It might be said that I should not write about ordinary political matters on Christmas Day, but the news having just been announced yesterday about Brexit, a few more words are needed.
As I said yesterday, “Boris” has decided to put on the mask of a tragi-comic Chamberlain rather than a tragi-comic Churchill. He says now that he has, belatedly, delivered Brexit. Of sorts, arguably. It is all rather underwhelming.
This goes beyond BRINO (Brexit In Name Only) but not very far beyond.
Having said that, the agreement has pretty much shot Farage’s fox as far as the EU is concerned. I think that, though opposition to EU norms will continue on the fringes, this means the end of Brexit and EU matters as central in UK political discourse. Effectively the end of 20 years of Brexit/EU being political drivers in the UK.
To a large extent, the agreement has also shot Labour’s fox re. the EU, too. Labour under Keir Starmer has become almost invisible. Unsurprising. Starmer-Labour has, with minor carping, supported the “Conservative” Government on almost every issue in the past year, from the “virus” messaging and the facemask nonsense to Brexit. It seems that that support will now continue in the Commons vote on this agreement (next week, unless delayed). The agreement will thus be approved, with minor rebellions on the fringes.
As far as the general public is concerned, this agreement will draw a line under Brexit, politically.
The agreement seems to cover most of the factors important in the public mind, such as (by implication) the Roma gypsy element looting the UK from foreign bases, and also the low-paid foreign workers, Poles etc, coming to the UK as of right; the food standards now staying where they are (because the UK will not drop below EU norms, so no American chlorinated chicken etc).
It looks as though animal welfare in farming etc is covered (the UK is ahead of most of the EU states in that respect anyway).
Yes, there are sacrifices made: the fishing part is not very good for the UK, though at least there will not be the first Anglo-French naval engagements, in the Channel, since Napoleonic times. Britain’s fishermen have been, to some extent, sacrificed for the wider good. That means that the head has ruled the heart, fishing being only 1% of the UK’s GDP.
Also, British people will (or may) find it less convenient to live or work in EU states, though most live rather than work (retired people etc) and that happened even before the UK joined the original EEC in 1973, though on a smaller scale. People just had to apply for a carte de sejour in France, and the equivalent elsewhere.
There will be some grumbling about this from both “Brexiteers” and Remainers but, as a major political issue, Brexit has been finally put to bed.
First of all, language people use in this area can be quite emotive, e.g. talk of Christians ‘usurping’ or ‘sanitising’ a pre-existing pagan festival. There’s a tendency to ascribe a collective agency that never existed to ‘the Church’ or ‘Christians’ when it comes to Midwinter
The minds and behaviour of early medieval people weren’t software programmed by a Church that exercised total control. The Church showed sporadic interest in popular celebrations, but its main concern was Christian rites and belief – not suppressing all pre-Christian legacies
(The later concepts of sacred and secular may not be especially relevant here, but we can’t rule out the likelihood that pre-Christian societies (just like Christian ones) had many behaviours and practices that simply lay outside the realm of the sacred. This is a complex debate)
For example, when people compare Christian saints with pre-Christian gods – often implying that saints simply ‘replaced’ gods – what they’re really referring to is saints filling the same niches as the former gods in a spiritual ecology common to most pre-modern societies
Most pre-modern European societies had broadly the same concerns, the same areas of uncertainty, and the same spheres of life where divine protection was sought, before and after Christianity. Furthermore, societies often celebrated the pattern of the seasons in similar ways
In time, as people became culturally accustomed to it, Christmas came to play the same role as whatever Midwinter festivals existed before it, and earlier traditions receded
A plausible scenario is a mixture of sacred and profane festivities existing in parallel in early England, with pre-Christian elements fading gradually as they became less culturally relevant, and Christmas traditions becoming richer as society acquired a Christian identity
So without getting into the extent to which Christmas is ‘pagan’ or not, let’s be careful about the language we use and the assumptions we make, because the nature of the evidence – and of human belief – is often insufficient to support them…
Jew-Zionist activist Rachel Riley interviewed about “Internet trolls”. Wants users of Twitter etc to have to use their real names. Other Jewish Zionists are pushing the same line; Margaret Hodge for one.
In a sense, I am not completely against that idea. When I was on Twitter (2010-2018, though I only started to tweet prolifically from 2011 or 2012), I had only one account, and that account was under my own name (“@ianrmillard“).
I can only suppose that Kamm wanted to present himself as the “important” person who therefore has “trolls” attacking him. I rather see it the other way round: I cannot recall ever sending any tweet or other message to Kamm, but I seem to recall him tweeting once or twice about me…It’s several years ago now, but I am sure that Kamm was either mistaken or lying. Call it what you will.
Kamm also, as usual, called himself, in that newspaper comment, “a near-absolutist on free speech” but commended my disbarment for having posted a few tweets! I was disbarred for having tweeted FIVE tweets (out of 150,000+ posted from 2010-2016).
All those five tweets were general comments about society; none was addressed to any person directly, and I think that only two persons were mentioned by name. One was Michael Gove, whom I called something like “a pro-Jew, pro-Israel, expenses cheat“. That was true in all particulars and was known to be true even in 2016. I was unaware at the time that snivelling Gove was or is also a cocaine abuser.
Gove has never sued me, and has never threatened to sue me, incidentally.
The main irony of Jewish persons such as Rachel Riley and Margaret Hodge calling for all tweeters (etc) to use their own names and so be identifiable online, is that most of the worst Jew (and/or “antifa”) trolls on Twitter use pseudonyms in order to troll people. I was (and still am) a victim of all that, as are many others.
It took a lot of effort for persecuted singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz and others to identify some of the most disgusting and sadistic Jew-Zionist trolls, such as Stephen Silverman and Stephen Applebaum of the fake charity known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism”. Those two now tweet mainly under their own names, via “@ssilvuk” and “grubstreetsteve”, though Applebaum is still tweeting occasionally via “@rattus2384”.
I cannot be bothered to list all the Jewish and/or “antifa” trolls on Twitter using pseudonyms. Many.
Reverting to the Today Programme, as usual its bias showed clearly. Unlike many of its interviewees, Rachel Riley was interviewed almost absurdly respectfully, certainly not questioned closely about her demands.
Some fellow called Bruce Stacey, a supposed expert on social media, was also interviewed, and referred to “the American notion of free speech“!
“American notion“?! Unbelievable. So speaketh “the experts”!
Of course, the real reason the likes of Margaret Hodge etc want people to tweet only under their own names is so that persons critical of Jewish and Israeli behaviour can be more easily persecuted and, indeed, prosecuted. However, it may be that we have to stand up and be counted. Stand up for European life, people, and standards!
Boris the poundland Chamberlain
Very recently, I blogged about how Boris-idiot would play either the poundland Chamberlain, waving his piece of paper and proclaiming “peace in our time (with the EU)“, or the poundland Churchill, shaking his fist at the EU and proclaiming “we shall never surrender (to the EU)“. Well, looks like “Chamberlain” won…
Tweets seen
I have not ‘downplayed’ it, I have suggested it has been misleadingly recorded and attributed, and pointed out that it is comparable to previous respiratory outbreaks which have not caused the strangulation of normal life. 1,600 people in the U.K. die every day. Sad, but normal. https://t.co/2YD6DRP6hZ
On the contrary @tickyw, I can *cope* with it perfectly well, just as I can *cope* with incompetent government, sub-standard goods, bad TV, overhyped books, the ignorance of the ill-educated etc. But I don’t have to like it, or accept that it has to be so, or was never better. https://t.co/SLoIzo2zoz
Classic! Needless to say, the Middle East Forum is not an 'American conservative organisation', it's a central part of the US Zionist lobby/Occupation Government. As I revealed in What Lies Behind the EDL? nearly 10 years ago, Tommeh was always theirs.https://t.co/BXqmLJ4xZj
I cannot really wish anyone a happy Christmas in this time of unrestrained folly and mass hysteria, but may I wish those who would appreciate it a very blessed Christmas, Full of Grace and Truth?
It's amazing how easy it is to control someone's behaviour by telling them they are a good, caring, altruistic person whereas other people are stupid and selfish.
— Dame Jane Kerr 😀#idonotcomply 🙂#takeoffthemask (@TeamBaDJane) December 24, 2020
Saw this clip from 1967, showing the Buckinghamshire station (Denham Golf Club Halt) from which I travelled daily into London for 6 months in 2001-2002:
A good service. Only about 20 minutes to Marylebone with one stop en route (Denham). In those days (2001-2002) they even had a small First Class bit at the back (sadly now discontinued, or so I read somewhere).
In the morning, waiting for the one train that stopped there, there were always the same half-dozen or so people, who always stood in their accustomed positions on the little platform (as did I, mainly because the only First Class bit was a sectioned-off third of the rear coach).
Tweets seen
“We have finally found an agreement. It was a long and winding road but we have got a good deal to show for it”
“Peace in our time with the EU”… Ursula von der Leyen looks pleased, as if she has won…I suppose that both sides would say that this was not a zero sum game. All the same, I wonder…
“The Sun’s Dr Carol Cooper said a shortage of staff meant the Nightingales had no chance of ever hitting capacity.“
“NHS England said while three were on standby, Manchester was open for “non-Covid care”, Exeter and Harrogate as “specialist diagnostics centres”, and Bristol for “local NHS services”.” [The Sun]
In other words, there is no “virus” “crisis”. Yes, huge numbers of people in the UK are infected, but for the vast majority that means nothing, because they either have no symptoms or mild symptoms.
White people under 70 years of age are under little threat.
The real agenda, behind the public health aspects, is becoming pretty obvious to at least the thinking minority.
Yet again, it's one rule for us, while in private the ones imposing it on us do as they please – because they KNOW the covid plague story is a cattle prod to drive the human herd into their #GreatReset corral. Resign#NicolaSturgeonhttps://t.co/k8Jj6fc0U4
Despite the rising number of deaths caused by lockdown, 2020 has seen no rise in total deaths at all. This alone demolishes the covid plague hoax. pic.twitter.com/5yRTSLjMPv
Why? Because there is, effectively, no Opposition, just a shadow official Opposition under Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer (who has just nominated a Jewess from the “Board of Deputies of British Jews” as a Life Peer). However, the real, or underlying, reason that the UK now has an incompetent dystopian “elected” dictatorship is because the British people are asleep.
Well, I see her point, but the amounts she mentions, totalled and then divided among 300+ million Americans, come to only about USD $6 each! Not very much.
Tripe served in Bilge Sauce, drizzled with drivel and seasoned with piffle, @uniquejames. The thing you quote (from the pitiful shadow of a once-great newspaper) is an assertion, quite without hard causal evidence, by ….wait for it … Imperial College. Oh, yeah. Twit. https://t.co/MHlQz0VN02
…and look at the lack of self-awareness in that tweeter, “James Houghton”! Favours dictatorial “lockdowns” etc, yet has a Twitter profile “Freedom Fighter, Libertarian, Deep Thinker, Aspergers Spectrum“… What can one say?
New Zealand is an object study in how a people unwilling to apply their minds to socio-political issues, and who think that the important things are whether or not their sports teams can win rugby or cricket (or whatever) games on the other side of the world, and virtue-signalling, imprison themselves by not bothering their heads with “politics”.
As a result, a near-lunatic is voted into office and continues to pursue a globalist multikulti agenda which will eventually create a dystopian hellhole out of what was a quite positive society with an optimistic future.
We ought to be repealing current legislation against “hate speech”.
Yet the Law Commission is now proposing even more draconian measures, including the policing of conversations in the home & the reintroduction of blasphemy laws.
Yet Alison Chabloz so far remains on trial (set down for 30 and 31 March 2021) merely for mild remarks made when a guest on an Internet “radio” podcast panel discussion…
The problem that the “Free Speech Union” has is that it is just unwilling to identify the main enemy of free speech in the UK as the Jew-Zionist element and, being unwilling to speak the truth as to that, the FSU is weakened, very much.
The FSU’s Nelsonian eye turned toward Alison Chabloz and others (including me) makes its “defend free speech” stance not terribly credible.
Employed to keep the public 2 meters apart, yet they don't know what 2 meters are. From top to bottom, the people imposing this deceitful lunacy on us don't even believe it themselves.#lockdownrebellionpic.twitter.com/a412rYPhkf
I am pleased to hear it, but Beeching destroyed so much of this wonderful somnolent world, where railways connected the deep countryside to the modern city without destroying rural peace. Roads can’t do this. https://t.co/9mw41sfDsc
Yes, I am now recently 64, and can just remember both the last few steam trains of the early 1960s and the fuss around the Beeching cuts (though the only trains I ever travelled on in those days were the expresses between Reading and London (only used by me about twice per year, eg at Christmas to visit Hamley’s etc with my mother), so I never saw the branch lines, as far as I can recall.
No-one under my age, from their own recollection, knows about the rail network Britain once had, which started to be cut back between the two world wars, was cut back further in the 1950s, and then all but finished off by the 1960s Beeching “reforms”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts.
After the First World War, Britain had over 23,000 miles of track; by 1960, there still existed about 18,000 miles. In 2020, there remain about 10,000 miles of track.
The above is not a full picture, because many branch lines had a relatively few miles of track.
Some people may remember the Berlin Airlift. This is just Germany returning the favour. In return, the Johnson government is neglecting their truck drivers trapped here – no food, no sanitation, heating – no care at all. What kind of country have we become? https://t.co/p9qcpBu6iw
What has amazed me is that Government and its civil service must have known that (not necessarily because of “the virus”; maybe because of Brexit problems etc) there might well be a log-jam of trucks in Kent, yet it seems that even at Manston airfield, no contingency plans were made for water, emergency food, sanitation…What a bunch of total clowns!
I wonder how true that is. If it is basically correct, then those social-national-sympathizing police should not be wasting their time issuing puerile death threats against stray nuisances, and making online comments, but should be keeping their powder dry, recruiting more people, and organizing quietly and secretly for when the right time may come.
Yet you act as his propagandist. As does Starmer, who has completely failed in his duty to oppose, instead demanding that the country be yet more disastrously strangled. Why not be proud of your transition from active journalist to passive state servant? @matthewstadlenhttps://t.co/AgOnUtVJMy
Yes. My (small, pleasant) nearest hospital (semi-rural coastal Hampshire) had, at one time three (yes, 3) patients with “the virus” and, more recently, about two weeks ago, seven (7). That’s out of a total district council area population of 180,000 spread over 291 square miles. 95% of the population is “white British” (and nearly 3% “white Other”). As against that, the age demographic is quite high.
True, there are other, larger, hospitals not very far away (Bournemouth and Southampton, both within 25 miles distance) but even so it is clear that few people in the wider area are infected or at least symptomatic to the extent that they need hospitalization.
Much of the Western world has gone crazy and I do not believe that the public health issue is the main reason for that. Think “Great Reset”. Think 2022, and the 33-year cycle.
I interpret that as I have been suggesting for some time: the Conservative Party is winning, just about, by default. The Jewish mass media have stopped attacking Labour (because the Zionists achieved their objective of recapturing Labour and dumping Corbyn), but that alone is not enough to put Labour into the lead.
In a sense, remarkable, when you look at the sleaze and incompetence of the Boris-idiot government of fools.
Labour is not really being an Opposition. All it is doing is saying “we want stricter lockdown, more facemask nonsense, blah blah”.
There is no legitimate Government, and no real Opposition.
Been sympathetic to the argument what are framed as No.10 "communications" screw-ups are actually policy screw-ups that then have to be rationalised by the No.10 comms team. But how can you square last night's presser with these images. And what will they do topublic confidence. https://t.co/B0cuzwE0ie
I first encountered “Happy Holidays” when I first lived in the USA, in the winter of 1989-1990. Basically a Jewish idea, i.e. to give “Hannukka” the same billing as Christmas on the public stage. Also thrown in as makeweight was the ludicrous invented “celebration” called Kwanza [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa].
This is what happens after ten months of non-stop terrorporn about a disease which poses minimal risk to most people. A shopper sobbing in the pet food aisle. Shame on the government and shame on the mainstream media. #panicbuyingpic.twitter.com/zSYONWcqLE
Understand basic maths far better than you. A global death rate "with" Covid of 1.6 m out of a population of 7.8 bn. That's just 0.02%. Give yourself a shake. https://t.co/L62DMx8jQf
Very sorry to hear that. Hope you don't become one of the coming millions of unemployed; bankrupt; homeless; mentally-ill; suicides or cancer deaths on the back of lockdown.
When logic and fact meet fear and a brainwashed mind, logic and factual reality have no chance…
Don’t agree that the Western world should cease to exist or function because 1 out of 1,500 or 2,000 people are dying with “the virus”? Then you are callous, stupid, ignorant, and/or even a murderer. Or something…
Speaking of reality v. unreality, I heard a truly absurd piece on the BBC World Service a few days ago. Some black preacher expressing the view that Jesus Christ was a black African or at least “black”, whose parents came to Palestine “as refugees from North Africa“! As said on many previous occasions, the whole UK msm, and especially the BBC, needs a real cultural purge.
More tweets
Here (below) is a supposedly Welsh tweeter, tweeting under the name “Sion Gruffudd”, and who seems to be a complete doormat for the Jewish lobby (or maybe is a Jew, tweeting under “Welsh” cover; I don’t know):
If you said that you wanted to feed Jews to the dogs, or any named Jew, the police would probably be at your door, and/or you might end up on trial (like Alison Chabloz) under the notorious Communications Act 2003, s.127. Will that happen to “Sion Gruffudd”? I doubt it…
“.…Professor of History Carroll Quigley (1910-1977) of Harvard, Princeton and Georgetown Universities in America…wrote a book entitled The Tragedy and Hope (1966) which discloses an international bankers’ plan to control the world from behind the political and financial scenes. Quigley claimed that the planning by billionaires to establish a dictatorship of the super-rich disguised as workers and socially concerned democracies was already well-advanced even by the middle 1960s. Something that would be dismissed today as a “conspiracy theory” by the university departments sponsored by the likes of Facebook, Google, YouTube and Soros; beholden as they are to an elitist cadre of alumni who fund their research, and who are monitored by the Stasi-like Equality & Diversity units who enforce ‘right-think’ with an enthusiasm that matches Mao’s Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution in China.”
“This is a situation that can no longer go unchallenged by those who truly advocate for diversity of thought and intellectual rigour based on the right to open and unrestricted debate within our education system.”
We need a wider public demand for the crimes of being 'offensive' or 'abusive' to be removed from all hate crime legislation, only retaining that which actually threatens. https://t.co/VexfYCbXf5
The Spanish growers have said they’ll sort the French out. Meantime, back in Lincolnshire beautiful cauliflower, broccoli, sprouts, potatoes and carrots are ignored by the big supermarkets! The best for British produce are Lidl & Aldi! Counter-intuitive but true.
Alternatively, the Spanish authorities can, though not immediately, build up the ports of Bilbao and Santander. At present (or until recently) there was only one ro-ro ferry per week from Santander to Plymouth. I believe one per week Bilbao-Portsmouth too. If that were changed to 5 per day from each port, France could be sidelined. It takes longer to get to the UK from Spain, naturally, but taking the road trip Spain-Channel ports into account, not much longer.
But is it good news for British workers? Controversial schemes to fly in foreign workers to pick crops last spring, will be extended this coming spring, right after the March furlow ends and hidden unemployment explodes. https://t.co/U0IOj9JZMH
Of course, were cruel kosher/kashrut and halal slaughter to be banned in the UK, quite a few Muslims and Jews might feel impelled to leave the UK. “Oh dear, what a pity, never mind”…
It's time to Buy British, Dear Readers. Here's a brief guide along with the requisite links to help change your buying behaviour. Help out your local grocers & butchers. Like Her Majesty, eat seasonal produce. Glenfiddich not Jack. #csm#BuyBritish 🇬🇧 https://t.co/RSUzc4WVdA
Yes, by creating a starker two-tier justice system and not removing these physical threats from society, what Lammy and other similar racial activists are actually asking for is a social arena that will inevitably lead to the robbery, deaths and maiming of more minority people. https://t.co/InVQCzUT3o
At least MPs who happen to be barristers can no longer get “QC” letters patent on the nod, as they could until fairly recently (which is why barristers such as John Mortimer were “QC”).
I see that “the virus” has even made its way to Antarctica (a Chilean base there). Hopefully the one person who (last year, I think) accessed my blog from Antarctica will not be hit by it (I am presuming that he —or she?— is an English speaker, but could still be Chilean, of course).
Late tweets
Apart from his own claims, and he’s hardly a man averse to falsehood, exactly what evidence do we have for this libertarianism?
Frankly, I think that Hitchens is too kind to “Boris”. Don Corleone at least had a sense of strategy, a sense of loyalty and, in his own way, a sense of honour. I see none of that in the unpleasant clown posing presently as Prime Minister.
I am not suggesting that people should leave the country to find a better life, @manwiddecombe. There is no such place. I am suggesting they get out before it is too late. I've always made this clear but almost everyone deliberately misunderstands. https://t.co/bqMKUB1g6G
Claire Fox is not on the right. Most of my ex-IS comrades from the 1960s and 1970s have remained on the left but tailored their Marxism to the times. https://t.co/ylLOylHDL7
Still this “angels on a pinhead” “Right” and “Left” stuff…Who is “Right” or “far Right”, and who is “Left”? What a dull exercise! Concentrate on policy and intention. Leave that fruitless exercise and deal with realities.
Strickley Barrington Dot 30th, born just before milking this morning. She’s the 30th female member of the pedigree BD family to be born here, hence the name.
We have been registering pedigree Shorthorns for over 100 years, and they are always more than just a number in a book. pic.twitter.com/a0EeHJcUqU
A brand new member of our herd, Strickley Goldie 283rd. With the Fillpail calf we had last night, that makes 67 pedigree Dairy Shorthorn heifers born in 2020. In two years time we will have about 30 in milk heifers to sell.
There’s been a lot of talk this week about mega farms in China & about fake lab-grown meat replacing the ‘barbaric & uncaring’ livestock industry. I wrote this back in October & posted it onto my Insta account. It is the real side of my industry, it’s about our care & compassion. pic.twitter.com/T0bWrEvgKm
I am often critical of (some) farmers and of both their behaviour and attitudes, but it is not an unmixed picture by any means.
Hedges need to be laid to maintain the think growth in the base to keep it stockproof. If we left the hedge to grow tall, it would eventually ‘grow out’ and die. Hedge plants such as hazel & hawthorn are species which will live for 100’s yrs if laid, but die much sooner if left https://t.co/c1Q4nL6PcM
Started on a new 100m length of hedging between ours and the neighbour’s. It’s mainly big scrowey blackthorn, which sticks together like Velcro, so we’ve been able to ram on and do a gurt load since dinner.
A bit more hedging done this afternoon between ours and next door. It will soon be bushy and messy again, hedges grow quickly once laid. It hasn’t seen a flail machine for decades on our side and it won’t see one in the future either.
Another length of drystone walling getting rebuilt from the foundations up at the bottom of our hay fields.
Over 150m completed now by Uncle Arthur, a true craftsman. This wall will last hundreds of years without intervention, it will slowly settle into it’s surroundings. pic.twitter.com/DUFw5iDTUm
We will leave it almost untouched for the next 20-25 yrs. Our farm’s 7m of hedgerows are managed over that same long rotation, there’s a full spectrum of hedge sizes across the farm, from newly laid to huge 6m high boundaries. The best thing for hedge health, wildlife and carbon. https://t.co/B95bGsG7k8
Kind of you @talkrussian. Media conformity on most major issues has been solidifying over the past ten years, and accelerated greatly in the two years before this began. The cultural revolution, at first tentative and slow, is accelerating fast now. https://t.co/RVWli5CoCj
It becomes very obvious that “the virus” is being used, being weaponized. Coronavirus or “Covid-19” has killed about 1 out of every 1,400 people in the UK. More accurately, it has killed 1 out of every 1,400 people, who have mostly been over 80 and who mostly had several other serious conditions. Even leaving all that aside, it still means that 1,399 people out of 1,400 in the UK have either not had “Covid-19”, or have had it and survived (usually without ever having noticed that they were infected).
International organizations, such as the World Economic Forum, have openly proclaimed the virus situation as an “opportunity” for a “Great Reset” of world society.
The populations of Europe, USA etc are being taken for a ride.
Oh, ported @jdportes, sweetie, are you so inflamed with conformist prejudice that you can’t understand a scientific paper? It there’s no significant difference in positives, between masked and unmasked, then it is conclusive that masks don’t work. Prejudice hates truth. https://t.co/9ELIjsULye
What are you on about, failed bully portes @jdportes?You seem to think you know something you don't. Indeed, I think this may sum up your problem in general, an assumed & unearned superiority. 'Professor', like 'Pound Sterling', doesn't mean the same as it did when I was young. https://t.co/PGAzxJY33q
“Ain’t that the truth?”…not only about Jewish talking head Portes, though. The general point is also true. Fake or supposed “professors” are everywhere now. At one time, “Professor” was an esteemed rank or title. Now? Well, of course every tertiary educational institute, however basic, is now a “university”. “Universities” need or anyway have “professors”. So now we have not only “grade inflation” and “award inflation”, but also “title inflation”. “Professors” are two a penny these days.
That’s not to say that Portes is always wrong about everything; he was right, imo, about the wrongheadedness of most if not all of the policies pursued by George Osborne, 2010-2015.
COVID-19: Risk of 'serious disruption' to Christmas fresh food supplies https://t.co/J04h7bBmys
Nine out of 10 children on remand in London come from BAME background. The government’s failure to act on racial disproportionality across the justice system is resulting in grossly unfair treatment. The justice system must be fair for everyone. https://t.co/wAXAWYETAv
Ha ha! Lammy must have been a crap barrister! Unintentional admission implied?
*Thread*@Channel4News broadcast a segment on Palestine which included this image from a Prevent training module. The segment claimed that 'vocal support for Palestine' and 'opposition to Israeli settlements in Gaza' are viewed as "potential indicators of extremism" (1/7) pic.twitter.com/7qH8GILHp2
The next slide goes further, "Holding the views on the previous slide is legitimate provided they are not expressed or furthered by statements, deeds or actions which result in harassment, intimidation or threats of violence against individuals or society itself" (3/7) pic.twitter.com/9VhgFj2n95
As for the “professionalism” no doubt claimed by “Prevent” and its practitioners or employees, I believe that there are no Israeli settlements in Gaza; not even the most determined anti-Zionists claim that! So not terribly impressive that “Prevent” gets even basic and unargued facts wrong…Unless, of course, Channel 4 changed “West Bank” to “Gaza”.
Takes the CST Jewish snoop organization as credible?
Jewish student interrogated after complaining about Warwick lecturer. A report by @CST_UK into #Antisemitism on campuses found swastikas drawn on property and assaults. In 15 cases, university staff made antisemitic remarks to or in front of students.https://t.co/Maccx4pmde
Ooh! Swastikas drawn somewhere! Better call out the SWAT squad! Actually, just **** off…
Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
Unintentionally amusing. Could be applied to one of the biggest —and unproven— “conspiracy theories” of all— the “holocaust” “gas chambers”…
BS. New strain known about in September. This is psychological warfare against the British public. Those responsible need to be put on trial. https://t.co/Q4dD9rRAXa
Exactly. Jewish lobby puppet Starmer wants even more “lockdown”, shutdown and facemask nonsense. He’s as much of a waste of space as “Boris”…
Is there anyone out there who still doesn’t realise that we are living under a one-party state dictatorship? Don’t be fooled by the fake ‘Labour’ ‘Conservative’ ‘Lib Dem’ ‘SNP’ left’ ‘right’ divisions: all of them want us locked down forever.
“NWO” and “ZOG” pretty much covers the waterfront… Add in “the Great Reset” and “Great Replacement” if you like…
So Israeli arms firm Elbit is part of a consortium that will train the U.K. navy and marines, along with Raytheon U.K. which is chaired by a former Conservative minister. Just another day in the British Oligarchy. https://t.co/wC7BcXMXDS
The PCR tests are fraudulent so it doesn’t matter if they’re run by the public or private sector. Again the ´left’ is missing the bigger picture. https://t.co/CbxlGwoSQY
Ha ha! As the Irish are said to say “will ya look at that eejit?!“…
I wrote an article about the significance of Patel’s comments. She said ´social distancing is here to stay’. She didn’t misspeak, she knew the agenda. https://t.co/HPwGR5fufw
Exactly. Also, you will never get to the bottom of this if you try to apply ordinary party or other political ideas to it. This is not about the outer labels of “Conservative” or “Labour” etc, not even about trying to create a Bilderberg/WEF “one world” corporatist tyranny. That is just part of it.
This is about trying to steer the whole of the world in an oligarchic materialist-dictatorship direction. It is tied-in with occult, evil purposes which reach right down into everyday life, even into family life.
If people had refused to wear masks the project would have been derailed. If the govt can get you to wear masks for a seasonal winter virus in July! – they can get you to do anything. It was a compliance test and unfortunately too many complied. https://t.co/JLtRYawRW4
Wealth is certainly part of this but there must be more. I am not scientifically trained (just like “Boris” and his Cabinet of clowns), but it is surely at least possible that the hidden agenda of the vaccines is to secretly weaken the human immune system so that, in a year, 3 years, 10 years, a new virus will “suddenly” appear and wipe out most of the population of the world, who (thanks to robotics and AI) are thought “Not Wanted On Voyage”…
Yup. While others, who we thought we could have relied on, when totalitarianism did come to Britain have not only sided with the authorities, but actually urged them to be even more draconian. https://t.co/LTVZbPO6QN
Surely Neil Clark did not seriously think that “Labour” drones in Parliament or outside (or the pathetic self-describing “Left” Twitter-twits) would stand up for freedom and civil rights? They cannot even stand up for free speech against the Jew-Zionist element.
Starmer is making things WORSE. He's shamelessly using the situation to point score and thus facilitating an agenda of ever more draconian rules.
Labour seems to want the whole country to go into Tier 4 before Christmas, as in Labour-run Wales. Toys presumably sealed off in supermarkets too. We need Johnson and Hancock out urgently but Labour most definitely is not the answer.
Starmer says ´Coronavirus is ’now out of control’. That’s is shameful fearmongering. We have a casedemic based on ramped up not-fit-for purpose PCR testing. Hospitals were more full this time last year. Johnson’s awful but the answer to our problems is most definitely not Starmer pic.twitter.com/zDjO5RJotH
Well, admittedly I live in a “Tier 2” area, but over a whole 9-10 months now, not only have I not known anyone personally who has had the “virus”, but I know, from questioning people, that I do not know anyone who knows anyone who has had it. Not died from it, or been to hospital because of it, just had it, or been tested and found be infected. Not one.
I read online about people in London or Birmingham who have supposedly had it. I have no reason to doubt at least some of those claims, but this is not, or not yet, a plague. The big headline today or yesterday about this was “318,000 virus deaths in USA”, which (though many did not die of the virus anyway) is a huge number, but the USA has about 350 million inhabitants, so that is still far less than 1 in every 1,000 inhabitants.
It's very simple: the covid test comes up positive for all SARS viruses, including standard flu. There is no flu this year, because it's been rebounded as new strains covid. They're destroying your world over a standard flu. Because you let them. pic.twitter.com/DdIDP3ZoB4
Yes., @matthewstadlen, I know. , you support censorship. And are not ashamed. But I have never said the virus does not exist. Nor do I think it. https://t.co/zfJbTnTjFA
That Stadlen individual is typical of many in the UK today, especially those who make a living being scribblers or TV talking heads. Unlike most of their predecessors, they see nothing wrong in censoring views, either directly or indirectly (the latter by simply encouraging the BBC, Sky, Press etc to disallow dissidents to write or speak).
It is normal @matthewstadlen , for the person making the claim to provide evidence in support. I don’t say they don’t work. I say you have no evidence that they do. And so it proves. Silly boy. Learn to debate, the come back. https://t.co/isz4vladWn
Stadlen has a First in Classics from Cambridge, albeit gained since award inflation became rampant, yet seems never to have heard of onus probandi incumbit ei qui dicit, non ei qui negat, sometimes put more simply as the rule that “he who asserts must prove“.
In the above case, the positive action taken was to institute “lockdown”. That changed the norm. Therefore it is for those who claim that “lockdowns” work to prove that they do. Not merely assume or assert; prove.
1/2 @matthewstadlen. Twaddle. Read your own tweets. You attack me for the act of dissenting. You can't do naything elkse. You have no interest in (or knowledge of) what I actually say. You think it wrong of me to disagree with the government. https://t.co/t1LQTXgltX
1/2 @matthewstadlen I fear *you* have missed *your* point @matthewstadlen. The description of speech as 'dangerous' is plainly a preliminary to limiting or preventing it. Why else use such a word? You are ploughing the furrows in which others will sow censorship. What argument? https://t.co/MraPHgOx0h
2/2 @matthewstadlen. Quite how destroying your neighbours' jobs, by the hundreds of thousands, and their businesses by thousands, wrecking the NHS, & condemning the healthy old to lonely inavctivity and early death is 'common sense', I do not know. What a prig you are. https://t.co/9wbhwJAs8g
What does this Stadlen care? Wealthy Jewish background, well-paid jobs for BBC and other msm outlets. Looks like he has had a pretty easy life so far. No real concern for the millions of British people suffering (and about to suffer far more). Just crocodile tears tacked on to the end of his virtue-signalling.
Difficult to square this with what we were told in the press conference only three hours ago. https://t.co/EDrqP6rErF
Purely anecdotal, but in my experience people are once again taking big swerving steps to physically avoid each other on the street in the way everyone did back in March.
“Atrocious” maybe, but scarcely surprising to anyone who has seen on TV Anneliese Dodds, let alone Angela Rayner or Keir Starmer. Not that I have much time for Indian “clever boy” Sunak either.
Never bought the "sick of experts" narrative. But when you spend half an hour being told by academics you should speak to "experts" on child-grooming – themselves and their friends – rather than the actual victims and their representatives it's quite hard not to give it credence.
Ah. We got there. Home Office officials aren't "experts". Ministers aren't "experts". The people who represent those who were abused aren't "experts". Those who were actually abused aren't "experts". Just you and your mates. You are the only "experts" that matter.
How many times have I in the past tweeted and (my Twitter account having been taken from me by a Jewish conspiracy in 2018) blogged, that “Boris” is no good in a crisis? Many times. Listening now?…
“A lot of people are trying to escape before midnight so that they can see their families.”
As Christmas approaches, Londoners were busy catching trains to elsewhere Saturday evening in a race against newly announced Tier 4 travel restrictions pic.twitter.com/vqr9M0UGQg
Can’t wait to experience the new strain of the virus when you guys get here. Yay @BorisJohnson and his FANTASTIC leadership throughout this. https://t.co/Srm8wRzQkR
She appeared to furnish Police Scotland's Chief Constable with the autonomy to block the border any way he saw fit? This appears appears to go beyond the role of the FM and the CC especially in the context of the superior law of the land. This requires to be scrutinised.
So we have Sturgeon purporting to act like the head of government of an independent state, ordering its borders closed, Police Scotland refusing (quite rightly, imo) to institute a hard border (while increasing patrols), police in London threatening to arrest anyone trying to escape from the zoo, and Boris-idiot trying again to play the poundland Churchill…
I have travelled more than most, and have seen some pretty screwed countries, so I do not say that the UK is the worst, by any means, but it is sliding rather fast now…
We have come to see the SNP as sort-of “normal” now, part of the political landscape, but it was a very minor party until 2015, only 5 years ago. Sturgeon is a strange woman, a fanatic, someone who seems to prefer Pakistani and other migrant-invaders to the English (and even some Scottish).
Inside story on the #grooming cover up. No point blaming the Common Purpose civil servants though – it's the politicians who accept their lies. And the people who keep voting for them.
DAN HODGES reveals the story of cover-up over the abuse of young girls https://t.co/GsbcKoG3G4
Those girls and others are, of course, now constantly brainwashed, both at school and on TV, to accept mixed-race “relationships”, and even offspring, as normal and “OK”… No wonder they were easily enough seduced, suborned, or bought.
Yes, @bradygwilson Lawrence was very sharp on the issue of liberty versus the strong state. I quote from him in my 'Abolition of Britain' https://t.co/4rbgGv5rHZ
Its example of the government needing to be seen to be acting, doesn’t matter if it’s useful, effective or anything. Just be seen doing something. So we get “let’s build emergency hospitals, we don’t have the staff for them, but that doesn’t matter, we’re being seen doing stuff”
I have no idea @silentmadge. I am buffeted this way and that by contradictory claims, and am unqualified to judge between them. . It seems quite possible. I'm much more interested in the fact that this supposedly terrifying plague often *has* no symptoms. That is beyond dispute. https://t.co/IfZOPswbMU
Yes, even the sainted English courts will not usually stand up for either liberty or free speech. On a smaller stage, look at my 2016 disbarment. A retired Circuit Judge chaired the 5-person panel. The others were two fellows who looked reasonable and behaved well and with appropriate humour if I made a joke; and two purse-lipped disapproving women who were cookie-cutter humourless types incapable (in my opinion) of thinking independently, though in fact they said little. Bookends.
You can see Tribunal panels and benches of lay magistrates like that (but with 3 members) all over the country.
That retired judge was impeccably (well, almost impeccably) fair in his manner and gave me an impeccably fair-seeming “trial” which, however, was always going to lead to my being found “guilty”. The only question was whether I would be disbarred, merely suspended, and/or fined.
For me, as good as penniless, the main thing was to avoid any financial penalty. I had ceased Bar practice in 2008 anyway, and would never return to either the practising Bar or to salaried employment. I could have successfully opposed actual disbarment, but chose not to do so.
In an exchange before the panel retired to consider their verdict, I could tell what the Chairman-judge was thinking, and in my view he knew what I was thinking. He did not overdo the matter, or express any faked disapproval of me, so I give him credit for that.
Still, the point is that the Tribunal knew what the System expected of it and so found against me. That then enabled the malicious pack of Jews behind the attack on me (“UK Lawyers for Israel”, effectively the same “people” as in the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) to crow, and to dance ritually in their joyous “triumph”. Oh, and the self-described “Left” Twitter-twits all applauded the Zionists…the idiots.
Looks like various factors are beginning to come together: “the virus”, Brexit and possible shortages, economic slide leading possibly to near-collapse and to massive youth and other unemployment, and to continuing migration-invasion. This may be the time when social nationalism can truly rise up in the UK.
💥Column:
EXC: That £45,000 Cummings pay rise? It was approved by the Cabinet Office salary advisory committee
As one of several who wrote about Rotherham at @LabourUncut during 2012-2015, must admit I found the Home Office's conclusion surprising, that grooming gangs were "most commonly white". That's because it wasn't the case, as @DPJHodges reveals: https://t.co/axLUlHspOz
The Conservatives now clearly the party of the working class – why because the left no longer preaches solidarity just sectionalism and autonomy – time for Conservatives to do solidarity at scale https://t.co/o6UsXsraY1
An interesting tweet, confirming as it does my long-tweeted and blogged view that Labour is now mainly the party of the blacks and browns. It also confirms (by implication) that I have been right in saying that the “Conservatives” are winning over “Labour” by default, not on their own merit. A real social-national party could rise up and defeat both, if credible, properly led, with clear and properly radical aims.
As for “Labour” being supported by a majority of “graduates”, when almost everyone (well, 50%) under, say, 30, has a “degree”, what is such a “degree” really worth?
More pertinently, that means that persons under 30 (who are far more likely than older voters to have gone to some degree mill “McUniversity” rather than no university) support Labour. More likely to be renters, also likely to be getting poor pay (despite the “McDegree”).
Not every holder of a Mickey Mouse “degree” can emulate the ludicrous James Cleverly and become a Government minister on the strength of a “degree” in Hospitality Management… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cleverly.
My fundamental point was that it won’t be coming from Scotland. That still stands. Even when it’s Sunday you’ll have to do better than that to justify your patronising tone.
If the UK and particularly England stopped the migration invasion (and consequent births to the invaders) there would be no “water shortage”, though obviously both leaks and the lack of an overall strategy are very important.
Google Hampton Water Treatment Works and prepare to be educated.
Just watched about an hour of The Death of Stalin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Stalin] which I realized, as I watched it, was not meant to be historically accurate. I see now from Wikipedia that it was meant to be “black comedy satire”.
Ahistorical, not so much black comedy as slapstick, very poorly realized and acted (contrary to what Wikipedia reports of the critical reaction to the film). Overall, very poor. I would not give it, even as “black comedy”, more than 2 out of 5. The locations were good, some possibly the originals or very close copies (e.g. the “Nearby Dacha” of Stalin, and what I thought was the park of the Economic Achievements Exhibition, but might not have been: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibition_of_Achievements_of_National_Economy).
I wondered whether someone such as Mel Brooks had directed the film, but apparently it was one Armando Iannucci.
For me, not worth watching right through to the end. Cheap slapstick.
As blogged before, this situation is not quite the Book of Revelation “mark of the Beast” scenario, but possibly an early attempt at something similar.
Yet much of the rabbit public has become almost obsessional about the facemask nonsense…
Well, @bbcjonsopel, your tweet was pretty clearly a call for more masking here. If you want to give ‘anything’ a go consider rational scepticism towards govt policy which is destroying the NHS, obliterating jobs and bankrupting the economy. And not working. https://t.co/Aqw9J0iIyE
It is rather unlikely that Jon Sopel, a Jewish journalist who is paid hundreds of thousands of pounds a year by the BBC (which is little more now than a Government/System mouthpiece), is going to rock the boat very much…[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Sopel].
1/3 OK, I'll try again, @bbcjonsopel. You should have learned by now that US public opinion is much more subject to hysterical swings and crowd pressure than that in the UK. https://t.co/Bio48AU9Fc
2/2 @dillingersghost Your question is like a man who has burned down his house to get rid of a wasps' nest, responding to the gawping crowds as they gaze at the embers of his home(and the unharmed wasps buzzing round it) by saying 'Well, what would you have done?' . Not that. https://t.co/iY60wHDmQx
2/3 @bbcjonsopel. Next, as a BBC journalist, it's a breach of impartiality to take sides( as I think you do here) on matters of public controversy. Finally, you write as if there has hard evidence for the effectiveness of masks. https://t.co/Bio48AU9Fc
The great majority are still completely hypnotised by the propaganda, @checkout123. It is amazing and dispiriting to discover how many don't even know there is a controversy. BBC's behaviour has been so shameless that the only solution now would be to dissolve it and start again. https://t.co/jzudKNs0Tz
And we will be there forever if we don't all wake up and start thinking. This is like one of those old-style Deep South prison farms where they re-arrest you, just as you finish your sentence. @mcsteabilly. https://t.co/Vw2eoFr8iY
Sometime in the near future, I shall post a blog article (as yet unwritten) distinguishing between political action and (where it crosses over into what is often called) “terrorism”. A grey area. For example, what about the “Resistance” and (on the Eastern Front) “partisans”, fighting the German Reich? What about those who took up arms in the 1920s and 1940s against the Soviet state? What about “anti-colonial” “fighters”, “terrorists”, or whatever? Jews in Palestine, Mau Mau in Kenya, various Arab “freedom-fighters” etc. What about “lone wolves”?
Is it merely that (only?) when such people are (maybe unofficially) under the loose direction of a recognized state, they are not “terrorists”? That is pretty thin from the ethical point of view.
So I shall consider the above questions and related issues in a later post.
Sadly, Chris Williamson is a “nearly man”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Williamson_(politician). He did try to stand up a little against the Jew-Zionists and/or the Israel lobby when he was an MP (2010-2015 and 2017-2019), but not nearly enough.
As a Labour council leader in Derby, “He was instrumental in setting up Holocaust Memorial Day events in the city and rescinded the obsolete medieval proscription barring Jews from living in Derby.” [Wikipedia].
Stupid; the Jews hate and despise him all the more. They still tweet against him fairly often, even though he is no longer an MP and unlikely ever to re-enter Parliament.
For example, when I was on Twitter (the Jews had me expelled in 2018), he retweeted my stuff a few times, until a Jew told him what a terrible “neo-Nazi” I supposedly am. He then blocked me. Bad move. Anyway, yesterday’s news…Finished.
Billionaire charity
Heard on radio that someone called Scott, the divorced ex-wife of Amazon kingpin Jeff Bezos, has given away USD $4 Billion in the past few months to hundreds of charities relieving poverty in the USA. Apparently about USD $35 Million daily. She is able to do that because, prior to the “panicdemic”, she was worth around USD $64 Billion, and her wealth has increased by a further USD $25 Billion this year! In other words, even having given away USD $4 Billion, she is yet worth USD $81 Billion! Staggering. 81 thousand million US dollars!
Even Croesus might be envious!
I do not want to be too churlish. At least she is trying to help struggling people, and with a significant chunk of her wealth, something others with similar or more wealth (eg her ex-husband) are (in most cases) not doing.
What is wrong is the fact that any individual has that amount of wealth in the first place. I do not believe, really, that any one person should control even 1% of that amount of wealth (even that would be about USD $800 Million. That amounts to about £600M in UK money).
As far as UK people are concerned, I have no objection to someone having a million pounds, maybe £10M, but probably not £100M.
Bezos himself is apparently worth USD $186 Billion!
One of the disappointing features of world society is not so much the stinginess of many of the ultra-wealthy, though that is disappointing, but the lack of vision of so many of them.
The Wikipedia entry for MacKenzie Scott explains why she took that name after her divorce from Bezos (her maiden name having been Tuttle), but I wonder whether it is also a bit of a joke on her part, Scott McKenzie having been the flash-in-the-pan or “15 minutes of fame” hippy singer of 1967 (whose song I remember from when I was 10-11 years old, and at school in Middle Harbour, Sydney):
As I blogged recently: if “Boris” comes from Brussels with agreement (however poor), he is poundland Chamberlain waving his piece of paper; if not, then “Boris” becomes poundland Churchill, snarling “we shall never surrender” and offering (others) “blood, sweat and tears”…
I have blogged previously, from years ago, about how “Boris” is like a matrioshka, with nothing at all in the middle. No ideology beyond vague and irresolute free-marketism, no real ethical, spiritual or religious beliefs, no plan or programme politically, nothing except empty ambition. That is why his only policy suggestions are those of a 12 year old: bridges across the sea, artificial islands, cable-cars, buses, water-cannon etc.
Alison Chabloz
The latest trial of persecuted siger-songwriter Alison Chabloz starts, and will almost certainly end, tomorrow, Thursday 17 December 2020.
Though the prosecution is under CPS aegis, the complaint against Alison was once again made by the malicious Israel-lobby “Campaign Against Antisemitism”.
All support at court will be welcomed by Alison. Westminster Magistrates’ Court, 181 Marylebone Road. Nearest Underground: Edgware Road (either District/Circle or Bakerloo lines). Doors open 0900 for 1000 hrs.
Saw another “alumni” contest. Wadham, Oxford, and some Cambridge college. It may sound immodest, but I think that I alone scored higher than both teams put together. The Wadham team included, as team captain, well-known journalist Anne McElvoy, who always seems hugely smug, and who seemed rather odd in her manner, as if drunk or drugged, though I suppose that she was in fact not. Surprisingly poor general knowledge from her and her entire team (which included the Jewish scribbler, Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland), though Wadham easily beat the Cambridge panel.
Ridiculous article spreading what is now the zealots’ myth that the Danish study was ‘inconclusive’. Tripe. It clearly showed that masks had no statistically significant effect on infection. https://t.co/ZfrIN43twG
How do you know @staffroomgin? Mental illness, which is strongly correlated with marijuana use, is itself increasingly correlated with criminal violence. See for example here https://t.co/uJ3Tar99sk A startling number of terror attackers are marijuana or steroid users. . https://t.co/YKlFfBfyBJ
This chart shows clearly the absence of even the remotest correlation between mask-wearing and the incidence (and therefore the transmission) of Covid-19. Without even basic correlation, where would you look for evidence of causation? https://t.co/DThEjCXa4U
A poor start to the day as—once again— Radio 4 TodayProgramme invites a Jewish “rabbi” on to exhale platitudes on its Thought for the Day slot. Once again, I say “why?“; Jews are “only” about a half or so of 1% of the UK population, but are on that Radio 4 slot about twice a week, so about 40% of the time. 80 times the numerical proportion based on percentage of the UK population.
Why is that slot so disproportionately Jewish? Also, if the disproportionate influence shows itself there, is that the case with the rest of the Today Programme and other Radio 4 output? I fear that it is.
Incidentally, if you want to see what “Zionist occupation” (as in ZOG”) looks like when writ large, you need only look at the tweet below, from occupied Germany…
Still, I checked out the gang of liberal feminists and the token metrosexual who run Fable Productions, & I've got more kids than all of them put together. Liberalism is self-destructing. #longwarhttps://t.co/myOmvWl74x
God…an ugly black woman playing the part of Anne Boleyn! A key part of England’s history! This country is so screwed, it is hard to believe…
Yet, and as Griffin says, a white person is now all but prohibited from playing a black character, even a fictional one, and whether Othello or a black minstrel…
All the people arrested at and in the antifa autonomous zone this week had their charges immediately dropped by the district attorney Mike Schmidt. Read my new report co-written with @MiaCathell: https://t.co/44EtYJj3V1
God! What an evil-looking bunch. They look like murderers (and quite likely are).
Antifa black bloc chased a man into an alley in Sacramento, Cal. and beat him with weapons yesterday. Their comrades tried to stop journalists from filming. Video by @SRodd_CPR: https://t.co/le0xliOlsj
All true, but sending letters to the MPs of the Westminster monkeyhouse will not really activate or frighten that corrupt pack.
2 @m1racles I also suspect that the existence and growth of an informal opposition to Covid policy among Tory, Labour and DUP MPs has been encouraged and amplified by the writing of such letters. https://t.co/BtgGiRlU1D
Well, maybe, but I blogged long ago, a year ago, that in a situation where an incompetent or unpleasant government is effectively a dictatorship, albeit notionally “elected”, opposition comes, and must come, from within the ruling party itself. That was even true of “real” dictatorships, as in the socialist world before 1989.
As to this government, opposition to these ruinous policies may be encouraged a little by letters received, but I think that at least a few MPs are at last waking up to the possible consequences down the line of a collapsing economy, high unemployment, very high youth unemployment, inflation etc.
40,000+ views so far. I tell Mike Graham here https://t.co/mPvsjvZtOx that government Covid policy is like ordering the army to glue all the leaves back on the trees, to prevent autumn. Amongst other things.
You have to keep at them, as the late Kingsley Amis used to say. What matters is *how many* such letters these vain ninnies receive. They can count (votes) even if they cannot think. Recruit others, pass on the model letter to colleagues, friends, neighbours, relatives. https://t.co/4huBMZwyXE
These https://t.co/AC5EJg8BvQ are real people, *your* friends, relatives, neighbours – perhaps the people who help to keep *you* employed by their spending or taxes. No man is an island. This disaster will affect us all.
Yes, lockdowns really do work – if you want to destroy the economy and society: Redundancies soared to record 370,000 in lead-up to second lockdown https://t.co/AC5EJg8BvQ
Exactly. For once I agree with faux-proletarian scribbler Dan Hodges, who has pointed out in his tweets that, whether “lockdowns” “work” (reduce infections) or not, they are simply not sustainable for very long, either economically or socially.
There is a choice in terms of judgment: is the Government (and some others in Europe) merely incompetent, or are the political leaders deliberately following a transnational conspiratorial agenda (the “Great Reset”)?
Also, the Government was discussing "vaccine stamps" for international travel. So how can anyone get a vaccine stamp if there's no central database of who's actually had the vaccine.
Labour people starting to panic about the polls. There is no point even thinking about them until we see the fall-out from Brexit, the fall-out from Covid and the fall out from the economic blow back from Covid.
Yes, but if need be Russia can put three million men in the field, of which 350,000 are regular Army personnel on active duty. That is around six or seven times the strength of the British Army; Russia also has available, on its western flank, at least 800 tanks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Guards_Tank_Army_(Russia).
I support the right of Estonia to full independence, but these NATO games on Russia’s border are poking “the Bear” for no good reason. Britain has no need to again make an enemy of Russia.
In 1939, Britain gave a “guarantee” to Poland, a guarantee which turned out to be worthless, a bad cheque. When Germany invaded from the west, and the Soviet Union invaded from the east, Britain and France nominally declared war on Germany but in fact did nothing.
Perhaps Hegel’s aphorism is correct and “we learn nothing from History except that we learn nothing from History“…
It occurs to me: “if Harry Cole of the Sun “newspaper” is so impressed by one main battle tank, what would he think if 800 appeared and advanced towards him?”…
Another Harry Cole tweet:
"We will be there to make sure we protect our fisherman because they have the right to be protected as they go about their lawful business”…
Again, I fully support British fishermen and the integrity of UK territorial waters, including our right under the Law of the Sea to an Exclusive Economic Zone, where applicable, but this is not an easy issue.
If Royal Navy vessels defend British fishermen and the fish in those waters from French fishermen, and if then the French Navy moves to defend the French fishing fleet, could there be undeclared war (akin to the 1970s Cod War off Iceland) in the Channel? As far as I know, that would be the first UK-France naval “engagement” in the Channel since the time of Napoleon.
There is another point: a high proportion (it may be 40%, it may be 60%) of fish taken in UK waters is then exported at once to EU states, mostly France and Spain. If France and Spain ban imports of British fish, or (via the EU) impose ruinously high tariffs, that will kill much of what is left of the UK fishing industry as surely as if the foreign fishermen simply took all the fish…
The only possible good thing is that fish in the UK will be cheaper, so at least the British consumer will benefit to that extent.
So the hit on public finances (ultimately, paid out of taxation by the British people…) might be as much as £50 BILLION! Even if it turns to be nearer to £100 million or £1 billion, rather than tens of billions, I fail to see why most should get anything or anything beyond a nominal sum. The vast majority were not deported or detained.
So now, even if all that happened was that someone got an unexpected official letter telling them something such as that they might at some point be subject to deportation, they are going to get between £10,000 and £100,000!
I should imagine that many real British people who have been cheated in this society would welcome similar payouts to themselves!
Take a look at anti-British, anti-European Indian, Ash Sarkar, in that video. Forget her cod-“Marxism”. She openly says it: “White population of the UK down by 600,000, while the non-white population is up by 1.2 Million….face it lads— we’re winning.” As I say, forget the post-“Marxism”. It’s pure “race hate”…race hate by non-whites and against the white people who have created the vast bulk of what is worthwhile in our contemporary world, indeed the modern world since about 1400 AD.
If anyone wants to know why The Guardian is on its last legs, look no further than the sort of silly, entitled, lazy pseudo-feminist idiot-journalism personified by Zoe Williams.
It only takes one candle or a Swan Vesta to pierce the darkness. That is why both the Jews and the “antifa” idiots hate any free speech. That is why (((they))) put out huge effort from 2014 to late 2016 to get me disbarred (even though I had ceased Bar practice years before, in 2008). That is why (((they))) have made repeated false accusations and complaints against me to police, Twitter etc (they succeeded with Twitter: I was expelled in 2018).
(((They)) are often rather more stupid than they think they are. It was only because “they” conspired to have me disbarred that I started this blog, which becomes ever-more popular. I only started the almost-daily blogging after “they” had me expelled from Twitter in 2018.
The same is true of Alison Chabloz. It was only after “they” caused her to lose her job as a singer that she started to realize what a menace they constitute, and so to speak up more loudly; and it was only after “they” started to persecute her even more that she posted her amusing satirical songs online. Indeed, her 2017-2018 prosecution (initially a private prosecution by the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”), and conviction, has only spread her celebrity around the world. Even some of the more perceptive Jews have seen that, and regret (for that reason) that Alison Chabloz was ever prosecuted. They have tweeted about it.
We should cancel Christmas and anything wonderful. We should hide in our basement closets in terror. We should go broke and fully depend on our gov to give us permission to breathe.
Sadly, though, Peter Hitchens is the sort of person who wants to have “a civilized discussion” with the enemies of Europe’s future, with Krishnan anti-Brit, with Owen Jones, with Ash Sarkar etc, maybe with the “antifa” idiots, and with the Islamists and Zionists too, who knows?
My view? There is no point in pretending that we are in an Oxford Union debate. These matters are, not far down the line, matters of life and death. Britain, and all Europe, face existential threats. The response must be adequate and more than adequate.
Nearly 85,000 people have now watched my conversation of yesterday with @Iromg Mike Graham on @TalkRadio Why do people continue to believe that shutdowns save lives? there is no evidence for this at all. Rather the contrary.
I'm inclined to agree @sebross4 . But tens of thousands are still better than nothing. The fact that our state has not yet resorted to some of the oppressive measures in other nations her places *may* be caused by the existence of a small but determined opposition. https://t.co/HPqUN08DrX
Once you have thrown over the rule of law and embraced violence, @nordic_mike, you have licensed all others to do the same. As the nastiest people are generally the toughest, this is almost always a mistake. I wonder if you have ever seen real brute force. https://t.co/kjw67AqMnW
Life is better without “brute force”, speaking generally. However, there are times when socio-political or socio-economic pressure builds, without release. Then an explosion happens.
What is the term which I seek? Ah, yes. “Cultural appropriation”…or you could say “takeover”, or more…
At any rate, “virtue-signalling”. In my view, that is ecumenical Kameradschaft taken rather too far. Would it happen in reverse? Maybe, but I doubt it. Also, is there any real point to such gestures?
It was not always so, as Rupert Brooke wrote from pre-First World War Berlin, in a rarely-seen verse from his famous poem, Grantchester [properly, The Old Vicarage, Grantchester]:
“Here, temperamentvoll German Jews drink beer around
But there the dew lays heavy on the ground, in Grantchester.”
At least, I thought that that was what I had read, several decades ago, aged about 18. In fact, I have misquoted, it seems:
I always thought that the lines were rather trite. Now I know why. I misremembered. The triteness was mine, not Rupert Brooke’s.
“The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
(Cafe des Westens, Berlin, May 1912)
Just now the lilac is in bloom, All before my little room; And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink; And down the borders, well I know, The poppy and the pansy blow . . . Oh! there the chestnuts, summer through, Beside the river make for you A tunnel of green gloom, and sleep Deeply above; and green and deep The stream mysterious glides beneath, Green as a dream and deep as death. — Oh, damn! I know it! and I know How the May fields all golden show, And when the day is young and sweet, Gild gloriously the bare feet That run to bathe . . . Du lieber Gott!
Here am I, sweating, sick, and hot, And there the shadowed waters fresh Lean up to embrace the naked flesh. Temperamentvoll German Jews Drink beer around; — and there the dews Are soft beneath a morn of gold. Here tulips bloom as they are told; Unkempt about those hedges blows An English unofficial rose; And there the unregulated sun Slopes down to rest when day is done, And wakes a vague unpunctual star, A slippered Hesper; and there are Meads towards Haslingfield and Coton Where das Betreten’s not verboten.
εἴθε γενοίμην. . . would I were In Grantchester, in Grantchester! — Some, it may be, can get in touch With Nature there, or Earth, or such. And clever modern men have seen A Faun a-peeping through the green, And felt the Classics were not dead, To glimpse a Naiad’s reedy head, Or hear the Goat-foot piping low: . . . But these are things I do not know. I only know that you may lie Day long and watch the Cambridge sky, And, flower-lulled in sleepy grass, Hear the cool lapse of hours pass, Until the centuries blend and blur In Grantchester, in Grantchester. . . . Still in the dawnlit waters cool His ghostly Lordship swims his pool, And tries the strokes, essays the tricks, Long learnt on Hellespont, or Styx. Dan Chaucer hears his river still Chatter beneath a phantom mill. Tennyson notes, with studious eye, How Cambridge waters hurry by . . . And in that garden, black and white, Creep whispers through the grass all night; And spectral dance, before the dawn, A hundred Vicars down the lawn; Curates, long dust, will come and go On lissom, clerical, printless toe; And oft between the boughs is seen The sly shade of a Rural Dean . . . Till, at a shiver in the skies, Vanishing with Satanic cries, The prim ecclesiastic rout Leaves but a startled sleeper-out, Grey heavens, the first bird’s drowsy calls, The falling house that never falls.
God! I will pack, and take a train, And get me to England once again! For England’s the one land, I know, Where men with Splendid Hearts may go; And Cambridgeshire, of all England, The shire for Men who Understand; And of that district I prefer The lovely hamlet Grantchester. For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile; And Royston men in the far South Are black and fierce and strange of mouth; At Over they fling oaths at one, And worse than oaths at Trumpington, And Ditton girls are mean and dirty, And there’s none in Harston under thirty, And folks in Shelford and those parts Have twisted lips and twisted hearts, And Barton men make Cockney rhymes, And Coton’s full of nameless crimes, And things are done you’d not believe At Madingley on Christmas Eve. Strong men have run for miles and miles, When one from Cherry Hinton smiles; Strong men have blanched, and shot their wives, Rather than send them to St. Ives; Strong men have cried like babes, bydam, To hear what happened at Babraham. But Grantchester! ah, Grantchester! There’s peace and holy quiet there, Great clouds along pacific skies, And men and women with straight eyes, Lithe children lovelier than a dream, A bosky wood, a slumbrous stream, And little kindly winds that creep Round twilight corners, half asleep. In Grantchester their skins are white; They bathe by day, they bathe by night; The women there do all they ought; The men observe the Rules of Thought. They love the Good; they worship Truth; They laugh uproariously in youth; (And when they get to feeling old, They up and shoot themselves, I’m told) . . .
Ah God! to see the branches stir Across the moon at Grantchester! To smell the thrilling-sweet and rotten Unforgettable, unforgotten River-smell, and hear the breeze Sobbing in the little trees. Say, do the elm-clumps greatly stand Still guardians of that holy land? The chestnuts shade, in reverend dream, The yet unacademic stream? Is dawn a secret shy and cold Anadyomene, silver-gold? And sunset still a golden sea From Haslingfield to Madingley? And after, ere the night is born, Do hares come out about the corn? Oh, is the water sweet and cool, Gentle and brown, above the pool? And laughs the immortal river still Under the mill, under the mill? Say, is there Beauty yet to find? And Certainty? and Quiet kind? Deep meadows yet, for to forget The lies, and truths, and pain? . . . oh! yet Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?”
If truth be known, that is not the style of poetry I like anyway.
I have actually seen Grantchester, once. It was when I was doing my Bar pupillage. After the early collapse of a trial when a co-defendant elected not to surrender to his bail, the pupilmaster and I went to Grantchester for a beer (it was by then about lunchtime, and we needed one! See: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/06/24/a-day-out-in-cambridge/).
On the edge of the village, we saw the eponymous Old Vicarage [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Vicarage,_Grantchester], which seemed less scenic then (1992) than it does in the Wikipedia photo. I was surprised to see a painted plastic or concrete deer in the grounds. “Vulgar, moi?” territory. I could believe that of its then (and I think current) owner, Jeffrey Archer, but hardly of his supposedly (according to a trial judge) “fragrant” wife Mary, who was then, I think, a professor at Cambridge University. Still, there it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Archer; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Archer.
As to Libby Purves, I may have heard her a couple of times on radio many years ago. I know little of her, though I am sure that she is well-meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby_Purves.
Other tweets seen
Does strangling your society and economy plus mass house arrest and the wrecking of education save any lives? The evidence suggests not https://t.co/x7VojL5hRB
Thank you @stephenleah3 . Your support is much valued. It gives strength to my arm and power to my voice. Though there are times when the truth seems to be getting nowhere. https://t.co/8ybWpXr31E
Normal death rate in UK is approx 1,600 each day @aprobateti. Many years see excess deaths in winter from respiratory diseases, without anyone seeing any need to strangle the economy or impose mass house arrest. All these figures seen in context, take on a different meaning. https://t.co/DAvSFy83m6
To sustain the leaf-glueing metaphor, the 'testing' frenzy is like sending millions of civil servants round the country to *count* the falling leaves of autumn, and to conclude 'the Country is falling to bits! Panic!'
Peter Hitchens predicts the Covid pandemic and Brexit will lead to a "political crisis" in the "not too distant future".
“When it does come…we should begin to have this country governed by people who love this country and care about it and know about it."@Iromg | @ClarkeMicahpic.twitter.com/prD5smjGFH
Even Con voters are slowly waking up to the idiot’s uselessness…
The only thing that saves the skin of Boris-idiot and the misnamed “Conservatives” is that Keir Starmer and equally-misnamed “Labour” are fading in popularity at the same time:
Can we be clear. Lockdowns work. We saw that earlier in the year. What doesn't work are Fire-Breaks, Circuit-Breakers, etc. Because as soon they are lifted, rates leap up again. But Lockdowns are unsustainable over the long term. So can we at least debate on that basis.
Meaning that, so long as people are all basically imprisoned in their homes, “the virus” cannot easily be transmitted. If the “lockdown” (shutdown) is strict, maybe, but only for as long as it is maintained strictly. Except that it cannot be maintained for long, certainly not strictly, without inflicting massive economic and social (and indeed, non-Covid medical) damage on Britain. As Hodges says, even if “lockdowns” “work” (while they are in strict operation), they can only work as long as the shutdown continues. After which, “the virus” surges again; and the economy has been shattered in the meantime.
The Twitterati idiots don’t care much about that. Many are on public service contracts, so will be the last to be made redundant. Some (eg NHS doctors) have “had their mouths stuffed with gold” (pay rises) too. Other Twit-people are unemployed, disabled, or employed on hugely lucrative msm salaries and/or fees (eg the “celebrity” types).
All of the above are fine (for the time being) that the economy may soon be tanking…
I'm going to say it again. How much longer are we going to continue with the fantasy the Tier system works. https://t.co/FAQZRMiMA0
Lockdowns work in the sense that they prevent lots of people getting infected WHILE they are on lockdown. It doesn't prevent infection. It simply delays infection until after the lockdown ends.
To be fair the livelihoods of millions is being destroyed by lockdowns. Those in protected media jobs, banging the Governments anti scientific drum, with no fear of losing income is infuriating.
Sadiq Khan wearing a massive facemask in tartan and doing an interview in it;
The celebrity-alumni University Challenge with the usual collection of badly-informed msm talking heads, drones, thespians etc. Particularly poor was the BBC News “Security and intelligence” bod, Gordon Corera [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Corera], whose grasp of geography seemed remarkably poor for someone with his special focus. For example, he thought, inter alia, that Azerbaidjan is in Central Asia…He did not seem to know much else, either;
Assorted “antifa” idiots and/or Jews complaining that Nick Ferrari on LBC actually let a British woman, opposed to mass immigration and the “BLM” nonsense, speak for a minute.
Only nonWhite students can opt out of this sketchy dangerous vaccine but Whites will be forced to take the jab because 'racist medical experiments' in the past! Yes, really.
As I have just said to @Iromg Mike Graham on @TalkRadio, the government's useless, madly costly Covid policies are like sending the army round the country, glueing leaves back on the trees, to prevent autumn from taking place.
I have never been to the south of Cyprus. I have been, though long ago now, to Northern Cyprus, at that time (the winter of 1999-2000) not as popular with visitors as it now is. I was able to hire a car and drive all over on empty roads, once right along the Karpat Peninsula, the eastern end of which is only 60 miles from Latakia in Syria.
I went to the Castle of St. Hilarion (a Crusader fortress) and to the ruined castle of Buffavento (a 2+ hour trek up a mountain path); that one, on the very summit of a tree-clad mountain, really deserved its name (“buffeted by the winds”).
I also visited most of the small towns: Kyrenia, Famagusta, Guzelyurt, as well as the capital, Nicosia, then split in two, completely demarcated and guarded, like Berlin before the fall of socialism. I remember going to the “Museum of Barbarism”, a memorial to the young daughters (and Greek Cypriot wife) of a Turkish Cypriot officer of the (British) militia force. They were murdered right there by a sectarian gang led or directed by (I think) Nikos Sampson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Sampson]. You can see the holes in the wall left as the submachinegun rounds struck, including holes in the wall of the bathroom, where one of the victims, a girl of 9 (if I recall aright) had been hiding when she was shot dead.
Sobering. If only our Empire and all other European empires had not been given away… The result of that withdrawal from Empire, even before it fully happened, was chaos across much of the world. In Cyprus, displacement of populations, and division of the island after the invasion by Turkish forces in 1974, which division continues today, though I believe that tourists can now go from one side to the other easily enough.
A land, as I remember, of warm winter sun, just about warm enough for a quick swim in a not very warm Mediterranean, at a completely deserted beach somewhere west of Kyrenia. Not bad for January. A land of both olives and oranges, the latter colourful but unripe on the trees (my then girlfriend picked one to taste it). A land of (also deserted) ancient Greek amphitheatre ruins. I rather liked it. Warm during the day (despite a cool breeze at times), though rather cold at night.
Boris Johnson is a blatant liar and should never have been allowed anywhere near government. Let’s hope his days are numbered. #BorisJohnsonMustGohttps://t.co/a2ciBkzwyB
Cheaper consumer goods as a result of cheaper labour. Ultimately the pigeons will come home to roost and you will find yourself paid less for your labour (see the past decade and below inflation pay rises).
My weekend reading, Jack Finney’s devastating parable of creeping conformism and the death of dissent – the original idea for two great films. pic.twitter.com/3NcxgdHZRK
And trips to Coventry Cathedral, I see, @barbarbar1. The loss caused by the destruction of the grammars (especially the girls' grammars) and the closing of the Direct Grants to free state pupils, is incalculable. It makes me so angry. Perhaps I should write a book. https://t.co/LxScEwMFzR
But the referendum has enthroned wild free-traders, not conservatives. Will this country be more conservative after January 1 @newpaulhearn? https://t.co/rodOVGZ9cr
'If the Tory Party was your fridge, all your food would go bad. If it were your accountant, you'd be bankrupt. If it were your lawyer, you'd be in jail'. No consumer good could survive if it failed so utterly to do what ti said on the package.' https://t.co/lGgryIYmps
'When people complain to me about the unpleasant features of our society, I ask them how they voted in 2010'. When they say, as they do often do, that they voted Tory, I tell them that they have got what they voted for. Tough.' https://t.co/lGgryIYmps
Yes. Well worth reading, though the content is not news to me; nor, I apprehend, to many many others:
“Our Politicians Must have Passed an Examination in Stupidity to obtain their Positions.“
“In 30 years, it will be much easier to say this, but this must be the stupidest era there has ever been in British politics. Oh, yes, some modern politicians can make classical allusions or dance nimbly about when interviewed.
But they do not really know anything, or understand anything. They live entirely in the present. They know little of other countries and less about the past. They idolise Winston Churchill but are in fact ignorant about him or his era, and the huge price in power and wealth which he rightly paid for our survival in 1940. Worse still, they think they are clever.
This has something to do with the way we pick our leaders. I have long suspected that they have to pass an examination in stupidity before being allowed into Westminster. But in fact the selection procedures of the major parties achieve the same thing. They demand servile conformity with the idiotic beliefs which now govern our country. Show the slightest sign of spirit or independent thought, on any topic, and you are out.
So here we are, fresh from six months of determined self-harm and illiterate panic over the virus, on the brink of making it even worse.
Anyone who knew anything about the EU issue said years ago (as I did) that our best way out of Brussels rule was to copy Norway – stay in the Single Market and get rid of all the political and legal baggage.
Zealots, who treasure the delusions that we are still a major power with a thriving economy, derided this. No, they said, we must have a total breach, and then we will soar free, our Victorian greatness restored. Few of them ever grasped what it will mean to leave the Single Market, into which our economy has been totally integrated for decades, and they will shortly have a fascinating lesson in that. The trouble is, the rest of us will have to have that lesson too. And it is hardly surprising that France, which has so long resented our standing in Europe and the World, sees this as an opportunity to take us down a peg or two. But remember, before complaining, that we gave them this chance.” [Peter Hitchens, in the Mail on Sunday].
Some people have asked me whether I “support” Patriotic Alternative. My response: I would not say that I “support” PA directly or wholeheartedly, but they are at least mainly on the right track, in my view. Also, it is good to see young people (including a considerable cadre of intelligent young women) coming to social nationalism, which should not be solely the preserve of middle-aged Kirsch-drinkers like me!
A busy couple of weeks ahead with overtime at work, visits/visitors and general preparations for Christmas so I'm taking a twitter break from today. I probably won't return until after Christmas is over. I just wanted to wish you all a wonderful time what ever you may be doing. pic.twitter.com/QafU5nIP5i
On this day 1909 British Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII. A triumphant year for him, knighted as part of King's Birthday Honours, published in issue 28321 The London Gazette. Polar Medal continues to be awarded today also found in same publication pic.twitter.com/Am0UegXVQ7
Also on this day 1643 Battle of Alton of took place (see 1). Church of St Lawrence in Alton Hampshire is were where Boles's men were forced to seek refuge & make desperate last stand. Boles was killed along with most of remaining men. Parliamentarians won losing only a few men. pic.twitter.com/s2OOdZXhar
Continued Mr Butterworth's achievements include winning Best Picture award at the British Society of Painters Exhibition for 3 years in a row. Elected to The Royal Society of Arts & also The International Guild of Artist’s. An Associate of the British Watercolour Society. pic.twitter.com/P0jgDD4S4L
Such closely-representational art is not the only kind of painting which one can esteem, but it is certainly a breath of fresh air after the msm lionization of frauds or scam-artists such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, whose prominence was bought by Jewish backers such as Saatchi.
So many non-Europeans, in this case half and half, his father having come from Borneo [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wong_(ethnobotanist)] seem to hate us, even if (as in this case) the individual was born in the UK and had every advantage here…
There is a huge hostile bloc of varied type within the UK.
Batten is quite wrong, though, in agreeing to “moderate and appropriate” immigration into the UK. Britain needs no immigration at all. Now, if the British person wants to marry a foreign person, and it is a genuine connection (not a scam), and if that person is not unsuitable for whatever reason, then come here.
Likewise, if Britain needs a particular and truly highly-qualified scientist, then yes, come, even with immediate family, and help us advance to the future.
One person, a few dozen, even a few hundred (especially if of European descent), but not thousands, let alone millions, of non-Europeans.
Batten was briefly leader of UKIP. You can see why UKIP failed. Not because of Batten, as such, but because people like Batten always want to be “moderate”, “respectable”, “lawful” etc. No go. It does not work.
Still, Batten was one of the better UKIP people, albeit no intellectual.
Sounds like the Franco-British dispute could go nuclear; not literally, but with tit-for-tat reprisals, eg on UK citizens living (as I once did) in France. I foresee a collapse in French property prices in Brittany, Normandy, maybe elsewhere, once British purchasers dry up.
Already, since 2016, there has been little interest. In fact, when I was last in Brittany, sometime in 2015 (I think), I was told that British people were finding it hard to sell property, especially inland from the coastal towns such as Roscoff. Example: a house and bar with B&B rooms (maybe half a dozen or so bedrooms in all, including owners’ accommodation), about 15 miles inland, in a quiet hamlet, unsold despite having been on the market for only around £70,000; on the market for 5+ years. I spent a couple of days there myself, the only guest.
Dominic Raab asked whether there will be shortages of medicines and vaccines because of a no-deal Brexit, replies that "there may be shifts” in supply. #Marrhttps://t.co/oh5BukmlR5
In fact, I can think of no situation where academic freedom or freedom of expression were seriously imperilled when these frauds have spoken up. Nor have I seen any of them use their right to free speech to challenge power.
The above academic termite, enemy of free speech, enemy of the British people, has obviously never read my blog! I suppose that my voice is not “loud” enough! Hardly surprising when I have been expelled from Twitter and am not able to publish my views on any msm platform…
By the way, on the change from 'respect' (bad idea, I agree) to 'tolerate', NOPE. I won't be tolerating racism, sexism, Islamophobia, eugenics, or transphobia any time soon. So fire me. Go on. https://t.co/stIFkTKKfQ
The writer John le Carre has died. I regret now that I was not able to hear him speak in the early 1980s at the GB-USSR Association, a now-defunct para-diplomatic body funded by the Foreign Office, and of which I was a member. I was told that it was the best talk anyone could remember having been given there.
Late tweets
You're mad that white people are starting to see how every aspect of society is tilted to dispossess and destroy white people.
' ‘More than one in four (27%) young people in England and Wales have received private or home tuition'. I wonder how many of these private tutors have contributed to the allegedly 'good' results of low-grade comps. https://t.co/WvP5J9HJZK
I wonder whether, with the likely increase in home working (for adults), and also unemployment (for various reasons), and also now that we have the Internet, many TV channels (some of which could be repurposed) etc, the school, as an institution, needs to survive at all.
Surprising numbers of people *still* fail to grasp the significance of the Blairisation of the Tory Party after 2003. My book 'The Cameron Delusion', boycotted totally by the review mafia on publication, and so widely unknown, explains all. Blackwell's(01865 792792) can supply it pic.twitter.com/PzG483xDGQ
In the Soviet Union, most boxes of chocolates contained individual chocolates of several different shapes, but were identical inside; the filling was the same for all. Apply to UK System political parties…
MP has six homes but claims for a hotel when she visits Commons, says Times. All within rules, says spokesperson https://t.co/6aq7bKnkWf
The problem with Boris's brinksmanship is it's one sided. We're the one's threatening to walk away, not the EU. So every time he says "this is the final deadline" and it isn't, it's his credibility that takes the biggest hit.
If I got to come back after my death, I would like to return as a murmuration. One bird for every good deed in my lifetime, perhaps. https://t.co/TS9xHLg4iO
Ian Robert Millard 