“BRIT billionaire businessman Joe Lewis has been sentenced for insider training. Here is the rise and fall of the ex-Spurs chief:
After quitting school at the age of 15, entrepreneurial Lewis went to work for his dad’s catering company.
Lewis began managing a super-club called The Talk of the Town – where the likes of Frank Sinatra performed – in the 1960s, and granted girl group The Nolans their first live show.
He then got a taste for business and took over the firm – turning it into a string of restaurants before flogging it in 1979 for a whopping £30million.
Lewis used his cash influx to invest in currency trading and was subbed The Boxer in a nod to his wild success and power in the investment ring.
Lewis forked out £22million in 2001 to buy a controlling stake in Tottenham Hotspur from Lord Sugar.
One particular investment on Black Wednesday in September 1992 helped elevate him to uber-rich status, as he successfully bet on the Pound crashing out of the European Exchange Rate as Britain tried to align it with other Euro countries.
He became a billionaire overnight…”
[The Sun]
Note how the Sun “newspaper” fails to identify the defendant as Jewish, despite said defaulter having profited hugely, e.g. on “Black Wednesday” (1992), from the impoverishment of the British people.
“The shattered limbs, burnt skin and broken bones of the passengers on board the Etihad flight to Abu Dhabi depict the horrifying reality of Gaza‘s destruction.
Dozens of patients, largely children, are being evacuated to the UAE to receive critical medical treatment on a commercial plane that has been converted into a flying hospital.
The Daily Mail was granted permission by the UAE authorities to join them on the Boeing 777 where we witnessed up close a scale of suffering that is difficult to comprehend.
These shocking pictures, which include a little boy who was shot at by the IDF in an ambulance, come after Israeli drone pilots this week killed three British war heroes dispensing aid in the territory.“
[Daily Mail]
The leech-state of Israel is a threat to the whole world, in a number of ways. It has an organized lobby supporting it, not least in the UK, concentrated in the fields of TV, radio, the mainstream Press, the legal professions, in politics, and in lucrative business activities.
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“If the UK government were to decide not to allow those to go, then the Israeli war on the Palestinians would grind to a halt.”
Anna Stavrianakis International Relations Professor at Sussex says the UK supplies 15% of components for every Israeli F35 fighter jet.#Newsnightpic.twitter.com/MpJUf7Za2u
I wonder whether any of those components [REDACTED]? I suppose that the quality control prevents that.
#Newsnight is doing a review of Starmer's time as Labour leader and chosen to interview the guy who wrote a puff piece biog for Starmer, and a woman who wrote a terrible hatchet job biog of Corbyn.
I guess they'll claim that is balance? Absolute jokers.
No, Philip Dunne MP. The fundamental problem is that the Conservative Party handed over the water companies to profit-seeking private interests & then allowed them to use these monopoly utilities as cash machines while failing to invest in vital infrastructure.#Newsnight
To @donaldtusk: Poland was complicit in the Holocaust; you owe compensation to the descendants of the 3m Polish Jews who were murdered. pic.twitter.com/qM5TyD5IUr
Jews are still demanding “reparations” (cash) to be paid to the alleged descendants of other Jews supposedly killed off in the early 1940s, over 80 years ago! The sheer cheek of “them”; unbelievable.
“Police have been filmed arresting a woman at a London railway station after footage was shared of a violent thug branded the ‘female Mizzy‘ punching strangers seemingly for social media clout.
Officers in hi-vis clothing were filmed restraining a woman in a dark jacket and a grey hood at the edge of the concourse in London Victoria railway station, in video footage disseminated on Snapchat.
The clip showed a woman being restrained by a police officer within the station.
The arrest came after an as-yet-unnamed twisted prankster was filmed seemingly clobbering innocent victims on the London Underground as well as in a supermarket, and on the steps outside the Westfield Stratford shopping centre.
So make her famous— put her in stocks somewhere such as Leicester Square for 24 hours, and let the mob throw rotten tomatoes etc at her. Same goes for that “Mizzy” cretin.
With large numbers of untermenschen of that type, Britain will not only be unable to create a better society; it will be unable even to maintain the present crumbling one.
A ‘brilliant’ professor died aged just 43 after doctors botched treatment for a rare condition on which he was a national expert, his GP widow told an inquest today.
His wife, Dr Shivani Tanna, said it was ‘terrifying’ for him to realise that doctors there didn’t ‘understand’ HLH, for which he sat on a national panel.
As a result, despite being seriously unwell and feeling ‘foggy in the brain’, he had to help advise doctors on how to treat him.
But even though he was a haematologist himself, he faced a struggle to persuade nurses to show him his blood test results, she said.
‘He kept himself alive on the wards because he was a doctor,’ Dr Tanna told Manchester Coroner’s Court.
If he had just been ‘Joe Bloggs’, he would have been dead within three days of being admitted, ‘just by sheer negligence’, she claimed.“
[Daily Mail]
Just how bad does the NHS have to get before the people start to demand real root-and-branch reform?
“Members of the public should be ready to be called up to defend their country, a former head of MI6 has suggested.
Sir Alex Younger said Britons have been ‘infantilised’ since the end of the Cold War and the Government should consider having the power to ‘compel’ people to serve.”
[Daily Mail]
In fact, Younger is just part of the problem, and offers no solutions. [What might be called] “an educated cretin” who, after an expensive education, did 2-3 years as a Guards officer before joining the “niche career opportunity for the English middle classes”— SIS/MI6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Younger
Younger seems entirely unaware that, even now, the UK seems (not to me, but to most of the British people, meaning real British people) not worth defending. What does Younger think the UK will be like by, say, 2034? 2044?
By 2050, half of those inhabiting these islands will not even be British in any real sense. Does Younger imagine that they will agree to be conscripted? Incidentally, it is no answer to say that the agreement of the conscripted is unnecessary; enlistment of the unwilling usually produces poor results.
Younger seems to be part of that UK pseudo-elite at the top of UK affairs which is so featherbedded and isolated from reality—reality as most people experience it in this country— that the same (self-regarding) “elite” constantly get it wrong in every way.
My idea of a Secret Service chief is someone such as Maurice Oldfield, or Admiral Canaris, or Beria, or Markus Wolf; in the words of a John le Carré character, “a positive serpent“.
Horrific: A Palestinian woman and her child were forcibly displaced by the Israeli army from Al-Shifa Hospital nearly 13 days ago. According to available information, the woman was forced to leave through the eastern gate of the hospital heading south. When she reached al-Abbas… pic.twitter.com/7R8eIdtQGv
Look at the Jewish lawyers in the UK who weasel about the slaughter in Gaza. Just one example.
BREAKING: The New York Times claimed extensive "visual evidence" of "targeted genital mutilation" and "inserting of objects [knives and nails] into vaginas" as part of its "mass rape" hoax. This was definitively debunked by the UN report, stating there is no such visual evidence pic.twitter.com/R2RGIDOwfP
Never believe a word “they” say, whether it concerns the 2020s or the 1940s.
Israel attacked Iran. In Syria, which is not Israel or Palestine. This is an act of aggression. Now Iran has no choice but to attack Israel. With all the forces of the Resistance. This war will be started by the Shiites, but at some point it cannot but become a war of all…
"Just this week, two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which unfortunately is a routine event," the physician said in the letter. He said inmates are fed through straws, defecate in diapers, and are held in constant restraints..https://t.co/8hTQPbWTr4
Ukraine will soon use long-range UAVs that can attack the Urals and the Arctic – source BILD
Recently, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked UAV targets in Tatarstan for the first time. They were 1300 km from the front line. For one of the attacks, a Ukrainian UJ-22 UAV was used.… pic.twitter.com/gGOfN1oPwB
If I had to bet, it would be that the major Ukrainian cities will not even exist in 10 years’ time.
Elon Musk, in a comment to a post in X, compared the idea of Ukraine joining NATO with the beginning of a film about a nuclear apocalypse. “This is exactly how a film about a nuclear apocalypse begins,” he commented on a statement by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken about… pic.twitter.com/RFEvQpwcOS
William Wragg's membership of the "Common Sense Group" really says it all, doesn't it. How could any savvy, sensible Member of Parliament allow themselves to fall victim to this? pic.twitter.com/GCD6GNCjCX
Should William Wragg resign? He was stupid to send nude pictures of himself to a stranger and he was weak to give out personal data of colleagues to protect himself. Doesn't the UK deserve better MPs than stupid, weak Wragg? pic.twitter.com/Is92YWn9p4
— Mark Ingall lives in Bush Fair (@mingall63) April 5, 2024
Just look at that little twit. Idiots of that sort have the temerity to sit in judgment on policy and legislation affecting every person in Britain. I was just looking at his Wikipedia entry. By 2015, at the age of 27/28, having never really had a job, he was an MP, on the strength of a degree in History from Manchester, 2 years training to be a primary school teacher, and a few months gophering for an existing MP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wragg. Not good enough.
Some idiot on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, I think that know-nothing Justin Webb individual [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Webb], referred to Wragg as a “senior Conservative“! Jesus H. Christ!
"Millions of Brits do not just disapprove of the Tories; they are actively punishing them and want to remove them from the system altogether. This is why the party's crisis is more existential than electoral. Many people just want to blow them apart"https://t.co/WtFmh6FXyy
I am sure that Matt Goodwin reads this blog! More seriously (though I think that he does read it), I have been saying what he is now saying for at least 18 months, maybe longer. As on numerous other occasions, the blog has been well ahead of the curve.
I've never felt so unrepresented by Parliament as I do now. I won't just pick on the Tories here, I'll pick on all the main Parties. They've not only turned their back on the country/UK, I feel like they've turned their back on us, the indigenous population.
Labour voters voted for Brexit too. And Labour are even worse when it comes to the rest of the pantomime that is politics in this country.
— Christine MacKenzie (@Christi61144576) April 5, 2024
Good point (about Labour), but GE 2024 will be more about judging the Con Party record than supporting the underwhelming Lab promises.
As for Brexit, it might have worked had it been done properly, and still could, were there a real British government in place, and one willing to treat with Russia. Britain could have very cheap oil and gas, and an open market.
The wide-eyed empty-headed simpering that passes for centrist analysis, failing to take into consideration Starmer's personal standing or the fact the Tories have imploded utterly.
I have no idea who the bimbo is, presumably some sort of “journalist” (scribbler). The fall of journalism in this country has been one of the most disappointing developments during my lifetime, I should say.
Look at the state of British politics we have gotten to the stage now where MP’s and political parties feel comfortable enough to blatantly flaunt their corruption and laugh about it and at us 😡
Labour are not going to win the next general election, the Tories are going to lose it. When asked people just want the Tories out and will vote on that basis. There's a world of difference in voting for something, or against. Doing brilliantly, my ar$e.
— Jeanette Fletcher #NeverLabour (@LillMagill) April 5, 2024
Ah…aforesaid bimbo identified: one Rosa Prince, presently Editor of London Playbook at Politico Europe, previously employed/self-employed journalist at the Daily Mirror (4-5 years) and the Daily Telegraph (15-16 years) etc.
I am still inviting donations to my crowdfund appeal, to defray the imposed costs of my recent free speech trial. If you cannot donate, please share the link wherever you can. Thank you, and again thanks to those who have already donated, or shared the link.
“The UK is trapped in a cycle of political, social and financial turmoil. But there is a way out.
If there is any consensus in our otherwise fractured, toxic national debate it is that we cannot go on like this. Our economy is in crisis, exemplified by an annual £100bn shortfall in public and private investment, which must be lifted decisively for Britain to break out of today’s triple whammy of stagnant growth, productivity and living standards.
Society reels from alarming gaps in the provision of crucial public services and the yawning unfairness in the distribution of income, wealth and opportunity.
Our democracy and state seem incapable of acknowledging the full extent of these deformities, let alone adequately responding to them.
Our international standing has plummeted at a time of geopolitical peril. A transformative response is an imperative.
My new book, This Time No Mistakes: How to Remake Britain, tries to address the origins of this interlinked crisis – and offer a feasible way out. Nothing is immutable. We are agents of our own destiny.
The heart of the problem is a misconception about how capitalism and society work. Capitalism must be managed and regulated to work for the common good, just as society has to be curated to provide fairness and opportunity for all. Crucially, the vitality of the two are interdependent. Capitalism must be organised so it provides economic ladders that every individual can climb while a social contract must offer a floor below which they cannot fall. Britain’s problem is that the Conservative party, in power for all but 13 of the last 45 years, does not accept these truths or interdependencies. Worse, even if it did, neither the dominant culture and practise of our capitalism, nor the structure of our democracy, state and media would have made it easy to fashion the necessary responses.
Conservative ideology has been in thrall to the contrary proposition that markets will self-organise to produce the best economic and social outcomes propelled by individual energy and ambition alone. The British state confers near-continual unfettered power to the Conservatives, and so in their view needs no reform. Yet the reality is that capitalism’s unchecked rollercoaster rhythms create instability, inequity and monopoly and so must be managed and counteracted. Nor can capitalism be relied upon to best organise how firms are governed and ownership responsibilities discharged; how workers are properly trained and paid; or to ensure that fair dealing is the norm between firms and their customers. Of necessity enter the state, much better designed than at present.
The UK has its back against the wall to a degree unparalleled in its peacetime history, facing economic problems more acute than the successive sterling crises of the 20th century or the trade union militancy that prompted the general strike of 1926 or winter of discontent in 1979. The level of our national debt has climbed alarmingly over the past quarter of a century, with no compensating increase in public assets, so that the net worth of the public sector – assets less liabilities – is more dangerously in the red than any other country bar Portugal. Similarly, more than 20 years of imports of goods and services exceeding exports has meant our international debts have climbed by £1.5tn, so that our balance sheet – positive for centuries as a result of empire and as pioneer of the Industrial Revolution – is now dangerously negative. Fifty companies that could have been in the FTSE 100 were sold abroad between 1997 and 2017; we are running out of assets to sell. At the same time almost every metric on the economic and social dashboard – whether social mobility or the number of new companies launching on the London stock market – is flashing amber or red.
Rightwing ideological maxims, initiated by Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and continued by her imitators, have led to a sequence of policy disasters – monetarism, wholesale financial deregulation, austerity and then Brexit. Far from launching a renaissance, Thatcher was the author of pernicious decline. The doctrine is that the private “I” is morally superior to anything public, that the state’s “coercive” proclivities must be reined in to promote a “free” market, that regulation and taxation stifle enterprise, that unless ferociously means-tested and minimalist, welfare creates a huge underclass of undeserving “shirkers”, and that good public services follow from a successful economy rather than being integral to it.
Little of the policy that flows from this jumble of ideology and prejudice has any evidence base. As the totality of the failure has unfolded, so the Conservative party’s unity has fragmented into the blind alleys of libertarianism and the debacle of the Truss government, ongoing phobia about all things European and the temptations of anti-immigrant, anti-foreigner, anti-woke populism. It has become an ungovernable federation of cults.
In the 1980s, monetarism did not contain inflation as billed, but rather prompted mass unemployment, hollowed out much of our productive economy – manufacturing employment nearly halved in a decade – and eviscerated public investment. The areas so scarred by the experience would, 30 years later, vote for Brexit. Financial deregulation led to the fastest rise in private indebtedness in our history, propelling illusory economic growth buoyed not by investment and innovation but a flood of credit. It could only end in tears. Writing The State We’re In in the mid-1990s, to warn of an impending tragedy without a change of course, I did not anticipate the great financial crisis of 2007/8, felt most acutely in Britain, although it was obvious the whole rickety structure could only fail in some way. Nor did I imagine that Britain would repeat the failures with the economically illiterate budgetary tightening of austerity and then torch the one successful economic policy asset it had remaining, EU membership, which had boosted GDP by 10%. Yet such was the grip of the right on the Tory party that their bad ideas, once unthinkable, became our lived reality.
And Britain’s liberal left cannot absolve itself of blame. If Conservatism has over-emphasised the “I”, the left has not yet found an electorally attractive way of making the case for “We” – or, better still, blending it with the “I” to create a political philosophy, and attractive policies that flow from it, that would appeal to the majority. My proposition is that the “We” should be built on fusing an ethic of socialism grounded in profound human attachment to fellowship, mutuality and co-operation with the ethic of progressive or new liberalism that emerged 150 years ago as a challenge to classic liberalism. Essentially, liberal thinkers such as Thomas Hill Green and Leonard Hobhouse (forerunners of progressive liberals Keynes and Beveridge) argued that individuals and society were in a constant iterative relationship. Individuals shape society, society shapes individuals, and each and everyone has an obligation to make the social whole as strong as possible, which they are obliged to recognise even while they pursue their own ambitions and interests. Green called this the politics of obligation, which not only the great reforming 1905-15 Liberal government would follow, but later the Keynesian economic revolution and Beveridge’s welfare state.
Labour, as Tony Crosland diagnosed in the 1950s in The Future of Socialism, was founded on being all things leftist to everyone to encourage as big a membership as possible. It was a coalition of Marxists to gradualist Fabians – so laying the foundation for more than 100 years of feuding. Only the ethic of socialism, which has deep roots in western philosophy, the great religions and the Enlightenment, stands the test of time. It was Aristotle who declared that those who deny the primacy of a healthy society to their individual wellbeing are either “a beast or a gods”, while the father of British empiricism, Francis Bacon, would write “wealth is like muck. It is not much good but if it be spread.”
Progressive liberalism and an ethic of socialism are not incompatible value systems: they are complementary. Progressive liberalism leans into the individualism that propels capitalism while accepting social obligations; an ethic of socialism leans into the foundation of a social contract and infrastructure of justice that underpin the sinews of a good society. Ideological socialism’s hostility to capital and liberalism’s association with the upper class and upper middle class initially made a rapprochement between the two impossible. Today those obstacles have faded. It was Tony Blair who saw the opportunity that could be grasped, and perhaps his best contribution to progressive politics was his rewriting of Labour’s infamous high socialist clause IV to articulate the fusion. New Labour may have shrunk from the full implications; it will fall to successors to make it live.
The vision is of a “we society” – a high investment economy populated by companies that take their social responsibilities seriously, underpinned by a rejuvenated social contract in which health, housing, education, justice, welfare and the labour market all combine to offer every individual the chance fully to participate in work, social and civic life. No more lost Einsteins and Marie Curies.
The starting point must be to raise public investment decisively and so “crowd in” private investment radically to lift productivity and real wages (wages adjusted for inflation). Three targets select themselves – the vital need to close the disgraceful gap in productivity, infrastructure and economic performance between London and the regions; the commitment to achieve net zero by 2050 given the alarming rise in global temperatures; and the need to lift research and development spending dramatically. To move the dial in all these areas will require public borrowing for such investment to rise by at least 1% of GDP, or between £25bn– £30bn, with fiscal rules organised around real-world, rather than accounting, goals. The financial markets will be reassured if they know that the investment they are supporting is strategic and thought through. Britain can break out of its low growth trap without financial mishap.
Shibboleths about taxation need to be put to one side. Taxation represents the “we”, and as long as the demands on all sections of society are reasonable – involving at present a greater contribution by the wealthy, whose assets in relation to GDP have doubled since 1980 – there is no evidence that tax receipts at today’s level or even marginally higher will damage growth. What matters is that Britain does what it must to lift its growth rate. A “growth commission” should establish rolling targets for public investment and be held to account to achieving them – the means to vitally needed change.
Importantly, the savings and investment system must be reshaped to drive credit and equity investment to support the financial needs of the companies big and small that we need to feed off the surge in public investment. Two young institutions – the UK Infrastructure Bank and British Business Bank – must be turbocharged so they can operate at the multibillion-pound scale necessary. Banks must be incentivised to supply business loans on much less onerous and flexible terms, and the pension system must be boosted and organised to invest in fast-growing companies based on frontier new technologies. A big multibillion private sector wealth fund – already mooted by some in the City – must work in concert with a public sector wealth fund to invest in what will be the great companies of tomorrow, ensuring they stay British-owned to anchor our economy.
The law needs to ensure that companies make their prime objective the achievement of great social purposes rather than short-term self-enrichment. This should especially apply to all our regulated utilities. The best in British business and our utilities have already begun to move in this direction, putting achievement of great purpose at their heart: it needs to become the general rule. Competition policy must be stepped up so that there is much less incentive and capacity to rig prices in monopoly or quasi monopoly positions. This is particularly important for those businesses and sectors whose business models depend on strength in “intangibles” – intellectual property, human skills, data and digital advantages, research – whose growth has been cramped by so many financial and regulatory biases that favour incumbents. British capitalism, in short, needs to be repurposed both to grow and to work for the common good.
No less essential is to repair the threadbare social contract. The new risks and inequalities that every citizen will confront in an ever faster moving environment, along with new centres of prosperity, need to be mitigated and managed to ensure the new economic world is underwritten by great education, health and housing – and income support when for any reason people find it impossible to work. The workplace needs to be reconfigured so employees are conferred dignity and voice, with trade unions as active partners of purposeful companies. There must be a proper system of social care. We cannot have children going hungry in their millions, with schools, training institutions and further education colleges allowed to decay. And lastly, housing must be restored as a central pillar of the good society. Council tax, the mortgage market, social housing and the system of tenure all require a major overhaul. It would all be integral to a British-style New Deal.
The British state that perforce must catalyse and lead all this must be reformed and recast. It needs the capacity to act strategically, but with far stronger mechanisms for being held accountable for what it does. Parliament must recover its capacity to deliberate and scrutinise along with making law. The reduction of MPs to mere lobby-fodder ciphers to service the transient whims of an unprecedented churn of ministers is surely one reason why nearly 100 this parliament – a record – have been sanctioned for gross lapses in their behaviour. Our second chamber, the Lords, must be democratised. Ethical standards, from conduct in office to political donations, need to be respected and enforced. Boris Johnson’s abuses cannot be allowed again. The independence of the judiciary must be better entrenched. The tone and content of our national conversation, framed by a dominant and frequently hysterically biased rightwing media magnified by social media, needs to be hosed down – a revival in public service broadcasting and regulation of content is a necessity.
Britain has the potential to become an envied European economic and social model. Indeed to re-engage with the European Union is another indispensable part of recovery. The case is not only economic, recovering lost markets, increasing trade intensity, and stimulating falling inward investment that are costing a lost 5% of GDP every year (and growing) but geopolitical. Britain must be “in the room” where the great decisions on Ukraine, defence, security, energy, climate emergency, and the regulatory standards are taken that will configure our continent. Empire and Commonwealth have gone; the 21st century will be shaped by three great blocs – the US, China and the EU. To be alone to assert a meaningless “sovereignty” to assuage the fantasies of rightwing populists is madness.
The emerging rightwing nexus of libertarian tax-cutters and immigration-phobes, so ready to put achieving those aims above the rule of law and respect for human rights, is unfit to govern. At the next election Britain needs a government that will sure-footedly reshape our capitalism and society to promote growth, enfranchisement and a country at ease with itself – respecting rather than deifying its past better to build the future. We can act to shape our destiny. This time no mistakes.“
[Will Hutton, in The Guardian]
I disagree with some of that; agree with more.
The most glaring near-omission is that Hutton scarcely mentions the fact that a million non-whites a year are entering the UK. Most of them are —at best— useless, and most of them are staying, and breeding. That alone would destroy any hope of his carefully-constructed “better-society” blueprint.
Hutton prefers just to look down his nose at what he terms “immigration-phobes“. That may cut it with dinner-party attendees wherever Hutton lives (Hampstead? Richmond? Blackheath? Muswell Hill?), but not with the British people. Things are too serious for that, and impact them directly as well as indirectly.
Hutton seems to think that the importation into the UK of a million persons per year, mostly from backward areas of the world, mostly unskilled, often not even speaking English, is either unimportant or actually desirable. He ignores the fact that few are really useful, many (most) parasitic, and not a few actively hostile and/or criminal.
Hutton also uses the term “rightwing“, which is both anachronistic and imprecise; almost meaningless. Disappointing in a former Master of Hertford College, Oxford.
Hutton is a dyed-in-the-wool EU-remainer. He cannot see any alternative to the UK being just a province of an EU bloc. There is at least one alternative which might fly, but he has obviously not considered it (joining with Russia in loose alliance, while keeping amiable relations with the European Union states and even with the USA etc).
The third problem I have with Hutton’s view is that he lays out broadly what he thinks should happen, but without saying how it might happen. How do we get from here to there?
People crying and seething in London because they've seen a few Swastika symbols.
Best stay away from Vivianne Westwood. Upminster Train Station, St Michael's Cathedral in Coventry and Essex County Council building, then.#Culture#Easterpic.twitter.com/ZQhrgWaQEj
two foreign jewish women berating a British policeman and calling for censorship & the enforcement of hate speech laws – and it's conservatives cheering them on https://t.co/WZTYS0TK2b
— White Lives Matter California (@WLMCalifornia) October 2, 2023
An interesting Twitter/X account not seen previously by me.
Washington Post: We Had to Destroy the Democracy to Save It.
The Post reports on how in Europe, the secret police are putting under surveillance political parties that are growing by advocating policies popular with voters.
The tweeter’s reference is to Germany (inter alia). Nearly 80 years after the disastrous end of the Second World War, Germany is still, to some extent, an occupied country.
Around 5,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats so far this year – which represents an increase of almost a third on the first quarter last year. pic.twitter.com/twc9IJvBpe
5,000 in the three months of the year which have the roughest seas in the Channel. That probably means anything up to 50,000, maybe even more, by the end of 2024.
That figure is, however, dwarfed by the total of so-called “legal” migration: “high-skilled workers” (Indians who can work a computer), “fiances/fiancees”, “family members”, “students”, and the rest.
The two figures together will almost certainly top a million in 2024 alone. Totally unsustainable. British society will come apart by reason of the continuing migration invasion.
The most terrifying thing about Scotland’s hate speech laws are that they appear to have been written by a 5 year old
Or perhaps suggesting they use the word “incitement” would be deemed hate speech pic.twitter.com/iBBBHTE1PZ
The SNP’s cartoon brand of Scottish “nationalism” has no problem with the leaders of two of the three main parties “up there” being of Pakistani origin, has no problem with a future “independent” Scotland (which will probably never exist anyway) being part of the EU and so largely ruled and regulated by that supranational body, no problem (in reality) with Scotland continuing to be a part of NATO (and so not “independent” in terms of military or naval strategy), and no problem with the Scots being slowly or not so slowly replaced in their own land by hordes of “blacks and browns”.
In short, the SNP is both a fake and a political bad joke. Its two previous leaders have faced, or are facing, criminal charges, and its brief time in the sun (from 2015 to 2024) looks set to descend into night.
We have just got new vicar, we haven’t had permanent vicar for two years. Church is giving away our money on slavery repatriation when it won’t give one penny to fix our church buildings, while our congregations struggle to raise 10s of thousands to fix grade 2 listed buildings
She's more of a Conservative than you & your one nation mates sadly. Never has a party been so disconnected & out of touch with its electorate & never has a govt failed its voters so miserably.
I am angry about what you and other MPs have done to our country. You let us down. You did not listen to us. All you care about is yourself. You left us, not the other way around. Be ashamed
Nobody cares, Esther. So greatly have the arrogant Tories betrayed their base that vengeance, which is imminent, will be sweet. https://t.co/peYGruuup8
#R4today ask why we keep trying to get both parents into work when there is a shortage of jobs AND why is it so difficult to live on one wage while rearing the kids when it used to be easy?#NurseryPlaces#CostOfLivingCrisis#BrokenBritain
Nobody cares anymore after social media screened Israel genocide on Palestinian people! Maybe talk about that!!! You can’t go and murder 12 thousand children and then cry that someone offended you by displaying swastika and cop is right it depends on context!
— Paulina Zielinska (@PaulinaZielins9) April 1, 2024
Just imagine— after GE 2024, that thick Israel-puppet, Lammy, is set to be the new Foreign Secretary. Unglaublich…
Transgenderism gains additional protections because it is a male sexual rights movement campaigning for epistemological abolitionism and cultural nihilism – but “hate speech” laws are illiberal, censorious and designed to chill any discourse and must be repealed in full.
Mirabile dictu…I find myself in agreement with both J.K. Rowling and once-well-known tweeter Robbie Travers… and on the same day.
This is best rebuttal I've read yet to the absurd bien-pensant notion that because Scotland’s new hate crime law is vague and the guidance around it is contradictory, it probably won't do much. No: this vagueness is the biggest problem https://t.co/chOgWvPBWQ
Vagueness is the enemy of a “society under law”. I myself was convicted in November 2023 of breaching the Communications Act 2003, s.127, a law so unjust and poorly-drafted that the Law Commission has formally recommended its repeal.
I was supposed to have published, on this blog, a number of remarks, comments, and cartoons that were “grossly offensive“, and mostly, it was said, about Jewish behaviour.
Truth was irrelevant. Harm was also irrelevant (the Prosecution and the trial judge both accepted from the start that there was no “victim” in the case, and that no actual “harm” had been done to anyone at all).
The prosecution was procured (God knows how…) by the malicious cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, a very small but very well-funded Jewish-Zionist group that has admitted, both on Twitter/X and its own website, that it has been trying to have me prosecuted on various bases for 7+ years; I think closer to 10 years.
In fact, the “CAA” has had only a notional victory.
Yes, the “CAA” managed to apply political pressure sufficient to make compliant police box-tickers annoy me with pointless and supposedly “voluntary” interviews in 2017 and 2021 (after the “CAA” made completely false accusations against me); yes, the “CAA” also managed to have political pressure applied to the Crown Prosecution Service so that I was eventually prosecuted (in 2023); yes, I have been inconvenienced by the whole process (though never arrested) and, yes, I was later convicted in the magistrates’ court, having defended myself alone and unaided from all those manifestations of Britain’s new poundland police state.
Having said that, the “CAA” has obviously been disappointed at the ultimate result. My sentence (15 days or part-days of so-called “rehabilitation” under the Probation Service, and a costs order amounting to £734) was clearly less severe than they wanted. It is a nuisance, and one that inconveniences me, yes, but no more.
The “CAA” has been so miffed at the sentence passed upon me that it and its Jewish supporters have not even tweeted about how I have been sentenced (they did tweet when I was convicted last year). Not one tweet from the “CAA” itself about me since the sentence was handed down, and only a couple (I saw 2 or 3 tweets) from stray frustrated “CAA” supporters saying how “derisory” was my sentence. I myself would not say that: the sentence was and is a nuisance, and has caused minor inconvenience, but not excessive inconvenience.
I suppose that the “CAA” will continue to push the police and CPS (when will the office bods of those two organizations realize that they are being “played”?), but I doubt that the “CAA” will get very far; we shall see.
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I have already had a few meetings with the rather charming ladies of the Probation Service.
As for the supposedly “grossly offensive” blog posts which founded the November 2023 conviction, they are still extant and capable of being seen. I think that I shall not provide a link to them, in the circumstances, but they are all (all 5 of them) still on the blog, and will remain there indefinitely.
The blog continues to be published daily or near-daily and, while the conviction will, in effect, require me to be more cautious in terms of tone, the material covered will remain much the same, except that I hope to present more from the world of ideas and policy, and perhaps slightly less in terms of mere comment.
The sentencing district judge (on 14 March 2024) refused the Prosecution’s application for a Criminal Behaviour Order against me (which might have restricted my free speech on the blog even further), because it would have been pointless, and because it was so badly-drafted; pathetically poorly, in fact.
I am now under no greater onus, from the strictly legal point of view, than I was when this whole legal and juridical circus started in early 2023.
So there it is…
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These fucking lunatic israelis just bombed the Iranian embassy in Damascus
Unbelievable violation of the Vienna convention and Syria and Iran's sovereignty.
Laurence Fox is ideologically incorrect all the same. We have a right to be Europeans in a European ethnostate. Don’t use the language (e.g. “racist scum“) of the enemy.
Laurence Fox is also pro-Israel and pro-Jewish lobby. Sadly misguided.
Laurence Fox has nothing of interest to say; he should retire from politics (insofar as he is in politics in the first place) as gracefully as possible and as soon as possible.
🔶 The Israeli Parliament passes new law that will ban the Qatari Wahhabist state TV channel Al Jazeera from broadcasting in Israel.
The White House in Washington D.C. has voiced its concern regarding the impact the new Israeli law proposal will have on freedom of speech. pic.twitter.com/PpsoahKLkT
The speech of the Easter white bunny at the White House in Washington seemed to many Republicans more meaningful than press conferences and speeches by representatives of the Joe Biden administration and the American president himself pic.twitter.com/5qQvWe3PZz
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 1, 2024
The situation in one of the deserts of Saudi Arabia against the backdrop of abnormal hail and rains that have continued in the region since the beginning of winter pic.twitter.com/8CC5iebpGO
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 1, 2024
"Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia:
“Israel's attack on the Iranian embassy could lead to war.”"
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 1, 2024
Israel wants to provoke a situation in which the USA will back up Israel and maybe destroy Iran for the Israelis. Tail wags dog…
From today, in Scotland, it is a crime to use what others perceive to be “threatening or abusive” behaviour which stirs up hatred on the basis of "protected characteristics", incl. what's said in your own home & which will go on your criminal record. This is not an April Fools.
I hope that there are Scottish people who will not only oppose these police-state measures but who will also identify the most guilty behind the new repression.
"Labour should give British citizenship to millions of EU migrants", says pro-Labour think tank. This is just one of several plans to upend Britain's democracy in Labour's favour, as I wrote about last month …https://t.co/UA2ukmAaby
“The seaside seems to be full of illegals, that shouldn’t have been accepted in such vast numbers. It’s created a real animosity in communities, when you import so many people”
A reminder why John Lydon is one of the Greatest Living Britons 👏🏻🇬🇧
Twitter/X is now full of idiots saying that Lydon is “wrong“, “gammon“, a “hypocrite” (because his family was Irish—as if that is equivalent to being a Congolese or Afghan…) etc.
All one has to do is remember that active Twitter/X is a very small world (perhaps 1% of the British people, and very atypical, which is why its “woke” apparent majority always gets it wrong politically, from the result of the Brexit Referendum to Trump’s first Presidential election to (you name it).
Amazing that people are somehow surprised at all. The economy was deliberately (and for no good reason) largely shut down for two years, and by Government decree, during which time millions of people were paid to stay home watching TV, or drinking, or paid to work (at well below peak capacity) from home.
At the same time, and over recent years, half a million to a million useless parasites per year, from all over the world, have been imported to the UK as fake “students”, “high-skilled workers” (Indians who can work a computer), “family members”, fake fiances/fiancees etc, and/or allowed to stay having come here illegally on small boats. Most of them supported entirely from Government funds.
That is in addition to vast sums wasted otherwise during the panicdemic/scamdemic: “test and trace”, “PPE” etc.
Britain continues to go down, both economically and socially. Look at the cities: people sleeping in the streets, which are overrun anyway with unwanted migrant hordes from all over the world. In the countryside, the roads are like those I recall from driving in Bulgaria and Greece etc 20-25 years ago; potholed, poorly-surfaced and, unlike those of Bulgaria or Turkey decades ago, overcrowded.
Then look at the UK’s police (who prefer to snoop on bloggers and Twitter/X accounts rather than do their proper job), or the NHS (which is almost a skeleton service).
Oh, and the Jew Shapps was in Kiev on Thursday, throwing more British taxpayer monies at Zelensky’s brutal, corrupt, and shambolic dictatorship, which is about to be flattened by a Russian steamroller.
Quite a contrast to Mr. Komissarenko [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Komisarenko], the Ukrainian Ambassador to London in the mid-1990s, with whom I travelled one fine day to the highly-guarded Porton Down microbiological laboratories on Salisbury Plain. I blogged about that a couple of times, so anyone interested can find my account on the blog via the search box.
About 29 years ago. How time flies.
It also occurs to me that almost all the Ukrainians, of all social/educational levels, I have met (admittedly not a huge number) have been very full of their own importance; that was certainly the case with Komissarenko.
Memory Lane…
Israeli historian Benny Morris said in a widely circulated video in response to students who confronted him about some of his ,, wrongly,, views on the Palestinian people pic.twitter.com/b4JE9U207g
“There is no justification for acts of rape. There is no justification for acts of massacre. Those are war crimes. But in certain conditions, expulsion is not a war crime. I don’t think that the expulsions of 1948 were war crimes.[8]” [Benny Morris, Israeli historian, quoted on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Morris].
On that basis, the expulsion of Jews from Germany was not a crime either…
Sam Melia and Laura Towler
[Valkyrie and hero— Laura Towler and Sam Melia]
I am gratified to see that the crowdfunder set up to provide for Laura Towler and her children (one still very young, the other expected to be born within weeks) has now reached, as of time of writing, £57,691.
I would urge anyone reading this to make a donation, even if modest (the minimum is £4), and/or leave a message of support. See https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia.
The more this couple are given, the greater the morale boost for all in the loose social-national community, and the greater the morale hit taken by both the “antifascist” loonies and the System.
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“I’m here to sound the alarm!” – British Defense Minister arrived in Kyiv
“We must make sure that Ukraine wins this war. The UK has done more than ever, providing its largest package of military support to date. Now every nation must do the same and ensure the victory of… pic.twitter.com/NJfgC6n0vE
The Jew Shapps is both mendacious and, at the same time, a total clown. Ukraine (Kiev regime) in fact cannot “win” against Russia, even to the extent of “taking back” Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts. If there were even a possibility of it, Russia could and probably would flatten all major Ukrainian cities.
Shapps is, of course, also lying when he calls Ukraine “a democracy“. Brutal, shambolic, corrupt; a country where press-gangs kidnap men off the streets for use as army cannon-fodder, and where young girls who are caught stealing lipsticks etc are almost “tarred and feathered”, tied to lamp-posts while people assault and insult them. A country where elections are now banned, as are trade unions and all free speech.
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In 2010 Labour central office told us all NOT to oppose austerity because "we will not be changing anything when we get in" Some of us left because we would not blame ordinary people for the bankers mess. Today its Genocide
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) March 7, 2024
One recent scientific study showed that fish can recognize human faces – and that’s a big deal.
“Scientists presented the fish with two images of human faces and trained them to choose one by spitting their jets at that picture,” Dr. Cait Newport from Oxford University told… pic.twitter.com/Rbg6LVkTXn
First his smartphone gets nabbed by a 'diverse Londoner' when only last week he was telling us how safe and lovely multiracial London is, today his Far Left blog, Byline TImes is about to get sued
— Leftwaffen-Watch ⬜️ (@LeftwaffenWatch) March 8, 2024
No-one who, like Jukes, calls an actress an “actor” can be taken seriously.
Furthermore, they offered German lessons and retraining if need be. Excuse me? I'm suspicious. No bureaucracy is this… reasonable. https://t.co/kMQifEYUU3
(ps. so Stuchbery is getting on, or has already signed on, the German dole,…as I predicted a few years ago. He must have long ago spent his share, if any, of the £12,000 he, thick “antifa”-loving Twitter nuisance Louise Raw, and a dodgy Pakistani solicitor, raised from a thousand mugs, ostensibly “to sue Tommy Robinson“.
No-one (as far as I know) has any idea where the monies disappeared to went. Not a fortune, I know (especially if divided three ways) but, all the same, something like a thousand mugs stumped up £5 or £10 or £20 each in good faith, and were cheated, I think.
I'm carer to my disabled wife. I raise serious problems and issues that affect disabled people and carers. And how did the then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Thérèse Coffey, respond?
The facts are quite striking when you look at them.
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Macron is preparing the public for war with Russia – Secretary General of the Communist Party of France
French President Emmanuel Macron is gradually “preparing minds” for Paris to directly intervene in the Ukrainian conflict, Secretary General of the French Communist Party… pic.twitter.com/K0HpsBWRHs
I always liked Paris, though it is far from what it was when I was first there in 1970. In recent years, the migration invasion has ruined it, but I should still be sad were the city to be flattened and irradiated by a Russian missile attack. Hopefully, French people will be able to depose or otherwise remove NWO/ZOG agent Macron, and so not have to face directly the nuclear might of Russia.
Former US intelligence officer: Penetrating the Crimean bridge would be a direct act of war against Russia
" German military officers are talking about the use of Taurus missiles against Russia. But not only against Russia, but about the possibility of hitting a civilian… pic.twitter.com/5bIzu9xf9u
“Former US intelligence officer: Penetrating the Crimean bridge would be a direct act of war against Russia ” German military officers are talking about the use of Taurus missiles against Russia. But not only against Russia, but about the possibility of hitting a civilian target, the Crimean bridge… This is a direct act of war ,” said former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter.
Such actions by Germany, as he says, could drag the USA into a conflict with Russia that would end in a nuclear war. Therefore, the recording of the conversation between the German officers published by the Russian media should become the number one topic in the United States, he emphasizes.”
“A mother with Stage 4 cancer claims she was left ‘traumatised’ when High Court enforcement officers (HCEO) evicted her from her house – leaving her outside in the cold until the early hours of the morning.
Video footage shows around ten security and enforcement officers surrounding Sheena Williams’ home in Plains Avenue, Maidstone, Kent, while police officers watch on.
The front door was eventually smashed in by the HCEOs as they forced entry into the home the 60-year-old has lived in for nearly three decades.
When MailOnline visited the property on Thursday it was boarded up with a security team patrolling outside.
Sheena, who has metastatic cancer and is confined to a wheelchair, was told the house was being repossessed due to an unpaid tax bill.”
[Daily Mail]
…and they want people to volunteer for armed service, or to accept conscription, to defend such a country…
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A Painting of lord Balfour was spray-painted over by an activist
He was the man who the Rothschilds bribed to give the land to Israel
I don't support doing this to paintings but this man is scum responsible for 100’s thousands of deaths pic.twitter.com/jba9d5vYsG
I would reverse the order of that tweet. Yes, Balfour did what it says (possibly for a cash bribe; he was also mentally unstable) but I cannot condone the destruction of real art which is also of historical importance. I also tend to think that someone who can damage a valuable and historically-significant painting is probably capable of doing a great deal worse.
Of the 11 candidates, 4 could be described as Independent. There is a Green, and also a Monster Raving Loony.
Of the 5 more or less serious candidates, the LibLabCon “uniparty” has candidates, and then there is the egregious George Galloway [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Galloway], this time under the banner of the Workers Party, and also Reform UK, represented by Simon Danczuk [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Danczuk], the one-time Labour MP who was a perennial tabloid newspaper story 2010-2017 (along with his seemingly lobotomized then wife, Karen).
The by-election is complicated by the fact that Azhar Ali, the Labour candidate on the ballot paper, was suspended and disowned by Labour for having speculated that Israel may have been involved in the attack on its own citizens in October 2023, a “conspiracy theory” which at first blush seems mad, but less mad when you look at it. A possible “Pearl Harbor” scenario, in which the Israeli leadership may have allowed the Hamas attack from Gaza to take place in order to be able to destroy and then resettle Gaza with Jews.
Leaving that aside, Ali is still a candidate and still, on paper, “Labour”. Indeed, it is possible that, despite all the publicity, quite a few voters will remain unaware that Labour has disowned him; they may vote for him on that basis.
Having said that, Ali will not be Labour’s candidate at GE 2024, so even if he were to be elected this Thursday, he would only be an MP for a few months. That will obviously harm his chances.
It comes as a slight shock to see that George Galloway is only two years older than me. I thought about 10 years or more. He is now 69.
Galloway is far and away the most interesting candidate on the by-election roster. You only have to look at his Wikipedia entry. Indeed, apart from sleazy Danczuk, Galloway is the only candidate at Rochdale who is noted on Wikipedia.
Galloway started as a Labour MP, and has travelled through other parties and profiles to get here, but his anti-Zionism has remained a constant.
An ideologue of sorts, Galloway is not exactly on the same ideological page as me (and he blocked me on Twitter when I still had an account, i.e. up to 2018). He is interested in money, though he plays that down. His net worth is probably in the millions —though I concede that that is a guess— and his income from all sources in recent years has on occasion exceeded £500,000 a year. His RT (Russia Today) show has been sunk by sanctions, but his online broadcasting etc must still bring in a very good sum.
The Workers Party of Britain [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers_Party_of_Britain] was founded by Galloway himself in 2019, and so far has had no electoral success, though Galloway himself achieved a notable third place at the Batley and Spen by-election in 2021— nearly 22% of the vote.
Other well-known members of the Workers Party include former Arabist diplomat and ambassador Peter Ford [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ford_(diplomat)], and former Labour MP Chris Williamson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Williamson_(politician)], now a broadcaster on the English-language Iranian channel Press TV. Williamson occasionally retweeted my tweets when I had a Twitter account, though he later and foolishly “blocked” me (like Galloway).
Reform UK must be mad to have allowed Danczuk to be their candidate at Rochdale. He was MP for the constituency from 2010 to 2017, and at peak (2015), under Labour banner, was voted for by 46.1% of the voters who voted, but in 2017 achieved only 1.8% as Independent, once chucked out of Labour. Since then, he has been dumped by Karen Danczuk (or vice-versa), and has married for the third time, to an African from Rwanda.
I should have thought that Reform UK would have selected a candidate of real weight at this interesting by-election, but no…
The constituency is riven by division on racial, ethnic, cultural and religious lines. Also, by the aftermath of the Pakistani “grooming gangs” scandal (sex abuse of white English girls). Further back, there was the scandal of Cyril Smith [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Smith].
I rule out as serious contenders the Monster Raving Loony, the 4 Independents, the Green (who, though still on the ballot paper, has also been disowned by his party for “antisemitism”, and has withdrawn), and (probably) Danczuk/Reform UK.
That leaves Galloway/ Workers Party, Azhar Ali/”Labour”, the LibDem and the Conservative.
In the past, pre-2015, Rochdale was contended for by Labour and the LibDems and, before that, the old Liberal Party. The LibDems fell into 4th place in 2015, after the “Con Coalition” of 2010–2015.
There have been fairly good showings by UKIP and Brexit Party in the past decade, but nothing earth-shattering. Reform UK might have done better, but surely not with Danczuk as the candidate. That’s my view, anyway.
Conservative Party candidates achieved (poor) second place in both 2017 and 2019, but this time the Con has almost no chance, so unpopular is the Sunak government. Also, Sunak is Indian. The 30% of the Rochdale voters that are Asian are mostly Pakistani. The Con candidate seems to be English.
The LibDem has a Scottish name; otherwise, I know nothing of him and cannot see him getting anywhere.
While 60%-70% of the eligible voters are English, it is a question of how many are motivated to vote. In 2019, only 60% of eligible Rochdale voters voted, and that was a higher percentage than most previous recent elections. The assumption, at least, is that the Muslim vote is more powerful, as a bloc, than the actually larger English vote.
The upshot is that this is between “Labour” Azhar Ali and Galloway. Galloway must be favourite to win now that Labour has disowned Ali. The bookmakers certainly think so: at present, Galloway/Workers Party 4/7 favourite; Labour 13/8; LibDems 40/1; Reform UK 50/1; Conservatives 200/1; Greens 1,000/1; others also 1,000/1.
“Byelections are traditionally a chance for voters to lodge a protest vote. But when the people of Rochdale go to the polls on Thursday, they have barely anyone to protest against.
The Labour and Green parties have ditched their candidates. The Conservative was abroad on a long-planned family holiday the week before polling day. The Lib Dem remains, but pulled out of the most high-profile political event, a local BBC radio debate.
The most energetic campaigning last week came instead from the political fringe: George Galloway, serial byelection winner and founder of the Workers Party of Britain, and Simon Danczuk, the town’s former Labour MP who was suspended by the party for sexting a 17-year-old girl and is now standing for Reform UK.
“We don’t deserve this,” said Margaret King, standing outside Marks & Spencer. “This town does not deserve to be this short of anybody decent to vote for.” This time she’s voting for one of the local independents.
“We’ve been Lib Dem for a long time, back to Cyril Smith, but when I think back I can’t believe I voted for him. There’s too many shadows on this town.“
Back in the town centre, people at the Regal Moon were surprised to learn that the Wetherspoons pub was the official headquarters of the Monster Raving Loony party candidate. Some drinkers there raised immigration as an issue, although none considered Reform UK to be an option. “Danczuk has been here before and he didn’t do anything then,” said David Brierley, after complaining how much the town’s ethnic makeup has changed.”
[The Guardian]
A real social-national party might have won this contest.
“Labour is being warned by a powerful alliance of thinktanks and charities that poverty will soar if it comes to power and then fails to spend many billions of pounds on welfare reform to help those struggling most with the cost of living.
Poverty and extreme financial hardship have become acute problems,” the new report says. “With wages at a standstill over the last decade, recent soaring prices came at a time when many households were already struggling to meet essential costs. While some have seen their earnings increase in the period since the cost of living crisis started, for many the damage had already been done. Use of foodbanks has reached unprecedented levels, and there has been a sharp rise in households taking out loans to cover bills and daily spending.”
It says that “people on low incomes too often cycle between low-paid, insecure roles and stints of unemployment” with the number of “economically inactive” people (those out of work and not actively looking for work) at record levels. “For too long, our welfare state has taken a punitive approach, ignoring individual motivations and challenges and wasting resources on approaches to that simply don’t work.”
[The Guardian]
Iain Dunce Duncan Smith is only one of the (most) guilty System freeloaders and oppressors of the disabled etc in the UK. He has never been punished.
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Anyone else notice how seldom Coffey makes eye contact when answering questions? Definitely something shifty about her. pic.twitter.com/Pby1njoiyr
A truly jaw-dropping piece on the long list of political failures that led to Birmingham Council going bust. What utter incompetence.https://t.co/3f8MbskJHg
Birmingham is or was a major hub of the sinister “Common Purpose” conspiracy, which is implicated in so many scandals, partly because its “graduates” (members) are often unqualified (except on paper) for their executive positions. For example, the shambolic social work and social worker department in Birmingham itself and, as we now see, the Birmingham local government milieu as a whole.
Birmingham is just one particularly egregious example. There are numerous others. The police throughout the UK provide other examples.
Although it has 80,000 trainees in 36 cities, 18,000 graduate members and enormous power, Common Purpose is largely unknown to the general public.
It recruits and trains “leaders” to be loyal to the directives of Common Purpose and the EU, instead of to their own departments, which they then undermine or subvert, the NHS being an example.
Common Purpose is identifying leaders in all levels of our government to assume power when our nation is replaced by the European Union, in what they call “the post democratic society.” They are learning to rule without regard to democracy, and will bring the EU police state home to every one of us.
Common Purpose is also the glue that enables fraud to be committed across these government departments to reward pro European local politicians. Corrupt deals are enabled that put property or cash into their pockets by embezzling public assets.
It has members in the NHS, BBC, the police, the legal profession, the church, many of Britain’s 7,000 quangos, local councils, the Civil Service, government ministries, Parliament, and it controls many RDA’s (Regional Development Agencies).“
Written, I think, some years ago, but still worth reading.
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Dr John Campbell and I wonder why morticians are pulling unprecedented blood clots from one in five corpses in the past three years … https://t.co/nhZG4p1Edj
Accurate, but not entirely. Union Street in Plymouth is not really the city centre, though not far away; more a crumbling depressed bit between the main centre and the docks and ferry port (I once commuted to and from Brittany, Plymouth-Roscoff, about once every 10 days, in the years 2005-2009, so I do know Plymouth a bit; and also used to appear quite often as Counsel at the Plymouth County Court).
Plymouth is rife, in its administration, with both freemasonry and “Common Purpose”. A very badly-run city.
That bald vlogger is the one who used to visit out-of-the-way bits of the former Soviet Union. Not sure why he no longer does that. I think that he was removed from Ukraine but am unsure.
I just saw this:
Apart from Plymouth, “Bald and Bankrupt” goes to Weston-super-Mare, a place which I have also visited a few times quite long ago now (I knew a blonde Ukrainian lady who lived there, she having married an older Englishman who then, really not long afterwards, died of a heart attack, leaving her a quite decent detached house in what passes for the best area of the town). That was circa 2000.
I remember Weston-super-Mare mainly for playing tennis on a warm sunny day with the Ukrainian lady (well, just playing around, really), and deliberately hitting her on the rear with a tennis ball when she bent over to pick up another ball, after which she fired half a dozen at me (I dodged them by running away, weaving).
“Bald and Bankrupt” then goes to Birmingham, a city I do not know, and which I have never even seen, except once or twice from a train, or car circling its endless motorways and other roads, and —once— when on a small plane that stopped at the airport to take on fuel etc.
The state of Birmingham shown in the vlog echoes that discussed in those Matt Goodwin and Sunday Times tweets.
“Come, friendly Russian bombers...” (with apologies to John Betjeman…).
“Bald and Bankrupt” then goes, briefly, to Sunderland, a town I have also never visited (though my late father once played professionally for Sunderland football club, sometime around 1946).
He then goes to a semi-derelict former mining village called Hordern, where he meets a man demolishing a 19thC brick wall, the man having moved to this hopeless desolate place from Guildford (Surrey). Why? Why? Apparently because rental of property is cheaper. Even so…People are very strange…
Overall, dystopian, and not a little frightening.
Of course, much, maybe most, of England, or Britain, is not like those places. Not yet, anyway.
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Having lunch with mate and a lovely lady handed me this.
Small acts of kindness and appreciation make such a difference in a world where the accepted narrative is that you are one of the most evil people on the planet.
The lady may be a fan of “Detective Sergeant Hathaway” in Lewis. Politically, Fox may mean well, but has not the ideological or intellectual weight to lead a new party, in my view. Also, pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby etc, so a non–starter as far as I am concerned.
I happened to watch an edition of Celebrity Chase quiz show (from about 6 years ago). As usual, I did not know even the names of a couple of the “celebrities”, but “Eddie the Eagle” was there and, also, Michelle Dewberry [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Dewberry].
I believe that Ms. Dewberry is now employed by GB News TV as presenter of a current affairs show.
Sadly, Ms. Dewberry proved herself entirely ignorant about politics, and pretty much everything else. Even worse than I was expecting.
Full of unwarranted self-confidence, but empty of intellectual content. Totemic of the present-day (think “Boris” Johnson, for one…).
The presenter of The Chase, Bradley Walsh, introduced Ms. Dewberry as “businesswoman and TV presenter“, I think. True up to a point. She did have a business, though I think an unsuccessful one, about 15 years ago. She is best known for having won, in 2006, The Apprentice, the TV competition run by Jewish businessman Alan Sugar.
My problem with all that is that she is one of a number of people with considerable public profile, and who opines about politics, Britain’s future etc, and yet is entirely ignorant in almost (?) all areas.
I suppose that I have to be honest and admit that, in the commonly-heard (on TV at least) phrase, “she scrubs up well“, anyway.
I see now from Wikipedia that Ms. Dewberry is now in a personal relationship with a once-successful and still affluent businessman, who is also, inter alia, a TV/radio presenter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Jordan.
Ms. Dewberry seems to be an example of a widespread problem in the UK these days, namely people posing as business successes, political experts etc when they are nothing of the sort; but it suits the msm to present them as such.
Most such people are boosted by the msm and/or politicians because it suits an agenda, in Michelle Mone’s case as an example of a *woman from *a deprived or poor background, who *via her own efforts *became “successful” and *wealthy. The David Cameron-Levita, George Osborne, Iain Dunce Duncan Smith (etc) ideology personified— and as fake as those cheats.
In fact, Michelle Mone is a fake through and through, and always has been, as seen even in her Wikipedia entry. That, however, has not stopped her from having been —ludicrously, so be it— elevated to the House of Lords; nor has it stopped her from making hundreds of millions of pounds from useless hospital equipment, sold to the NHS via contacts in the Conservative Party, together with her present husband: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Barrowman.
There is something wrong about a country that seems not to care whether someone prominent, and/or in public life proper, is a fake. Look at Iain Duncan Smith. That man has so many layers of fakery that to examine them all in detail would require a book by someone such as Tom Bower [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bower].
We see now how history is not only misunderstood, but often faked in both its overall purport and in details. I am referring not only to the WW2 “holocaust” farrago, but to, for example, the attempts now made to present a one-sided view of European (including British) colonialism as something entirely bad, with no redeeming features.
When history is faked, how can present-day politics and intellectual life be unaffected?
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Scott Benton MP has LOST his appeal against a 35-day suspension. He was filmed in Times investigation offering to lobby ministers and leak confidential information for money: https://t.co/7pIZb4aTYa. Paves the way for likely by-election in Blackpool South (Tory majority = 3,690) pic.twitter.com/paR9n7Nbir
As in the many previous cases involving corrupt and moneygrubbing MPs, what always amazes me is how easy they are to entrap. They must have very little caution (perhaps as a result of their feeling of “entitlement”).
As Hitler said of the Weimar Republic’s creatures, “dirty democratic politicians“…
Incredible, or perhaps not, that the only penalty the House of Commons itself has imposed on Benton is a 35-day suspension. Of course, the real penalty will be if there is a by-election and he loses his seat, though he would have lost it —or will lose it— at GE 2024 anyway.
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Forget 30,000 dead in Gaza, tens of thousands more in prison without charge, five MILLION in stateless serfdom, forget 75 years of torture, rape, dispossession, humiliation and occupation, ITS ALL ABOUT YOU, Bella
How woke will Labour go? Tomorrow I'm doing a deep dive on some of the most divisive, insane policies that will likely be delivered by a Labour government. Get it herehttps://t.co/liUeIhMiRY
Retired US Air Force General and B-52 fighter pilot:
Even a B-52 flight over the Middle East could not change Iran's policy.
Our weapons systems are not designed to fight Iranian drones.
The United States has not yet been able to understand Iran, the resistance forces and this… pic.twitter.com/1iDrV9dorj
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 20, 2024
It may be that, in time, huge fleets of drones will attack Tev Aviv, Jerusalem, and Dimona.
A large crowd of protesters has gathered in front of the Supreme Court in London, UK, demanding freedom for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Assange is unwell and was unable to attend in person or online. In December, the WikiLeaks founder was so ill that he broke a rib while… pic.twitter.com/gwaZFFzFAy
The UK/US extradition treaty is, in practice, a one-way street. Abrogate it.
Incidentally, there was a time, mostly though not entirely in the years 1993-1995, when I appeared as Counsel pretty much weekly at the Royal Courts of Justice (always in the High Court). Seems long ago now, and indeed is. A different time, and a different world.
I see Kate Andrews is on #politicslive advocating zero-hour contracts and wants less regulation for employers
She is getting a lot of use with her #BBC politics season ticket, maybe the BBC board have her on speed dial pic.twitter.com/mFj3LUBYm2
— Louis 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 〓〓 💙 Defend the right to vote (@LouisHenwood) February 20, 2024
I blogged briefly about Kate Andrews a year or so ago:
I agree with tweeter “Betty’s Hotpot”/”@BigThickSlices” too. Reform UK is not properly social-national. I do not value it highly, certainly not to the extent of Matt Goodwin. Britain needs a social-national party which, sadly, does not even exist, at least as yet.
“A woman was left in shock after police allegedly told her to retrieve her stolen £30,000 Lexus car herself.
Alexandra Vlad, 32, woke up on February 6 to find her Lexus UX missing from her driveway in Newham, East London. Using a tracking app on her phone, she found the last known location of her car in Hackney, about six miles away. She called the police and provided all the information but claims she was then instructed to go and get the car herself.
Alexandra, who works in corporate finance, said: “I was more shaken by the experience of dealing with the police than the car being stolen itself. I told them what happened, and that I could see the last location of the engine. They told me they wouldn’t be there for at least an hour. It was a dodgy part of Hackney. I felt unsafe.“
[Daily Mirror]
The police are a prime example of how things generally do not work properly now in Britain, though there are many others— NHS, banks, insurance companies, the whole political and electoral system, repair of the roads, the non-existent border defences etc.
Because Russia has a big army, and production and military potential. A little jewish Caligula from Kiyev is just Biden's lackey paid to weaken Russia. What do you not understand?
Not as surprising as it seems at first blush. After all, the Gurkhas were and to some extent are mercenaries or contract soldiers in British service. They have now switched, in part, to another employer. “Simples”…
Why the fuck is anyone still voting for either of these globalist shills ? THEY ARE NOT ON YOUR SIDE 🤷🏻♂️ pic.twitter.com/Dg90Ake5sB
— jontheshepherd 🇬🇧 politically homeless (@jontheshepherd) February 17, 2024
Is it any wonder the British people distrust the experts on immigration? Karl Williams of @CPSThinkTank just crunched the official forecasts on net migration going back to 2010 and found they were wrong –underestimating immigration– 93% of the time!!
Rachel Reeves— careerist and member (and Vice-Chair) of Labour Friends of Israel…
“Rachel, why won’t you talk to us?“…answer: because your name is not (((you-know-who)))…
Russia counted on the honesty of its partners, Russian President Vladimir Putin said when asked why the special military operation did not start earlier.
We learned the true state of affairs only later, when the former chancellor of Germany and the former president of France… pic.twitter.com/RYIkdQBYr0
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
“Russia counted on the honesty of its partners, Russian President Vladimir Putin said when asked why the special military operation did not start earlier.
We learned the true state of affairs only later, when the former chancellor of Germany and the former president of France said that they did not even intend to fulfill the Minsk agreements, Putin said in an interview with Russia on the 24th.
Speaking about the negotiations, he pointed out that the fighting in Ukraine would have stopped a year and a half ago had it not been for the West’s position, the Russian leader said.“
Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that it is possible to start the undamaged branch of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in a week, but Germany shows no interest in that. Can Nord Stream 2 (launch)? Can! Turn on the valve, say: We want (gas). He will get it tomorrow. It takes… pic.twitter.com/EDHAADlW8R
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
“Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that it is possible to start the undamaged branch of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in a week, but Germany shows no interest in that.
Can Nord Stream 2 (launch)? Can! Turn on the valve, say: We want (gas). He will get it tomorrow. It takes a week. But they don’t want to, said the Russian leader.“
Sometimes, I think that the “dirty democratic politicians” (in Hitler’s phrase) of Germany are even more stupid than those of the UK, but that would scarcely be possible.
For the West, the situation around Ukraine is only a matter of tactical position, while for Russia it is a matter of life and death , Russian President Vladimir Putin told Russia 24 television, commenting on the "historical part" of the interview with Tucker Carlson.
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
Russia must and will win in the Ukrainian war situation, at the very least to the extent of maintaining its present position (control of Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea regions, and some other —mainly coastal— areas). Indeed, there is every chance that Russia will be able to take over (or regain, if you like) control of the entirety of Eastern Ukraine (Ukraine east of the Dnieper).
The shambolic, brutal, and corrupt Kiev regime headed by the Jew Zelensky is fast running out of arms, ammunition and, above all, soldiers.
“Kiev. As the brutal reality of the war sets in on the #Ukranian people. The sadness and needless death imposed up on by Zionists and Anglo-Saxon elites on to the Ukrainian peoples. Ukrainian people and the world is slowly coming to the realisation; they have been taken for a ride.“
Official data shows that annual inflation in Argentina has reached 254%, but the president of this country claims that if it were not for his "shock therapy" policies, the situation would have been much worse . pic.twitter.com/NDv78uwtdI
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
A lunatic enjoying his “15 minutes of fame”.
The bulldozers of the IDF are destroying the infrastructure in Tulkarm IDP camp pic.twitter.com/KQBDvhH8Re
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
There is a kind of ingrained, hypocritical sadism in “them”.
Putin: Ukraine regularly receives money for the transit of Russian gas
“ So they say in Ukraine – aggressor, aggressor. But they regularly receive money for gas transit. They don’t smell ,” said President Vladimir Putin.
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
“Putin: Ukraine regularly receives money for the transit of Russian gas.
So they say in Ukraine – aggressor, aggressor. But they regularly receive money for gas transit. They don’t smell ,” said President Vladimir Putin.
Putin said that a week is needed to launch the remaining Nord Stream line, but Germany does not want to.“
Interesting. So Ukraine (Kiev regime) is still getting money from Russia on a regular basis as transit fees for passage of Russian gas to the EU?! Very convoluted.
I wonder where those millions of US dollars end up?
Residents of Avdeevka felt free
After the liberation of Avdiivka and the end of the active phase of fighting, the Russian army was met by the few civilians remaining in the city. pic.twitter.com/dxkNjNIXCv
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
One of the worst aspects of the collapse of the Soviet Union 35 years ago (the formal termination was in 1991) has been the proliferation of that strange semi-Americanized Russian-language rock and rap music. Ghastly.
Footage of soldiers of the “Veteran” assault brigade planting the Russian flag over one of the buildings in Avdeevka pic.twitter.com/Llo1aO2OGT
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
The head of Zelensky's office called for an early invitation to Ukraine to join NATO
The head of Zelensky's office, Andriy Ermak, chaired a meeting of the International Working Group on Security and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine. During the meeting, he emphasized that the… pic.twitter.com/2L0ElQ1lkX
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
The Kiev regime has only two chances: one, to join NATO, and then be able to call upon NATO forces under the Treaty obligations. That is why NATO states will not allow Ukraine to join, because it would lead to a world war before very long.
The second Kiev regime opportunity to avoid defeat would be a revolution or palace revolution in Moscow, and the end of the Putin administration. That is not going to happen.
The Kiev regime should cede to Russia all of Eastern Ukraine, and should then agree to make Kiev and Odessa “open cities” or, failing that, condominia. The present members of the Kiev regime can then fall back on Lvov (or disappear to Israel or the USA).
Israel is behind the bombing of Iran's largest gas pipelines – The New York Times
Within a week, two of the country's largest gas pipelines were blown up in Iran. The TNYT publication, citing sources associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reports that on February… pic.twitter.com/H18JgHiaVH
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
Nancy Pelosi on Russia's treachery: Russia has more people in the army than at the beginning, and they will replenish their human resources. They buy these people. They go around the villages, around the outskirts, and they pay them money so that people go to fight.
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
“Nancy Pelosi on Russia’s treachery: Russia has more people in the army than at the beginning, and they will replenish their human resources. They buy these people. They go around the villages, around the outskirts, and they pay them money so that people go to fight.” Instead of honestly grabbing people on the streets and catching them in transport and apartments, as is done in democratic free Ukraine.
Can you imagine a political system so screwed that someone such as Nancy Pelosi can attain to high office? As bad as that in the UK…
⚠️ It's not on TikTok anymore, it's now presented on national Israeli TV – the public humiliation of Palestinians abductees , kidnapped from Khan Younis while they were fleeing out of town trying to find safety
Not sure that I agree with that, though fraud (especially one person using another’s postal vote) is obviously a problem, particularly in areas with high non-white and especially Muslim populations.
Sophie Corcoran is a pro-Conservative Party, maybe pro-Reform UK —I don’t know enough about her exact views— talking head. She does not seem to have considered that both Reform UK and (maybe even more) the Conservative Party are those mostly voted for via postal voting, which affects the mostly middle-aged and elderly people most likely to have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.
Ms. Corcoran’s proposed postal vote ban would therefore probably be the final straw breaking the back of the Conservative Party.
Rochdale is a rather different situation. I shall blog about the upcoming by-election (29 February 2024) before the day.
When I lived in Almaty, Kazakhstan for a year (1996-1997) I had, in the course of my work, some limited contact with an Israeli businessman in his sixties or seventies who headed a large energy company with interests in Kazakhstan. The company was based in or near Tel Aviv, maybe at Herzliya.
The Israeli was (I was told by others) a former general in the Israeli Army. I accompanied him to a meeting with the UK Ambassador, at the British Embassy (which I visited fairly often). The Embassy was then in Furmanov Street, Almaty (the capital of Kazakhstan was then still at Almaty).
That Israeli (who from his accent originated in the UK, maybe in London) told me that (unlike the British Ambassador, whom he found insufficiently interested in his problems) every Israeli ambassador is given, by his superiors in Israel, a list of duties including how many contacts, including business contacts, to make in a year, how many business opportunities for Israelis to make or facilitate etc.
“They” are relentless.
Incidentally, I have no idea why he did not use the Israeli Ambassador for what he wanted. Maybe he did that as well. Probably.
Oddly, he did not have (at least with him) a UK passport as well as his Israeli one (I know that); so, despite the semi-“British” accent (and knowledge of London) he was probably not a dual-passport-holder. Not a hugely pleasant person, and (as I believe is common in Israel) rather abrasive in manner.
Well, that Israeli general and international business leech must have gone up the chimney many years ago now. This was in late 1996, over 27 years ago; so, in itself, it is just another of life’s memories.
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"The rise of Reform is not just about the Tories. It's appealing to voters who feel unhappy with how our entire national life is shaped around the new elite's priorities -mass immigration, net zero, putting illegal migrants before the British people"https://t.co/J727eFX3HT
This is what Egypt's concern for its Palestinian brothers looks like. A new image of Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip, which has concrete and steel walls built by the Egyptian authorities. pic.twitter.com/kgguV1aOgF
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
A French Air Force plane arrives in Rzeszow from France to pick up French military personnel and intelligence officers killed and wounded in Ukraine pic.twitter.com/3aFpvxF8T1
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
Donald Trump:
“2024 is our last war. We will destroy the deep state with you.
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
In Germany, they began information preparation of the population for the idea of obtaining a nuclear bomb under the pretext of Trump’s statements pic.twitter.com/i7yPryAlRL
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
79 years too late.
The Russian Ministry of Defense publishes footage of the defeat of Ukrainian formations leaving Avdiivka. pic.twitter.com/4FGvpA91fh
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
When I lived in New Jersey in the early 1990s, my first wife (an American) and I drove a couple of times to a small shop outside the centre of Newark, which shop had been left, as if washed up on the shore, after the race riots of the late 1960s, mainly 1967, which had trashed the (then) better parts of the city. That shop sold maybe 50, maybe 100 types of ground coffee. Guatemalan, Zimbabwean, you name it.
At one time, pre-1967, Newark had been fairly decent, but after 1967, 100,000 white people left the city, leaving it a drug-ridden, crime-ridden remnant. Having said that, I sometimes walked in the main streets there, or caught the PATH Line to Manhattan, and I never had any trouble. Maybe I looked too poor or too angry to mug.
[intersection of Broad and Market streets, Newark, NJ, 2005]
My first wife’s office was by the Federal building in central Newark, though we lived at least half an hour’s drive south, in Middlesex County, and close to the Monmouth County line.
Actually, even the “Federal” enclave in Newark was not completely safe. Two FBI agents were held up and robbed at gunpoint in the same supposedly guarded car park that my wife and her small group of colleagues used. Strange; I believe that the FBI are supposed to be armed at all times when in public. Maybe they were caught napping. After the mugging, the local police had a patrol car parked by that car park every late afternoon and evening.
Cities can of course fall into desolation via social factors alone, without war. Drugs, poverty, cultural decadence, breakdown of social trust, breakdown of social order generally. It worries me what I see in the UK whenever I have to go to heavily-urban areas (thankfully now not often). What will Britain be like by, say, 2030, or 2040? God knows.
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
This is not Gaza. This is South Lebanon. Israel is also bombing Syria. Israel is the only country in the world that can simultaneously bomb other countries and still claim to be the victim. pic.twitter.com/9IgJYeYOsD
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
An Israeli soldier proudly posted on social media a photo of himself arresting a Palestinian child pic.twitter.com/6TFV77UHEG
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
The flight of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Avdiivka threatens to turn into a serious problem, since the city is of strategic importance, retired US Air Force Colonel Cedric Layton said on CNN.
Due to the transfer of the city to Russian control, it will be much more difficult… pic.twitter.com/Om1CXVQLsU
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
“The flight of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Avdiivka threatens to turn into a serious problem, since the city is of strategic importance, retired US Air Force Colonel Cedric Layton said on CNN.
Due to the transfer of the city to Russian control, it will be much more difficult for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to organize attempts at a counter-offensive on Donbass – not to mention the fact that the Russian Armed Forces may move further west after Avdievka.“
“Three people who displayed images of paragliders at a pro-Palestinian march in central London a week after Hamas militants went on a bloody rampage in Israel have been found guilty of a terror offence.
Heba Alhayek, 29, Pauline Ankunda, 26, and Noimutu Olayinka Taiwo, 27, were each given a 12-month conditional discharge.”
[The Guardian]
The malicious Jew-Zionist cabals such as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” are fuming, of course. They love to see people charged, convicted and preferably imprisoned because of “offences” supposedly “antisemitic”. The 12-month conditional discharge was manifestly a just as well as merciful sentence, though it is unfortunate that the court saw fit to convict at all.
The whining demands of the various Jewish organizations are now just becoming a bore for almost everyone, including the courts, it seems. The woodentopped police, and the CPS, are still doing what those cabals demand (much of the time), but at least the courts seem both to retain some independence of thought, and to be waking up to the essentially trivial nature of many such “antisemitism”-related cases.
How absurd to charge people with a nominally “terror-related” offence just for wearing a cartoon or drawing on their clothing! UK society has no resilience at all now compared to the 1970s or 1960s, let alone 1950s. Society is now very fragmented, and has little internal strength.
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These were girls with an image of a paraglider taped to their jackets. We have British citizens travelling to murder children in a genocidal army returning back to this country like nothing happened and these girl get found guilty of terror offences? What an absolute disgrace. https://t.co/2eq836r3ZW
What you see on X via Ford-Portes-Katwala is how academe works. Once you challenge sacred value (I.e. immigration = unalloyed good) you become target. They ignore (growing pile of) evidence which runs counter while trying to attack/silence dissenters
While it is true that the retail cost of housing, particularly sale/purchase prices, is influenced by a number of causative factors, mass immigration (migration-invasion) into the UK is probably now the main causative factor in making housing absurdly unaffordable; that is especially true of the housing rental market, and especially though not solely in London and the southeast of the UK.
The opposite contention, that (since 1997 alone) an influx of perhaps 15-20 millions (including births to immigrants) has little or no effect, is just ludicrous, totally illogical, totally absurd.
“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen” [? Harry Truman].
The upcoming Wellingborough and Kingswood by-elections
'We have discovered that she claimed at least £1000 of Brexit campaign funding to her own physiotherapy firm.' @NatashaC and @mrjamesob discuss Helen Harrison, who is the Tory candidate for the by-election caused by the suspension of Peter Bone – her partner. pic.twitter.com/uTV22Oc9Ji
The Wellingborough by-election tomorrow is a contest among 11 candidates. Five are Independents or joke parties. The others are Con, Lab, LibDem, Green, Reform UK and Britain First (which last I have not included as a joke party out of courtesy, but they are not my idea of a proper social-national party.
The Conservative Party scored 62.2% in 2019, despite having had Peter Bone as the candidate. Ordinarily, this would be a shoo-in for the Con candidate. This time, though, that candidate is Bone’s girlfriend. There is also the fact that the Con Party nationally is falling through the floor in terms of, inter alia, popularity.
Labour last won in Wellingborough, though very narrowly, in 2001. It also came close in 1997. Before that, only in 1966. In 2019, Labour scored 26.5%, a very poor second place.
The LibDems have never achieved 20% in the constituency since they were founded, though the old Liberal Party occasionally reached nearly 25%.
The other parties can be pretty much written off in this contest. I shall be interested to see how Britain First and Reform UK perform.
The bookmakers (Betfair Politics) have Labour on evens. Not sure that is a value bet. The Cons, on 11/1, seem to be a value bet. Reform UK is at 25/1.
The Con candidate, however tainted, is however batting off from a favourable position, given that her personal “partner”, Bone, achieved over 62% last time, in 2019. Her positions politically seem to be quite close to those of Reform UK; has she shot Reform’s fox?
This, as far as I can see, is between the Con Party candidate and Labour (as a kind of protest vote). Reform UK may take away enough of the remaining Con support to help Labour in winning the contest, but I am far from certain. You would think that either Labour or (even) Reform UK would win this, in all the local and national circumstances, but I wonder. It could be close among all three.
One thing is for sure: if the Conservatives lose badly in Wellingborough, it’s “Goodnight Vienna” for them.
Kingswood, just north of Bristol, is a constituency due to be abolished; it will not exist at GE 2024. There are 6 candidates: Con, Lab, LibDem, Reform UK, UKIP, Green.
The former Con Party MP, Skidmore, has bailed out (on a not-very-plausible “green” excuse), presumably in order to get a job in the “green” sector somewhere soon. Good riddance, anyway.
It appears, according to a New Statesman report (see below) that the area is —like much of England— in steep socio-economic decline.
I doubt that the Con Party has much chance. Skidmore was, in my view, not much of an MP, and his intellectual pretensions were just that. Well, he has now gone and, bearing in mind that the seat will not even exist in 6-12 months’ time, and that the present government is despised or hated by a great majority of the public, the Con candidate is a sacrificial lamb whose only selling point is his local origin (however, the Lab candidate was also brought up locally, and even attended the same school).
The Labour candidate is the former recent Mayor of Lewisham (S.E. London), though educated locally. The voters may like his local links (though he was actually born in Cork, Ireland), and may or may not be impressed by his having converted religiously from his native Roman Catholicism to Judaism (the religion, it seems, of his gay marriage “partner”). He is pro-migration, too: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Egan.
Until 2010, Kingswood was fairly firm Labour territory. As in other parts of the UK, the decline in both industry and living standards has led to a fall in the Labour vote, perhaps counter-intuitively. There again, Labour is no longer the party of “working people”, and most of those people know it.
Having said that, people despise this “Con” government, and this by-election is a pure protest opportunity, the seat going up the chimney sometime this year, so Labour must have a very good chance here.
The bookmakers have Lab at even-money, but both the LibDems and Greens are on 2/1, perhaps indicating that many are considering a protest vote for either of those. As for the Cons and Reform UK, 10/1 and 50/1 respectively.
Bookmakers’ odds are a poor way to forecast elections, though.
Kingswood is, if anything, harder to call than Wellingborough except that, at Kingswood, the Con candidate has really no chance at all. For the Cons, their vote-share will be a pure vote on how the public see them. It looks bad for them. They received 56.2% of the vote in 2019. Now? I think that they will probably end up with around 10%.
If I had to guess the result, it would probably be a Labour win, though the LibDems may have a chance.
[Update, 27 December 2024: Well, Labour won the 2024 Wellingborough by-election easily— 45.9%, with Peter Bone’s girlfriend, the pretty nice-looking Helen Harrison, on a mere 24.6%, and Reform UK getting 13%; at the June 2024 General Election, Lab retained the seat with 40.3%, a different Con candidate got 27.8%, and Reform UK crept up to 21.5%, a sign of things to come, perhaps.
As for Kingswood, the 2024 by-election was won fairly comfortably by Labour (44.9%), with Cons on 34.9%, and Reform UK on 10.4%, Reform’s candidate being the businessman Rupert Lowe, now Reform UK MP for Great Yarmouth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Lowe.
The Kingswood seat was abolished prior to the 2024 General Election. The reworked seat, Bristol North East, was then won by Egan, the former Kingswood MP (45.3%), with the Green in second place (18.7%), the Con on a mere 14.8%, and Reform UK on 12.9% (LibDems 4.7%)].
I sat next to a nurse (older) on a flight. I asked her about her experience during the Covid crisis. She said that “anti-vaxxers” had made things tough. Then she stopped herself and said “of course don’t know if you might be an anti-vaxxer”
“I sat next to a nurse (older) on a flight. I asked her about her experience during the Covid crisis. She said that “anti-vaxxers” had made things tough.
Then she stopped herself and said “of course don’t know if you might be an anti-vaxxer” I said “I wasn’t one, but the Covid vaccine nonsense woke me up”. I told her I knew a lot of injured people from the Covid jabs, and I couldn’t believe these highly novel, barely tested shots were being given to healthy, young people who stood to gain nothing from them, and that I was shocked that they were still being recommended.
She nodded in agreement and said the mRNA vaccines had been particularly bad, indicating she was aware of many people injured and killed by them.
Later in the conversation she told me that her husband had recently died of pancreatic cancer. And her son had been diagnosed with aggressive, metastatic colon cancer.
She did not appear to see a connection between the shots and the cancers. The timing of these tumors could of course, be mere coincidences, but I would have thought the question of a possible connection would be obvious. And given the frank medical nature of our conversation, I believe she would have mentioned a suspicion if she’d had one.
I find the whole encounter disorienting, suggesting a fragmented belief structure that I believe must be common amongst those getting their news from corrupted sources—the smoldering ruins of a collapsed mass formation event.”
The Israeli army blows up another building belonging to the UNRWA relief agency in Gaza pic.twitter.com/GgvzSXOjAK
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) February 14, 2024
In the morning, Hezbollah launched a major rocket attack on the IDF Northern Command headquarters in Safed, killing at least two Israeli soldiers and wounding seven .
Rocket fire also hit IDF bases in Branit, Kiryat Shmona, Manara and the Meron Strategic Command and Control Air… pic.twitter.com/LwX4zraaLB
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) February 14, 2024
A grieving father went to buy bread for his family and when he returned, he found his entire family killed in an Israeli airstrike. pic.twitter.com/gYqcgkMwkH
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) February 14, 2024
And if you can't use the subway anymore… Which a lot of people talk about in New York because it's too dangerous… pic.twitter.com/NNKl31i5h6
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) February 14, 2024
Even when I spent time in New York City (1989-1993), and used the subway system, there were plenty of unpleasant and loonie types in the streets and on some of the trains. Not all black, but most were. Blacks are, of course, more susceptible to schizophrenia etc.
[Brighton Beach, New York: stores on Brighton Beach Avenue, in the shade of the “El” (elevated section of track)]
Haaretz has published (in Hebrew, not English) an incomprehensibly vile article in the style of a lifestyle cooking feature, about Israel's soldiers finding and cooking with ingredients in the kitchens of Gazans who had to flee their homes and are now starving. pic.twitter.com/peOvTQm2cF
Someone as soulless as David Cameron comes across as genuinely empathetic towards Palestinian suffering when compared to the cold psychopathic calculations of Starmer
Babies being blown up, bodies mangled under buildings, starved to death, or snipered in their moms arms while trying get to a hospital, and this genocidal freak thinks the real tragedy is no wants to date him pic.twitter.com/jHGyiM8CkV
"Pointing out immigration is fuelling the housing crisis clashes with the elite’s “luxury beliefs”. They demand more immigrants, they demand looser borders, while knowing they will never be the ones to have to compete for a roof above their heads"https://t.co/STYuKGG2Ej
Anyone who wants even more mass immigration into the UK, or the rest of Europe, or who condones it, is either terminally stupid or a traitor to the future of the British people and all European people.
“A man has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 31 years for murdering a music manager for a fake designer watch.
Jordell Menzies was jailed for fatally stabbing Emmanuel Odunlami, 32, who was set up by a member of security at an exclusive £1,400-a-table event to celebrate the victim’s birthday in London.”
“A drug dealer who drove his Audi down the wrong side of the road and crashed into a parked car then left crucial evidence at the scene. Omar Amar, 31, of Forest Road, Walthamstow, fled the smash on Royston Avenue, Southend, just after midnight on January 7 this year, forgetting his Nokia burner phone, a bag of Class A drugs, and some cash.“
[My London]
[defendant]
London. Zoo…
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BREAKING NEWS TODAY 14 FEB 2024 The Australian Parliament has voted 86 – 42 in favour of bringing Julian Assange home to Australia. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/pCBfBvI9DF
Most progressives who deny the role of migration in the housing crisis live in leafy uni towns or elite urban enclaves –say, Oxford, Didsbury, Winchester, Richmond– where they have next to no experience of the housing crisis &/or are directly benefitting from it https://t.co/nXJqKoAkZE
Vladimir Putin said that if the agreements reached by the Russian and Ukrainian sides in Istanbul had been respected, the war would have ended a year and a half ago
The President also cited the words of the Ukrainian politician Arakhamia about who influenced the decision of the… pic.twitter.com/5XpWb7Drx3
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) February 14, 2024
There is no chance for peace in negotiations with Ukraine – Lavrov
The West will not offer a realistic diplomatic solution to the Ukraine conflict because the US and its allies remain intent on inflicting a strategic defeat on Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said… pic.twitter.com/GVUkIT4VY4
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) February 14, 2024
“While Labour is favourite to snatch the Northamptonshire seat from the Tories, Sunak’s party faces a battle even to take second place, if local opinion is anything to go by.”
[The Guardian]
Less an ordinary by-election, more a possible template for GE 2024. As I have blogged previously, there is a mood somewhere between anger and apathy, a mood which has become palpable in recent years, recent months.
The electorate now hates and despises the Conservative Party, whose governments now seem totally incompetent and ineffective. However, fake Labour is not much liked or respected either. “Least worst”, if you like.
As the Guardian report about Wellingborough indicates, that electoral mood leads people either to vote Labour as least-worst option, or to protest via Reform UK.
Sadly, no real social-national party is available.
The electorate’s present main emotion is wanting to stamp on the Government, on the misnamed Conservative Party, and on its MPs.
“A BBC editor was hired as an expert witness to help at least 15 Somalian criminals fight deportation – including a vile offender who sexually attacked a deaf teenage girl.
Now an investigation by this newspaper can reveal Ms Harper has givenexpert witness evidence in a string of other controversial deportation appeals by Somali offenders – including for another three sex attackers, three drug dealers and a career criminal who spent a decade in British jails.
In one of the most shocking cases, Ms Harper warned that a Somali man who committed a horrific sexual assault on a profoundly deaf 17-year-old girl would be at ‘severely heightened risk’ if he was sent back to Somalia because he had committed a sex crime.
A judge disagreed and threw out his appeal against deportation. Astonishingly, this newspaper has discovered that, 16 months later, the 29-year-old attacker, who the MoS is banned from naming by a court order, has still not been kicked out of Britain and is living with relatives in a council flat.”
[Daily Mail].
Get rid of the invaders. Get rid of any who connive at the migration-invasion of this country.
Talking point: a medical episode
I do not usually blog about any medical conditions that may impact me, but in this case something wider, about the NHS, is illustrated.
When I lived for a year in Kazakhstan (1996-1997), I suddenly became almost deaf at one point. Ear wax. The wife of a Russian colonel with whom I was friendly took me to a local hospital not far from where I lived; I think that it was about a mile up the same long boulevard, Prospekt Lenina.
The treatment was basic but effective. A giant “watering can” was filled with water. I was enjoined to kneel down with my head sideways over a large receptacle. A metal cone about 2 feet deep was then positioned over one of my ears. One nurse held the cone as the other poured the water quickly but steadily into the cone.
The feeling —not pain exactly, but pressure— was almost unbearable for a second. It reminded me of a couple of experiences during scuba dive training. Then it was over, and a plug of ear wax the size of a little finger was floating in the water. Blessed relief. Hearing was restored.
I think —cannot now recall— that either the treatment was free or involved a small fee. I wanted to give the nurses themselves some money, but Ludmilla, the colonel’s wife, told me that that would not be necessary. She was always saving me from “wasting” money (and/or from the odd blonde), as when we were at the “Zilyony Bazaar” (“Green Market”), the Central Market in Almaty, and she would not hear of me having my fortune told by an ancient Kazakh woman sitting on the ground, and who used small animal bones to do her divinations. Ludmilla was a strong character, a contrast to her very easy-going husband.
The next time I had a similar problem, about 2015, the local GP surgery made me an appointment to see a nurse. I did attend, but in fact felt OK by the time I attended, and the nurse said that she could not see any wax anyway. So nothing had to be done.
Well, here we are in 2024. I was informed by the same GP surgery that they “no longer offer” any ear wax removal. A private clinic was recommended. It operates out of a small and quiet NHS hospital in a coastal village about 5 miles from my home. I made the appointment. £15 non-refundable deposit and £65 for the treatment. I could have had it done earlier, but am in fact going next week.
So there it is. Something that used to be free on the NHS now has to be paid for, or no treatment. I am not exactly affluent these days, and even a sum as small as £80 is not nothing (as the Russians say), but one can well imagine that there are many who would struggle to find the fee demanded.
The NHS is less and less useful. Here we are, with GPs earning, in most cases, £100,000-£200,000 a year, monies coming out of all our taxes (even if, like me, you are not employed, you still pay out via VAT etc), and they no longer offer what was a minor but still very useful service. A sign of the way things are going.
The NHS lost its way many years ago. It now seems, often, to be run mainly for the benefit of those employed in it.
It is not just a question of supplying the NHS with more money, or higher staff salaries, bonuses etc. It is a question of making sure that the people are offered services, and that the outcomes are good. Also, that the people needing medical (and dental) help, and their families, are not messed around and ripped-off (eg by having to pay exorbitant parking fees).
At least I myself shall not have to pay for parking next week; having been to that small hospital once before, I know that parking is free, just as in the Good Old Days (or today in the USA, France and I think almost everywhere else).
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There is no community spirit anymore. It’s nearly impossible to see a doctor. The police are too busy checking for hurty words on Facebook to respond to crimes. The roads are crumbling. We are being taxed into oblivion. Nothing works in this country anymore.
The UK has fallen.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 3, 2024
Rishi Sunak on TV the last few days, saying there's no more money for doctors and nurses because "we don't have a magic money tree".
That's funny, because we just printed over £1 trillion out of nowhere to fund a pandemic hoax and wars that nobody asked for.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 1, 2024
At just 18, I looked around me during the Covid lockdowns, and I saw a world gone mad. I thought I was alone.
I turned to Twitter in the hope of finding just ONE person who could see through it too.
A few years, and too many Tweets later, there are 100,000 of us.
Tucker Carlson is in Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin.
Uncensored on X. The US deep state and the Biden administration must be in panic mode because Putin (the most censored man in the West) will expose their propaganda and lies. pic.twitter.com/OXq9j8O3GX
Hebrew media: Today was one of the most difficult days that the North experienced during the war. In the Upper Galilee, the 21st siren was activated in just two hours.
United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF: Our estimates say that 17,000 children in Gaza were left without parents or separated from their families during the war, and it is believed that almost every child in the Strip needs mental health support. pic.twitter.com/A0tB6ZwfBP
Demographics. The traditionally Roman Catholic —and Republican— minority [now not a minority, arguably: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Northern_Ireland], was about 33% in the early 1970s, but is now well over 40% (42% in 2021 Census).
The Israeli forces opened fire on people again while they were waiting for help to arrive at the "Kuwait" roundabout in the middle of the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/XhfG79elsx
Stupid smug woman MP doing what the drone-MPs always do, i.e. spout a load of nothing. Fake democracy. As for Gillian Keegan herself— totally useless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Keegan
Britain now needs to build 515,000 homes every year –73% higher than the target & nearly 3 times as many as the 178,000 homes built last year– just to keep up with our immigration-fuelled population growth (Source: Centre for Policy Studies)https://t.co/pWTmH3Gnnm
Just like Oliver Twist, our not-so-clever Home Secretary wants more. Only another £2.6bn. And ALL to pay for illegal immigrants. He should have thought about that before he let them in. It is time to send them all back. Our own homeless should come first. #VoteUKIPpic.twitter.com/JeNfO4iOur
Not that I disagree with the view shown in the tweet, but Reform UK is only useful to the extent that it can further and deeper push the Conservative Party into the mire.
And how will they prove that silent prayer took place?
Sign of the times. People to be arrested for what they might be thinking…
The very concept of “free speech” is heavily under threat already in the UK (mainly from Jew-Zionists and the Israel lobby, and from unthinking police, CPS, and other “official” drones), but now we see that people are being criminalized simply for having it assumed that they are thinking something!
Sturgeon and her SNP crew deserve to be kicked into the political gutter.
How cheaply people are bought, though! The Scottish electorate was offered and given a few cheap trinkets for its votes: no hospital car park charges, no prescription charges etc. That, and the the promise of a wonderful affluent Independence (which will never happen).
Nothing wrong with free parking and free prescriptions, as such, but look at the wider cost to the Scottish people under Sturgeon’s poundland dictatorship.
Quite similar to, though I think slightly less pretty than, the stylish Edwardian conservatory at our (leased) house in Cornwall over 20 years ago. We also had a wisteria tree growing up a wall inside.
[Polapit Tamar House, North Cornwall]
[Polapit Tamar House (and part of grounds), North Cornwall]
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United Nations Rapporteur on the Right to Health: The situation in Gaza is an example of violations of international humanitarian law, and the siege of medical personnel and emergency teams in the Strip is a major problem. pic.twitter.com/KQ8lgyV2Wz
Did you know that plants love CO2 so much, farmers pump it into greenhouses?
Higher atmospheric CO2 levels would also benefit reforestation by enhancing plant growth and creating more resilient microclimates. It's time to rethink the narrative that CO2 is bad for our planet. https://t.co/UModHIKZ8spic.twitter.com/NNTvD2EtDX
That occurred to me many years ago. Climate change (if occurring, and whether man-made or otherwise) may have as many upsides as downsides. We do not yet know.
'Covid changed everything – the green light for the roll out of all the absurdity in the world. Stockpiled absurdity was pushed like knock-off watches and handbags out the backs of lorries. Healthy people shut in their homes. Gyms closed but fast-food outlets open.'@Thecoastguypic.twitter.com/sqzTYDcAXy
Yes. I blogged about it at the time. Obedient rabbits lined up outside Waitrose, masked, and six feet apart (as decided upon by know-nothings “Boris” Johnson and Little Matt Hancock, and enforced by dim, black-clad, Handmaid’s Tale militia), only to rub shoulders once inside. Meanwhile, the pub across the road was open and without any restriction. Etc.
Farmers across Europe have mobilised huge protests against governments. Like the Canadian truckers, they are being smeared as “far-right extremists”. It’s grim manipulation. But this is the sort of blue-collar protest that the left-wing used to support.pic.twitter.com/QYs0If2OA1
I am not a Champagne-drinker, but I might open a bottle of Krug when Gates goes up the chimney…
Last year, I woke up to a police officer banging on my door accusing me of posting “hate speech” on Twitter. I asked her what law I’d allegedly broken and she couldn’t name a single one. She had no idea what she was talking about, but told me I’d be arrested if I didn’t stop…
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 4, 2024
“Last year, I woke up to a police officer banging on my door accusing me of posting “hate speech” on Twitter. I asked her what law I’d allegedly broken and she couldn’t name a single one. She had no idea what she was talking about, but told me I’d be arrested if I didn’t stop doing the things she couldn’t even tell me I’d done. Helpful! Needless to say, free speech is nothing more than a relic of the past here in the UK.”
[David Morgan].
Tell me about it! (I am now going to be sentenced “in the mags” (in March, probably)— for having blogged nothing but the truth).
“The Maggie Fleming Animal Hospice and The Karass Sanctuary for Farmed Animals is a wee bit of the world where animals who have more often than not had a pretty hard time of it and not known a lot of love or kindness in their lives can lay their hats and leave the bad stuff behind them. The worst bit is over and now it’s time to enjoy life, find love, and enjoy the things that make them come alive.
I started The Maggie Fleming Animal Hospice in March 2016 in memory of my friend Maggie who died alone and in a lot of pain at the vet hospital. You can read more about Maggie here. Maggie had died alone and I thought I’d never be able to smile or laugh or love again, but even though I could hardly think for the grief, the words ‘The Maggie Fleming Animal Hospice’ came into my mind, and once the thought was there it wasn’t going to loosen its grip any. Six months and a few signs along the way later the hospice was born.
When new folk arrive, I promise them that for so long as they want to be here life will be good, and when the day comes and they are tired and they have had enough, I’ll listen even if it’s the last thing in the world I want to hear, and we’ll face it together.
The hospice and sanctuary gives life-long and end-of-life care to terminally-ill companion and farmed animals who have been abandoned in the final stages of their lives or who would otherwise have lived and died in the food system. The hospice and sanctuary Waltons-esque family – 154 at last count – is made up of hens, cockerels, sheep, pigs, cats, dogs, quail, turkeys, and as of spring 2021, nine lambs.
Comfort, kindness, respect, compassion, dignity, joy and freedom – altogether, love – make life worth living, no matter how long we get to enjoy the ride. Whatever shape carries us through this world, in my experience of facing death with so many of my friends, ultimately in life and in death we all want the same things. We run towards security and comfort, contentment and trust – love – and we cower away from worry, loneliness, pain and fear – the absence of love.“
If anyone wants to help (eg by donating as little as £2), the links are there.
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This video from today's #Panorama… astonishing… they knocked this one out of the park. Profiteering on school buildings… charging £566k for £60k's work… building a school for £20million and getting paid £90 million 😲 pic.twitter.com/bypWTWsqZG
I could answer that rhetorical question, but my essay would be long, maybe even book length…
If our so-called “democracy” cannot “do the business”, then something else will, sooner or later.
Want to vote for Reform but never will with Tice as leader. I’ve seen associations with WEF for starters (despite his denials), but his stance on the jab and the anti jabbers undermined him and now he’s popping to Ukraine? Not good. I’m out until he’s gone. Politically homeless.
Tice is a waste of space. His natural home under other circumstances would be the Conservative Party, and he has one foot still in it. Farage and Tice are both pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby. I only hope that they do well at the GE because I hope that that will help to kill off the Con Party.
There must be places in this world that allow for gentleness, for a slower pace, for those who long to enjoy the moment without rushing about in search of some elusive cultural idea of success. Instead, are present to the beauty nature has to offer them. (art by Brian Paterson) pic.twitter.com/PoHBXKpc3l
— Into The Forest Dark (@ElliottBlackwe3) June 13, 2023
According media report, Every fifth soldier killed in the Gaza Strip was hit by fire from his own comrades. pic.twitter.com/kHl50Mjzf6
🇵🇸 Satellite images of a gathering place for Palestinian refugees in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
It is now home to more than a million Palestinian refugees who pitched their tents in the area after Israeli forces attacked their homes and shelters where they were… pic.twitter.com/1dQNmWi55k
A party whose senior shadow cabinet member David Lammy said about Stacey Dooley’s charity work for Africa, “The world does not need any more white saviours.”
“A seriously disturbed man who stabbed three people to death last year had been centre of seven alarming incidents that brought him to the attention of police, the university, healthcare workers or his employer before the fatal attacks.
It emerged following the killings that Calocane had turned up at MI5’s headquarters in August 2022 and banged on the door demanding to be let in. He was reportedly ‘moved on’ by security personnel after his name was logged.”
[Daily Mail]
[crazed killer immigrant]
Blacks are far more susceptible to schizophrenia than white people. Not “prejudice” but fact. In fact, I can remember one incident from the time when I was in chambers in London in 1993 and did a regular voluntary Saturday morning stint at a law centre in an inner city neighbourhood.
A respectable-looking black woman, apparently a nursing sister from, if I recall, Swindon, was telling me all about the abuse she had endured from her (white/English) colleagues at her place of work. It sounded terrible. Abused daily (because of “racism”, of course), and assaulted. They had even tried to inject her with something, holding her down to do so.
I asked questions to clarify what had actually happened. As the story was politely probed, the supposed nurse began to sweat slightly, and started to look uncomfortable as the inconsistencies came out. She left, eventually, when the nonsense became apparent even to her.
All in her mind, of course. No-one had assaulted her, no-one had tried to inject her.
Another time, an old black woman was convinced that her neighbours were beaming waves of some sort through the wall at her. Other allegations were also made, which might have had serious consequences had anyone believed them..
As far as I know, it has not been discovered why blacks are more likely than Europeans to be schizophrenic.
Incidentally, were the facts of yesterday’s case not so unpleasant, I should find it amusing that, while MI5 wastes so much time tracking and snooping on so called “far right” people, certain blogs etc, they all but ignore an obvious menace like the defendant above, who actually tried to gatecrash their own HQ. They did not even pass the details on to the police, it seems.
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I'm sorry everyone. I was wrong.
The LITERALLY THOUSANDS of people who've sent me racist comments in defence of Rule Britannia, over the last two days, have thoroughly convinced me that it's definitely not part of a racist culture in the UK. pic.twitter.com/pWE1YHP6QZ
Useless Nigerian freeloader and occasional System mass media face, Femi Oluwole, complaining yet again about British people. Still, credit where due; I enjoyed reading the —admittedly unsophisticated— tweets he has reposted. They made me laugh.
White House: February and March will be particularly dangerous for Ukraine
JOHN CRIBBIE: THE UNITED STATES WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT KYIV
White House National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John KIRBY: Military operations will not stop because of bad… pic.twitter.com/vtOm2m79XM
Russia is trying to overextend Ukrainian air defense systems. And by the way, they are quite effective ” – John Kirby
“Therefore, the supply of military aid for Ukraine is critical. Right now they have to make difficult choices about which targets to shoot down and in which… pic.twitter.com/56826t8YyW
Only a few days after that Dutchman, Bauer, said the opposite thing, more or less…
The Iranian army received new domestically produced drones Strategic combat and reconnaissance drones developed by the Ministry of Defense and Support of the Iranian Armed Forces entered the combat units of the Iranian Army today. Various types of UAVs "Ababil 4" and "Ababil… pic.twitter.com/rtz83KwY9j
As I wrote here (when many protested this was even happening at all) we are exposing our children to radical, divisive & highly contested belief systems which are not rooted in evidence & will push ppl aparthttps://t.co/EbiplDsWx8
Labour is likely to “win” GE 2024 because the Conservative Party is now entirely useless, but Labour is basically no better, and is the home of many black/brown MPs who, at heart, resent or hate British (ie white) people, and everything British in fact.
“Two supercar bandits who kidnapped a rich Lamborghini driver at gunpoint in Cheltenham and handcuffed a Ferrari owner’s lover in front of his terrified little son have been jailed for 27 years.
Esther Harrison, for Juwara, said her client had come to the UK via Africa and Europe. She added that he was living with his older brothers in Leeds and that his father lives in Spain.”
[defendant]
[defendant]
[Daily Mail]
Yet another example of the new “diversity” in our poor broken land…
“A bank manager who was unfairly sacked for seeking advice on what to do if he heard a black person using the N-word at work has won a £490,000 payout.
Father-of-two Carl Borg-Neal, 59, from Andover, Hampshire, raised the question during a Lloyds Bank race education training session on July 16, 2021, but in doing so inadvertently used the word in full himself. He apologised immediately.
It left the woman leading the exercise apparently so ‘badly distressed’ that she had to take a week off – a ‘key reason’ for the decision to dismiss Mr Borg-Neal for gross misconduct.
This week, he was awarded almost £500,000 in damages. Added to Lloyds’s legal costs and tax, the bank has a bill of nearly £1million.
The payout is the culmination of a two-year battle to clear his name after working for the bank and its affiliates for 30 years.
He told The Telegraph: ‘I often wonder if I wasn’t a white middle-aged male would I have had to go through everything I went through. There is no way of telling. You are bottom of everything.’“
[Daily Mail]
Another example of the brainwashing that has accompanied the immigration-invasion of the past half-century or so.
Reading between the lines, it is pretty clear that the so called “diversity trainer” in the case was a black, probably West Indian.
“The Belchertown State School in Western Massachusetts, once described as ‘barbaric’ and ‘a hell hole,’ was a place of horror for its patients.
The school, which opened in 1922, housed around 700 students with mental health disorders and developmental disabilities…
…children naked, covered in urine, faeces, and food, with “maggots wriggling inside or crawling out of the infected ears of several helpless, profoundly r******d persons while they lay in their crib-beds.“
Reports suggest that many patients had their teeth removed by staff to make feeding easier.
In 1972, Judge Joseph Tauro of the Massachusetts District Court, unannounced, visited the school to verify Ricci’s accusations. He confirmed the awful conditions, even witnessing “a little girl drinking from a faeces-filled commode.” Tauro dubbed the facility “a hell hole”.”
[Daily Mirror]
Had that place been situated somewhere in Germany in the 1930s, we should still be hearing about it (and, of course, about the supposedly terrible “Nazis”) endlessly. In fact, situations such as Belcherwood were not uncommon in the West in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s etc; Belcherwood was as described at least until 1972, and closed only in 1992, albeit apparently after improvements had been made.
That place was not even in some poor state such as Mississippi, but in Massachusetts, the state so very proud of its liberal progressivist agendas.
History is rarely black-and-white, but many find that an uncomfortable idea.
Ma'ariv: Officials fear that a large-scale conflict between Israel and Lebanon could exceed the destruction of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, due to Hezbollah's arsenal of long-range and precise weapons. pic.twitter.com/XPD0xnJ9iO
The Israeli state has a large and well-equipped army and air force, but for how long could it fight on two or three, or four, fronts, as well as combat armed insurrection within its own borders?
“This has to stop now!” – British Defense Minister Grant Shapps on arms supplies from North Korea to Russia.
“The Ukrainian Patriot air defense systems are working: there are chilling explosions and rays of light.
America's air defense systems have allowed Ukraine to defend itself against Russian attacks, but Washington has warned that it will not be able… pic.twitter.com/LOA1MKxTaa
“The New York Times writes: “The Ukrainian Patriot air defense systems are working: there are chilling explosions and rays of light. America’s air defense systems have allowed Ukraine to defend itself against Russian attacks, but Washington has warned that it will not be able to support Ukraine in this way for long.”
Powerful “protection” of the Patriot air defense system and “blazing explosions” can be achieved by destroying its launchers. The United States can produce several hundred missiles a year, and the number used and destroyed in Ukraine is many times greater.
The United States is overwhelmed by the destruction of valuable missiles and systems in Ukraine and is trying as much as possible to keep new Patriots from being delivered to Ukraine, but sooner or later they will have to make a choice.“
[New York Times]
Ukraine is not dead yet, but is already dying – ex-CIA analyst
Ukraine is on artificial life support, and its future fate depends entirely on the will of Vladimir Putin. This opinion was expressed in an interview with a YouTube channel by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.… pic.twitter.com/bk4ItEoSaL
As noted previously on this blog, the demographic aspect is the most important. Ukraine’s population is not reproducing itself. Millions of women and children have fled across the borders, hundreds of thousands of men have been killed, badly wounded, or captured on the front-lines. Many men have also fled from Ukraine in order to avoid military service. Relatively few Ukrainian babies are being born. All of that leaves Ukraine a (failed) state without much of a future.
‘The Conservatives are in deep trouble, they are flatlining.’
While I can understand that many do not wish to vote for no-ideas, Israel-lobby, “Labour” under Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc, it does surprise me that even 23% of the voters are apparently planning on voting for the surely totally discredited Conservative Party.
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Israeli artillery shelling southeast of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip .
Orban could take over the European Council – Politiko
Officials in Brussels reportedly fear that Charles Michel's resignation could give Hungary's presidency enormous influence in the bloc. pic.twitter.com/9DDgKH0HvK
Ian Robert Millard 