Well, this week I scraped another narrow victory over political journalist John Rentoul, with 5/10 as compared to his 4/10.
I knew the answers to questions 1, 2, 5, 6, and 10.
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He also said in 2009 that; "We only have 96 months to save the Earth" and that was 168 months ago! The whole #ClimateScam is the biggest hoax to be ever hoist on the Public!…..âšī¸đđ¤Ŧ
I feel that, with the passing into history of the late Queen, the Monarchy in Britain has ceased to be of any real relevance.
Charles has become a total —and very obvious— mouthpiece for the international conspiracy.
Worth looking closely, the King today, wearing a Greek flag tie at COP, after days of a simmering diplomatic row btw UK and Greek PM đđđ pic.twitter.com/CEwaFmBYW4
That would result, using Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html] in a massive Labour majority of (about) 352: Labour 501 MPs, Conservatives 74, LibDems 35. The only thing keeping the Con Party going would be its history (now trashed anyway), its assets (if any) and its name-recognition among the public.
I notice that it might also mean an undeserved boost to the LibDems, tripling their number of MPs.
Despite that polling, indicating that Reform UK might still win no seats (despite polling nationwide a point higher than the LibDems; more proof that FPTP voting is not working now in the UK), this may not be the end of the show. I think that political academic Matt Goodwin might be right in predicting a surge in support for the rather pathetic latest Farage vehicle (now notionally led by Richard Tice).
If, as Goodwin predicts might happen, Reform UK does surge to, say, 15%, and if the extra 5 points come from Con Party former voters, then the number of Con Party seats reduces to about 30, but Labour would gain, and not Reform UK, which would still be left without any MPs despite, in that scenario, scoring one and a half times the votes of the LibDems, who would end up with about 43 MPs. The voting system is broken.
The reason of course, is that (as with UKIP in 2015) Reform UK has a fairly even level of support nationwide, without the concentrations of votes in some constituencies that the LibDems have.
In fact, to start getting MPs, Reform UK will have to achieve about 18% across the board. If those votes all came from former Con voters, the Con Party vote would have to decline to 14%. In that unlikely (?) scenario, the Conservatives would be left with about 10 MPs and might fairly be said to have been wiped out.
Incidentally, on 18%, Reform UK would still only get about 1 MP.
If Reform UK can take Labour votes as well, a very different picture. Still a huge Labour majority, but the Conservatives left with a rather more respectable 80-90 seats (and LibDems with about 50). Reform UK would still only get one or two MPs, however. Very unjust (not that I have much time for Reform UK, especially after Farage and Tice recently doormatting for Israel and the Jewish lobby).
I take Goodwin’s point though (I should do— after all, I have been making it for years myself): in a situation where both main System parties are determined to do pretty much the opposite of what most voters want, even sheep-like voters start to think how to protest, in the absence of a credible social-national party. Former Con voters may abstain, or may vote (mainly) for Reform UK, maybe LibDem, or other parties; Labour dissenters who dislike Starmer and his Labour Party may protest by (mainly) voting LibDem or Green.
Both main System parties are signed up to the transnational conspiratorial agenda— funnelling blacks and browns into Europe and other formerly almost-entirely white European societies (Australia, New Zealand etc). Also, signed up to the whole globalization project, to the biosecurity pseudo-health state idea, and to the cashless society idea (thus allowing the “central power” to de-bank people, cut off funds etc at will, eventually, e.g. to punish those who say or write the “wrong” things).
At present, GE 2024 is still a year ahead, probably. The only fairly certain fact is that this Government has run out of road, and is hanging on because it cannot think of anything else to do. Indian money-juggler Sunak is as misplaced in his office as were “Boris”-idiot, Theresa May, and David Cameron-Levita; ah, I actually forgot that ridiculous “ho”, Liz Truss. She too.
Sunak will probably decamp to California by 2025 at latest. Remember that nasty little bastard Nick Clegg? He is now living in an affluent suburb near San Francisco.
We are “ruled” by cosmopolitan poseurs of that sort, totally corrupt, and their venality equalled by their incompetence.
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In a civilised country, we should make sure *everybody* has a home! #bbcaq ("affordable" is just a distraction)
I was fortunate enough to get a Council Home, âĻafter **TEN** years!
Yes, but at present there are nearly a million unwanted migrant-invaders coming to live in the UK every year, even after emigrants are taken into account. That makes a continuing and worsening housing situation inevitable.
A considerable part of the Ukrainian population might be fairly described as “blockheads” (even before they get drunk).
This is just Ukraine in a nutshell:
A guy, that just got back from the Ukrainian frontlines, calls a taxi and speaks Russian to the taxi driver who refuses to give him a ride because he's speaking "enemies language".
I do not know the politics of Highgate, particularly, so cannot really comment.
The Zionists are the pay masters and control the party – its no longer a Labour Party – it has Morphed into the Zionist Party of 3rd world, nonentity Torydom. A Keir WITH principles birthed the party. A Keir with NO principles has created its death. pic.twitter.com/V31dSYpYYE
Incidentally, that tweeter, John Edwards, a retired fire chief, at one time quite a few years ago would chat to me on Twitter (a pack of Jews had me expelled in 2018), but later had his ear bent to the extent that he tweeted to people that I was “a dreadful fascist“; yet here I am supporting his right to freedom of expression. #MoralHighGround…
Starmerâs turned out to be a market stall spiv – he sold us a socialist future and itâs turned out to be a crock of shite. Heâs just Tory plan B. https://t.co/ISd4lXrX1X
Anyone who votes Labour in 2024 expecting any kind of positive change in the UK from that would have to be a total idiot. However, the present Sunak Government is just so hated and despised by almost everyone (my guess, around 85%+) that, in a basically binary electoral/political system, Labour, despite the fact that it offers —realistically— nothing, is almost certain to win big next year.
Latest death toll in Gaza, says @TheEconomist, is 15,000.
But that doesn't count 7,000 who are missing, many of whom "are buried under rubble." Thus, "the true death toll may already have breached 20,000…More than a third of the dead are children."https://t.co/KtrvnsrMXc
Britain is now so screwed, and in almost every way, that only a total change to a social-national rulership, combined with a massive cultural and other purge, will save it, if it can be saved.
Hancock is not a reliable witness.
As we've seen over and over, he is more concerned about his personal PR than all else. The inquiry should be forensically interrogating his every word…
But Hancock says he wants earlier lockdowns, so all is well and he's given an easy ride! pic.twitter.com/9WYpXx9NU3
Hancock should have been tarred and feathered, along with all those in and around government promulgating the absurd “lockdowns” and other “Covid”-related nonsense.
Instead, he is given hundreds of thousands of pounds to eat snails and witchetty grubs in that ridiculous “Jungle” TV show.
None of them can trace their lineage back to Palestine or the Levant region. None of them can be classified as Semites, nor do they adhere to any religious beliefs. They are a group of imported individuals & who are now occupying & colonising the Semite Palestinians as imposters. pic.twitter.com/qpprtjhWh3
— Tibou ØąØĒŲب؊ đģđģđģ (@Tibou33969029) December 2, 2023
“Israeli-born geneticist believes the Turkish villages of Iskenaz, Eskenaz and Ashanaz were part of the original homeland for Ashkenazic Jews.
New research suggests that the majority of the worldâs modern Jewish population is descended mainly from people from ancient Turkey, rather than predominantly from elsewhere in the Middle East.
The new research suggests that most of the Jewish population of northern and eastern Europe â normally known as Ashkenazic Jews â are the descendants of Greeks, Iranians and others who colonized what is now northern Turkey more than 2000 years ago and were then converted to Judaism, probably in the first few centuries AD by Jews from Persia. At that stage, the Persian Empire was home to the worldâs largest Jewish communities.
According to research carried out by the geneticist, Dr Eran Elhaik of the University of Sheffield, over 90 per cent of Ashkenazic ancestors come from that converted partially Greek-originating ancient community in north-east Turkey.“
[The Independent]
In other words, they have no right (based on claims of ancient settlement) to the lands now known as Israel and Palestine.
There should be an institute somewhat similar to SS-Ahnenerbe which could take DNA and other evidence, in order to investigate such theories and claims.
Zelenskyyâs wife is done with him being President of Ukraine. She dreams of something else, a normal life. How realistic is that? Over 600k Ukrainians died because Zelenskyy didnât keep his election promise and failed to make peace when he had the chance. pic.twitter.com/y6zF9PZOmg
Should not be too difficult. After all, Zelensky has ripped off tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions, of US dollars, has a $50M villa in Florida, another luxury villa in Italy, probably others as well.
I know if you are on X you are supposed to have a short attention span but I absolutely recommend that you listen to this fantastic interview with @RealScottRitter who completely nails it on Zionism and Israel. #Zionists#Israelhttps://t.co/P4dsfobDEk
There is no climate crisis – warming started 20,000 years ago.
We did not start it and we can not stop it.
But we can waste trillions of dollars during an ice age on pointless climate change mitigation projects while China and Russia grow stronger and richer â ī¸ pic.twitter.com/2xIG1pjRc9
Personally. I think COP28 is the absolute pinnacle of hypocrisy. Round about 7,000 delegates and world leaders, turning up in countless private jets. In one of the richest oil states on the planet. Pontificating and preaching to the plebs why we must sit shivering in the dark,âĻ
— Sir Peter Morris: Just fed up of all the nonsense. (@petemorristwit) November 30, 2023
“Liberty fought tyranny in the High Court in London last week, in what I believe is one of the most important court cases of our time. The issues were simple. Is it permissible to disagree publicly with the British Government‘s foreign policy?
If not, how much do you have to disagree with it to be in trouble? And can you then be severely punished without a proper trial?
I have a strong personal interest in this, since I often (in fact, almost always) disagree with British foreign policy. This frequently seems to have been made by bomb-happy teenagers who have never looked at a map, opened a history book or done any proper travel.
These are surely huge issues for any country. Apart from anything else, if foreign policy cannot be criticised, how long before domestic policy is protected in the same way?“
[Mail on Sunday/Daily Mail]
Well worth reading.
[cf. my own trial, just now finished (at least at first instance)].
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Walking my dogs deep in the New forest the other week noticed a lorry parked in a car park it off load about 30 what looked like Africans, all ran off. Rang the cops not interested.
From over a year ago but nothing has changed since then.
Hereâs Labour Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves saying sheâs going to go further than the Tories in cutting benefits. But then, Rachel Reevesâ hubby is Nicholas Joicey, the DWP Finance Director for the Tories. How incestuous đ¤Žpic.twitter.com/H74Q4UdK3u
Anyone who thinks that misnamed “Labour” will be somehow better than the equally-misnamed “Conservatives” is self-deluding. Having said that, the “Con Party” does deserve to be stamped on and reduced to a tiny caucus at the 2024 General Election.
Zionists r bloodthirsty 2 all people against them,even 2 their own people who disagree with them.Gaza's a gateway 4 them to extend their influence to all Arab territories,followed by Western societies History bears witness#IsraeliNewNazism#IsraeliTerrorists#Haaretz#Elonpic.twitter.com/zDwVJC2LFP
Sleeping rough can kill. The cost of living is forcing more people into homelessness. Donate today to help bring people off the streets and into safety. You can make tonight someone's last night on the streets.
Stop the migration-invasion. Remove those not wanted in this country. Eliminate rogue landlords and buy-to-let parasites. Build decent homes for British people.
Colonel Bob Stewart becomes the latest Tory MP to announce he is standing down, his ultra marginal Beckenham seat will be all to play for at the general election. The colourful colonel will be much missed.
Bob Stewart was at least well-known. Any replacement will probably attract fewer votes even before the slide in Con Party fortunes is taken into account.
That it looks as if Beckenham will go Labour in 2024 is of wider significance, and underlines the almost existential crisis of the Conservative Party.
Another fact of straw-in-the-wind significance is that the likely new MP for Beckenham is one Marina Ahmad, a Bangladeshi who moved to the UK when 6 months old. The Great Replacement?…
A word about a favourite drink, though one not had by me for some 20 years.
“I must descant a little upon the mint julep, as it isâĻ one of the most delightful and insinuating potations that was ever invented, and may be drunk with satisfaction when the thermometer is as low as 70 degrees.
There are many varieties, such as those composed of claret, Madeira, &c., but the ingredients of the real Mint Julep are as follows. I learned how to make them and succeeded pretty well. Put into a tumbler about a dozen sprigs of the tender shoots of mint, upon them put a spoonful of white sugar, and equal proportions of peach and common brandy, so as to fill it up one-third, or perhaps a little less.
Then take rasped or pounded ice, and fill up the tumbler. Epicures rub the lip of the tumbler with a piece of fresh pineapple, and the tumbler itself is very often incrusted outside with stalactites of ice.
As the ice melts, you drink.
I once overheard two ladies talking in the room next to me, and one of them said, âWell, if I have a weakness for any one thing, it is for a mint julep!ââa very amiable weakness, and proving her good sense and good taste. They are, in fact, like the American ladiesâirresistible!“
"Defeated Tory candidate Festus Akinbusoye made a hasty exit after the result was declared. He rushed into a black Mercedes waiting outside" Why did the Tories replace Nadine Dorries with Festus Akinbusoye? Are they total morons?https://t.co/U4hsnOmDo1pic.twitter.com/bCYfm27gq9
All part of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: select non-whites to become MPs, TV presenters, actors in TV shows etc. Many of the political ones are actually outright frauds, like that Festus character. Shaun Bailey is another one, and he now sits in the House of Lords as a fake “lord”, “lording it” over British people.
What exactly are the academic and professional qualifications of Festus Akinbusoye? He seems to have wangled his way from being an aide to a tory MP to Police & Crime Commissioner. A case of cronies being lined up to fight ex-tory seats?
Tamworth 36% turnout, Mid-Bed 44%. Tamworth 46% for Lab, Mid-Bed 34%. It means in Tamworth 83.5% DIDN'T vote Labour and in Mid-Bed 85%. People want change but they want real change not archaic monolith so-called mainstream parties. You're an idiot to want a vast Labour majority.
“Festus” (in Mid-Bedfordsire) too; he kept his job (and pay) as Police and Crime Commissioner, just in case he failed to get elected. Those “PCCs” are the biggest wastes of space around (arguably). Most of them seem to be both stupid and corrupt.
As for Andrew Cooper (in Tamworth), marginally better, but struck me, reading about him, as pretty stupid.
Thoughts about the by-elections in Tamworth and Mid-Bedfordshire
Obviously, “seismic” for the Conservative Party. I have blogged previously about the by-elections, but will say a little more know that the results are in.
This is surely the end of the road for the little Indian money-juggler, Sunak, and his Government. So far, he has said nothing, and is still in the Middle East, having been doormatting for Israel and the Jews for the past few days.
Will Sunak now resign? If not, his party will undoubtedly be wiped out next year. If he does step down now, it may give the Con Party a slight chance of at least limiting the damage. That would depend, though, on finding a replacement at least superficially credible.
In my view, neither of the Labour victories yesterday were really votes for Labour as such; they were votes for Labour as the best way of defeating the candidate of the “Conservative” Party.
In Tamworth, the rather poor Con Party candidate still received 40.7% of the vote (Lab 45.8%). In Mid-Bedfordshire, “Festus”, the Con Party candidate, received 31.8% (Lab 34.1%).
Both were fairly close contests, but their importance lies in the fact that both had been considered pretty solid Con Party seats, despite the poor quality of both MPs elected in 2019 and previously.
At present it looks as though the Con Party may be left with about 50 seats after 2024, unless something huge happens in the meantime.
What else? Well, the LibDems performed very badly, especially at Tamworth, where the LD candidate, an Indian barrister, received a vote of only 1.6%.
As far as broadly “nationalist” candidates and parties are concerned, poor in both contests. The barely-nationalist Reform UK, the latest Farage-ist vehicle, scored 5.4% at Tamworth, and 3.7% in Mid-Beds. Underwhelming, looking at the surrounding circumstances.
Reform UK will not get anywhere because it is not social-national. A less globalist Con Party, really. It may even have been set up as a “safety valve” to prevent a social-national party from emerging.
Rump UKIP, and Britain First, both stood at Tamworth. Both lost their deposits.
Conclusion: people generally, even former Con Party voters, want rid of the present Government. The next General Election, sometime in the next 14 months, may be almost existential for the Con Party. 50 MPs, perhaps. That is now a distinct possibility. Unlikely that Con Party will retain more than 100 MPs, even bearing in mind that by-elections are more likely to produce upsets. The turnout in both seats was about half of what it was in 2019.
I detect no real enthusiasm for Labour, though. These two results were both caused by people voting tactically to remove candidates of a party now almost universally despised (and which has been unwilling to face the electorate, despite having selected 2 new PMs, for 4 years).
The “Conservative” Party MPs are saying that it will all be different at the 2024 General Election. Really? Why? Why should it be? I think, on present evidence, that the result will be much the same as yesterday, though with a slight adjustment in the Con Party favour, by reason of higher turnout and because some may have reservations about creating a Labour “elected dictatorship”.
Starmer is just a puppet, a mouthpiece for Israel and the UK/American Jewish lobby.
Silent fireworks are now easily available (this display was in Asda in the U.K.). Please consider using these, pets and wildlife will thank you for it đ pic.twitter.com/MHEzOXOhYZ
— Woodfield Animal Sanctuary (@AnimalWoodfield) October 20, 2023
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1997: we need mass immigration to pay for your pensions
Incidentally, I happened to notice that some idiot (presumably, some Jew or other, going by the pseudonym @joel_a_t) is claiming that I am back on Twitter/”X” as the account above, @RealBlackIrish. Not so, though RealBlackIrish is certainly usually worth reading.
I myself have not posted on Twitter/”X” since a pack of Jews finally managed (via concerted complaint etc) to get my account removed, in 2018.
She was in her 40s, came to us when she was no longer needed by a local trekking centre. We were so glad we could give her a happy retirement. Favour was a beautiful soul who particularly loved foals and her adored Teddy ; they both ate from the same bucket đ pic.twitter.com/O8beff7boV
— Woodfield Animal Sanctuary (@AnimalWoodfield) October 20, 2023
The majority of supporters of the US Democratic Party and Biden do not support the position of the American president in the conflict in the Middle East and advocate humanitarian assistance for the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/KqcvylJXk1
Remarkable overall, especially bearing in mind the Jew-Zionist stranglehold over the American mass media.
đēđŗ The UN reported that as of October 7, about a third of all residential buildings in the Gaza Strip were destroyed, damaged or uninhabitable. pic.twitter.com/pKaRamBUip
“Israel has denied it was responsible for the blast at a hospital in Gaza that the Hamas claims killed at least 500 people and has more trapped under rubble
Video from the hospital showed fire engulfing the building and the hospital’s grounds strewn with bodies, many of them young children. Hundreds of people were reportedly seeking shelter at the hospital at the time of the blast, which Hamas has called a ‘horrific massacre’ and a ‘crime of genocide‘.”
More about the Israeli attack on a hospital. Worth reading not least because Jew-Zionists in the UK, USA etc are still claiming that the Palestinian side was responsible via a “failed rocket” of some sort.
đŽđąđĩđ¸ âWhat we just witnessed in the Baptist Hospital was horrific, horrifying pictures of body parts and dismembered bodies of children, young people, old men and women.â – Al Jazeera correspondent
…because the “American mainstream media” is almost all owned and/or controlled and/or heavily influenced by Jews and/or Jewish interests.
đŽđąđĩđ¸ I wonder if Israelâs âDigital Spokespersonâ who was appointed by Netanyahu earlier this week still has a job after ADMITTING that Israel bombed the Gaza Baptist Hospital in this now DELETED post?
Typical Jewish/Israeli hypocrisy. “It’s heartbreaking that we are forced to destroy hospitals full of suffering people“…
No accident. Deliberate targeting of a hospital. A war crime by any standard.
“The simulacrum of the human“…
đŽđąđĩđ¸ If Israel didnât bomb the Gaza Baptist Hospital, why did the IDF warn the Gaza Baptist Hospital to evacuate the premises before the bombing occurred?
đŽđąđĩđ¸ Theyâre trying to convince you that this MASSIVE EXPLOSION that LEVELED an entire hospital & KILLED 500+ civilians, was just debris from a tiny intercepted Hamas rocket that fell from the sky.
BREAKING: AL-AHLI BAPTIST HOSPITAL MASSACRE – BBC JOURNALIST STATES IT HAD TO BE ISRAEL
BBC's John Donnison: "It's hard to see what else this could be, really, given the size of the explosion, other than an Israeli air strike, or several air strikes" pic.twitter.com/Gxx4evC9DW
Israel is lying through its teeth to blame the hospital massacre in Gaza on Hamas. Neither Hamas has that powerful rocket nor has there been any second explosion of stored explosives to pass on the blame. Netanyahu's murderous hubris has brought this disgrace to Israel.
Most Israelis are not descended from ancient “Israelites” but from Khazars:
Much of the WW2 “holocaust” narrative, used to give legitimacy to the migration-invasion of Palestine by Jews in the mid/late 1940s, is not true, notably the “gas chambers” fable;
The migration-invasion of Palestine by Jews in the mid/late 1940s was neither necessary nor justified. Jews massacred large numbers of Palestinian Arabs, and buried the bodies in mass graves, afterwards stealing the land, houses, apartments etc of the murdered victims.
The “holocaust” narrative is still, 80 years on, being used as cover for the continuing Israeli/Jewish military and other crimes.
Anna Botting gives an outstanding and brave example of how genuine journalism can expose truth from questions.
The accuracy of the questions expose the truth to the lies of the answers.
Jew-Zionist loony and troublemaker pretends to fear “a worldwide pogrom“. I suppose that I should not comment.
Same loony seems to think that the inhuman destruction of the hospital in Gaza should not be noted or criticized because it is a so-called “blood libel” (the mediaeval belief that some Jews killed and/or ate European children).
In any case, even if we leave aside the hospital attack and the 500+ killed there, look at what the Israeli Jews are doing generally in Gaza. Massive destruction. Massive attacks on areas full of civilians, about half of which are children, and a quarter of which are young children under 11 or 12 years of age. Also, the cutting off of water supplies, food supplies, gas, electricity, medical supplies etc.
Meanwhile, in the UK, several people individually (including me) are being prosecuted under a law (Communications Act 2003, s.127) which is so open to abuse (mainly from Jewish/Zionist cabals) that the Law Commission has officially recommended its repeal.
I should add, belatedly, that my alleged sins are said to date from 2020 and 2021— nothing to do with the present Israel/Palestine situation.
Negotiations between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping took place in Beijing
Xi Jinping said that countries are steadily deepening political mutual trust and maintaining close strategic cooperation, Beijing is ready to work with Russia to protect international justice pic.twitter.com/GQzqAoFeXh
Of course, both China and Russia are hardly known for human rights, but then look at the USA: Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Guantanamo Bay, the bombing of civilians (admittedly nowhere near the Israeli level. Israel is beyond the pale).
Russia demands that Israel present satellite images of the explosion in the hospital.
Russia describes the attack on a hospital in Gaza as a âcrime and an act of dehumanization.â
“A Tory candidate standing in the forthcoming by-election once suggested that families using food banks should ‘f*** off’ if they could afford TVs and phones.
Andrew Cooper is standing for the Conservatives in Tamworth, Staffordshire, as voters go to the polls tomorrow after previous MP Chris Pincher was forced to quit after a sleaze scandal.
In an insensitive Facebook post in October 2020, Mr Cooper appeared to question whether people needed to use food banks.“
“...Mr Cooper told the BBC that there needed to be better incentives to get people into work.”
[Incentives? Higher pay?]
[Daily Mail]
The candidate also cannot spell, it seems (“YOR” for “YOUR“).
Sounds like a fairly moronic individual. Director of an engineering company called GEFCO, formerly owned by Russian interests.
In that report, the photo shows him wearing a blue suit with two military medals (in the Russian fashion, too, i.e. the actual medals, not just the ribbons).
The medals appear to be (the photo is not very clear) the equivalent of “campaign” medals, one for Iraq and one for service of at least 30 days with the NATO force in Kosovo. I am not very well-informed about medals, so I may not be quite right about that.
I find the Tamworth by-election hard to call. I think that it must be between Con and Lab. I think that it may be close, but Labour has a pretty good chance here.
What interests me is the question “if both by-elections are lost, will Sunak resign, or at least face calls to resign?”
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DOUBLE BY-ELECTION DEFEAT FOR TORIES
âĻ@SkyNews⊠obtained a memo to Greg Hands outlining concerns that the party's vote share could halve in both Tamworth & Mid Beds by-elections tomorrow, ending in the loss of both seats.
I'm indeed very confident of a Lib Dem win. I've knocked on hundreds of doors where there are very disgruntled Tory voters who'll either stay at home, or vote Lib Dem. Only a handful would even consider voting Labour. The Tories are going to lose, and Labour can't win in Mid Beds
Well, who knows? With a day to go, there seems all to play for, not only for Lab and Con, but for the LibDems too.
At a guess, I too would have looked (pre-2020) at the Cons as the most likely choice by far (Nadine Dorries scored almost 60% in 2019), but people even in very “Conservative” areas are now mightily angry (mixed with apathy in view of the convergence of most Con/Lab policy). Not sure whether those former Con voters will vote Lab, though. I am inclined to think abstention or voting LibDem might be more popular.
The betting markets are often wrong on by-elections. Still, at present the betting exchanges have the Cons odds-on, Labour around 3/1 and LibDems around 5/1.
Sounds plausible, but that LibDem bet at 5/1 could be value.
Craig who was Head of the FCO Section of the Embargo Surveillance Centre and worked full time on stopping Iraqi weapons procurement. And your expertise?
It would be superb, though unexpected at present, to see that horrible bitch accredited to the UK also expelled (or whatever).
I have had a wonderful birthday with my family and friends. Many thanks for all the best wishes. A bit of a strange career change to become a terrorist at 65 đ #freepalestine
I suppose that Murray is referring to having been arrested on the basis of yet another malicious and lying complaint by the evil bastards of the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, the same ones who are behind my politically-motivated trial late next month.
Looks like the pathetic Indian money-juggler and doormat for Israel is on the way out.
More about Tamworth
Further research into the Conservative Party candidate seems to confirm my earlier comments about his medals (Iraq and Kosovo): he enlisted in the Staffordshire Regiment, and served for 6 years. His final rank was Lance Corporal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-cooper-38367816a/?originalSubdomain=uk, and it seems that his specialism was as a sniper.
Cooper himself self-describes as “Progressing from Sniper to Lance Corporal in the Staffordshire Regiment of the British Army. Completing tours such as Iraq, Kenya, Kosovo and Bosnia performing duties including surveillance, target acquisition and official duties in France for Queen Elizabeth II“; and
“Experienced, effective and diligent Railway Engineer with a strong track record in the sector following on from a distinguished military career. I specialise in railway maintenance and asset management but also have significant experience of railway engineering projects.”
Cooper having been a railway engineer for 17 years, I should think that he does a lot more good in that field than he might as an MP.
Well, there it is. We shall know the result late tomorrow, or early on Friday.
I think that Labour will win at Tamworth; not so sure about who will win in Mid-Beds. The bookmakers prefer Labour at Tamworth, and the Cons in Mid-Bedfordshire.
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This could be one of the biggest scandals Iâve ever uncovered. The actual inventor of the Lithium-ion battery said that they were unsuitable for mass rollout due to fire hazard. Most of the UKâs future energy strategy is based on something that is dangerous: My column: https://t.co/FQgeKqvqEA
FAZ: Russia is using the situation in Israel to discredit the United States and distract attention from Ukraine
After the Hamas attack, the Russian President, on the one hand, spoke out for Israelâs right to defend itself, on the other hand, he condemned the blockade of Gaza,âĻ pic.twitter.com/7MW16BA6KS
“FAZ: Russia is using the situation in Israel to discredit the United States and distract attention from Ukraine.
After the Hamas attack, the Russian President, on the one hand, spoke out for Israelâs right to defend itself, on the other hand, he condemned the blockade of Gaza, comparing it to Leningrad, and confirmed his commitment to the two-state principle.
Despite the fact that Russia has good contacts in the region and called for de-escalation of the conflict, Western countries in the UN Security Council rejected Moscow’s proposal. Frankfurter Allgemeine explains this by saying that Russia has intentions to use the new conflict to its advantage. The newspaper points out that the Russian president calls the situation in Israel âa striking example of the failure of US policy in the Middle Eastâ and accuses Washington of not taking the âfundamental interests of the Palestinian peopleâ into account.
In addition, according to the German newspaper, the Kremlin is using the conflict to divert attention from Ukraine. âThe prospect that Israel will now receive Western weapons and ammunition that Kyiv might otherwise receive is emboldening the power apparatus and the mediaâ in Russia.
Moscow also benefits from rising oil prices, which fill government finances.“
Ukraine will be left without US help if the disputes are not resolved in Congress
Confusion in the US parliament could create serious problems for Taiwan, Ukraine and Israel. They risk being left without supplies of precision weapons if the US House of Representatives does notâĻ pic.twitter.com/DwEdNMrZDu
America has been condoning Israeli war crimes for years, recalls Scott Ritter
It is not unusual that the Israeli military bombed a hospital in Gaza, killing 500 people. Such tactics are consistent with the IDF's "Mowing the Grass" doctrine, which involves disproportionateâĻ pic.twitter.com/DEPgeFNy2j
“America has been condoning Israeli war crimes for years, recalls Scott Ritter It is not unusual that the Israeli military bombed a hospital in Gaza, killing 500 people.
Such tactics are consistent with the IDF’s “Mowing the Grass” doctrine, which involves disproportionate violence against not only militants, but also civilians, including children, US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter said in an interview with the Judging Freedom YouTube channel.
At the same time, he said, Washington is in no hurry to introduce an embargo, stop or at least criticize Tel Aviv, whose army is actually committing war crimes with the help of American weapons. Moreover, the United States has been turning a blind eye to this fact for many years. âWe know what Israel is doing. We support what Israel is doing, so any talk in the US about compassion for the Palestinian population is one hundred percent false. We have never sympathized with the Palestinians. We have always supported Israel’s perspective and strategic goals, even if they include the “Cut the Grass” policy,â Ritter emphasized.”
Tamworth constituency has a fairly ancient history (on various different boundaries and names), going back to the 13th Century. Its most famous MP was Sir Robert Peel, who represented the town from 1830-1850 (he was MP for three other places from 1809-1830), and who was Prime Minister 1834-1835 and 1841-1846: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peel.
The most recent MP, the appropriately-named Chris Pincher, was rather less distinguished, having been finally forced to resign in 2023 after several years of having been accused, then eventually adjudged guilty, of having sexually molested men, including MPs, in bars.
Looking at his Wikipedia entry, it seems that Pincher only became an MP in 2010, at age 41, and had done nothing very interesting prior to that (though Wikipedia is not infallible). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pincher.
Tamworth, on its present boundaries, was held by Labour from 1997 (when the present seat was brought into being) until 2010; Pincher failed to secure the seat in 2005, but took it in 2010 with a vote-share of 45.8%. Thereafter, his percentage vote increased at every election, peaking in 2019 at 66.3%.
At that 2019 election, Labour Co-op came in second, but poorly, on 23.7%. The other 4 candidates were very much also-rans, only the LibDems retaining their deposit (with 5.3%).
The by-election will be held on 19 October 2023, and has attracted 9 candidates: Conservative, Labour, LibDem, Green, UKIP, Reform (the latest Farage vehicle), Britain First, Monster Raving Loony, and an independent. See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-66864806 for candidates’ details.
The Government is obviously deeply unpopular, and also seen as useless. However, Labour is not much liked either. There may be protest vote possibilities, but the main object may be to send a message to the Government, and I suppose that a vote for Labour is most likely to cause the Government pain, if it results in the by-election ending with a Labour win.
Hard for me to call. I have only once even driven through the town, and that was long ago. Not an area I know. Overall, it seems to me that the LibDems are too marginal here to have much chance, so it is between Con and Lab. To elect the Labour candidate would require a huge swing, but I think that it must be possible, as public feeling now stands.
If Labour can pull it off at Tamworth, the 2024 General Election will look sealed. The over-used word “seismic” comes to mind.
So we turn to Mid-Bedfordshire.
Nadine Dorries had to be almost forced out of the seat she had held since 2005, and which had provided her with a good income; both salary and very inflated expenses. She was lucky to have avoided prosecution. A very stupid, entirely uneducated, but withal cunning woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Dorries.
The by-election, to be held on 19 October 2023, the same day as that at Tamworth, has attracted no less than 13 candidates, mostly minor or crank.
Nadine Dorries scored 59.8% at the 2019 General Election (Labour 21.7%, LibDems 12.6%).
Mid-Bedfordshire has been a Conservative Party seat since the 1920s.
This would normally be a shoo-in for the Conservative Party candidate, but several factors make that less than likely. Anger at the freeloading and fraudulent behaviour of Nadine Dorries. The general anger at the present Government. Perhaps also the fact that the Con candidate is a careerist black: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festus_Akinbusoye.
The Conservative Party candidate is presently Police and Crime Commissioner for Bedfordshire, only came to the UK at 13 from his native Nigeria, and is a Mormon.
The opinion polls have Con and Lab neck and neck, with the LibDems not far behind. Tactical voting may play the decisive role, but does that mean anti-Con voters voting Labour, or voting LibDem?
Reform, the Farage vehicle, is polling around 7%, as is county council chairman Gareth Mackey, standing as Independent.
Very hard to call, but Labour may just have the edge.
I suppose that the other point is that Sunak may be pressured to stand down as Con Party leader if one contest is lost (or only if both are lost?).
[Update, 22 January 2024: in the end, Labour won both by-elections.
— Woodfield Animal Sanctuary (@AnimalWoodfield) October 7, 2023
What a difference a week makes. It is standing room only for Angela Rayner at 11.50am today at the Labour Party Conference. This is in stark contrast with the half-empty hall at last weekâs Conservative Party conference. pic.twitter.com/lRIMio2BNX
Whatever may be said of Labour or Angela Rayner, that tweet is surely correct. The 2024 General Election is Labour’s to lose. The Conservative Party is just dissolving. I notice that evil sociopath Chris Grayling is now not going to stand for re-election.
Having said that, I see many white-haired and grey-haired people at that Labour show. All System parties are dying, and have few young people supporting them.
This is something that in any other period in history would've made me look towards Labour at the next GE.
But I know that no matter how much cheap housing they build, I'm never going to be a priority to get one.
Exactly. A million a year coming in, and only a few hundred thousand people (mostly real Brits) leaving (for Australia, New Zealand etc) each year. Result— misery.
Actually, many of the replies to the above tweet show how unthinking the self-describing “Left” pseudo-socialists are. They really think that importing millions of backward persons has no effect on housing provision etc; either that, or they do not care. They really should be regarded and treated as outright traitors.
The only survivor of her family. Tala Abu Daqqa, 11 years old, lived her whole life under a brutal siege. Survived 5 devastating wars on besieged Gaza and lost her entire family today after their house was targeted by an israeli airstrike.#GazaUnderAttack#IsraeliCrimespic.twitter.com/cfJDoVrlqA
Israeli warplanes carry out a series of airstrikes targeting civilian homes in the town of Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip.#GazaUnderAttackpic.twitter.com/0AsDqtek8q
“He must be desperate or in an awful state to go to such pains to try to come into the country that way.“
Or not able to enter legitimately, having no right to enter.
Brainwashed.
Bengal cat Tilly was well known in Gosport and became an honorary police officer – and now ÂŖ2,700 has been raised to build a statue in her memory https://t.co/RxZ28ZS0vc
Well, looking at Downing Street this evening, does anyone now doubt what embedded group is pulling the strings of both the “Conservative” and “Labour” parties?
According to the Turkish sources, due to dwindling stocks of Iron Dome missiles, the Israeli army is not supplying ammunition to some units armed with the complex, with the exception of three batteries in Tel Aviv, one battery in Jerusalem and one battery in Netivot in southernâĻ pic.twitter.com/E8957ykGAJ
“According to the Turkish sources, due to dwindling stocks of Iron Dome missiles, the Israeli army is not supplying ammunition to some units armed with the complex, with the exception of three batteries in Tel Aviv, one battery in Jerusalem and one battery in Netivot in southern Israel.
The seven batteries do not supply any ammunition or fire, and they only have a limited number of anti-aircraft guided missiles in case Palestinian missiles fly towards critical targets. This explains the fact that launches on Ashkelon, Ashdod and Sderot cause virtually no opposition.”
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah are sending reinforcements to the Golan Heights. The Syrian army and air defense have also increased their level of combat readiness. In turn, the Pentagon is also increasing the level of combat readiness throughout the MiddleâĻ pic.twitter.com/Uk6G8bpx54
In the situation of escalation around the Gaza Strip, Russia is advocating for a ceasefire and the holding of essential negotiations, said the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasiliy Nebenzya after the UN Security Council meeting on the situationâĻ pic.twitter.com/mDaYxxIPTr
Owen Jones' young interlocutor could have cited the social science, which shows that multiculturalism does indeed have its downsides. pic.twitter.com/uc0D2nrpdm
That was Owen Jones joining in the Jew-Zionist-led msm attack on me 7 years ago, immediately after my wrongful and (as it now transpires) unlawful disbarment. He also colluded with depressive sex pest John Woodcock MP (now, and risibly, “Lord Walney”) to get me blocked by people on Twitter.
Woodcock/”Walney” was at one time the Chair of Labour Friends of Israel; Jones is part-Jew (either quarter or half: see my assessment of him above).
If conservatives and libertarians desire liberty, their priority should be opposing diversity.
Multicultural societies are the least free: with diversity comes more violent crime, terrorism and gang activity, requiring greater surveillance and restrictions on liberty.âĻ pic.twitter.com/pmbHC96LpE
I double dare you to watch this video and then repost itđ. You know how YOU KNOW THIS DOCTOR IS ON TO SOMETHINGđ¤? They yanked his medical license for finding this outđŗ. Now YOU knowđ pic.twitter.com/D6wVkmkCKE
This is what happens if you try to give political representation to opposition to mass immigration in a white country: smeared, debanked, excommunicated, establishment media campaign to ban your party, and if none of that is successful, someone might just try and assassinate you. https://t.co/nf5yqChxnR
The SNP crashed from 44.2% in 2019 to 27.5%. To what extent that reflects hostility to the former MP, to the “nationalist” SNP having a Pakistani leader, to the Sturgeon scandal, and/or to the SNP’s failing record in government, is hard to say. Whether the result also reflects disenchantment with the idea of breaking away from the UK is also hard to say. Maybe a mixture of all of the foregoing.
For me, the fall in Conservative Party support from 15% to 3.9% is significant. The previous lowest point had been in 2005 (8.4%). A straw in the wind re. the 2024 General Election. At present, it looks as if only the safest Conservative seats (in England) will be held next year.
Turnout was only 37.2%, scarcely more than half of that in 2019. People are aware that the electoral system is just a rigged con-trick most of the time.
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đŠđĒ This week @elonmusk brought attention to the fact that the German government is supporting NGO's transporting thousands of migrants from the Mediterranean to Germany.
The head of one of these NGO's openly says his activism is motivated by a desire to wipe out white people. pic.twitter.com/vKSVI8uirt
đŦđ§ According to a poll from King's College London, one in three British people believe the great replacement is happening.
By the standards of liberal discourse, this means one third of the British public are far-right extremists, holding a view that is never represented inâĻ pic.twitter.com/RKFkuLs6Pf
“According to a poll from King’s College London, one in three British people believe the great replacement is happening. By the standards of liberal discourse, this means one third of the British public are far-right extremists, holding a view that is never represented in mainstream media and censored off most social media. Despite the heavy censorship and vilification of people who hold this view, people see the reality of rapidly changing demographics in their homelands.“
Almost half the people polled disagreed. Are they blind, or just stupid?!
đ¸đĒ This week, the Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson addressed the nation on the "unprecedented" rise in gang-related violence, calling on the military to assist the police in a situation that is increasingly out of control.
“This week, the Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson addressed the nation on the “unprecedented” rise in gang-related violence, calling on the military to assist the police in a situation that is increasingly out of control. Kristersson blamed âirresponsible immigration policyâ and âfailed integration” for this worsening crisis, stating: “Political naivety and cluelessness have brought us to this point. Irresponsible immigration policy and failed integration have brought us to this point.
Exclusion and parallel societies feed the criminal gangs, providing space for them to ruthlessly recruit children and train future killers.”
11 people were shot dead last month alone in Sweden, the second highest ever recorded in a single month.
Sweden’s upsurge in violent crime coincided with a large rise in inward migration in the 2010s. Sexual assault also rose under the previous self-labelled “feminist government”. A report in 2018 found that 8 in 10 ‘stranger’ rapes were carried out by migrants.”
“@LozzaFox is restricted on what he can and cannot say on twitter by his bail conditions. The police are using their powers to control what is said on social media. When they release a rapist on bail, are they restricting them from going near anyone else? This is deep state control of free speech, itâs dangerous, itâs unacceptable, and the police need to be reigned in on this before it goes any further.“
Alison Chabloz was likewise gagged. I myself am on unconditional bail, and so am restricted only by the need to avoid any perceived contempt of court prior to my expected trial in about 6 weeks’ time.
I think that we can be 99% sure what (((interests))) are pulling the strings of “controlled opposition” GB News, while hiding behind a maze of corporate mechanisms.
đēđĻ A video with Ukrainian military commissars discussing prices for draft dodgers was leaked to the Internet pic.twitter.com/caAON4UTgu
Understandably, few Ukrainians now want to join, or be compelled to join, the failing Kiev-regime military effort.
Switzerland will pay Ukrainian refugees to leave – SwissInfo.
The government concluded that it would be cheaper for the state to encourage refugees to leave the country voluntarily than to continue paying them benefits and delaying departure after the expiration of temporaryâĻ pic.twitter.com/zrRSWW9Q4A
The German government has forecast an economic decline for the country of 0.4 percent. The Russian economy is expected to grow by 2.8% by the end of the year. Keep it up, Scholz, Burbok and company!" Medvedev pic.twitter.com/t8diI5tdZH
All decisions on the admission of new countries to the EU will be made only on the basis of merit, there will be no concessions â said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. pic.twitter.com/2iRw0Th0kO
The Kremlin is establishing âdeep and strongâ cooperation with countries that are hostile to the West, including China, North Korea, Iran â Foreign Affairs
Western analysts believe that portraying Russia as a ârogue stateâ is a failed strategy, since this makes the RussianâĻ pic.twitter.com/agb5OLur96
“The Kremlin is establishing âdeep and strongâ cooperation with countries that are hostile to the West, including China, North Korea, Iran â Foreign Affairs [magazine].
Western analysts believe that portraying Russia as a ârogue stateâ is a failed strategy, since this makes the Russian Federation a valuable partner for countries that were previously âundecidedâ on which side to take, and also strengthened relations with former allies.“
Ukraine's $24 billion aid package no longer safe – The Washington Post
Due to the chaos caused by the removal of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the Biden administration is now deciding whether to seek a large sum for Kiev or to implement a smaller, short-term package ofâĻ pic.twitter.com/NvGoHcMLY0
“Ukraine’s $24 billion aid package no longer safe – The Washington Post Due to the chaos caused by the removal of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the Biden administration is now deciding whether to seek a large sum for Kiev or to implement a smaller, short-term package of measures, according to the Washington Post.
According to the high-ranking official, the new strategy of supporting Ukraine will largely depend on who will become the next speaker and what kind of agreement they will be able to make with him, the article states.
Earlier this week, while announcing a new $5.3 billion aid package to Kiev, EU foreign policy and security chief Josep Borrell said the bloc was unable to compensate Ukraine for the amount of aid the United States had suspended.”
The President of the Russian Federation announced yesterday that the Burevestnik rocket had been successfully tested. This is a nuclear-powered global-range cruise missile. A rocket like no other in the world. Russian scientists and constructors, who started working back inâĻ pic.twitter.com/cCvPEq9NeR
“The President of the Russian Federation announced yesterday that the Burevestnik rocket had been successfully tested. This is a nuclear-powered global-range cruise missile. A rocket like no other in the world. Russian scientists and constructors, who started working back in Soviet times, made another step forward.”
Well, this week I scored a convincing victory over political journalist John Rentoul: he scored only 2/10, whereas my score was 8/10. I did not know the answers to questions 5 and 10. I admit that I guessed the answer to question no.1, but that still counts.
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He is nasty Iâve heard so many people say heâs nasty mothers who lost sons in Afghanistan he was truly awful to them
Now, Biden is demented; back then, in 2019, he was just a very obviously unpleasant person. Were he not a politician, notunder public scrutiny, and were he in, say, an Irish-American bar somewhere, one could imagine him viciously assaulting his interlocutor.
"We have a corrupt and compromised president, rogue Joe Biden dragging us into World War III on behalf of a nation that paid him millions and millions of dollars in bribes " – Donald Trump
Amid the ongoing legal investigation against Trump, his lawyer wants cameras in theâĻ pic.twitter.com/M8gWN7Sgzo
The Harry Formerly Known as Prince, and Meghan Mulatta, are a pair of one-trick ponies. They are rapidly becoming yesterday’s news, except as a kind of joke.
Electricity prices rise in Germany without Russian gas â Die Welt In the coming years, the cost of electricity in Germany will remain high and may even rise. By 2025, electricity consumption is expected to increase in Germany, and gas is still used for its production. pic.twitter.com/7NSfqRuiQA
So, again, who is hurt by sanctions against Russia? The consumers and taxpayers of western and central Europe. Not Russia or Russians. The gas produced in Russia will still be sold elsewhere in the world, and Russian citizens are, if anything, better off than they were before the sanctions were imposed.
The Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine said that food exports from Ukraine decreased by at least 30% after the termination of the grain deal. pic.twitter.com/vJZtAXPN40
Another crack in Ukrainian-Polish friendship â Wprost
Poland's decision not to import Ukrainian grain outraged the Ukrainian prime minister. âThis is an unfriendly and populist move that will hit global food security and Ukraineâs economy hard,â wrote Denys Shmyhal.
Ukraine will increase the tariff for the transportation of Russian oil through its section of the Druzhba pipeline by 23.5 percent
From August 1, Russia will pay 4 euros more for pumping each ton of oil in the direction of Slovakia and Hungary – the tariff will increase to 21âĻ pic.twitter.com/g8qCa4nwi4
A strange “war”, in which Ukraine (Kiev regime) allows transit of Russian oil exports through its territory (at a price) and, until last week, Russia allowed the Kiev regime to export grain.
Destruction of the artillery arsenal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Chudnov, Zhytomyr region pic.twitter.com/pErEOuUcZH
Two 9-ton furnaces have been restored at the Azovelectrostal plant in Mariupol âThe territory has been demined and cleared of destroyed structures. An initial technical and economic audit was carried out. The backbone of the team has been preserved – 250 technical staff," theâĻ pic.twitter.com/bqKupbFUSF
Is it not the other way around? Whatever. The fact is that there is little clear blue water between the two major System parties, a fact many voters have started to realize.
Map of the attacks of the Crimean peninsula by drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on this one pic.twitter.com/qzkPMs7LJs
I don't know how ANYONE can think it's right for Jack Monroe bootstrapcook to solicit donations under false pretences, refuse to prove where cash has gone & block donors who ask for transparency. Every day, she looks less like just a grifter & more like a serial fraudster https://t.co/J5tuoczDPa
As I predicted on the blog a couple of days ago, this was a “battle of the apathies”. Complete “Conservative” omnishambles meets Labour mediocrity (both on the national and constituency levels).
The successful Conservative candidate drew a veil over both the non-performance of the Rishi Sunak government and the egregiously poor behaviour (and capabilities) of ex-MP “Boris” Johnson; the candidate just kept hitting at the ridiculous Sadiq Khan ULEZ scheme [“Ultra Low Emission Zone”], and saying very little else about anything.
In a sense that concentration on ULEZ shows how meaningless the supposed “democracy” of the UK now is. The ULEZ idea and policy was first mooted by none other than “Boris”-idiot and the Conservative Party in London. Quite apart from that, the new Con Party MP, one Steve Tuckwell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Tuckwell] will be able to exercise precisely zero influence over the ULEZ scheme and Sadiq Khan.
The Labour Party candidate, Danny Beales, was arguably not a good candidate in the particular constituency, an outer London suburb. Gay, a former councillor in inner-city Camden, and a graduate of the London School of Economics.
That said, the result was close— 495 votes decided it. Both the LibDem voters (526, fifth place), and/or the Green Party voters (893, third place), had they voted tactically, could have prevented the narrow Con Party victory. Neither Greens nor LibDems had a chance of winning, and both lost their deposits, along with the other 13 candidates, all of whom could be described as either “minor” or “joke” candidates.
The actor Laurence Fox, for Reclaim, did well, in a minor way, to come fourth, not far behind the Green. Still, this was really between Con Party (13,965 votes, 45.2%) and Labour (13,470, 43.6%). The other 15 parties and independents only scored 11.2% between them.
It does puzzle me why LibDem voters in particular did not all vote tactically. Some did, plainly, looking at previous election results where the LibDem vote was higher by far (peaking at 20% in 2010, though only 6.3% in 2019), but not enough.
Why did 526 LibDems bother to trot down to vote, knowing that their candidate had no chance? Even if they hated both Con and Lab, and so were unwilling to vote for either, why bother to vote? As someone said of golf, “a good walk spoiled“.
So a Conservative Party win, though scarcely a ringing endorsement.
Turnout was about 2/3 of that in 2019, and indeed the previous elections. I am assuming from that that many former Conservative voters, in what was since creation in 2010 a fairly safe Conservative seat (a new seat on these boundaries), just threw up their hands in disgust at both main System parties, could find no other home for their votes, and so “voted with their feet”— abstained.
The successful Labour candidate is 25, once again (like the Labour candidate at Uxbridge) gay (seems that it is almost compulsory now in the Labour Party), and has only worked for 18 months since leaving university. Interestingly, those 18 months were spent working at the Confederation of British Industry, a more usual place in which to find young Conservatives, surely?
Also, he spent some months in 2019 and 2020 working with Wes Streeting, the “centrist” (Labour Friends of Israel) MP. So it seems that Keir Mather will fit easily into the Keir Starmer Labour Party. Not much else is yet known about him: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Mather.
Why did Mather win what had previously been regarded as a safe Conservative seat? As at Uxbridge, the implication is surely obvious: former Conservative voters were appalled at both major System parties, and so preferred to stay home rather than vote Labour (or elsewhere).
Mather scored 46% of the overall vote, as against 34.3% scored by his Con Party opponent.
Since the creation of the seat in 2010, the Conservative Party had won easily all elections, scoring between 49.4% (2010) and 60.3% (2019). Labour, however, had scored only around 25% of the vote, except in 2017, under Corbyn, when the Labour Party candidate managed over 34%.
The key here, as with Uxbridge, lies in the turnout. The by-election turnout was only 44.8%, whereas in 2019 it was 71.7% (and in previous elections, not dissimilar).
The implication, again, as at Uxbridge, is that former Conservative Party voters, in a formerly safe Conservative area, simply decided not to vote.
There was obviously a degree of tactical voting at Selby; the LibDem vote went down from 8.6% to 3.3%; without tactical voting, the result would have been much closer but not, in my view, different.
Incidentally, the LibDems only managed sixth place, no doubt because many otherwise LibDems voted Labour. The third place went to the Greens, whose candidate was the only one of the minor candidates to save his deposit (5.1%).
I was interested to see that a “Yorkshire Party” candidate, one Mike Jordan, who failed to fill in his nomination papers properly and so was a blank space (not even “Independent”) on the ballot paper, yet managed to score 4.2%. Not bad in the circumstances, and maybe a sign that localism, or at least regionalism, may be resurgent as central government falters and fails.
The Selby contest had other things in common with that at Uxbridge— contempt for the former MP (at Selby, he had stepped down apparently in order to damage Sunak and his party, and after having been passed over for a peerage); the fact that both seats were 2010 creations on their present boundaries; and of course the fact that the public are both despairing and angry at the overall non-performance by Sunak and his Cabinet. Mass immigration, migration invasion, cost of living increases, inflation, crime, NHS defaults etc.
The result was that Labour won at Selby, and very nearly won at Uxbridge, only by default. There is no enthusiasm at all for the Labour Party and its non-policies (basically the same as the Conservative Party policies), but equally there is no enthusiasm (and no respect) for Sunak and his Cabinet of (mainly) non-Brits (Indians, a black or half-caste or two, the odd Jew). These were by-elections. The ruling party is inevitably on the back foot.
Starmer’s strategy seems to be not to rock the boat now that Labour is ahead in the opinion polls. It is hard for Sunak and Con Party to score a hit on Labour’s battleship simply because Labour policy now so closely mirrors that of the Con Party. Almost indistinguishable. If the Conservative Party attacks Labour policy, it is to a large extent criticizing its own policy. In a sense, brilliant… but also dispiriting and pointless.
The LibDem candidate, Sarah Dyke [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Dyke] won easily, as predicted. I blogged briefly about her a couple of days ago. Her vote-share of 56.4%, as against the Conservative candidate’s 26.2%, mirrors in reverse almost exactly the result at the 2019 General Election.
Third place went to the Greens, with a fairly sizeable vote (10.2%). Reform UK beat Labour and three minor candidates for fourth place, but still lost the deposit, with 3.4%.
In a mostly affluent and bucolic area of this sort, Labour has little chance, and its vote has dropped below 5% in the past, though it scored 17.2% in 2017 (under Corbyn) and 12.9% in 2019. It is clear that, realising that Labour had no chance, former Labour voters voted tactically at the by-election, and that Labour’s 2.6% vote reflected that.
Turnout was, as at the other by-elections yesterday, pathetic— 44.23%. That compares to 75.6% in 2019, and turnouts in previous election which only once dropped below 70%, and which once exceeded 82%.
The LibDems held Somerton and Frome until 2015, so were always going to have a chance in the seat, once the “Con Coalition” of 2010-2015 faded from immediate memory, though the damage from that was still evident in 2019, at which election the LibDems scored only 26.2% (exactly the same as the Conservative Party vote at yesterday’s by-election).
The conclusion is pretty clear: the Conservative voters of 2019 either stayed home yesterday, or switched to the LibDems, Former Labour voters switched to LibDem to hit out at the Sunak misgovernment.
As at the other two by-elections, the contempt many apparently felt for the ex-MP, Warburton, was certainly another important factor, though perhaps not the most important.
Overall conclusion as to the main System parties in the light of the by-elections
The LibDems only have a chance to gain seats in rural/affluent parts of southern or south-western England. I do not see them recovering in any big way elsewhere.
The Conservative Party government is toast, surely. It will have to fall back on its hard core, mostly fairly comfortably-off homeowners aged 70+.
475 seats for Labour. That is “elected dictatorship”.
I just tried the “user-defined poll” at Electoral Calculus. My guesses resulted in only 61 seats for the Conservative Party.
What about Labour? Well, I detect no real enthusiasm for Labour, which means that there is every chance that the new MP for Selby may only be an MP for about a year, and will then have to find a less well-paid and less interesting (?) job.
More seriously, the only way that Indian money-juggler Rishi Sunak could claw back some electoral support would be to STOP the boats, CUT BACK the main (i.e. “legal”) mass immigration, DEPORT hundreds of thousands, RENATIONALIZE water, rail and possibly the energy utilities, and start to really bat for Britain.
Those 2019 Conservative Party voters might return to the Con fold, but only if they see some action; words are played-out.
Still, none of the three by-election seats are natural Labour territory.
Pretty hard, though, for an Indian whose Cabinet is mainly non-white, or Jewish, and who worked for the predatory Goldman Sachs bankers (and so is a globalist “libertarian” by instinct).
It seems to me a 50-50 chance that the Conservative Party MPs will ditch Sunak before the next general election, but if they do, who on Earth can they try to present to the public as a credible leader?
As for attacking Starmer, the only things that might work would be to use American-style personal attacks, and to focus on his complete mendacity, his broken promises, on his “taking the knee” to the “Black Lives Matter” thugs, and his being completely in the pocket of the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby (the only thing is— so are the “Conservatives”…).
Conclusion, then— Labour will probably win in 2024 by default, but if some real movement on the above-designated issues were to happen, it might be a different story…
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there have been 16 by elections since the last general election.
starmerâs labour has won about 6 of them.
6 out of 16, against the worst government in living memory, while the media gives you the easiest possible time? embarrassing to be honest.
Biden: “What was that slogan? Bread, land, and peace? No, my fellow-Americans, it was ice-cream and war!“…
Germany to send 10 Leopard 1A5 tanks to Ukraine
The Ministry of Defense of Germany announced the next package of "military assistance" for Ukraine. It includes the first 10 Leopard 1A5 tanks, more than 100 are expected in total.
Tonight, the Russian Navy carried out another successful attack on facilities where terrorist attacks on the Russian Federation were being prepared using drones , the Ministry of Defense announced.
The statement adds that Russian troops hit the command post of the 79th AirborneâĻ
President Vladimir Putin accused Poland of having territorial ambitions on the territory of the former USSR and said that any aggression against Russia's neighbor and close ally Belarus will be considered aggression against Russia.
At night, the Russian Armed Forces delivered another strike with high-precision weapons at facilities where terrorist attacks against Russia were being prepared using strike drones. The target of the strike was achieved, all designated objects were hit – Russian Defense Ministry
After the backlash by Tories of newly-elected 25 year-old #KierMather I see this Observer piece about 29 year-old life peer Charlotte Owen is doing the rounds again.
Picture by me of Downing Street staff (Owen, centre) on the day that Johnson resigned: https://t.co/krUhOIqfCO
There are really only two realistic possibilities: either she is Johnson’s secret daughter (one of them) or she was being screwed by him. It now turns out that she was only a kind of temp anyway, covering the job usually done by a recent mother. Maternity cover.
Britain is so screwed, it is hard to believe.
What about the House of Lords? At least the guy in Selby was elected. Ross Kempsell and Charlotte Owen were put in the Lords by disgraced former PM Boris Johnson for seemingly having achieve relatively little in their short careers, yet they're set fair for life. https://t.co/vjnEeWfEN8
— Alasdair Murray – the Recruitment Copywriter (@RecruitmentCopy) July 21, 2023
As for “Baroness” Chapman, she was an MP for 9 years (2010-2019), and then (having been voted out as MP) was elevated to the Lords on Starmer’s nomination, having previously done sweet FA by way of work in her life except a short time as the constituency manager for ghastly careerist MP Alan Milburn. So she can shut up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Chapman.
She is the mother of children, and that (and presumably being a “home-maker”) is a very honourable estate, but it is not the “real life experience” of work in the outer world, as per that clip.
As for Johnny Mercer MP, I have found him a big disappointment as MP, but I think that he can claim a great deal more “life experience” than “Baroness” Chapman, let alone that epicene little creature who is now the MP for Selby and Ainsty.
Many people on Twitter are incredibly ignorant and at the same time very dogmatic. I just saw a tweet saying that the Selby creature is “2-3 years older than Margaret Roberts [i.e. Margaret Thatcher] when she became an MP...”.
In fact, wrong, and on two counts. First, Margaret Roberts was born in 1925, and became an MP in 1959, shortly before her 34th birthday. She had married in 1951, so fought her first successful first election as Margaret Thatcher and not Margaret Roberts as claimed.
Well, there it is. Effete, epicene little “Labour MP” is going to support Starmer, Rachel Reeves etc in continuing the policy (policies?) laid down by the Con Coalition of David Cameron-Levita, Theresa May, “Boris”-idiot, Liz Truss, and now the Indian money-juggler, Sunak.
Anyone who thinks that Starmer-Labour will be in any way an improvement on the “Conservative” omnishambles of a Government is sadly mistaken; in fact, deluded.
Actually, listening to Keir Mather there, I think that “Lord Charles” would have sounded more credible.
[Lord Charles, with Ray Alan]
To be honest, my first thought on seeing and hearing Keir Mather is that he seemed to be in need of a good kick.
The fact Mhairi Black was ever elected by the losers, wastrels, desperadoes & ne'er do wells in the Yes favelas of Paisley tells you everything you need to know about how fucked Scotland has become after wasted years of the calamitous SNP #shutdowntheshortbreadsenate
— Rt Dishonourable Damian Thirsty (@damian_thirsty) July 21, 2023
The German army has ordered several hundred thousand artillery shells in agreement with "Rheinmetall" as it works to replenish the stocks emptied by the war in Ukraine, the company announced.
"Rheinmetall" announced that it received a new framework contract for the supply of 155âĻ
The brutal and corrupt Zelensky regime is having to use press-gangs to enforce conscription, there are no more volunteers, and the Kiev regime is running out of cannon-fodder. The front is almost a death sentence; many are deserting.
Head of the Crimean Parliament: We must liberate Nikolaev, Kherson and Odesa HE EMPHASIZED: THERE ARE NO NEGOTIATIONS WITH KIEV – WE MUST TAKE THE ENTIRE COAST OF THE BLACK SEA FROM HIM pic.twitter.com/SWgBUNrWNx
The by-election was triggered by the standing-down of the Conservative Party MP David Warburton, following multiple allegations (some admitted) of misconduct: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Warburton].
In 2019, Warburton received nearly 56% of the vote, with the LibDems in second place on 26%.
Labour has no chance here and, on paper, this would normally be another easy win for the Con Party, but the manner of departure of the last MP, added to the anger across the country aimed at the Con Party government of Sunak, may mean a LibDem by-election upset, particularly as this is merely a by-election.
In 2019, only 4 candidates stood (Con, Lab, LibDem, and Green); at the by-election, there are also Christian People’s Alliance, UKIP, Reform UK, and an Independent.
The bookies’ favourite is the LibDem, a lady from a local farming family who is also a local councillor. She seems to hit all the buttons, even the sex one, being female after the defaults of male MP Warburton (sex pest allegations, and connected cocaine abuse).
The bookmakers have the LibDem, Sarah Dyke, as even-money favourite, with the Con Party candidate on 20-1, and Labour at 250-1. The rest are not even quoted. You could probably get 1000-1 against any of them.
Experience shows that bookmakers are a poor guide to by-election results, but the LibDem looks pretty sure to win this, especially when many Labour supporters will be voting tactically, and many former Con voters displaying apathy and/or unwillingness to vote for the present Government.
The by-election of course triggered by the standing-down of “Boris” Johnson.
The 2019 election attracted 12 candidates, because the seat of the sitting Prime Minister is always popular. “Boris”-idiot won with 52.6% in 2019, with Labour garnering 37.6%. Only one other candidate had a saved deposit (the LibDem, on 6.3%).
The by-election has 17 candidates, among them the TV actor, Laurence Fox, for Reclaim. The bookmakers only rate two seriously— Con and Labour. The Labour Party candidate is quoted at just better than even-money, with Conservative Party candidate at 9/1. The Labour price has not altered much, but the Conservative has gone out from an opening 3/1 to 9/1, and the LibDems are now at 1000/1. The third-placed runner is now Reform UK (but only on 300/1).
“A nurse sitting with her husband drinking coffee said: âThe biggest issue is ULEZ. Iâve retired from the NHS after 49 years. What about the carers who canât make visits any more?â
People in Uxbridge tend not to conform to media stereotypes, for example that the NHS is in an unbearable state of crisis. The nurse said: âIf I had my time again Iâd do the same job again. I love my job.â As she walks round Uxbridge she is often greeted by her former patients.
How will she vote in the by-election? âUp until Jeremy Corbyn I was a Labour person,â she said. âLabour looked after the schools, the hospitals and the elderly.
âBut the party has changed now and Iâm afraid I have no confidence in them. Keir Starmer wouldnât come out and actually go against Sadiq Khan [on ULEZ] in a television interview, when he was asked about him.“
“âIt canât be any worseâ: In Boris Johnsonâs back yard, Britons are desperate for a change.
Uxbridge, like Britain, is in a rut.
The town is where the capitalâs westward sprawl ends. Two Tube lines serving central London finish their journeys here, as picturesque shades of green mingle with the gray and brown hues of suburban developments. But its high streets are shrinking and the local hospital is one of the worst in Britain â rated âinadequateâ by the sectorâs watchdog.
And nationwide, soaring inflation, public sector strikes and the aftermath of Brexit have left families poorer and services creaking to the point of collapse. Renewing a passport, taking a train, buying groceries, seeing a doctor â virtually everything is more difficult in Britain than it once was.
Change is in the air, and Labour is set to benefit. Opinion polls confidently predict the party, led by Keir Starmer, a former senior prosecutor, will win power in a general election expected next year.
But Uxbridge is a test case for that theory, and tensions are high. âYou can see the national polls, just like I can see, but these are real votes,â Steve Reed, the partyâs shadow justice secretary tasked with running the local campaign, told CNN on a hot afternoon on the high street. He predicts a âtighter raceâ than some media have suggested.
A handful of media outlets, including CNN, were denied the chance to interview Labourâs candidate or join a canvassing session, an unusually skittish move from a party tipped to win a by-election.
âPeople are not stupid. People understand the challenges facing the country,â
Some voters are more blunt. âTheyâre basically saying weâll carry on business as normal,â says Mick, 61, who runs a food stall near Uxbridge station and has voted Labour his entire life. âSo why are we voting?â
âIâd like to think [Labour would] like to do more for the working people,â Tracy Peabody, a dental nurse and mother of three young boys, told CNN on a high street in Ruislip Manor. âBut I canât help thinking itâs two wings from the same bird, all singing from the same song sheet,â she added of Labour and the Conservatives.
Just three-and-a-half years after one of the partyâs worst-ever electoral defeats, the outcome of Thursdayâs vote in Uxbridge will indicate how far Labour has come.“
[CNN]
Maybe not so obvious as at Somerton and Frome, but here too it looks as if the Conservative Party is facing an uphill struggle. Uxbridge is a more typical contest though, maybe, compared to Somerton and Frome, and one in which many voters despise all the System parties, and particularly Con and Lab. A battle of apathies?
Selby and Ainsty
The Selby and Ainsty constituency is unusual in that it has been represented since creation in 2010 by only one MP, a Conservative, who seems to be abandoning ship in the moral certainty that the national unpopularity of the Sunak government will wash him away at the next general election.
I do not know why the departed MP, Nigel Adams, chose to stand down in 2023 rather than wait until 2024 and the next general election. Maybe he did not want the opprobrium of having been voted out. Rumour has it that he wanted a peerage and, when not given one, resigned in order to lash out at his own party. Maybe.
Adams won his four elections convincingly, and increased his vote share steadily from 49.4% in 2010 to 60.3% in 2019.
Labour scored about a quarter of the vote in 2010, 2015, and 2019 but, interesting to see, managed over a third of the vote in 2017, when Corbyn was still Labour leader.
12 candidates are contesting the by-election, but this will be between Con and Lab. The bookmakers have Labour just better than even-money, but Con on about 13/2. A few weeks ago, the result seemed more speculative.
Political websites and newspapers have taken an interest in the Selby contest, perhaps because it may give a clue as to the Northern “Red Wall” seats.
âIâd like to think theyâd like to do more for the working people,â Tracy Peabody, a dental nurse and mother of three young boys, told CNN on a high street in Ruislip Manor. âBut I canât help thinking itâs two wings from the same bird, all singing from the same song sheet,â she added of Labour and the Conservatives.
Just three-and-a-half years after one of the partyâs worst-ever electoral defeats, the outcome of Thursdayâs vote in Uxbridge will indicate how far Labour has come.“
“Labour and the Conservative party may have found a tougher opponent than one another as they prepare to fight a by-election in Selby and Ainsty this week: entrenched despondency among an electorate that’s tired of Westminster drama and the challenges posed by the cost of living crisis.”
“Selby local Rachel Young paused while walking around the shops to watch the candidates for Thursday’s poll take part in a televised hustings for the BBC in the town centre last week.
She told PoliticsHome that she still has not decided who to vote for, but thinks that many people she knows will simply not bother at all.”
For me, what will be most interesting will be to see whether Labour wins because people have voted out of enthusiasm (unlikely) or simply because former Conservative voters have given up bothering to vote (more likely). The numbers will tell the story.
My guess is that the LibDems will win Somerton and Frome; a meaningless protest vote. As to the others, Labour will probably score in both, but by default only, because former Conservative voters will just stay home. Only very silly people believe that Labour-label in government will be much, if at all, better than the present shambles.
More tweets
Who would vote for a party scared to publish its manifesto? Who would vote for a party whose leader has reneged on all of his leadership election pledges? Who would listen to one word that Polly Toynbee has to say? And who would agree with an endorsement of anything by Streeting?
— Sunderland Labour Left (@LeftSunderland) July 18, 2023
I agree with the second tweet.
You won't stop the boats. This is State sponsored people trafficking. Beyond the control of a politician.
— An Inquisitive Englishman (@JJsViews) July 18, 2023
All the stuff in the msm about barges and cruise liners is flim-flam designed to obscure a few basic facts, such as that one barge can “house” 500 migrant-invaders. On many days, twice that number arrive in 24 hours! So you would need about 400-800 or more barges extra even in one year.
Also, the number of migrant-invaders coming “legally” is ten times the number arriving in rubber boats.
The UK was doomed as a decent place to live once the proportion of non-whites went beyond about 5% (and we are already at about 20%). The same goes for much of western and central Europe.
The myth of the nuclear family is one of those things that is so anti-Black, anti-woman, ableist, & capitalist at the same time it makes me GAG
Western ideology places the entire responsibility of childrearing on 1 woman & fiscal stability on 1 man & wonder why shit DONT WORK https://t.co/Uc8MolYPtF
— Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH (@GeauxGabrielle) July 18, 2023
The above two tweeters might like to consider whether or not our advanced world civilization, which is 95% or even 99% based on white European-origined people, “works” (overall) when compared to the sorts of societies ruled by blacks, such as most of Africa, Haiti, Jamaica etc…
“Deluded” hardly covers it, but it seems that many blacks believe the same as those two, and their crazed beliefs are facilitated by anti-white non-blacks, either white European-origined or (usually) Jewish.
Today we see how the Kiev regime, having lost almost all of its own weapons and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, like a drug addict, survives only thanks to the massive pumping of Western weapons – and at the same time pushes with all its might, trying to prove that it canâĻ pic.twitter.com/2XN4VSUZ2Z
The people are right— a majority of them are of the view that a Labour government under Starmer will make their lives no better (or that they do not know).
Meaning— the present Government is trash, and Labour is also trash.
Late tweets
Coming up to day 67 now since she missed the deadline to sue. I expect sheâd already stolen all of the stolen money (again). https://t.co/WT2WK8vTgW
Jack Monroe still has quite a way to go until she reaches the grift levels of @Supertanskiii though – ÂŖ40 a month for Incels and neckbeards to listen to a middle-aged woman with a early-teens level of intellect swear about Tories. pic.twitter.com/HnwqMc53rq
American billionaire Elon Musk called on his Twitter to reveal how American aid to Ukraine is being spent.
"It would be nice if the public had some idea of ââhow the funds are being spent," Musk wrote on Twitter, commenting on the news that the US is preparing to announce a newâĻ
Pentagon: The Ukrainian military needs years to reach the level of Russian air forces
Bringing Ukraine's air capabilities closer to Russia's will require years of training for Ukrainian pilots and billions of dollars, said Mark Milley, head of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs ofâĻ pic.twitter.com/z2E8Ud7RBL
Russia prepares 100,000 troops to attack Kharkiv – The Telegraph
The British newspaper admits that the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has stalled and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation can take advantage of the situation and advance towards Kharkov.âĻ
His column this week is worth reprinting in detail:
“What is conservative about privatisation? What has it conserved? How has it helped the nation be stronger and safer?
Though there are many more, I will take just three examples.
Once, Britain had a first-rate nuclear power industry and could build its own atomic power stations. Then we privatised that and decades of experience and wisdom were scattered to the winds.
And now we have to get the Chinese, a despotic menace, to provide the nuclear energy we will so badly need, very soon, thanks to our mad dogma-driven destruction of coal-fired power stations.
Then come the railways, ripped to pieces so that pretend capitalists â sustained by far bigger subsidies than British Rail ever got â could trouser taxpayers’ money for providing a worse service than the one they replaced. In a bitter paradox much of the system is now run by foreign (nationalised) railway concerns. And this is a great British invention we gave to the world.
And now there is water. Thames Water, the vital strategic supply for the national capital and the economically crucial region around it, is now virtually bankrupt. Its boss quit suddenly last week. The official version is that the company may simply collapse under the weight of its debts, now ÂŖ14 billion.
Under one of its recent owners, a foreign bank, ÂŖ2.7 billion was taken out of the company in dividends, while debts rose from ÂŖ3.4 billion to ÂŖ10.8 billion. They have not since stopped rising, while Thames Water has become notorious for unfixed leaks and disgusting discharges of sewage into rivers.
You might think renationalisation is the obvious solution. But it will be hugely expensive, as the pension funds and other shareholders cannot simply be dispossessed without compensation. And here is the fascinating thing. You will not hear any significant voices in Sir Keir Starmer’s very Left-wing Labour Party calling for a full renationalisation.
The modern Left is keen to nationalise childhood and what used to be the family. It defies any attempts to reform the NHS or the schools for the benefit of the public. But it long ago abandoned its 1945 enthusiasm for state ownership of the commanding heights of the economy.
But that was in the lost days when Labour was led by patriots who wanted to make the country stronger. They have all gone.
And you might say that if Labour will not renationalise these failed private enterprises, what use is it? And I would agree with you.
If we want to undo this undoubted catastrophe, then rescue will not come from Sir Keir. Patriotic conservatives will have to nerve themselves to admit that the whole thing was a disastrous mistake and pledge themselves to put it right. If they do, they’ll be surprised at just how much support they will get.“
[Daily Mail]
Incidentally, while I concede that expropriation without compensation is contra international law, my inclination at this point is to say “and your point is?“…
“Senior ministers are expecting a âtotal clearoutâ of Tory MPs ahead of the next election, as party sources cited the experience of Boris Johnsonâs premiership, the increasing stresses of the job and a continuing slump in the polls as reasons for a forthcoming bumper crop of departures.
More than 40 Conservative MPs have already announced they will step down at the next election â the most for a ruling party since the exodus of 100 Labour MPs ahead of the 2010 election in the wake of the expenses scandal and 13 years in government.
A senior party source said they were expecting âlots moreâ of the 352 Tory MPs to announce they were leaving as the election approaches. Insiders said the political chaos of recent years meant many had stayed in parliament much longer than they had intended. âThere are loads more to come, there will be a total clearout,â said a senior party figure.”
[The Guardian].
To mix metaphors, the rats leaving the sinking ship have read the writing on the wall…
“The White House has opened the door to an audacious plan to block sunlight from hitting the surface of the Earth in a bid to halt global warming.
Despite some scientists warning the effort could have untold side effects from altering the chemical makeup of the atmosphere, President Joe Biden‘s administration have admitted they’re open to the idea, which has never been attempted before.“
“Half of the social housing in London is occupied by immigrant-led households. In my heavily council-owned neighbourhood, the students who flood the pavements on weekday afternoons are nearly all ethnically Asian or African.
Last week, a government impact statement estimated that within three years the bill for housing asylum seekers is on track to multiply by five times: to ÂŖ30 million a day or ÂŖ11 billion a year.
Indeed, one of the biggest pull factors drawing migrants from Calais is that France doesn’t provide uninvited visitors housing in the way that Britain does.
...asylum is a sideshow. It serves the function of the magician’s sleight of hand. The audience is distracted by one motion while the trick is slyly performed with another. Britain’s population is soaring from legal immigration.
Last year a Conservative government let 1.2 million people move to the UK, resulting in net immigration of 606,000. In a statistically meticulous report, Migration Watch calculates that if this same level of ingress is sustained, the UK’s population will rise to between 83 million and 87 million by 2046.
This will require between six and eight million more homes â the equivalent of 15 to 18 Birminghams. Apologies for the catastrophism, but that’s assuming the 606,000 annual influx remains constant, whereas the trend since Tony Blair came to power has been for net inward migration to keep rising.
Most new adult immigrants are of childbearing age, and Britain’s overwhelmingly non-European arrivals abundantly hail from cultures that favour larger families.
At current rates of immigration, between 263,000 and 313,000 homes would have to be built each year to accommodate rising population (in addition to the new homes a steady-state population requires, because buildings don’t last for ever).At current rates of immigration, between 263,000 and 313,000 homes would have to be built each year to accommodate rising population.
High immigration puts enormous pressure on the NHS â but we needn’t even go there.
Neither need we address the cultural implications of a foreign-born population already at 17 per cent of England and Wales â up from just over 13 per cent in only 2011.
Whatever your politics, this isn’t a matter of generosity and niceness. Even if you’re sympathetic with the plight of foreigners who merely want a better life, Britain doesn’t have the housing, much less the social housing, to accommodate the soaring population that results from current levels of immigration.“
[Daily Mail]
Down the line, a UK civil war, not a race war as such but a mixed social-racial-cultural-ideological war, is coming, inevitably now. Continuing mass immigration, and the consequences flowing from mass immigration, are a large part of the reason.
Twitter is becoming unusable. I was expelled from Twitter at the behest of a malicious pack of Jew-Zionists in 2018, and have not bothered to get my account back under the new and somewhat (ideologically) better Elon Musk ownership. However, if these restrictions of service continue, Twitter will just implode. Few will bother.
A multi-kilometer traffic jam has formed in the direction of Crimea
From the side of Taman in front of the Crimean bridge there is a traffic jam 10 km away. Among the reasons is called the holiday season and increased screening activities. pic.twitter.com/0VjxqGoi1O
Any untermensch caught burning a library should be shot at once.
So now Jack Monroe's been all but cancelled, they've gone in on fellow Southend z lister Simon Harris, who campaigned against Tories whilst trousering covid loans then refusing to repay them.https://t.co/6tNw6fOaCR
Another online grifter in the “Jack Monroe”/”Supertanskiii” mould. Why do so many utter mugs not only support such frauds on Twitter (often having done no research on them at all), but even send money to them? Pathetic.
As for the said Simon Harris, that Tattle thread is hilarious, even for those who, like me, discovered the idiot’s existence only recently.
Still, which is the bigger idiot, the “grifter”, or those who send money to him?
Is Fox about to have his banking services curtailed (like Nigel Farage, Laura Towler, Sam Melia, Mark Collett etc)? This is a conspiracy to censor and control the expression of ideas and opinions. Very sinister. Talking about it will not much help. Action directe…
The banks and their directors, just like MPs and msm talking heads, need to be held accountable in a concrete way.
Back in the late 1980s, and up to about 1992, Barclays claimed that I owed them quite a lot of money. I disagreed, and a lady I knew drew a very good cartoon skeleton, with the caption “I paid my debts to Barclays Bank“! I then spent a pleasant hour or two late one night feeding that cartoon without pause into my little fax machine. I hope that Barclays staff at least had a few laughs out of the many hundreds of pages that must have arrived at their HQ, all bearing the cartoon.
Little Jewish-lobby puppet Macron has lost control.
When you try to talk with your friends and family about all the crazy shit happening in the world, and they look at you like youâre crazy and say, âsorry, no idea what youâre talking about đ¤ˇââī¸â.
That still happens to me too, though increasingly I find that people I hardly even know say to me that the UK and most of Europe is collapsing, without my having said anything about it to them. The people are, slowly, waking up.
Traitors and “useful idiots” have been, for half a century or more, encouraging the lower races to invade white Europe. Now look…
#FranceHasFallen An Proverb in Hindi called – ā¤āĨā¤Ļ ā¤āĨ ā¤ĒāĨā¤° ā¤ŽāĨā¤ ā¤āĨā¤˛ā¤žā¤Ąā¤ŧāĨ ā¤Žā¤žā¤°ā¤¨ā¤ž đ Means – kick yourself in the foot đĻļđis what France did nd now they are FuÂĸked Up đ¤Ŗ pic.twitter.com/LUVhKc1WcQ
— People of Devbhumi Uttarakhand (@ChetanS19212490) July 2, 2023
Incidentally, compare the generally peaceful protests of the (white, European) Yellow Vests in 2019 with the subhuman violence of the (mostly non-white, non-European) rioters of 2023…
You can see clearly now how economic enterprises (banks, building societies, insurance companies etc) are being infiltrated and abused in order to punish dissidents: members of Patriotic Alternative, Nigel Farage, Scott Ritter, many others. People left without banking services, car insurance (a legal requirement in most countries) etc.
This is the 21st Century equivalent of the 20thC police state; in fact, it works in tandem with the police state mechanisms (prosecutions, trials etc)..
The Kiev regime is running out of soldiers. Look at the straws in the wind: press-gangs in the streets of Ukrainian cities to force unwilling men into the army, mandatory enlistment even of some people who are carers for old and/or disabled spouses, and the Kramatorsk missile hit, whereupon it was revealed that American and other contract-soldiers were present.
Eventually, Russia will win this, though the victory may well be bitter.
Macron is resisting calls from his police and military commanders to declare a state of emergency as he believes it will weaken his already fractious presidency, as rioters have raided looted police stations and are now armed with automatic weapons
“This is the moment an academic who wrote ‘independent’ reviews praising low-traffic neighbourhoods is caught on CCTV tearing down an anti-LTN poster.
Dr Anna Goodman was seen in a West Dulwich shop near her south London home apparently sneakily looking around to check it is safe before peeling the poster off the door and making a getaway.
Locals are now claiming that academics, who are paid by the government to conduct peer reviews assessing the necessity for LTNs, may be in fact campaigners for the scheme.“
[Daily Mail]
“Goodman“? Wouldn’t you know? (((you know who))).
Look at how sneaky she looks in that video; like a little rat.
It reminds me of the “independent” “experts” who have given so-called “expert opinion evidence” re. “antisemitism” in numerous political trials over the past 10-20 years, trials such as those of Alison Chabloz. The “experts” are always of certain “tendencies” and/or origins.
“Rishi Sunak is set to face more by-election misery after the summer break – as his party faces what could be the largest vote defeat in UK political history.”
[Daily Mail]
Those by-elections will be interesting, though of course just part of the System faked show overall. I shall probably blog about them once I know the runners and riders.
Reading that Daily Mail report, I notice that its Deputy Political Editor, one David Wilcock, does not seem to know the difference between “latter” and “last“. Typical of the times in which we live.
Naturally, I myself oppose both System parties, parts of the same corrupt and ideologically-wrong set-up.
It is a moot point as to whether it is better for social-nationalism that there be a weak System government (whether Lab or Con), or that one party (at present, Con) be all but wiped out. The former is probably the case, so that System politics is seen as unable to do anything to progress Britain, thus leading to support for social nationalism. At present though, it seems ever more likely that the Con party will be nearly annihilated at any general election, held in the neat year or so.
France and Europe used to be a civilized and beautiful place. Now itâs a failed society. Open borders and diversity has now turned against the government.#FranceHasFallen
Give a Europeans a pile of bricks and they will leave you with a civilisation. Give Africans a civilisation and they will leave you with a pile of bricks. #FranceHasFallen
Look at BBC TV news, or Sky News (not only that bitch Kay Burley) and all you see is a propaganda show akin to what the Soviet news media used to put out.
“Sven Longshanks” (James Allchurch) was quite recently given a harsh sentence for speaking out on his Internet “radio” podcasts. He is likely to be released some time in early/mid 2024. The fund raised for him will help him to survive both in prison and after upon his release back into “normal life”.
Late tweets seen
#Evacuation It is America that made this situation in Afghanistan not UK. Anyhow it is not our problem that backward peoples are in this situation, they have not fought against the Taliban at all, now they will suffer, the younger generations will suffer, they run to the West.
The only thing Steve Baker is concerned about is Steve Baker. He has a majority of 4,200 in Wycombe. If he stands again heâll lose, why the hell are we listening to him. He sold out NI with the Windsor Framework, now this. Get rid of him.https://t.co/hrDyyTUw6i
— sandieshoes đŦđ§đēđ¸ (@sandieshoes) July 2, 2023
Another bloody “Conservative” fake. Apply an Army boot to his rear. Raus!
âAllies of Steve Baker said he was unhappy with the attack on a specific minority ethnic group when official figures say white Brits are responsible in the majority of cases of child abuseâ
…and look at the proportions. Pakistani-origin persons in the UK are only about 2% of the whole UK population, white British people about 80%. That is the point— 2% of the population (actually 1%, i.e. male persons of Pakistani origin) are committing ~84% of that specific type of sex crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Pakistanis.
In the direction of Bakhmut, Ukrainian formations are trying to capture important strongholds and heights in order to continue covering the city. Russian troops are holding the line, launching counterattacks from time to time.
There is no one in Europe to repair piles of broken Leopard tanks
Germany and Poland cannot reach an agreement in any way on the maintenance of tanks transferred to Ukraine. Der Spiegel writes about it. pic.twitter.com/91f8K7HHcb
Brilliant. More like that. Still, why not just [REDACTED]…
âWe donât sleep at night because shots are heard everywhere. We can't take this mess any longer": Residents of L'Ail-les-Roses shared their fears after the attack on the house of Mayor Vincent Jeanbrune. pic.twitter.com/r6sAmy7uVe
In one of the chain stores in Ukraine, absolutely without a twinge of conscience, they stuck a label on a humanitarian aid and sell it under their own brand pic.twitter.com/pgIaKPdtja
Well-meaning mugs in England, Germany, France etc are giving “humanitarian aid” to (as they imagine) Ukrainian civilians, but much of it is just ripped off and sold, with the collusion of the Jew-Zionist cabal in Kiev.
— Makerel_Sky #LestWeForgetđŦđ§đŽđą (@Makerel_Sky) July 2, 2023
Look at that loony. Narcissist? Exhibitionist? Simple loony? Who knows? Who cares? There are idiots of that type in the UK too, “refugees welcome” dimwits etc.
Ian Robert Millard 