of Europe: Australia, USA, even New Zealand.

I would urge as many readers as can to send this blog post, or the information above, to those unaware of the true situation. Enlightenment as to all of the above is still eluding the broad mass of people in the UK, though the number understanding what is going on is slowly growing.

As for dealing with the conspirators themselves, I hold my peace for now, in view of Britain’s now very repressive curbs on free speech.

Incidentally, the “readers’ comments” appended to that Daily Mail report are telling: many of those commenting plainly despise both/all System parties, and want to vote for a party which does not yet exist.

Other news

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/acton-dog-theft-bbc-journalist-appeal-b965973.html

The van was found in Park Royal“, according to other reports. I believe that there is a large (so-called) “traveller” encampment or fixed site in that area.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/hsbc-managers-jailed-900k-fraud-customers-accounts-b965646.html.

Look at the photos of the defendants! Can you believe that a major bank employed untermenschen of that sort?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10196665/Now-Boris-Johnson-pays-price-polls-Labour-race-ahead-Tories-SIX-points.html

One opinion poll now puts pathetic Starmer-“Labour” ahead of Boris-idiot’s misnamed “Conservatives”, and by several points. Is that an outlier? We shall see. I have blogged for some time that it comes down to whether the sheer ineptitude and lack of ability of “Boris” and his truly absurd Cabinet of clowns, together with their corruption, can outpace the equally unfit for office “Labour” label.

They call it “democratic choice”, but it is nothing more than a scam, really. Oh, and guess which element is embedded in both System parties? Yes, that’s right— “them” (((them))).

Tweets seen

A reference both to the present Israeli Ambassador’s spoken and written view that marriage between Jews and non-Jews is “a problem” that should be addressed, and to the fact that Keir Starmer is married to a Jewish woman (and their offspring are being brought up as if full-Jew, complete with Jewish religious holidays etc).

The fact is that the puppets of Jewish and Israeli power, people such as Keir Starmer, Boris Johnson etc, have to take any insults that the Jews throw at them, because they are slaves or curs of that Jewish-Israel lobby. “Boris” did it after Shai Masot, from the Israeli Embassy, called him “an idiot”. “Boris”, in Parliament, later, just laughed off the Jew’s insult, or tried to…

The House of Commons is infested…

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Well, this week I well and truly trounced political journalist John Rentoul. Perhaps, in the popular expression, he should get out more! I scored 10/10, the best I have done in these quizzes (I may have scored 10/10 once or twice before; cannot remember).

More tweets

Very true. Francis Bacon (the Tudor/Stuart philosopher, not the painter) examined this question in one of his works, I seem to recall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon.

Two steps forward, one step back, as Lenin said.

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[SVR HQ, Yasenovo, near Moscow]

“Victor Meldrew” news…

I don’t believe it!“…

https://www.hampshirelive.news/news/hampshire-news/hampshire-afghan-refugees-offered-private-5986104

Hampshire Afghan refugees will be offered private rentals and new laptops and smartphones

Southampton City Council said housing stock is drying up.

Hampshire charity Community First is also asking for laptop, smartphone, and tablet donations for evacuated Afghan families….The charity asked for donations to be “new, nearly new, or used devices that are in good condition” (!). [HampshireLive]

Words fail me.

Meanwhile, many British people are homeless, and now more will be, because traitors in central and local government have given away limited housing stock to unwanted and backward invaders.

Reasons not to vote Labour

Here’s a few:

Yes, the Conservative Party (particularly part-Jap sadist Iain Dunce Duncan Smith) made a bad social welfare system far more cruel, but never forget that it was the Labour Party under Blair and (especially) Gordon Brown that introduced lying “assessments”, “sanction” regimes, ATOS etc— and some of those responsible are still “Labour” MPs; Stephen Timms, for one.

Anyone wanting to get rid of the present “Conservative” regime, and thinking that the “Labour” Party is the answer, think again.

Well, that’s better than the situation in the UK, where since the 1970s the amount of space per person has shrunk. Hutches for masses?

Occupied country

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Diary Blog, 12 November 2021, including thoughts about “stay behind” units in the South of England of 1940

[Churchill, toting an “iconic” Thompson submachinegun with 50-round drum magazine while visiting coastal defences at Hartlepool in 1940]

“Stay behind” units in 1940: an historical note

The Second World War, with its complexities, nuances, twists and turns, and ideological subtleties, is endlessly fascinating. I happened to see a local newspaper story about part of Churchill’s idea of how to “fight on the beaches, fight on the landing-grounds” etc.

Churchill, though a genuinely world-historical figure, unlike Boris Johnson (who tries to ape his style and manner), does have a few characteristics in common with his latter-day copier. One is that he was largely ineffective as head of government when given his head; also, he was a person with, often, very silly ideas. Churchill was no good as a strategist; as for tactics, his ideas were really straight out of boys’ comic books.

The Norway operation in 1940; the British Expeditionary Force in France, also in 1940 (my own grandfather was on the Dunkirk beaches), the idea of invading France via the Cote-d’Azur in 1944, the Fall of France, the Fall of Greece (including Crete), and so on, give some idea of Churchill’s lack of strategic nous.

Now, more information has come to light about the “stay behind” units secretly organized in case of German invasion in 1940: https://www.dorset.live/news/history/nazi-invasion-dorset-auxillary-units-5621886.

Stay-behind units were organized, with the idea that they might not last more than 12 days after any German “reverse D-Day”.

It was presumed that German invasion forces would strike initially at the London area:

Operation Sealion, Hitler’s plan to invade across the Channel, almost saw the German 6th Army land at Lyme Regis in 1940 and push inland to Bristol and Gloucester.

Meanwhile the 9th and 16th Armies were to attack from Portsmouth to Dover, sweeping northwards to capture London and East Anglia, Britain’s breadbasket.” [DorsetLive].

Despite the chilling ruthlessness of their remit, the “Auxiliary Units” had a delightfully Wodehousian aspect:

“Grouped into “operational patrols” of four to eight men, AU members needed excellent local knowledge – making gamekeepers and poachers ideal candidates.

But known members of local patrols include bakers, carpenters, car salesmen, dairy farmers, electricians, fishmongers, miners and train drivers.

The staff of Charborough Park – a country house estate now belonging to South Dorset MP Richard Drax – were also formed into an AU patrol.

The chauffeurs, foresters, gamekeeper and gardener of Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, Mr Drax’s grandfather, moonlighted as would-be saboteurs and assassins.” [DorsetLive].

One almost expects Sir Roderick Spode (a parody of Sir Oswald Mosley) to make an appearance, with a slight ideological twist, perhaps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_Spode.

There were, it seems, about 6,500 volunteers in such “stay behind” units, most of whom were organized around the southern and eastern coasts of England.

Had “Operation Sealion” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion] ever been launched into action, the defending forces, including the 6,500 Auxiliary Unit fighters, would have faced an onslaught by 600,000 German troops (100,000 on the first day), backed by 650 tanks and 4,500 horses: https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/17353462.nazi-d-day-made-south-coast-target/. The Auxiliary Units would have been mosquitos biting elephants.

As for the conventional forces defending, “The Germans put the British defences at 320,000 men, with machine gun nests positioned 300 yards from the coastline, artillery guns 1,000 yards inland and another line of artillery and machine gun nests 3,000 yards back.

A line of more than 600 armoured cars and tanks were said to have been positioned two miles inland and a reserve of 50,000 men a further two miles back.” [The Argus].

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion_order_of_battle.

In fact, Operation Sealion was not a ready to roll plan such as had been Fall Gelb, “Case Yellow” (or “Operation Yellow”), the plan for the invasion of France [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manstein_Plan]. Sealion was called Unternehmen Seelöwe, not “Fall Seelöwe“.

My German is poorer than it should be (bearing in mind that I did take German at school, and I did also have a couple of crash courses later, when I was in my twenties), but the difference in designation seems to be that one plan was ready-to-go, while the other was somewhere between that and a contingency plan.

It is known that Hitler wanted Britain, and the British Empire, as an ally against the expansionism of both the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. His preference in 1940 was for an armistice, not for conquest by invasion.

Apart from Hitler’s preference for alliance, there were operational reasons why Sealion never proceeded: lack of total air superiority was one, but another perhaps more important was the lack of carrying capacity by sea of the German navy. There were not enough barges to carry the armies required, and not enough defence for those barges.

If, however, the invasion had happened, “[the Auxiliary Units]…would disappear to their OB, wait for the Germans to go over the top of them and attack the rear...”

Patrols would attack bridges, convoys, fuel dumps and so on, breaking the supply chain and holding up the advance of the blitzkrieg, giving the regular army time to regroup and counterattack.

Equipped with suppressed sniper’s rifles, the fighters would also be expected to assassinate anyone who might expose their underground operations.

Patrols would take out collaborators as well as local policemen and intelligence officers – innocent men, killed just for knowing their identities…

Anyone who stumbled across their OB would also be killed. And if a patrol member was injured and couldn’t get back the OB, they were obligated to shoot him...”

Their life expectancy was just 12 short days – with orders to kill each other and themselves if capture by the enemy seemed imminent.” [DorsetLive]

There were, then, two underlying assumptions or, better said, hopes, on the part of the Auxiliary Units: the first was that the units would survive for 12-14 days; the second was that the main British forces would be able to mount a successful counterattack.

As to whether the stay-behind fighters could survive for 14 days, my assessment is that they could do so easily if they did nothing or very little; once they started to shoot people and blow things up, it would be a different story.

The Germans might not have been able to do much to repress any stay-behind activity in the first confused days following invasion, but once those early days had passed, the Feldgendarmerie and SS would rather rapidly have started to arrest or kill suspects.

It is remarkable that the British plans included the assassination, on a default basis, of British police and Army personnel, or local residents, who knew of their existence! That might soon have backfired, with other such people helping the Germans to eliminate such ruthless persons hiding in their neighbourhoods. We shall never know. What we can be fairly sure about is that the Auxiliary Units would have had little impact on the eventual result, in big-picture terms.

As for the Auxiliary Units as the basis for a possible “British Resistance”, impossible. Limited stocks of weaponry and ammunition, no help from external sources, and the German security grip tightening steadily.

Could British home forces have defeated a German invasion force, had it landed in the numbers suggested? Doubtful. For one thing, the projected German force was to have been 600,000 after a few days; the defending forces would have numbered under 400,000.

Secondly, the quality of German tanks, light weapons etc outmatched the British; the same was true of the fitness of German troops. Red Cross reports of the period (from France) noted that British soldiers captured were often undernourished, stunted, with poor teeth and poor fitness, a result of the social conditions prevalent in the UK in the 1920s and 1930s. The German prisoners taken by the British were found to be, almost universally, in a good state of health and fitness, the result of, mainly, 7 years of National Socialist government.

Another point is that the German forces will mostly have seen action in Poland or France, whereas the British home forces were mostly without recent battle experience.

It is true that large wargames (a major one took place at Sandhurst in 1974) have generally resulted in German defeat following a 1940 invasion of Britain, but those results were based on destruction of much of the invasion force at sea, and failure to execute the invasion plan with sufficient boldness. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion_(wargame).

History is full of examples of invasions that should have failed, but did not. Alexander’s invasion of the Persian Empire, and William of Normandy’s 1066 invasion of England, are but two. Indeed, Hitler’s own experiences in 1939-41 (Norway, France, Poland, the Soviet Union, Greece, Yugoslavia etc show that boldness can bring victory even in unlikely circumstances. Rommel’s victories in North Africa were usually achieved against the odds.

It can certainly be argued that Hitler should have pressed on in 1940, even in circumstances of high risk. Britain would have quickly folded, and then, under new political leadership, found a new role, with the Empire, as a “dual-rulership” of much of the Earth, in collaboration with the German Reich.

On those premises, huge destruction and misery would have been avoided, both in the 1940s and thereafter. The world would have been a far better place now, had that happened.

As to the results further down the line, had a German invasion succeeded, one has to say that, in some ways, perhaps most ways, Britain itself might have been —80 years on— better for it. There would have been no migration-invasion by blacks and browns, and no Jewish-Zionist exploitation. Services such as the NHS would have been available earlier and better.

Incidentally, a German victory in 1940 would not have meant long-term German occupation, certainly not after a few years, and not necessarily a harsh one. The main aim, for Hitler, would have been disarmament or control of the British Army, navy and air force.

Hitler’s preferred ruler of Britain, we now know, was none other than Lloyd George! The Security Service, MI5, was well aware of this, and monitored him closely.

Lloyd George was consistently pro-German after 1923,[169] in part due to his growing conviction that Germany had been treated unfairly at Versailles. He supported German demands for territorial concessions and recognition of its “great power” status; he paid much less attention to the security concerns of France, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Belgium.

[170] In a speech in 1933, he warned that if Adolf Hitler were overthrown Communism would replace him in Germany.[171] In August 1934, he insisted Germany could not wage war, and assured European nations that there would be no risk of war during the next ten years.[172] 

In September 1936, he visited Germany to talk with Hitler. Hitler said he was pleased to have met “the man who won the war”; Lloyd George was moved, and called Hitler “the greatest living German”.[166]: 247  Lloyd George also visited Germany’s public works programmes and was impressed. On his return to Britain, he wrote an article for the Daily Express praising Hitler and stating: “The Germans have definitely made up their minds never to quarrel with us again.[166]: 248 

He believed Hitler was “the George Washington of Germany”; that he was rearming Germany for defence and not for offensive war; that a war between Germany and the Soviet Union would not happen for at least ten years; that Hitler admired the British and wanted their friendship but that there was no British leadership to exploit this.” [Wikipedia].

Well, in the trite but true expression, “man proposes but God disposes”…

Note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lloyd_George

Tweets seen

https://twitter.com/AhirShah/status/1458748076177383432?s=20

Strange. My memory tells me precisely the reverse, as far as the years up to 2010 are concerned. It is a complex picture, but I recall a country where things were OK (speaking very very generally) until 1997 (I was mostly out of the UK that exact year, though), one where a gradual “communitarian” police statism started to develop under Blair and Brown, and one in which (and here I do agree with the tweeter) there was a catastrophic decline in standards from…well, the tweeter says 2010 (i.e. when Cameron-Levita and his clique became the Government), but I think earlier, maybe from 2005 or so (under Gordon Brown).

I recall returning to the UK from France in 2009, having not been here for a year (I had been spending half my time in France since 2005, and was also in a number of other countries during 2005-2010), and noticing the social darkness that had already descended, a year before David Cameron-Levita became Prime Minister.

The (Pakistani?) tweeter is obviously a simplistic Labour Party partisan, who thinks in unsophisticated ways: Labour government 1997— good, Conservative government 2010— bad. If only life were that simple.

Ah. Just looked him up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahir_Shah. Not Pakistani, but Indian Muslim (born in the UK), and a comedian. Britain may be short of housing, energy, water, good jobs, a decent and working society generally, and good government, but we shall never, it seems, run out of comedians. Sometimes there seem to be thousands of them, though few I have seen or heard (on TV or radio) are actually very comic.

Other tweets seen

£50,000 p.a. for being “office manager” of an office with few if any other employees? Bob Blackman is the Jewish-lobby puppet always acting as mouthpiece for Israel. One of such puppets, anyway.

I would suggest a solution for this, but prefer not to mention it…

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…championed the importance of freedom of speech“? Not one word from Young about how I was disbarred (wrongfully and actually unlawfully) at the instigation of a certain pack of Jews, some of whom still try (though vainly) to persecute me. Not a word about the persecution and prosecution, by the same pack of Jews, of the singer-satirist Alison Chabloz, who has now actually done time in prison for mocking “holocaust” fakery and hoaxes (fakery almost all done by Jews). Not a word about the fact that Jez Turner, of the now-defunct London Forum, was imprisoned for simply making a speech in Whitehall urging the removal of Jews from the UK.

Now I wonder whether there is a common theme about those cases when Toby Young and the “Free Speech Union” stayed guiltily silent?…

More controlled opposition.

Other tweets seen

In 2004-2005, for nearly two years, I lived in a farmhouse in the constituency, near Milton Abbot (6 miles NW of Tavistock), having moved out of Polapit Tamar House, 8 miles away across the Tamar in Cornwall (a lovely place then, though since I lived there split up into numerous dwelling units, and currently on sale for £7M).

Geoffrey Cox became MP for Torridge and West Devon in 2005, but at that time I was too busy trying to make a living at the Bar to take any notice of System politics, certainly did not vote, and was unaware, I think, even of the bastard’s name.

The constituency is hard-core Conservative Party territory, though. All the farmers and landowners vote Conservative (despite being a “subsidized industry” by any other name). Cox received 60.1% in 2019 (LibDems 18.3%, Labour only 17.2%): see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torridge_and_West_Devon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s.

[Milton Abbot, Devon. In 2004-2005, I lived in a farmhouse down a private track, just beyond the treeline at the top of the photograph]

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Gibbs]

The fallibility of human memory

We do not have to consider the almost-ubiquitous “holocaust” fakery, hoaxes, or “memories” which simply could not have happened, to understand that human memory often cannot be relied upon. Ignorance of fact can also play a role.

I have just seen a tweet in which the tweeter reminisces about his school trip to the Soviet Union in 1984 or 1985. The trip apparently consisted of a week in Leningrad and a week in Moscow.

Inter alia, the tweeter concerned tweets that he visited the Hermitage (in Leningrad), and walked on the surface of the frozen Volga…

Well, I suppose that the above memory could be accurate, but probably is not. Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) is on the river Neva; Moscow is on the Moscow river or Moskva.

The Volga has a quite convoluted course, and at its nearest to Moscow is only about 85 miles away, at the meeting-place of the Volga with the Moskva-Volga Canal (aka Moscow Canal): https://factsanddetails.com/russia/Places/sub9_9a/entry-7029.html. It goes nowhere very near St. Petersburg.

[Neva river at St. Petersburg (former Leningrad); photo by A. Savin]
[Moscow river in central Moscow]
[Moskva-Volga Canal. Photograph by Ilya Timin]
[river Volga, near Yaroslavl]
[river Oka at Nizhny-Novgorod; photograph by Aleksei Trefilov]

The Moscow river is a tributary of the river Oka, which is in turn a tributary of the river Volga.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neva; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskva_(river); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Canal; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_(river).

The upshot of the above is that the tweet I saw could be accurate but quite likely is not. The tweeter probably walked on the frozen Neva, or perhaps the Moskva, or the Moskva-Volga Canal.

Memory cannot always be relied upon. My own memory is (I have found) better than that of almost anyone else I have ever met, but is still occasionally inaccurate.

Talking of memories of Russia, I saw another tweet today, which contained a picture of the interior of the GUM complex near Red Square. Marble floors, clean, redolent of luxury.

I first saw GUM in 1993, when most of the shop units were empty, the (then white) marble floors containing wide cracks in places, and a snack bar in the area on the ground floor was doing a good trade in open sandwiches (red caviar on buttered white bread); I had one myself, I think.

When I returned to Moscow in 2007, all changed. Tan marble, everything clean and tidy, and the shops were all occupied; they included Thomas Pink, Armani etc. Not very busy, perhaps because it was a weekday and early evening, or perhaps because of the high prices. In 1993, it was also not busy, though then because there was rather little to buy. I believe that, in Soviet days, GUM was always packed, as was the toy shop Detsky Mir (“Children’s World”) next door (with access then from GUM as well as from the street). In 1993, I wandered in from GUM, out of curiosity. The few outsized soft toys were charged at extortionate prices. Oddly, or perhaps not, no children and few adults there.

Late tweets

https://twitter.com/fionamflanagan1/status/1310690616209289216?s=20

For a moment, I thought that he must have done something really bad, like identifying a Jew as Jewish, but on reflection, that would have required the participation of the “Anti-Terrorist Command”, I suppose…

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