"Like their neighbors in Britain, the Irish imported an American-style race problem and imposed it on themselves. There was no need to do so; wise men argued against their doing so; their descendants will curse them for it."https://t.co/OYg84PPqRppic.twitter.com/pi7ZKXvhEs
I'm reluctant to dismiss Leftists as nuts–everyone involved in politics is odd to some degree–but Lance Welton has assembled an archive drawn from technical literature demonstrating that it's really truehttps://t.co/0UI0qf2XaLpic.twitter.com/fdLP7jAuu7
I think that we know that this nonsense is not going to be eliminated by tweets, blogs or debates, at the end of the day.
More tweets
Not as much as Johnson laughed when the ‘Corbyn Out’ lot sabotaged their own party & ensured the Tories won the last election. And it scarcely matters what socialists say, Starmer is tanking in the polls by his own efforts anyway.
Well, “Dr.” Raw does have a point. True, Labour is closer behind the Conservative Party than was the case at the 2019 General Election, but that is mainly because the Jewish press (both msm and otherwise) has almost stopped demonizing Labour now that Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer is leader.
Still, looking at the incompetence and nonsense of the present ZOG/NWO regime at Downing Street, it might have been expected that Labour would be miles ahead. It might be, were it a real Opposition, but Starmer just supports everything that “Boris”-idiot is doing, but says that it should be done more! Lockdown, the facemask nonsense, you name it. On immigration, Labour cannot attack the Government’s poor record, because Labour still favours mass immigration…
An elderly lady I once knew used to say, in the 1980s, if a picture of Brittan came up on TV, “doesn’t that snout just need kicking?!“
When you wake up tomorrow, it will be February. But it will feel remarkably similar to January. As will March. Unless you #UseYourVoice and speak out to get our country back to normal. There will always be another demand for another week or month of lockdown. So speak out. Now.
The first tweeter has a “prison” mentality: obey the “rules”, denounce “rulebreakers”, and maybe the “authorities” will “allow” you a period of outside exercise every day…
Ironic…if I am not mistaken, that “antifascist” tweeter, “@jdpoc” (who in the past has tweeted against me) was quite recently tweeting something online about his own “issues”…
Par for the course, it seems.
‘The woke seek to deploy, not the jackboot of totalitarianism, but the cancel culture of intolerance. In the name of democracy they must not succeed.’
I explain here why I was expelled from my Chambers for challenging the mainstream discourse on race.https://t.co/SlyBK3c0SZ
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) January 31, 2021
What's your point, Guardian?
The Judge concluded the claimant (failed asylum seeker) had brought a claim that misled the court. See 24-27: https://t.co/lhMbbggP5v
It's a bad day for justice if only Guardian approved barristers can act for councils.https://t.co/ekSNXJT2aE
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) February 1, 2021
I could write a book about the immigration cases I did in the early 1990s; I appeared before immigration tribunals at first instance, in the Immigration Appeal Tribunal, and also in the High Court (on judicial review applications).
Some cases were run of the mill, involving marriages etc, others involved fugitive members of foreign secret services, and yet others alleged members of extremist or “terrorist” groups (mostly Kurdish).
Check out the comments beneath this article. Cancel culture is:
If only Holbrook and other members of the Bar had broken cover and spoken up clearly (or at all) when a pack of malicious Jews instigated my disbarment in 2016, he might not be where he now is…
This is what happens when one challenges the woke: others attempt to cancel you, as has happened to @JonHolb. Their loss, our gain: his (shamefully disproportionate) expulsion now makes him a seriously important asset to the campaign for free speech.https://t.co/sl4rBlfsIa
Oh, really, “@KathyConWom”? Where were you and Conservative Woman etc in 2016, after I was disbarred (and then pilloried in the “free” Press)?
I have also not heard a word or seen a word in support of persecuted satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz from such “free speech” advocates…in fact she is still facing both persecution and actual prosecution.
[Alison Chabloz]
This is what the tyranny of woke does to young minds. A survey of students found:
• over 25% censored their own views on politics or ethical matters,
• 40% believed their careers would be harmed if they expressed their true thoughts. https://t.co/by0FrK8MjF
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) February 1, 2021
This is the tweet that has resulted in my expulsion from my chambers.
Cancel culture means that the mainstream can proselytise but that when populists present a counter-narrative they must be driven out of mainstream society.
MSM going mad about Russian police and their rough tactics. The Russian police are rough at times. Russia is a rough country. So what is the excuse of the Dutch police, who on the weekend were using mounted police, water cannon, and rubber bullets on pensioners and young women (among others) protesting about the “lockdown” repression? The Dutch mounted police were filmed cracking open the heads of fleeing protestors with heavy clubs.
Strangely enough, the UK msm went mad today about Russia, but forgot to mention the Netherlands. BBC propaganda was blatant. All very (((odd))).
Late music
Below, same orchestra, same conductor (the composer) but a different recording of Hanson’s Romantic Symphony , with far better sound quality:
When “Coronavirus” aka “the panic-demic” started to happen or be noticed, nearly a year ago, I was horrified and, like most people, perhaps, thought that it might be something as deadly as the great plagues of the past, such as the Black Death, or at least the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919.
The television coverage at the time, showing deserted Italian towns etc, encouraged a panicky attitude on the part of both governments and populations.
My own niece, an Australian aged 24, living temporarily in London, visited Venice in ebruary 2020 for the Festival, and came back after the latter was cancelled. She did not bring “the virus” with her, and indeed was not diagnosed with it until about 10 months later, quite recently, having somehow picked it up in London. She temporarily lost taste and smell. Treatment? Rest, drinking fluids, and the odd paracetomol. Recovering well.
I have not been persuaded by the arguments of the “lockdown” and facemask zealots. Facemasks seem to be useless or almost useless (and are a deliberate attempt to subdue the population rather than the virus), while “lockdowns” are ineffective over time because they cannot be complete, because they encourage virus transmission among those “locked down”, and because they destroy economies, as Britain’s is being destroyed.
It has become clear over the past year that “the virus”, which worldwide has (allegedly) killed over a million people (that is about one person out of every eight thousand people on Earth), has been weaponized by international conspirators. The World Economic Forum said so openly: the virus pandemic is “a great opportunity for a Great Reset” globally.
In Britain, we see that, though dissent has been bought off by “furlough” payments, and by other financial largesse, companies are now starting to fall over and die, in quite large numbers. Unemployment, presently disguised by the “furlough” etc, will soar when not restrained. Small businesses are being culled by the thousand.
Meanwhile, the government of Jews and Indians, “led” by a part-Jew, part-Turk, brought up mainly in the USA and Belgium, but posing as both Prime Minister and Bertie Wooster, has invited 6 million Hong Kong Chinese to come to the UK. 300,000 are expected imminently.
The time has come not only to speak up but to act up…
Yes, @francis_hoar, the @Guardian's defection from the cause of human liberty has been one of the saddest, most poignant events of recent years, I have mocked it in the past, but on freedom (and stupid wars) it was always reliable. Now it's an enforcer of conformism.. https://t.co/HcM5lnf6g6
So it does @theblogmire. And alas, if this belief cannot be countered before the Public Inquiry, we're condemned to be repeatedly locked down for much of the coming century. I wonder, have people yet grasped just how much freedom they have lost and won't get back? https://t.co/EqOFrfN2LO
Peter Hitchens always places much reliance on “public inquiries”, letters to MPs etc. Understandable, but such things just do not work any more, if they ever did.
Govt begins to Admit Collateral Damage of lockdown:Government estimates 220,000 will be the true death toll of pandemic https://t.co/SRfT5uHraz via @MailOnline
It beats me @mrjohnngreenha1 . What *is* amazing is that such a hugely damaging, wholly untried policy could have been adopted on the basis of so little knowledge. https://t.co/XTx89VIjgd
Ah, yes, Chartres. Thanks for reminding me, @kynohy. It was at exactly this time of year, the best time to visit that rewarding city and one of the loveliest buildings inthe world. . https://t.co/OZ39o6arev
This is another aspect of Oxford, perhaps less reasonable, clinging to a gable high up on on Lincoln College . I have to say it reminds me of someone, but I will deliberately not say who. pic.twitter.com/HFpShjw01m
In my unpublished book written in 1990-91 (which a reader from a famous 5th Avenue literary agency said (in a very Ivy League rejection letter!) was “undoubtedly the most extraordinary work I have ever read. It will never get published in New York“), I explored, inter alia, the concept of the “dead end”, and in particular the idea that Western society, which effectively means world society, has come to a dead end except in terms of technical and scientific matters.
The above idea can be seen in almost every field.
Example: saw yesterday this tweet from a Jew academic:
Trump did not bring fascism; it brought him. Fascism is capitalism's harsh, savage response to the divisive social crises it imposes on society (depressions, extreme racial and economic inequalities, etc.). 1/2
Emeritus professor of economics at a well-known American university, no less, yet all he can offer is a derivative 1930s Marxist-Leninist Soviet propaganda “analysis”. He’s at least 85 years out of date!
At present, our society is either static, or degenerating. The question, which I can pose but not answer, is whether a leap, perhaps “quantum leap”, can be made to a new society, or whether our society has first to be destroyed in its present form. The former is an easier route, but I do not know at present whether it will be possible.
‘Utopians always think their opinions and their objectives are so good that anybody who gets in their way is not just wrong but bad, and therefore can be silenced and, if necessary, killed or imprisoned.’
It is indeed shocking that academics are being silenced or hounded. Who, on the establishment side, in government, the media or the judicial system will now stand up for the simple freedom to disagree? The age of enlightenment is coming to an end. https://t.co/Thawoevb2h
The Jews like to present themselves as the creators and maintainers of Western civilization, but are more often in the character of its degenerators and destroyers.
“Covid-19 could have a long-term effect on male fertility, German study claims“…
Does that mean that the “Covid-19” vaccine(s) would have a similar, or similar but lesser, effect? My own medical and scientific knowledge is limited, so my question is not really rhetorical: I actually do not know the answer.
Irish people being a minority in parts of Ireland is portrayed as something positive. The logic of this is inescapable. That Irish people being the majority is something negative. Something to be remedied. Something to be corrected. Something to be wiped out. pic.twitter.com/IpOI1YnwTY
— The National Party | An Páirtí Náisiúnta (@NationalPartyIE) May 15, 2019
…and at the same time, and what a surprise (not)…the supposedly “nationalist” Sinn Fein are bending the knee to the migrant invaders! How are the mighty fallen!
i was inspired by @PermaGoddess to begin feeding my local bird friends as they survive the winter ❄️ day 3 was successful in spite of the snow 🤍 pic.twitter.com/7bflGV0OWe
Exactly. One sign of decadence is when a country like the UK allows a Balkan fraud like Slavoj Zizek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek] to run any academic institution, thus appearing to take him seriously.
Oh, God. Apparently, it is some kind of “holocaust” commemoration today, and Radio 4 steps up yet again, with the ubiquitous Jewish rabbi Julia Neuberger on Prayer for the Day, the early morning “god slot”. Talks about how Soviet General Petrenko was “appalled” at the supposed crimes of the “Nazis”. Well, of course he would have been “appalled”, being a high-ranking Stalinist! Oh, no, wait…
Have Radio 4 producers or editors never heard of the “GULAG Archipelago“? The Yezhovshchina? The Ukrainian famine? The other purges? The tortures?
More to the point, when and how did the BBC, and especially Radio 4, and especially the once-magisterial Today Programme and its offshoot bits and pieces, get so completely taken over? Jews are only 0.5% of the UK population, if that, but have colonized not only Radio 4 Today Programme but much of the msm over the past decades, and especially since, about, 1989.
As for the Today Programme generally, it has, like PM and other shows, become almost unlistenable. I switch off after a short while.
Keir Starmer is a Jewish-lobby puppet. He is more “competent” than Boris-idiot, but then almost anyone would be. “Competence” is necessary (or should be) in an administrator; in a political leader, “the vision thing” mentioned by George Bush snr. is, well, the “thing”. Boris-idiot has no vision. Neither has Keir Starmer. That is part of Labour’s problem.
Corbyn had a kind of vision, a kind of backward-looking vision of Britain. Not Britain as it ever was, but a sort of cartoon British history based on “Teach Yourself Marxism” meets “Wokeness”: undifferentiated “feudalism” from ancient times, leading up to some time around the English Civil War, and focussing on Levellers etc. Then the era of the Luddites and later Chartists. The Tolpuddle Martyrs. The founding of the trade unions, and the Labour Party.
Corbyn’s cartoon history of the UK would then take in the 1926 General Strike, the Jarrow March, the “Battle of Cable Street”, a few foreign aspects such as the Front Populaire, and Trotskyism, a risibly black-and-white version of the Second World War, then the NHS, social housing, new towns; the good ship Windrush and Commonwealth immigration (thought of by Corbyn as something good!). Finally, Thatcherism, the Miners’ Strike, Blairism and the betrayal of socialist principle, followed by 2010-2019 “Tory Austerity”.
Not that that view of British and European history is exactly or wholly “wrong”, in that those events were all aspects of it. The problem is that such a tableau contains no nuance and only a minute fraction of the real events and trends.
As for Corbyn’s vision of Britain’s future, it would be a compendium consisting of happy smiling workers of various races advancing to a radiant multikulti future, a Britain where trade unions worked with “socialist” “anti-racist” Labour politicians to eliminate “racism”, “sexism” and any form of inequality, in a Britain where borders were open to all, social services excellent and open freely to anyone just off the boat, where there was to be no conflict, magic money funding high pay and benefits, as well as quality public housing and transport (despite mass immigration), a Britain with no dissent except in how to move forward the socialist agenda, and no “fascism” or —God forbid!— “neo-Nazi” tendency.
The above Corbynist agenda and vision, of course, had as little reality as a Superman cartoon. In a way, it was the Jewish element that was the stumbling-block. Not that Corbyn was particularly “anti-Semitic” from my point of view (and after all, I ought to know!). It was more that Jews, with their “tribal” loyalty and clannishness, their materialism, their pushiness, their interest in financial advancement etc, not to mention their pragmatism, got in the way of that idealized and completely unworkable vision of an ideal post-Marxist “socialist” Britain and world.
Where would the Jews have fitted into that “Corbynist” vision? Nowhere. Corbyn knew it. His advisers, such as Seumas Milne, knew it. The Jews themselves knew it. Thus was set the stage for the conflict between the Jews and Jewish lobby against Corbyn and the Labour Party.
The Jews won. Corbyn and Labour lost. The tweets below make the point:
So you’re not going to condem CAA’s Joe Glasman Supremacist rant just because he’s a Zionist Jew? https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
That is where Labour now is: it is a battlefield after the “mother of all battles”, a battlefield strewn with the bodies of the fallen, Corbyn among them.
Labour stopped being “socialist”, even in theory, sometime around 1990-ish. Clause 4 was deleted, nationalization scrapped. Under Blair and Brown, it is hard to see Labour even as having been social-democratic.
The expenses scandal that rocked the end of the 1997-2010 Labour period was driven not only by criminal greed (on the part of both Labour and Conservative MPs) but by the wish on the part of Labour MPs (too) to live a rather affluent “bourgeois” life. Not only by cheating and freeloading on expenses, but by getting as much outside “work” as possible.
Thus we saw, for example, Tom Watson raking in a regular £500 per month expenses (extra, on top of salary and general expenses) for food alone; we saw outright fraud; we saw Patricia Hewitt and others selling influence for hard cash. And so on…
Labour MPs and officials married affluent people, often those with profitable businesses. Corbyn Labour as well as “centrist” Labour:
“[Seamus] Milne married Cristina Montanari, an Italian-born director of an advertising firm, in 1992. The couple have two now-adult children, a son and daughter, who were educated at selective grammar schools in Kingston upon Thames.” [Wikipedia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seumas_Milne].
Diane Abbott, another Corbyn supporter, educated her own children privately, while insisting that only State schools would exist in the future…
Even the “hardline socialists” of Corbyn-Labour were basically a bunch of fakes (I refer to the MPs and officials, not the bamboozled mugs at rank-and-file level).
Keir Starmer is now effectively in charge of a party which is a wasteland. It stands for nothing, offers nothing, looks forward to nothing.
Where does that leave Labour, electorally? In fact, in a slightly better position than where it was under Corbyn.
For one thing, the Jewish Press (and I refer to the msm outlets as well as the specifically “Jewish” Press such as the Jewish Chronicle) stopped attacking Labour as soon as Zionist puppet Starmer became leader. In a country as manipulated as the UK, that must have an effect.
There again, the Conservative Party has little support among under-30s. The “virus” is killing old people, mainly. That must play to Labour’s advantage, in that only a tiny number of people of 70 years of age or greater now vote Labour.
Also, the blacks and browns are breeding fast, and they mostly vote Labour.
Having said that, the only way, at present, that Labour could form a government, would be with SNP help. If Scotland chooses Independence (however fake), that removes 50-60 Commons votes from any coalition or alliance.
All three main or System parties are failing, but Labour is, arguably, failing fastest, not least because it is not “opposing”, and because it can have no vision.
Please show one case where mandating masks made a positive difference. Either on the timeline within one population/territory or between different populations/territories with contrasting mask policies.
Meanwhile government wants to stop £20 #universalcredit top up Banks are not helping those in debt Nurses going to #foodbanks So many lost jobs here, it's shameful #philipgreen is a disgrace & government needs to shut loopholes https://t.co/EqaETrB3dO
Another Jew exploiter and fraudster. Remember “Robert Maxwell”? At least that bastard only had one yacht bought with stolen money. The Green pack have three megayachts.
#PhilipGreen buys a company with someone else’s money for £850m. 3 years later pays his wife a £1.2billion bonus. She pockets it in tax haven Monaco. Now we find it was a house of cards with £750m plus owed, 13000 jobs gone & a banjaxed pension fund. #Prisonhttps://t.co/O5ACCflRlK
Gosh, you are a champion at missing the point @mrrbourne. Bowman (who has feebly blocked me rather than attempt to defend himself) backs a website which classifies *dissent* as a menace to public health. While he makes excuses for Big Tobacco. https://t.co/FvkJOhnAdf
"This isn't really the bad bit. It's only when we're allowed back into society that we'll truly see the desolation lockdown has caused. That's when the real reckoning will come."@ClarkeMicah on The Brendan O'Neill Show: https://t.co/jyyS4M3QTUpic.twitter.com/2b5qcxQNX8
…and if that presenter woman is not Jewish, I’ll eat my hat.
Always. Every. Single. Time.
Facebook, “Doomsday Machine”
An article attacking Facebook, from the editor of an msm outlet. In fact, just another attempt to shut Pandora’s box. There is a huge campaign now by NWO/ZOG to shut down even the limited free speech that exists.
In a time when the news is overwhelmingly gloomy, there's a ray of sunshine this morning: "Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebowale, 29, 'is on oxygen in hospital after contracting coronavirus'. https://t.co/mL0eYf164X
What is the phrase? Something like “a waste of oxygen“… We Europeans, especially perhaps we British, are in general and by nature more compassionate than Africans, North Africans, Orientals, Muslims generally, but that does mean that, sometimes, the unworthy benefit.
Yes , @golbadockdan, as D.H.Lawrence (of all people) warned nearly 100 years ago. https://t.co/1hXTLklx9F
1/2 D.H Lawrence , in his essay ‘Apropos Lady Chatterley’ quoted in the chapter ‘Difficulties with Girls’ in my 1999 book ‘The Abolition of Britain’. pic.twitter.com/TbtSnHXfgv
The truth of that was made manifest in the survival of decency and culture within families even in the terrible milieu of Jewish Bolshevism, and later Stalinism, in the Soviet Union of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s,1950s, and on to the collapse of socialism around 1989. I suppose that the worst time for secrecy plus denunciation was the 1930s, especially the Yezhovshchina of 1937-1939, and then the late 1940s.
@davidknopfler 'Robbie Fox, the great 20th century editor of the Lancet, who was no admirer of peer review, wondered whether anybody would notice if he were to swap the piles marked `publish' and `reject'. https://t.co/6GowGzKbzF
@davidknopfler ' In addition to being poor at detecting gross defects and almost useless for detecting fraud it is slow, expensive, profligate of academic time, highly subjective, something of a lottery, prone to bias, and easily abused.' https://t.co/6GowGzKbzF
This statue of Pavlik Morozov,the mythical martyred boy who denounced his parents,who Soviet children were taught to revere,still in Moscow when I lived there in 1990. Vanished without trace when Commiunism fell in 1991. Perhaps now on its way to London? https://t.co/wKVTXr6AHp
Here he is, the prototype of the child asked to spy on his parents for the state ( as now proposed by HMG) , Comrade Pavlik Morozov: https://t.co/cSz96bdLWX
New law being determinedly pushed by ‘Conservative’ govt says children should spy on their parents only in ‘exceptional circumstances’ . So that’s all right then. (Daily Telegraph report). pic.twitter.com/cS06CNGlvO
The Covert Human Intelligence Source Bill will allow 22 state agencies, including the likes of HMRC and local councils, as well as the intelligence services and police, to recruit children as “covert human intelligence sources”… https://t.co/n3gjO5MZrO
In fact, the “Conservative” government “child spies” campaign or proposal is merely the logical consequence of what has gone before (in recent years); it is a continuation of what already exists.
In and after 2010, we saw part-Jew Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, call upon curtain-twitching pleb-Cons to “report” their neighbours who were unemployed and/or disabled, and who might be sleeping late rather than hurrying and scurrying to “seek work” (often unobtainable anyway) in the (((finance-capitalist))) economy.
For years we have seen the authorities demand that neighbours, families, churches, mosques, schoolteachers, even Church of England priests (if there are any left who are not arse-faced lesbians), report or denounce their own families, and friends, acquaintainces, pupils, parishioners etc; not only for “terrorism”, by the way, but also for supporting animal welfare, for opposing mass immigration (migration-invasion) etc. The government even established “Morozovist” organizations, such as “Prevent” and “Channel”, in order to facilitate it all.
More recently, we have see government attempts to get people to denounce neighbours, friends, family who might have exceeded the arbitrary “Rule of Six” invented by Boris-idiot, or who might actually have invited family members to visit at Christmas.
Over the years, we have seen the users of Twitter etc delight in “reporting” “wrong thinking” and “wrong speaking” people to Twitter, or to police, or to others who might punish the dissident. Employers, academic institutions etc. As always, the Jewish element was in the forefront in “reporting” people, though others joined in, particularly the “antifa” idiot-crowd, and the allied self-describing “Left”.
Now this.
I wonder whether Jewish lobby puppet Keir Starmer will go along (yet again) with what this government is going and proposing?
The real agenda lies behind the supposed reasons for the “reporting” campaigns; to create a serf or slave society somewhere down the line.
Final thought (for today) on all that: remember what happened to Pavel Morozov. After all, if you play by Moscow Rules…
I wonder where the blacks, browns, even Orientals would be, had our white European civilization, especially that developed since about 1400 AD, never existed? Oh, no, wait…
I’ve absolutely had enough of people saying ‘This is not a proper lockdown’ when so many are struggling to cope with it. What do these lockdown zealots want? For us all to be welded inside our own homes till the summer? I’m genuinely shocked by the authoritarianism we’re seeing.
What we are seeing is not exactly “authoritarianism” but the infantilism of, mostly, the self-describing “Left”, who just want to be told what to do by the Big Brother State. Those types are the core of the lockdown and facemask zealotry. A chance for them to see people bullied and bossed around, while retaining a figleaf of “caring sharing” fakery at the same time.
EXCLUSIVE: Boohoo is set to acquire the Debenhams brand in a deal that will resemble the online retailer's previous swoops on Karen Millen and Oasis
Does not include the stores, sad but probably not surprising news for the 10,000+ people who still work there
Just what I was blogging about recently. I shall be laughing when the UK and connected “antifascist” Twitter-twits are expelled. They have little or nothing else.
A now-deceased friend of mine, acquainted with both Mosley and his wife Diana in the 1950s, always said that Mosley’s mistake was to accentuate the “Man of Action” and military aspect of his character (genuine though that was: WW1 officer of both the Army and the Royal Flying Corps; wounded in action), while playing down his more intellectual side (which my friend thought reflected his overall character more, though in the late 1950s Mosley was, of course, over 60).
UK quarantine
Unless the Government simply props up airlines and travel companies (pointlessly), they are finished. Who on Earth will book a foreign holiday from the UK when that tourist (and family, if any) will now quite likely have to spend 10-14 days quarantined in a guarded hotel, and even have to pay for their own incarceration?! Forget it.
In fact, the country where the tourist is booked may also impose some such requirement, and at short notice…
In short, the travel and tourism sector, both domestic and overseas, is totally screwed, as are its huge number of employees.
Incidentally, the whole travel and tourism sector in the UK employs a total of 3.8 million people, about 11% of the entire UK workforce.
Let's help him out. Here is Czechia. It closed its borders, locked down and introduced compulsory masking outside of residence *before* the UK went into Lockdown.
Yet although once hailed as a "Covid success story", it is now 4th worst in the world for deaths/million. pic.twitter.com/Z7gDanOXer
Good to give the movement some exposure today and continue the discussion. Thanks to @bwebster135 for the article and to @AliDriverUK for the connections. Love it. Hope I haven’t angered the local farmers quite as much as the headline suggests! pic.twitter.com/0NusjlDGAM
Horrified by news that @SWP_Britain banned by Facebook. Handing censorship rights to corporations will silence the left. Facebook must reverse this decision.
Well, well…after years of begging or demanding that social-national people and others be “deplatformed”, the self-describing “Left” is now itself starting to be hit. Seems that they forgot that “the Revolution devours its own children” [Jacques Mallet du Pan; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Mallet_du_Pan].
It is hilarious to read today on Twitter the convoluted logic of the “antifascist” self-describing “Left” types, as they attempt to prove that “two legs bad, four legs good“, and that “deplatforming”, among others, social-nationalists, National Socialists (of the contemporary sort), conservative nationalists, general dissidents and/or “conspiracy theorists” (eg David Icke) is or was “good”, while of course the removal of the Facebook account of the ludicrous “Socialist Workers Party” [SWP] is evil and tyrannical.
What goes around comes around. If you campaign for years to have people expelled from Facebook, Twitter, whatever, don’t be so shocked when the same happens to you.
I suppose that many will say that I must be glad when the SWP, or “antifa” idiots, or Jew-Zionists etc are expelled from Twitter or wherever. Not so, apart from being amused at the long-anticipated inevitability.
Firstly, as a believer in freedom of expression on social, political, religious and historical topics
Secondly, because Twitter, especially, is a good open-source intelligence resource. Enemies expose themselves that way.
This is so funny! “Dr” Louise Raw (prolific tweeter and “antifascist”) lashes out at someone who makes the obvious point about free speech:
Get your facts right, rather than tweeting the first lazy cliche that comes to mind https://t.co/uL8A3dvywu
For people of her type, “free speech” really does mean “free speech only for me and those with whom I agree”; to demand free speech in general is “a lazy cliche“, she says…
“Dr” Raw and her co-ideologists fail to see that she and they are themselves living political cliches, as outdated as the picture of the cruiser Aurora that was on the masthead of Izvestia.
The picture of Aurora was in fact a representation of the Order of the October Revolution
Yes, the self-describing “Left” is a unwitting political cliche: “No Pasaran!” (the slogan of the Madrilenos during the Spanish Civil War); “socialism” (old-style socialism in fact died in 1989); which they now combine with being facemask and lockdown zealots, “refugees welcome” dimwits, as well as keen supporters of police and other repression (of their ideological opponents) and —risibly— supporters of the supposed property rights of the like of Facebook and Twitter (when “deplatforming” supposed “Nazis” etc..). Until now.
As I have blogged previously, the self-describing “Left” has nothing to offer at all, which was one reason why Corbyn-Labour crashed and burned in 2019.
True, the Jew element that pervades the mainstream media did trash Corbyn and Labour for 4 years, but Corbyn was a bit of a joke anyway, a Lenin-cap-wearing, “no Pasaran!”, “refugees welcome”, “Cable Street!” nitwit.
I concede that the Conservative Party did not win the 2019 election except by default…
…but that is precisely the point. We now have a basically Jewish-Zionist (-ruled) government of clowns because, in 2019, people abstained rather than go out to vote Labour. Twice as many 2017 Labour voters abstained in 2019 than voted Conservative.
The British people have aversion to mass immigration, fake “refugees” etc, and have no interest in the rights and wrongs of the Spanish Civil War, 1930s East London, Fidel Castro, or Venezuelan politics.
Even if the present “Conservative” regime were twice as unpleasant and incompetent as it is, Labour of the Corbyn kind would still have no appeal (and I doubt that Jewish lobby puppet Starmer will do much better).
The self-described “Left” is irrelevant, politically, and its main redoubt now is Twitter (and what is left of the trade unions and the Church of England), where it talks to itself in the echo-chamber. There is actually no point in arguing with “antifascist” and old-style pseudo-“socialist” poseurs, because they have no chance of political success.
Only social nationalism has even a chance of overturning the System.
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I know it's representative of a wider problem but allow at least a moment to enjoy this after they decided to censor a rape survivor in their own organisation
Boo hoo hoo. This group actively encouraged the banning and cancelling of any conservatives, and call half of britain racists. They actually celebrated cancelling others, amd actively target individuals to damage their careers, so cry me a river. Not so nice to be cancelled is it
Exactly. The self-describing “Left”, as I wrote earlier in today’s blog, has no integrity or purpose left. Its only interest, apart from tweeting suitable tweets (attacks on “Tories”, “fascists”, “Nazis” and “gammons”, i.e. white British people; eulogies about selected blacks, or officially-approved Jew “comedians”), is that of having “deplatformed” people of social-national or conservative-national views. In other words, making malicious complaints to Twitter, Facebook, employers, msm, police etc.
A kind of humanoid “rats on a treadmill” scenario…with the self-describing “Left” as the rats, and Twitter as their perpetual treadmill.
Meanwhile, real opposition to the existing System, and ideas for a better society, will come from others.
Can you imagine, say, Lenin…a Lenin whose main interest is running to the police, or local authorities, or the Okhrana, or employers of opponents, and bleating “Excuse me, excuse me! Are you aware that XYZ has very bad ideas and opinions? Should you be allowing that?” (etc)?
I think not!
That is essentially where the “Hope Not Hate” and “UAF” crowds are; the “antifa” idiots generally; the Mike Stuchbery, “Dr.” Louise Raw and similar types, as well as (of course…) the Jewish lobby cabals, such as the infiltrative “Campaign Against Antisemitism” fake charity, with its contrived complaints to police, its suborning of MPs, ministers and police and crime commissioners, and its private —and politically-motivated— prosecutions of artists and singers (such as Alison Chabloz) and thinkers.
Quite. We now live in such an age of socio-political fantasy that many think that (as the Government and its idiotic “experts” believe), the reason for “virus transmission” is that “people are not compliant” when in reality there are scared rabbits everywhere, wearing facemasks even when walking down streets alone. There is little evidence of rebellion, though (as I predicted months ago) there is probably a certain amount of “yes repeat no” superficial compliance (with some bending of the dictatorial “rules” on the quiet).
Likewise, we have the unthinking worship of the NHS, even when it is clear that (despite excellence here and there, and great dedication on the part of many doctors, nurses and others), it is largely maladministered.
The System has in fact promoted the pervasive unreality, as with the “TV ads with black man and white woman and coffee-coloured children”, now ubiquitous.
“…the structure of the proposed LTIP, which would deliver a block of shares covering three years, meant executives appeared “eligible to receive virtually unlimited remuneration”.”
“Cineworld staff have been on furlough since November, although there has also been a significant round of voluntary and compulsory redundancies at various managerial levels, from supervisors to cinema management.“
“The proposed LTIP will award the company’s top executives if Cineworld’s share price bounces back to £1.90p within three years. If this level, which is close to its pre-pandemic level of £1.97p, is reached, bosses will share £104m, with the chief executive, Mooky Greidinger, and his brother and deputy, Israel, in line for an award of £33m each.“
“Mooky” and “Israel“?…Wake up, people! Wake up to these parasites!
Except that the quotation marks should be round the last two words…
Speaking of “history” (as children are now indoctrinated…):
Sky News report on the German town of Meissen and how its ultra-modern crematorium can't cope with a covid death toll of 1,400 a month, despite working 24/7. This would appear to be a very subtle form of Holocaust denial. Sky must sack whoever is responsible for this outrage
Wasn't so last Spring, was it @nappatedd? Passive acceptance of house arrest was almost universal, during some of the most beautiful British weather of my entire long life. https://t.co/PlGGqO4GBb
Two main reasons: the fear-propaganda put out by the Government, and in fact by most West European governments; also, the fact that most people did not suffer economically. Many were on furlough payment, others were working from home and (if they had nice houses, gardens, swimming pools etc) could treat the near-house arrest as a kind of rather spartan holiday.
Here he is in the middle, the horrible tyrant Matyas Rakosi, inventor of the term 'salami-slicing' – meaning, if you want to do something wicked, do it in small steps so that only a few notice and nobody protests. By the end, the whole sausage is gone: https://t.co/lxjQcTzcTe
All the same, the Jew Rakosi (the former a fact that Peter Hitchens somehow neglects to point out) was overthown, in 1956 (apropos of nothing, the year of my own birth) and, though Hungary remained under effective Soviet suzerainty until after 1989 (when, effectively, old-style socialism died), the country had increasingly “liberal” policies internally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_K%C3%A1d%C3%A1r.
History is not usually black and white.
On Peter Hitchens’ main point, what is now happening across the Western world, but not so much in Central and Eastern Europe, or in Russia (i.e. “panicdemic” being used as a mehod of imposing a “Great Reset”) may be happening partly because the states and territories that knew Soviet rule are unwilling to submit to tyranny again. As an acquaintance of mine told me in Moscow in 1993, “Ian, that is an experiment that we do not wish to repeat.”
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But @cjsnowdon, don't you see? This is the BBC's reward for its valiant efforts to marginalise and suppress the very existence of dissent from the Lockdown Dogma. https://t.co/CxAe7tCPPT
What happens when dissent and any socio-political dissidence is blocked and when the broadcasting arena is completely under “control” ? Look again at Budapest in 1956…
August 2020: We’ll pay you to eat out. January 2021: We’ll pay you to catch Covid. pic.twitter.com/ruXMA76bib
Surely it's obvious @excogitare, a sudden mass cancellation would be obviously oppressive, even to you. But you can dismiss gradual salami-slicing as a conspiratorial fantasy. At the end, the result is the same. The whole sausage has gone. But nobody has noticed or protested. https://t.co/wfgDDWyzBE
My thanks to Jonathan Mayhew-Price for compiling in one place the recordings of my appearances so far on Mike Graham's Talk Radio show https://t.co/KOGQDLiZXN
Hitchens focusses on his own situation: increasingly censored and even banned (a talk he gave on TalkRadio was removed from YouTube and, though the channel itself was reinstated, his talk was not, I think). Hitchens however, is merely one of the more mainstream people affected by such methods. Others, including me, David Icke, many others, trod the same path previously.
Yet the facemask propaganda is being stepped up. The State mouthpiece, the BBC, via the Today Programme yesterday or today, had a fawning interview with some supposed medical “expert” who said (on being prompted) that medical-grade facemasks might become mandatory in shops and on public transport! Apparently Angela Merkel, the German dictator-for-a-while, is already moving that way.
The aim of the international conspiracy seems to be to see how far it can get down the path of “atomizing” people, making public group dissent a crime, and at the same time tightening (((control))) of the Internet. Result? Complete tyranny. They hope.
Goodness @theblogmire.Is Jackie Boy @dpjhodges still at it? I got bored with his childishness and apparently instinctive dishonesty. So uninteresting. Hoping to stay awake during our coming debate on @talkradio. https://t.co/UzU056CXUK
One sees how the term “holocaust” “denial” has opened the door to further tyranny, i.e. people who want full scientific examination of climatic changes are now called “climate-deniers”, while those who disagree with “panicdemic” laws and governmental “rules”, however absurd, are called “Covid-deniers” (when not “Covidiots”).
Richard Littlejohn shows how satire is done (compare and contrast with the leaden establishment rag @privateeyenews, living on a reputation won by others 40 years ago): https://t.co/RRuUKRWw0V via @MailOnline
The tweeter “@ BritishAlba”, if not some kind of parody, is the kind of pseudo-“nationalist” — not even a mere “conservative nationalist”— who makes me shake my head in disbelief. In what world is it “the right thing to do” to invite maybe FIVE MILLION (more) Chinese here?! A city on the scale of a half or a third of the entire London sprawl, or about three times the size of the Glasgow metro area!
That same tweeter agonizes about the relatively few thousand illegal immigrants arriving by small boat, when even the entire illegal immigrant/asylum-seeker contingent is less than 100,000 a year. Certainly a serious problem (and one not being addressed) but 100,000 is only a FIFTIETH the size of those 5 million Chinese!
Boris-idiot and his mainly Jewish and Indian Cabinet are simply enemies; in a real sense, enemies of the people.
“The Gods themselves struggle against stupidity in vain” [Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans].
Again, another very silly tweeter, one “@dafyddtaylor”, who thinks that the “Great Replacement” is a “fascist conspiracy theory“! In the colloquial phrase, “should have gone to Specsavers“! Look around you, man!
People such as “@dafyddtaylor” may well be beyond salvation, politically. Just as “@BritishAlba” thinks that the misnamed Conservative Party is “the answer”, so “@dafyddtaylor” sees political salvation in the equally-misnamed Labour Party. In fact, “Daffy” lives up to his name; he even retweets that useless creature “@Femi_Sorry”! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femi_Oluwole].
Talking of “Femi”, whose many deluded Twitter “followers” want to see as a Labour MP, he has tweeted this:
At the very least I can tell you that as someone who hasn't had a thriving social life here since 2012 due to living abroad and then Brexit campaigning… I know it'll be a challenge for me, and it'll take time and effort… i.e. When the time comes, you won't be the only one.
At root, he has no profession, no job, and lives in his (affluent) parents’ house, though he had some anti-Brexit “campaigning” work since leaving university nearly a decade ago, campaigning funded mainly by the EU. He is now 30 and, like the Japanese soldiers who carried on fighting the Pacific war long after it was over, is still (in his own little mind) fighting Brexit. His ever-smaller world is Twitter. In that, he is certainly not alone. Most of the self-describing “Left” are there…and only there. They have nothing to offer the British people, nothing at all.
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Thousands of troops were sent to DC in anticipation of rioting by Trump supporters. It didn't happen. But elsewhere, #Antifa carried through w/their promise of violence.
My latest: "Biden won’t stop them & neither will cops, until Portland is burned down"https://t.co/kaplxfNWK9
Does this look familiar? Note how this Black Bloc member quickly breaks the window, then puts the weapon away in his backpack so there is no sign. All dressed identical to make individuals harder to ID. Deception is the key – never show your face or reveal your true intent. https://t.co/8vqQzylBFJ
Seattle: After another night of mass violence by #antifa, some residents are wondering why city officials aren’t responding substantively. The mayor’s spokesperson put out bizarre statement about homophobic hate speech. Reporting by @choeshow: pic.twitter.com/0tWTV58jOI
"Antifa militants chanted 'f—k' President Biden during a rampage through Seattle after the inauguration — and smashed up the historic site of the very first Starbucks." https://t.co/QgMS7VwuBG
“Action—Reaction—Control”. The “antifa” idiots are being used, so that a Federal crackdown on all dissent, especially “neo-Nazi” (social-national) dissent, can be presented as justified.
In the UK and elsewhere, we see sometimes actions such as attacks on Jewish cemeteries. On several occasions, Jews have actually been arrested as the perpetrators. In some cases, they were mentally disordered, but it is suspected that Zionist cabals were behind some of such attacks. The aim? To make the point that “Jewish organizations need State help (and money!)” to “defend themselves”. Also, to create a perception of a “threat” from social nationalists when there is in fact no such threat.
“Top pro-Israel lawyer who faked vandalism attack at Scots home faces being struck off…Matthew Berlow devised a conspiracy with an accomplice to catch out another lawyer he believed was subjecting him to anti-Semitic abuse.”
Of course, lawyers, in the tabloid Press, are always either “top” or “disgraced”!
“Pro-Israel Matthew Berlow devised a conspiracy with an accomplice to catch out another lawyer he believed was subjecting him to anti-Semitic abuse.”
“Glasgow -based Berlow helped fake a graffiti attack at his home and dragged political opponents into the firing line by making false claims against the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign on social media.” [Daily Record].
Note that that report does not use the term “Jew” even once!
There it is…
Interesting historical note from an Israeli newspaper
Were it not a matter of existential survival for European humanity, it would be a matter of sub-academic interest as to “how far can this nonsense go before people rise up in revolt?”. So far, no answer to that…
Ha ha! Very true, sadly. Eventually, the truth about Castro will come out, about his life of luxury as he ruled over those poor mulatto saps. North Korea is the same. As for the DDR (East Germany) the high-ups lived in a suburb near Berlin called by the people “Bonzo-grad”, “Bonzo” being a slang term for a boss.
The finance-capitalist society is little different in that respect, but arguably less hypocritical.
Sir Malcolm Tippett was living at Tidebrook Manor, Sussex Weald, described at the time as being very dilapidated, when he completed his opera The Midsummer Marriage. 2/2 pic.twitter.com/oGVm9iIyUd
I do not know much about Tippett’s music, though I have heard the Ritual Dances in the past. Unusual. When Stravinsky had The Rite of Spring performed for the first time (in pre-WW1 Paris), there was a kind of riot, or at least melee. The music challenged preconceptions. This is similar in that respect.
Moon Gate in New Jersey. Built using 7.5 tons of Pennsylvania Endless Mountain fieldstone. The moongate has traditionally been employed in garden and landscape settings as a symbolic threshold between worlds. 2/5 pic.twitter.com/uOI7v35xj8
Moongates are a common feature in Bermuda gardens. It is regarded as a symbol of love and Bermudians believe people who walk through a Moongate are blessed with good luck. 4/5 pic.twitter.com/oLXIYEQwIM
How to build a moon gate without mortar. “Build a wood form, place the stones to either side, and build up. Then you finish with a keystone and remove the form. There is a wonderful energy to these structures.” 5/5
Why did SNP Edinburgh Council allow this desecration of the capital’s skyline (and the Burns memorial) by US property developers? Neoliberalism trumps the neoclassical. pic.twitter.com/l9oWvMgaTc
Stalin is said to have remarked that “one death is a tragedy; a million is merely a statistic“. The same with jobs lost. Here is one individual, one family man, who has lost his job (almost certainly by reason of the shutdown of society by the Government, with no opposition from the Opposition).
It’s an interference with liberty. Far greater than an inconvenience. Let the majority wear them if they wish. But I do not wish to live in a society where the majority can tell the minority what to wear. Next comes what to think. https://t.co/qavsDxCWA0
No, @kamakevinprice the liberal elite lost interest in journalism when they found they were at last on the side of power, and instead embraced public relations gush, state toadying and attacks on actual journalists @matthewstadlen. https://t.co/rdqRkSkGMq
I have read them @momobaboon. They entirely lack hard experimentation. There is only one proper, huge RCT on masks, and it showed they were useless – a nuisance for those who ran it, who hoped for a different answer, and 3 major journals(+most UK media) who refused to publish. https://t.co/1x1rXDi6G5
In fact, I believe that well over 99% who get “the virus” recover, or at least do not die from it or with it.
Indian “clever boy” Rishi Sunak is indulging in what might be called fantasy economics. Having said that, now would be the time to borrow massively for real investment in Britain’s future, but instead of that Sunak and his colleagues have shut down much of the productive part of our society, and are spending the enormous borrowed billions on merely keeping companies and individuals “ticking over”.
Great to see that Joe Biden, America's 'Great Helmsman', is so committed to #Diversity and has bravely rejected taking on white men, moving on instead to a simply splendid variety of top level appointees. Just hope he doesn't get accused of promoting an 'anti-semitic trope'. pic.twitter.com/Ip7iYW9fa2
My second show of the day, this time solo as guest presenter on the Templar Report. The death of the American Republic, followed by some shocking revelations about the global elite's plan to wreck your life. Thanks for sharing.https://t.co/6VXNcRaRm7
Very true. If you read the idiotic panegyrics on Twitter, you would think that the Great White Hope had descended from the skies. The last time that happened (I mean the hysteria) was when Great not-white Hope Obama was elected. 2008; sworn-in, 2009.
Obama, a “half-caste” if you like, or mixed-race, was hailed basically because he was “black” (European-race mother, African father).
Obama was not much good, but he at least tried to give the USA a decent or half-decent health service which did not leave half the population without proper care. I credit him with that. What defeated Obama was the whole inertia of the American system, which is designed to create drag on the Executive.
Fight against tyranny. #Covid19 is a portal to predatory tyranny and an end to health sovereignty – a beginning of data colonies, AI and centralised economies with martial surveillance. pic.twitter.com/ZiuEmzrCvr
Whatever the virtues of the Hong Kong Chinese (and they have several; I have been there), the UK cannot take more immigrants, especially up to 4 million! This is madness. Boris-idiot is a traitor.
Can anyone confirm, deny or point to an official source for these figures, given by Allison Pearson on p.23 of the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday, 20th January? pic.twitter.com/lb6xsqhPaG
I thought you were a professor, @paulbernaluk and so might have something interesting to say. Was I mistaken? This isat the level of a chat-room: 'triggered'? What does it even mean? I have responded to a public attack with a reasoned, referenced rebuttal. Is this now bad? https://t.co/P9xOa1h6eJ
No @paulbernaluk , you obviously have nothing of interest to say, or you would so so. You chose to bring up the subject. Now, challenged, you sidle away. Well, we all know what that means. https://t.co/dZLKJY3RrW
Oh, OK, @paulbernaluk , if you weren't sidling then I suppose it must be that you were just running away like any old coward. What I say is, please run further. You are not as amusing as you seem to think you are. https://t.co/w0AIo4kdEd
Paul Bernal, above, a descendant of the part-Jew scientist and Communist, J.D. Bernal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Bernal], is a very silly person. He often likes to “remind” people via Twitter that “free speech does not mean freedom from consequences“. It is surprising, even in the contemporary UK, that a professor of law could write anything so stupidly unthinking. After all, that formula could be used to justify the repressions on free speech in Stalin’s Soviet Union, or Mao’s China. Yes, please speak freely, if you don’t mind being then shot or put into a prison, or labour camp! Asinine…
By reason of the post-1945 and then post-1989 proliferation of new “universities” (some genuine, some not), Britain is also now cursed with a plethora of “professors” of all sorts. Putting it colloquially, two-a-penny.
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MALLARD EXCLUSIVE: INTERVIEW WITH PETER HITCHENS (@ClarkeMicah).
In the wake of Big Tech censorship, @jackcousins01 talks to one of free speech’s most ardent advocates on matters of the Militant Left, shedding the utopian mindset and our country’s future.https://t.co/MaDICAmvk0
Aleksandr Porfir’yevich Borodin b 1833 in Georgia, was a Dr & Chemist by training & profession, he composed music in his spare time. A promoter of education in Russia & founded the School of Medicine for Women in Saint Petersburg, where he taught until 1885 pic.twitter.com/Exdn8AzB2s
I see joy in each other's company and chivalry in the male holding the umbrella high to shelter them both. "Dancing in the rain" by Leonid Afremov 1955 – 2019 pic.twitter.com/LQGSFhRbQm
Sky News report on the German town of Meissen and how its ultra-modern crematorium can't cope with a covid death toll of 1,400 a month, despite working 24/7. This would appear to be a very subtle form of Holocaust denial. Sky must sack whoever is responsible for this outrage
'The unwillingness to hear uncomfortable opinion and the refusal of platforms to people they disagree with is damaging to us all. ' https://t.co/aVwiHfBh31
'Creativity and progress in a society depend on acts of intellectual rebellion, dissent, disagreement and controversy, no matter how uncomfortable, but today the cancel culture movement think it is reasonable to obliterate the views of people they disagree with.' https://t.co/aVwiHfBh31
Sir Simon Stevens says he expects lockdown to be eased gradually in Spring / summer: "It is not going to be the case that on Valentines Day with one band we are free. But equally we wont have to want until the autumn. Somewhere in the middle will be true." #Marr
Kate Ferguson, who is apparently Westminster Correspondent at the Sun “newspaper”, and who apparently does not know that the phrase she is trying to use is a variant of “…and with one bound he was free”… I mean, this is not some ignorant pleb tweeting. Oh, no…wait…
Yet another unintended comment on the state of British “journalism” and “journalists” today.
It says it all about how small the British establishment is that the NHS boss Sir Simon Stevens was involved, as an undergraduate, helping Boris Johnson get elected as President of the Oxford Union. 35 years later and they are playing the same games. pic.twitter.com/zYxcXiHTxI
The various Government measures to mitigate, not the virus but the Government’s own policies in relation to it (“lockdowns”, “tiers”, quarantining, etc) bought off real popular opposition last year. The Government took a leaf from the book of Aneurin Bevan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan], who said that he had bought off opposition from medical doctors to the establishment of the NHS by having “stuffed their mouths with gold” (i.e. allowing senior doctors (“consultants”) to take on private work as well as receiving relatively high NHS pay).
“Furlough” payments ensured that, in 2020, many received effectively the same pay as before, but for no work (“furlough” was capped at 80% of net pay to a maximum of £2,500 p.c.m., but that was close to 100% for most, when the costs of just having a job are factored in: travel, snacks, drinks, clothes etc).
Many others were able to “work from home”, which might have had disadvantages for some but many advantages for others: no travel costs; a saving of (?) 1-5 hours of travel on the day, depending on the commute; the possibility to organize the day to suit the employee; no “boss” people supervizing the employee directly, or able to see what the employee is doing during the working day.
Naturally, the higher-paid working from home would have been, and are, in a better position than the lower-paid: perhaps large detached houses, perhaps also with swimming pools, tennis courts, large gardens in which to relax etc. One could imagine some, working in between swimming, and perhaps drinking Chardonnay ordered online and delivered to the door (I seem to remember that, even nearly 20 years ago, Sainsbury’s would not only deliver my wife’s orders, but actually take the stuff into the kitchen for her).
Also, companies started to demand Government help. Even those run by tax exiles such as Richard Branson. Some help was given.
Not everyone was taken care of by Government largesse. The self-employed, thhose running the smaller and one-man companies etc. The majority of the population, though, was shut up in both senses by Government order and Government money. Even the unemployed (etc) on Universal Credit, got a £20 a week increase.
Now, however, after much to-ing and fro-ing, we find ourselves back in “lockdown”.
Once again, the furlough is extended. Once again, failing businesses are, in some cases, being propped up, smaller airports among them. For how long, though?
Today, we heard that Newquay Airport (which I myself used a few times in the past) will be given money. I do not know whether other airports I used to use, e.g. Exeter and Southampton, are in a similar position.
Let us examine what might happen. Let us say that “the virus”, whether because of natural decline, the vaccine(s), whatever, disappears some time in 2021 from the UK. Air travel will take a long long time to recover, especially if countries are to insist on quarantines and “virus-free” certification. Will UK airports, airlines, ground services etc need or demand propping-up for years? Is that even possible?
We read that the UK Government can borrow money at very low, almost zero, interest at present. Good, but for how long?
We now read that the Government wants to reduce Universal Credit by £20 a week, while chucking those currently on it £500 in cash. There may be a revolt by Conservative MPs, and a possible Government defeat in the coming days.
The argument over UC payments presages coming disputes. No matter how much can currently be borrowed by the UK Government, eventually that will become unsustainable. What then? Already, State benefits paid to the unemployed are at their lowest since 1992 and, according to other calculation, overall benefits were not this low in real terms since the 1960s, which however was a era of, effectively, full employment.
The present government cannot simply, say, raise the State Pension (“Old Age Pension”, as was) entitlement age from 66, where it will be from 2022, to he age of 67, or 68, or 70, not without a massive backlash from voters aged over 65, and they are a half of all Conservative supporters: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-47909281. They are also far more likely to vote.
In other words, if the present government hits the pensioners or those looking at shortly becoming pensioners, it is toast.
The Government is looking at the unemployed and others as targets because they are less significant electorally, though at the same time, 40% of UC claimants are actually not unemployed but are in low-paid work.
Unsurprisingly, Indian “clever boy” Rishi Sunak is not going to introduce a windfall wealth tax. He wants to extract money from the poor or poor-ish, while not dooming his party electorally.
What about demand in the economy? Already low. The poor spend all or almost all of what they have; they have no choice. The rich, given extra money, invest it, often in hedging assets: property, savings accounts, gold etc. It makes sense to give more to the poor and less to the rich (however defined).
Once the various mitigation measures tail off, unemployment —and discontent—– will soar.
One can see storms coming. God grant social-nationalism the way in which to take advantage of them for the good of the people. “For the good of the people is the highest law” [Cicero].
Meanwhile, the USA has concentration camps today, both at Guantanamo and elsewhere, including secret ones. The inmates are in many cases treated as badly or worse than were those in WW2 Germany, or even the Soviet Union’s GULAG operation. The American concentration camps have doctors too, as does the CIA.
Despite all the restrictions placed upon them a number of great women left their mark on Merovingian politics and society. Learn about these great female figures in today's episode. https://t.co/F4PeKon2xfpic.twitter.com/yy4pWgQHkX
With Trump’s term ending, "a lucrative market for pardons is coming to a head, with some of his allies collecting fees,” report @nytmike and @kenvogel in New York Times:https://t.co/aBrfMW73VE
Trump! While you still can, PARDON the Capitol Stormers, PARDON all social-national and allied prisoners in Federal custody or incarceration, PARDON Snowden, PARDON Assange!
So Andrew, can you tell us what exactly is wrong with being, German, male, white, middle aged, and religious. Anyone would think you were Xenophobic, homophobic, ageist, and having a religiophobic agenda. There again you have probably sold your soul along with the rest of the MSM
Surprising, perhaps, that Andrew Neil put it that way, but then again he is very much pro-Jew and pro-Israel, and ranted a few times on TV (on his now-defunct late-night BBC2 show) about “Nazis”, “racists” etc. Demeaning (to him); it takes the gloss off his being the best political interviewer in the UK.
Tories plan to 'turn Britain into the Singapore of Europe'. The sort of dodgy deal where you need to pay VERY close attention to the small print: Mass Chinese immigration. 1984-style monitoring & control. Mass Asian immigration. Thanks but no thanks!https://t.co/5Zy6kXYY2w
Yes, I have many times had similar sensations, @adamgarriereal. But after about 1995, I began to feel it was no longer quite so reassuring, and in recent years , not really reassuring at all. https://t.co/PR16J4q8Hi
The East Wing of Rhodes House in Oxford also now vanished. I wonder if the building will keep its name. Fury against the dead British Empire a bit futile as China’s Empire grows in power and repressive fervour. pic.twitter.com/tHjnNbI3gq
The century-old West Wing of Rhodes House in Oxford now completely flattened as the building is prepared for its post-revolutionary transformation. Odd how little fuss there is about this. pic.twitter.com/j7co5Kj4gj
Can anyone help me? Mention of this study https://t.co/VXNU0sovTd is extraordinarily hard to find on the web. A link to the study itself is *impossible* to find (for me, anyway). .
Peter Hitchens makes, once again, a good point, but fails to point out that the present Kiev regime, posing as the legitimate overnment of the Ukraine, is a complete Jewish-Zionist sham. All the top ministers are Jewish, and at least one is actually an Israeli!
A Judge's political lecture to a defendant goes against all the rules of British justice. Here we are tried for what we do, not for what we think. But is this still true? https://t.co/OPChZQinof
“The whole point of the law is its cool impartiality, its judgment of the facts by a jury, and of the law by an impartial, dispassionate judge. If judges are going to start offering politico-medical lectures from the bench, it changes us into a completely different kind of country. In effect, a defendant in such cases is on trial for his opinions, not his actions.
Does Judge Matthews desire such a state of affairs? I doubt it. In that case she should not do this again. But I fear someone else will. Much that we used to know and trust about this country is vanishing with amazing speed.” [Peter Hitchens, Daily Mail].
All very true. Part of the problem is that “District Judges” (the old stipendiary magistrates) are not, in the traditional sense, real “judges”. Mostly solicitors who have applied for these rather simple jobs, which however pay quite well (I think that a full-time DJ gets about £110,000 p.a. now).
#SaferRoads@HantsPolice If you’re out and about getting daily exercise during hours of darkness – running / cycling / walking – it’s really important that you’re visible to other road users #besafebeseen#takeextracare 🏃
— Hampshire Roads Policing Unit (@HantsPolRoads) January 15, 2021
Very true. Recently, in the evening, I drove out of the nearby Waitrose store, about a mile or two from my humble home, and a woman crossed the road from the far pavement, riding a pushbike, and almost right in front of me. Dark clothing, and not a light showing on her bicycle; and no reflective strips on bicycle or clothing. When I overtook her and looked in the rear view mirror, she and her bicycle were almost invisible even at that short distance, despite some street lighting. Had I hit her, no doubt I would have been exonerated, but only after the nuisance and inconvenience of having to explain myself to the police.
@dpjhodges, Jackie Boy, as usual your tweet contains a misrepresentation. I have *never* said that 'if we just lifted lockdown the whole thing would go away.' If only. The damage done to the NHS by lockdowns may never be repaired, and will certainly take many years to fix. https://t.co/4i3jHqyBZg
Quite so @JaneyCMJ . There is a huge jump in logic between accepting 'the hospitals are under grave pressure ' to concluding 'we must therefore close down the country'. And the failure of Parliament and the BBC to permit debate means this is seldom examined. https://t.co/hYKXmifRXl
Well no, @drphilplee1, but the NHS has never before coped with a large winter outbreak of respiratory disease while many of its staff are compelled to self-isolate, and when large numbers of patients cannot be moved back to care homes, so perhaps this is the difference. https://t.co/qsDgM3rYlq
Naked Fear propaganda . ‘If you bend the rules, people will die’ . But is its real aim to prepare HMG’s excuses for the failure of the 3rd lockdown? pic.twitter.com/PyOvFGMamF
It’s much worse than ludicrous @newtonclarkeuk . It is disturbing and creepy, involving someone deciding what opinions Twitter users are allowed to express. https://t.co/8UEe2wenC8
The problem that literate, erudite System journalists such as Peter Hitchens have is that they think that this is a “debate”, and not a war…
There is an international conspiracy in existence. The Great Reset. The Great Replacement. White Genocide. NWO. ZOG. The censorship which is now pervasive and gathering pace is just part of that conspiracy.
Writing letters to corrupt MPs, tweeting, blogging too, while certainly necessary, will change little.
Ha ha! I was featured in 2017 or 2018. Not since, as far as I know. The enemy must consider me and my blog relatively harmless! Still, who knows? Butterfly-wing effect?
The USA, “land of freedom”… If Trump had any sense or much courage, he would now PARDON all social-national and allied prisoners being held in Federal prisons, PARDON Snowden, PARDON Assange and others. Stick it to his enemies in the week or so left. Just do it!
Not sure how true the above is, in that one could cite regimes in Africa or elsewhere, but the mere fact that we now start to ask “is the UK Govt. worse or less competent than those of African states?” rather makes the point…
It is true, though, that the British people now have no competent government and also no competent opposition parties.
Sure, but there are many ways to approach it. I do see rewilding and restoration as part of conservation. And rewilding as a form of restoration, or at least with plenty of over lap.
We're delighted to have Dominic Buscall of @WildKenHill as our next webinar guest. He'll be talking about rewilding, regenerative farming and conservation on his Norfolk farm. Tuesday 26 January at 7.30pm. Tickets from only £2 + Eventbrite fee. https://t.co/FlUWKZ8qNDpic.twitter.com/mmv6EcYAZN
Morning all, you may have seen in the @Telegraph and @thetimes this morning that @pritipatel will shortly announce that it will make it a criminal offence to trespass with the intention of settling. 1/nhttps://t.co/uoB8eugUyP
— Friends, Families & Travellers (@GypsyTravellers) January 16, 2021
Yay! About time Priti Useless did something right. The penalties proposed are far too light, however.
Most ecologists would endorse this statement but try and convince agric scientists, farmers, spp. conservationists, planners, land owners, local authorities, Gov agencies, and others that #rewilding can make a REAL difference to climate problems & biodiversity crisis https://t.co/GFozbo0fT6
“Jack” Monroe may not be on the same ideological page as me in several respects, but her activity around food poverty, low-income survival and child poverty is generally quite useful.
“Disappointing“? Ha ha…that’s the best that Rentoul has done for a long time, as far as I can recall. As for me, though I usually beat Rentoul, I too only managed 6/10. The questions I could not answer were questions 2, 3, 7 and 9. I would have got 7/10 right had I been able to remember that that little pro-Israel puppet, Sajid Javid, actually rose as high as Chancellor of the Exchequer (Question 3).
The enemies of civilization will not be content until the world lies in multi-ethnic ruins. The woman shown below, Corinne Fowler, is yet another termite in the UK academic world, another instant “professor” (in her case, “Professor of Post-Colonial Literature”, or possibly “Associate Professor”, at the University of Leicester). https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9153499/Academic-says-GARDENING-roots-racial-injustice.html
Evil.
[“Professor” Corinne Fowler]
Apparently, one of her collaborators is an Indian called Raj Pal. Another is a Dr. Marian Gwynne.
“Sir John Hayes, leader of the Common Sense Group of Conservative MPs, which has been highly critical of the Trust, told the Mail: ‘The National Trust’s charitable purpose is being stretched to its breaking point. The fact is the National Trust is losing large amounts of money at the moment, and sacking staff while spending time, money and energy on this nonsense.’”
“Sir Roy Strong, the architectural historian and former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery agreed, saying the National Trust has gone ‘completely bonkers . . .” [Daily Mail]
Meanwhile, the National Lottery Fund has given the above nonsense £160,000…Taxation without representation…
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I rarely agree with anything said by the Israel-lobby or its collaborators, but…
*Actually not Women's Running at all but a biological male with no apparent intention of medical transition. https://t.co/akUhGlloHn
Britain is now a massive version of the Augean Stables. It must be cleansed.
1. I don't think there's any need to be uncivil. 2. A lot of my colleagues, especially women, feel that women's sport is being destroyed. 3. You seem to be missing the point. Neither they nor I care about what she wants to be called – the point is about women's sport.
Tweeter “@harrisglenys1” is all too typical in contemporary Britain. Yet look at “@rob_marchant”: goes along with the “she” stuff. Eddie Izzard is not “she” (though he is a pain in the neck!)…
This whole nonsense has just gone too far.
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When the ethno state is reclaimed, we must rebuild our railroad system bigger and better.
Our railroad system was amazing. With newer technology it can be even better. https://t.co/TtVborhh2p
…and the USA is in a better place to do that as compared to the UK because, when the American railways were closed (those that were, and that was the overwhelming majority) Federal law ensured that the railbed and the tracks (meaning the rails) were left. Bridges were mostly left too.
In Britain, both before and after the disastrous Beeching/Marples “reforms” of the 1960s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts], rails were taken up, sleepers removed, and —in many cases— bridges destroyed. The land was then ploughed, or built upon, with a few favoured tracks being eventually repurposed as leisure trails for walkers and cyclists, as with the Camel Trail to Padstow [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_Trail].
[“Approaching Padstow, the Camel Trail crosses Petherick Creek on this bridge which formerly carried the North Cornwall Railway“– Wikipedia]
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